25 JUL 2021 · We recently had some long time members leave our Church and as a note of explanation, they forwarded an episode played on BOT radio of a show by Jan Merkel of Olive Tree Ministries. The episode centers around a letter sent to Jan by a listener who was leaving a Reformed Baptist Church over the way that Revelations was preached. Listen as we break down the letter and Jan's response.

29 JUN 2021 · We took a break from the finer points of theology to talk about simple faith and what it means to have faith in Jesus. We wandered as we often do but the core message is there. Faith is a gift from God, given through his grace and if you seek it, you will find it.

29 APR 2021 · It came as a surprise to me that the Reform faith does not believe in dispensationalism, a way of interpreting Biblical history invented by John Nelson Darby in 1830. This flew in the face of what I heard from nearly every Christian that I met here in the deep south, especially as I moved out to the country. There is a ton to unpack here so join us as James explains what dispensationalism is and why he believes it is wrong.

30 MAR 2021 · How is that for a click bait title? Martin Luther wasn't one to mince words and he used donkeys in a lot of his more bombastic statements including one that we talk about briefly in this podcast. Despite the deep theological content of what we are discussing in these podcasts, we often end up laughing and cracking jokes through them. This episode is no different as James takes on trying to explain to me why we need Church. Sola Scriptura means 'By scripture alone' so why can't I just sit at home with the Bible and be fine? Catholics tend to get riled up over arguing this point of 'Sola Scriptura' so I dug up a lot of what I call 'opposition research' to throw at James to see how well their arguments stuck.

20 FEB 2021 · Since we are done with describing TULIP, I took the opportunity to pepper James with some questions about scripture and about comments that he has made about the evangelical church. We fly over a lot of topics here including evangelicalism and the woke church.

3 FEB 2021 · We close out our discussion of TULIP by talking about the perseverance of the saints, or as James says in the podcast, 'Once a genuine believer, always a genuine believer.' We also talk about he doctrine of assurance, that comfort to all of us that still sin that we can still be assured of our salvation. NOTE: The final four minutes of the podcast have some static noise that I wasn't able to edit out. I beg forgiveness, I know what caused it so hopefully, we won't have that problem again. -Dan

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12 JAN 2021 · The third of the five points of Calvinism is the L in Tulip - Limited Atonement. Pastor James gets pretty into this one - as the title says, the L is the gospel!

1 JAN 2021 · We continue our discussion of the five points of Calvinism by talking about the U in TULIP, Unconditional Election.

6 DEC 2020 · In episode four, we now start to get into the acronym that is commonly used to describe what is called 'Calvinism'. Starting with the Canons of Dort, we introduce TULIP and dig into what the T stands for, Total Depravity.