If millions of people are reading a Christian book or watching a Christian television series God must be at work right If tens of thousands of people are attending a mega-church with multisite locations God must be being honored correct If bigger is evidence of God's favor Jesus must not have been very favored by God By the end of His ministry He had few followers was falsely convicted and died a bloody death on the cross By today's Evangelical definition of success Jesus was a failure Jesus' leading disciple Peter actually rebuked Jesus for saying He was going to [... more]

GUEST MIKE STONE candidate for president Southern Baptist ConventionHeresy is defined as belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious doctrine For two millennia of church history it has been the orthodox belief of Christians and churches who esteem Scripture as the highest authority that men not women with character above reproach are qualified to serve as pastors or overseers in the church Scripture and church history are so clear on this that to propose that women should be pastors is to willfully reject God and His design for His church Timothy is one Scriptural basis for male-only pastors Notice the [... more]

GUEST TOM ASCOL Senior Pastor Grace Baptist Church Cape Coral FL In Timothy the apostle Paul under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit wrote to the younger pastor Timothy regarding the authority structure God established for the church A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man but to remain quiet For it was Adam who was first created and then Eve And it was not Adam who was deceived but the woman being deceived fell into transgression Timothy - This passage of Scripture and [... more]

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GUEST TOM BUCK Senior Pastor First Baptist Church Lindale TX In late May pastor Tom Ascol who was then a candidate for president of the Southern Baptist Convention SBC joined us to discuss some of the pivotal issues facing the largest Protestant denomination in America Their annual convention came and went in mid-June in Anaheim CA with Ascol finishing second in the voting for president behind a less biblically-conservative candidate named Bart Barber There is a major debate taking place within the SBC that is representative of the larger debate within the Evangelical church on issues related to gender race [... more]

GUEST MEGAN BASHAM reporter Daily WireYou've probably heard of Dr Francis Collins Until recently he was the long-time leader of the National Institutes of Health NIH a government agency which along with the Centers of Disease Control CDC leads our nation's response to Covid including mandates with regard to vaccines masks shutdowns and social separation Collins is venerated as the head of the human genome project He also claims to be an Evangelical Christian He wrote a book titled The Language of God and is the founder of BioLogos an organization which heretically attempts to merge God and evolution Recently [... more]

GUEST TOM ASCOL senior pastor Grace Baptist Church FL The Southern Baptist Convention SBC is the largest Protestant church denomination in North America with six seminaries churches million church members and affiliate entities in states Some of the largest churches and most influential pastors in America are part of the SBC including Rick Warren Ed Young Kerry Shook Jack Graham Jonathan Falwell Matt Chandler and Steven Furtick Because of its size one could say As the Southern Baptist Convention goes so goes Evangelicalism in the U S In other words the doctrinal stances of the SBC and the pastors it [... more]

Short Take from The Christian Worldview program on Why Do Christian Leaders Compromise Listen to the entire program here https www thechristianworldview org topic-why-do-christian-leaders-compromise [... more]

Short Take from The Christian Worldview program on Why Do Christian Leaders Compromise Listen to the entire program here https www thechristianworldview org topic-why-do-christian-leaders-compromise [... more]

Last week we discussed how well-known Evangelical pastor Rick Warren and the church he leads Saddleback had for the first time ordained three women to be pastors Warren called it an historic night and prefaced his message by saying everything they do is based on Scripture The apostle Paul wrote to Timothy a pastor in Ephesus I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man but to remain quiet For it was Adam who was first created and then Eve And it was not Adam who was deceived but the woman being deceived fell into [... more]

Rick Warren pastor of Saddleback Church in Southern California one of the largest and most influential Evangelical churches in the world just did something he and the church he leads hadn't done before ordained three women to be pastors And then his wife Kay preached on Mother's Day Female pastors are nothing new at least in the mainline Protestant denominations So what's the big deal with Saddleback and many other Southern Baptist denomination churches promoting women to be pastors and teachers of men We'll answer that question this weekend on The Christian Worldview We'll also hear part two of the [... more]

Short Take from The Christian Worldview program on Canadian Pastor Jailed for Crime of Holding In-Person Church Listen to the entire program here https www thechristianworldview org topic-canadian-pastor-jailed-for-crime-of-holding-in-person-church [... more]