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If we cannot identify an historical Adam, how can we be sure of the historicity of Christ?
Rick Warren says emotional praise and worship is the key to happiness in 2022 and we explore the historicity of the creation account in Genesis 1-3.
St. Paul teaches us that God's glory is revealed in creation. This revelation gives us a baseline for morality, but it does not reveal God's grace.
Why can't Andy Stanley talk about Jesus or the Bible? And we continue our Thomist ways with the moral and cosmological proofs for the existence of God.
We are doing a re-run of our most popular podcast of 2021, "Joseph Prince The Prince of All Law No Gospel".
For thanksgiving break, we are doing a re-run of "Ben Shapiro vs. Sam Harris" from 2018.
How science affirms life-long monogamous heterosexual relationships that bear children; A review of the Amazon Prime documentary "Marketing the Messiah"
Stanley shows us the proper confusion between law and gospel. Newsflash: obeying the commands of Holy Scripture should primarily benefit your neighbor, not you.
The Church is for preaching the Gospel; not self-help, music, or entertainment
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Roberts transforms herself into a psychic medium, a rock star, a stage hypnotist, and a comedian to please the crowd in this "sermon".
Joel Osteen's sermons aren't cute or funny, they're satanic.
TD Jakes preaches the "good news".....too bad it's not the biblical Good News.
Part 2 of Matt and Nathan's discussion on Kolb's "Beware of Imperatives" and Koch's "That Damned Woman"
Nathan Rinne and I discuss Kolb's "Be Careful With Imperatives" and Cindy Koch's "That Damned Woman"
We've finally gotten around to looking at this year's Easter Sermons and per the usual arrangement, mega church pop-Evangelicals are talking about anything but the implications of the Resurrection and spending more time talking about you.
Pastors Alverez and Warr invite me on their podcast The Bookcase Behind Me to discuss the implications of Radical Lutheranism on the faith.
An excellent example of a wolf among the sheep.
Jemar Tisby, author of The Color of Compromise is either ignorant and a pawn of a religio-political agenda of the highest order or he is out for blood and a rising star in the realm of religious race bating. Spoiler alert. I'm choosing choice B.
Pastor David Petersen gives a brilliant Ash Wednesday sermon on the difference between Sanctification and Justification.
Why Furtick and Osteen are damnable false teachers. Full Stop.
Part 2 of our critique of Steven Paulson's lecture at the 1517 Legacy's "Here We Still Stand" conference.
Part 1 of my conversation with Nathan Rinne on Steven Paulson's lecture on The Theology of the Cross at the 1517 "Here We Still Stand" conference.
Preaching all Gospel and no Law is just as wrong as preaching all Law and no Gospel.
Part two of my discussion with Nathan Rinne on Dr. Peter Scaer's piece in the latest CTQ entitled Reckoned Among the Lawless
How you're being duped by 1517 Legacy, Higher Things, Christ Hold Fast, and Confessional Lutheran Fellowship. News Flash. They're not confessional Lutherans. Far from it. Spend some time reading the Confessions, Holy Scripture, and ice that cake with some intake from a source like Issues ETC
These are strange and confusing times especially when you don't understand how your enemy thinks. This week, Nathan Rinne of Concordia St. Paul continue our saga of helping you to understand and make sense of what's going on in our culture and world. This is round three of us showing you how the philosophy of Critical Theory aims to "destroy the world" with a seemingly irresistible ideological agenda.
Part two of our interview with Nathan Rinne of Concordia St Paul on Wilderson's "Afropessimism"
What happens when ideas from university campuses finally hit the ground? It's one thing to talk about ideas and it's something else entirely to make good on them. For those who still question whether or not the approaches of Critical Theory can be adopted by the Church, enter one Frank Wilderson; author of *Afropessimism*. Wilderson talks in a recent interview about what strain of Critical Theory will be able to "end the world" and that strain is the "Race" version of this philosophy. Translation? Critical Race Theory, in Wilderson's estimation is the best candidate to end the West. If you don't think that includes the Church...... Nathan Rinne of Concordia St. Paul and I discuss this alarming interview.
Our new podcast, the Jeff and Matt Show give the predictions of this monumental election.
In this episode of “Everything is Stupid” with Rob Bell, we’ll be treated to the incoherent meanderings of Rob Bell’s misadventures in Christian ministry and life. Sadly, unlike Bell’s former books, there is extraordinarily little here to even consider. Bell’s life simply isn’t that interesting. It’s the same old “Oh I was a pastor and I had problems with the doctrines of hell and women in ministry and so I bailed” story we have to endure from the likes of Bell and his ilk. Instead of thinking through these age-old doctrines and attempting to understand why they have such longevity, Bell, per the usual arrangement, dismisses them along with everyone else who lacks imagination at best and refuses to trust that we have a word from God on this at worst. Again, its unfortunate that there’s just not that much here with which to contend, but we’ll try to get a couple of episodes out of it at any rate. After all, I was forced to forfeit an entire Audible credit to have a go at Bell’s droning tripe, so we’ll try to make it worth it.
Sometimes we hear sermons and we know something isn't quite passing the smell test. The pastor might be saying "God" and "Jesus" and even quoting the bible, but something just isn't right. Learn how to recognize the symptoms of a self-help lecture masquerading as a sermon in three easy steps: 1. Could the sermon just as easily be given by a self-help guru? 2. Is the sermon all about you becoming a better person for the sake of being a better person?3. Is the sermon properly interpreting Holy Scripture? If the answer is "Yes", "Yes", and/or "No", you may have a self-help lecture masquerading as a sermon!
My thirteen-year-old son could pick out what's wrong with a sermon from Steven Furtick on just about any given Sunday.I've rarely critiqued a sermon from a man like Furtick because he's such low hanging fruit. In this case, it was an opportunity to showcase the weaknesses of the "mega church model" of "doing church" and to express my hopes that churches like Elevation die right along with Covid 19. Here I honestly think the Covid 19 shutdown has gotten the better of mega church pastor Steven Furtick. At my church, we have met and will continue to meet in person because we believe what Christ said about Holy Communion. We were able to do it without breaking the shutdown orders of our state while others were forced to obey God rather than men. Sadly Furtick and Elevation Church have too much at stake here to risk it. While a small congregation like ours - where the pastors know everyone and can actually care for them - can meet, for Furtick's some 20k member "congregation", that's impossible. However, I wonder if the rush of performing before his usual crowds isn't taking something off his delivery. It seems that even for the mega churches, meeting in person might mean something for them. For us it means the body and blood of Christ. For them, it's important that they have the normal "crowd effect" in order to keep a man like Furtick on track. With no crowd to cheer him on in earnest, Furtick and his approach to preaching is worthless.
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