Contending For The Faith

A heartfelt welcome to our newest listeners from Japan, Singapore, Germany, Spain, Pennsylvania, Texas, California, Virginia, and Delaware. A great big God bless you as we welcome you to our listening community. Thanks for joining us and a big shout out to all listeners everywhere for tuning in and sharing your time with us. Join hosts Bishop LaCreece Roston and Bishop Ronald Roston as they explor...

A heartfelt welcome to our newest listeners from Bolivia, Colombia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Pennsylvania, Texas, California, Ohio, Virginia, Washington, and Delaware. Great big God bless you as we welcome you to our listening community. Thanks for joining us. In fact, a big shout out to all of our listeners everywhere. Thanks for tuning in and sharing some of your time with us. We do pray the manifo...

Hosts Bishop Ronald and Bishop LaCreece Roston welcome listeners and explore the biblical Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah), drawing on scripture and the works of Dr. Richard Booker and Dr. Thomas Lancaster. The episode explains the timing and rituals of Rosh Hashanah—the blowing of the shofar, the ten days of repentance leading to Yom Kippur, and the festival’s ten traditional remembr...

A heartfelt welcome to our newest stateside listeners from California, Ohio, Virginia, and 76 from Texas, and our 11 new international listeners from Japan. God bless you and thank you for joining our listening community. In this episode Bishops LaCreece and Ronald Roston open with prayer and a review of last week’s message on the "fullness of time," patience, faith, and the Church'’s...

Praise God, he continues to bless us not only by adding new listeners to our community, but by his divine protection. During a recent thunderstorm, we had a lightning strike right outside of our house, less than 25 feet from the house and less than 10 feet from the car. Totally split a tree, but no harm to us. Thank you, Yeshua. So as we always say, welcome, welcome, welcome. A big shout out to al...

Join Bishops Ronald and LaCreece Roxton as they explore the biblical meaning of the "fullness of time," grounded in Galatians 4:4–5 and Ephesians 1:10. This episode explains how God’s appointed timing brought the Messiah, fulfilled prophecy, and establishes the moment when God’s promises and covenants come to fruition. The hosts unpack how the fullness of time reflects progressiv...

Praise God he continues to bless us by adding to our community of listeners. It's really growing. We do extend a heartfelt welcome to our newest listeners from the following places. Brazil, France, Italy, Bangladesh, Cote d'Ivoire, which is the Ivory Coast in West Africa, the Dominican Republic, Pakistan, California, Ohio, Oregon, and Tennessee in the United States. As we always say, we welcome yo...

Praise God, he continues to bless us. Our community of listeners is growing—welcome to new listeners from Utah, Virginia, Jamaica, Morocco, Naples, the Palestinian Territory, Ukraine, Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Iraq, India, Indonesia, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Bangladesh, and everywhere else. We are grateful for your time, prayers, and support. Join hosts Bishop Ronald Roston and Bishop LaCreece R...

Welcome to this episode of Contending for the Faith. We greet new listeners from Nigeria, Japan, Ohio, California, Washington, Georgia, New Mexico, and New Jersey. Join Bishops LaCreece Roston and Ronald Roston as they examine how the Church is called to grow in grace and knowledge (2 Peter 3:18). This episode explains progressive growth as the lifelong process of spiritual maturation — prog...

The hosts welcome new listeners from around the world and thank the community for their support. In this episode Bishop Ronald Roston and Bishop LaCreece Roston discuss "progressive growth" in the Church, using 2 Peter 3:18 as their foundation: growing in grace and the knowledge of Jesus Christ. They trace the early Church's expansion from a Jewish movement in Galilee to a worldwide faith, explain...

This episode welcomes new listeners and opens with a prayer, then examines the New Age movement — its practices (astrology, yoga, meditation), its spread into health and psychology, and the theological dangers it poses to Christian doctrine (denial of sin, belief in karma and reincarnation, rejection of heaven/hell). The hosts connect New Age ideas to the concept of a New World Order and war...

Hosts Bishop Ronald and Bishop LaCreece Roston open the episode by welcoming listeners from around the world and reading key scriptures about a coming “falling away” (1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy). They frame the discussion around the New Age movement, the New World Order, and the spiritual dangers facing the Church. The episode summarizes core New Age beliefs—spir...

We thank God for our newest listeners from the following places, Singapore, Japan, Morocco, Pennsylvania, Georgia, California, Texas, Alabama, Florida, and New York. We say as we always say, welcome and thank you for joining us. We want to give a big shout out to all of our listeners everywhere. Again, we say thanks for tuning in and sharing some of your time with us. We do pray the manifold bless...

In this episode of Contending for the Faith, hosts Bishop Ronald Roston and and Bishop LaCreece Roston welcome new listeners from around the world, dedicate the segment to the late Bishop Clyde A. Roston, and open with prayer. Using 2 Thessalonians 2:3 and 1 Timothy 4:1 as guiding scriptures, they continue a discussion on "the falling away," reviewing historical examples such as the Reformation an...

In this episode Bishop LaCreece Roston and Bishop Ronald Roston welcome listeners worldwide and dedicate the podcast to the late Bishop Clyde A. Roxton. They open with prayer and anchor the discussion in Scripture (1 Thessalonians 2:3 and 1 Timothy 4:1) to examine the prophetic "falling away." The hosts review the Protestant Reformation as a historic falling away from Roman Catholicism, outlining...

We thank God for our newest listeners from the following places: Malaysia, Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania, Florida, Arizona, California, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and New York. As always, welcome and thanks for joining us — we pray God's manifold blessing upon you and your loved ones. In this episode of Contending for the Faith, Bishop Ronald Roston and Bishop LaCreece Roston examine the bibli...

Join Bishops LaCreece and Ronald Roston as they explore the biblical and historical meaning of the “falling away.” Using scriptures such as 2 Thessalonians 2:3 and 1 Timothy 4:1, this episode examines why followers have turned away from public witness—from the disciples at Calvary to the persecuted Church hiding in catacombs—and how that retreat can sometimes be strategic r...

In this episode Bishop Ronald and Bishop LaCreece Rostin welcome new listeners and pray for God’s blessing before diving into a Bible-based exploration of the “falling away.” Using key scriptures (2 Thessalonians 2:3, 1 Timothy 4:1 and John 6), they define the last falling away as a spiritual departure that precedes the revealing of lawlessness and describe how deception, self-ce...

In this episode of Contending for the Faith, Bishops LaCreece and Ronald Roston examine the biblical concept of the "falling away" before the second coming of Yahushua. Using scriptures from Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, and John 6, they discuss the son of perdition, the rise of the beast, the abomination of desolation, and how a mass departure from foundational Christian truths will impact the univer...

Join Bishop Ronald Roston and co-host Courtney Fitchard as they open with prayer and welcome new listeners from Hong Kong, Texas, Alabama, New Jersey, and Georgia. In this episode they invite you to get your Bible and notebook and prepare for a deep look at Scripture. Using 1 Thessalonians and 1 Timothy as their base texts, the hosts examine the prophecy of a great falling away, the revealing of t...

Contending for the Faith.  Praise God, our community of listeners is really growing. Our heartfelt welcome to our newest listeners from the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, Virginia, Michigan, Alabama, Arizona, New Jersey, Wisconsin, California, Connecticut, Cambodia, Canada, United Kingdom, and South Africa. As we always say, welcome, welcome, welcome. Thanks for joining us. In this epis...

Praise God, our community of listeners is really growing, it's growing, growing, it really is, and we would like to extend a heartfelt welcome to our newest listeners from the following places. Wyoming, Nebraska, West Virginia, Ohio. New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Virginia, Angola, Israel, the Philippines, and Brazil. We say great big God bless you and welcome to the podcast. Thanks for joini...

Praise God, and praise God for our community of listeners, and that our community of listeners are really growing. A heartfelt welcome to our newest listeners from the following places: Those from New York, Arizona, Delaware, Iowa, Washington, Texas, Illinois, Florida, Utah, Alabama, Indiana, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, New Jersey, Egypt, Vietnam, Iraq, Bangladesh, Colombia, the Philippines, Peru...

Praise God, our community of listeners is really growing. Heartfelt welcome to all of our newest listeners from Pennsylvania, New York, California, Washington, Egypt, Brazil, Kenya, Pakistan, Cote d'Ivoire, New Jersey, Vietnam, Sweden, El Salvador, Ukraine, Ohio, Uruguay, Iraq, Bangladesh, Colombia, Georgia, Mexico, the Philippines, Peru, Panama, Mexico, Bahrain, Paraguay, Kyrgyzstan, and Texas. W...

Join Bishops Ronald and LaCreece Roston as they welcome a rapidly growing global audience and address the spiritual and societal turmoil of the end of time. Drawing on II Timothy 3:1 and Philippians 4:19, they describe the moral decay, spiritual apostasy, and chaotic behavior that mark these perilous times, and emphasize the Church's need for prayer, discernment, and steadfastness in Gods Word. Th...