The So Great Salvation Podcast

Visionary Apostolic Ministry in the House Church — Pt. 2: Watered-Down Words What happens when we take a biblical ministry and replace its biblical name with a softer, more familiar term? In this episode, we examine words like “church planter,” “founding pastor,” and even “missionary.” These expressions may describe something a person is doing, but do they adequately describe what the New Testamen...

Visionary Apostolic Ministry in the House Church — Pt. 1 Apostolic Ministry Defined What exactly is apostolic ministry ? When we hear the word apostle , our minds naturally go to the Twelve—and rightly so. The Twelve occupied a unique and foundational place in the history of redemption. Jesus personally chose them, commissioned them, and gave them a ministry that could never simply be duplicated....

The Horrible Truth — Part 7B: GLORYLost in the Light What if the greatest motivation God gives us to live a holy, faithful life is not merely the fear of loss—but the astonishing possibility of glory? In this episode, we continue our exploration of the coming Kingdom and the incredible promises made to the faithful believer. Scripture speaks of believers sharing in Christ’s glory, being honored at...

The Horrible Truth — Part 7A: GLORY What if one of the greatest motivations God has given His children is something we have barely stopped to consider? Glory. Not merely the glory that belongs to God—but the astonishing possibility that, in the coming Kingdom, we may actually share in the glory of Christ. The Bible speaks about glory in ways that are difficult to comprehend. It speaks of honor, re...

The Horrible Truth – Part 6E: MERCYPractical Mercy in the Hands and Feet We've talked about mercy as an investment. We've talked about its power to motivate us. But now comes the practical question:**How do we actually invest in mercy?**How do we put mercy into our hands and feet? The Bible is remarkably practical. Jesus said:**“Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.”**...

The Horrible Truth – Part 6D: MERCY Encouragement: Power to Live We've talked about mercy as an investment, and about the coming Judgment Seat of Christ. But there's another side to the promise of reward:**It gives us power to live.**Some argue that looking toward future rewards is just “pie in the sky”—that Christians should simply do what is right without thinking about what we might rec...

The Horrible Truth – Part 6C: MERCY. The “Judgment Seat of Christ” Kind of MercyWe've talked about mercy as an investment. But now I want to take that thought directly to the **Judgment Seat of Christ**.If we are going to stand before Christ and give an account of how we lived, then one question becomes especially important:**How did we treat people who hurt us?**Did we forgive? Did we show me...

The Horrible Truth – Part 6B: MERCY: The Greatest Investment Ever If The Horrible Truth has taught us anything, it is that we should take the warnings of Scripture seriously. The Judgment Seat of Christ is real. The prospect of millennial exclusion is not something we should casually dismiss. But God doesn't warn us simply to frighten us. The warnings are intended to change the way we live. Script...

The Horrible Truth – Part 6A: MERCYThe X-Factor of Millennial Exclusion Up to this point in The Horrible Truth, we have spent a great deal of time in doctrine—examining the warnings of Scripture, the Judgment Seat of Christ, the possibility of millennial exclusion, and the sobering consequences of failing to walk faithfully with Christ. But now, we need to make a turn. Because if what we have been...

The Horrible Truth — Hell: Part 4"Israel as a Picture" What if one of the clearest pictures of the Christian journey in the Bible was given to us thousands of years before Christ ever walked the earth? Israel’s exodus from Egypt is more than an ancient historical account. The New Testament tells us these things were written for our examples—and the parallels are remarkably difficult to i...

The Horrible Truth — Hell: Part 366-Book Consistency So far, we've challenged one of the most deeply ingrained assumptions about Hell: that the biblical word hell automatically means the eternal destination of the damned. We've also begun following the warnings of Jesus in Matthew, where servants—servants of the Master—are warned about the consequences of unfaithfulness. Outer darkness. We...

The Horrible Truth — Part 7:B: GLORYLost in the Light What if the greatest motivation God gives us to live a holy, faithful life is not merely the fear of loss—but the astonishing possibility of glory ? In this episode, we continue our exploration of the coming Kingdom and the incredible promises made to the faithful believer. Scripture speaks of believers sharing in Christ’s glory, being honored...

The Horrible Truth — Hell: Part 2"The Journey All Began with the Book of Matthew" If Hell is not the eternal destination of the damned, then what exactly are we supposed to make of the passages in the New Testament that speak of **outer darkness, weeping and gnashing of teeth, and a servant being separated from his master?**This is where our journey really begins. And interestingly enoug...

The Horrible Truth — Hell: Part 1"Leaving Roman Wives’ Tales" What if much of what you have been taught about “Hell” isn’t actually what the Bible says? That may sound like a shocking question, but before we can honestly examine the biblical doctrine of Hell, we have to separate **Scripture from tradition**. For centuries, the popular Christian imagination has pictured Hell as the eterna...

The Horrible Truth – Part 4E: ExclusionPaul's Uncertainty and Concluding Thoughts As we conclude this series on Millennial Exclusion, we return to one of the greatest Christians who ever lived—the Apostle Paul. If anyone could have presumed upon future reward, it was Paul. He preached the gospel across the Roman Empire, suffered imprisonment, beatings, shipwrecks, persecution, and ultimately marty...

The Horrible Truth – Part 4D: ExclusionNailing It Down By now, we've laid the foundation. We've distinguished eternal salvation from Kingdom inheritance. We've seen that the warning passages are written to believers, not merely to "false professors." We've examined the reality of carnal Christians and the certainty of the Judgment Seat of Christ. But perhaps one objection remains: "Isn't Millennia...

The Horrible Truth – Part 4C: Exclusion Defended Secure Forever, Yet Accountable ForeverPerhaps no objection is raised more quickly against the doctrine of Millennial Exclusion than this: "If a believer can miss the Millennial Kingdom, doesn't that mean salvation can be lost?" It is an understandable question—but it assumes that salvation and Kingdom inheritance are the same thing. The New Testame...

The Horrible Truth – Part 4B Exclusion Missing the Kingdom Carnal Christians and the Myth of the "False Professor"One of the most common ways Christians explain away the warning passages of the New Testament is by appealing to a category that the Bible itself never names: the "false professor." Whenever a passage warns of judgment, loss, exclusion, chastening, or failing to inh...

The Horrible Truth – Part 4A Exclusion: Kingdom Verses Few doctrines have generated more confusion, ridicule, and emotional resistance than the teaching commonly called Millennial Exclusion. For some, the very phrase sounds like heresy. Others have never heard of it at all. Yet behind the controversial name lies a simple question that every Bible student must eventually answer:What do the New Test...

The Horrible Truth – Part 3B: Responsibility Now that we know what the Kingdom is—a literal, future, Theocratic reign of Jesus Christ upon the earth from David's throne in Jerusalem—we are ready to ask the next question:What do we do with all the passages that connect entrance into that Kingdom, participation in it, inheritance, authority, and reward to the believer's faithfulness? For man...

The Horrible Truth – Part 3A: Responsibility One of the greatest sources of confusion in Christian theology is the failure to distinguish between salvation and responsibility. Many believers have been taught that every warning in the New Testament must refer either to the loss of salvation or to the loss of fellowship. Yet neither explanation fully accounts for the many passages that speak of rewa...

The Horrible Truth – Part 2: Easy Believism – What Else Can We Do But Believe? Few accusations in modern Christianity are as common—or as misunderstood—as the phrase "easy believism."For many, this phrase is used as a warning against a shallow, incomplete, or careless approach to salvation. Critics argue that telling people they can be saved simply by believing in Jesus makes salvation t...

The Horrible Truth – Part 1: Eternal Security, Controversy, and the Battle Over Once Saved, Always Saved Few doctrines in Christianity have produced as much controversy and emotional debate as eternal security —the belief that once a person has truly received eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ, that life can never be lost. For many believers, this doctrine represents the very heart of God&...

S18E6 – Striving Without Strife, Part 6: Holy Friction – Conclusion Conflict is unavoidable—but strife is not. Throughout this series, we've seen that Scripture neither ignores disagreement nor glorifies it. Christians are called to contend earnestly for the faith, yet to do so with humility, gentleness, and love. We've explored why believers argue, the delicate balance between unity and s...

S18E5 – Striving Without Strife, Part 5: Holy Friction – When God Uses Contention to Move His People No one enjoys conflict. When disagreements arise among believers, our first instinct is often to assume that something has gone terribly wrong. We naturally associate contention with carnality, division, or spiritual failure. While Scripture certainly warns against sinful strife, it also records mo...