GUEST TRAVIS ALLEN pastor Grace Church Greeley CO The church is the body of true believers across the world that Christ redeemed for eternity through the shedding of His own blood in order to represent and proclaim the excellencies of Christ to a rebellious world The church and its message of salvation through faith in Christ is the only hope for sinners This is why the church is essential Referring to Himself Christ told the apostle Peter upon this rock I will build My church and the gates of Hades will not overpower it Matthew Christ promises to build His [... more]

GUEST M D PERKINS author Dangerous Affirmation The Threat of Gay ChristianityThat our country devotes the entire month of June to take pride in what the Bible calls degrading passions of homosexuality along with other sexual and gender perversions says everything about the depravity to which our society has fallen Instead of helping those enslaved to sin to overcome it through salvation and sanctification the opposite takes place affirmation and celebration of the sin and the sinner It is predictable that the God-rejecting do this but it is an even greater affront to God when professing Christians assert that one [... more]

GUEST DAVID De BRUYN pastor New Covenant Baptist Church Johannesburg South Africa Bible-preaching churches are always under relentless attack by Satan and heretical teachers who strive to destroy or at least compromise the accurate proclamation of Scripture and the saving gospel to a lost world Many of the epistles i e letters of the New Testament are filled with exhortations and reproofs for churches and pastors to contend earnestly for the faith Jude For example the apostle Paul wrote to the younger pastor Timothy Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me in the faith and [... more]

GUEST DAVID de BRUYN pastor New Covenant Baptist Church Johannesburg South Africa Think back years or more to how a Bible-preaching church service was depicted There would be a father and mother standing with children at their side in a well-lit sanctuary wearing their Sunday best holding hymnbooks and singing hymns of the faith Now think about how professing Bible-preaching Evangelical churches depict themselves today The ubiquitous photo you'll see is silhouetted individuals arms raised high in the air inside a dark room accented by stage lighting with a band performing in the background The unspoken caption to the photo [... more]

GUEST DAVID de BRUYN pastor New Covenant Baptist Church Johannesburg South Africa There are many paradigm-changing issues and events taking place nationally and internationally right now The move to a cashless society with digital currency The insertion of computing technology into the human body The rapid expansion of the Marxist-based woke religion promoted by all institutions War in Europe Africa and potentially the Far East The promotion of cross-dressing physical mutilation of gender confused children and even adult-child sexual relationships So why discuss The Pentecostalization of Christian Worship And by worship I mean not just music but the worship service [... more]

GUEST PASTOR TRAVIS ALLEN Grace Church Greeley CO Julie Roys calls herself a Christian investigative reporter focusing on abuse and corruption within the Evangelical church Hailing from Chicago her reporting has led to prominent pastors and Christian leaders like James MacDonald Bill Hybels Ravi Zacharias and Mark Driscoll being discredited and removed For the past several years she has set her sights on John MacArthur one of the most respected pastors of the last half century MacArthur has pastored Grace Community Church in Los Angeles for years and oversees a ministry of worldwide influence including The Master's Seminary The Master's [... more]

GUEST CHRIS ANDERSON hymn writer and author Theology That Sticks Last week on the program we discussed how Christian music in general and church music in particular has undergone a huge change over the past or years Whereas for centuries Christians sang Psalms and hymns as a congregation now the mainstream of Evangelical church music is played and presented in rock concert fashion This week on the program we're going to discuss why this has taken place and how it's significantly altered the church's worship service Then Chris Anderson hymn writer and author of Theology That Sticks The Life-Changing Power [... more]

GUEST CHRIS ANDERSON pastor and author Theology That Sticks Houston we have a problem That's a slight misquote version of what an Apollo astronaut said to NASA Mission Control in Houston after an explosion harmed their spacecraft back in That was a physical life-threatening problem But there are even bigger God-dishonoring problems in the Evangelical church today The preaching of weak or unsound doctrine is one Another is the message and methodology of music in the church While music in sound churches over the centuries was mainly congregational singing of Psalms and hymns with or without musical instruments that all [... more]

Worship conferences worship seminars and worship experiences abound within the landscape of the American church but in all these there's something that seems to be always lacking worship is confined to the activity of singing songs When the subject is brought up in this chapter Jesus talks plainly and openly about true worship what it is and what it isn't Let's explore these few verses to discover what God is seeking after and how to be part of fulfilling that [... more]

GUEST TRAVIS ALLEN pastor Grace Church Greeley CO Evangelical once meant a Christian who believed in the authority of Scripture and the call to evangelize the lost with the gospel of Jesus Christ But the devil so to speak is in the details of how that has played out over the decades Today many Evangelical churches and Evangelical para-church organizations colleges seminaries publishing and music industries camps conferences films evangelism social work etc form such a wide tent in doctrine and practice as to defy definition and worse to dishonor God This is a bad development Misrepresenting God and compromising [... more]

GUEST ALEX NEWMAN Journalist and CEO Liberty Sentinel Media All that is happening in the world and our country seems so complex as to defy simple explanations Is there any correlation between inflation energy dependence the push for globalism Critical Theory in government education food shortages gun control promotion of transgenderism and division in the evangelical church These issues and others like open immigration abortion-on-demand and environmentalism are in fact all related by the underlying worldview that advocates for them Once one understands that worldview and where that worldview is striving to lead humanity then lots of seemingly disparate issues [... more]

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 OWEN STRACHAN author Christianity and WokenessLast week in part Owen Strachan professor of theology at Grace Bible Theological Seminary and author of Christianity and Wokeness explained how the new religion of wokeness has taken captive the minds of Americans in every sector of our society politics education media business and yes even the Evangelical church Owen defined wokeness as being awake to the systemic injustice that characterizes our nation with regard to white-black race relations but also with other groups who identify as minorities and thus oppressed women homosexuals transgenders and immigrants The ironic thing is that despite all [... more]

GUEST MICHAEL O'FALLON Founder Sovereign Nations Everywhere you look government education media entertainment corporate America and yes the evangelical church a toxic ideology has seeped in and overtaken the country Called critical theory or social justice or woke-ism the ideology casts whites males Christians and heterosexuals as oppressors and their opposites as victims in need of liberation justice and equity The system must be blown up and rebuilt It's not surprising when non-Christians believe and propagate these lies but it's another story when Evangelical leaders and churches become allies in the social justice movement You might hear something like church [... more]

GUEST CARY GORDON Pastor and Executive Producer Enemies Within The Church As first century churches were established by followers of Christ it didn't take long for false teachings to creep in through people with persuasive personalities and ideologies In response Paul and others needed to constantly point out to churches what misrepresented God and His Word to keep professing Christians from going astray Paul wrote mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned and avoid them Romans Today a tidal wave of false teaching has flooded evangelical churches seminaries colleges schools and bookstores [... more]

GUEST MIKE GENDRON founder evangelist Proclaiming the Gospel We know the darkness the world celebrates each year on October but it's disconcerting that the day passes with most Protestant churches generally and Evangelical churches specifically devoting little or no time commemorating and teaching about something far more momentous which took place on that date in Martin Luther nailing his Theses document on the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg Germany to protest errant doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church The document ignited the fire that became the Protestant Reformation an era lasting more than years and impacting well everything [... more]

GUEST DON GREEN founding pastor Truth Community Church Ohio Evangelical has become a very broad term with hardly any meaning It once described a follower of Christ who believed in the complete truthfulness of Scripture essential doctrines about salvation sin God Christ the call to tell others about the gospel of Christ and more Today seemingly every professing Christian who is not part of the totally compromised liberal mainline denominations self-identifies as an Evangelical except for those who want to avoid at all costs being associated with Donald Trump for whom Evangelicals mostly voted But the doctrinal stances of professing [... more]

Last week we discussed part of our topic on the fracture taking place at McClean Bible Church just outside Washington DC where well-known Evangelical leader and author David Platt is the lead pastor The story has been covered in national media including Christianity Today which stated To some observers McLean Bible Church's conflict seems like a replay of other recent episodes from American evangelicalism where leaders who appeal to Scripture to address social issues are accused of theological liberalism or secular influence even if they continue to hold traditional Christian views More succinctly it appears that David Platt sees ethnic [... more]

Episode Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions Show Notes CoreChristianity com I heard that you are preaching through Genesis Because of that I thought that you might help me answer a question in Genesis chapter My husband and I are reading Genesis and in verse it says the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive who are the sons of God in the plural here You have said before that God alone makes the choice of who is saved So my question is why doesn't God choose to save everyone In Jeremiah it speaks [... more]

Critical Race Theory or Critical Theory more broadly beyond race is now the de facto worldview of the political left academia mainstream media corporations and even the military This worldview sees everything through the Marxist prism of oppression with white male Christians being the source of injustice and inequality in society CRT rears its ugly divisive racist head every day in school board meetings corporate board rooms and from the White House And now a slightly less obvious version of CRT is being ushered into Evangelical churches and organizations The conversion of Zaccheus in Luke where the tax collector tells [... more]

Every cause produces an effect Drop a pebble in a pond cause and small ripples form and travel outward effect Likewise ideas are causes that produce effects Good ideas produce good effects and bad ideas bad effects Big unbiblical ideas are not like dropping a pebble into a pond but rather a nuclear bomb on a society widespread destruction and even death are the effects Critical Race Theory the idea that White Supremacy is the dominating operating principle in America oppressing all manner of oppressed groups people of color women etc is the new Big Idea in America that is [... more]

Short Take from The Christian Worldview program on How to Think and Live in an Anti-Truth Culture Listen to the entire program here https www thechristianworldview org topic-how-to-think-and-live-in-an-anti-truth-culture [... 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]

Jan Markell Pastor Tom Hughes and Pastor Mark Henry discuss the coming persecution of Christians in America as the Left calls for a purge They also discuss Hughes' chapter in the Lawless book about the caving of the evangelical church and its embrace of all things that are unsound Find the book in our online store [... more]

A Brookings Institution column this year concluded this way Though President Trump is a candidate whose personal behavior has often been at odds with the values espoused by many evangelicals any potential path he has to remain in the White House after January must pass between the pews of white evangelical churches In turn Democratic Party leaders have opportunities to interrupt that passage by paying attention to evangelicals especially unaffiliated evangelicals persuadable to add their votes to the Democratic coalition In short Evangelical Christians are the key voting demographic in a national election which explains why there is so much [... more]

Short Take Where do you see responses like this one by Jason Meyer leading the evangelical church Description Short Take from The Christian Worldview program on Systemic Racism and the Christian Response Part of Listen to the entire program here https www thechristianworldview org topic-systemic-racism-and-the-christian-response-part- -of- [... more]

Many evangelical churches regularly encourage their members to tithe However the issue of tithing -traditionally understood as percent- has perplexed churchgoers for years On the next MoneyWise Live hosts Rob West and Steve Moore offer both sides of the tithing argument To tithe or not to tithe on MoneyWise Live at pm Eastern pm Central on Moody Radio [... more]

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It's my conviction that much of the rhetoric about this latest issue social justice poses a more imminent and dangerous threat to the clarity and centrality of the gospel than any other recent controversy evangelicals have engaged in That's quite a statement from pastor John MacArthur about the hottest topic in the church and mainstream society social justice Sadly a great division in the Evangelical church has formed over the issue of social justice One side sees the pursuit of social justice i e working to rectify perceived social inequalities related to ethnicity gender privilege sexuality economics and immigration status [... more]

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This is a rebroadcast of program Last weekend we discussed the Woke Movement that is emerging within the Evangelical church from those who consider themselves woke awake enlightened activists to issues of race gender and sexuality that they believe the church is failing to address In their view the Evangelical church is white-centric and racist against blacks sexist against women and unwelcoming toward homosexuals and this needs to change [... more]

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In the opening chapters of the final book of the Bible Revelation Jesus writes a message to each of seven historic churches in Asia Minor modern-day Turkey Two of the seven churches received commendations for their faithfulness while five were warned to repent of their errant ways or there would be severe consequences So considering the Evangelical church in America today what do you think Jesus' message would be [... more]