UNFILTERED #108 Christian Fruit
What is "fruit" anyway? How much is enough to qualify as Christian? How we turned the joy of abiding into a bondage.
What is "fruit" anyway? How much is enough to qualify as Christian? How we turned the joy of abiding into a bondage.
What is "fruit" anyway? How much is enough to qualify as Christian? How we turned the joy of abiding into a bondage.
Male misery and the myth of escape. Why men wreck their life deep into living. What grace is available to the male soul.
Male misery and the myth of escape. Why men wreck their life deep into living. What grace is available to the male soul.
How it became the dominant view of Evangelicalism. How it compares to Covenantalism. How it relates to Arminianism. How Kirk Cameron factors into it.
A candid review of the church planting movement: We also discuss the why, who and how of planting and the essential traits of the planter.
We discuss women and ordination, areas of service in the church, the damage patriarchalism has caused and what the future looks like.
Basic questions every believer should be able to answer, thinking through a few evangelical assumptions, the boys play “stump the preacher.”
“The call to Ministry.” Is there such a thing? How do we know if we should serve the church? What should you know before you step into ministry?
The joys and challenges of retrofitting a church with a Reformed Perspective, where to start, what to avoid, how you know it's the wrong move.
How should the church respond to the secularization of culture? Is it a time for despair? Is the purpose of the church to preserve morals in culture?
Should Christians live in dread about facing Christ, will our works be the basis of our acceptance, how can Romans 8:1 and 14:-11-12 be true at the same time? Should the believer be worried?
The foundational truths of the Reformation, a renegade monk, and how evangelicals deny the very realities that found us.
The foundational truths of the Reformation, a renegade monk, and how evangelicals deny the very realities that found us.
“No… you’re not crazy.” The boys deliver this message pretty regularly to those Christians who’ve begun to notice the contradictions within Evangelicalism. Faithfulness has replaced faith. Moralism has replaced the Gospel. Improvement has supplanted redemption. How did things ever become so convoluted?
Is there a sense in which our standing before God depends on our works? Are we justified by faith but enter eternity by works? Why are notable evangelicals like John Piper making a distinction between the two? Oh boy… This should be fun!...
Your inner legalist, how neo-nomism (legalism) poses a far greater threat to the Gospel than we imagine, how legalism is a universal tendency, how it’s defined and how to avoid it.
David Platt and The Radical Movement, the new asceticism, trends in evangelicalism and the historic impact of the college missions movement.
We’re responding to a recent social media dust-up about the life of Christ. Which is more essential to the Christian: Jesus’ example, or Jesus’ substitutionary death? Why do ethics and the moralization of biblical characters dominate the messaging of the evangelical church? Why has the atonement been lost among the clutter?