Thinking With Your Bible

What is the biblical perspective on cremation?

Most people assume it’s fine–but is it? What does Scripture say about it? Scott, Chris, and Bree dive into this listener question on this episode of Thinking With Your Bible!

You’ll hear:

• The pagan roots of cremation
• How burial has been the norm for God’s people in Scripture
• The implications of resurrection
• What’s the best, but maybe not commanded means of burial

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Must we ALWAYS bless Israel? Is that biblical?

In this episode of Thinking With Your Bible, Scott, Chris, and Bree tackle the listener's question, “How can we be thinking with our Bible concerning the Middle East conflict? Seems like all my evangelical friends are ready for rapture. How can we be praying for God’s chosen people, Israel, Especially since many Christian’s may be disagreeing with their decisions? Coming from an Evangelical charismatic background, I was told that you never come against God chosen and anointed people no matter what.”

You’ll hear:

• The relationship between the Bible & American foreign policy
• If we ought to support the modern state of Israel as Christians
• What it means to “bless Israel”
• The connection between Israel conflicts and the end times

We hope this episode helps you think clearly about the current state of Israel and how to navigate conversations with your friends and family.

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Melissa Dougherty is a Christian artist and apologist best known for her Youtube channel as an ex-new ager. She joins Scott and Chris on Thinking With Your Bible for a conversation about the New Thought movement, her testimony, and more. This is the first of a 4-part series with Melissa!

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• Melissa’s testimony
• The definition of New Thought & its core beliefs
• How New Thought compares to New Age

Melissa’s New Book, Happy Lies

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Your brother in Christ sinned against you–what should you do? Is Matthew 18 necessary? Can you just let it go?

Scott, Chris, and Bree break down a listener’s question, “How do you advise followers of Christ in matters of church discipline? When we see a brother or sister caught up in repetitive sin is it appropriate to use the biblical guidelines to handle this? How does a person approach someone they care about?”

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• When to rebuke
• How to rebuke
• When to forgive

We hope this podcast episode equips you to call out your brothers and sisters when appropriate, and in love.

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It seems like every time you open up social media, you learn of another pastor who’s fallen from grace. How should we think about it? What do we do?

Scott, Chris, and Bree tackle this by answering a listener’s question, “Can you talk about Pastors or Christian leaders and moral failures? For example, sexual immorality, embezzling funds, child abuse. These events keep happening specifically in the Christian church, and it can be hard to process and think biblically about them. Can you provide any advice for evangelism to people whose main objection to the Christian faith is the pattern of moral failures of Christian leaders?”

They discuss:

• The reality of pastors being sinners
• The importance of the plurality of elders in these situations
• How to evangelize to people whose objection to Christ is moral failures of leaders

We hope this episode encourages you as you grapple with the effects of sin in our world, especially in the area of pastors and church leaders.

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When we fear something, we run away from them, right? Not so with God.

As children of God, we are removed from His wrath and brought into sonship. Our terror is turned to awe and reverence to our Heavenly Father. We now delight to obey Him, and “would be ashamed to do anything which would grieve him”, as Sinclair Ferguson explains.

Scott and Chris dive deeper into the fear of God in this episode, and explain how the fear of God as His children help us from wandering.

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It’s pride month, and LGBTQ+ conversations are at their height. So how do you handle those conversations? 

To help, Scott, Chris, and Bree answer a listener’s question, “I have many non Christian friends, a number of them are gay. I’ve made it clear to all my friends and coworkers that I’m a Christian, I talk about my faith often, and I pray that my life’s example shows God’s truth. I have even clearly stated to my gay friends previously that I believe being gay is a sin. So my question is this, how should I handle hearing about their sinful lives and how often should I be re-stating my opinion on their sin?”

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How often to have these tricky conversations
• What to say…and what not to say
• Biblical principles to keep in mind

We hope this episode equips you with the relationships in your life and helps you be a light for Christ & truth!

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Welcome to our new Mailbag format! Instead of one episode with five short questions, we’re doing it one question at a time. That way, your questions are answered thoroughly. 

For our first mailbag question, a listener submitted: “Can a person or couple in a same sex marriage be true followers of Christ?”

In this episode, Scott, Chris, and Bree talk through:

• How all of us have sinned & fallen short of the glory of God
• Renouncing sinful ways when we are saved
• The reality that homosexual marriages are not actual marriages in God’s eyes
• What to do if you or your loved ones find themselves in that situation

This conversation will help you think through this sticky topic and how to support those walking through it.

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Wisdom begins with a holy reverence, or fear, for the One who created the world. He knows all things, and has deposited the ability to search out and apprehend truth to all people. However, when we don’t connect true facts, or knowledge, to God, we may know things rightly but not truly.

Through Scripture, Scott and Chris dive into the connection between fearing God and true knowledge. We learn how the fear of the Lord helps us see ourselves rightly, give wisdom to others, identify foolishness, and more.

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The greatest travesty of the modern day: we do not fear God. But what does it even mean to ‘fear God’?

Do we have to veer away from it when we believe in the Gospel, or does it aid in our relationship with God?

In this episode of Thinking With Your Bible, Scott and Chris define the fear of God, how the Bible describes it, and outline upcoming episodes in our Fear of God series.

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