God, Law & Liberty Podcast

With mid-term elections on the horizon, David provides a sobering assessment of his 12 years as a state senator and 18 years as a pro-family lobbyist in answer to two haunting questions drawn from Scripture and the writings of John Owen, Abraham Kuyper, and John Owen. His answer looks at the glory of Christ and its relation to how Christians think about the future of politics, public policy, and law in America.

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Today is a short, hopefully helpful bridge between Tuesday's episode and the one Saturday pertaining to a politics for the glory of Christ. David explains what every Christians knows about the problem of socialism that most economists and politicians don't.

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In today's limited episode, David uses a fundraising letter from a national Christian public policy and political advocacy organization to help us consider whether its proposed work toward stopping the rise of socialism will be fruitful or unfruitful.

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Today David explains the foundational beliefs drawn from Scripture  and expounded by 17th century Puritan John Owen that re-sculptured his political imagination from one of making proverbial "mud pies in the slums" (C.S. Lewis) to something beyond what he had ever thought to ask for or think of from Christ.

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Today David provides “gospel grounds” upon which he believes the  imagination of Christians - their vision - for legal and public policy advocacy might be expanded beyond doing politics the way the world does but only better because “we believe in Jesus.” You won’t want to miss what’s in his modernized chapter about a particular glory of Christ in John Owen’s Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ. It just may begin to reshape your vision for politics and law even as it did his a few years ago.

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Today David dives into insights he gained from his interview with Jason Farley. He applies the assessments Farley made of today's Christian mind to the sphere of political and legal advocacy. Most importantly, David offers a way forward for expanding the Christian political imagination beyond just doing business-as-usual better than the other side.

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Today's episode continues where David's interview with Jason Farley left off last week. The audio picks up with a look at SCOTUSs abortion decisions and flows into a look at the Court’s decision in 2015 about state marriage licensing statutes, Obergefell v. Hodges. It's an eye-opening look at the church's complicity in the culture we have.

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Today’s episode is the first part of an interview with Jason Farley (regular on Knox Unplugged) on law and its influence or effect on forming or transforming a culture. The discussion raises a serious question: Is the way some Christian leaders think about and speak into the sphere of politics and legislation Christian or something else? Don't miss this one. (The second part of the interview will be published next Friday)

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This short episode is very important to understanding a video clip of apologist William Lane Craig circulating on social media in which he says he is unable to affirm or deny the Nicene Creed (325 A.D.) about the Son of God being begotten of the Father. His agnosticism on this subject drives home the importance of the metaphysical considerations that have passed from the evangelical mind. It also demonstrates what Kuyper said about apologetics and illuminates James 2:19.

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Today, David explains something in his first book on politics (published in 2013) that needs fixing. He goes public with the reason, because the thinking he once held to seems prominent among many Christians today. David walks us through a consideration of whether a sound knowledge of the Holy Spirit's essential work and the nature of sin are to be found in Christian political rhetoric and engagement today

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