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Faith Informed is an Engage International Podcast with a vision to clarify truth claims, challenge prevailing ideologies and commend the faith. We desire to equip Christians to winsomely commend, defend and contend for the faith and help Believers to think Christianly about everything, be better rooted, more equipped, and ever growing in the knowledge of God. www.engagein.org
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Understanding and Navigating the Challenges Facing the Church in Modern Times With Dr. Rob Pochek
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In today’s episode, we’re diving deep into some crucial questions about the church. What is the church? Why should believers be a part of it? What are the challenges it faces today, especially in the West? And how can we navigate disputes and show love to those we disagree with?By Sam Raju
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Counterfeit Christianity: The New Apostolic Reformation
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In this episode, we will continue our conversation with Doug Geivett and Holly Pivec on the NAR movement. The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) began in the 1980s and has since gained a global following. Rooted in churches such as Bethel Church in Redding, CA, and the International House of Prayer (IHOP) in Kansas City, Kansas, the NAR has experience…
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The New Apostolic Reformation With Doug Geivett and Holly Pivec
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Although the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) might be unfamiliar to many, names like Bethel and IHOP likely ring a bell. Bethel, a major NAR proponent, is known for more than just popular worship songs. It's important for Christians to understand the teachings and practices associated with this movement, characterized by self-proclaimed prophets an…
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Faith In The Age of Science With Dr. JP Moreland Part 2
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In this episode, we will continue our conversation with Dr. JP Moreland on the relationship between science and religion, particularly focusing on whether scientific discoveries point towards the existence of a divine creator. From the Big Bang theory to evolutionary biology, each scientific discovery has provided insights into the intricate workin…
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Has Science Buried God? God In The Age of Science With Dr. JP Moreland
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Is there a conflict between belief in God and science? Has science rendered belief in God implausible? The prevailing idea that science has indeed made belief in God untenable is largely due to the immense cultural authority attributed to science today. When figures like Richard Dawkins assert that science has demonstrated the nonexistence or highl…
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A Gameplan for Effectively Sharing Your Faith With Greg Koukl Part 2
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In our culture today, it is increasingly difficult to have honest conversations on faith and God without being labeled as bigoted or intolerant. How do we have meaningful conversations with our non-Christian friends and family? In this episode we will continue our conversation with Greg Koukl on how to effectively engage in conversations about God …
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A Game Plan for Effectively Sharing Your Faith with Greg Koukl
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In this episode of Faith Informed, well known apologist Greg Koukl gives some tried and tested tactics to engage non-believers. If you want to have spiritual conversations with others but lack a game plan, this discussion will give you a place to start. We will learn how to winsomely engage in conversations on God and how asking questions in an int…
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In this talk we will listen to Sam Raju give a talk at the Thinkwell Conference titled “A Winsome Apologetic.” As disciples, we are called to live exemplary, Godly lives in this fallen world that those who watch will be provoked to ask us for the reason for the hope within. Sam argues that the most powerful and persuasive apologetic is a life well …
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Atonement and The Death of Christ With William Lane Craig
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Many have raised moral and theological objections on the justness, theological coherence and compatibility of the atonement. In this episode of Faith Informed, Dr. William Lane Craig joins me to discuss the crucial doctrine of the atonement and more specifically, penal substitution. How does Christ’s atoning death reconcile us to God? Why did Jesus…
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If an all powerful, perfectly good God exists then how come there is so much evil in the world. Is it possible to reconcile the existence of evil and suffering with an all powerful and perfectly good God? This is a question that has been debated by theologians, philosophers, and scholars for centuries. In this episode, Sam Raju speaks on this very …
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Is God A Vindictive Bully? With Paul Copan
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In today’s episode, Dr. Paul Copan joins us to help make sense of some troubling passages in the Old Testament. Paul is a theologian and an analytic philosopher who has written/edited over 40 books including “Is God a Moral Monster” and “Is God a Vindictive Bully.” He is a professor at Palm Beach Atlantic University and travels extensively, speakin…
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A Good and True Story With Paul Gould
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In today’s podcast we are joined by apologist and philosopher, Dr. Paul Gould, author of “A Good and True Story: Eleven Clues to Understanding Our Universe and Your Place in it.” We will look at 11 features of the universe that point us to the true story of the world. We will examine if the Christian story offers the best explanation for the origin…
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Wandering Toward God: Finding Faith Amidst Doubts and Big Questions with Travis Dickinson Part 2
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In Part 1, Travis shared how he began to doubt his Christian faith in seminary. He found he didn’t have good reasons to believe, but neither did he have good reasons to doubt. We all have questions about our faith that we wish we had a more satisfactory answer to. What should we do when we are faced with such questions? In this podcast we will lear…
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Wandering Toward God: Finding Faith Amidst Doubts and Big Questions with Travis Dickinson Part 1
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Travis Dickinson encountered doubt in the most unlikely of places - seminary. He felt his faith was “accidental” because he was born into a Christian family. Since he didn’t have good reasons to believe Christianity to be true, he thought it might be false. Learn how he navigated his season of doubt and found that Christianity values reason and evi…
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Why I Still Believe Part 2 With Mary Jo Sharp
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In this episode we continue our conversation with author and apologist Mary Jo Sharp, discussing the importance of the local church, what to look for when choosing a church, and the hope we have despite the brokenness we encounter. Mary Jo, a former atheist, was drawn by the beauty she found in the Christian story, but because of her experiences in…
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Why I Still Believe Part 1 with Mary Jo Sharp
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Have you considered giving up on your faith because of hypocrisy, legalism, and judgmentalism encountered in the church? More and more we are hearing stories of de-conversion, people once professing Christ turn skeptical and ultimately reject their faith altogether. Author and apologist, Mary Jo Sharp, was a likely candidate to do just that as she …
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