Campus Preacher

In this episode, Tom Short and I share stories from campus, discuss evangelism in the context of the sexual revolution, the cultural victory (or chaos) of Hugh Hefner, and the point of contact.

Here is a Q&A I recently did at Christ Covenant in Centralia, WA.

In this episode, Tom Short and I share storeis from our week preaching on campus together.

A brief over of some points in Biblical Eschatology to point in the direction that we are not in the "last days" or "end times."

In this series, we've discussed starting a meeting, keeping a crowd, and the character of a preacher, but here we discuss how we close a meeting.

In the first two episodes we discussed how to get and how to keep a crowd, but here we discuss the character of the preacher. (Almost) as important as our message is our character - Paul tells Timothy to watch his life and doctrine closely, not only to save yourselves, but those who listen.

After drawing a crowd, which we discussed last week, it is important to be able to keep a crowd. In this episode, we discuss how we keep a crowd on campus while preaching.

After drawing a crowd, which we discussed last week, it is important to be able to keep a crowd. In this episode, we discuss how we keep a crowd on campus while preaching.

One of the most common questions I receive about open-air preaching is, how do you start? In this episode, I and my guest, Tom Short, lay out how we start preaching each day.If there are any particular issues on preaching or apologetics you'd like me to (try to) answer, please reach out at Keith @ CampusPreacher.com

For the last 4 decades Tom Short has faithfully preached the Gospel on college campuses. I sat down with Tom to discuss the last 40 years of ministry.

This is part 1 of 2 on the life of Campus Preacher Jed Smock. Note: I have no outro in this episode, so it ends abruptly, but we will pick it up next week.

Porn is ubiquitous in our culture. In this podcast, I have a couple discussions I have from campus on pornography.

Francis Schaeffer introduced me to the idea of pre-evangelism, which is an attempt to find a point of contact and tension in your neighbors non-Christian philosophy and then seeking to apply the Gospel to their life. This is a dialogue I had with a young woman on a campus, which is my attempt at some pre-evangelism.

A brief interaction with an Andy Stanley tweet and some thoughts on Beth Allison Barr on the "household codes" and the Christian house.

Beth Allison Barr's "The Making of Biblical Womanhood" is one of the latest attacks on creation and redemption. This work attempts to be an "insider" critique, an ex-complementarian that has seen the light of egalitarianism, but it is a sub-biblical anthropology, theology, and history.

Tacitus said that Christians were identified as “haters of the human race.” There is nothing new under the pluralist sun and Christians are still identified as “haters of humanity,” which is still the pretext of their marginalization/persecution in a pluralist State.

I first heard Rush Limbaugh in the early ’90’s, then in the summer of ’92, I read his book “The Way Things Ought to Be,” which had a profound influence on my thinking, and was a means the Lord used to bring me to the Gospel. This is a small tribute or thank you to Rush, acknowledging the places he influenced me.

I just wanted to use alliteration. Building from Ep. 76 on Isaiah 7 and Matthew’s use of “fulfillment” and the virgin birth, I wanted to further show how this hermeneutic applies to Matthew 2 and Hosea 11.

Matthew’s Gospel introduces Jesus via virgin birth, appealing to Isaiah 7, but, it is argued, that Isaiah 7 is not a predictive prophecy of an event 700 years into the future, but deals with the birth of a child during the life of King Ahaz. How doe we understand this?

Whether you are on the Right or the Left, I think it’s fairly plain that chaos abounds in the United States. The root issue is worship. In this episode, I seek to address our political idolatry and the way the forward.

What is reason? Reason is often thrown out in discussions, but it is often used differently by different people. In order to properly grasp the “argument from reason” for God’s existence, we need to properly understand reason.

A response to Tim Keller’s article in the New York Times about Christians the two party system and where Christians fit in.

At the beginning of this year, I first heard about the Cosmic Skeptic and watched a debate he had about “The Argument from Reason” as a proof for God. I don’t believe his naturalist/atheist position is tenable and I seek to explain why over a couple episodes. In this episodes, I discuss the metaphysical distinctions b/t naturalism and theism.

Debrief the FLF Conference and being asked on campus if I think men own women? My answer is “yes!” Well, husbands own their wives…

Part 3 of our series on “Racist. Sexist. Anti-Gay.”

The charge of “Racist! Sexist! Anti-Gay!” is often lobbed at Christians. How should we understand and interact with this?

If you’re a Christian, you’ve probably been accused of being “racist,” “sexist,” and “anti-gay.” The early Church was accused of being cannibals, incestuous, and atheists. Rhetorical bullying is nothing new. How did we get here and where do we go? In this episode, and in the next two, Aaron Ventura of Christian Reformed Fellowship and I discuss just that.

Much evangelism begins with “sin” and “hell” and preach the Gospel as a means for the forgiveness of sin and salvation from Hell. This is often separated from the doctrine of creation and why God created the heavens and earth. Yet, man was made to have dominion over the whole earth and the through Adam’s rebellion that dominion was compromised. The Gospel, through the Second Adam, restores man to the Dominion Mandate.

What’s the place of fear in Evangelism?

J.D. Greear, the President of the SBC, gave a state of the union type address last week, discussing several key issues in the SBC along with Black Lives Matter. I think he misses the mark. Ironically, atheist Sam Harris hits a bullseye on what we need to do to move forward in the discussion.

I was asked, if you were leading the Reformed Churches during this time, what would you do? I think spending a few weeks preaching the holiness of God is in order. We have almost completely lost the idea of God’s holiness, even mentioning it makes people think of hellfire preaching. While a fruit of God’s holiness is that the wicked cannot stand in the congregation of the righteous, it is rooted in the beauty of God’s character and draws worship from the Saints. Also, I briefly discuss dispensationalism and Eph. 3:6.

The riots and protests the past week has been classic American “revivalism,” people demonstrating great emotion, repenting, and taking up a new religious cause. In this ep, responding to a friends question about what I would do if I was in charge of the Reformed Church in given us a direction in our current crisis. In this episode, I discuss the call to commitment, take up your cross. BLM & the Communists call people to great religious devoting and Christians are often afraid to issue such a call.

Revolution and Conspiracy Theories are in the air. In this ep, I take a brief look at the religious nature of the protest, appealing to Eugene Peterson’s thoughts on crowds, and give a quick intro to the idea of conspiracy theories and the Christian.

In “How Jesus Became God” Bart Ehrman argues that the historian cannot determine if Jesus rose from the dead, but the historian can affirm that the disciples did in fact have “visions” of Jesus post crucifixion. Seek to show the internal incoherence of Ehrman’s view.

Bart Ehrman in “How Jesus Became God” argues that there is little historical probability to the Gospel’s account of Jesus’ burial and, obviously, his resurrection. In this episode, we look at Bart’s claim that the Roman’s would’ve left Jesus on the cross, that burial was in a mass grave, and that Pilate, being a bad hombre, wouldn’t have allowed Jesus to be buried. NOTE: He’s wrong on all accounts.

Dr Bart Ehrman argues in his book “How Jesus Became God” that the New Testament accounts of the burial of Jesus are internally and externally inconsistent with what the Gospels say, as well as what we know about the Roman Empire. In this episode, I look at Bart’s claims regarding internal incoherence of the Bible’s account of the burial of Jesus.

Dr Bart Ehrman is a popular author and professor from UNC-Chapel Hill. He’s a one time Evangelical turned agnostic and Bible critic. He’s superb with rhetoric and making forceful arguments, but much of that is, despite his contention, based on secular and enlightenment presuppositions. This is part 1 of a 3 part series looking at Bart’s historiography, then I will move on to the burial and resurrection of Jesus.

In his piece “Why I am Not a Christian,” Bertrand Russell suggests he’s not a Christian because of “the curious story” of Jesus and the fig tree, as well as the fact that Russell thinks Jesus predicted his “second coming” in the lifetime of his disciples. Russell doesn’t read the Bible very well, because if he understood the story of the fig, he would see it is related to Jesus “second coming” (Note: It’s not about the second coming!).