Bad Fruit Podcast

Pastor Cam, AKA The Blessed Bald Eagle, joins me for a third time! To talk about his new book coming out October 31st (Reformation Day) titled Reflections on the Small Catechism.

What if the divisions of Christianity could be overcome by abandoning denominational traditions, rejecting human creeds, and simply returning to the Bible?

In Part 1 of our three-part series on the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement, we travel back to the religious landscape of early nineteenth-century America to explore the origins of one of the most influential movements in American Protestant history.

We'll examine the lives and teachings of Barton W. Stone, Thomas Campbell, and Alexander Campbell, their growing dissatisfaction with denominational divisions, and their conviction that Christians could recover the faith and practice of the New Testament Church. We'll also explore the historic union of their movements in 1832, along with the distinctive teachings concerning Baptism, Communion, church government, and salvation that began shaping their religious identity.

What began as a call for Christian unity would eventually give rise to the Churches of Christ, Independent Christian Churches, and Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

But could Christianity really be restored by setting aside centuries of theological tradition? And would a return to Scripture alone actually resolve the disagreements dividing Christians?

Join us as we explore the history, theology, and ambitions of the Restoration Movement from a confessional Lutheran perspective.

An overview of the Reformation up to the early 1800s to help set the stage for the Restoration Movements and all the different new denominational splits of the 1800s. This primer helps set the stage for the rest of the series.

What happened after the Jesus Movement went mainstream?

In this episode of the denomination series, we look at the rise of the modern evangelical church: seeker-sensitive ministry, megachurches, church planting networks, multisite churches, Vineyard, Hillsong, Bethel, the Emerging Church, and the house church movement.

Along the way, we trace how churches that often rejected traditional denominational structures built new networks, brands, leadership systems, worship ministries, and institutions of their own.

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Conversation with Cody Hurd, who is an author and runs the Pilgrims Post Facebook page. We talked about the differences between Reformed/Calvinism and Lutheranism. Covenant Theology. Biblical Masculinity. And about the many books he has authored.

Continuing the denomination series this week we talk about Calvary Chapel. While it doesn't claim to be a "denomination" it functions very much like one. In this episode I talk about their history, theology, key figures and a brief mention of the personal connection I have to the movement.

Over the summer Brad from Rooted in Logos invited me to be a guest on his podcast. It was a fun conversation about music. We talk worship, CCM, and secular music. This is a re-release of that episode.

Back from summer break and this is just a little hello episode to let everyone know. If you would like to support the podcast you can do so at www.buymeacoffe.com/badfruitpodcast and if you have any questions or comments please email me at [email protected] also on Facebook at www.facebook.com/badfruitpodcast where I post updates and show notes and other things between episodes.

What happens when a Puritan Panda and a Fallen Ape-Theist sit down to discuss truth, morality, and the meaning of Christianity?

Brian, better known online as Puritan Panda, joins Richard, the Fallen Ape-Theist, for a thoughtful and surprisingly agreeable conversation about whether knowledge must be subordinated to something greater, whether truth can be separated from love, and whether objective morality requires God.

Along the way, they discuss competing religious visions, Christian hope, human behavior, propaganda, political and religious tribalism, the danger of placing loyalty to leaders above moral principles, and why both Christians and atheists can become trapped within networks that protect bad behavior. They also wrestle with religious disagreement, the failures of Christian institutions, the meaning of faith, and what evidence might cause either of them to reconsider their beliefs.

This is not a formal debate. It is an honest conversation between people who profoundly disagree, frequently find unexpected common ground, and attempt to understand what the other person actually believes.

Jonathan is joined by the Baptist Blue Jay, an independent fundamentalist Baptist, King James preferring dispensationalist, and member of the online Theological Zoo.

They discuss Blue Jay’s journey through modern evangelicalism and the IFB world, his experiences at Bible college, the problems with entertainment-driven churches, worship music from Bethel, Hillsong, and Elevation, his preference for the King James Version, and his defense of dispensationalism.

A Lutheran and a fundamentalist Baptist will obviously disagree on quite a bit, but this friendly and occasionally ridiculous conversation also uncovers some surprising common ground.