Simply Put

When we sin, we strive to substitute our own authority for God's. In this episode, Barry Cooper explains what makes our sin so devastating and points to another substitution as our only source of hope.

Read the transcript: https://simplyputpodcast.com/sin/

What steps take place in the salvation of a Christian? In this episode, Barry Cooper provides an encouraging reminder that God's redemption of His people is an unstoppable process.

Read the transcript: https://simplyputpodcast.com/ordo-salutis/

There's a good way of wanting to be like God--and a very bad way. In this episode, Barry Cooper identifies the ways we can, and ought to, imitate God.

Read the transcript: https://simplyputpodcast.com/the-communicable-attributes-of-god/

Jesus is the lens through which we must look if we are to understand the Scriptures properly. In this episode, Barry Cooper emphasizes the importance of interpreting the Bible as it was meant to be interpreted.

Read the transcript: https://simplyputpodcast.com/hermeneutics/

In the ultimate sense, there is no such thing as a job, a task, or a duty that is truly mundane. In this episode, Barry Cooper looks at God's purpose for our everyday work in the world.

Read the transcript: https://simplyputpodcast.com/the-creation-mandate/

If it is even possible that God exists, then it follows logically that God does exist. In this episode, Barry Cooper walks us through Anselm's famous argument for the existence of God.

Read the transcript: https://simplyputpodcast.com/the-ontological-argument/

For more than 1,800 years, Christians understood "the rapture" to be the blissful moment of Jesus' second coming. But within the last century and a half, a new interpretation emerged. In this episode, Barry Cooper helps us consider what the Bible says about the rapture of Christ's church.

Read the transcript: https://simplyputpodcast.com/the-rapture/

The Apostles are included in "the foundation" of the Christian church (Eph. 2:20)--a foundation laid only once. In this episode, Barry Cooper describes the unique role these men played as the commissioned eyewitnesses of Jesus Christ.

Read the transcript: https://simplyputpodcast.com/apostles/

In and of itself, faith isn't necessarily a virtue. It all depends on what we have faith in. In this episode, Barry Cooper explains that the reason it is proper to put our faith in Christ is because Christ is perfectly good and perfectly trustworthy.

Read the transcript: https://simplyputpodcast.com/faith/

The central "spine" of the Bible can be described in a single word: covenant. In this episode, Barry Cooper expounds on these recurring agreements, pledges, and vows that culminate in the promised arrival of Christ Himself.

Read the transcript: https://simplyputpodcast.com/covenant/