We clarify the concepts of descriptive passages and prescriptive passages as we continue to seek to be consistent in our interpretation of scripture. I recommend a few video channels and a few ministry sites while reminding is us that we are all responsible for our won theology. We summarize our approach to scripture by asking three questions when we find a change in practice or command.

What changed?
Why did it change?
When did it change?

The Messed Up Church
Magical Mystery Church
Brother John Elving
Antichrist 45 - Bible Prophecy with Brother Paul

We continue reading verses in context such as Jeremiah 29:11 ("For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope") as well a few passages in the red letters that get ignored by supposed Red Letter Christians. We see the Lord telling his disciples to not go to Gentiles, to raise the dead, and to sell everything they have (among other things). We briefly look at the parable of the sheep and the goats (Matthew 25) in context. And as we have been doing, we call again on all of us to BE CONSISTENT!

We discuss the value of a seminary education (or the lack of value). We look at a couple of the most oft quoted verses in modern American Evangelicalism in their respective contexts (2 Chronicles 7:14 and Ezekiel 36:26). We carefully note how these passages can't possibly be referring to believers of the current age or the current gospel. Then we note that believers still have an old nature and we encourage all of us to "walk according to the calling to which we have been called" (Ephesians 4:1), and not the calling of other companies.

I will clarify in the next podcast, but I quipped "Southern Baptist" after I mentioned Dallas Theological Seminary. DTS was founded by the Chafer brothers (most notable Lewis Sperry Chafer) and is probably the premiere Classic (Acts 2) Dispensationalist Seminary in the USA. The Southern Baptist Convention surely has dispensational pastors, but they take no formal position on the matter.

More on saving ourselves from Charismania and other errors. Whatever theology you claim (hopefully it's yours and you didn't just adopt some system), make sure it remains consistent in your interpretations. It was a desire for a consistent theology that brought me to where I am (and still drives me as I seek more light).

If you think the "red letters" are for you, do you really keep the red letters? I mean ALL the red letters? Are you in an "Acts" church? Do you really practice what's laid out in the Book of Acts? I mean ALL the Book of Acts? If you claim all 21 epistles as the foundation of your faith, do you obey ALL 21 epistles?

Christendom has suffered, from its inception, the curse of religion and superstition. It seems as though so many professed Christians are dissatisfied with blessings in the far above the heavens that they fall for earthly promises and superstition. No matter the theological school one adopts, compromises and contradictions will rule the day if we fail to cut straight lines in scripture. There is a way out of the madness. We must turn to our Apostle, Paul, and seek to understand the message and hope he has revealed to us in the current age.

The Key to the Parables is Israel
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-key-to-the-parables-and-the-bible-is-israel--41046329

Introduction to the Parables of the Kingdom (Matthew 13)
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/introduction-to-the-parables-of-the-kingdom-matthew-13--40514017

Noting the Judgments in the Parables
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/noting-the-judgments-for-believers-in-the-parables-and-elsewhere--40906111

The second and final part of a very short series I recorded in 2007 about the basics of self Bible Study. We turn to the parables and look at what the Lord had to say about them. They're not nice little stories which make an obvious point. Quite the opposite, The Lord said they are meant to be deep and meant to lead the truth seeker to study. Lastly, we look at a "disharmony" of the gospels. That is, we shouldn't try to harmonize the four gospels to make then fit together, we need to take each on its and discover why the Holy Spirit left us four accounts of the Lord's earthly ministry.  

"Study to show yourself approved unto God..."
2 Timothy 2:15

The first part of a very short series I recorded in 2007 about the basics of self Bible Study. We emphasize the individual responsibility and nature or Bible study and encourage every believer to start to read, study, and compare scripture for himself or herself. Not every command in scripture is for every person. That might sound good and religious, but it's palpable and demonstrable nonsense. 

"Study to show yourself approved unto God..."
2 Timothy 2:15

As believers who see the rise of the globalists as at least a possible sign that the biblical end times are near, we cannot go on ignoring the biggest globalist on the block. The richest, most powerful, outwardly spiritual globalist player on the world scene, the Roman Catholic Church. As I engage Catholics disgruntled by the current Pope, I challenge them to read what their own church teaches them about the pope (spoiler: they are commanded to bow their minds and wills to the Pope in all matters of faith and morals). None of this is to win points or to just be smug, it's an attempt to get their eyes off the Pope, off the issues, off the outward glory and turn to Christ alone. It's a call to find rest in Christ alone.

My short testimony coming out of Catholicism:
https://bereanbeacon.org/do-you-read-the-scriptures-michael-f-scotto/

After I pay a short tribute to an old high school classmate who recently passed, we move on to several statements I heard in a recent message from the pulpit. Why don't we see a lot of miracles today? Why is Abraham so prominent in most of the Bible (while being conspicuously absent from Paul's last seven epistles)? Are all believers the children of Abraham?

We pithily, with a dash of sarcasm, comment on Stephen Strang's strange defense of Mike Bickle. Apart from covering up Mike's alleged pedophilia, Strang has called the "advocates" (read: victims of Bickle's grooming and sexual abuse of multiple girls - allegedly) the "tools of Satan." From the theological side, we apply the practice of "right division" (2 Tim 2:15) to the mania and suggest that a proper biblical understanding of the age we live in could help many avert these sorts of abuses of power. We put the Pentecostal/Charismatic movement in the spotlight.