Filter results by source database — Scripture Commentary, Theology, Mike Winger, or Pulpit. Click a tab to narrow to one database.

...more
All (21) Mike Winger (21)
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Three commitments: (3) Mike will not be 'God's PR department' — he will not avoid truths or fail to confront false beliefs to make Christianity palatable.

Three things Mike will NOT do in this series

God's PR department biblical submission intellectual honesty
Mike Winger idea 2023-11-22

Mike's personal disappointment with egalitarian arguments

Mike shares his personal experience studying both sides of the debate.

intellectual honesty personal testimony egalitarian arguments
Mike Winger idea 2018-02-21

Watchtower 1993 claims vaccinations were always a matter of individual conscience — erasing any record of the previous decades-long ban.

Mike continues the vaccination case study to show the Watchtower's tactic of historical revision.

Watchtower doctrinal reversal vaccination doctrine Awake August 1993
Mike Winger idea 2017-12-27

Restaurant rescue shows as an illustration of blind spots to one's own problems

Illustrative analogy within Tip 3 about honest self-assessment.

self-deception self-examination blind spots
Mike Winger idea 2018-01-24

Mormons cannot be called Christians and Christians cannot be called Mormons — this is a claim of integrity, not hate.

Mike frames his comparative analysis as motivated by honesty and genuine concern for truth, not anti-Mormon prejudice.

apologetics Mormonism vs. Christianity interfaith categories
Mike Winger idea 2018-01-24

Mormon theology contains more gods than any other religion in history — an infinite, eternal regression of gods with no beginning.

Mike stresses the full scope of Mormon polytheism: not just three gods but an infinite cosmological chain of deities.

eternal progression Mormon polytheism infinite regression of gods
Mike Winger idea 2018-09-05

Closing assessment of Aron Ra: comes across as a zealot for atheism who prioritizes tearing down Christianity over pursuing truth.

Winger summarizes his overall impression of Ra's approach across both videos in the series.

apologetics atheism Aron Ra
Mike Winger idea 2018-12-01

Jim issued a fact-check challenge to his audience; Mike takes up that challenge, emphasizing that Jim is sincere but simply misinformed — not deliberately lying

Mike establishes the spirit of the response before diving into specifics

intellectual honesty methodology apologetics
Mike Winger idea 2018-12-01

Atheists can be gullible too: skeptics sometimes have a low bar for accepting anti-Christian claims, just as Christians can have a low bar for confirming their own beliefs

Key thematic statement of the video

intellectual honesty critical thinking apologetics
Mike Winger idea 2018-12-01

Jim's own closing statement admits his audience should not simply believe him but verify for themselves — Mike takes this as evidence of Jim's sincerity, not dishonesty, and uses it to encourage skeptics to investigate Christian claims more seriously

Mike wraps up the refutation portion

intellectual honesty evangelism apologetics
Mike Winger idea 2018-12-01

Closing challenge to skeptics: be critical of your own criticisms — if you laugh at Christians, make sure you have good reason to; you may have adopted the dogma of your own worldview uncritically

Mike's closing remarks to both Christian and skeptic viewers

intellectual honesty evangelism critical thinking
Mike Winger idea 2018-12-05

Loving someone does not mean withholding truth from them — love requires honesty about sin

Winger addresses Daigle's first stated reason: 'I have too many people I love who are homosexual.'

truth love sin
Mike Winger idea 2018-12-05

How to reach someone struggling with homosexuality: one-on-one honesty with genuine love

Q&A question about practical outreach to someone in a homosexual lifestyle.

evangelism pastoral care homosexuality
Mike Winger idea 2019-03-14

Q&A: Most atheist arguments are refutations rather than positive cases for atheism — is that a problem?

Q&A question from Benjamin Rush about the asymmetry of atheist argumentation

burden of proof intellectual honesty skepticism
Mike Winger idea 2018-09-26

Preferred pronouns — Mike cannot use false pronouns because it constitutes dishonest support of a delusion

A viewer asks whether Christians should use preferred pronouns as this becomes a larger cultural issue.

Christian ethics cultural engagement gender identity
Mike Winger idea 2020-12-11

White lies are a moral compromise; giving oneself permission for them breeds untrustworthiness. Better alternatives: honest deflection ("I don't want to talk about it") or full honesty.

Question: are white lies okay to spare a spouse's feelings?

marriage ethics lying
Mike Winger idea 2021-02-19

Introduction to Friday Q&A format

Pastor Mike opens the show, noting he will answer up to 20 questions and will admit when he does not know something.

intellectual honesty Q&A format pastoral teaching
Mike Winger idea 2021-04-23

True humility is accurate self-assessment, not performance; pride in one's humility reveals the humility was never genuine.

Q14 from Silas Abrahamson: how do you deal with pride when you get proud of how humble you are, leading to infinite regress?

self-deception pride humility
Mike Winger idea 2021-04-30

Admitting ignorance builds trust rather than undermining pastoral credibility.

Transition comment between questions; Mike reflecting on his own practice.

intellectual honesty pastoral integrity
Mike Winger idea 2020-08-12

Argument 1 — Jesus's death predictions are very early: (a) Matthew 16:17-23 contains Semiticisms ("son of Jonah," "flesh and blood," "Hades") pointing to Aramaic origins, not later Greek tradition. (b) Mark 9:31 has a paronomasia (pun) in Aramaic: "son of man handed into the hands of men." (c) 1 Corinthians 11:24-25 (Last Supper) is written before the Gospels. (d) Paul distinguishes Jesus's commands from his own (1 Cor 7) — proving he doesn't invent words of Jesus.

Argument 1 — earliness of predictions

Matthew 16:17-23 Mark 9:31 1 Corinthians 11:24-25 Semiticisms Matthew 16:17-23 Mark 9:31
Mike Winger idea 2021-09-03

Honesty vs. Kindness?: Where do you draw the line between honest communication about things that bother you about something someone does, and “dying to self” if the person is a very close friend/loved one/spouse?

Q&A question: Honesty vs. Kindness?