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Episode Summary. Just as Lucy’s encounter with Aslan upon her second trip to Narnia caused her to realize that her prior view of Aslan was too small, Isaiah’s encounter with God in the temple of Jerusalem caused him to realize his view of the Lord of Hosts was too small. Isaiah was dwarfed by God’s majesty. His sin was laid bare by the radiance of God’s glory. And he was traumatized by God’s holiness. Although such holiness and the wrath against evil that goes with it are not usually our favorite attributes of God, we observed that God’s holiness is enormously beneficial to us and all creation. We further considered God’s responsibility as judge of his universe, noting that God would be immoral if he did not demand just punishment for evil and reward good.

For Further Prayerful Thought

1. What stood out most to you about Isaiah’s vision of the LORD in Isaiah 6?
2. How would you explain God’s holiness to a child?
3. What is most attractive to you about God’s holiness?
4. What does it look like to abhor evil?
5. How does a BIG view of God’s holiness take us through a process that leads to a BIG devotion to put our lives on the altar to Him? 

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Episode Summary. Jesus’ prayer to the Father saying, This is eternal life, that they know you, THE ONLY TRUE GOD, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent, points to the counter-cultural exclusivity of Christianity, which cultural elites say disqualifies it from being true. This episode examines this exclusivity, how we can teach our loved ones to winsomely respond to this accusation, and what are the implications of Jesus’ description of the Father as the only true God.

For Further Prayerful Thought

1. What is the difference between tolerance in relationships and tolerance regarding what is true? How do you see Scripture requiring us to tolerant of other people but intolerant of false ideas masquerading as truth?
2. How would you answer a Christian you were discipling who asked, “Why are there so many religions?”
3. What do you think of the statement, “God has too much dignity to accept adoration from worshippers who are not celebrating his true nature?” How does the second commandment relate to Jesus’ statement to the woman at the well in Samaria, “The Father desires worshippers to worship him in spirit and in truth?”

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Episode Summary. Although today’s church is seeing an unprecedented number of deconversions by kids raised in the church, often claiming that science disproves the existence of God, the fact is that the world of scientific observation provides evidence that is so compelling that it is unreasonable NOT to believe that a supernatural God exists. After looking at five scientific arguments to point to the reality of a supernatural God, we then examined five of these supernatural characteristics of the true God of Scripture and how they benefit us!

For Further Prayerful Thought

1. What evidence would you martial to support an argument that it is much more reasonable to believe in the existence of God than not to?
2. Why do you think it might be important to help our rising young adults understand the biblical teaching that human sinful nature leads man to suppress the truth that creation proves there is a God?
3. Look back to God’s supernatural attributes. Which ones most stood out to you? How can knowing these attributes help you delight in the Lord? 

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Episode Summary. In Jeremiah 9, God has some things to say to his Covenant people about boasting. But it is not, “Don’t brag.” Rather God chooses three assets needed for men to get any significant job done—wisdom, might, and riches—telling us not to place our confidence in them but instead to boast that we understand and know him. Practically speaking what is God saying to us and what does the rest of Scripture reveal about the benefit of growing in our knowledge of God? That is the topic of this episode.

For Further Prayerful Thought

1. What is your take-away from God’s command to the wise man not to boast in his wisdom, the mighty man not to boast in his might, the rich man not to boast in his riches but instead to boast of understanding and knowing him? What are your ideas about what this looks like?
2. Which benefits of growing in the knowledge of God most stood out to you?
3. How would you defend the idea that God and God alone is fit to take the universe’s throne? Which components of God’s character give you the most peace and confidence as you head into the future? 

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Episode Summary. In a new study conducted by Geroge Barna, in which he interviewed 2000 church-going self-identified Christians, his results were shocking. 49% said they were unlikely to vote: Here are their reasons: 

• 68% said they are not interested in politics
• 57% said they disliked the major candidates
• 55% said they felt like none of the candidates reflect their most important views
• 52% believed their vote will not have an impact
• 50% said the election has become too controversial

This episode addresses these reasons for NOT voting. 

 For Further Prayerful Thought

1. How would you explain the connection between God’s reason for creating human beings (to bear his image) and the Christian responsibility as redeemed human beings to vote?
2. What are the logical flaws in a Christian’s argument that with over 100 million votes cast his doesn’t matter?
3. How would you respond to someone who said, “I don’t like either candidate and I’m not sure that, in good conscience, I can vote for either”?

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Episode Summary. Christians men are called to protect women. We know that Adam was placed in the Garden of Eden to protect it and those in it and that Jesus modeled protecting women. The Christian church also has a great heritage of protecting women. That protection today needs to come from men who understand ideologies, government policies, and political parties whose platforms harm women. This episode examines how open borders, gender affirming care, and the Title IX revision of the Civil Rights law affecting athletics harms today’s women.

For Further Prayerful Thought

1. Why do you think many Christians and Christian leaders turn a blind eye to the hundreds of thousands of girls and women being raped and turned into sex slaves by Mexican Drug cartels because of America’s open border?
2. What facts about gender affirming care do you most want to remember so you can point out its harm to parents of gender-confused kids.
3. What aspects of Riley Gaine’s story are most infuriating to you? Why do you think so many people cave to LGBTQ pressure when radical gender ideology totally contradicts science and common sense?

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On September 30th, Patrick Lechleitner, the Director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent a letter to Congressman Tony Gonzales revealing that over 13,000 convicted murderers and over 15,000 convicted rapists who have been caught by ICE were released into America because of the Biden/Harris catch and release policy, which defies current immigration law. And the corrupt, mainstream media made virtually no mention of it! This episode examines the responsibility of Christians to be light to our culture—to expose what sin wants to cover up and, in particular, to expose the unprecedented suppression of the truth by the corporate media and Democrat Party of what is actually happening at our southern border. 

For Further Prayerful Thought:

1. What do you think is the biblical case for Christians to advance the kingdom of light by exposing destructive actions that those in the culture are attempting to hide?
2. What two or three facts seem like the strongest evidence of the corporate media’s suppression of the truth? Why do you think Christians allow the mainstream media to blind them so much to what is really happening in our culture?
3. What facts about illegal immigration and the open southern border stood out most to you?  In view of these facts, what wise question might you ask a believer who naively thinks Christians should support the Democrat’s open border catch and release defiance of immigration law? 

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Episode Summary. In the Genesis 12 account of Abram’s calling, God says, Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and… I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse (vs 1-2). That nation, Israel is now at war with Hamas and Hezbollah. Does God’s promise of blessings and curses mean that Christians should blindly support candidates from the Republican party who are staunchly pro-Israel? What about Palestinian Christians who were killed while taking refuge in a church, which was bombed by Israeli jets in what many Christians consider reckless overkill? This episode seeks to set forth some facts about Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Christian theory of just war, giving you a lens to evaluate the stands of the two parties, yourself.

For Further Prayerful Thought:

1. What are some thoughts that might come to your mind now if you heard someone say, “The middle east conflict is because Jews took Arab land.”
2. How would you respond to someone attempting to equate the IDF’s military response as just as morally reprehensible as Hamas’ October 7th attack?
3. How would you respond to one who said, “the Democrats say that Israel has a right to defend itself. They are just as supportive of Israel as Republicans."

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Episode Summary. When faced with the sight of millions of men, women, and children from war-torn lands seeking to escape tyranny to have better life, most Christians will voice their approval for open door policies of inclusion, hospitality, diversity and welcome. After all Jesus, did teach that true believers will hear from Jesus, “I was a STRANGER and you WELCOMED me.” Doesn’t this settle the issue—All Christians must be welcoming to immigrants who want to come into our country. Actually, no. This understanding of immigration is so flawed that it misses the most significant biblical text about the government’s role in immigration. This episode seeks to help us all think biblically about the hot topic today of illegal, undocumented, immigrants coming across our southern border.

For Further Prayerful Thought: 

1. Why do you think so many Americans are unaware of what is happening at the southern boarder? Of the categories of harm that un-enforcement of immigration policies brings—human trafficking, spread of drugs including fentanyl, terrorism, and attacks from hardened criminals, which concern you the most?
2. How would you respond, biblically to the fallacy that for Christians to properly care for immigrants we must we welcoming to all who want to come to our nation, including those crossing the border illegally?
3. What biblical principles do you think apply to our treatment of illegal immigrants who are already in our country?   

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Summary: The spiritual battle in which Christian men are called to engage is largely a battle of ideas. After Paul devotes eleven chapters of Romans to the glory of the gospel, and challenges Christians that the only proper response is to offer ourselves back to God as a living sacrifice, the very next command is a reference to this battle over ideas: Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind. This reality presents Christian men with an enormous challenge. We are created to be warriors (Gen 2:15). But few of us are philosophy majors. The world of ideas that we know best matches our vocation and avocation. Yet, as warriors in the spiritual battle of ideas WE are to destroy arguments, and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God and take every thought captive to obey Christ (2 Cor 10:5). This podcast series, “Election 2024 and Biblical Worldview” is intended to equip men to understand the worldview issues that lie beneath the upcoming election. 

Recommended Resources

• Critical Dilema, Neil Shenvil and Pat Sawyer.
• Fault Lines, Voddie Baucham.
• Money Greed and God, Jay Richards.
• Unwoke, Ted Cruz.

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