A New Voice of Freedom

Season 5 Podcast 54 The Stories of the New Testament, Matthew 26 D, “Gethsemane A.” In last week’s episode we explored The Last Supper. In this week’s episode we shall explore Gethsemane.  In a very touching scene, we have the last moments of peace in the Savior’s life. Matthew records. “And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.” The greatest drama this earth has ever...

Season 5 Podcast 53 A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, Episode 38, “Determinism vs Free Will: The Genetic Code.” Stephen Hawking in his book, The Grand Design, offered the following argument: “Recent experiments in neuroscience support the view that it is our physical brain, following the known laws of science, that determines our actions, and not some agency that exists ou...

Season 5 Podcast 52 John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, Episode 13 Chapter 3 E, “Piety.”  In last week’s episode, Christian, after a rigorous interview was invited into the Palace. We were introduced to Watchful, Discretion, Prudence, Piety, and Charity. This week we shall enter the Palace. His hosts, Piety, Prudence, and Charity invite Christian to recount his journey. Then he bowed his head, and f...

Season 5 Podcast 51 The Stories of the New Testament, Matthew 26 C, “The Last Supper.” In last week’s episode we explored The Betrayal. In this week’s episode we shall explore The Last Supper.  “And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, sayin...

Season 5 Podcast 50 A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, Episode 37, “Determinism vs Free Will: The Uncertainty Principle.” In this podcast I would like to reveal a fundamental flaw in the logic of science. The flaw exists because science does not recognize the immortality of the soul, that fundamentally we have both a physical body and a spiritual body. The spirit was create...

Season 5 Podcast 49 John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, Episode 12 Chapter 3 D, “The Palace.”  In last week’s episode, Christian, while climbing the Hill of Difficulty, met Timorous and Mistrust who have given up their quest midway up the Hill of Difficulty because they saw two sleeping lions in the path. In their horror they didn’t recognized that the lions were chained. They go down the hill, but...

Season 5 Podcast 48 The Stories of the New Testament, Matthew 26 B, “The Betrayal.” In last week’s episode we explored The Anointing. In this week’s episode we shall explore The Betrayal. Because of the principle of opposition, because Christianity deals with mortality and immortality, good and evil, God and Satan, freedom and captivity, the omniscience of God vs the limitations of mortal man, Chr...

Season 5 Podcast 47, A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, Episode 36, “Determinism vs Free Will.” In his book, The Grand Design , Stephen Hawking wrote,  “Since people live in the universe and interact with the other objects in it, scientific determinism must hold for people as well.”  That is a non sequitur. It doesn’t follow. The assumption in Mr. Hawking’s assertion, of co...

Season 5 Podcast 46 John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, Episode 11 Chapter 3 C, “The Lions.”  In last weeks episode, two persons who climbed over the wall rather than entering in at the Wicket Gate meet their end. Hypocrisy dies on the Road of Destruction and Presumption is lost in wild woods on the Road of Danger. Only Christian, who entered in at the proper gate, climbs the Hill of Difficulty. Chr...

Season 5 Podcast 45 The Stories of the New Testament, Matthew 26 A, “The Anointing.” In the Book of Matthew, Chapter 25 contains the last teachings of Jesus through parables. In only two days he will be betrayed by Judas, and in a cold and calculating way the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders will conspire to crucify The Son of God. “And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these...

Season 5 Podcast 44, A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, Episode 35, “Science and Faith B ‘Self-Existing Law’.” In last week’s episode we introduced the following quote from Stephen Hawking’s book, “The Grand Design.” In this episode I want to explore its implications further.  Over the centuries many, including Aristotle, believed that the universe must have always existed...

Season 5 Podcast 43 John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, Episode 10 Chapter 3 B, “The Hill of Difficulty.”  In last week’s episode, Christian laid his burdens at the cross where he met The Three Shining Ones who gave him gifts to prepare him for his journey to the Promised Land. As Christian resumed his journey, he met Simple, Sloth, and Presumption fettered to the ground. They refused Christian’s co...

Season 5 Podcast 42 The Stories of the New Testament, Matthew 25 G, “The Parable of the Sheep and Goats.” The final parable in Mathew 25 is the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats. Again, one of the primary purposes of the parables of Jesus is to teach us how to enter what Paul refers to as the Third Heaven, also referred to by Paul as the Celestial Glory, called by some The Celestial Kingdom which...

Season 5 Podcast 41, A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, Episode 34, “Science and Faith A ‘Law’.” A scientist may be an atheist or a theist, but true science should be neither. Science deals with the how. Religion deals with the why. Both atheist and theist may make a great scientist. The reason is very simple. All things are governed by a complete set of laws, and laws are...

Season 5 Podcast 40 John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, Episode 9 Chapter 3 A, “The Three Shining Ones.”  In last week’s episode, we concluded with The Interpreter. In this week’s episode we finally come to the cross where Christian lays his burden down. Following the cross, Christian meets several unsavory fellows. The characters Christian meets along the way symbolize temptations of the flesh. Now...

Season 5 Podcast 39 The Stories of the New Testament, Matthew 25 F, “The Parable of the Talents Pt 2.” This is the second half of the Parable of the Talents. If you have not heard Pt 1, may we recommend that you listen to Podcast 35 first. It serves as an introduction. A talent is an extremely large sum of money; however, it can refer to any gift of the spirit. Parables, of course, do not give the...

Season 5 Podcast 38, A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, Episode 33, “Charity.” I should like to begin this with a quote by William James taken from his book “The Principles of Psychology.”   “The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. Could...

Season 5 Podcast 37 John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, Episode 8 Chapter 2 D, “The Final Judgment.”  In last week’s episode, we continued with The Interpreter. In this week’s episode we conclude as he takes us to the Final Judgment.  Speaking to a man, once of great faith locked in a cage, Christian asks,  “But how camest thou in this condition. The man answered, I left off to watch and be sober. I...

Season 5 Podcast 36 The Stories of the New Testament, Matthew 25 E, “The Parable of the Talents Pt 1.” In the ancient world a talent was a unit of weight used to measure gold and silver. It varied significantly among different countries. A talent in Old Testament Times in Jerusalem, according to some Biblical scholars was 75 pounds. In New Testament times a talent refers to a very large sum of mon...

Season 5 Podcast 35, A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, Episode 32, “Science and Atheism.” On the one hand, I have an almost worshipful attitude toward science and the giants who have moved science forward.  What a horrible world we would live in without science. The advancements in medicine, technology, and our understanding of temporal law are nothing less than miraculous...

Season 5 Podcast 34 John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, Episode 7, Chapter 2 C, “The Interpreter Cont.”  In last week’s episode, we are introduced to The Interpreter. In this week’s episode we continue with The Interpreter.  Then I saw in my dream, that the Interpreter took Christian by the hand and led him into a place where was a fire burning against a wall, and one standing by it, always casting...

Season 5 Podcast 33 The Stories of the New Testament, Matthew 25, “The Parable of the Ten Virgins Pt 2.” If you have not listened to “The Parable of the Ten Virgins,” Pt 1, may we invite you to do so. In Pt 1 we analyzed Revelations 18 and 19 as they related to the Parable of the Ten Virgins. In this podcast we shall examine the text of the parable itself. “Then shall the kingdom of heaven be like...

Season 5 Podcast 32, A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, Episode 31, “Principle of Opposition B.” Satan is by nature without law.  He hates law.  He hates God. He hates everything God stands for.  Satan is eternally under the penalty of the laws of God. The apocalyptic apostle John described the fate of Satan well.  Revelation 20:1-3 “And I saw an angel come down from heaven...

Season 5 Podcast 31 John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, Episode 6, Chapter 2 B, “The Interpreter.”  The main character in Pilgrim’s Progress is named Christian for obvious reason’s. In Bunyan’s mind, every Christian must take the same journey. In other words, the reader is the main character or hero of the story. What Christian learns, the reader must learn.  In last week’s episode, Christian breaks...

Season 5 Podcast 30 The Stories of the New Testament, Matthew 25, “The Parable of the Ten Virgins Pt 1.” The Oxford Language dictionary defines a parable as “a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson.” What distinguishes the stories in the Bible such as taken from the lives of Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, David, John the Baptist, etc. from parables, for the lives of eac...