Best Roland Albertus Podcasts (2025)

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Pride and Pentecost: Two Spirits, Two Kingdoms 36:49

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Send us a text 🎙️ Episode Title: Pride and Pentecost: Two Spirits, Two Kingdoms 📢 Host: Roland Albertus – Reasonable Christianity 🕊️ Theme: Spiritual Warfare, LGBTQ Ideology, and the Church’s Witness In this bold and urgent episode, Roland Albertus exposes the spiritual tension at the heart of our cultural moment: a battle between two spirits and t…

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Faithful Fathers, Flourishing Families: Rediscovering the Power of Biblical Fatherhood 35:28

13d ago35:28

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Send us a text In this powerful Father’s Day episode of Reasonable Christianity, Roland Albertus confronts one of the most urgent spiritual crises of our time: the collapse of biblical fatherhood. From the staggering statistics of fatherlessness in South Africa to the global confusion surrounding masculinity, this episode offers both a prophetic wa…

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Beyond Tongues and Tremors: The Forgotten Power of Pentecost. 41:29

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Send us a text What really happened at Pentecost—and why does it matter for us today? In this deeply theological and pastorally grounded episode, Roland Albertus takes you far beyond the emotional excesses and doctrinal misunderstandings that often cloud our view of Pentecost. Instead, you’ll uncover Pentecost's roots in the Jewish Feast of Weeks (…

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Why Jesus Had to Leave: The Ascension and the Coming of the Spirit 30:11

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Send us a text In this episode of Reasonable Christianity, Roland Albertus explores one of the most overlooked moments in the Christian calendar: the Ascension of Jesus Christ. Why did Jesus have to leave? What does His departure mean for us today? With deep theological insight and rich biblical exposition, we uncover how the Ascension: Fulfills Ol…

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P. Diddy, Power, and the Price of Playing God 38:56

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Send us a text In this gripping and deeply biblical episode, Roland Albertus takes listeners behind the headlines of the unfolding P. Diddy scandal to uncover the spiritual truths that lie beneath the surface of fame, power, and moral collapse. We confront the heavy allegations of sexual immorality, abuse, and exploitation—not just to comment on on…

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Miracles Are Possible: A Rational and Pastoral Defense 28:30

1M ago28:30

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Send us a text Is it reasonable to believe in miracles in our scientific age? In this thought-provoking episode, host Roland Albertus combines rigorous apologetics with heartfelt pastoral care to explore the possibility—and the probability—of miracles. Drawing from Scripture, classical philosophy, science, and church history, Roland challenges the …

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More Than a Role: The Eternal Weight of Motherhood 36:02

2M ago36:02

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Send us a text In this special Mother’s Day episode of Reasonable Christianity, Roland Albertus unpacks a robust biblical and systematic theology of motherhood. Far from being a sentimental holiday tradition, motherhood is shown to be a sacred and eternal calling woven into the very fabric of God’s redemptive plan. Drawing from Scripture, the early…

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Upon This Rock? Reflections on the Death of the Pope and the Claims of the Papacy 22:33

2M ago22:33

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Send us a text In this thought-provoking episode, Roland Albertus reflects on the death of the Pope — a moment of global significance — and uses it as a lens to examine the deeper theological claims of the papacy. Is the Pope truly the Vicar of Christ? Does Scripture support a centralized spiritual authority? Or has the modern papal office strayed …

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The Resurrection of Jesus – A Historical and Logical Defense 35:16

2M ago35:16

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Send us a text In this episode of Reasonable Christianity, we dive deep into the historical evidence and logical arguments that affirm the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Was the tomb really empty? What did eyewitnesses claim to see? Can the resurrection be historically verified, or is it simply a matter of blind faith? Join me as we explore the powe…

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How did Jesus fulfil the Jewish Passover? 37:00

2M ago37:00

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Send us a text In today’s episode, we’re taking a closer look at something truly profound: How Jesus fulfilled the Jewish Passover. This isn’t just a neat connection or symbolic gesture — it’s a powerful, prophetic link that ties the Old Testament to the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. If you've ever wondered whether Christianity is rooted …

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Why do bad things happen to good people? Lessons from the book of Job 42:26

3M ago42:26

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Send us a text Lessons from the book of Job Introduction: Suffering is the one human experience that we all share. Which makes one ask: Why do bad things happen to good people? And where is God when we suffer? What is the ultimate purpose of suffering? So, in today's episode I will be sharing 5 lessons about suffering from the book of Job. 1. GOD I…

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In Conversation with: Patric Daniels (AFRIKAANS) 1:29:19

3M ago1:29:19

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Send us a text IMPORTANT: AFRIKAANS EPISODE This episode is in Afrikaans. In today's episode I sit down with my friend and mentor: Patric Daniels. Patric is a Christian, husband, father and grandfather, musician and serves as a vocational councillor in our local municipality. During our conversation, we spoke about his background and how his love o…

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Christian Community: An Introduction 34:16

3M ago34:16

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Send us a text In today's episode I cover the following topics: 1) Differences between church and authentic Christian community. 2) The relationship between God, the household and Christian community. 3) FAQ's regarding Christian gatherings. Christian community is crucial to the effectiveness of the gospel on the earth. Therefore, we need to unders…

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Human Rights Day: A biblical perspective 27:06

3M ago27:06

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Send us a text As South Africans we commemorate Human Rights Day on the 21st of March every year. This is to remind ourselves of the atrocity known as the Sharpeville Massacre, where police opened fire on unarmed, peaceful protestors because they were marching against racist and dehumanizing apartheid laws. As we approach Human Rights Day this year…

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Church: Why the confusion? 40:21

3M ago40:21

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Send us a text In the previous episode I shared the fact that church is not the word the Jesus or the New Testament writers used to refer to Christian community. The word they used is the word Ekklesia which is defined as the called-out ones. In today's episode we will consider the question: Why the confusion. If the word church is not the same wor…

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What is Church? 34:37

4M ago34:37

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Send us a text In today's podcast episode I ask the question: What is church? In order for us to know why something exists and how it should function, we need to know what it is. So, today I will be defining church from a biblical perspective. Here's what you can expect from this episode: 1) Comparing the connotations of the word church with it's e…

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Are there modern day Apostles? 27:00

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Send us a text Are there Apostles today? What I mean is: Are there individuals whose words are inspired by God and who are called to speak authoritatively on behalf of God? This is a very important question because the answer has the potential to undermine the reliability and authority of the bible itself. For example, If there are apostles who are…

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What is marriage? Exploring the Jewish roots of biblical marriage 40:06

5M ago40:06

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Send us a text In today's episode we look at the meaning of marriage from a first century Jesus perspective. There are many references that Paul, Jesus and Peter make, pertaining to marriage, that we as gentile peoples don't understand so we need to ask ourselves: What did Jesus mean when he was speaking about marriage? (Mark 10:7) What does Paul m…

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Is the love of God REALLY unconditional? 29:59

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Send us a text As human beings, probably, one of our greatest needs is to be loved. We are relational beings and whether we realise it or not we are driven by our desire to belong, to be accepted, to be approved of…to be loved. So, imagine someone telling you that the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and personal creator of the universe loves y…

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What is speaking in tongues? 34:49

5M ago34:49

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Send us a text In today's podcast episode we ask the question: What is speaking in tongues? With traditional churches falling out of favour in South Africa and more Charismatic or Pentecostal churches becoming more prominent, it is not uncommon to see people erupting in "tongues" during corporate worship gatherings. This can, however, lead to disor…

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The Sovereignty of God: Is God sovereign over Satan? 31:23

5M ago31:23

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Send us a text If God is Sovereign over everything in creation, does that include the Devil? The bible makes it clear that the Devil has some sort of power over creation. Satan has the ability to tempt people into sin, to cause sickness, disease and even death. The question is: Does Satan's power over this fallen world exceed the power and governan…

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The glory of God in the fall of man 21:33

6M ago21:33

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Send us a text If everything exists for the God's glory, does that include sin? To put it another way: Is sin something that crept into God's existence by mistake or is sin something that God incorporated into his original plan for creation? In today's episode I try and show that sin did not catch God off guard. Instead, God ordained sin as part of…

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Why did God create everything? A biblical perspective 28:55

6M ago28:55

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Send us a text As We head into the first few days of 2025, I thought it would be good to consider why God created the universe, the earth and mankind. Many people, including Christians, struggle to find fulfilment in life because they have bought into the idea that God created them so that they could be happy. They think God's ultimate motivation b…

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Christmas isn't pagan, here's why! (Reaction to Wes Huff) 18:41

6M ago18:41

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Send us a text In today's episode I react video by Wesley Huff entitled: Christmas isn't pagan, here's why. I initially recorded this as a YouTube video on the 25th of December so excuse the date references. Check out Wes on YouTube for more insights regarding the biblical manuscripts and the ancient biblical languages. Support the show…

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Prophecy, the birth of Jesus and the Sovereignty of God 36:26

6M ago36:26

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Send us a text In today's episode we look at 7 Old Testament prophecies about the birth of Jesus and we consider how these prophecies relate to the sovereignty of God. we also look at the three components of God's sovereignty: 1) God's control of all creation 2) God's authority over all creation 3) God's presence throughout all creation. Support th…

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Good News of Great Joy! Cultural Context, Meaning and Implications of the birth of Jesus. 36:23

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Send us a text In Today's podcast episode we take a look at the birth of Jesus by doing a survey of Luke 2:1-20. The purpose of doing it this way is to help us appreciate the significance of the birth of Jesus by starting with the context which He was born into. We have to remember that Jesus was a Jew. He was the Jewish Messiah, first! Therefore, …

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When were the New Testament documents written? 22:08

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Send us a text ARE THE NEW TESTAMENT DOCUMENTS WRITTEN EARLY? The short answer is yes. But how early? All the New Testament books were written before A.D. 100 (About 70 years after the death of Jesus) How do we know this? Well, firstly, we know tis because letters written by early church fathers—between A.D. 95 and 110—quoted passages out of 25 of …

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CHRISTIANITY vs. CHRISTENDOM: Why a Christian society is bad for the effectiveness of the gospel. 35:54

7M ago35:54

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Send us a text What is Christianity? What is Christendom? Is there a difference? In today's episode I make the argument for why a Christian society--that is a society that is based on the values of Christianity--has a negative effect on the effectiveness of the gospel. "If everyone grows up as Christian, then they don't see the need to be born agai…

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Can we trust the bible? Manuscript Evidence 31:23

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Send us a text Are the New Testament Documents Reliable? INTRODUCTIONS/RECAP The cause of the universe, often called the prime reality or the uncaused first cause or simply, God, must have the following attributes: 1. The cause must be uncaused. 2. The cause must be timeless, spaceless and immaterial. 3. The cause must be powerful. 4. The cause mos…

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MONOTEÏSME: Hoekom daar net een God kan wees! Gesprek met Patric Daniels (AFRIKAANS) 1:15:32

8M ago1:15:32

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Send us a text In vandag se episode gesels ek saam met Patric Daniels oor die belangrkheid van objektiewe waarheid, die bewystukke vir God se bestaan, sowal as die redes hoekom daar net een opperwese/God kan wees. Patric is 'n Christen vir 25 jaar en dien as a wyksraadslid in ons plaaslike munisipaliteit. Ek het vir Pat (soos almal hom ken) ontmoet…

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MONOTHEISM: Why there can only be ONE GOD! 16:41

8M ago16:41

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Send us a text MONOTHEISM Why there can only be one God INTRODUCTION: In the previous episodes we looked at three arguments for the existence of God. They are: The Cosmological Argument which goes like this: 1. Everything that begins to exist has a cause. 2. The universe began to exist. 3. Therefore, the universe has a cause. The Teleological Argum…

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Does God Exist? The Moral Argument 22:55

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Send us a text OUTLINE: INTRODUCTION: The Cosmological Argument: The Teleological Argument THE MORAL ARGUMENT: The argument goes like this: 1. Every law has a law giver. 2. There is a Moral Law. 3. Therefore, there is a Moral Law Giver. An Atheist Perspective on Morality DISTINCTIONS: Values and duties: Objective vs Subjective moral values and duti…

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What is a woman? 42:10

9M ago42:10

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Send us a text In today's episode we consider womanhood from a biblical perspective. We live in a day and age where people claim to have the ability to change their "gender" but the bible teaches us that God, when He created us, created us as male and female (Genesis 1:26-27). In this teaching we look at passages in Genesis 1, 2 and 3, 1 Timothy 2,…

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Die Bestaan van God: Die argument uit ontwerp (AFRIKAANS) 31:27

9M ago31:27

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Does God exist? THE ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN 30:25

9M ago30:25

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Send us a text Does God exist? The Teleological Argument INTRODUCTION: In the previous episode we considered the Cosmological argument for the existence of God. THE TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT: In today’s episode we will consider the Teleological Argument, also known as the argument from design. The argument goes like this: Premise 1: Every design had a …

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Bestaan God? DIe Kosmologiese Argument (AFRIKAANS) 23:14

9M ago23:14

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Does God exist? The Cosmological Argument 26:28

10M ago26:28

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Send us a text Arguments for the existence of God INTRODUCTION: Does God exist? This is the question that we will be considering in today’s podcast episode. Here’s the claim: “God exists” Objective or subjective? If you remember, the first thing we do when we are confronted with a truth claim is to ask: is this a subjective or objective truth claim…

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Besware teen objektiewe waarheid (AFRIKAANS) 6:26

10M ago6:26

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Send us a text OBJECTIONS TO OBJECTIVE TRUTH: Now, let us apply the laws of logic to the objections to objective truth · There is no truth: If someone says, “There is no truth”, we must ask: Is that true? If the claim “there is no truth” is true, then there is at least one truth. And if there is at least one truth, then the claim “there is no truth…

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What is TRUTH? Part 2 36:13

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Send us a text WHAT IS TRUTH (PART 2)? INTRODUCTION DEEPER INTO THE OBJECTIONS LAWS OF LOGIC: · The law of identity: · The law of the excluded middle and · The law of non-contradiction OBJECTIONS TO OBJECTIVE TRUTH: There is no truth: All truth is relative: You can’t know truth: There is no objective truth: Truth is only produced by science: WHAT I…

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Wat is WAARHEID? Gedeelte 1 (AFRIKAANS) 30:26

10M ago30:26

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Send us a text WHAT IS TRUTH (PART 1)? PODCAST EPISODE 2 OUTLINE Introduction: What is truth? This is a question Quote Pontius Pilate asking this question to Jesus. John 18:38 38Pilate *said to Him, “What is truth?” And after saying this, he came out again to the Jews and *said to them, “I find no grounds at all for charges in His case Pilate walke…

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What is TRUTH? Part 1 32:28

10M ago32:28

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Send us a text WHAT IS TRUTH (PART 1)? PODCAST EPISODE 2 OUTLINE Introduction: What is truth? This is a question Quote Pontius Pilate asking this question to Jesus. John 18:38 38Pilate *said to Him, “What is truth?” And after saying this, he came out again to the Jews and *said to them, “I find no grounds at all for charges in His case Pilate walke…

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Redelike Christenskap: n Inleiding (AFRIKAANS) 16:54

10M ago16:54

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Send us a text Podcast (S01, Ep1) OUTLINE: What is the reasonable Christianity podcast about? · It is a podcast where we consider the truth-claims, teachings and practices of Christianity. With that being said, I don’t consider myself to by an expert in, well, anything. So, this podcast is more of an invitation than a teaching platform. There are m…

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Reasonable Christianity: An Introduction 17:10

10M ago17:10

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Send us a text OUTLINE: What is the reasonable Christianity podcast about? · It is a podcast where we consider the truth-claims, teachings and practices of Christianity. With that being said, I don’t consider myself to by an expert in, well, anything. So, this podcast is more of an invitation than a teaching platform. There are many aspects of real…

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