Stand Up For The Truth Podcast

Mary welcomes back apologist and author Chris Lawson to talk about a subject both had hoped would never come up again: the phenomenally successful The Shack. William Paul Young has done it again in publishing a sequel to his 25 million selling book that was never intended to go into the Christian book market. The new book, “Return to the Shack” must be vetted as thoroughly as the original. Problem is, the original was largely swallowed hook, line and sinker, much to the detriment of the church. The original was very much a Kodak moment in the church already. So what’s new if anything in this 2026 model? We talk about his theology, the doubling down of his unorthodox New Age flavored universalism, and look at how the church can take a stand against such postmodern, heretical drivel. Chris has written several outstanding booklets for Lighthouse Trails Research as well, and you can find those here.

 

 

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Mary welcomes back Russ Miller to talk about what the Greco-Roman world referred to as their very own brand of professional intellectuals, logicians, and academic debaters who relied on philosophy, rhetoric, and argument to define truth. These disputers, as Paul calls them, were said to be “inquirers of truth” but many of us might wonder if they were ever, or are today, actually interested in truth! Today’s conversation with Russ is a bit different, taking the perspective of the unbeliever/atheist and in looking at Romans 1 in which we learn that all men know there is a Creator, and what it means when they deny it. We talk about the big bang and its origins, why skeptics refuse to believe in a Creator and why that might be a threat to them. We also look at their biggest questions, and add a few of our own. A fun and enlightning hour.

 

 

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On this week’s headline podcast, we talk about what is holding back the tide of evil in this overtly evil age. Did you ever stop to think about what God allows – and disallows? The dramatic events surrounding the FlyDubai flight of September 30 drove this home in that God really did do a miracle for those passengers, a full flight of Israelis, many of them flying to Israel to celebrate the feast of Tabernacles. So what kind of evil will be unleashed once the church is gone? Who is the Restrainer spoken of by Paul, and is there a connection between the two?  The church cannot agree, as usual, but there really is only one answer and it’s not some vague random power. We talk about antisemitism, Christianity being marginalized, and the comfort we can have when we realize that God is truly on the throne, involved in the affairs of men, and that the book of Revelation should inspire worship above all. A full hour looking at today, the only day we really have to do the work of God while we still can. Darkness is descending.

 

 

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Mary welcomes back Olivier Melnick on this eve the 3rd anniversary of the October 7 attacks. What has transpired in that time, what have we learned? Some of it is just so grievous, in the case of antisemitism.  Weeping for the night (Psalm 30:5) surely describes the scars on the the people over time – but joy in the morning – we often look at this through a far more temporal lens, the short view of day and night and our smaller trials but there is something much bigger in view here:  Israel’s long night of struggle and the dawn of redemption. We talk about Hamas and their agenda, and Europe and their agenda. None of it pro-Israel, of course. And yet as we see the Day approaching, the Bright and Morning Star surely promised, let’s hold fast our confession of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and press on in truth about Israel from God’s perspective.

 

 

 

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Mary is back with a solo podcast taking on the late blooming fruit of the Purpose Driven/Seeker Sensitive/motivational paradigm of the corporate branding of the church. It’s been over 20 years since the Evangelical Industrial Complex redefined what a church is, what preaching is, and the consumer approach to all of it. Where are we at? It’s not good. Even small-to-middlin’ churches have adopted the cape wearing hero style of many if not most pastors today. What is a pastor, after all? Why are so many failing to finish well? If a church isn’t teaching the Bible systematically, what are they doing? Is there a name for what people sit through every Sunday? Many sharp Christians know what is missing, but they can’t seem to name it. We name it today. We look at C. Peter Wagner and Peter Drucker, the men responsible for the Signs and Wonders movement, the NAR, and the corporate top-down, success oriented view of the pews – and it is wholly unbiblical. No sacred cows today, just straight shooting as we assess the fallout of the purpose driven drivel over the Spirit led church.

 

 

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