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Abidan Shah

October 16, 2026

The Part of the Prodigal Son Story Everyone Forgets

You may have wandered away from God but the story of the prodigal son shows us how God sees us when we come back It's one of the best-known parables Jesus told but is it really about the younger son We walk through why Jesus told this parable and who he was speaking to in Luke Then we look at the Pharisees the lost sheep the lost coin and the brother who stayed home The Kind of Lost No GPS Can Fix The Parable Everyone Misunderstands Why the Pharisees Cared Who Jesus Ate With The Dinner Where Jesus Called Them [... more]

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Abidan Shah

October 15, 2026

What the Parable of the Wheat and the Tares Really Means

There's a real place called hell and a lot of churches won't even preach on it But Jesus spoke about it often so why have we gone quiet We walk through what salvation really rescues us from and why the stakes matter Then we look at the parable of the wheat and the tares in Matthew and what it says about the end of the age Why Churches Won't Preach on Hell Why Jesus Told Parables and Why Hell Matters The Most Misunderstood Parable The Message That Saved My Wife Why Hasn't Judgment Begun When Judgment Comes and What to [... more]

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Abidan Shah

October 14, 2026

Should Christians Be Involved in Politics?

Everybody has an opinion on where America is headed but a lot of Christians plan to stay home on election day We take your calls live and ask why and what the Bible says about it We walk through why we vote biblical values why we look at a candidate's platform instead of their offers and what pastors can say from the pulpit Then we look at Timothy the lesser of two evils and what to do if you're thinking of running for office Why Christians Are Talking Politics Vote the Platform Not the Offer What Pastors Can Say From [... more]

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Abidan Shah

October 12, 2026

Who Is the Parable of the Sower Really About?

Who is the parable of the sower really about We pick up the parables with Nathan's story that caught King David and see why Jesus held up a mirror instead of offering an explanation Then let's walk through Matthew and its four soils from the hardened wayside to the stony and thorny ground to the good soil and ask which one is ours Nathan's Parable and Thou Art the Man Why Parables Work Like a Mirror Ryan's Story and the Parable of the Sower Understanding vs Receiving The Hard Path Stony Thorny or Good Which Soil Are You If You [... more]

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Abidan Shah

October 09, 2026

Which Character in Jesus's Parables Are You?

Every time we hear one of Jesus's stories we're supposed to look inward and ask which character we are Make no mistake we're in that story somewhere Let's look at why Jesus told parables what most of us miss in the prodigal son and who the Pharisees scribes and Sadducees really were Then we ask which of their hearts looks most like ours Why Jesus Told Parables Revealing and Concealing the Kingdom What the Prodigal Son Is Really About Seeing Yourself in the Story The Mirror and the Holy Spirit Who the Pharisees Really Were Scribes Sadducees and Jesus's Own [... more]

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Abidan Shah

October 08, 2026

Why Did Jesus Hid the Truth in Stories?

Why did Jesus tell stories that some people were never meant to understand The answer runs through one word in the Bible mystery Let's trace mystery from the parables in Matthew back to the word raz in Daniel and walk through Nebuchadnezzar's dream of the statue and the stone cut without hands Then we ask what God's covert operation means for how we live Wired for Story Why Jesus Spoke in Parables Matthew What Mystery Really Means and Doesn't Raz God's Secret Plan and Nebuchadnezzar's Dream The Statue the Stone and the Kingdoms of the World God's Covert Operation and [... more]

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Abidan Shah

October 07, 2026

What Does the Bible Really Say About Homosexuality?

Over the past few decades our culture has made its position on sexual issues very clear But what does God think about all this Let's walk through Sodom and Gomorrah Jesus and the woman caught in adultery and Paul's words in Romans and Corinthians and ask whether the God of the New Testament is any different Then we look at what it would take for America to turn back to God What Does God Think About All This Sodom the Law and the Old Testament vs New Testament Argument Brave Becomes Brash and Corinthians Such Were Some of You Was [... more]

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Abidan Shah

October 02, 2026

Who Owns the Copyright on Human Life? | TRUTH TALK LIVE

Who decides when a human life becomes valuable That question sits behind nearly every major headline right now Supreme Court shield-law fights over abortion pills crossing state lines and a case out of the Netherlands where a two-year-old child was euthanized In this special extended episode we host Truth Talk Live on the Truth Network for a full hour on the sanctity of human life Dr Abidan Shah makes the case that the real issue underneath abortion and euthanasia debates is ownership does God hold the copyright on life or do we We work through Psalm and what it means [... more]

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Abidan Shah

October 01, 2026

Evangelism Is a Mindset, Not a Destination

We tend to think of evangelism as a destination a finish line called conversion But what if it's not a goal you're working toward it's a mindset you live inside of every day In this episode Dr Abidan Shah makes the case that the people who actually share their faith aren't doing it out of guilt Somewhere along the way something shifted in how they think We talk about why it's the nature of a fire to go out and what it takes to keep that passion alive using the example of David Livingstone and his famous line about the [... more]

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Abidan Shah

September 30, 2026

Christians, Evangelize. You're a Witness, Not a Lawyer.

Jesus commanded us to make disciples of all nations which means every Christian has an obligation to evangelize But is that really so different from what other religions do In this episode we compare Christianity's evangelism to the spread of Buddhism and Islam and make the case that only one of them comes without coercion Islam spread largely by the sword and a tax on those who refused to convert while Christianity has always come with an invitation not a threat We trace the roots of evangelism all the way back to Genesis and Abraham being a light unto the [... more]

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Abidan Shah

September 29, 2026

Salvation in the Old Testament?

Our salvation is by grace through faith alone just believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved But surely it can't be that simple In this episode we continue the conversation from yesterday's Truth Talk Live and trace one unbroken thread through the whole Bible from Adam and Eve's covering in the Garden to Cain and Abel's offerings to Abraham and Isaac on Mount Moriah to the Passover lamb all the way to the cross Somebody's blood was always going to be shed We talk honestly about why that idea feels so foreign to a modern mostly [... more]

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Abidan Shah

September 28, 2026

Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven — But How Do You Get There? | TRUTH TALK LIVE

Everybody wants to go to heaven but how do you actually get there In this special extended episode we host Truth Talk Live on the Truth Network for a full hour on salvation assurance and what heaven will really be like Dr Abidan Shah walks through several popular theories of what Jesus accomplished on the cross that He defeated Satan paid Satan a ransom set an example or undid Adam's failure showing that each holds some truth but none is the heart of it Jesus satisfied God's wrath by paying for our sins Along the way callers share their childhood [... more]

Turning Point

David Jeremiah

September 27, 2026

Salvation Pure and Simple (Pt. 2)

You may be self-reliant but some things can't be attained through your own efforts including life's greatest blessing of salvation In this message Dr David Jeremiah explains what it means to be saved [... more]

Turning Point

David Jeremiah

September 24, 2026

Salvation Pure and Simple (Pt. 1)

Life can be complex leading some to complicate the beautiful simplicity of salvation Thankfully the book of Ephesians holds one of the most concise presentations of the gospel in all of God's Word If you want to know what it means to experience the blessing of salvation Ephesians - is the place to look [... more]

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Abidan Shah

September 24, 2026

Our Judgment Is Sealed — So What's Left to Talk About?

As believers our judgment is sealed It is finished It is done So why are we still talking about judgment In this episode we continue our series on eternity by working through the judgments that are still coming not for your salvation which is already settled but for nations and for how believers actually lived We trace the judgment of the nations through Joel Isaiah and Matthew 's sheep and the goats and carefully unpack a hard teaching that nations and generations will answer for how they treated God's people without that changing the truth that salvation is by grace [... more]

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Abidan Shah

September 23, 2026

Does God Judge His Own People Too?

We are mortal creatures created for eternity and that should shape how we live But there's one uncomfortable truth we have to reckon with first everybody wants to go to heaven just not right now In this episode we launch a new mini-series on eternity starting with the one place theology has to begin God as judge We work through why holiness not love or mercy alone is the hub that everything else about God's character flows from and why judgment isn't in tension with love but a natural outflow of it We dig into a real theological disagreement over [... more]

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Abidan Shah

September 22, 2026

Communion Started at the First Passover

We know what communion is but why the bread why the cup why this specifically In this episode we go deeper into yesterday's conversation and trace communion all the way back to its origins the very first Passover when God told the Hebrews to eat standing up belts fastened ready to run for their lives We work through why God commanded that same meal to be repeated every single generation not just to remember what happened but so that each person would see themselves as if they personally were there that night Dr Abidan Shah connects that idea to his [... more]

Science, Scripture & Salvation

John Morris

September 22, 2026

Purified Seven Times

The words of the LORD are pure words as silver tried in a furnace of earth purified seven times Thou shalt keep them O LORD thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever Psalm More [... more]

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Abidan Shah

September 21, 2026

Jesus Rewrote the Passover

Believers have disagreed on the form and function of the Lord's Supper for centuries some churches don't even practice it anymore In this episode we pick up right where yesterday's conversation on baptism left off comparing our own very different memories of communion growing up and then digging into what it actually is a symbolic act of remembrance looking back around and forward not a magical transformation of bread and juice We trace it all the way back to the Last Supper and the four cups of the traditional Passover meal and land on one of the most striking details [... more]

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Abidan Shah

September 18, 2026

Baptism Doesn't Save You — So Why Do It?

Believer's baptism should be the one Christian practice we can all agree on Jesus himself modeled it for us And yet a sermon clip about baptism went viral for all the wrong reasons with hundreds of comments and even accusations of heresy In this episode we tell that story and then walk through what the Bible actually says about baptism complete immersion always after salvation with no saving power of its own We take a quick historical survey through Qumran's purification washings John the Baptist's call to repentance and Jesus's own baptism and land on Romans and what it means [... more]