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Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteClick the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Android podcast app. There are two important reasons why we can’t know everything about God, and one dangerous reason why we’ll keep trying to fit Him in a box that we do understand. This episode explores our hearts and discusses how we can live with a […]

Approximate Reading Time: 13 minutes(Click here for the podcast version of this article) When we read the Old Testament, it’s hard not to notice the number of candles required for the birthday cakes before the Flood in Genesis 6. People lived for hundreds of years, with Methuselah being the oldest recorded human at 969 years old. We often brush

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteClick the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Android podcast app. It can be scary to know that there are things about God we don’t understand. There may be things about Him we don’t like. What do we do? Often times, we’ll diminish God and bring Him down to a

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteClick the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app. We are body and soul, but we don’t have two parts. In the final episode of this series, I discuss why our souls were never meant to exist apart from our bodies, as well as how this belief aligns

Approximate Reading Time: 34 minutesChurches can split over silly things. Churches can also stay together despite some severe differences in important beliefs. Likewise, we as individuals can be guilty of leaving a church or staying in one for the wrong reasons. Individuals and churches need discernment to know what’s worth fighting for and what’s worth overlooking. This article looks

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteClick the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app. The Bible talks about a soul and spirit, but it talks about them as though they’re the same thing. In this episode, I discuss the strengths and weaknesses of a dichotomy view – that humans are a body and soul/spirit. One-time support:  PayPal or Venmo Monthly

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteClick the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app. Does the Bible portray us as 3-part beings? It seems that way at first, but there are some definite issues we must address if we’re going to hold to this interpretation. (Apologies for the lawnmower in the last 1/3 of the episode!) One-time

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteClick the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app. Part 1 of a look at what humans are made out of. This episode discusses the pros and cons of the biblical argument that we are purely natural creatures with no spiritual component.  One-time support:  PayPal or Venmo Monthly support: www.Patreon.com/OnwardintheFaith You can

Approximate Reading Time: 10 minutesAs the world continues giving in to fighting and division, Christians find themselves facing a difficult question. On one hand, we know we’re called to live in harmony with fellow believers, even if we disagree with them. On the other, we know that there are things so core to the Christian faith that not agreeing

Approximate Reading Time: 6 minutesIn the never-ending battle of Conservatives vs. Liberals, a new tension has emerged in recent years. White Conservatives find themselves baffled as they are given the label of “racist,” even if they’ve done nothing to indicate prejudice or hatred toward any race. The accusation immediately throws up their defenses as they get angry at being