WE WILL PRAISE Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift! 2 Corinthians 9:15 Verse THANK YOU LORD FOR THE GOODNESS THAT YOU’VE SHOWN THANK YOU LORD FOR YOUR LOVE THANK YOU LORD FOR YOUR MERCIES EVER NEW (Lam 3:22-23) THANK YOU LORD FOR YOUR SON Chorus WE WILL PRAISE YOUR NAME WE WILL SING THAT JESUS REIGNS WE WILL GLORIFY OUR GOD AND KING FOREVER AND EVER Bridge WHILE I WAS DEAD YOU SOUGHT ME OUT AND GAVE YOUR LIFE TO ME (Rom 5:8) THERE IS NO GREATER LOVE THAN THIS TO DO WHAT YOU DID FOR...
Sep 17, 2021•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast WE WILL PRAISE Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift! 2 Corinthians 9:15 Verse THANK YOU LORD FOR THE GOODNESS THAT YOU’VE SHOWN THANK YOU LORD FOR YOUR LOVE THANK YOU LORD FOR YOUR MERCIES EVER NEW (Lam 3:22-23) THANK YOU LORD FOR YOUR SON Chorus WE WILL PRAISE YOUR NAME WE WILL SING THAT JESUS REIGNS WE WILL GLORIFY OUR GOD AND KING FOREVER AND EVER Bridge WHILE I WAS DEAD YOU SOUGHT ME OUT AND GAVE YOUR LIFE TO ME (Rom 5:8) THERE IS NO GREATER LOVE THAN THIS TO DO WHAT YOU DID FOR ME (J...
Sep 17, 2021•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast "He ransoms me from death and surrounds me with love and tender mercies. He fills my life with good things." Psalm 103:4-5a (NLT) Lyrics: Verse: YOU SURROUND ME WITH YOUR LOVING KINDNESS AND MY DAYS WITH GOOD THINGS OH MY MORNINGS WITH YOUR NEW MERCIES YOU’RE SO GOOD TO ME Chorus: AND I PRAISE, AND I PRAISE, AND I PRAISE YOUR HOLY NAME Bridge: FOR ONLY YOU ARE WORTHY ONLY YOU COULD SAVE ME ONLY YOU COULD TAKE MY SIN AND SHAME LORD YOU ARE MY GLORY A SHIELD ABOUT ME (Ps 3:3) AND I LIFT MY L...
Sep 17, 2021•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast "He ransoms me from death and surrounds me with love and tender mercies. He fills my life with good things." Psalm 103:4-5a (NLT) Lyrics: Verse: YOU SURROUND ME WITH YOUR LOVING KINDNESS AND MY DAYS WITH GOOD THINGS OH MY MORNINGS WITH YOUR NEW MERCIES YOU’RE SO GOOD TO ME Chorus: AND I PRAISE, AND I PRAISE, AND I PRAISE YOUR HOLY NAME Bridge: FOR ONLY YOU ARE WORTHY ONLY YOU COULD SAVE ME ONLY YOU COULD TAKE MY SIN AND SHAME LORD YOU ARE MY GLORY A SHIELD ABOUT ME (Ps 3:3) AND I LIFT MY LIFE UN...
Sep 17, 2021•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Meditation is good and meditation is bad. It really depends on what you mean by "meditation." Here's a biblical perspective on it. This is just one question from a long interview I did for the moderators of the r/Bible subreddit. They asked their subreddit to send me a bunch of questions and I spent a lot of time preparing so that I would be able to offer the best answers I could. I'll be posting these answers as individual videos, so keep an eye out for the rest in the set. Here's a playlist wh...
Sep 13, 2021•3 min•Ep 577•Transcript available on Metacast Meditation is good and meditation is bad. It really depends on what you mean by "meditation." Here's a biblical perspective on it. This is just one question from a long interview I did for the moderators of the r/Bible subreddit. They asked their subreddit to send me a bunch of questions and I spent a lot of time preparing so that I would be able to offer the best answers I could. I'll be posting these answers as individual videos, so keep an eye out for the rest in the set. Here's a playlist wh...
Sep 13, 2021•3 min•Ep 577•Transcript available on Metacast Our first question today is about the 7 tenets of Satanism. I think most people don't really understand what they are about. Let's get into it a bit. Here's that video giving a biblical evaluation of suicide: https://youtu.be/T6nlUhWJe00 To get your own questions answered, please show up at the start of the stream and type a question beginning with "Q" (or ANQ to ask anonymously), but don't send it before you see me on screen. I can only get to 20 each week, so please forgive me for not being ab...
Sep 10, 2021•2 hr 37 min•Ep 576•Transcript available on Metacast Our first question today is about the 7 tenets of Satanism. I think most people don't really understand what they are about. Let's get into it a bit. Here's that video giving a biblical evaluation of suicide: https://youtu.be/T6nlUhWJe00 To get your own questions answered, please show up at the start of the stream and type a question beginning with "Q" (or ANQ to ask anonymously), but don't send it before you see me on screen. I can only get to 20 each week, so please forgive me for not being ab...
Sep 10, 2021•2 hr 37 min•Ep 576•Transcript available on Metacast "Typology" is a fancy word for how God put intricate details about Jesus throughout the stories of the Old Testament. I'm not talking about prophecy here, although there is a relationship between typology and prophecy. I'm saying that Jesus is the main topic of the Bible so much that God shaped history and people's lives so that the Bible would become a beautiful literary tapestry that shows Jesus throughout its pages. From the story of Joseph going from slavery and presumed death to the right h...
Sep 08, 2021•46 min•Ep 575•Transcript available on Metacast "Typology" is a fancy word for how God put intricate details about Jesus throughout the stories of the Old Testament. I'm not talking about prophecy here, although there is a relationship between typology and prophecy. I'm saying that Jesus is the main topic of the Bible so much that God shaped history and people's lives so that the Bible would become a beautiful literary tapestry that shows Jesus throughout its pages. From the story of Joseph going from slavery and presumed death to the right h...
Sep 08, 2021•46 min•Ep 575•Transcript available on Metacast Omnism, in the sense that we just pretend all religions are true, is a really nice (in the old sense of the word) religion. It has high hopes and seems to help everyone to "get along," but it depends entirely on utter irrationality and dishonest evaluations of the really important issues that religions are disagreeing on. If you have fallen for Omnism, then I hope you'll consider this a kindness and a wake-up call to consider the evidence for Jesus and the importance of the truth about God and u...
Sep 06, 2021•6 min•Ep 574•Transcript available on Metacast Omnism, in the sense that we just pretend all religions are true, is a really nice (in the old sense of the word) religion. It has high hopes and seems to help everyone to "get along," but it depends entirely on utter irrationality and dishonest evaluations of the really important issues that religions are disagreeing on. If you have fallen for Omnism, then I hope you'll consider this a kindness and a wake-up call to consider the evidence for Jesus and the importance of the truth about God and u...
Sep 06, 2021•6 min•Ep 574•Transcript available on Metacast Question Time Stamps for Quick Reference: 0:00 - Introduction 1. 0:23 {Will Psychopaths be Judged the Same?} It has recently been scientifically proven that many psychopaths have a physical brain alteration that doesn't allow their synapses to receive the neuron chemicals for emotions such as sympathy. Oftentimes, they become violent criminals or even murderers. Will they be judged by God the same as any other person, even though they have something physiologically wrong with them? 2. 8:03 {What...
Sep 03, 2021•2 hr 44 min•Ep 573•Transcript available on Metacast Question Time Stamps for Quick Reference: 0:00 - Introduction 1. 0:23 {Will Psychopaths be Judged the Same?} It has recently been scientifically proven that many psychopaths have a physical brain alteration that doesn't allow their synapses to receive the neuron chemicals for emotions such as sympathy. Oftentimes, they become violent criminals or even murderers. Will they be judged by God the same as any other person, even though they have something physiologically wrong with them? 2. 8:03 {What...
Sep 03, 2021•2 hr 44 min•Ep 573•Transcript available on Metacast I'm not exaggerating when I say that some skeptics, and even some Christians, and some scholars in both categories, will teach that if Mark ends his Gospel at 16:8 then it destroys Christianity as we know it. I think this is silly. But I also think it needs a response. After going through those over the top claims we will deal with the more subtle and thoughtful claims of those who say that there are internal and external reasons for thinking that Mark could not have meant for 16:8 to be the end...
Aug 30, 2021•2 hr 39 min•Ep 572•Transcript available on Metacast I'm not exaggerating when I say that some skeptics, and even some Christians, and some scholars in both categories, will teach that if Mark ends his Gospel at 16:8 then it destroys Christianity as we know it. I think this is silly. But I also think it needs a response. After going through those over the top claims we will deal with the more subtle and thoughtful claims of those who say that there are internal and external reasons for thinking that Mark could not have meant for 16:8 to be the end...
Aug 30, 2021•2 hr 39 min•Ep 572•Transcript available on Metacast Question Time Stamps for Quick Reference: 0:00 - Introduction 1. 0:29 {Why Didn’t Jesus Mention Paul?} Hello, I am a Christian, and it's been important to me to understand why the Lord Jesus didn't mention to the apostles or anyone that Paul would be coming to enlighten the Way for His Church. This question hasn't been addressed in any of the studies I've researched, nor by any of the pastors I listen to. But isn't this question a most serious matter, since Paul wrote the majority of our N...
Aug 27, 2021•2 hr 30 min•Ep 571•Transcript available on Metacast Question Time Stamps for Quick Reference: 0:00 - Introduction 1. 0:29 {Why Didn’t Jesus Mention Paul?} Hello, I am a Christian, and it's been important to me to understand why the Lord Jesus didn't mention to the apostles or anyone that Paul would be coming to enlighten the Way for His Church. This question hasn't been addressed in any of the studies I've researched, nor by any of the pastors I listen to. But isn't this question a most serious matter, since Paul wrote the majority of our New Tes...
Aug 27, 2021•2 hr 30 min•Ep 571•Transcript available on Metacast Today's the day. I've spent weeks trying to dig deep on the debate of whether the last 12 verses of the Gospel of Mark are actually part of the Gospel of Mark. We will look at manuscript evidence, translations, church fathers, lectionaries, internal evidence from vocabulary and style, and consider the question of how all this weighs in on the fact that most Christians throughout time have had these 12 verses as their ending to Mark. I want to warn you of one issue that I slowly noticed in my res...
Aug 23, 2021•2 hr 10 min•Ep 570•Transcript available on Metacast Today's the day. I've spent weeks trying to dig deep on the debate of whether the last 12 verses of the Gospel of Mark are actually part of the Gospel of Mark. We will look at manuscript evidence, translations, church fathers, lectionaries, internal evidence from vocabulary and style, and consider the question of how all this weighs in on the fact that most Christians throughout time have had these 12 verses as their ending to Mark. I want to warn you of one issue that I slowly noticed in my res...
Aug 23, 2021•2 hr 10 min•Ep 570•Transcript available on Metacast Question Time Stamps for Quick Reference: 0:00 - Introduction 1. 0:37 {Conscience before the New Covenant?} Based on Jeremiah 31: 33-34, did people before the New Covenant not have a conscience (innate knowledge of God and the ability to know right from wrong as we do now)? Based on the radical changes that Jesus and the Church brought to the world, and God seemingly needing to give people constant special revelation in the OT, could there be a case for this? Could the need for the cycle of sin-...
Aug 20, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep 569•Transcript available on Metacast Question Time Stamps for Quick Reference: 0:00 - Introduction 1. 0:37 {Conscience before the New Covenant?} Based on Jeremiah 31: 33-34, did people before the New Covenant not have a conscience (innate knowledge of God and the ability to know right from wrong as we do now)? Based on the radical changes that Jesus and the Church brought to the world, and God seemingly needing to give people constant special revelation in the OT, could there be a case for this? Could the need for the cycle of sin-...
Aug 20, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep 569•Transcript available on Metacast Is Leviticus just offering advice about medical health? Is it identifying homosexual acts as sinful, or just potentially unhealthy? Can we calmly and carefully try to understand the passage in context? I hope so. I think that the overall context of the passage makes its application pretty clear, and even though our current culture tends to misunderstand this as condemning certain kinds of people instead of certain kinds of behavior, we simply cannot be biblically faithful without standing our gr...
Aug 18, 2021•13 min•Ep 568•Transcript available on Metacast Is Leviticus just offering advice about medical health? Is it identifying homosexual acts as sinful, or just potentially unhealthy? Can we calmly and carefully try to understand the passage in context? I hope so. I think that the overall context of the passage makes its application pretty clear, and even though our current culture tends to misunderstand this as condemning certain kinds of people instead of certain kinds of behavior, we simply cannot be biblically faithful without standing our gr...
Aug 18, 2021•13 min•Ep 568•Transcript available on Metacast This passage is probably most well known because of its abuse by snake handling preachers in the United States. I will address that issue but it's far from the only important thing to talk about in these verses! Though the snake comments in the passage get a lot of attention from normal people, scholars are mostly interested in the question of whether the passage belongs in the Gospel of Mark at all. But, today I'm not answering the question of whether the last 12 verses of Mark are authentic or...
Aug 16, 2021•2 hr 40 min•Ep 567•Transcript available on Metacast This passage is probably most well known because of its abuse by snake handling preachers in the United States. I will address that issue but it's far from the only important thing to talk about in these verses! Though the snake comments in the passage get a lot of attention from normal people, scholars are mostly interested in the question of whether the passage belongs in the Gospel of Mark at all. But, today I'm not answering the question of whether the last 12 verses of Mark are authentic or...
Aug 16, 2021•2 hr 40 min•Ep 567•Transcript available on Metacast Here’s the video on dealing with depression, which I mentioned during the stream: https://youtu.be/KspwQ2wyuUU Taking live questions from the YT live chat! Every Friday at 1 p.m. Pacific time. While I don't pretend to know all the answers, I hope to offer some thoughts that will help you in the direction of thinking biblically about things. The BibleThinker mugs can be found here. I don't make any profit from these - they are made by a third party and $5 per mug will go to support di...
Aug 13, 2021•2 hr 37 min•Ep 566•Transcript available on Metacast Here’s the video on dealing with depression, which I mentioned during the stream: https://youtu.be/KspwQ2wyuUU Taking live questions from the YT live chat! Every Friday at 1 p.m. Pacific time. While I don't pretend to know all the answers, I hope to offer some thoughts that will help you in the direction of thinking biblically about things. The BibleThinker mugs can be found here. I don't make any profit from these - they are made by a third party and $5 per mug will go to support different mini...
Aug 13, 2021•2 hr 37 min•Ep 566•Transcript available on Metacast Taking live questions from the YT live chat! Every Friday at 1 p.m. Pacific time. While I don't pretend to know all the answers, I hope to offer some thoughts that will help you in the direction of thinking biblically about things. The BibleThinker mugs can be found here. $5 per mug will go toward supporting different ministries I choose. For the time being, it's supporting refugees driven from their homes by ISIS. https://www.zockollpottery.com/product-page/new-bible-thinker-mug Here is Restori...
Aug 06, 2021•2 hr 36 min•Ep 565•Transcript available on Metacast Taking live questions from the YT live chat! Every Friday at 1 p.m. Pacific time. While I don't pretend to know all the answers, I hope to offer some thoughts that will help you in the direction of thinking biblically about things. The BibleThinker mugs can be found here. $5 per mug will go toward supporting different ministries I choose. For the time being, it's supporting refugees driven from their homes by ISIS. https://www.zockollpottery.com/product-page/new-bible-thinker-mug Here is Restori...
Aug 06, 2021•2 hr 36 min•Ep 565•Transcript available on Metacast 
