BeachCast.TV: Bible Exploration, Apologetics and Church History with Dr. Chase A. Thompson:

Conflict is inevitable, even among Christians, because Christians are still sinners and haven't fully tamed their tongues. Jesus, however, mandates a particular process that Christians MUST follow when somebody has sinned against them - what is that divine process for handling conflict and making peace?

In Jeremiah 3, God condemns the pretense of the people of Judah. They pretended to be sorrowful for their sins, and pretended to want to follow God, but it was an all act - a grand display of outward religion, that was meaningless on the inside. Today we discuss what real repentance does - and does not - look like.

A most humorous moment happens in Matthew 16 when Jesus challenges His disciples to avoid the yeast of the Pharisees, and they assume that He is literally talking about bread. It turns out that Jesus was actually talking about the teaching the Pharisees, which raises our big question. What did the Pharisees teach, and what made it so bad?

Everybody knows that Jesus did not have a high view of the religious leaders of His day, as He was constantly challenging the Pharisees and Scribes about how they handled God's Word. Today's episode is a discussion of one of Jesus' strongest challenge to those leaders about how they elevated human traditions to the level of God's commands.

The last chapter in Isaiah reveals that there is a certain kind of person that God looks with favor on. It is not a confident person, nor a successful person, nor a courageous person, or a prideful person. Who does God bless and look favorably on? Also: What is the worst that death can do to a Christian?