Today on the Ron Johnson Discipleship Podcast: All counterfeit visions of redemption inevitably lead to despair and hopelessness. This is why America is dealing with a pandemic of loneliness and suicide. In today's episode, we discuss the relational starvation taking place today and explain why a dynamic, life-giving relationship with Christ and His Church are more necessary now than ever!

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Today on the Ron Johnson Discipleship Podcast: The problem with counterfeit forms of redemption is that they inevitably lead to despair. The world becomes a cold, hostile, meaningless place. Life becomes pointless. Eventually pessimism and despair swallow everything. The modern "anti-hero" embraces the unyielding despair and defiantly rebels against it. The final act of defiance is suicide. Jesus has a better way! We'll talk about that in today's episode.

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Today on the Ron Johnson Discipleship Podcast: Western secularism rejected God and limited reality to the material. The result was a mechanistic cosmos devoid of any meaning, purpose or morality. Secularism creates a profound spiritual emptiness that must be filled with something. This explains why new age beliefs and eastern mysticism are so attractive to many. They offer "spirituality" without any demands or doctrines. While materialism says, "Nothing is God," new age mysticism says, "Everything is god!" Both are counterfeit forms of real redemption.

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Today on the Ron Johnson Discipleship Podcast: One of the biggest forms of counterfeit redemption in America today is scientism, the belief that science will be our savior. Through our ever-increasing scientific and technological breakthroughs, we will save ourselves. We see this myth embodied in our current battle with the Covid pandemic where basically one man in a white lab coat is dictating public policy for over 330 million Americans all under the authority of "science." For the Christian, science and faith are not in conflict. In fact, it was the Christian worldview that laid the foundation for the scientific revolution.

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Today on the Ron Johnson Discipleship Podcast: When Christ is rejected as redeemer, someone or some ideology will take His place. In America today, we are witnessing the rise of the scientific socialist state promising government solutions to all of our problems. Each new crisis brings more government control and coercion. Mandates, fines, travel restrictions and cancel culture are the new "reality." Today we discuss the signs of neo-marxism in America and highlight the pain and chaos which are the inevitable results when the State pretends to be God.

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Today on the Ron Johnson Discipleship Podcast: Every worldview must explain how we got here, why we have problems, and what we can do to fix them. In short, we need a plan of redemption. Today we discuss the problem with godless, counterfeit, man-centered solutions which inevitably lead to control, coercion and cultural chaos. This podcast will help you understand the ideas behind vaccine mandates, school board clashes over curriculum, open borders and the current "cancel culture" in America.

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Today on the Ron Johnson Discipleship Podcast: As vaccine mandate deadlines are approaching, we revisit the Constitutional basis for religious liberty and conscience protections and provide some encouragement and counsel for those facing the threat of job loss. We also begin a new series on the topic of redemption and the host of counterfeit "saviors" we see in our culture today.

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Today on the Ron Johnson Discipleship Podcast: Join us for our final episode with David Rubin, president of the Shiloh Israel Children's Fund. We discuss a variety of critical cultural issues including open borders, legal immigration, racial tension, anti-Semitism and a host of other hot topics. 

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Today on the Ron Johnson Discipleship Podcast: Today we are joined by David Rubin, founder and president of the Shiloh Israel Children's Fund for part two of our interview. We deal with a host of modern myths perpetrated by those who hate Israel and seek her total annihilation. We begin with the common media phrase "global terrorism." What is it and how do we fight it?

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