Theology Central

Psalm 62:1 is often used as a generic call to patience and trust—but is that what the verse is actually saying? In this episode, we slow down and read Psalm 62:1 in its literary, historical, and covenant context and discover that this is not about waiting for God to fix our personal circumstances, but about David and Israel waiting on God to fulfill His promises.

We often talk about asking questions of the Bible—but are we asking the right ones? This episode uses a recent article on curiosity in the Christian life as a springboard to introduce The Five Layers of Reading Any Biblical Text, a simple framework for learning how to actually listen to Scripture before jumping to application.

In The Flood Problem –we ask why the flood happened and why the standard explanation doesn't actually work. If the flood was meant to deal with human sin, why does sin immediately explode again after it's over? And why does the New Testament connect the flood to imprisoned spirits who were disobedient in Noah's day? By working carefully through Genesis 6, this episode shows that the flood story begins with something far more disturbing than we are usually told—and that the real problem has never been properly addressed.

After seeing in Part 1 how a 1988 sermon exposed a deep hermeneutical collapse, this episode steps back and asks a bigger question: what was fundamentalism originally, and how did it become what it is today?

In this episode, I discuss the 2025 film The Long Walk and why it affected me so deeply. After summarizing the movie and its story, I reflect on how it becomes a powerful picture of life itself—endurance, exhaustion, suffering, and what eventually breaks people. This is not a traditional movie review, but a personal and philosophical meditation on what it means to keep going in a world that slowly wears us down.

Using a 1988 sermon as our starting point, this episode asks a disturbing question: what if the sermon itself is part of the problem? Before debating methods or results, we examine how Scripture is being used—and what that reveals about what had already gone wrong inside fundamentalism.

In John 5:28–29, Jesus makes one of His most staggering claims: all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth—some to the resurrection of life, and some to the resurrection of damnation. In this episode, we examine whether Jesus is deliberately using Daniel 12:2 as His framework, whether Daniel is the interpretive key to this passage, and what the phrase "resurrection of damnation" actually means

We go back to 1 Peter 3:21 to figure out what Baptism the verse is referring to

The Flood and Baptism takes a careful look at 1 Peter 3:18–22—the only New Testament passage that directly connects the story of Noah's flood to Christian theology. Instead of repeating the familiar claim that "the ark is a picture of Christ," this episode follows Peter's actual argument and shows that he does something far stranger: he connects the floodwaters to baptism. Along the way, we explore the context of 1 Peter, why Peter brings up Noah at all, what he means when he says "baptism now saves you," and why this difficult passage does not support the popular sermon idea that the ark represents Jesus.

We continue our study of the book, Introduction to Systematic Theology. In this episode we begin looking at Genesis 6-9