Well-Driven Nails

The bleakness of Buddhism. Nirvana is not all it is cracked up to be.

Jeremy and Andrew turn to consider Hinduism. What is Hinduism? What is Brahman? Dharma? Karma (it’s not what you think it is)? What about the Caste system that dominates the areas where Hinduism originated? What’s the goal of Hinduism? How does Yoga fit in? And, of course, how does it differ from Christianity?

Jeremy and Andrew continue their discussion of Islam. This is part 2 of two episodes. 

This episode is the first in several podcasts that will look at false religions: Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Jeremy and I give a brief introduction to Islam.

2Kings 2:23  Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!” 24 When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads of their number. 25 He went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.

Jeremy and Andrew make their case for and against New Year's resolutions.

Jonathan Edwards's resolutions.

What is A2 milk? Here's the answer.

There is a gravitational pull to our secular Xmas traditions that Christians ought to resist. Yes, put up the tree, bake the cookies, leave the nativity scene packed up in the attic, and feast...but don't be so silly and distracted as to miss the greatest joy of the season: the birth of the Savior of the World.

Jeremy and Andrew discuss addictions and how to put off old habits and put on new habits.

Eph. 4:17   So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; 19 and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. 20 But you did not learn Christ in this way, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, 22 that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, 23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

We seem to take most opportunities to sprinkle our boasts into our conversations. We boast about our successes, failures, proximity to famous people, experiences, travels, and even breakfast cereal. Our boast should be in the Lord, the Cross, and our weaknesses. 

Today's "influencers" don't like Christian morality, so they posit the idea that Christ never existed. We take on that theory and debunk it.