“Take Heed”: An Ordination Charge
Godly success in the Gospel ministry requires the most riveting intention.
Oct 14, 2019•10 min
P. Andrew Sandlin's Podcasts, Preaching, and Lectures
Full-orbed biblical Reformational truth by the founder and president of the Center for Cultural Leadership.
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The Nature of Science and the Evolutionary Worldview
The words “science” and “religion” are often depicted as irreconcilable opposites. But what is the worldview behind that perspective? Is it a valid representation of reality? How do we respond to the claim that religion and science should stay in their own lanes? Is Darwinism a reasonable explanation of the origin of the universe and the development of life on earth?
Aug 30, 2019•38 min
Critical Theory: The Worldview Behind the Disciplines
An introduction to the philosophy underlying Cultural Marxism, the dominant ethos on virtually every non-Christian (and many a Christian) campus in North America. It is contra-biblical and must be crushed at all costs.
Aug 30, 2019•57 min
The Christian Foundations of Science and the Impact of Darwin
Modern science was launched almost exclusively by Christians and on distinctly Christian premises. In fact, modern science would’ve been impossible apart from a Christian worldview. Darwinism, by contrast, is an atheist explanation of the physical world that dehumanizes man and trashes creation.
Aug 21, 2019•36 min
Critical Theory
Conventionally conservative groups like the Southern Baptist Convention have tried to champion Critical Theory, the analytical tool of Cultural Marxism devised by the Frankfurt School of the Weimar Republic and transplanted to the United States by men like John Dewey. This podcast is a simplified explanation of Critical Theory and a brief critique, showing that it is contra-biblical, self-refuting, and culturally destructive. To attempt to maintain it as a critical tool “within a Christian conte...
Aug 21, 2019•23 min
Observations on Cultural Marxism
The elite social vision of our time has infested nearly every aspect of our society — including the church. And it is utterly poisonous.
Jul 24, 2019•40 min
Jesus Christ Molded Western Civilization
Secularists and pagans say that Christianity is the blight of the Western world. All to the contrary: all of the great blessings they take for granted are bequeath by Jesus Christ, Christianity, and Christendom.
Jul 23, 2019•45 min
From Creation to Cross to Consummation
This is how history will unfold. Biblical Faith is optimism on steroids.
Jul 19, 2019•44 min
Cultural Theology
The Bible isn’t just a book for church and theology. It’s a book designed to orient all of our lives and culture. A narrow theology has led us to a narrow faith. And failure.
Jul 18, 2019•41 min
Daniel, Mighty Man of Prayer
Why are Christians so defeated in their individual lives, families, churches, and culture? Often because our prayers are paltry, anorexic, and unbelieving. When we get serious about prayer, God is serious about answering.
Jul 18, 2019•34 min
Why Christianity Is Perpetually Persecutable
Christians today are under increasing persecution internationally, including in the United States, but this is not an unprecedented development. What is it about Christianity that makes it such a frequent target of persecution?
Apr 25, 2019•7 min
From Moral Relativism to Immoral Dogmatism
Satan’s end game is not to make all moral choices equally acceptable but to make immorality alone acceptable.
Apr 16, 2019•6 min
Always Pray
Almost all great revival and reformation begins with a revival and reformation of prayer, great, persevering prayer, not prayer that mildly accepts the status quo as the will of God or hides behind the eternal decrees. If you want great Reformation, start praying.
Mar 10, 2019•50 min
Myths About God’s Law
Our time suffers from an abysmal ignorance about God’s law. This talk summarizes what the Bible teaches.
Mar 10, 2019•47 min
Social Justice: A Sociotheological Taxonomy — The Pietists, the Leftists, and the Dominionists
Discussing three identifiable groups within the present evangelical controversy surrounding “social justice.”
Mar 09, 2019•7 min
Paul on Paul
The apostle Paul was the greatest Christian theologian in history. Here’s why.
Mar 05, 2019•45 min
Don’t Slander God’s Good Motive
If you’re enduring great trails and hardship just now, never assume that God is the author, and always assume that he delights to deliver his people who cry out to him in faith. Our God is a good God, and he wants only what’s best for us.
Dec 16, 2018•5 min
Lord of the Visible World
Jesus Christ is mediator of creation, not just redemption, and he is vitally interested in material creation: the visible church, clothing, architecture, and physical healing.
Dec 03, 2018•39 min
Deep Culture
The Christian goal must be to de-normalize the current godless plausibility structure and re-normalize the holy plausibility structure. Q & A about supporting Donald Trump, the genetic predisposition to homosexuality, secular presuppositions in children’s movies, and the logical consequences of a homosexual plausibility structure.
Dec 02, 2018•49 min
Christians Must Be Conservative and Conservatives Must Be Christian
There can be no “Christian liberals,” and conservatives cannot long preserve their position if they abandon the Faith. Libertarianism, constitutionalism, and paleo-conservatism will not sustain conservatism. Christ alone sustains politics.
Nov 29, 2018•42 min
Modern Gnosticism Versus Creational Christianity
Gnosticism is the most dangerous and recurrent heresy in Christian history. It increasingly corrupts both modern church and culture. The cure is Creational Christianity, which has been tragically missing in the modern church.
Oct 14, 2018•56 min
Kavanaugh Hearing: God’s Law versus Cultural Marxism
Two mutually irreconcilable philosophies and and worldviews were on graphic and dramatic display last Thursday. One was godly. One was ungodly.
Sep 30, 2018•5 min
From Narrow Pietism to Full-Fledged Progressivism
Why are recently conservative evangelicals fallling for the “social justice” of Cultural Marxism? Because grace, like nature, abhors a vacuum.
Sep 15, 2018•6 min
Ideational Assaults on Marriage
Direct, unapologetic treatment of controversial topics: Radical sexual autonomy (springing from Enlightenement, Romanticism, and existentialism) versus biblical covenantalism. Homosexualization versus sexual fidelity. Egalitarianism versus Complementarianism. “Sexual identity” (both heterosexual and homosexual) versus male or female. And the normalization of singlehood and celebacy versus the creational norm of fruitful marriage.
Sep 06, 2018•57 min
The Gospel According to Psalm 1
The gospel is calculated to create an antithesis between good and evil and gradually purge evil by the blood and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Soft-pedaling righteous living is an assault on the gospel.
Sep 02, 2018•36 min
The Philosophy of Science
Science is not only not in conflict with Christianity. Apart from Christianity, there can be no science.
Aug 24, 2018•42 min
Classical and Cultural Marxism
Classical Marxism (dialectical materialism and state socialism) and Cultural Marxism (human liberation and identity politics) are the greatest ideological threats to Christian culture.
Aug 22, 2018•47 min
Questions and Answers
P. Andrew Sandlin and Jeffery J. Ventrella on libertarianism, biblical and natural law, the LGBT agenda, marriage as a prepolitical and preecclesiastical institution, separation of church and state, and much else.
Aug 20, 2018•38 min
The Age of Religious Humanism
The worship of man in the culture and church is the new idolatry standing under God’s judgment.
Aug 20, 2018•50 min
The Cultural Mandate and the Kingdom of God
Man’s God-appointed work in the world is the Cultural Mandate. God’s self-appointed work in the world is his Kingdom. Understanding these foundational truths is fundamental to the Christian life.
Aug 20, 2018•45 min
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