Category: Apologetics

Deeper Faith, Honest Questions, Sharing the Gospel

by Stand Up For The Truth | Feb 14, 2019 | Apologetics, Christian Growth, Evangelism, Mormonism, Podcast, Spiritual Warfare, the Gospel, Worldview | 0 |

Two fantastic guests on the program means #doubletruththursday. Is that a thing? Anyway…

Today, Mike and David welcome first-time guest, evangelist, Willie Herath of Ratio Christi in southern California and we discuss apologetics, deeper questions in the faith, and how to effectively respond to nonbelievers. How important is it for us to be ready to respond when people have questions or have objections to Christianity. We often find out that they really did not know much about the evidence for the Christian faith and the Bible.

We also talk with radio host, Mike Zander, from Utah’s Key Radio where he reaches out to Mormons in Utah with the gospel. He’s in town today and in-studio with Mike LeMay and David Fiorazo.

Are We Turning Toward or Away From God?

by Stand Up For The Truth | Feb 13, 2019 | Abortion, Apologetics, Beliefs, Christianity, Church Leadership, Culture & Morality, Evangelism, False Teaching, Gospel, Humanism, Podcast | 0 |

Mike and David look at a challenging article by Shane Idelman admonishing the Church to start living and acting like the Church instead of caving to the pressure and beliefs of secular society. And — breaking news — in case you haven’t heard:

The church is not a building or a denomination… You and I as believers are the Church!

The sad reality is that Jesus warned that many who think they are saved and going to heaven are instead headed to eternal hell. Paul tells us to continually test ourselves to prove that we are truly in the faith and have not fooled ourselves. The committed follower of Jesus Christ is willing to do this on a continual basis; the professing Christian who has fooled themselves never thinks twice about it. They have been lulled into a false sense of eternal security by the father of lies and a professing “church” that is afraid to offend people by teaching about sin, repentance and the pursuit of holiness. Together today we will examine ourselves.

In our first segment, we talk Biblical apologetics with Aaron Marshall of Ratio Christi Ministries.

The Church’s Dilemma with Israel

by Stand Up For The Truth | Feb 11, 2019 | Apologetics, Christianity, Church Leadership, False Teaching, Government, Islam, Israel, Liberalism, Persecution, Podcast, Politics and Faith, Social Justice | 0 |

Paul is warning believers not to dismiss God’s eternal promises to Israel because many will be saved in the final days. But an increasing number of professing Christians are turning away from Israel and supporting her enemies.

Pastor and best-selling Author Carl Gallups joins Mike and David this morning to talk about his new book that in just a few short weeks is already a best-seller. It looks at how biblical Christianity is starting to spread in Israel and the controversy surrounding recently deceased Rabbi Zev Porat and a controversial message he left to be opened upon his death.

Tough Questions, Honest Answers

by Stand Up For The Truth | Feb 8, 2019 | Abortion, American History, Apologetics, Ask Mike, Beliefs, Christianity, Church Leadership, Culture & Morality, False Teaching, gender confusion, Government, Listener Questions, Persecution, Podcast | 0 |

TODAY’S QUESTIONS

Should Christian church leaders hold their members accountable for unbiblical beliefs about creation, abortion, and same-sex “marriage”?
It is a sad day when our president stands up for the unborn, but so many preachers sit back and say nothing.
We have a responsibility to speak into another Christian’s life about biblical truth, but need to remember the Holy Spirit does the convicting, not us.
When turtle eggs are protected classes but babies are murdered in the womb, the end must be near.
Why don’t more Christians and Americans see the signs of the times and what is coming?
Persecution of Christians in the U.S. is imminent so why not start more home churches before it gets worse?
The National Association of Evangelicals has become a shill for social justice advocates.
Is the damage done to our nation by liberal ideology so destructive it is irreparable?

Time to End Silence From the Pulpit

by Stand Up For The Truth | Feb 7, 2019 | Abortion, Apologetics, Beliefs, Biblical Social Justice, Christianity, Church Leadership, Culture & Morality, Evangelism, Leadership, Liberalism, Podcast | 0 |

The Church either affects secular culture (salt and light) or it is influenced by it. The former is part of the Great Commission; the latter is leading to confusion that will lead many into a false sense of salvation. The Christian Church should be a spiritual bulwark to stand in opposition to the murder of children and the societal confusion surrounding marriage, sexuality and gender. Instead a growing number of pastors and churches choose silence for fear of being seen as judgmental or unloving. In the meantime, our silence from the pulpit has ushered in a sad transformation in the opinions of professing believers on abortion and same-sex marriage, with more than half approving of them.

In our third segment, we share an article by Shane Idelman challenging pastors to speak boldly from the pulpit in addressing the increasing sin and depravity of American culture. In segment two, we discuss the growing sex and racism scandals involving Virginia Democrats, and the double standards of the media and the court of public opinion.

In our first segment we are joined by Julaine Appling of Wisconsin Family Council to highlight some key points from President Trump’s State of the Union address, including his bold challenge to Congress to pass legislation banning partial birth abortion.

Evil Marches On and Churches Remain Silent

by Stand Up For The Truth | Jan 31, 2019 | Abortion, Apologetics, Biblical Social Justice, Christianity, Church Leadership, Culture & Morality, Emergent Church, False Teaching, Government, Liberalism, Podcast | 0 |

On the heels of New York’s horrendous bill expanding abortion “rights” up to the moment of birth comes a shocking revelation about a similar, even more sinister bill in Virginia. With this one, the Democratic Governor seems to insinuate that this bill would allow a couple to abort a child after it is born.

Radical Liberal theology and progressive thought eventually collapses under its own weight of contradiction. But by the time it is exposed for what it is, much damage has been done. And some are wondering if this current scourge of liberal thought and so-called “morality” might be so powerful that by the time it is exposed our nation will be irreparably damaged. Moreover, that which we call “church” will be so immersed in the ways of this world that it will cease to have any effect on secular culture except to embrace and promote it, leading many toward eternal separation from God.

Comments, Questions & Answers

by Stand Up For The Truth | Jan 25, 2019 | Abortion, Apologetics, Beliefs, Christianity, Church Leadership, Culture & Morality, Education, gender confusion, Government, Leadership, LGBTQ, Liberalism, Listener Questions, Mike's Thoughts, Podcast, Politics and Faith, Public Schools, Social Justice | 0 |

Mike and David read your questions and comments, but open with a commentary on the disgusting actions of the State of New York that will kill more babies and American Christianity’s collective cowardice in standing up for the lives of unborn children.

When “The State” thumbs its nose at God and proudly passes a law that will murder more children created in the image of God, and American Christianity Churches continue in their ringing silence and failure to stand up for those children, is the “church” becoming part of the problem rather than the solution?

Does Your Church Look More Like the World?

by Stand Up For The Truth | Jan 23, 2019 | Apologetics, Beliefs, Christianity, Church Leadership, Culture & Morality, False Teaching, Gospel, Humanism, Leadership, Podcast, Progressive Christianity, Salvation | 0 |

Mike and Crash continue to look at how a growing number of churches look more like the world instead of standing out against the growing sin and depravity of this culture. As spiritual insanity grows in America shouldn’t the church stand out in contrast all the more? But instead it seems many churches continue to modify their approach to growth by accommodating a growing sinful culture. The ‘gospel’ being preached has been sanded and watered down to the point that it is incapable of rescuing sinful man from the coming wrath of God.

This subtly creeps into the church through programs adopted and exported by churches like Willow Creek and Rick Warren’s “Purpose Driven Church” Model that is secularizing leadership in the church, creating a hierarchy where church leaders go unchallenged as expository preaching transitions into ‘life coaching’ and the gospel is presented as a holy God compromising His standards so that more might be ‘saved.’

Pastor Mike Abendroth of No Compromise Radio joins us to discuss this sad transition and also take a deeper look at Jesus’ teachings in Matthew Chapters 5-9.

Is America Experiencing its Romans 1 Time?

by Stand Up For The Truth | Jan 21, 2019 | Abortion, American History, Apologetics, Christian Growth, Church Leadership, Contextualization, Culture & Morality, False Teaching, gender confusion, Globalism, Government, Israel, LGBTQ, Middle East, Persecution, Podcast, Progressive Christianity | 0 |

In Romans chapter one, Paul explains that since men reject the truth of God, He turns them over to a reprobate mind to think and do evil in astounding ways. Their rejection and hatred of God fuels them to believe and do unthinkable evil.

Sixty million murdered children in mother’s wombs in the U.S.; homosexual marriage legalized; and gender dysphoria accepted as “normal” with the government paying for people to try to change their gender (something medical science says is quite impossible), all point to a collective depravity in a nation established under God’s Laws and moral principles. And in the meantime, American Christianity gladly allows secular culture to infiltrate and influence her to the point that churches and their members look more like the world than a unique, holy people.

Gary Kah of Hope For the World joins us to talk about these issues and discuss globalism, Israel, the political divide in the U.S., and a report that President Trump will be unveiling a peace plan for the Middle East that seems to have Israeli officials very nervous.

The Difficulty in Finding a Biblical Church

by Stand Up For The Truth | Jan 17, 2019 | Apologetics, Beliefs, Christian Church, Christianity, Church Leadership, Culture & Morality, Emergent Church, False Teaching, gender confusion, Leadership, Liberalism, Podcast, Progressive Christianity | 0 |

There are still some sound biblical Christian churches in America; a “remnant,” to be sure. But a growing number look more and more like the world than they do an assembly of God’s called-out people. A difficulty arises when you have been a member of a historically sound church, but it has been in the midst of a transformation where it is adopting the beliefs and values of this fallen world. This gradual shift is often so subtle that you cannot see the drift away from God and toward secular humanism.

Pastor Randy White has studied this trend and joins us to discuss how this drift of the church away from God has transpired, how we can spot it, and how to find a biblical church in a sea of growing heresy and apostasy.

What Happened to My Church?

by Stand Up For The Truth | Jan 16, 2019 | Abortion, Apologetics, Beliefs, Christian Church, Church Leadership, Culture & Morality, Emergent Church, False Prophet, False Teaching, gender confusion, LGBTQ, Liberalism, New Age, New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), Podcast, Progressive Christianity, Prosperity Gospel | 0 |

Many Christians in America are asking that question these days as we see a growing number of churches change. The Gospel of reconciliation being replaced with consumerism and our “best life now”; moves of the Holy Spirit being replaced with emotional manipulation through loud music and fog machines; and churches that look more and more like the world Jesus told us would hate us and that we should hate.

But the changes introduced into American Christianity have been so subtle that many people do not even notice them until one day we suddenly feel like a stranger and alien in the very church we attended for years.

Jan Markell of Olive Tree Views and Understanding the Times Radio joins us to talk about the growing concerns of serious Christians about what they see happening in many of our churches these days.

The Feminizing of American Christianity

by Stand Up For The Truth | Jan 14, 2019 | Apologetics, Beliefs, Christianity, Church Leadership, Leaders, Leadership, Podcast, Sexuality | 0 |

God created men and women equal but uniquely different. In His master plan, men are to be strong and loving leaders and wives are to respectfully submit to their husband’s leadership. The Christian church in America needs real godly men, but at the time when they are needed most many are confused about what it means to be a true man of God. The world and its institutions that hate God have successfully minimized and redefined manhood, reducing many men to confused, quivering bowls of jelly instead of principled, strong leaders for the church and their families. And some believe that church leadership is also responsible for accommodating this feminizing of Christian men because they are not teaching us what it means to be Godly leaders of wives, families, and communities.

Pastor Carl Gallups joins us to discuss how society’s emasculation of men is infecting American Christianity, leading to dire consequences.

American Christianity’s Slide Into Apostasy

by Stand Up For The Truth | Feb 15, 2019 | Book Reviews, Christianity, Podcast | 0 |

This morning, Crash Connell interviews Mike about his latest powerful and provocative book challenging the direction of a growing number of churches in our nation. Mike discusses the demarcation forming between Biblical Christian Churches and “American Christianity” churches and how a growing number of churches and denominations are transforming churches toward secular culture, leading many into a false sense of eternal security.

You can pre-order Mike’s new book at biblicalanswerguy.com or at Amazon. It is a powerful, provocative book that will lead you to an honest self-assessment of your life as a professing believer and discover if the church you belong to is conforming to the world or the Word of God.

Deeper Faith, Honest Questions, Sharing the Gospel

by Stand Up For The Truth | Feb 14, 2019 | Apologetics, Christian Growth, Evangelism, Mormonism, Podcast, Spiritual Warfare, the Gospel, Worldview | 0 |

Two fantastic guests on the program means #doubletruththursday. Is that a thing? Anyway…

We also talk with radio host, Mike Zander, from Utah’s Key Radio where he reaches out to Mormons in Utah with the gospel. He’s in town today and in-studio with Mike LeMay and David Fiorazo.

Are We Turning Toward or Away From God?

by Stand Up For The Truth | Feb 13, 2019 | Abortion, Apologetics, Beliefs, Christianity, Church Leadership, Culture & Morality, Evangelism, False Teaching, Gospel, Humanism, Podcast | 0 |

The church is not a building or a denomination… You and I as believers are the Church!

In our first segment, we talk Biblical apologetics with Aaron Marshall of Ratio Christi Ministries.

Time for the Church to Turn Back to God

by Stand Up For The Truth | Feb 12, 2019 | Abortion, American History, Christianity, Church Leadership, Culture & Morality, Emergent Church, Evangelism, False Teaching, Government, Leadership, One world religion, Persecution, Podcast, Religious Freedom | 0 |

The world is what it always will be: Full of people who love self and power and despise God and His Word. Christians are called to stand out as a peculiar people full of eternal hope in Jesus Christ and sharing that hope with lost people. But many fear that as the “church” has sought compromise and common ground with the world that she has lost her moral standing and actually is contributing to the growing evil in society instead of opposing it and offering a solution.

It’s time to turn back to God with repentant hearts, asking His forgiveness for squandering our calling as light in this dark world. But do we as professing Christians, along with those who lead us, have the humility and strength to get on our knees and repent before God for our failures? Or will we continue to look more and more like this world Jesus said we were to hate and that would hate us?

Elijah Abraham, a former Muslim and now born-again believer, travels the world teaching the Word of God and equipping Christians in persecuted nations to share the gospel in the midst of danger. Elijah joins us to look at the tepid condition of American Christianity and what we must do before it’s too late.