Episodes

Episodes

• Cave To The Cross Apologetics – The Father’s Responsibility To Educate Children Redux 2026-06-15
  Don't worry, we'll be back to Bahnsen next week. But first, policy expert Jeff Park and Patrick have to encourage Christian fathers to take an…
• Cave To The Cross Apologetics – The Christian Responsibility To Educate Children Redux 2026-06-08
  It's now Patrick's turn to take a short vacation, so this week and next week will be two redux episodes featuring policy expert Jeff Park and the…
• Andreas Köstenberger Interview – Interview Redux 2025-12-29
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dv78KPto4o Andreas Köstenberger Interview Redux Here are two of our interviews with the great Andreas Köstenberger.…
• Church History Matters Redux – Interview With Troy Frasier From Revived Thoughts 2025-12-22
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oXycsqAl-I Church History Matters Redux I absolutely love the people God has brought together in the scope of doing…
• Book 14 Announcement – Cave To The Cross Apologetics 2025-10-13
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9H5Z5sFRP0 Book 14 Announcement For our 14th book, we dive into one of the great moments for presuppositional…
• Christianity Can Integrate With Science – Ep.342 – Scientism & Secularism – The Importance Of Integrating Christianity And Science – Part 2 2025-10-06
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHI9jUAYppY Christianity Can Integrate With Science Christianity can integrate with science. In fact, the scientific…
• Can Science Integrate With Christianity? – Ep.341 – Scientism & Secularism – The Importance Of Integrating Christianity And Science – Part 1 2025-09-29
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-viZ22dfX3E Can Science Integrate With Christianity? Now that we have knocked down scientism, are Christians left…
• Why God Of The Gaps Is A Bad Objection – Ep.340 – Scientism & Secularism – Methodological Naturalism, Theistic Evolution, & Intelligent Design – Part 2 2025-09-22
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzg9rKqOoTY Why God Of The Gaps Is A Bad Objection While finishing our discussion on why methodological naturalism…
• The Danger Of Methodological Naturalism – Ep.339 – Scientism & Secularism – Methodological Naturalism, Theistic Evolution, & Intelligent Design – Part 1 2025-09-15
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__m_Y9Ei9YU The Danger Of Methodological Naturalism Before we talk about how Christianity should integrate science,…
• Fine Tuning, Consciousness, & Morality – Ep.338 – Scientism & Secularism – 5 Things Science Can’t Explain But Theism Can – Part 2 2025-09-08
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YH54_s5BvU Fine Tuning, Consciousness, & Morality Finishing up on the 5 things science can’t explain:…
• Science Can’t Explain Origin Or Laws – Ep.337 – Scientism & Secularism – 5 Things Science Can’t Explain But Theism Can – Part 1 2025-09-01
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OSCTQQcNGM Science Can’t Explain Origin Or Laws Looking at how philosophy first holds its place over science,…
• Don’t Be Bored, Be Active – Ep.336 – Titus 3:12-15 Sermon 2025-08-25
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbmpBqWEeRA Lairs, Evils Beasts, Lazy Gluttons On vacation this week, so this is my (Patrick’s) message on the…
• Philosophy’s Authority Over Science – Ep.335 – Scientism & Secularism – Examples Of The Authority And Autonomy Thesis – Part 2 2025-08-18
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi4yHLImiHc Philosophy’s Authority Over Science Previously, we looked at the authority philosophy has over…
• Education Is Classical Education – Ep.334 – Martin Cothran Interview 2025-08-11
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDvQeFfHzSI Education Is Classical Education We welcome Martin Cothran from Memoria Press today. Mr. Cothran is a…
• The Authority Of Philosophy Over Science – Ep.333 – Scientism & Secularism – Examples Of The Authority And Autonomy Theses – Part 1 2025-08-04
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2vGPHa42Do The Authority Of Philosophy Over Science If you think the atheists are mad and don’t watch our…
• Philosophy First! – Ep.332 – Scientism & Secularism – Scientism & 1st Philosophy 2025-07-28
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cpqF1jI9Vk Philosophy First! The goal is not to reject science. It’s understanding the failure that scientism…
• Scientism Is Not All In The Head – Ep.331 – Scientism & Secularism – When Science Exceeds Its Reach 2025-07-21
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQukgZawUo Scientism Is Not All In The Head Here’s a case study in which desiring only naturalist scientific…
• Other Sources Of Knowledge – Ep.330 – Scientism & Secularism – The Availability Of Non-Scientific Knowledge 2025-07-14
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZfz0XP3oQ4 Other Sources Of Knowledge Well, if science doesn’t give us all knowledge, what are other sources…
• Weak Scientism Is Weak – Ep.329 – Scientism & Secularism – Why Weak Scientism Is No Better 2025-07-07
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L-Xevz0XzU Weak Scientism Is Weak Ok, strong scientism is bad because it denies any other field the ability to…
• Lairs, Evils Beasts, Lazy Gluttons – Ep.328 – Titus 1:10-12 Sermon – Cave To The Cross Apologetics 2025-06-30
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99HBCrGHHA8 Lairs, Evils Beasts, Lazy Gluttons We are taking a break for the 4th of July weekend but you can listen…
• Presuppositions Of Science – Ep.327 – Scientism & Secularism – Scientism Is the Enemy of Science – Cave To The Cross Apologetics – Part 2 2025-06-23
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_QbvAduXcs Presuppositions Of Science We look at how scientism destroys science by denying the ability to do…
• Scientism Is Self-Refuting – Ep.326 – Scientism & Secularism – Scientism Is Self-Refuting & Scientism Is the Enemy of Science – Cave To The Cross Apologetics – Part 1 2025-06-16
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znpcFM9N0Mk Scientism Is Self-Refuting Now that we’ve defined our terms about scientism, what makes it so…
• The Ugly Source Of Scientism – Ep.325 – Scientism & Secularism – How Scientism Changed The Universities – Cave To The Cross Apologetics 2025-06-09
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHyoRRQ_zgE The Ugly Source Of Scientism Where did scientism come from? What is the ugly source of scientism? Would…
• Scientism Ruins Lives – Ep.324 – Scientism & Secularism – Why Scientism Matters – Cave To The Cross Apologetics 2025-06-02
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5rQgTaqho4 Scientism Ruins Lives Now that we’ve defined scientism, we have to talk about why it matters. How…
• Defining Scientism – Ep.323 – Scientism & Secularism – The (Scientistic) Air We Breathe – Cave To The Cross Apologetics 2025-05-26
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=111s4hd5siM Defining Scientism We kick off our book on scientism by doing what we always advocate for –…
• Introduction To Moreland & His Book – Ep.322 – Scientism & Secularism – Forward & Intro – Cave To The Cross Apologetics 2025-05-19
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW-IXFrNM3Q Introduction To Moreland & His Book We kick off our book looking at not only the introduction of the…
• Book 13 Announcement – Cave To The Cross Apologetics 2025-05-12
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSStQCm-xJs Book 13 Announcement Wow, has it been 13 books already? Why, yes it has. Book 13! This week is…
• Miracle Claims Vs. Hume – Ep.321 – Miracles – Developing Hume’s Skepticism Toward Miracles – Part 5 2025-05-05
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TucwunYIAA Miracle Claims Vs. Hume And as we wind down our takedown of Hume, we take one final look at Miracle…
• Hume’s Biased Naturalism – Ep.320 – Miracles – Developing Hume’s Skepticism Toward Miracles – Part 4 2025-04-28
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj3TDTXjCkc Hume’s Biased Naturalism Coming into the final episodes of this book, we go after Hume’s…
• Hume Humiliated In History – Ep.319 – Miracles – Developing Hume’s Skepticism Toward Miracles – Part 3 2025-04-21
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nljMdwJ8bOo Hume Humiliated In History After looking at the science and philosophy of Hume, we now look at his take…
• Agents Enter Into The Picture – Ep.318 – Miracles – Developing Hume’s Skepticism Toward Miracle – Part 2 2025-04-14
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewfCZYmu6mc Agents Enter Into The Picture A little shorter episode this week as this section and the next section…
• The Bad Effects Of Hume’s Philosophy – Ep.317 – Miracles – Developing Hume’s Skepticism toward Miracle – Part 1 2025-04-07
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94MYkVIJeks The Bad Effects Of Hume’s Philosophy The bad effects of Hume’s philosophy might not seem…
• Circular David Hume & His Critics – Ep.316 – Miracles – Hume and the Philosophic Questions – Part 5 2025-03-31
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo9HckuKD4M Circular David Hume & His Critics Finishing up looking at David Hume’s Philosophy and we see…
• Hume Destroys Testimony – All Testimony – Ep.315 – Miracles – Hume and the Philosophic Questions – Part 4 2025-03-24
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPNevdoi52c Hume Destroys Testimony – All Testimony Hume is back at it again with destroying more of our…
• Can Hume Get A Witness? – Ep.314 – Miracles – Hume and the Philosophic Questions – Part 3 2025-03-17
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL3Mrd8EEfk Can Hume Get A Witness? Looking at David Hume’s philosophy on miracles, now we find ourselves not…
• Dismantling David Hume – Ep.313 – Miracles – Hume and the Philosophic Questions – Part 2 2025-03-10
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcNw3WYfdac Dismantling David Hume We start dismantling David Hume at the best place to start – the beginning.…
• The Intro To Critiquing David Hume – Ep.312 – Miracles – Hume and the Philosophic Questions – Part 1 2025-03-03
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgliE4KSeks The Intro To Critiquing David Hume We enter our into to critiquing David Hume by setting the stage for…
• Unbiased Ancient Historians & Biased Modern Day Ones – Ep.311 – Miracles – Antisupernaturalism As An Authenticity Criterion? – Part 2 2025-02-24
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oUdCQOzMLA Unbiased Ancient Historians & Biased Modern Day Ones Before we dig into Hume, we finish our…
• Ye Ol’ Skeptics – Ep.310 – Miracles – Antisupernaturalism As An Authenticity Criterion? – Part 1 2025-02-17
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6zXWaKvVmI Ye Ol’ Skeptics Kicking off our discussion on miracles we go back to Ye Ol’ Times and see if…
• Book 12 Announcement 2025-02-10
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tYmdJ7Zf-U Book 12 Announcement Here’s the announcement for the next book we’ll be discussing. The way…
• Natural Law & Divine Command Response To Woke Theology – Ep.309 – Christian Ethics – 4 Views – Response Prophetic Ethics – Part 2 2025-02-03
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I7g2fDIgto Natural Law & Divine Command Response To Woke Theology In our final episode on Christian Ethics…
• Woke Theology Needs Proper Hermeneutics – Ep.308 – Christian Ethics – 4 Views – Response Prophetic Ethics – Part 1 2025-01-27
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYRn_neyy4E Woke Theology Needs Proper Hermeneutics With the final critique of our four ethics we end with the…
• The New Social Justice Monastic Period – Ep.305 – Christian Ethics – 4 Views – Prophetic Ethics – Part 2 2025-01-06
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKj6mR4eI2U The New Social Justice Monastic Period Finishing up the presentation on the Prophetic Ethics (Woke…
• Christian Social Justice Ethics – Ep.304 – Christian Ethics – 4 Views – Prophetic Ethics – Part 1 2024-12-30
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBzMbhUy8nw Christian Social Justice Ethic For our final model of ethics we cover Prophetic Ethics. Here the model…
• Disagreeing With Divine Command Ethics – Ep.303 – Christian Ethics – 4 Views – Part 2 2024-12-23
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJV9ln1MmtM Disagreeing With Divine Command Ethics This week we cover with the final two outlooks that do more…
• Responding To Divine Command Ethics – Ep.302 – Christian Ethics – 4 Views – Part 1 2024-12-16
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2u7d-mcaCk Responding To Divine Command Ethics We start the response of our third Christian ethical system by…
• Defending Divine Command Ethics – Ep.301 – Christian Ethics – 4 Views – Divine Command Ethics – Part 2 2024-12-09
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrMAnyGjYwk Defining Divine Command Ethics Now that we’ve defined Divine Command Ethics, our proponent of the…
• Defining Divine Command Ethics – Ep.300 – Christian Ethics – 4 Views – Divine Command Ethics – Part 1 2024-12-02
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zMFJpdpZlY Defining Divine Command Ethics Welcome to episode 300! Thank you to everyone who has watched/listened…
• Divine Command & Woke Theology Critique Of Natural Law – Ep.299 – Christian Ethics – 4 Views – Responding To Natural Law Ethics – Part 2 2024-11-25
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gow4s_t1bkI Divine Command & Woke Theology Critique Of Natural Law We kick off the second critique by looking at…
• Virtue Ethics Critique Of Natural Law – Ep.298 – Christian Ethics – 4 Views – Responding To Natural Law Ethics – Part 1 2024-11-18
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuZKnZWF4gQ Virtue Ethics Critique Of Natural Law We kick off the second critique by looking at the Virtue Ethics…
• The Chief End Of Man In Natural Law – Ep.297 – Christian Ethics – 4 Views – Natural Law Ethics – Part 2 2024-11-11
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIeove_Efao The Chief End Of Man In Natural Law Now that we’ve introduced Natural Law into our possible…
• The Law Of Nature Embedded In Humanity – Ep.296 – Christian Ethics – 4 Views – Natural Law Ethics 2024-11-04
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdtNTJa1mF8 The Law Of Nature Embedded In Humanity This week we introduce the Natural Law ethics perspective.…
• Divine Revelation & Prophetic Ethics Response To Virtue Ethics – Ep.295 – Christian Ethics – 4 Views 2024-10-28
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdtNTJa1mF8 Divine Revelation & Prophetic Ethics Response To Virtue Ethics If you were convinced by Virtue…
• A Natural Law Response To Virtue Ethics – Ep.294 – Christian Ethics – 4 Views 2024-10-21
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPIamn3HTsI A Natural Law Response To Virtue Ethics If you were convinced by Virtue Ethics presentation in the last…
• What Ought The Virtuous Person Do? – Ep.293 – Christian Ethics – 4 Views – Virtue Ethics – Part 2 2024-10-14
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAaRzd6FTRA What Ought The Virtuous Person Do? Last episode we covered what the virtue ethic supporter thought a…
• The Goal – Be The Good Person Who Surprises No One – Ep.292 – Christian Ethics – 4 Views – Virtue Ethics – Part 1 2024-10-07
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFxGnT1w8iA The Goal – Be The Good Person Who Surprises No One The next two ethic models for our IVP Christian…
• Divine Command & Prophetic Ethics Introduction – Ep.291 – Christian Ethics – 4 Views – Introduction to Four Theories of Christian Ethics – Part 2 2024-09-30
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdETEktgz1E Divine Command & Prophetic Ethics Introduction The next two ethic models for our IVP Christian…
• Virtue Ethics & Natural Law Introduction – Ep.290 – Christian Ethics – 4 Views – Introduction to Four Theories of Christian Ethics – Part 1 2024-09-23
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajw-3Dx7ciI Virtue Ethics & Natural Law Introduction Welcome to book number 11! We are going over IVP’s…
• Book 11 Announcement 2024-09-16
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_zJkFzkh8Y Book 11 Announcement Book number 11 for our two heroes asks some important questions and looks at four…
• Spooky Stories Of Church History – Ep.289 – Troy Fraiser From Revived Thoughts – Part 2 2024-09-09
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRigEDG3490 Spooky Stories Of Church History Troy Fraiser from Revived Thoughts regales us with tales of things that…
• Coincidences In Church History – Ep.288 – Troy Fraiser From Revived Thoughts – Part 1 2024-09-02
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUI00i-U2gM Coincidences In Church History Patrick welcomes back Troy Fraiser from Revived Thoughts! History is…
• Satisfying Father Hunger In Education – Ep.287 – Education Policy Expert Jeff Park Interview – Part 2 2024-08-26
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3fPSFcxyXo Satisfying Father Hunger In Education Now that we’ve identified the problem of fathers not being…
• The Dangers Of Father Absence In Education – Ep.286 – Education Policy Expert Jeff Park Interview – Part 1 2024-08-19
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBLy7dFsC8s The Dangers Of Father Absence In Education In whatever way you choose to educate your children, if you…
• One Body, Many Gifts – Ep.285 – Faith Has Its Reasons – Speaking the Truth in Love – Perspectives on Apologetics 2024-08-12
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMHpT7H1ftk One Body, Many Gifts In our concluding chapter to the book, we look at how the Church is one body &…
• Integrating Answering Evil, Miracles, & Jesus – Ep.284 – Faith Has Its Reasons – Reasons For Hope – Integrating Diverse Arguments In Apologetics – Part 2 2024-08-05
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL9jLGc0iNc Integrating Answering Evil, Miracles, & Jesus Concluding with our look at the Integrative Approach…
• Helping Everyone To Know God & Make Him Known – Ep.283 – Faith Has Its Reasons – Reasons For Hope – Integrating Diverse Arguments In Apologetics – Part 1 2024-07-29
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpiVVyish34 Helping Everyone Now the Integrative approach will show how it is helping everyone to know God &…
• Integrative Apologetics – The Ultimate Approach? – Ep.282 – Faith Has Its Reasons – Contending For The Faith – Part 2 2024-07-22
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKrlKyWT090 Integrative Apologetics – The Ultimate Approach? We look at the meta-apologetics of the…
• Apologetics & Human Knowledge – Ep.281 – Faith Has Its Reasons – Contending For The Faith – Part 1 2024-07-15
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7vYv5XCcTo Apologetics & Human Knowledge With the Integrative Approach to apologetics, the goal isn’t to…
• Clark, Evans, & Frame Want Us All To Get Along – Ep.280 – Faith Has Its Reasons – Apologists Who Favor Integration – Part 2 2024-07-08
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZnXSFUsPa8 Clark, Evans, & Frame Want Us All To Get Along Finishing up our historical look at the Integrative…
• Augustine, Aquinas, Carnell, & Schaeffer – Oh My! – Ep.279 – Faith Has Its Reasons – Apologists Who Favor Integration – Part 1 2024-07-01
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jLY5ENjQos Augustine, Aquinas, Carnell, & Schaeffer – Oh My! We come to our final apologetic method, the…
• Fideist Strengths & Weaknesses – Ep.278 – Faith Has Its Reasons – Apologetics & The Subjectivity Of Faith – Part 2 2024-06-24
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlmHCOcWcIc Fideist Strengths & Weaknesses The conclusion of our look at Fideism ends with a look at Fideist…
• Fideist Apologetics Summarized – Ep.277 – Faith Has Its Reasons – Apologetics & The Subjectivity Of Faith – Part 1 2024-06-17
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qych8mTYsA Fideist Apologetics Summarized Here is the Fideist apologetics summarized to show it as an apologetic…
• Your Own Personal Jesus – Ep.276 – Faith Has Its Reasons – Calling People To Encounter God In Jesus Christ – Part 2 2024-06-10
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DjRREeSDHk Your Own Personal Jesus For the final three apologetic questions answers, the Fideist point to the fact…
• Fideist Split Scripture & Christianity – Ep.275 – Faith Has Its Reasons – Calling People To Encounter God In Jesus Christ – Part 1 2024-06-03
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuIs_eHLhWE Fideist Split Scripture & Christianity In looking at how Fideists approach our 6 apologetics…
• Fideist Faith Is Experience – Ep.274 – Faith Has Its Reasons – Reasons Of The Heart – Part 2 2024-05-27
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFPFDfXORjQ Fideist Faith Is Experience The final three parts of the apologetic approach of rational Fideists. Here…
• Fideist Issues With Theology & Philosophy – Ep.273 – Faith Has Its Reasons – Reasons Of The Heart – Part 1 2024-05-20
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-ImhrgGgdU Fideist Issues With Theology & Philosophy Discussing now the meta-apologetics of Fidesim we focus on…
• Historical Fideism – Ep.272 – Faith Has Its Reasons – Apologists Who Emphasize Faith – Part 2 2024-05-13
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=142iGee69wo Historical Fideism We now move to the historical Fideism of those who would subscribe to the title of…
• Rational Fideism – Ep.271 – Faith Has Its Reasons – Apologists Who Emphasize Faith – Part 1 2024-05-06
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRihc2EvpSU Rational Fideism We open our discussion on the 4th apologetic method with not “just believe”…
• Cave To The Cross Apologetics Ad 2024-04-29
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agsn8bwqcZI Cave To The Cross Apologetics Ad Before we get into our last apologetic method, this week we’re…
• Pros & Cons Of Presuppositionalism Reformed Apologetics – Ep.270 – Faith Has Its Reasons – Apologetics And The Authority Of Revelation – Part 2 2024-04-22
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbA9AWNbj-M Pros & Cons Of Presuppositionalism Reformed Apologetics We conclude our section on the third…