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📜🎶 NEW SONG: “Tradition (with a Capital T)”

Not everything the Church does is the same kind of thing.

Some things change.

Some things cannot.

Latin vs. vernacular?

Custom.

Feast days on the calendar?

Custom.

Which way the priest faces?

Custom.

But who Christ is,

what the Trinity is,

which books are Scripture,

and whether the Apostles still speak through succession—

that’s not up for a vote.

This song is about the difference between

tradition (lowercase t)

and Tradition (Capital T).

One adapts.

The other binds.

Confuse them—and you lose both.

Distinguish them—and the faith finally makes sense.

🎶 “You can change the way the house looks…

Not the load-bearing lines.”

—

Peter’s Barque exists to explain what Catholics actually mean,

without dumbing it down

or pretending every change equals contradiction.

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Jesus was like, 'I'm the vine, you're the branches'... and then explained it immediately! 🤯 But then he hit us with 'eat my flesh' and just let us figure it out. 😅 No softening the blow, just straight truth bombs. What do you think about Jesus's teaching style? 🤔 Check John chapter 6 if you need a clue! #Jesus #BibleStudy #Faith #TruthBombs #ShareYourThoughts

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📜🔥 NEW TRACK: “Walking With the Bereans” — And Why Acts 17 Does NOT Prove Sola Scriptura

For years, Acts 17 has been used as a quick proof-text:

“See? The Bereans searched the Scriptures daily — therefore sola scriptura!”

But the passage actually teaches the opposite.

Here’s why ⬇️

🧠 1. The Bereans were checking for contradiction, not completeness.

They weren’t asking, “Is Paul’s teaching already written in this scroll?”

They were asking, “Does anything he says contradict what God has already revealed?”

They weren’t limiting truth to what was on the page.

They were making sure the new apostolic teaching fit with the old revelation.

That is not sola scriptura.

🧠 2. The Bereans accepted truths not found in the Scriptures they examined.

The very conclusion they reached — that Jesus is the Messiah — is not written explicitly in the passages they searched.

Yet they embraced it, because it harmonized with God’s prior revelation.

This is the Church’s model:

🔸 Scripture guards against error

but

🔸 The Church receives new revelation through the apostles.

The Bereans behaved exactly like Catholics, not like proof-texters.

🧠 3. Thessalonica, not Berea, is the picture of sola scriptura.

The Thessalonians refused the Gospel because they didn’t see it spelled out in the written text.

“If it’s not written here, we reject it.”

That is what many modern Protestants call “being faithful to Scripture.”

But Acts 17 presents it as hard-heartedness, not fidelity.

🧠 4. Acts 17 is not a manual for a Bible-only Christianity.

It’s a story of devout Jews testing new revelation against old revelation —

and then accepting the authority of the living apostolic Church when it proved true.

That is why the Bereans are praised:

Not because they were sola scriptura,

but because they were open to truth that went beyond the text.

And yes — some Protestants do not hold the “if it isn’t written, it isn’t doctrine” view.

This song isn’t aimed at them.

It’s aimed at those who:

1️⃣ think Church teaching contradicts Scripture (it doesn’t),

2️⃣ think Church teaching isn’t in Scripture at all (it often is — sometimes implicitly),

3️⃣ think the Bereans lived sola scriptura (they didn’t).

🙏 And yes — forgive the poetic license.

It’s a song, not a seminary lecture.

🎶 NEW SONG: “Walking With the Bereans”

A rhythmic, ironic PB track contrasting Berea’s openness with Thessalonica’s stubbornness, and reminding the world that the early Church followed the living voice of the apostles, not a closed canon.

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Hold up! 🤯 Did you know the New Testament wasn't a thing for YEARS? 🤯 Bishops, bread, wine, and martyrs were the OG vibe for 300 years before your leather-bound Bible dropped. 🤔 If Scripture alone is enough, who even decided which books made the cut? 👀 Let's spill the tea on church history! 👇 #ChurchHistory #BibleFacts #DidYouKnow #FaithJourney #SpiritualTruths #HistoryBuffs

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📜✨ NEW SONG: “Thy Will Be Done” — Why Hell Isn’t God’s Anger, But Human Freedom Taken Seriously

“If God loves us, why does He send people to hell?”

That question assumes God is the one doing the sending.

“Thy Will Be Done” explores the Catholic understanding of Hell—not as punishment for punishment’s sake, and not as a tantrum from an angry sky-god, but as the natural end of a freely chosen refusal of Love.

Scripture tells us that God wills the salvation of all (1 Timothy 2:4).

But love, by its very nature, cannot be coerced.

Grace invites.

Freedom answers.

As C.S. Lewis makes clear, a vice that barely ruins a life in seventy years becomes absolute misery when multiplied by eternity. Hell is not God withdrawing His love—it is the final fruit of a will that will not receive it.

We are not sinners in the hands of an angry God.

We are prodigals the Father longs to see return.

🎶 “Thy Will Be Done” — a slow, somber, ironic, groove-driven track for people wrestling honestly with judgment, freedom, and love.

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Pretty sure the early Christians weren't sitting around a campfire, reading Paul's mail and saying, 'OMG, this implies a whole new religion!' 😂 The order of things totally matters, folks! 📜➡️⛪️ Makes you wonder... 🤔 #HistoryBuff #ChristianityFacts #FunnyHistory #ShareIfYouAgree

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📜🎶 NEW SONG RELEASE — “Jesus Is God in Mark”

by Peter’s Barque

For years, we’ve heard the claim:

“Only John’s Gospel presents Jesus as God.

The earlier Gospels don’t.”

So instead of arguing about it —

we just read the earliest Gospel.

Chapter by chapter.

Verse by verse.

Letting Scripture interpret Scripture.

This song was sparked by a great breakdown from @WesleyLHuff, whose video pushed me to walk carefully through the Gospel of Mark and test the claim honestly:

👉 Watch Wes Huff’s video:

https://youtu.be/YwQF-SS-O_g

Mark doesn’t announce Jesus’ divinity the way John does.

He assumes it — by showing Jesus doing what only Yahweh does.

Forgiving sins.

Commanding storms.

Walking on the sea.

Claiming the clouds.

🎵 “Jesus Is God in Mark” — out now.

Read Mark again.

This time, watch what Jesus does.

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📜✨ NEW SONG: “If Baptism Doesn’t Save… Why Does the Bible Keep Saying It Does?”

For nearly 2,000 years, Christians agreed on something so basic it barely needed defending:

Baptism saves.

Not as magic.

Not as a work we perform.

But as the means Christ Himself chose to unite us to His death, His resurrection, and His life.

Then—very late in Church history—some communities decided baptism was just symbolic.

A public gesture.

A photo op.

Optional.

The problem?

📖 Scripture refuses to cooperate.

The Bible calls baptism:

• washing

• rebirth

• burial with Christ

• regeneration

• union with Him

• the new circumcision

• and, quite plainly, salvation

The apostles baptized immediately.

They baptized households.

They baptized infants.

They never spoke of a sacrament-free Christianity.

🎶 “If Baptism Doesn’t Save…” is a track for Catholics, converts, Scripture nerds, and anyone who’s ever wondered why the earliest Christians sounded nothing like modern sacrament-denying churches.

Sometimes the most radical thing you can do

is believe what Christians always believed.

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📜✨ NEW SONG: “THE BIBLE DIDN’T FALL FROM THE SKY”

The New Testament did not arrive with a table of contents.

No appendix.

No inspired ISBN.

For centuries, there was no leather-bound Bible —

just bishops, bread, wine, martyrs,

and people dying for doctrines

they supposedly hadn’t “read yet.”

The apostles preached first.

Then letters were written.

Then the Church said, “Yes — this belongs.”

That order matters.

🎶 “The Bible Didn’t Fall From the Sky”

A spoken-groove reminder that Scripture came from the life of the Church — not the other way around.

You can love the Book.

You should.

Just don’t pretend it arrived alone.

It came from the altar. Act accordingly.

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