The Distorted Truth Podcast

Send us Fan Mail In Psalm 23:3 David explains God's heart to restore humanity and lead us to right standing with Him. We see this play out when Jesus humbly lowers himself to this dark, broken world to atone for our sins. As Jesus hangs on the cross the very thing separating us from God,  torn in half.  We now have complete access to the presence of God! Not because of us, but because Jesus p...

Send us Fan Mail Do you struggle feeling like you have to keep it all together during the Christmas Season? Is it challenging for you  to let people know you are not okay? Sometimes the holidays aren't easy and life seems to throw its best punches at us this time of year. We wrestle on what it looks like to be a Christian yet not always feel the  Christmas Spirit.  It's okay that you are...

Send us Fan Mail Do you struggle during the Holidays? Do you feel like you are walking back through all the valleys you've journeyed before? Know that it is okay to grieve during this season but have hope knowing where God is in the midst of your pain. Join us as Carie breaks down Psalm 23, to teach us where God is while we are in the "valley of the shadow of death." This week we wi...

Send us Fan Mail Do you ever wonder what it was like for Peter to walk on water? So many of us look at what he did and wish we could walk on water like him. Although it was a miracle, there were struggles Peter faced along the way. We can learn so much from breaking down the story of him stepping out of the boat and walking on water. www.bgpministries.com https://www.instagram.com/bgp_ministries/...

Send us Fan Mail We all struggle with anxious thoughts and anxiety at times, but there is a way to overcome anxiety. Anxiety's definition shows its base is fear.  The Bible tells us, "God is love" and "perfect love drives out all fear". Therefore we know God is the answer to overcoming anxiety. But where do we start? We start by reading the Word to see what God says about...

Send us Fan Mail Michal, daughter of King Saul and wife of David. A daughter of a king and married to a king. One might think her life was full and rich yet her story shows us the realistic side of living in this fallen world. She was a pawn moved to and fro by her father and husband. She was mistreated, abandoned and betrayed. But, she had a choice to hold onto bitterness and resentment or forgiv...

Send us Fan Mail Are you a Christ following leader? If so, this word is for you! God wants to see a generation of humble leaders. What does that look like? When we read and study Jesus' life he, sets the perfect example of how to be a leader with humility. www.bgpministries.com https://www.instagram.com/bgp_ministries/ https://www.youtube.com/@CarieSmith

Send us Fan Mail We all know the story of Deborah, the fearless prophet and leader of Israel but do we take the time to study the story of Jael. God chose a woman, in a culture where women had no value, to have the honor of taking down the commander of the Canaanites.  A  woman willing to break three cultural norms in order to be obedient to God. A woman that cared more about fulfilling God's...

Send us Fan Mail Has God given you a dream or a vision? Does it sometime seem like maybe you just made it up in your head or that it will never happen? If God gives us a dream or a vision, He will be the one that makes it come to pass. Even when it doesn't seem like anything is going as we think it should, we surrender our agenda. We  trust that God is working everything together for good bec...

Send us Fan Mail As we uncover the story of a gentile woman, named Rahab, we see a foreshadowing of our Savior's bloodshed on our behalf. We see a cry from the broken, the disheartened, the margins for a Savior. We see a beautiful collision of our faith and God's grace meeting to birth a miracle in our lives.  www.bgpministries.com https://www.instagram.com/bgp_ministries/ https://www.yo...

Send us Fan Mail Did you know when you say "yes" to Jesus; when you confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you are instantaneously in right standing with God. So often we think in order to be in right standing with the Father we have to be perfect or at least not commit the "big" sins. The truth is there is...

Send us Fan Mail So many of us have questioned if we have purpose. We spend our lives trying different avenues in order to "discover" what it is. When doing this we find ourselves at the end of a road with no results. We need to understand that our purpose is not our calling. Our purpose comes from Matthew 22:34 where Jesus tells us the greatest commandment is to love God and love people...

Send us Fan Mail We all "sin and fall short of the glory of God" but the Bible tells us that if we are in Christ, we no longer stand condemned when we do sin. The amazing truth is Jesus stood in our place and paid our debt. He paid the price to set us free from condemnation. Not only did he pay the penalty for our sin, he also restored our relationship with the Father. We don't have...

Send us Fan Mail We all fail and "fall short" at times but does failing make us failures? If we are in Christ, we cannot be failures because the Word tells us we are victorious in Christ! It seems like such a simple answer but how do we keep from thinking we are failures when we mess up? How do we keep from thinking we are failures when we fall short? Learning how to separate our "w...

Send us Fan Mail The Bible tells us God knew us before we were born, that he called us by name and has a great plan for each of our lives. The amazing thing about it is that he already went ahead of us and worked out all the details. We are not in charge of figuring everything out. We are not responsible for qualifying ourselves. God qualifies us  therefore our qualifications aren't based on...

Send us Fan Mail Do you base your worth and value on what people say about you, what you have done or what you have accomplished in life? Part of being a new creation in Christ is understanding our worth and value isn't based on all the things the world says makes us worthy and valuable. Our worth and value is solely dependent on whose we are. That we are children of God; sons and daughters o...

Send us Fan Mail Do you know that God loved you before you were ever born? His love for you will never change no matter what you feel, what your circumstances are and what you do. God is love therefore love is not something he does, but who he is. Many of us base our perception of God's love on people that have fallen short to show us true "agape" (love in Greek). This is the kind o...

Send us Fan Mail Do you ever wonder what it means that you are a new creation in Christ? What does it look like to have a completely new identity in Christ once you surrender you life to Jesus? Join in for this nine week series based off Carie's book, "Identity Christ-Us". Carie will explain what it looks like to have a new identity in Christ and how to walk that out in your daily l...

Send us Fan Mail We see how God in the flesh, Jesus, persevered all throughout his life. He lived in a culture that if you weren't the part of a certain status,  you were considered less than. Jesus refused to confirm to the cultural norm and his love for humanity persevered past the religious box into the margins. His love persevered past the sin of the world, past the suffering he face, pas...

Send us Fan Mail No matter what we have done or what has been done to us there is always hope for us. It's not because of us but because God sent us Jesus, our hope. When we realize that we need a Savior and truly accept what he did for us on the cross we can walk in the hope he paid for us to have. Once we realize we aren't hopeless and accept Jesus' forgiveness for our sins, we no...

Send us Fan Mail God's love for us looks beyond the times we've rejected him, betrayed him and denied him. God “is ever ready to believe the best of every person…”(1 Corinthians 13:7 AMPC). But, as humans, we tend to think the worst of people instead of believing the best. We struggle to demonstrate the mercy God shows us. How do we if people have hurt us over and over? What does it look...

Send us Fan Mail What was Paul trying to convey to us when he wrote, "love always protects"? The Greek word used for "protects" in this sentence has several different definitions. First, God protects us physically, just like protected his people all throughout the Bible. Second, He keeps our personal business in confidence.  We serve a God that doesn't throw us under the b...

Send us Fan Mail Some of us have an idea that God is up in Heaven just waiting to catch us in our sin. Almost as if he is excited and delights in evil. That is so far from the true character of God. The truth is God understands that sin leads to death and destruction. He see the consequences we face when we choose sin over walking in our righteousness that Jesus paid for us to have. He loves us so...

Send us Fan Mail We have all sinned and fall short of the Glory of God but none of us could ever make up for or pay for our sin. That is why God sent His One and Only Son to pay the price for every sin we ever committed or ever will commit. This Good Friday let's reflect on what Jesus did for us. Let's revisit the simple gospel to contemplate just how amazing his grace truly is.  www.bgp...

Send us Fan Mail So many of us think God is up in Heaven with a giant white board and black marker keeping tally marks of every wrong thing we think and say. We imagine him keeping record of every wrong thing we have done in order to put shame, guilt and condemnation on us. This is so far from the truth of who God is. The Bible tells us God keeps no record of wrongs. He is a loving God that sent h...