Episode 174 The He Gets Us campaign took the evangelical internet by storm in the last year. It has garnered a wide range of responses, from praise to harsh criticism and mockery. What is this campaign, who is behind it, what are they trying to accomplish, and why are the reactions to it so strong? On this episode of the Removing Barriers podcast, hosts McG and Jay do a bit of digging to answer these questions and then try to understand the world's reaction to the campaign. Are Christians who ob...
Aug 10, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 174
Episode 173 Series: On the Mission Field - 17 It is often said that no one cares about what you have to say until they know how much you care. When it comes to sharing the gospel with lost souls across the globe, we are called to be salt and light, a blessing and not a curse to all those we encounter. In this episode of the Removing Barriers podcast, we interview missionary Wilman Martinez, missionary to Honduras. Born and raised in the country, the Lord saved Wilman when he was a boy and called...
Jul 27, 2024•28 min•Ep. 173
Episode 172 Series: On the Mission Field - 16 This episode of the Removing Barriers podcast is a continuation of the On the Mission Field series where hosts Jay and MCG interview missionaries to learn all about what God is doing on their mission fields. Today's episode features missionary Kent Albright, seeking to win the lost in Spain. Though teeming with fascinating history and amazing culture, Spain is a spiritually dark nation with significant barriers to the propagation of the gospel. We in...
Jul 20, 2024•53 min•Ep. 172
Episode 171 In this episode of the Removing Barriers podcast, we discuss a recent interview that Pope Francis gave to Nora O'Donnell. The Pope leads nearly 1.5 billion souls across the globe. That's 1.5 billion souls that are "baptized" Catholics, but that does not include the additional millions that give his words and actions weight in determining what the orthodox Christian position is on any given issue. Even so, his conversation in this interview is rife with very disturbing declarations ab...
Jul 13, 2024•47 min•Ep. 171
Episode 170 Bonkers - 8 Welcome to the eighth episode in our Bonkers series, where hosts MCG and Jay discuss various articles from the internet demonstrating the fact that this world has gone bonkers. From euthanasia to homeschooling, perversion to Noem...we discuss it all. We hope this series serves to remind everyone where our hope should be, and to warn everyone not to put any hope, confidence, or faith in man. No matter how terrible this world is or how much more terrible it is going to get,...
Jun 29, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 170
Episode 169 Famous atheist Richard Dawkins set the internet ablaze for a moment when he lamented Britain's celebration of Ramadan over Easter, called himself a cultural christian, and warned that the loss of the Christian culture in Britain would be a dreadful thing. It is indisputable that the West was largely built on Christian values and ethos, and the resulting culture has been a tree of blessing for all living under its branches, regardless of their personal faith and conviction. Where it h...
Jun 22, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 169
Episode 168 Series: How Were Your Barriers Removed - 39 In the latest episode of the Removing Barriers podcast, we are sharing a previously unreleased interview with H (yes, that is his real name!), a man whose life story is a testament to the power of faith and the transformative impact of accepting Christ. H's journey is not just about his personal salvation but also about the myriad barriers he faced and overcame along the way. H was born in rural North Louisiana, near the Ouachita River, in ...
Jun 15, 2024•25 min•Ep. 168
Episode 167 "Christ is King." Any genuine Christian would wholeheartedly agree with that statement, acknowledging that because the Lord is King, we will bow the knee and worship Him in spirit and in truth. So when did that statement become a dog whistle for anti-Semitism? In this episode of the Removing Barriers podcast, recurring guest host Sam join us as we discuss the less-than-amicable parting between Daily Wire and Candace Owens and Andrew Klavan's explanation of it. Apparently, Candace's d...
Jun 08, 2024•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 167
Episode 166 Alistair Begg is a well-known and well-respected pastor and Bible teacher who inadvertently set the world of Christian netizens ablaze when he revealed that he encouraged a Christian grandmother to not only attend an LGBTQ wedding, but to also bring a gift. While he had some supporters in this matter, the majority were shocked and appalled by this stance so uncharacteristic of a man who had proven himself to be a faithful man of God for well over 40 years. Responding to the critics, ...
Jun 01, 2024•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 166
Episode 165 Series: On the Mission Field - 15 In this episode of the Removing Barriers podcast, we continue discovering God's work on mission fields around the world in our On the Mission Field series. Today's episode features Matthew Goins, missionary to Honduras, who graciously takes the time to share what God is doing not only in Honduras, but also in his life and family as they navigate tragedy and grief. Perhaps many Christians the world over are tempted to question God or blame Him when pa...
May 25, 2024•50 min•Ep. 165
Episode 164 The United States is in the midst of great political and social turmoil, and it seemed that the tragic case of Dexter Reed would be a sort of George Floyd 2.0. In the immediate aftermath of the showdown with police, It was revealed that five plain-clothes officers fired 96 rounds at Dexter Reed: another helpless black man gunned down by white cops. "They shot him 96 times for no reason!" was the battle cry, and the usual race-baiting social justice 'leaders' quickly slithered in to r...
May 18, 2024•58 min•Ep. 164
Episode 163 Series: What Do You Believe – 4 Today, we continue the series "What do You Believe?" with Dr. Henry Benach, President of Jewish End-Times Ministries and missionary to the Jewish people. In this episode, Dr. Benach shares his testimony, how the Lord Jesus Christ saved him after hearing the word of God at a Baptist church service that he discovered after a sweet lady called his house by accident--thrice! He also discusses Judaism (having been born and raised in an Orthodox Jewish home)...
May 11, 2024•57 min•Ep. 163
Episode 162 Bonkers - 7 In this episode of the Removing Barriers podcast, we continue the series "This World Has Gone Bonkers," where we pick a handful of headlines from the internet that demonstrate just how bonkers this world has become. The only saving grace is that Christ has conquered sin and death and has promised to return! This week, we discuss Kanye West, disease X, banks, and Bill Maher. What do these seemingly unrelated things have in common, you ask? They've all gone bonkers, that's ...
May 04, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 162
Episode 161 Many Christians the world over struggle with this question: can a Christian lose their salvation? Once a Christian has been saved, can their salvation ever be lost? In this episode of the Removing Barriers podcast, we sit down with Edward Thal of Thal Tales (see information section for more info) and hash out the Bible verses often used to argue for a conditional salvation, and even some verses that have nothing to do with salvation at all. The good news is that while this subject is...
Apr 27, 2024•44 min•Ep. 161
Episode 160 Series: What Do You Believe – 3 There are over a billion Catholics in the world and in most minds, the religion is synonymous with Christianity. What is it exactly that Catholics believe? Are they Christians in the biblical sense of the word? Can someone believe and live by the fundamental tenets of Catholicism and also be genuinely saved? Today on the Removing Barriers podcast we sit down with Shawn Henly, the founder of Cross Crusaders. Cross Crusaders is an Independent, Fundamenta...
Apr 06, 2024•46 min•Ep. 160
Episode 159 Popular charismatic/Pentecostal preacher TD Jakes has been implicated as a regular friend of music producer Sean Combs and a participant in the infamously deviant parties he was known to throw and host. He has denied all allegations, but the accusation alone is enough to send shockwaves through the country, since he has a following number in the millions. What should Christians make of the allegations? Should we even care about it if we believe that he is a false teacher? In this epi...
Mar 30, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 159
Episode 158 Parents across the globe differ in age, culture, faiths, political allegiance, and personal standards, but they would generally agree that we must protect our children from any threat. We are to protect them from dangerous situations and dangerous people (including themselves!) but today, a mutated threat has emerged with breakneck speed and incredible complexity: social media. It is many things at once: useful and useless, helpful and detrimental, empowering and enslaving. Such is t...
Mar 09, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 158
Episode 157 In early 2024, Moms for Liberty representative Tiffany Justice sat down with MSNBC's Joy Reid to discuss the so-called book bans taking place in schools across the country, mostly in response to the shocking discovery that there are books in the libraries and media centers of public K-12 schools that contain explicit descriptions and depictions of sexual activities and violence. In almost all cases, the content is not only explicit, but also vulgar. Moms for Liberty claims to be mere...
Mar 02, 2024•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 157
Episode 156 Series: How Were Your Barriers Removed - 38 Today we continue the How Were Your Barriers Removed series with an interview with Bill. Bill grew up in a Christian home and received Christ as his personal Lord and Savior early on in life, but that doesn't mean that there were no barriers to salvation. Every instance of biblical salvation is a genuine miracle where the holy, triune Creator God reaches down to an unworthy and wretched sinner to bestow forgiveness and restoration where non...
Feb 10, 2024•43 min•Ep. 156
Episode 155 Series: On the Mission Field - 14 What moves a missionary to uproot their families and their lives and transplant into a country many would struggle to find on a map? Today on the Removing Barriers podcast, we sit down with Missionary Jacob to discuss this very thing. He is preparing to go to the mission field in the very near future, hoping to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the lost souls in Mozambique. He will tell us what the spiritual climate is like in Mozambique, what ba...
Feb 03, 2024•47 min•Ep. 155
Episode 154 Series: How Were Your Barriers Removed - 37 In this episode of the Removing Barriers podcast, we interview Tony, who experienced barriers to salvation in a very free upbringing, as opposed to a rigid one. God overcame those barriers to save his soul, and he joins us in this broadcast to testify to God's goodness and mercy. Barriers to salvation are erected in all kinds of seemingly contradicting ways and situations: in knowledge, in ignorance, in wealth, in poverty, in debauchery, in...
Jan 27, 2024•35 min•Ep. 154
Episode 153 Bonkers - 6 It's the sixth installment of the series This World Has Gone Bonkers! In today's podcast, we discuss the latest in LGBTQIA2+ hypocrisy, bullying, and virtue signaling: the attack on parents seeking to protect their children from trans ideology. Meanwhile, the elite class are spending exorbitant amounts of money on debauchery and all manner of illegal activity (not new, but to what degree is increasingly shocking) while the Methodist church is abandoning the terms "husband...
Jan 20, 2024•53 min•Ep. 153
Episode 152 This is an episode in which we evaluate the issue of class-based discrimination in the United States. Deja Taylor is a no-name everyday Jane while Hunter Biden is the son of the sitting president of the United States. Both committed the same crimes, and yet only one has had the hammer of justice come down upon them. Why is that? Is America's problem really racism? Or are we blinded by racism to the more pressing and serious problem of classism? Is it both? How should Christians addre...
Jan 15, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 152
Episode 151 Series: How Were Your Barriers Removed - 36 In this episode of the Removing Barriers Podcast, we have the newest installment of the How Were Your Barriers Removed series. Today, we interview Pastor Harrigan to find out how the barriers to salvation he experienced were removed. Pastor Harrigan has been long-time acquaintance and friend to the hosts of the podcast and has agreed to put his testimony out into the world yet again, this time in long-form content. Pastor Harrigan was born ...
Jan 06, 2024•34 min•Ep. 151
Episode 150 Bonkers - 5 What do the Marine Corps, babies, COVID, and children have in common? They have all gone bonkers, of course! In this episode of the Removing Barriers podcast, we continue the series This World has Gone Bonkers. The Marine Corps has a scholarship and professional military education program that teaches participants how to implement feminist and DEI values in the upper echelons of decision-making and warfighting. Judges impose rulings to either murder babies or deny the pur...
Dec 02, 2023•50 min•Ep. 150
Episode 149 In early October of 2023, the terrorist group Hamas launched an attack on Israel via land and air that took the nation by surprise. Thousands of Israeli civilians were brutally killed, tortured, or taken hostage. The entire globe has very strong opinions about it one way or another, but one of the most disturbing developments is the blatant support for Hamas coming from many on the left here in the United States. Why is that? Many Christians around the world believe this attack has E...
Nov 18, 2023•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 149
Episode 148 The death of George Floyd literally set the nation ablaze in 2020. The offending officers, most notably Derek Chauvin, were all prosecuted and given jail time, but now new revelations have three years later exposing the politicking behind the scenes that prioritized everything but justice and truth. In this episode of the Removing Barriers podcast, we evaluate the new claims and discuss what they may mean for the sentenced, for the officials involved, and for the nation altogether. L...
Nov 11, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 148
Episode 147 As of fall of 2023, Donald J. Trump is the only serious republican candidate for the presidency of the United States in the elections of 2024, though hobbled and battered by an onslaught of lawfare that the majority of the country deems is political. His MAGA slogan, borrowed from Reagan's campaign in the '80s, has deeply resonated with much of the country in the face of an open southern border, a bad economy, wars in Ukraine and Israel, and an impaired incumbent president with deepl...
Oct 28, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 147
Episode 146 We are beginning a new series on the Removing Barriers podcast shining a spotlight on marriage: what makes it work and what should we be aiming for. In this episode of the Removing Barriers podcast, we sit down with recurring guest Pastor Todd and his wife Rebecca, a first time guest on the podcast. They have been married for 31 years and have graciously given of their time and energy to share what God has taught them about marriage. This episode is full of wise counsel for everyone,...
Oct 21, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 146
Episode 145 In this episode of the Removing Barriers podcast, we discuss a TikTok video which claims that if Christians were consistent, they would realize that Eve was transgender because she was made from Adam's rib and had male DNA. We will open the scriptures and see what the Bible has to say about this and how even in this dark and terrible confusion, the cross and gospel of Christ shines all the more brightly with the answers we need to know who God is, what He has done, and who we are bef...
Oct 14, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 145
