Episodes

A church invitation left at my door, two dogs losing their minds, and a completely random sermon review.

In the opening moments of a sermon based on 2 Corinthians 5:9, two ideas are connected together: being accepted by God and hearing the words, "Well done, good and faithful servant." But what do those phrases actually mean?

Most readers skip the opening pages of a book—the dedication, preface, and introductory material—in order to get to the "real" content. We begin exploring the Dedicatory Epistle of William Gurnall's The Christian in Complete ...

Most readers skip the opening pages of a book—the dedication, preface, and introductory material—in order to get to the "real" content. We begin exploring the Dedicatory Epistle of William Gurnall's The Christian in Complete ...

Most readers skip the opening pages of a book—the dedication, preface, and introductory material—in order to get to the "real" content. We begin exploring the Dedicatory Epistle of William Gurnall's The Christian in Complete ...

Theology Central was recently listed as the #13 theology podcast in the United States by Million Podcasts. In this episode, I reflect on that accomplishment. See the list: https://www.millionpodcasts.com/theology-podcasts/

It's time we ask some serious questions about wisdom and maybe we need a new way of understanding it!

An update coming for the Theology Central AI feature

A look at a new book called, Keeping Grace in the Gospel.

When Jesus describes the broad way in Matthew 7:13, he does not say it leads to hell. He says it leads to destruction. So are those the same thing? Is destruction another way of describing hell? Does destruction mean annihila...

In this episode, we examine A Little Star, a largely forgotten catechism first published in London in 1653 by William Mason.

For years it stood beneath the Texas sun, enduring heat, storms, pressure, wear, and tear. When weak spots appeared, they were patched. When new problems emerged, they were patched too. But eventually the wall gave way, the w...

Many Christians reject the charismatic movement while unknowingly embracing some of its foundational ideas. In this episode, we examine a sermon centered on the question, "How do you get a word from God?"

We look at an important section from chapter 1 of the Christian in Complete Armor

I review a sermon about fighting sexual sin.

We review a sermon about the tabernacle.

Sometimes it isn't one great tragedy that overwhelms us. It's the accumulation of a hundred small frustrations.

The systematic theology claims the Tabernacle foreshadows Christ as the true means of access to God. But what does the New Testament actually say about the Tabernacle, and how does that compare to the way much of modern Chris...

The systematic theology claims the Tabernacle foreshadows Christ as the true means of access to God. But what does the New Testament actually say about the Tabernacle, and how does that compare to the way much of modern Chris...

Proverbs repeatedly speaks of wisdom, instruction, mercy, truth, and God's commandments being "bound around thy neck." What did this imagery mean to the original audience?

It's 3:00 AM. The house is dark. Sleep isn't coming, so I reach for my iPad, open SermonAudio, and hit play. What happened next was one of the strangest listening experiences I've had in a long time.

Hosea 6:4 contains one of the most haunting descriptions of human devotion found anywhere in Scripture: "Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away." In this episode, we examine Hosea 5:15–6:7 in its...

As we continue our Rethinking the Prodigal Son series, we arrive at two ideas introduced in the book Finally Free: hedonism and Epicureanism. What do these terms actually mean? How have they shaped modern culture?

I've tried—and failed—to teach The Christian in Complete Armour more than once. This time, instead of reading through the entire work, we begin by examining 12 popular quotes attributed to William Gurnall—testing whether they...