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Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

What Suggestions Do You Have for a First-Time Pastor?

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Greg answers questions about suggestions for a first-time pastor, responding to someone who says people always report the same thing about their near-death experiences, and how much interaction to have with LDS neighbors in light of 2 John 10.

Transcript

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0:00.0

La La La, la, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Ah, la, la, la, oh, friends.

0:29.9

Greg Kokel here.

0:31.1

Glad to be with you today.

0:32.4

This is Stan a Recent, and I am your host.

0:35.1

And we are just starting December.

0:39.4

Just a little reminder, this is the most important month for us of the year, just like lots of businesses, but we're not a business.

0:45.2

Well, we are kind of, but we're a ministry. We're there to serve you, and we're here to give

0:50.8

what we do at no charge, obviously, to anybody, because we have a great cadre of tremendous supporters

0:59.4

that are strategic partners, that are challenged donors, etc.

1:08.4

Challenge donors, by the way, are those that have gotten together at the end of the year

1:12.7

and pooled their pledges to challenge you to give in this month.

1:19.2

And their challenge this year is $375,000.

1:23.6

And their goal is, now this isn't a matching grant.

1:26.6

It's a challenge.

1:27.9

It's already committed to us.

1:30.1

But they're saying we're giving aggressively because we want you guys to give aggressively

1:34.1

that as a group, the rest are giving generously to collectively equal or exceed that $375,000 gift.

1:42.9

So that's what I'm putting out for you.

1:45.1

You know that what we've been doing all year long, and I talked about, I talk about

1:49.4

our strategic, or rather our STR University, our outposts, our reality student apologetic

1:56.4

conferences, like 13,000 students last year, and a whole bunch of other things that we do.

2:01.6

Tremendous website.

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