In Layman's Terms

Jun 13, 2022 Best of In Layman's Terms - Preaching Law *and* Gospel

January 29, 2017.

Best of In Layman's Terms - As Momma Used To Say, "God Never Promised You A Rose Garden"

July 15, 2016

The Best of In Layman’s Terms - The Fantasy of Joseph Prince's "Grace" Theology.

February 20, 2022.

Best of In Layman's Terms - TD Jakes: God Knows When - Most Popular Sermons on YouTube

 August 08, 2021.

The Best of In Layman's Terms - Andy Stanley: Christians Created the Bible

April 11, 2020.

The Best of In Layman's Terms - Andy Stanley vs Matthew Garnett

June 08, 2019.

The Best of In Layman’s Terms - Sam Harris v Ben Shapiro Debate Analysis

January 07, 2018.

The Best of In Layman's Terms - Lectures on Law Part 1

February 08, 2017

The Best of In Layman's Terms - This Will Get Us Ready for Rob Bell's Book

June 08, 2017.

The Best of In Layman's Terms - Why I'm not a Reformed Baptist.

April 1st, 2016.

The Fantasy of Joseph Prince's "Grace" Thology.

The Historicity of Genesis 1-3

If we cannot identify an historical Adam, how can we be sure of the historicity of Christ?

Rick Warren's 2022 "Sacrament" and the Historicity of Genesis 1-3.

Rick Warren says emotional praise and worship is the key to happiness in 2022 and we explore the historicity of the creation account in Genesis 1-3.

Authoritarianism, Morality, and Forgiveness.

 St. Paul teaches us that God's glory is revealed in creation. This revelation gives us a baseline for morality, but it does not reveal God's grace.

Andy Stanley can't mention Jesus' name and the moral proof for God.

 Why can't Andy Stanley talk about Jesus or the Bible? And we continue our Thomist ways with the moral and cosmological proofs for the existence of God.

Joseph Prince Christmas Special

We are doing a re-run of our most popular podcast of 2021, "Joseph Prince The Prince of All Law No Gospel".

Does morality make sense without God?

Oldie But Goldie, Ben Shapiro vs. Sam Harris.

For thanksgiving break, we are doing a re-run of "Ben Shapiro vs. Sam Harris" from 2018.

Did St. Paul Bribe St. Peter and St. James to be an Apostle?

Did St. Paul Invent Christianity? - Interview with Cameron Reilly creator of "Marketing the Messiah."

Is Rick Warren Secretely Dr. Phil?

Ibram X Kendi and “Marketing the Messiah”

Megyn Kelly, Heather Heying, Bret Weinstein Affirm the 6th Commandment.

How science affirms life-long monogamous heterosexual relationships that bear children; A review of the Amazon Prime documentary "Marketing the Messiah" 

Andy Stanley - All You Need Is Love

Stanley shows us the proper confusion between law and gospel. Newsflash: obeying the commands of Holy Scripture should primarily benefit your neighbor, not you.

Martin Lloyd-Jones: A Better Teaching of the Healing of the Lame Man at the Beautiful Gate

The Church is for preaching the Gospel; not self-help, music, or entertainment

Surprise! Steven Furtick Turns a Blind Eye to the Gospel.....Again

Most Popular Sermons on YouTube

Sarah Jakes Roberts - The Undoing - How Speakers Manipulate Crowds

Roberts transforms herself into a psychic medium, a rock star, a stage hypnotist, and a comedian to please the crowd in this "sermon".

The Most Popular Sermons on YouTube: Joel Osteen - The Best is Next

Joel Osteen's sermons aren't cute or funny, they're satanic.

TD Jakes: God Knows When - Most Popular Sermons on YouTube

TD Jakes preaches the "good news".....too bad it's not the biblical Good News.  

1517 Legacy Won't Tell You What To Do

Part 2 of Matt and Nathan's discussion on Kolb's "Beware of Imperatives" and Koch's "That Damned Woman"

Robert Kolb, Cindy Koch, 1517 Won't Tell You What To Do.

Nathan Rinne and I discuss Kolb's "Be Careful With Imperatives" and Cindy Koch's "That Damned Woman"

Pastors are Bored with the Ressurection: Andy Stanley, Steven Furtick, et al

We've finally gotten around to looking at this year's Easter Sermons and per the usual arrangement, mega church pop-Evangelicals are talking about anything  but the implications of the Resurrection and spending more time talking about you.  

HT, CHF, 1517, Radical Lutheranism and the Future of the Lutheran Faith with Pastors Filmore Alverez and Brandon Warr

Pastors Alverez and Warr invite me on their podcast The Bookcase Behind Me to discuss the implications of Radical Lutheranism on the faith.  

Critique of Donavon Riley's "Take Up Your Cross and Follow" Lecture

An excellent example of a wolf among the sheep. 

Jemar Tisby The Color of Compromise and Leaving Loud.

Jemar Tisby, author of The Color of Compromise is either ignorant and a pawn of a religio-political agenda of the highest order or he is out for blood and a rising star in the realm of religious race bating.   Spoiler...

The Proper Distinction Between Sanctification and Justification

Pastor David Petersen gives a brilliant Ash Wednesday sermon on the difference between Sanctification and Justification. 

Steven Furtick and Joel Osteen: The Tragedy of Positive Thinking Sermons

Why Furtick and Osteen are damnable false teachers.  Full Stop.  

1517: Luther as the OG Postmoderist?

Part 2 of our critique of Steven Paulson's lecture at the 1517 Legacy's "Here We Still Stand" conference. 

Beware of Those Who Feel the Need to Popularize Sound Doctrine

Part 1 of my conversation with Nathan Rinne on Steven Paulson's lecture on The Theology of the Cross at the 1517 "Here We Still Stand" conference.  

Joseph Prince The Prince of All Law No Gospel

Preaching all Gospel and no Law is just as wrong as preaching all Law and no Gospel.  

Last time. Your faith. Pop-Lutheranism. Your Faith on Pop-Lutheranism. Any Questions?

Part two of my discussion with Nathan Rinne on Dr. Peter Scaer's piece in the latest CTQ entitled Reckoned Among the Lawless

How the Pop Wing of the LCMS is Denying the Gospel

How you're being duped by 1517 Legacy, Higher Things, Christ Hold Fast, and Confessional Lutheran Fellowship.  News Flash.  They're not confessional Lutherans.  Far from it.  Spend some time reading the Confessions, Holy Scripture, and ice that cake with some intake...

Andy Stanley the Anti Racist

Critical Race Theory and You and Your Family and Your Country and Your Church

 These are strange and confusing times especially when you don't understand how your enemy thinks. This week, Nathan Rinne of Concordia St. Paul continue our saga of helping you to understand and make sense of what's going on in our...

Is It the End of the World

Part two of our interview with Nathan Rinne of Concordia St Paul on Wilderson's "Afropessimism"  

When Bad Ideas from the Academy Hit the Streets and the Church

 What happens when ideas from university campuses finally hit the ground? It's one thing to talk about ideas and it's something else entirely to make good on them. For those who still question whether or not the approaches of Critical...

Who Will Win The Election?

Our new podcast, the Jeff and Matt Show give the predictions of this monumental election. 

Rob Bell in Process

Process Theology and Rob Bell

Rob Bell: Everything Is Stupid

In this episode of “Everything is Stupid” with Rob Bell, we’ll be treated to the incoherent meanderings of Rob Bell’s misadventures in Christian ministry and life.   Sadly, unlike Bell’s former books, there is extraordinarily little here to even consider. ...

The Difference Between a Self Help Lecture and a Sermon

Sometimes we hear sermons and we know something isn't quite passing the smell test.  The pastor might be saying "God" and "Jesus" and even quoting the bible, but something just isn't right.  Learn how to recognize the symptoms of a...