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Ep 250: Lent, Spiritual Growth, and Taming the Tongue | Ephesians 4:29

Podcast

In this episode I talk about my goal for lent of taming my tongue. I discuss the controversy surrounding Lent and why sincere spiritual development should not be a cause ...

Ep 249: Eschatology and Economics with Gary DeMar

Podcast

In this episode I talk with Gary DeMar, a Biblical scholar, long-time president of American Vision, and host of the Gary DeMar show. Gary discusses eschatology and economics. He explains ...

Ep 248: Far Above All Rule and Authority | Ephesians 1:15-23

Podcast

I had the flu and Streamyard defaulted to my computer microphone, so I apologize for my voice! In this episode I discuss Paul’s comments in Ephesians 1:15-23, particularly 1:20-22, that ...

Ep 247: History and Theology in Biblical Interpretation Debate with Jacob Winograd

Hermeneutics

This episode is a recording of a debate I had with Jacob Winograd in the fall of 2025 about whether history or theology should take priority in Biblical interpretation. I ...

Ep 246: Wicked Shepards and Lost Sheep: Luke 15, Jeremiah 23, and Ezekiel 34

Podcast

In this episode I explore the Parable of the Lost Sheep in Luke 15:1-7 in which Jesus, directly responding to his critics, explains how his audience would leave ninety-nine sheep ...

Ep 245: Galatians 4:1-7 and Deliverance from this Evil Age with Cody Cook

Podcast

In this episode I talk with Cody Cook about his new book Delivered from This Present Evil Age where he argues that Galatians 4:1-7 portrays Christ defeating the spiritual powers which ...

Episode 383: Inside the Making of a Study Bible, with Preston Sprinkle

Podcast

Summary – Inside the Making of a Study Bible, with Preston Sprinkle Host Doug Stuart delves into the fascinating world of study Bibles with returning guest Preston Sprinkle, a New ...

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Bonus: Should Christian Libertarians Reject Biblical Inerrancy?

Hermeneutics

Summary – Should Christian Libertarians Reject Biblical Inerrancy? A reading of Kerry Baldwin’s article on biblical inerrancy, which discusses a blog post by Pete Enns in which he says why ...

Who is the True Israel? Correcting the Dispensationalist Reading of Romans 9-11

Podcast

Summary – Who is the True Israel? Correcting the Dispensationalist Reading of Romans 9-11   Dispensationalist theology pushes many incorrect and dangerous readings of Scripture, which has many far-reaching and ...

Discover the Origins of Freedom and How to Attain it

Discover the Origins of Freedom and How to Attain it

Christian Worldview

The foundation of individualism and personal freedom is found in both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. God shows His people that He relates to each person individually ...

is heaven communist

Is Heaven Communist?

Christian Worldview

Christianity has to deal with a lot of misconceptions. From the idea that Christianity was created by Paul to the idea that Jesus was a cynic, owing to its prestige ...

The Commands of God versus the State

Christian Worldview

A more baseless assumption, one more in direct conflict with God’s teaching, was never made by man, than the idea that when the civil authority commands the Christian to do ...

Deuteronomy 17:14-20 as an Ancient Limitation on Political Authority

Libertarianism

Deuteronomy is a puzzling book. It’s a marvelous ‘farewell sermon’ by Moses before Joshua takes up command, but the literary history challenges any historian or scholar who ventures to ask ...

The real Christian Nation

Christian Worldview

This guest post is by Rev. Donald Ehrke. He is a Libertarian, a former GOP campaign manager, and ordained minister living in Alexandria, Virginia. Many thanks to Donald for his ...

Ep 233: A Libertarian Christian Reading of Romans 13, with Matthew Bellis

Podcast

Does Romans 13 mean that we, as Christians, should just submit to the state? Or is there perhaps a better, more nuanced way to understand Romans 13, and therefore what ...

Is Jesus killing America? No, Jesus is life.

Christian Worldview

Calling them to Himself, Jesus said to them, “You know that those who are recognized as rulers of the Gentiles domineer over them; and their people in high position exercise ...

One of the more overlooked ways in which Jesus brought God’s ethical ideal into full bloom — or as Matthew 5:17 puts it, one way he “fulfilled” the Old Testament law and prophets — was by reorganizing God’s followers from a nation into a church. He denationalized them, transforming them from a typical earthly kingdom into the transnational, interethnic, nongovernmental, nonviolent, geographically dispersed organization we call the universal church. For these reasons, Jesus was an anti-nationalist which makes Christian Nationalism antithetical to the Christian faith.

Jesus was an Anti-Nationalist

Christian Worldview

One of the more overlooked ways in which Jesus brought God’s ethical ideal into full bloom — or as Matthew 5:17 puts it, one way he “fulfilled” the Old Testament ...

Violence Will Not Save Us

Christian Worldview

As I have previously written, the early Christian virtue of patience (and therefore non-violence) and the libertarian Non-Aggression Principle are in agreement: the world cannot be fundamentally changed for the ...

Weekend Insights – Craig Cesal released!

News

Welcome back to Weekend Insights, your LCI "President's Corner" of miscellaneous articles, events, books, vids, and whatever else I'm thinking about...

Ministers, Submission, and Partisanship

Christian Worldview

"There is not a word of intimation in the Sacred Scriptures that indicate that it is the duty of any Christians to support, maintain, or defend any institution or organization ...

“Give Us a King”

Christian Worldview

This article continues a series of weekly posts originally authored by David Lipscomb, an important figure in the Churches of Christ in the 1800s. Learn more about Lipscomb’s background here ...

The Seen and Unseen Kingdoms

Christian Worldview

In this entry, Lipscomb continues his thesis that ordinances of God are not all intended to be carried out by his set-apart people, the Church, using the examples of heaven ...

Are States the Ministers of God?

Christian Worldview

A common objection to the idea that the state is founded in rebellion against God is the language of the Bible describing various kings and leaders as "God's servants" or ...

Does Romans 13 Justify Nero, Pharoah, or Nimrod?

Christian Worldview

Lipscomb approaches the issue with a new tact this time around, and brings up Romans 13 in the process. He suggests that if Romans 13 is the justifying scripture for ...

David Lipscomb Against Union Conscription

Christian Worldview

This article continues a series of weekly posts originally authored by David Lipscomb, an important figure in the Churches of Christ in the 1800s. Learn more about Lipscomb’s background here ...

David Lipscomb Against Confederate Conscription Acts

Christian Worldview

Notable in this piece is the way in which Lipscomb and his co-authors argue for their firm non-violent stance. They are to "submit quietly" to the government save where submission ...

Doug Wilson is Wrong About Libertarianism

Libertarianism

Does society always and in every case break down to atomistic individuals?

The Spirit of the Church and of the World-Powers

Christian Worldview

Having stridently argued for the position that the kingdoms of the world are not of God through both Old and New Testaments, Lipscomb now seeks to differentiate the particular spirit ...

Babylon: The Archetype of the State

Christian Worldview

We wish to call attention to the biblical use of the term Babylon. It is given in Scripture as the name of the first, and in many respects, the head ...

John’s Revelation and World-Powers

Christian Worldview

Lipscomb now addresses the symbols in Revelation in greater detail, ultimately to level a scathing indictment of the 19th-century church. Some protestants interpret the "mother of harlots" as the medieval ...

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