# Joel Settecase

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#233 Can Women Be Pastors? And What Makes a Church Biblical?

What is the church—and how can you tell whether a congregation is organized according to God’s word? In this teaching episode, Joel Settecase presents a biblical doctrine of the church, also known as ecclesiology. The discussion covers the relationship between the local, visible church and the u ...

#234 Debate: The Atheist’s Argument Collapses Into a Logic Problem

Can an atheist demand evidence for Christianity without first accounting for evidence, reason, and logic within his own worldview? In this Christian vs. atheist debate clip, Joel Settecase challenges an atheist who argues that Christianity lacks evidence and that the Bible contains contradiction ...

#235 Morality Question: Does Saving the Mother Ever Require Killing the Baby?

Is abortion ever medically necessary to save the life of a pregnant mother? In this interview clip, Joel Settecase speaks with an experienced anesthesiologist about one of the most emotionally powerful arguments in the abortion debate: what should doctors do when pregnancy threatens a woman’s li ...

#236 Can Atheists Use Logic Without Borrowing From God? | Debate Highlight

Can an atheist use logic while admitting that only the Christian worldview can account for it? In this Christian vs. atheist debate clip, Joel Settecase and his opponent discuss whether the laws of logic are universal, objective, necessary, and unchanging—and what kind of worldview can explain t ...

#237 Does the Incarnation Contradict Logic? | Christian vs. Atheist Debate

If God is immaterial spirit, how can Jesus Christ be God in human flesh without violating the law of non-contradiction? In this Christian vs. atheist debate clip, Joel Settecase responds to a thoughtful challenge concerning the incarnation. The atheist asks whether Jesus can be both material and ...

#238 Death Before Adam? The Problem Old-Earth Christians Must Answer

Can Christians consistently accept Darwinian evolution, millions of years, and the biblical account of creation? In this interview episode, Joel Settecase speaks with a young-earth creationist Jonathan Sarfati of Creation Ministries International about the fossil record, chemical evolution, deat ...

#239 The Terrifying Beings Guarding God’s Throne | Lecture for Students

What are angels really like—and how different are they from the pictures we see in movies, paintings, and popular culture? In this teaching lecture for the students of Village Bible Church, Joel Settecase introduces the unseen spiritual realm by exploring the biblical “hosts of heaven.” Rather t ...

#240 Why the Modern Self Is a Christian Idea Gone Rogue

Who are you—and can you truly understand yourself without first understanding God? In this conversation, Joel Settecase explores the Christian roots of personhood, identity, and the modern idea of the self. Long before contemporary culture made self-expression the highest good, Scripture present ...

#241 Why Christians Cannot Affirm Homosexuality

Does the Bible’s condemnation of homosexual practice mean that Christianity is hateful toward gay people? In this teaching episode, Joel Settecase explains why biblical Christianity is not anti-gay, but anti-sin—and why that distinction matters. The Christian message did not arise as a reaction ...

#242 Does God Choose Who Gets Saved?

How does God take a sinner from spiritual death to eternal glory? In this teaching episode, Joel Settecase explains the biblical doctrine of salvation—also known as soteriology—through the ordo salutis, the order of salvation. Beginning with the “golden chain of redemption” in Romans 8, Joel tra ...