Talking Tough Topics

I’ve never seen Scott Sauls back down from a difficult topic. And I’ve never seen him miss an opportunity to make much of God’s grace abounding in Jesus. In our age of judgment, isolation, and fear, Sauls shows us what a friend we have in Jesus. An we could all use more friendship in this divided, contentious era.

I don’t think there’s a controversial topic Sauls fails to address in his new book, Befriend: Create Belonging in an Age of Judgment, Isolation, and Fear. He writes about abortion, refugees, politics, racism, poverty, wealth, homosexuality, shame, and more. Sauls is the senior pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee, and author of Jesus Outside the Lines, my runner-up for best book by a first-time author in The Gospel Coalition 2015 Editor’s Picks.

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He joins me on this podcast episode to discuss angry emails, challenging friends, tough topics, the spirituality of the church, and more.

Is there enough evidence for us to believe the Gospels?

In an age of faith deconstruction and skepticism about the Bible’s authority, it’s common to hear claims that the Gospels are unreliable propaganda. And if the Gospels are shown to be historically unreliable, the whole foundation of Christianity begins to crumble.

But the Gospels are historically reliable. And the evidence for this is vast.

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Collin Hansen serves as vice president for content and editor in chief of The Gospel Coalition, as well as executive director of The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics. He hosts the Gospelbound podcast and has written and contributed to many books, most recently Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation and Rediscover Church: Why the Body of Christ Is Essential. He has published with the New York Times and the Washington Post and offered commentary for CNN, Fox News, NPR, BBC, ABC News, and PBS NewsHour. He edited Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor and The New City Catechism Devotional, among other books. He is an adjunct professor at Beeson Divinity School, where he also co-chairs the advisory board.