Reasonable Christianity?
Reasonable Christianity is a weekly podcast where ordinary people have thought-provoking conversations about an extraordinary God. Each week we take a look at the truth claims of Christianity, the teachings of the bible as well as the practices of the saints in order to evaluate and affirm the truthfulness of our faith and ultimately preserve the power of the gospel. Hosted by Roland Albertus
Episodes
89 episodes
WHEN THE FLOOD CAME: Providence, Suffering, and the God Who Was Already There
What do you do when the waters rise and God does not stop the storm?In this deeply personal episode, Roland reflects on the recent floods that devastated parts of Wolseley and the Western Cape, including the night floodwater entered his ...
Bloodlines and Bondage: What the Bible Actually Teaches About Generational Curses
Millions of Christians have been told that their bloodline may contain spiritual curses, that demons pass through families the way disease passes through DNA, and that before they can walk in full freedom they need someone with the right prayer...
The Body Alive: Spiritual Gifts, the Ekklesia, and How the Spirit Actually Moves — Part 1
Description:Most Christians have been taught that spiritual gifts happen on a stage. Someone with a microphone calls out a word. Someone falls. The atmosphere is engineered and the gift is performing.That is not the Spirit'...
Tithing, Taxes, and the Temple: What Are Christians Actually Called to Give? (Series, Misaligned: When the Church Replaces Christ, Episode 4)
For generations, one sentence has shaped how Christians think about money: “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse.”It’s been taught as obligation, reinforced by guilt, and treated as a test of obedience.But what i...
When the Body Functions, the Wolf Has Nowhere to Hide (Series, Misaligned: When the Church Replaces Christ, Episode 3)
In Episode 1, we exposed the man of God myth — the structure that concentrates authority in one person and quietly produces dependence instead of discipleship. In Episode 2, we sat with the consequences — real harm, protected wolves, and the en...
When the Church Protects Wolves: Suffering, Evil, and the Failure of Structure (Series, Misaligned: When the Church Replaces Christ, Episode 2)
Abuse within Christian environments is not just a moral failure—it raises deeper questions about God, truth, and the structures meant to protect His people.In this episode, we move beyond surface-level reactions and confront the issue at...
The Man of God Myth: Who Really Speaks for God? (Series, Misaligned: When the Church replaces Christ, Episode 1)
In many Christian spaces, the phrase “man of God” carries unquestioned weight. It shapes how people understand authority, how they hear God, and even how they see themselves in relation to Him. But what if that framework is not rooted ...
When Experience Becomes Authority: How Charismatic Christianity Can Undermine Truth Itself
When Experience Becomes AuthorityHow Charismatic Christianity Can Undermine Truth ItselfWhat happens when experience begins to carry more weight than revelation? In this episode, I examine a growing pattern within cer...
Is the Bible Historically Reliable? (Series: Faith That Can Answer Back, Episode 4)
Examining Scripture Before Calling It RevelationIf God exists… has He spoken?That’s the question we step into in this episode.After exploring the case for God’s existence in Episode 3, we now turn to the Bible — no...
Does God Actually Exist or Do We Just Want Him To? (Series: Faith That Can Answer Back, Episode 3)
The Case for Theism in a Skeptical AgeMany people today assume belief in God is psychological — a comforting story humans tell themselves to cope with fear, suffering, and death. In other words: we believe because we want to belie...
Is Truth Even Real Anymore? Why Everything Collapses If Truth Is Relative (Series: Faith That Can Answer Back, Episode 2)
We live in a moment where phrases like “live your truth” and “that’s true for you” have become common language. But what happens if truth itself becomes fluid?In this episode of Reasonable Christianity, we step back fro...
Where did Cain get his wife? The Question that shook my inherited faith (Series: Faith that can answer back, Episode 1)
What happens when a simple question exposes the fragility of your faith?In this opening episode, I tell the story of a university conversation that forced me to confront something I didn’t know how to admit: I believed — but I couldn’t e...
From Institutions to Oceans: Returning to the Fullness of Christ (Series: Called Out, Gathered In, Episode 4)
In this final episode of the series, we move from clarity to conviction.Jesus said, “I will build My ekklesia.” But over time, what Scripture describes as a living congregation has often been reframed in our imagination as something inst...
Designed This way: Why the Ekklesia Fits the Human Soul (Series: Called Out, Gathered In, Episode 3)
Is shared Christian life merely a biblical command — or is it also God’s mercy toward our humanity?In Episode III, Designed This Way, we move from theology to anthropology to hope. If Episode I recovered the word ekklesia
Each One Had a Part: The Spirit Distributed, Not Centralized (Series: Called Out, Gathered In, Episode 2)
The Spirit Distributed, Not CentralizedIf ekklesia is more than a word… what does it actually look like when it comes alive?In Episode I, we rediscovered the word Jesus used — a people called out and gathered under...
Can You Live With That? Relearning the Word Jesus Used (Series: Called Out, Gathered in, Episode 1)
Relearning the Word Jesus UsedWhat if the tension many Christians quietly feel isn’t a lack of faith—but a mismatch between Scripture and experience?Jesus said, “I will build my ekklesia.”Not a building.N...
The God Who Ends Death (Series: Hell, Immortality and the Justice of God, Episode 4)
This final episode brings the series to its theological center.After examining Scripture’s teaching on immortality, hell, and judgment, we now face the defining question: What kind of God emerges from this vision of justice?<...
Eternal Destruction, Not Endless Torment: What the Bible Actually Says About Hell (Series: Hell, Immortality, and the Justice of God, Episode 3)
If God is the source of all life, then hell raises a disturbing question:Who is keeping the damned alive?In this episode, we slow down and ask whether the Bible really teaches eternal conscious torment—or whether w...
The Wages of Sin Is Death: The Fall, the Soul, and the Lie We Inherited (Series: Hell, Immortality and the Justice of God, Episode 2)
What if one of the most influential voices shaping how Christians think about the soul wasn’t Paul — but Plato?In this episode, we slow down and ask a question most believers have never been invited to examine:Did Scripture ev...
Who Alone Has Immortality? (Series: Hell, Immortality and the Justice of God, Episode 1)
The debate about hell didn’t start with a celebrity, a controversy, or the Middle Ages.It started in Genesis.In this opening episode, we slow the conversation down and ask a more fundamental question—one most Christians have never...
Two Genealogies, One Messiah: Matthew, Luke & the Royal Line (The Christmas Series, Episode 4)
Why do the Gospels begin with long lists of names—and why do Matthew and Luke tell the story so differently?In this episode, we slow down and take the genealogies seriously, not as biblical filler, but as theological proof. What modern r...
The Birthday of the King: Why Jesus was likely born on September 10-11, 3 B.C. (The Christmas Series, Episode 3)
The Bible doesn’t tell us the date of Jesus’ birth—so why even ask the question?In this episode, we explore why timing in Scripture is never accidental, and why Jesus’ arrival may have been far more deliberately orchestrated than we’ve a...
The Virgin Birth: Miracle, Doctrine, Necessity (The Christmas Series, Episode 2)
The virgin birth is often treated as optional—symbolic, poetic, or secondary. Scripture treats it very differently.In this episode, we explore why the virgin birth is not a peripheral belief but a doctrinal hinge that secures who Jesus i...
Why God Became Human: The Necessity of the Incarnation (The Christmas Series, Episode 1)
What could possibly be so broken in the world that the only solution was for God Himself to take on human flesh? In this opening episode of our Advent theology series, we move beyond Christmas nostalgia and step into the cosmic weight of the in...