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📜🍎 “Inherited Damage (Not Your Fault, Still Your Problem) (A Song About Original Sin)” Original Sin is probably one of the most misunderstood doctrines in Christianity. Some people think it means babies are personally evil. Others think humanity is basically perfect and society ruins us later. And somewhere in the middle is the modern idea that “original sin” just means “the first dumb thing you...

🇺🇸📜 **"Created Equal" — America Didn't Invent the Idea. America Enshrined It.** Today marks the **250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.** For two and a half centuries, Americans have repeated these words: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..." But here's the question: **Why?** Why are all people equal? History certainly didn't think so. Ancien...

🪨🔑 “Peter Means Rock” — The Pebble Argument Had A Nice Run Apparently Jesus changed Simon’s name to Rock, built something on “this rock,” gave him the keys, and then some folks said: “Could be unrelated.” Bold strategy. The old “Petros means little stone / Petra means big rock” argument sounds clever until you actually slow down and read the passage. Jesus was speaking Aramaic. The word is rock....

📜⚖️ “That’s Not Fair” — a song about objective morality, hypocrisy, and the weird little problem people run into when they insist morality is subjective… right before telling everyone what they should and shouldn’t do. This one started with a simple question: How do you get from “I don’t like that” to “you ought not do that” …without quietly borrowing a ladder from the building you just condemned...

📜 — If Sola Scriptura was THE plan from the beginning… why did most of the Apostles never write anything? That’s the joke. But also… kind of the question. This new Peter’s Barque track leans hard into the absurdity: 🎶 Andrew evangelized nations… but apparently forgot to leave notes. 🎶 Bartholomew got flayed alive for Christ… but didn’t “submit paperwork.” 🎶 Luke and Mark weren’t Apostles. 🎶 N...

A lot of people have asked how they can support Peter’s Barque. The best answer is still simple: Share the songs. Send them to friends. Use them in OCIA, youth ministry, Bible studies, classrooms, and comment sections when the same old anti-Catholic canards show up again. That helps more than you know. But I also wanted to share one other thing. Peter’s Barque is new for me — but digital marketing...

🍞🍷🩸 “Ancient Scandal (Transubstantiation)” — The Eucharist Was Always Scandalous Yesterday was the Feast of Corpus Christi — the celebration of the Body and Blood of Christ. Which makes this a fitting week to release a song about one of the strangest accusations ever leveled against Christians: Cannibalism. That sounds absurd to modern ears… until you realize why the accusation existed in the f...

🕯️⚖️☀️ "I WANT TO WANT" — When Your Heart Chooses the Lesser Light Saint Augustine didn’t deny the good. He knew it. He respected it. He just prayed: “Give me chastity… but not yet.” That’s not ancient history. That’s Tuesday. We don’t usually choose evil because it’s evil. We choose real goods—comfort, pleasure, distraction— just not in their proper place. The smaller light. The nearer thing. The...

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🔥✨ “We Didn’t Invent This” — Simple… and Somehow More Than One? Last week we talked about divine simplicity—God isn’t made of parts, not divided, not composed. This week we run into what *sounds* like a contradiction: One God… and yet Father, Son, and Spirit. If your idea of God fits neatly inside your own mind… that should raise a red flag. A lot of people reject the Trinity because it “doesn’t...

📜🔥 “BABEL UNDONE (PENTECOST)” NEW BONUS DROP! Most people know the story of the Tower of Babel. Humanity gathers together. One people. One language. One great project. “Let us make a name for ourselves.” And then suddenly: confusion. Division. Scattering. Languages splitting apart. But here’s the strange thing… When Pentecost arrives in Acts 2, the Bible suddenly starts obsessing over languages...

Title: 🧠✨ Simple (Not Basic) 🧠✨ "Simple (Not Basic)" — God isn’t built… and that changes everything What if God isn’t just the biggest thing… but not a “thing” at all? Most of us—without realizing it—picture God like a super-powered version of us. Smarter. Stronger. Eternal. But still… built. Still something that has attributes. Still something that could, at least in theory, be taken apart....

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I'm the director of OCIA for my parish, and as such my name, email, and phone number appear in the bulletin, which appears online. Quite frequently, some spammer scrapes the information, then spoofs being my priest (who I have known personally for 20+ years)... and sometimes... I string them along... Subscribe to Ask Catholics on Soundwise

📜✨ **"He Ascended, But His Body Remained" — The Ascension Didn’t End Christ’s Reign. It Revealed It.** **He didn’t leave. He reigns.** The Ascension is often treated like a departure scene. Jesus goes up… and the story shifts to the apostles figuring things out on their own. But that’s not what happened. Christ ascends as the **Son of Man**, fulfilling Book of Daniel — receiving dominion, glory,...

❤️🪨✨ "Not of Works" — Now Animated Same song. New experiment. This week I’m trying something different. I’ve taken “Not of Works” and turned it into a fully animated version—simple, visual, catechetical… something that shows the theology, not just says it. Because this topic matters. Abraham is called justified by faith. He’s also called justified by what he did. Same with Rahab. That’s not a co...

📜✨ "Not of Works" — The Verse Everyone Quotes… and the One They Skip Not of works. You’ve heard it. You’ve probably had it quoted at you. Like it settles everything. But Scripture doesn’t contradict itself—and it doesn’t stutter either. Paul says Abraham was justified by faith: 👉 “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” (Romans 4:3) The author of Hebrews says the same...

🧬⏳ “The Biology Doesn’t Change — You Were Always You” BONUS FRIDAY SONG The argument is often dressed up in complicated language. “Clump of cells.” “Potential life.” “Not a person yet.” “Just tissue.” But strip away the slogans, and the question gets much simpler: What exactly changed? Not your humanity. Not your life. Not your identity. Not the kind of being you were. You were smaller. You were...

We preach the Bible every single day, not just on Sundays (or Sundays and Wednesdays). And when we preach... We Literally Stand For The Gospel https://x.com/i/status/2003799316516032720 #short Subscribe to Ask Catholics on Soundwise

Honor is not worship. And it’s not a zero-sum game. God doesn’t lose glory because He shares it— He creates glory by sharing it. The same God who says, “I will not give My glory to another” (Isaiah 42:8), is the One who crowns His saints with glory (Romans 2:10). So what gives? Simple: Worship (latria) belongs to God alone. But honor? Glory? Participation in His goodness? That’s exactly what He wa...

📜❌⚖️✅ “Essentials: Who Decides?” — If It Matters… Then It Matters Who Decides It sounds beautiful. “In essentials, unity… in non-essentials, liberty… in all things, charity.” But there’s a problem hiding in plain sight: Who decides what counts as *essential*? Because if you can’t answer that, you don’t actually have unity—you have a thousand private judgments pretending to agree. Take baptism....

**𝗛𝗲𝘆, 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝗺𝘆 𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗕 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴?** 😅🎶 Fair question. **𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝟭𝟮𝟬 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀** 𝗶𝘀 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗱. And honestly, I’m deeply grateful. Peter’s Barque has grown faster than I expected, and part of that has meant writing, recording, editing, and releasing at a pace that has been exciting… but probably not sustainable forever. 𝗦𝗼 𝗜’𝗺 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗳𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 **𝗮 𝟭+ 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗽𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼...

📖🎙️ **"Call No Man Father?" — The Favorite Mic Drop… That Falls Apart** “Call no man father.” You’ve seen it. You’ve heard it. Dropped like a mic… conversation over. Except… it’s not. Because in the *same breath*, Jesus also says not to call anyone “teacher.” And yet — **Ephesians 4** — God *gives teachers to the Church.* So either: Scripture contradicts itself… the apostles ignored Jesus immedia...

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The people who often think they are railing against man-made Traditions are oftentimes swallowing them Hook Line and sinker Sola scriptura is a man-made tradition added to the scriptures that not only is itself not found in scriptures so it fails its own test, but it is in fact anti-scriptural. Premise 1: Sola scriptura, that is Scripture alone is the sole infallible binding source of Authority fo...