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Come Let Us Reason Podcast

Summary: Welcome to Come Let Us Reason Together, the podcast from Lenny Esposito and Come Reason Ministries. Here, we dig deeply into ways Christianity shows itself as an intelligent and rational faith. Episodes include topics about faith, ethics, worldview, and philosophy from a distinctly Christian perspective. Join us each week and see just how rational faith can be!

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 Does HeGetsUs Really Get Jesus Right | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Does #HeGetsUS Really Get Jesus Right? How do you reach a culture that thinks Christianity is not only unnecessary, but evil? The #HeGetsUs commercials made a huge splash during the Superbowl, but were they effective? And did they properly communicate the gospel message? Here Lenny, along with Dr. Harry Edwards and Dr. Jacob Daniel, discuss the pluses and the problems of the #HeGetsUS effort and offers a balanced, thoughtful view, shedding more light to a topic that has generated quite a bit of heat, both inside and outside the church.

 Beware The Language Games of the Woke | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Beware! The Language Games of the Woke Words matter. We use words in order to communicate ideas, in order to share feelings, and gain knowledge. But words can also wound and be weaponized. In fact, today political ideology has driven an intentional misuse of words and a conflict over how we even understand shared ideas. Here Lenny exposes the intentional obfuscation of terms and points out the language shell games that are sometimes used to try and shame and coerce us into holding a specific view. However, through a proper approach of engaging and extending ideas, we can actually open a door to gospel conversations.

 My LIVE Conversation with Jehovah's Witnesses | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

My LIVE Conversation with Jehovah's Witnesses What do you do when a Jehovah's Witness knocks on your door? Many people have a bit of a panic attack or want to shoo them away as quickly as possible, Christians included! But you shouldn't be afraid to engage these people, for it's rare enough that someone wants to talk to us about the things of God! I had the opportunity to capture a visit that a couple of Witnesses made to my door and I take you through the entire conversation, providing my thinking and my strategy so you too may be able thoughtfully and graciously engage those who are lost to the cults.

 The Lazy Approach to Evangelism | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The Lazy Approach to Evangelism Evangelism. It's a word that can strikes fear into the hearts of a lot of people. We know we're supposed to evangelize, but how do we do so? Does it require tons of study? Doesn't it require feet of iron? Maybe there's a lazy way that we can still be faithful to our gospel command and share our faith with those who don't believe in Jesus. That's our topic as I interview author and apologist Eric Hernandez on his new book The Lazy Approach to Evangelism.

 Crisis of the Shrinking Family: The Tim Carney Interview | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Crisis of the Shrinking Family: The Tim Carney Interview We are in the midst of a baby-bust. For the first time in our history, the number of seniors are growing at a greater rate than the number of babies being born, which spells a dangerous future for our lives as well as our culture. Why has the millennial generation shied away from having kids? What are the *real reasons* for the hesitancy in becoming parents and what can the church do about it? In this interview with Tim Carney, author of the upcoming _Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be_, we discuss these questions and the underlying drivers that disincentivize growing families. it is a topic that should concern us all.

 Andy Stanley, Alistair Begg, and Confusion over LGBTQ+ Issues | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Andy Stanley, Alistair Begg, and Confusion over LGBTQ+ Issues What are we to make over the recent controversies that have encircled prominent Evangelical leaders about their stances on same-sex weddings, transgender grandchildren, and the like? A few months ago, Andy Stanley hosted a conference where he invited a "married" gay couple to speak to Christian parents. Last week, Alistair Begg got into hot water for his advice about attending such unions. How are Christians to discern what the right path is? In this podcast, Lenny examines the statements and positions of these events and offers a sensitive, nuanced explanation of how you can be loving to your LGBTQ+ family and friends while still holding to a clear biblical morality.

 Building a Bulletproof Faith in Your Kids | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Building a Bulletproof Faith in Your Kids The stats are clear. Once they leave home, Christian kids are leaving the church in alarming numbers. How can we help young believers stand up to the continual onslaught of peer-pressure, professors, and pop culture pushing them away from the faith? In this session, noted apologist Lenny Esposito provides parents and young people with specific tools to solidify their faith and help them see why Christianity makes the most sense of our world.

 Losing The Family: Are Millennials Choosing Comfort Over Kids? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Losing The Family: Are Millennials Choosing Comfort Over Kids? It’s no secret that birthrates are declining in the west and it seems to be more prevalent with the millennials. Why are young people today reluctant to start families? In this podcast Lenny, along with Kirkwood Center colleagues Anthony Costello and Dr. Jacob Daniel review a couple of recent articles written by millennial women where they tell how they actually dread the idea of motherhood and how they aren't alone in their feelings. What does this mean for society and for the future? The answers are chilling.

 Would The World Be Better Without Religion? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Would The World Be Better Without Religion? Is it true that science fly you to the moon while religion flies you into buildings? Skeptics such as Richard Dawkins often claim that the biggest evils in the world are perpetrated because of religious beliefs. Does religion cause more wars, more hatred and prejudice than other views? What would a world free of religion look like? Join Lenny as he shows why such objections have no grounding in reality.

 Top Podcasts of 2023 - The Best of the Best! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Top Podcasts of 2023 - The Best of the Best! Here it is. As we close out 2023 and welcome 2024, Lenny reviews all the interviews and roundtable discussions published over the year and highlights clips from the top five most watched podcasts of the year. Issues like neo-paganism, J.R.R. Tolkien and God in Lord of the Rings, and how Sigmund Freud shifted our culture towards a sex-saturated ideology are here. Interviews with Stephen Meyer, Austin Freeman and former militant atheist Sy Garte are included. Listen all in this final retrospective. The God of Middle Earth: How Tolkien's Faith Fueled The Lord of the Rings https://youtu.be/sWcyBWajHDU Top Scientist Changes From Militant Atheist to Christian Believer - Because of Science! https://youtu.be/xXYEPDvSEJQ Four Hot Button Topics the Church Cannot Ignore https://youtu.be/S98nsB0HCQA Stephen C Meyer Interview: The Return of the God Hypothesis Part 1: https://youtu.be/SOpDxXuFkwo Part 2: https://youtu.be/huAKw8jIEbA Freud's Poison: Corrupting Civilization Through Sex https://youtu.be/N39f4j5as8g

 Top Podcasts of 2023 - Part 1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Top Podcasts of 2023 - Part 1 As we look back on our first year of our newly reformatted Come Let Us Reason Together podcasts, there are several standout moments. Here, Lenny shares some clips from five of the top ten podcasts of the year, discussing issues from the resurrection of Jesus, questions on Hell, engaging Jehovah's Witnesses, why God doesn't make himself more visible, and the logic of holding Christianity instead of other faiths.

 College and Faith: Can Christianity Make a Difference on the University Campus? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

College and Faith: Can Christianity Make a Difference on the University Campus? It’s no secret that the modern university is bastion of leftism and secularism., yet these institutions of higher learning play an outsized role in shaping our culture. Is it possible for Christianity to make a difference on the university campus? How should young Christians approach college life? In today’s podcast, I’m joined in the discussion by Corey Miller, the President of Ratio Christi, and my colleague at the Kirkwood Center, Anthony Costello, as we explore the state of higher education today and what is being done to fight the moral decay on campus.

 Faith And Politics: Where Should Christianity Fit in the Democratic Process? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Faith And Politics: Where Should Christianity Fit in the Democratic Process? As we get ready to enter another election year in the United States, the question arises of how faith should inform one’s politics. Faith is the basis of morality, and even the founding of the United States points to God who endows us with inalienable rights. How do we make sense of this in a pluralistic culture? Here, our panel explores questions of faith in politics and how Christianity should fit into the democratic process. Is there any virtue in voting for the lesser of two evils? Is politics an appropriate point of discussion for Christian apologetics? These questions and more are tackled in our latest episode.

 Top Scientist Changes From Militant Atheist to Christian Believer - Because of Science! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Top Scientist Changes From Militant Atheist to Christian Believer - Because of Science! It's common today to hear atheists proclaim that believing in God is anti-science and as our science progresses, faith will be abandoned. But what if doing good science actually makes a compelling case for God? In this pocast, Lenny talks wth Dr. Sy Garte, a self-described "militant atheist" whose journey as an origin of life scholar prompted hm to abandon his atheism and affirm the Christian faith. Sy talks about his new book, Science and Faith in Harmony: Contemplations on a Distilled Doxology and the current state of origin of life research as well as how the more we learn, the more God is evident in design.

 How to Talk About Jesus Without Fear: The Andy Bannister Interview | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

How to Talk About Jesus Without Fear: The Andy Bannister Interview As Christians, we all want to share the life-changing belief of Jesus with others, but it can seem to tough! Will I say the right thing? Will I be ridiculed? Will I offend someone else? In this engaging interview, Lenny talks with Andy Bannister about his new book How to Talk About Jesus Without Sounding Like an Idiot about no-pressure ways you can engage others in conversations that easily open the door for the Gospel.

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