Campus Preacher

The charge of “Racist! Sexist! Anti-Gay!” is often lobbed at Christians. How should we understand and interact with this?

If you’re a Christian, you’ve probably been accused of being “racist,” “sexist,” and “anti-gay.” The early Church was accused of being cannibals, incestuous, and atheists. Rhetorical bullying is nothing new. How did we get here and where do we go? In this episode, and in the next two, Aaron Ventura of Christian Reformed Fellowship and I discuss just that.

Much evangelism begins with “sin” and “hell” and preach the Gospel as a means for the forgiveness of sin and salvation from Hell. This is often separated from the doctrine of creation and why God created the heavens and earth. Yet, man was made to have dominion over the whole earth and the through Adam’s rebellion that dominion was compromised. The Gospel, through the Second Adam, restores man to the Dominion Mandate.

What’s the place of fear in Evangelism?

J.D. Greear, the President of the SBC, gave a state of the union type address last week, discussing several key issues in the SBC along with Black Lives Matter. I think he misses the mark. Ironically, atheist Sam Harris hits a bullseye on what we need to do to move forward in the discussion.

I was asked, if you were leading the Reformed Churches during this time, what would you do? I think spending a few weeks preaching the holiness of God is in order. We have almost completely lost the idea of God’s holiness, even mentioning it makes people think of hellfire preaching. While a fruit of God’s holiness is that the wicked cannot stand in the congregation of the righteous, it is rooted in the beauty of God’s character and draws worship from the Saints.

Also, I briefly discuss dispensationalism and Eph. 3:6.

The riots and protests the past week has been classic American “revivalism,” people demonstrating great emotion, repenting, and taking up a new religious cause. In this ep, responding to a friends question about what I would do if I was in charge of the Reformed Church in given us a direction in our current crisis. In this episode, I discuss the call to commitment, take up your cross. BLM & the Communists call people to great religious devoting and Christians are often afraid to issue such a call.

Revolution and Conspiracy Theories are in the air. In this ep, I take a brief look at the religious nature of the protest, appealing to Eugene Peterson’s thoughts on crowds, and give a quick intro to the idea of conspiracy theories and the Christian.

In “How Jesus Became God” Bart Ehrman argues that the historian cannot determine if Jesus rose from the dead, but the historian can affirm that the disciples did in fact have “visions” of Jesus post crucifixion. Seek to show the internal incoherence of Ehrman’s view.

Bart Ehrman in “How Jesus Became God” argues that there is little historical probability to the Gospel’s account of Jesus’ burial and, obviously, his resurrection. In this episode, we look at Bart’s claim that the Roman’s would’ve left Jesus on the cross, that burial was in a mass grave, and that Pilate, being a bad hombre, wouldn’t have allowed Jesus to be buried. NOTE: He’s wrong on all accounts.