The Robert J. Morgan Podcast

Prayer can take many forms, but two we see highlighted in the book of Daniel are important to understand: regular prayer and rigorous prayer.

Can questions change your life? They did mine. On today's podcast, we'll look at two questions that can create a quality life like none other. We'll continue our study in Acts 22, as Paul faces persecution, arrest, and subsequent opportunities to preach Christ that emerged--specifically through his testimony that involves two crucial questions he asked Jesus.

Have you ever given up? Is it ever appropriate? Today's podcast episode covers Acts 21, where we encounter believers who do just that: give up. Not in a negative sense, though, but in surrender to God's will. Let's look at this chapter together and learn the healthy way to give up!

What if you were asked to preach a message of instruction to all pastors and church leaders on earth. Imagine your message could travel across time to everyone? And what if you could only use 400 words? What would you say? I like to call Paul's sermon in Acts 20 "400 Words for Kingdom Workers".

Can we trust what's written down and copied about Jesus? You'll want to hear today's podcast episode where Rob is joined by Dr. Craig A. Evans, a brilliant scholar and teacher in areas of apologetics including archaeology, to talk about original manuscripts about Jesus and why they can be trusted. He's the director of Strategic Studies and Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins at Houston Baptist University.  He's authored hundreds of articles and reviews and has published more than seventy books. Professor Evans has given lectures at Cambridge, Durham, Oxford, Yale, and many other universities, colleges, seminaries, and museums, such as the Field Museum in Chicago and the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa. He also regularly lectures and gives talks at popular conferences and retreats on the Bible and Archaeology, and Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Evans has appeared many times in television programs on History Channel, BBC, Dateline NBC, and others. Dr. Evans served as consultant on the National Geographic Society’s Gospel of Judas project and for The Bible television miniseries. He also participates annually in archeological digs in the Middle East and volunteer-teaches at schools world-wide. Professor Evans and his wife Ginny live in Richmond, Texas, and have two grown daughters and a grandson. Visit christianthinkers.com and craigAevans.com to learn more about Dr. Evans and his ministry.

In this episode, Rob reads from his upcoming release of Great Is Thy Faithfulness, a 52-week devotional book available for pre-order from Amazon now shipping September 21st 2021.

Is today's church Biblically literate? Do we love God with all our mind? Dr. Jeremiah Johnston, founder of Christian Thinkers Society, joins Rob for today's podcast episode. They discuss these issues, as well as "Shalom" - God's peace, and how believers can live with less anxiety.

Ephesus was the home of the goddess Artemis, giving rise to dark magic arts which flourished there. In Acts 19, we learn Paul taught daily for two years and did extraordinary miracles. As people converted to the Gospel of Christ, they burned their magic scrolls. The book of Ephesians can be understood much better with this backdrop. Let's continue to explore Acts 19 and the Ephesian church in today's podcast episode.

Spiritual warfare has captivated the attention of many Christians today. And no wonder! With our cultural elites barreling towards Marxism, with countless unborn children destroyed every day, with propaganda of sexual debauchery infiltrating our school systems--we can only understand this as spiritual evil at work. In Acts 19, we find Paul in Ephesus, which was evidently the center of magical arts, spells, charms, and worship of all kinds of deities. In today's podcast episode, we'll learn how the unstoppable Gospel clashed with this culture in Ephesus, and we'll try to draw out implications for spiritual warfare in our world today!

Do you know there are four Pentecost events in the book of Acts? Today we'll look at what I think is the most perplexing in Acts 19; I'll share my theory about the meaning and significance behind this fourth event.