Every few years there’s a fight in Congress over the debt ceiling. Of course, Democrats and the liberal-leaning media outlets mock the process, calling it nothing more than political theater or “holding the nation hostage”, but to be fair, there are a decent number of leading Republicans who view the process as nothing more than that, just an opportunity to get concessions or make a cheap political point. And there are a lot of bad arguments for raising the debt ceiling. We want to try to cut through that and focus on two main things:

First, debt is slavery and Scripture has a lot to say about it. As Americans, we have accepted the lie that we can be massively in debt and still be rich and enslaved to nothing. Those who truly believe this have chosen to follow a course that openly mocks the words of God and God will not be mocked.

And second, fights like the debt-ceiling fight are worth having. We aren’t arguing that the Republicans are shining beacons of righteousness (because they are not), but they are demonstrating something that the people of God seem to have forgotten. The nature of sin is to frame our wrong actions so they are seen as acceptable or even better, righteous. “We must raise the debt ceiling because we have committed to spending this money and we must be people of our word”. (Or President Biden’s tweet from last November, “ Love is love and Americans should have the right to marry the person they love.”) One of the best ways to fight back against accepted sin is to force people to confront the truth that they have been suppressing. And we should do it in the places that God has put us. At our work, at church, at school board meetings, and anywhere we are being asked to be part of a process that is proclaiming a lie as the truth. That fight, which can be a very civil discussion, is always worth having.

Please join us as we discuss this important topic.

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Hosts – Dan Horn, Jonathan Sides, Charles Churchill and Joshua Horn
Technical Director – Timothy Kaiser
Theme Music – Gabriel Hudelson

Holy Communion or the Lord’s Supper is considered a sacrament or ordinance in almost all churches that call themselves Christian. It is one of two sacred rites, the other being baptism, that is universally practiced across Christendom and can be considered a defining practice related to being a Christian. But within the American Protestant church, communion has lost much of its significance within the life and worship of the church. According to a study from 2012, only 1% of Southern Baptist churches practice weekly communion.

In this episode, we want to focus on why communion is important. We discuss how it unifies the church, how it proclaims the holiness of God, and how it proclaims the gospel through the separation between believers and unbelievers. We also discuss how communion is related to church discipline and how the church’s failure to observe and show honor to the reality of our communion with Christ and with one another makes being cut off from the table seem insignificant. Please join us as we discuss this incredibly important topic.

Listen to the audio version here: https://theconqueringtruth.com/2023/02/the-importance-of-communion-ep-107-audio/
Timecodes
00:00:00 Intro
00:07:28 Community
00:13:29 God’s Sacrifice
00:22:01 Pictures of Bread and Cup
00:25:29 Kings Table
00:34:30 Hope for Eternity
00:50:18 Excommunication
00:55:48 Weekly Communion
00:58:02 Letting it pass
01:07:55 What We Do

Production of Reformation Baptist Church of Youngsville, NC
Hosts – Dan Horn, Jonathan Sides, Charles Churchill and Joshua Horn
Technical Director – Timothy Kaiser
Theme Music – Gabriel Hudelson
Thumbnail image by Alice Salles

Holy Communion or the Lord’s Supper is considered a sacrament or ordinance in almost all churches that call themselves Christian. It is one of two sacred rites, the other being baptism, that is universally practiced across Christendom and can be considered a defining practice related to being a Christian. But within the American Protestant church, communion has lost much of its significance within the life and worship of the church. According to a study from 2012, only 1% of Southern Baptist churches practice weekly communion.

In this episode, we want to focus on why communion is important. We discuss how it unifies the church, how it proclaims the holiness of God, and how it proclaims the gospel through the separation between believers and unbelievers. We also discuss how communion is related to church discipline and how the church’s failure to observe and show honor to the reality of our communion with Christ and with one another makes being cut off from the table seem insignificant. Please join us as we discuss this incredibly important topic.

Production of Reformation Baptist Church of Youngsville, NC
Hosts – Dan Horn, Jonathan Sides, Charles Churchill and Joshua Horn
Technical Director – Timothy Kaiser
Theme Music – Gabriel Hudelson

Labor Unions have been a major part of the American political landscape for many years, but what does the Bible have to say about them?

Listen to the audio version here: https://theconqueringtruth.com/2023/01/what-the-bible-says-about-labor-unions-ep-106-audio/
Timecodes
00:00:00 Intro
00:04:20 History of Unions
00:11:58 Usefulness of Unions
00:19:56 Voluntary Associations
00:27:01 Government Takes Control
00:34:54 Free Market vs Oppressing the Poor
00:40:58 Modern Union Laws
00:58:36 Government Unions
01:06:34 Solutions

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Hosts – Dan Horn, Jonathan Sides, Charles Churchill and Joshua Horn
Technical Director – Timothy Kaiser
Theme Music – Gabriel Hudelson

Labor Unions have been a major part of the American political landscape for many years, but what does the Bible have to say about them?

Production of Reformation Baptist Church of Youngsville, NC
Hosts – Dan Horn, Jonathan Sides, Charles Churchill and Joshua Horn
Technical Director – Timothy Kaiser
Theme Music – Gabriel Hudelson

At the beginning of last year we made some predictions – let’s see how we did, and make some new ones for 2023.

Listen to the audio version here: https://theconqueringtruth.com/2023/01/reviewing-our-2022-predictions-making-new-ones-for-2023-ep-105-audio/
Timecodes
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:56 Inflation
00:05:13 Covid Church Attendance
00:15:25 COVID
00:25:24 More Riots
00:32:56 Party Demographics
00:37:35 Election & Abortion
00:43:13 Church Supporting Bad Candidates
00:51:00 Speaker of the House in 2023
00:52:21 Ukraine War in 2023
00:57:12 News Media in 2023
00:59:29 Federal Government in 2023

Production of Reformation Baptist Church of Youngsville, NC
Hosts – Dan Horn, Jonathan Sides, Charles Churchill and Joshua Horn
Technical Director – Timothy Kaiser
Theme Music – Gabriel Hudelson

At the beginning of last year we made some predictions – let’s see how we did, and make some new ones for 2023.

Production of Reformation Baptist Church of Youngsville, NC
Hosts – Dan Horn, Jonathan Sides, Charles Churchill and Joshua Horn
Technical Director – Timothy Kaiser
Theme Music – Gabriel Hudelson

Most people might be shocked that we would even think to ask the question, but then again most people don’t actually know that much about him. In this episode, we take a look at the life of Martin Luther King Jr as a professing Christian. We look at his writings and teachings, and we compare them with the teachings of scripture and we look at his life as an expression of those beliefs. We also talk about how you deal with someone who said some good things, but who also is not who they present themselves to the world. We talk about how our idealization of men and women is dangerous and how easy it is to create idols that we have real trouble walking away from.

Episode on whether the Holy Spirit allows a Christian to remain in sin https://theconqueringtruth.com/2021/02/the-holy-spirit-and-the-better-covenant-ep-9/
Episode on Ravi Zacharias
https://theconqueringtruth.com/2021/02/is-ravi-zacharias-in-hell-ep-5/

#SufficiencyOfScripture
#TCT2022

Listen to the audio version here: https://theconqueringtruth.com/2023/01/is-martin-luther-king-jr-in-hell-ep-104-audio/
Timecodes
00:00 Dealing with Sinful Heroes
14:13 Good Things
15:30 Posture as Pastor
18:06 His Gospel
28:00 No Virgin Birth
29:52 Did His Theology Change?
31:25 More Heresy
35:18 Divinity of Christ
37:27 Resurrection Imaginary
44:03 Rejecting Fundementalism
46:07 Adultery
52:15 How to Remember Him

Production of Reformation Baptist Church of Youngsville, NC
Hosts – Dan Horn, Jonathan Sides, Charles Churchill and Joshua Horn
Technical Director – Timothy Kaiser
Theme Music – Gabriel Hudelson

Most people might be shocked that we would even think to ask the question, but then again most people don’t actually know that much about him. In this episode, we take a look at the life of Martin Luther King Jr as a professing Christian. We look at his writings and teachings, and we compare them with the teachings of scripture and we look at his life as an expression of those beliefs. We also talk about how you deal with someone who said some good things, but who also is not who they present themselves to the world. We talk about how our idealization of men and women is dangerous and how easy it is to create idols that we have real trouble walking away from.

Episode on whether the Holy Spirit allows a Christian to remain in sin https://theconqueringtruth.com/2021/02/the-holy-spirit-and-the-better-covenant-ep-9/
Episode on Ravi Zacharias
https://theconqueringtruth.com/2021/02/is-ravi-zacharias-in-hell-ep-5/

#SufficiencyOfScripture
#TCT2022

Production of Reformation Baptist Church of Youngsville, NC
Hosts – Dan Horn, Jonathan Sides, Charles Churchill and Joshua Horn
Technical Director – Timothy Kaiser
Theme Music – Gabriel Hudelson

What church you go to is one of the most important choices that you will make for yourself and your family. We discuss what scripture has to say about it.

When and Why to Leave Your Church https://theconqueringtruth.com/2022/11/when-and-why-to-leave-your-church-ep-96/

Thumbnail image by Bernard Spragg

Listen to the audio version here: https://theconqueringtruth.com/2023/01/how-to-choose-a-church-ep-102-audio/
Timecodes
00:00:00 Foundational Principles
00:19:03 Word of God Preached
00:26:11 Sacraments Rightly Administered
00:35:25 Choosing Between Churches
00:51:07 Peer Pressure
01:03:37 Fellowship
01:13:22 Proximity
01:19:07 Handling Disagreements
01:21:46 Parts of the Body
01:24:49 Compatible Music and Worship]

Production of Reformation Baptist Church of Youngsville, NC
Hosts – Dan Horn, Jonathan Sides, Charles Churchill and Joshua Horn
Technical Director – Timothy Kaiser
Theme Music – Gabriel Hudelson