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We started the podcast one year ago, so it seemed like a good time to take a break and discuss why we started the podcast, and a little bit about ourselves. We also reflect on some favorite moments from 2021, and some predictions for the future.

Referenced Episodes
Is Ravi Zacharias in Hell? (Ep. 6) http://theconqueringtruth.com/2021/02/is-ravi-zacharias-in-hell-ep-5/

Should You Cash Your Stimulus Check? (Ep. 4) http://theconqueringtruth.com/2021/01/should-we-cash-our-stimulus-checks-ep-4/

Why Prisons are Wrong (Ep. 26) http://theconqueringtruth.com/2021/06/why-prisons-are-wrong-ep-26/

A Christian Solution for Immigration (Ep. 18) http://theconqueringtruth.com/2021/05/a-christian-solution-for-immigration-ep-18/

How VOM Funded & Covered Up Child Abuse (VOM Scandal Part 1)
http://theconqueringtruth.com/2021/03/how-vom-funded-covered-up-child-abuse-vom-scandal-part-1-2/

Scandals are Good for the Church (Ep. 19) http://theconqueringtruth.com/2021/05/scandals-are-good-for-the-church-ep-19/

Why is Our Society So Confused? (Ep. 30) http://theconqueringtruth.com/2021/07/why-is-our-society-so-confused-ep-30/

Is the Israel-Gaza War Just? (Ep. 21) http://theconqueringtruth.com/2021/05/is-the-israel-gaza-war-just-ep-21/

Fighting For Meaning: How the Church Lets the World Call Evil Good (Ep. 49) http://theconqueringtruth.com/2021/12/fighting-for-meaning-how-the-church-lets-the-world-call-evil-good-ep-49/

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#SufficiencyOfScripture
#TCT2021

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

Even before the coronavirus pandemic, the topic of when you can disobey the government’s orders has been a controversial subject of discussion. It’s a complex subject because as Christians, we both desire and are commanded to obey God, and as sinners, we desire to disobey the authorities that God has placed over us. In this episode, we walk through different scenarios and situations and discuss the different ways they might play out:

1. Disobeying a command that would require you to break God’s law
2. Disobeying a command that usurps the authority of the church
3. Disobeying a command that usurps the authority of the family
4. Disobeying a command that is tyrannical in that violates a superior earthly authority, law or constitution
5. Disobeying a command that although not inherently sinful or usurping another specific jurisdiction, is tyrannical in violating your liberty
6. Disobeying a command just because you believe it is unwise
7. Disobeying in order to make a political point of scene

Some of them are based on our real experiences over the past two years navigating government restrictions on meeting and the government’s attempts at regulating specific aspects of worship, while others are based on historical examples. As always, our goal is to go to scripture and to focus on how God has ordered the world. Please join us as we discuss this issue.

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

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

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

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

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
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#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.

#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

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/

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