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Woke culture can't say it wasn't warned. Today on the ThinkPod we're talking about "Ride, Sally, Ride." "Ride, Sally, Ride" is being called a future true story, and it's the first film to take aim at woke culture. Based on best selling author Douglas Wilson's latest novel, "Ride Sally Ride" is a futuristic story (set not very far in the future) about sexbots, family values and our cultural rot. Sm...

Today, on a special bonus episode, a Theonomist and a NCT guy walk into a bar. A few minutes later, some good old fashioned alehouse apologetics breaks out. In this special bonus episode of the ThinkPod, you'll listen in to an after-hours conversation between Joel Settecase and Peter Boland of 5 Solas Studios. The two have theological disagreement over particular issues (Joel is a New Covenant The...

Street preaching is exciting and effective, and more Christians should be doing it. But what happens when you're out on the street and someone asks you a question you can't answer? Today we're going to talk about that. 1 Peter 3:15 tells Christians to "always [be] ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you...." So, how ready are you to defend yo...

Is it possible that Marxism (including communism and socialism) is not merely harmful but actually inspired by the Prince of Demons?   In what may become the most controversial episode of the Think Podcast ever, Joel Settecase and Paul Kengor dig into the life and work of Karl Marx, the infernal legacy of that work, and the peril immanent in our Western Civilization due to its ongoing pr...

Is the Trinity a Christian invention? Is it an addition (probably an unnecessary and possibly even logically incoherent one) to the more simple, obvious, unitarian concept of God? And is it true that the Old Testament teaches the absolute oneness of God? Or, on the other hand, could it be that the Old Testament points toward the Triune nature of the Godhead—and that the clues are there, if one has...

The Jewish religious festival known as Shavuot goes by many other names, like the Feast of Weeks, or First Fruits. Most Christians know it as Pentecost, and think of it as the day when the Holy Spirit was given to the church (Acts 2:1-47). But did you ever stop to think why God chose *that* day to send the Holy Spirit?    After all, the Old Covenant religious feasts all had important sig...

Are Christian pastors really get thrown in jail, simply for holding church services? Did the Albertan government seriously barricade a church? If true, does this mean that Covid is raging to such extremes in the Great White North, that all of society is being shut down... or is the church being singled out for "special" treatment? Dr. Michael Thiessen joins Joel to talk about the current state of...

Please leave our show an honest, 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Whether you’re getting ready to send your kids off to college or into the world to start lives and families of their own (eventually), or you’re looking at starting their families in the immediate future, you’re going to want to listen closely to today’s conversation.  Every Christian father feels concern about his k...

join the Settecase kids their mom (Aliza) for a very special Mothers' Day episode of CATAKIDS! Check it out—we're going to ask and answer questions 27 through 30 of the CATAKIDS! New Covenant Catechism for Little Ones, and you'll also hear a FUN FACT from Jakob and a COOL IDEA with Phia. Today's questions are: What is sin? Sin is disobeying God. Gen. 6:5; Matt. 15:19; Rom. 14:23; Gal. 5:19-21; Jam...

Are your favorite movies… satanic? It’s a common evangelical practice to try and find the Gospel in popular movies and culture. But what if there is another, much darker, story at play? 1949, philosopher Joseph Campbell rocked the literary world with his book, The Hero With A Thousand Faces . Therein, Campbell presented his theory that many—nearly all—of the ancient myths are all really telling es...

Any Christian that wants to obey Jesus needs to be about the business of evangelism. Evangelistic conversations are often going to lead to pushback from unbelievers. They’ll present objections, and believers need to be prepared to respond well to them. The good news is this: there are really only three basic categories of objections. Knowing what these categories are can help us ready ourselves to...

ThinkSquad parents and kids, this is the moment you’ve been waiting for! Episode 6 of the CATAKIDS! Podcast is here, and we’re learning how to pray like Jesus . Listen to all the episodes and get your own copy of Catakids!   right here . Jakob, Phia, Lukas and Jojo are back to answer just one question: QUESTION 26: WHAT DID JESUS TEACH US TO SAY, WHEN WE PRAY? The answer can be found in the B...

From the back of We Will Not Be Silenced , by Erwin Lutzer: “Each day, you watch America turn further from Christian values and the core principles of liberty. It’s frustrating to feel you can’t assert biblical truth without facing condemnation, and frightening to witness outrage and victimhood replace respect and reason. Amidst this dissent, how can you not only stay rooted in your faith but cont...

Hey ThinkSquad parents, go get your kids, because it’s time for the next episode of the CATAKIDS! Podcast. Listen to all the episodes and get your own copy of Catakids!   right here . The Settecase kids are here again to talk about questions 21-25 of Catakids! The New Covenant Catechism for Little Ones. Our goal is to help you lay down a solid theological foundation for your kids that will se...

Hey #ThinkSquad, you can get the full argument and show notes for this episode here . A Scenario: Skeptic: The Bible is full of contradictions! Christian: Contradictions are violations of logic, and logic (being immaterial, universal, objective, absolute, unchanging, and discovered—not invented) presupposes biblical truth. Skeptic: Aha! That's where you're wrong. Logic is merely a human convention...

If you’re already a follower of Jesus, then odds are good that you already believe the Bible is the word of God. Although Scripture has many human authors (about 40), the Divine Author, overseeing the process of its writing, is the Lord Himself. In fact, because the Bible consists of 66 books, all of them breathed out by God and given for our benefit (2 Timothy 3:16), you could say that God is bot...

In this After Hours Apologetics episode of the Think Podcast, Joel Settecase discusses what should be the goal(s) of defending our faith. The goals, as defined by Scripture, are: To vindicate the absolute truth of the Gospel and the Christian worldview. To silence our opponents. Does that second one seem almost… un-Christian? And does the first one seem impossible? You’ll learn why neither is the...

Go get your kids... they'll want to hear this! Joel, Jakob, Phia, Lukas and Jojo are back with questions 16-20 of Catakids! The New Covenant Catechism for Little Ones. It’s time to keep laying down a solid foundation of biblical Christianity for your own kiddos, to prepare them for a life walking with Jesus, sharing the Gospel and being ready to defend their hope (1 Peter 3:15). Ready? Let’s do th...

You’ve seen them on State St. in Downtown Chicago, or on your way to the football stadium, or outside your local abortion mill. Sometimes they hold signs, oftentimes they use voice amplification. Depending on your perspective, they’re either embarrassing (and possibly very convicting) zealots or heroes of the faith. Even Christians who agree with their message are often less-than-enthusiastic abou...

On this bonus Monday episode of the Think Podcast,  you’ll hear R. C. Apologist interview Joel Settecase on Joel’s book The Doctrine Shapes the Defense: The Importance of the Trinity in John Frame’s Apologetics . John Frame, one of the most important Christian philosophers and theologians of the 20th and 21st Centuries, is known for his three-fold approach in his writings known as triperspect...

On this bonus Friday episode of the Think Podcast, Joel Settecase sits down with R. C. Apologist to talk about Christians and their view of Islam. What do Christians think of Islam? This question is loaded, and there is no way a short, 30-minute episode of a single podcast could answer it fully. So we are making it our goal to give a brief overview of how different Christians approach our fellow “...

Our journey through Catakids! The New Covenant Catechism for Little Ones continues. Welcome back to the CATAKIDS podcast! If you need to catch up, here’s Episode 1 and Episode 2 on YouTube. Joel Settecase and the Settecase kids want to help your family learn the most basic teachings of biblical Christianity. We hope that the Lord will use this to bring your children to repentance and faith in Chri...

When Christian apologists allow fear to creep in as their motivation, two equally-dangerous outcomes may result. Here’s why it’s a problem, and how to avoid it. Specifically in this episode, you'll learn: What the Bible says about what should motivate our apologetics. Why fear is so dangerous to the Christian apologist. Why every Christian needs to be ready to "give a defense" of the Christian mes...

Okay, so you’ve decided you want to get better at standing up for what you believe. You’re going go hone your skill at defending your faith and sharing the Gospel. And you’ve discovered the world of apologetics—the discipling vindicating Christian truth against challenges and objections—but now you’ve hit a roadblock… because you’ve discovered ( gasp ) there are different ways of going about this....

What do you do when making disciples is hard? I mean, you can’t just give up, can you? After all, making disciples is literally what the Lord Jesus commissioned us to do, as recorded in Matthew 28:18-20. This is what we’re talking about in today’s episode of the Think Podcast with Joel Settecase. So what happens when the society becomes divided, the culture divisive, or the civil government oppres...