Now more than ever it is important to be clear about the hope that we have as followers of Jesus. In this episode, I was excited to do a quick interview with my friend Greg Stier of Dare 2 Share ministries about how to clearly share the Gospel and offer a behind the scenes look at a brand new app that makes this easier than ever--even in a pandemic. I will share my quote of the week by John Stott and talk a little more about life during the quarantine. Find more resources to help the next genera...
Apr 16, 2020•15 min•Ep. 33
Good Friday Edition. Did Jesus ever really claim to be God? Or was this belief invented by the early church? In this episode, I offer 6 quick reasons we know that Jesus claimed to be God. Also my quote of the week by J.I. Packer and some family fun ideas during quarantine. Enjoy! Find more resources at jonathanmorrow.org and be sure to subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode.
Apr 10, 2020•13 min•Ep. 32
Your Worldview Minute with Jonathan Morrow (#31) . How should Christians uniquely approach our circumstances right now during the Coronavirus pandemic? What should our posture be? I'll share 3 quick do's and 3 dont's, some fun things amidst the hard and my favorite quote from C.S. Lewis that helps us navigate these times. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss a podcast and find more resources at jonathanmorrow.org .
Apr 05, 2020•9 min
How to Explain the Trinity to a Child How do you explain the Trinity to a child? For that matter, how do you explain the Trinity to anyone? The first thing you need to know is that the Bible never uses the word “Trinity.” The word Trinity captures the various ways the Bible talks about the nature of God. Also, the Trinity is one of the essential and foundational doctrines of the Christian faith. You can’t have Christianity without it. I want to share a clear and memorable way to understand what ...
Sep 02, 2019•3 min
Will Your Kids Faith Survive YouTube? Worldview training is not optional for today’s teenagers. As a parent, pastor, educator or youth pastor you need to know that training in worldview, apologetics, and theology is good for the heart and soul of the next generation. [shareable]We don’t have to choose between reason and relationships.[/shareable] [featured-image single_newwindow="false"] I believe in the next generation. I love getting to spend time with them talking about the big questions of l...
Jul 31, 2019•4 min
Why Read the Bible? The short answer is the Bible brings life to our souls....
Jul 09, 2019•2 min
Knowledge of God Matters. Which do you think shows up more in the Bible—faith or knowledge? If you do a concordance search, you will find something surprising. Knowledge (including knowing, know, etc.) shows up far more than faith does. Of course, without faith, it is impossible to please God, but knowledge is far more important to God than people realize. Listen to the words of the Lord as recorded by the prophet Jeremiah — words reminding us that knowledge of God is to be prized above all else...
Jul 02, 2019•2 min
Devotion and Sincerity are admirable. But when it comes to questions of reality, we know this is not enough. In our “follow your heart,” “You do you” and personalize everything to my own preferences world--this can be confusing. Every day through Spotify, Netflix, and YouTube--People are discipled by our culture to think that right and wrong, gender, sexuality, and spirituality are determined by what I—as an individual--choose to believe. That’s the height of freedom right? Wrong. Why? Because w...
Jun 18, 2019•2 min
Why Ideas Are So Powerful Ideas have always been and continue to be our Enemy’s favorite method of undermining the work of God. Dallas Willard comments on what happened in the garden of Eden: “Ideas and images are ... the primary focus of Satan’s efforts to defeat God’s purposes with and for humankind. When we are subject to his chosen ideas and images, he can take a nap or a holiday. Thus when he undertook to draw Eve away from God, he did not hit her with a stick, but with an idea. It was with...
Jun 11, 2019•2 min
Does the Bible really teach that Jesus is the only way to God? That’s a good question. Our culture is definitely headed in the direction of pluralism and relativism. For example, 6 out of 10 teenagers today agree with the statement “many religions can lead to eternal life; there is no one true religion.” Prominent religious leaders like the Dali Lama agree when he says, “The essential message of all religions is very much the same.” There are different parts of this question worth looking at and...
Jun 04, 2019•2 min
What Are Spiritual Disciplines?Right off the bat, we need to acknowledge that Paul commands us to discipline ourselves “for the purpose of godliness; for bodily discipline is only of little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come” (1 Timothy 4:7 – 8 NASB; cf. 2 Peter 1:5 – 10).They are essential for our growth and not optional when it comes to the Christian life.A discipline is “any activity I can do by direct ...
May 28, 2019•2 min
Is Science our only Source of knowledge?With the rise and success of modern science (and these advances have been beneficial in many ways), some people have unfortunately come to believe that science, and science alone offers true knowledge of reality.Famous atheist Bertrand Russell put it this way: “Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.”Initially, this sounds sophisticated and intelligent. The only proble...
May 21, 2019•2 min
How do we overcome hurry sickness?Dr. Richard Swenson is a futurist who writes about the social and personal factors that afflict America. Swenson has diagnosed the problem of our day as “overload.”If you were to take an MRI of our lives, here is what you would see:“We have too many choices and decisions, too many activities and commitments, too much change creating too much stress. We have too much speed and hurry. We have too much technology, complexity, traffic, information, possessions, debt...
May 14, 2019•2 min
Learning to think in a culture ruled by feelings.The words we use to talk about our faith shapes how the people around us approach Christianity.Have you ever noticed how often people start talking about Jesus, the Bible, or God With “feeling” language?"I just feel that Jesus would…""It doesn't feel like God would…""I just feel that’s not what the Bible says…" more... jonathanmorrow.org
May 07, 2019•2 min
Why listening matters when sharing your faith.If you want to have more effective spiritual conversations, then learn to listen.Francis Schaefer once said:"'If I have only an hour with someone, I will spend the first fifty-five minutes asking questions and finding out what is troubling their heart and mind, and then in the last five minutes I will share something of the truth."Our temptation is to unload all the facts we’ve ever learned in one conversation.....
Apr 30, 2019•1 min
What is the Role of the Holy Spirit in Interpreting the Bible? Can a non-Christian grasp the content of the Bible? Yes and no. Yes, if we mean the text can be understood by employing a sound approach to literature—to the basic grammar, context, and content of a passage. But an unbeliever cannot fully appreciate and take to heart the truth of the Bible. God’s Spirit helps Christians discern the spiritual realities of the text and then apply them to their lives (see 1 Cor. 2:14). Scott Duvall and ...
Apr 23, 2019•2 min
Why Knowledge Matters for Christians. Unfortunately, many people today think that you can’t know religious or moral truths. Why? Because if physics, chemistry, biology, or genetics doesn’t deal with a topic, then they assume you can’t know it. In other words, it’s fine for you to say you believe that Jesus is God but not […]
Apr 16, 2019•1 min
What is the purpose of spiritual gifts?Talking about spiritual gifts can be confusing and at times controversial. But what does the Bible teach?1 Peter 4:10-12 says:“As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ…”Here are three things we learn about spiritual ...
Apr 09, 2019•2 min
What’s the difference between knowing and showing Christianity is true? I was first introduced to this helpful distinction by Christian philosopher William Lane Craig. The Bible teaches that a believer knows Christianity is true on the basis of the internal witness of the Holy Spirit. Passages like Rom. 8:16 and Gal. 4:6 make this clear. When we become a follower of Jesus, God’s Spirit then testifies to our spirit that we are His children. In other words, God lets us know directly—without spoken...
Apr 02, 2019•2 min
What is true tolerance? True tolerance is where we extend to each other the right to be wrong. False tolerance, on the other hand, naïvely asserts that all ideas are created equal and this must be rejected. Not only is this obviously false, it’s unlivable. Unfortunately, as Stephen Prothero has put it, “The ideal of religious tolerance has morphed into the straitjacket of religious agreement.” Contrary to what is commonly believed, the height of intolerance is not disagreement, but rather remov...
Mar 26, 2019•2 min
Christians can ask the hard questions. Questioning the Bible isn’t always comfortable. In fact, it can be downright scary. If we dig underneath “because the Bible says so” what will we find? Have we based our lives on a bunch of fairytales? How we view the Bible is no small matter. A lot is at stake...
Mar 19, 2019•2 min
What is Substitutionary Atonement? When it comes to understanding the Christian faith, there aren’t many ideas more central to grasp than this one. Those words can sound intimidating, so let’s break them down. To “substitute” is to stand in the place of or take the place of. To “atone for” is a multifaceted biblical term which means to “cover”, “forgive”, and “reconcile.”This is the heart of the Gospel. Jesus died in my place, as my substitute, for my sins. Peter, who saw Jesus raised from the d...
Mar 12, 2019•2 min
How were people saved in the Old Testament? That’s a good question and one that many of us wonder about. Was it by good works or was it by faith? Here’s the big picture. When we look at the Scriptures, this is the pattern that emerges. Salvation is always…Offered by the grace of GodBased on the atoning death of Jesus ChristReceived by the exercise of faith applied by the work of the Holy Spirit until the time of Christ...
Mar 05, 2019•2 min
The Christian life is active not passive. It’s so easy to start letting life happen to us. There’s so much to do. Information to process. schedules to manage. Emails to check. Laundry to fold, Practices to get to and homework to be done. The pace is crazy. If we’re not careful, we can become passive observers in our own lives. Here’s the problem: If we’re passive, then we’ll not be able to do all that God has called us to do...
Feb 26, 2019•1 min
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