#80

Welcome to The Sacraments Series: A Deep Dive Into History, Theology, and Practice. Today we're exploring the trajectory of baptism and the Lord's Supper throughout church history - this is a story full of drama, murder, existential questions, and more!

Check out the stages of church history that we're moving through today:

1. The Early Church
2. The Medieval Church
3. The Church in the Reformation Era
4. The Modern Church

Next week we continue with this series, moving into 4 Views on Baptism.

Resources:

• A major source for this episode was Gregg Allison's Historical Theology. Buy a copy here!

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#79

Check out the outline for today's episode:

1. Fighting porn use is a lifelong journey, not a destination.
2. How to fight porn as the addiction it is, using these 2 Key Strategies.
3. How to fight porn as the spiritual malady it is, by unlocking true Christian spirituality.

Don't miss next week as we dive into our new series, The Sacraments Series: A Deep Dive Into Their History, Theology, and Practice!

Resources:

• Need accountability? Check out Covenant Eyes, a software that will help you destroy the stronghold this sin has in your life.
• Want more info on the harmful effects of porn? Go to Fight The New Drug.
• Check out Madd Fradd's book, The Porn Myth.

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#78

Check out some of the material from today's episode:

1. Case study: How popular porn site Girls Do Porn used sex trafficking to fuel its business.
2. The wide-spread abuse and trafficking prevalent in the porn industry.
3. Stats on child sex trafficking.
4. How the porn industry inevitably leads to child pornography.
5. Where do we go from here?

Don't miss next week as we wrap up this series, examining how we as Christians should fight against pornography, on both personal and industry-wide levels.

Resources:

• Harrowing story of Jane Doe being trafficked by Girls Do Porn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVHJW5j7cYQ
• Further story on Girls Do Porn (Wikipedia is not given because it's perfectly reliable, but because it includes dozens of links to first-hand reporting on this story): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GirlsDoPorn
• Need accountability? Check out Covenant Eyes, a software that will help you destroy the stronghold this sin has in your life.
• Want more info on the harmful effects of porn? Go to Fight The New Drug.
• Want some of the statistics mentioned in the show?
  • https://fightthenewdrug.org/by-the-numbers-porn-sex-trafficking-connected/
  • https://fightthenewdrug.org/sex-trafficking-victims-rescued-in-national-fbi-operation-cross-country/
  • https://fightthenewdrug.org/investigation-rise-in-hidden-links-to-child-abuse-on-adult-sites/

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#77

Apologies for the audio quality on this one!

Check out this episode's outline:

1. How does your porn use affect your spouse?
2. How does your porn use affect your kids or kids around you?
3. How does pornography affect kids who are exposed to it?
4. How does your porn use affect your friends?

Don't miss next week as we continue this series, looking at The People Behind Porn: Women, Children, and Slaves

Resources:

• Pamela Paul, Pornified: How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families - purchase on Amazon.
• Need accountability? Check out Covenant Eyes, a software that will help you destroy the stronghold this sin has in your life.
• Want more info on the harmful effects of porn? Go to Fight The New Drug.
• Want some of the statistics mentioned in the show? Check out these two links:
  • https://www.bbfc.co.uk/about-us/news/children-see-pornography-as-young-as-seven-new-report-finds
  • https://fightthenewdrug.org/by-the-numbers-see-how-many-people-are-watching-porn-today/

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#76

If you have watched porn, are watching porn, or know somebody who is addicted to porn, tune in. We're diving into the ways pornography affects those who watch it even once - exposing its highly addictive nature and destructive influence on your mind, body, and soul.

Check out this episode's outline:

1. Welcome to the show!
2. How does porn affect your mind?
3. How does porn affect your body?
4. How does porn affect your soul?
5. Is there any good news?

Don't miss next week as we continue this important investigation and examine how porn affects those closest to us when we consume it.

Resources:

• Matt Fradd, The Porn Myth, purchase on Amazon.
• Gary Wilson, Your Brain on Porn, purchase on Amazon.
• Need accountability? Check out Covenant Eyes, a software that will help you destroy the stronghold this sin has in your life.
• Want more info on the harmful effects of porn? Go to Fight The New Drug.
• Want some of the statistics mentioned in the show? Check out these two links:
  • https://www.bbfc.co.uk/about-us/news/children-see-pornography-as-young-as-seven-new-report-finds
  • https://fightthenewdrug.org/by-the-numbers-see-how-many-people-are-watching-porn-today/

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#75

Perhaps the most important series we've done to date. Join us as we seek to live like the Apostle John, who called out the evils of Rome, unveiling the slavery, idolatry, and mockery of God that made the empire rich.

Our target? Modern day Babylon: the Western porn industry.

Check out this episode's outline:

1. What we're covering in our new series, Behind The Fantasy: A Christian Response To The Porn Industry
2. What is pornography?
3. What is the porn industry?
4. What's the average age kids are exposed to porn?
5. Where did the porn industry come from?
6. What does the porn industry look like today?
7. What's so wrong with the porn industry?
   1. Listen here for stories of survivors who escaped from the industry.

Don't miss next week as we continue this important investigation and examine how porn affects those who consume it, in their body, mind, and soul.

Resources:

• Matt Fradd, The Porn Myth, purchase on Amazon.
• Need accountability? Check out Covenant Eyes, a software that will help you destroy the stronghold this sin has in your life.
• Want more info on the harmful effects of porn? Go to Fight The New Drug.
• Want some of the statistics mentioned in the show? Check out these two links:
  • https://www.bbfc.co.uk/about-us/news/children-see-pornography-as-young-as-seven-new-report-finds
  • https://fightthenewdrug.org/by-the-numbers-see-how-many-people-are-watching-porn-today/

Want more on the history of the porn industry? Read up on this article from Britannica.

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#74

Why not level up the controversy?

Reformed theology (i.e., the entire Bible's teachings) explains same-sex attraction with a cultural relevance and biblical faithfulness that few Christians can articulate these days.

Wait? The Calvinists are culturally relevant?

Yup.

Join us on this episode as we unpack how to engage with a culture which views any biblical stance on homosexuality as homophobic. How can we say God created people with homosexual desires without excusing those desires? Or, how can we say that people with same-sex attraction have inherently sinful desires while everybody else is "pure"?

Don't miss this important conversation designed to equip you if:

1. You or a loved one struggles with same-sex attraction
2. You are trying to engage with the culture on this issue
3. You want to understand what the Bible truly teaches about same-sex attraction and relationships.

Don't miss next week as we kick off our new series, Behind The Fantasy: A Christian Response To The Porn Crisis.

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#73

This one gets heated.

If you search for the topic of "Singleness" among Christian podcasts, you'll find a plethora of episodes centred around this idea of the Single Season. Have you heard of that? Singleness is this time to focus on your relationship with God as you get ready for marriage. One problem. That's unbiblical, and actually hurts Christians more than it helps them.

Tune in to today's episode as we dive into what's so wrong with this language of singleness as a season. Explore with us these topics:

• This language leads to depression among Christians
• A short discussion around the harms of retribution theology
• What the Bible actually teaches about singleness
• How a single Christian is a witness to the power of the gospel
• The mistakes the entire church has made around singleness and the steps we can take to do better
• And much more!

This is the second episode in our series, One Flesh: God's Vision For Sexuality. Join us next week as we dive into the final episode: Same Sex Attraction.

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#72

I wish I could say our world is as sexually confused as it has ever been. But it's not. It just looks different nowadays.

From ancient times, people have been living sexual lives far outside our normal experience - polygamy, raping children, harems for rulers. Our culture rarely practices these (although polygamy is on the rise - who knows when pedophilia will become acceptable again). But, our culture uniquely ascribes our identity with our sexuality.

Is this right? Is our sexuality key to who we are?

How should Christians live in a culture like this? How can we take grace-filled stands for the truth in order to try to protect the millions of children, women, and men who suffer at the hands of our sex-addicted culture?

Welcome to our new series, One Flesh: God's Vision For Sexuality.

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#71

TIMESTAMPS HERE IN SHOW NOTES.

Over the summer we did a series on Calvinism. However, that series was missing serious interaction from beliefs on the other side of the theological spectrum, namely Arminianism. Today, I get to interact with the head of the Biblical Studies department at Columbia Bible College, Jerry Pauls, on this very subject.

This was a fascinating conversation with Jerry, and I couldn't be more excited to share it with you - not only for the brotherly heart behind our disagreements, but because we were able to go to deep places and come away enriched by each other.

Enjoy (and let me know what other type of interviews you might like).

[00:26] Introduction - how this conversation came to be.

[05:40] Why does this conversation matter? Can we keep unity despite theological differences?

[09:02] What is Arminianism?

[13:30] How did you (Jerry) come to embrace Arminian theology?

[21:20] What Scripture passages are important to Arminian theology?

[24:10] What weakness do you see in Arminian theology?

[28:28] What are common misconceptions of Arminianism?

[37:59] How do you as an Arminian understand Ephesians 1:3-5?

[1:04:54] How do you understand God's sovereignty and human free will?

[1:20:57] Do you believe in eternal security? Especially as Jesus seems to speak of it in John 10:27-28.

[1:37:09] An Arminian explanation of Romans 9-11.

[1:51:02] Conclusion - unity despite difference.

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