If you haven't heard of A.R.C. don't worry you're not alone, I hadn't either. This extremely pervasive and dangerous pyramid scheme has swept not just the country, but the globe. With a strange mixture of WoF, Charismatic, New Age, and Prosperity Gospel, this group is planting churches using the most successful seeker driven models to date. What happens when false teaching is pointed out to a church inside this coalition will leave you speechless. Using tactics rarely seen outside of the most organized cults, push back is shut down through aggressive, manipulative, shaming, shunning, and slander. I'm so thankful that Kristin was bold enough to join me on this first part of a two-part series.

I was absolutely thrilled to have my very favorite guest I've ever had on the program join me once again. Yes, I'm extremely biased, because this particular guest happens to be my beloved husband and best friend Justin Hereford. You know anytime I'm around him I have a much harder time staying focused or being serious, which is why I highly recommend the blooper reelz on this episode! This discussion was all about the false prophets who made errant claims about certain leaders and specific outcomes of races recently run. I played the clips of these false prophets for Justin who had never seen anything I showed him, so it was a fresh shock caught on camera. Our goal was to address the theological issues with each teacher, as well as have some fun and maybe even make you all laugh right when you feel like you might cry…or pull your hair out. I've linked to the original clips below, although I do not under ANY circumstances recommend any of these false teachers, their beliefs, or their channels. The clips are merely referenced in case you want to make sure I've not taken anyone out of context.

This year has been a really weird year with pandemics, murder hornets, tic tac shaped UFO footage declassified by the government…Let's be honest, we all have that family member (and some of you are that family member) that is as sure of aliens as the most devout Catholic believes in the pope. How do we deal with this strange phenomenon, in light of our Christian worldview and Biblically sound theology? Let's take our mind off of the endless election to discuss something out of this world. I answered all the excellent questions you sent in at the end of this episode. There's a timestamped outline below if you'd like to skip around.

In almost every single platform Christians were finding themselves shadow banned, censored, or even outright banned for expressing Biblical truths. Honestly, I began this episode thinking it would be one of the shortest I've ever recorded, I should stop thinking that…it's never the case. So, I've included a timestamped outline of today's episode, in case you want to skip along.

It's always fascinating to me that so many want to suggest that Christianity borrows stories from other pagan religions when those ancient religions have next to no textual witnesses. The New Testament, on the other hand, has tens of thousands of copies in multiple languages, with only a few decades passing between the original and the copies we have. Unlike most manuscripts from antiquities that have hundreds of years between the few available copies found and when the story was originally told, God's Word has copies from when disciples of the Apostles were still alive. Not to mention the tens of thousands of manuscripts written by those same patristic fathers, all quoting from Scripture so much that the New Testament could be rewritten simply through the quotations. What a tremendous blessing!

I had the tremendous privilege of interviewing David Knight founder of Exposit the Word, we talked about his testimony, his podcast, expository preaching, hermeneutics, and much more. Below is a timestamped outline if you'd like to skip through the episodes.

As Reformation Day fast approaches I thought it would be helpful to look back through Church History at the moments that led to the need for reform. How did the church go from 1st century Apostolic teaching all the way to completely rejecting the Gospel? Let's see where things went wrong and what we can learn from them today.

I had the privilege of being joined by our resident Brother-Bee to discuss some very difficult subjects. Theocracy, theonomy, autonomy, and Christian anarchy are the main subjects although we through in a few others. I hope this discussion is as helpful, and fascinating, for everyone else as it was for me!

As believers we have to find the balance between enjoying our Christian liberty while giving preference to younger or less mature brethren. We also need to be careful not to become legalistic, but first we have to understand the Law and how it applies to us today. In today's episode I've tried to find that balance. Below is a timestamped outline so you can skip around if you'd like.

Lauren's recommendations.