Knowing Faith

Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley are joined by Joe Worley to discuss “The First Five: Beating the Odds and Thriving as a Ministry Leader,” co-written by Kyle and his dad, Joe.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Why did we write this book?
• Does it seem like more and more we are hearing about ministry leaders failing out?
• What are the core ingredients of trustworthiness as a ministry leader?
• What do you value in leaders now more than when you first started in ministry?
• What do you young guys want to talk about?
• What is the intersection between pastoral and professional?
• How do you build credibility and trust as a ministry leader?
• How did you build credibility with each other?
• How will this book help the church navigate current church leaders leaving the church or retiring?

Guest Bio:

Dr. Joe Worley is the pastor at First Baptist Church of Groves, TX, where he is concluding over 31 years of faithful pastoral ministry. He has been in ministry leadership for over 45 years, and he is the co-author of the recently released First Five: How to Beat the Odds and Thrive as a Ministry Leader.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• 1 Timothy 3, Hebrews 13:7
• Shepherd Care
• “The First Five” by Kyle Worley and Joseph Worley
• “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals” by John Piper

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley host a podcast live from Camp of the Woods and answer questions submitted by campers.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What are the core components of Bible Study?
• How do you learn to read the Bible theologically?
• What is the crisis of biblical literacy and why is it so important?
• What is your personal soapbox?
• What topic was the first Knowing Faith podcast on?
• How do we help our children acknowledge the reality of their stories without allowing that to shape the reality of who they are?
• What three words would we use to describe one another?
• Why does a self-sufficient God want or need our worship?
• How do you hold fast to Christ when it feels like the church has forgotten (pointing towards Christian Nationalism)?
• What are your thoughts on female Pastors and the role of women in the church?
• How do the incommunicable attributes of God encourage believers?

Helpful Definitions:

• Theopneustos (θεόπνευστος): God-breathed

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Camp of the Woods
• COTW365.org
• Training the Church
• “Deep Discipleship” by JT English
• “Ten Words to Live By” by Jen Wilkin
• “Women of the Word” by Jen Wilkin
• “Home with God” by Kyle Worley
• Knowing Faith: 
  • Jesus’ Family Tree
  • Should The 10 Commandments be Posted Publicly? (Part 1)
  • Should The 10 Commandments be Posted Publicly? (Part 2)
• The Westminster Larger Catechism
• ​​Happy Complementarians
• “None Like Him” by Jen Wilkin
• “The Attributes of God” by Arthur Pink
• “Knowledge of the Holy” by A. W. Tozer 

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss Old Testament sacrifices.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What books of the Bible can someone learn more about Old Testament sacrifices? What about the New Testament?
• What did sacrifices in the OT actually do?
• Is anything happening in the actual forgiveness of sins? Or are they a shadow of what's to come?
• What is missing if Israel does not offer the Leviticus 16 sacrifice?
• What is the object of faith of Old Testament saints? How is the atoning work of Christ applied to them?
• What is the good news of the gospel?
• Why do we not still offer sacrifices?

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Leviticus 16, Hebrews 9-11, Romans 3:25, Leviticus 4, Acts 2, Hebrews 10:11, Exodus 19, 1 Peter 2:9, Exodus 19:5–6, Galatians 3, Acts 2:46, Acts 3:1, Romans 12:1

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Kyle Worley is joined by Jess Wolstenholm to discuss how the stories we watch and listen to shape and form us.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Why do you care about this, and what are you doing to address this?
• What have you and Minno learned about the role of stories and streaming in the lives of families and kids?
• Can kids be spiritually formed by media? 
• What is the struggle with watching content like this on other platforms?
• How does Minno filter what content they produce or license?
• Why not just tell a Bible story in a different way?
• Why should families use Minno?

Guest Bio:

Jess Wolstenholm, M. Ed, is the VP of Education and Research at Minno, a children’s media company helping kids and families experience Jesus every day. Jess is executive producer and editor of the Laugh and Grow Bible animated series and Bible. After 25 years in children’s ministry, she is now developing discipleship content that meets kids where they are at every age and stage.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Minno

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss if you can know God truly.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Is God too mysterious to truly know?
• Why is the emergent church problem coming up again? Why is it happening again? What is a valid response?
• Why are you not convinced by the argument that people don't need their Bibles and they can just come to Jesus?
• What are the true sources of knowledge of God?
• “Don’t put God in a box…?”
• How does cultural diversity play into this conversation?

Helpful Definitions:

• General Revelation: God makes himself known in creation.
• Special Revelation: God has made himself known in Christ and in Scripture.
• Accommodation: We can know who God is because He accommodates Himself to our ways of knowing.
• Transcendent: God is wholly other, infinite, and set-apart.
• Immanent: God is near and personally accessible.
• Archetypal Knowledge: A kind of knowledge only God can have of Himself. Only God can truly know God.
• Epistemological Grace: It is gracious that you can know God because He has graciously given Himself to you.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Romans 11, John 5:37-40, 1 Corinthians 2:10, Acts 17, Revelation 5

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss what the Bible says about marriage and divorce.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Is divorce sin?
• What does the bible say about marriage?
• Is our culture diminishing marriage or deifying it?
• Within the church, is our current teaching on marriage and divorce in alignment with what Jesus taught?
• Is divorce sin?
• What are grounds that provoke consideration for divorce?
• When is remarriage a faithful Christian option after divorce?

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Matthew 5, Matthew 19, 1 Corinthians 7, Mark 10, Ephesians 5
• “The Case Against the Sexual Revolution” by Louise Perry 
• Deep Discipleship Program

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Kyle Worley is joined by Jen Oshman to answer the question “Why is it so hard to be happy?”

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Why is it so hard to be happy?
• What are we actually looking for? What is the rubric for happiness?
• Why this energy on happiness right now?
• If someone told you “I’m incredibly unhappy,” how would you approach them?

Guest Bio:

Jen Oshman is a wife, mom, and writer, and has served as a missionary and pastor’s wife for over two decades on three continents. She currently resides in Colorado, where her family planted Redemption Parker, an Acts29 church. She writes regularly at www.jenoshman.com and has a weekly podcast called All Things.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• “Why Is It So Hard to Be Happy?” by Jen Oshman
• “Happiness” by Andrew Wilson
• Crossway+

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss Jen’s new book “Made Like Me.”

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Why did you write this book?
• Why is Genesis 2 important?
• Is the emphasis on sameness or difference?
• What do you lose if you don’t have sameness of distinction?
• What are the immediate implications for generous complementarianism?
• What do you hope this book will do?

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Genesis 2
• “Made Like Me” by Jen Wilkin
• Deep Discipleship Program

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Kyle Worley is joined by Andrew Wilson to answer the question “Is it okay to want to be happy?”

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What is happiness?
• Is it okay to want to be happy?
• Do some Christians think that it is wrong to be happy?
• Is God happy?
• Are happiness and holiness related?

Guest Bio:

Andrew Wilson (PhD, King’s College London) is the teaching pastor at King’s Church London and a columnist for Christianity Today. He’s the author of several books, including Remaking the World, Incomparable, and God of All Things. Andrew is married to Rachel, and they have three children: Zeke, Anna, and Sam. You can follow him on X.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Psalm 16:11
• “Happiness: What It Is, Where to Find It, and How to Make It Last Forever” by Andrew Wilson
• “Weight of Glory” by C.S. Lewis
• Crossway+

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley answer the question “Could Jesus be tempted to sin?”

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Can Jesus be tempted to sin?
• What does it mean that Jesus is fully God and fully man?
• If he was fully man, could he be tempted?
• Was it a real temptation? Could he have sinned?
• What is Impeccability?
• What is temptation? Are there different kinds of temptation?
• How does the Bible help us live in tension?
• Correct or validate this statement: “In his humanity he could have sinned; in his deity he never would have.”
• How should Christians live in light of this truth?
• Is it a silly question to ask “what would Jesus do?”
• What about union with Christ?

Helpful Definitions:

• Hypostatic Union: The eternal Son of God takes upon a human nature and now eternally exists as one person with two distinct natures, fully God and fully man,
• Peccability: Able not to sin (posse non peccare).
• Non posse non peccare: Not able not to sin.
• Posse peccare, posse non peccare: Able to sin, able not to sin
• Impeccability: Unable to sin (Non posse peccare).
• Immutability: God is unchanging.
• Nestorianism: Separates the natures of Christ.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Hebrews 4:15, Genesis 1-3, 1 Peter 2:11, James 1:12-18, Hebrews 4:15, Hebrews 12:3-5, 1 Corinthians 10:13, 1 John 2:1, Romans 6:1, John 15
• The Chalcedonian Creed
• Deep Discipleship Program

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