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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

Whether it’s President Biden’s forthcoming vaccine mandate or Governor Ron DeSantis’ signed law that Florida’s government and private institutions cannot require proof of vaccination, it seems clear that both sides of American politics have embraced greater government involvement in its citizen’s lives. Do Americans just want to be controlled? Do we want a tyrant to rule over us to enforce our views on everyone else? In this episode we discuss these issues and how Christians should think about these things.

The Conquering Truth, Episode 44
Listen to the audio version here: http://theconqueringtruth.com/2021/11/americans-want-to-be-controlled-and-our-tyrants-know-it-ep-44-audio/

Timecodes
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:20 What is Tyranny?
00:07:21 The Injustice of Tyranny
00:18:59 Is DeSantis a Tyrant?
00:31:10 Delegation or Centralization
00:33:15 Rejecting the Law
00:38:40 Abdication of Responsibility
00:50:04 Pastors as Tyrants

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

Whether it’s President Biden’s forthcoming vaccine mandate or Governor Ron DeSantis’ signed law that Florida’s government and private institutions cannot require proof of vaccination, it seems clear that both sides of American politics have embraced greater government involvement in its citizen’s lives. Do Americans just want to be controlled? Do we want a tyrant to rule over us to enforce our views on everyone else? In this episode we discuss these issues and how Christians should think about these 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

This year is the 500th anniversary of the Diet of Worms – where Luther stood on God’s word against Emperor Charles V. This week, we bring you the messages from our annual Reformation Day celebration. For more information on Reformation Day, visit www.celebratereformationday.com/

The Conquering Truth, Episode 43
Listen to the audio version here: http://theconqueringtruth.com/2021/11/diet-of-worms-400th-anniversary-celebrating-the-reformation-ep-43-audio/

Timecodes
00:00:00 Here I Stand, I Can Do No Other by Dan Horn
00:30:24 What Happened at the Diet of Worms by Joshua Horn
00:54:30 Why Worms Didn’t Kill Luther by Jonathan Sides

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