Every Square Inch Podcast

After setting the table for this discussion in the first two parts of this mini-series on the “defeater ethic” of sexuality, Robert concludes by taking a direct look at the sexual ethic of modern culture and critiquing it through several unique lenses to demonstrate how this ethic ultimately falls short.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

When discussing the issue of sexuality in today’s culture, there is another underlying issue at play: identity. In this week’s episode, Robert gives a brief history of how we got to a place where someone’s sexuality is tantamount to their personhood, and why this topic is so much more supercharged than other defeater ethics.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Continuing in our series about the ethical barriers that keep people from embracing Jesus and the Christian faith, Robert turns to the topic of the Bible’s sexual ethic, seeking to answer the question, “How can a good God make demands about my sexuality and my identity?”• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Our last episode focussed on the philosophy behind the morality of a God who could allow pain and suffering, but in Robert’s experience, people first arrive at this objection through personal circumstances rather than philosophical debate. In this episode, he takes a more “pastoral” approach to this topic in the hopes of showing doubters the goodness of our God.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

One of the most common barriers to the Christian faith is the idea that a God who loves us would let terrible things happen to us. How does the Christian reconcile what seems to be an irreconciable contradiction? In this episode, Robert focuses on the philosophy behind God’s morality and the kind of ideas that he would never communicate to someone who’s in the middle of a season of suffering (that’s for the next episode, which will focus more on the “pastoral” than the philosophical side of this topic).• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Skeptics used to just doubt that hell existed. Today, skeptics question whether a good God would send people to hell. In this episode, Robert looks at the idea of God’s judgment and how Christians can show a skeptical world that God’s judgement is in fact good news.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

In the past, the reason for disbelieving Christianity was often due to underlying beliefs that were incompatible with the Bible. Today, these “defeater beliefs” have given way to something else: “defeater ethics.” In this episode, Robert explains what he means by defeater ethics and how Christians can share the gospel in spite of a culture that no longer views Christianity as good for society.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

After spending time in Nashville with his grieving friends, Robert contrasts the devastation of the school shooting at Covenant School with the hope of Easter Sunday. Rather than allowing our fallen world to lower our expectation of joy, the resurrection invites us to indulge in joyful hope. 

In part 1, we saw the “spheres” where God has given us influence, but it’s natural that some cynicism might still remain. How much change can we actually bring about? And even if we bring about change, will it actually last? Part 2 is all about helping us see past the cynicism to the potential we have to bring redemptive change our spheres, and the real, lasting impact it can have upon the world. 

Now that we’ve established God’s redemptive plan for Kentucky, what does this plan mean for your seemingly ordinary life? In this episode, Robert helps us see that, no matter your vocation or stage of life, God has placed each of us in spheres of influence that we may not realize are there.