Santa Claus: An American Idol? (Ep. 50 Audio)

It is practically impossible to think about Christmas without thinking about Santa Claus. In secular circles, Santa Claus is widely accepted, but what is more surprising is how accepted Santa Claus is within conservative and even Reformed Christian circles. And it is specifically the practice of telling your children that Santa Claus – the supernatural being who flies around the world distributing presents to good children – is real, that we focus on in this episode. We discuss the nature of worship and idolatry, and how easy it is to think that we are completely different from our ancestors. We talk about how strongly children believe their parents and how this early deception impacts their view of God, the gospel, and God’s sense of justice.. And we talk about how this impacts the church and our ability to be a witness in the world. Please join us in thinking about these things.

Here is a link to a previous episode we did on the subject of lying, titled, “Can You Lie to the Nazis?”: https://youtu.be/KnwuIFpsrXw

#SantaClaus
#LyingLipsAreAnAbomination
#SolaScriptura
#SufficiencyOfScripture
#TCT2021

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

Fighting For Meaning: How the Church Lets the World Call Evil Good (Ep. 49)

In the war over defining what is good and what is evil, words matter a great deal. In this episode, we look at what God’s word says about truth and the power of words. We’ll discuss how the war over words has been central to every major cultural battle of the last hundred years and how abortion, climate change, gay marriage, and transgender rights, were all fought and won by changing the definition of words. We’ll talk about why the tactic is so successful, how it generally works, and some of the key ways that we can fight back against it.

Episode Referenced:
Why Conservatism Should Die http://theconqueringtruth.com/2021/02/why-conservatism-should-die-ep-8-2/

The Conquering Truth, Episode 49
Listen to the audio version here: http://theconqueringtruth.com/2021/12/fighting-for-meaning-how-the-church-lets-the-world-call-evil-good-ep-49-audio/

Timecodes
00:00 How Languages Change
03:50 Agenda Driven Language
15:40 Euphemism Treadmill
22:59 What Terms Should We Use?
31:32 Further Discussion

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

Fighting For Meaning: How the Church Lets the World Call Evil Good (Ep. 49 Audio)

In the war over defining what is good and what is evil, words matter a great deal. In this episode, we look at what God’s word says about truth and the power of words. We’ll discuss how the war over words has been central to every major cultural battle of the last hundred years and how abortion, climate change , gay marriage, and transgender rights, were all fought and won by changing the definition of words. We’ll talk about why the tactic is so successful, how it generally works, and some of the key ways that we can fight back against it.

Episode Referenced:
Why Conservatism Should Die http://theconqueringtruth.com/2021/02/why-conservatism-should-die-ep-8-2/

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

Are the Police Set Up to Fail? (Ep. 48)

Abolishing or significantly reforming the police has been a topic of serious and contentious discussion in 2021 with very little common ground to be found between the opposing sides. In this episode, we attempt to answer some basic questions and answer from a biblical perspective. Are police even biblical? Should they be abolished? Whose job is it to protect people in a free society? How did the police come to exist and to be accepted in modern culture? Whose job is it to make sure that the law is followed? How did we end up where we are as a society, and is there even a way to imagine a world where police are not necessary?

#BacktheBlue
#AbolishthePolice
#SolaScriptura
#SufficiencyOfScripture

Listen to the audio version here: http://theconqueringtruth.com/2021/12/are-the-police-set-up-to-fail-ep-48-audio/Timecodes
00:00 What is the Legal Duty of Police?
13:37 Our Brother’s Keeper
21:17 Mission Statement of the Police
30:18 Dealing with Reality
38:00 Constraining Your Children
41:01 Modern Policing
58:27 Can Can We Change Things?

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

Are the Police Set Up to Fail? (Ep. 48 Audio)

Abolishing or significantly reforming the police has been a topic of serious and contentious discussion in 2021 with very little common ground to be found between the opposing sides. In this episode, we attempt to answer some basic questions and answer from a biblical perspective. Are police even biblical? Should they be abolished? Whose job is it to protect people in a free society? How did the police come to exist and to be accepted in modern culture? Whose job is it to make sure that the law is followed? How did we end up where we are as a society, and is there even a way to imagine a world where police are not necessary?

#BacktheBlue
#AbolishthePolice
#SolaScriptura
#SufficiencyOfScripture

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

Should the Church Speak to Swearing and “Lets Go Brandon?” (Ep. 47)

“Let’s Go Brandon!” has become a popular rallying cry among the political right. How did a euphemism for an obscene phrase directed specifically at President Biden come to be seen as acceptable speech among Christians? Is it because Donald Trump’s love of coarse language had such a big impact on our culture and our standards or do Americans just love crude discourse? For those who care about these things, is there an objective standard for how Christians should speak?
In this episode, we’ll discuss idle words, coarse talk, obscene language, and how God’s word lays out clear principles for thinking about our words and how we should show honor to those who are in authority.

Paul Washer Shocking Youth Message – https://heartcrymissionary.com/sermons/shocking-youth-message/

#letsgobrandon
#swearing
#cursing
#SolaScriptura
#SufficiencyOfScripture

The Conquering Truth, Episode 47
Listen to the audio version here: http://theconqueringtruth.com/2021/11/should-the-church-speak-to-swearing-and-lets-go-brandon-ep-47-audio/

Timecodes
00:00 Why words matter
08:41 Tump and Changing Standards
20:07 Lets Go Brandon
28:54 The Bible on Profanity
31:15 Does the Bible Contain Profanity?
38:36 What About Luther?
41:36 Right Use of Words
49:09 Minced Oaths
53:31 Rudeness

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

Should the Church Speak to Swearing and “Lets Go Brandon?” (Ep. 47 Audio)

“Let’s Go Brandon!” has become a popular rallying cry among the political right. How did a euphemism for an obscene phrase directed specifically at President Biden come to be seen as acceptable speech among Christians? Is it because Donald Trump’s love of coarse language had such a big impact on our culture and our standards or do Americans just love crude discourse? For those who care about these things, is there an objective standard for how Christians should speak?
In this episode, we’ll discuss idle words, coarse talk, obscene language, and how God’s word lays out clear principles for thinking about our words and how we should show honor to those who are in authority.

Paul Washer Shocking Youth Message – https://heartcrymissionary.com/sermons/shocking-youth-message/

#letsgobrandon
#swearing
#cursing
#SolaScriptura
#SufficiencyOfScripture

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

Stop Complaining. God Demands Thanksgiving (Ep. 46)

We all know the story of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving, and how they celebrated their first year, a year of loss and hardship, by pouring out their hearts in thankful worship to God. But do we really understand the nature of thanksgiving itself (the act of worship, not the holiday)? In this episode, we try to talk about the modern disconnect we seem to have with feeling and expressing gratitude. We’ll talk about how central gratefulness is to Christianity, how being involved in the work of God by laboring for his church and for the brethren enables us to be grateful in a deeper way, and how it is the work of the Holy Spirit in God’s people that causes and enables us to offer our lives to God as a thankful sacrifice.

Thumbnail Image by James Walsh

#BuckleUpForPilgrims
#ReformedThanksgiving
#SufficiencyOfScripture
#SolaScriptura

Listen to the audio version here: http://theconqueringtruth.com/2021/11/stop-complaining-god-demands-thanksgiving-ep-46-audio/

Timecodes
00:00 Remembering the Pilgrims
03:58 God’s Soverignty
08:40 Prevalence of Complaining
15:11 Complaining in the Family
18:45 Thankful Worship
24:30 Intentional Gratefulness
35:27 Joy from Giving Thanks
39:16 Sharing Gratitude
43:46 Appointing Days of Thanksgiving
48:02 Secular Thanksgiving?
49:38 Communion as Thanksgiving

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

Stop Complaining. God Demands Thanksgiving (Ep. 46 Audio)

We all know the story of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving, and how they celebrated their first year, a year of loss and hardship, by pouring out their hearts in thankful worship to God. But do we really understand the nature of thanksgiving itself (the act of worship, not the holiday)? In this episode, we try to talk about the modern disconnect we seem to have with feeling and expressing gratitude. We’ll talk about how central gratefulness is to Christianity, how being involved in the work of God by laboring for his church and for the brethren enables us to be grateful in a deeper way, and how it is the work of the Holy Spirit in God’s people that causes and enables us to offer our lives to God as a thankful sacrifice.

#BuckleUpForPilgrims
#ReformedThanksgiving
#SufficiencyOfScripture
#SolaScriptura

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

Putting Experts in Their Proper Place (Ep. 45)

For the past two years we’ve all heard the mantra, “Listen to the Experts!” It’s well past the time to ask if this is appropriate, and to discuss the right and wrong ways for Christians to follow and think about experts. Should expertise be used as a baseball bat to keep people in line? Are experts lofty beings who cannot be questioned and whose word is law? Is expertise even real? In this episode we discuss the nature of expertise itself, and how God created it for a purpose. We talk about how we should think about experts, how we can use them without giving them more authority than they should have, and how we can answer those who try to use experts to control us. Perhaps most importantly, we talk about how expertise works and exists within the church and what it looks like when things get out of balance.

Afghanistan Episode – http://theconqueringtruth.com/2021/08/why-we-failed-in-afghanistan-ep-35/

#ListenToTheExperts
#Authority
#SolaScriptura
#ChurchLife
#SufficiencyOfScripture

The Conquering Truth, Episode 43
Listen to the audio version here: http://theconqueringtruth.com/2021/11/putting-experts-in-their-proper-place-ep-45-audio/

Timecodes
00:00:00 Requirement to Think
00:06:38 Wisdom of the World?
00:11:34 When to Follow Experts
00:20:40 Are Experts Biblical?
00:36:58 Questioning Experts
00:58:56 Government Experts

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