Covenant and Constitution

What are the alternatives for where to source our identity? Possessions ? Work more, buy more, repeat. But who are you without your Tesla, your curated outfits, or your purchased comforts? Performance ? You are what you do. But who are you when you get passed over for a promotion or you lose your job? Pleasure ? I am what I want? But who are you when your feelings tell you to do something that pro...

This week in the series, we identify six phases of life in the spiritual journey. The listener is asked to map themselves somewhere on the ark of those phases, wherever they find themselves at. The application is to see the potential that is bound up in every phase of our lives, and that the ultimate trajectory of intentional spiritual formation is about who we are becoming in Christ. Character fo...

This week’s episode is an introduction to the idea of Spiritual Formation— What does this look like, and where should we get our template for what this looks like in our own lives?

How can you draw close to God when you are far from your own self. Grant Lord that I may know myself, that I may know thee.” — Augustine A new series on Identity and Calling, from Jenna’s latest book. Identity & Calling on Amazon: https://a.co/d/12fhskY

American Politics: Ripe for Renewal and a Call for Wisdom in Discerning the Times *This episode was taken from last week’s Sunday Sermon that Jenna taught at Mountain View Christian Church.

What is the problem with making sexual desire the defining feature of our identity? 
Why is it necessary, according to this worldview, to encourage an entire generation of young people to hate their bodies in order to achieve liberty? 
Why do we place sexual feelings at the center of our identity rather than attach it to something more concrete? The Bible offers a far more compelling script. 
Who...

Out of Nancy Pearcey's book, Love Thy Body, a deep dive into the worldview requirements and logic behind abortion.

Relying on Christian ethics, Wayne Grudem offers 30 good things that Trump did while in office. This text was used in this episode to paint a picture of what he would also likely do in another term in office.

Policies versus the Person? If you vote for Trump are you sacrificing moral principles? The choice is between two, whole packages. What will Trump do in a second term? The label "evangelical."

Where did we get the idea that we don't have an obligation to tell the world about what God says about things like the unborn and about human freedom and human rights? Or about anything, including the deadly perniciousness of Marxist atheist philosophy, whether in economics or in any other sphere? Have the blessings we have in America made us so comfortable and so soft that we have forgotten that...

In this new and timely series, Jenna takes the position that this election is not about voting for either Trump or Harris, but that it is fundamentally about voting for a Worldview. So what does that mean? Is America under judgment? What is the role of the church then? How do we as believers responsibly engage the political conversation?

Beginning a new series titled “Letter to the American Church.” This series is based off of the book by the same name written by Eric Metaxes. I have the unique opportunity to have dinner with Metaxes in two weeks where I’m looking forward to discussing these ideas with him in person. I’ve been eager for months to connect others with this particular book, so praying that this series blesses & edifi...

Wrapping up the larger series titled Why Social Justice Is Not Biblical Justice.

Assessing the power and authority structures within the Ideological Social Justice Movement and then holding that up to the Biblical understanding of power and authority.

According to Ideological Social Justice, What is our Primary Moral Duty, and How Do We Know What is True?

From Scott Allan’s book, Why Social Justice is Not Biblical Justice

What is our fundamental problem as human beings, according the Ideological Social Justice worldview? Reading from Scott Allan’s book, Social Justice is not Biblical Justice

Examining the tenets of Ideological Social Justice as a worldview and then contrasting them with a Biblical Worldview

At what point did we move from a society that values “equality of opportunity” to a society that demands equality of outcome?”

Why do some utopian social visions have no basis for grace or mercy? Ideological Social Justice as a worldview, is a utopian ideal that has no categories for grace or mercy, let alone redemption. What are the implications of that for a society who adheres to its core tenets?

Before contrasting with the counterfeit —

This episode is the first in a series that aims to offer a warning about the deeply anti-Christian ideas behind much of the modern “social justice” movement which consists of the critical theory mood that is the air we breathe right now in the West. This movement insists on dividing all of society into the oppressors (people of privilege who can do nothing good) and the oppressed (people who can d...

In this episode, an overview of the history of the judges in the Bible, and then a description of the United States judicial makeup. From there, I ask the question, “What has it actually happened in the United States?” Has the Supreme Court, over time, been found to have unlimited, unchecked power in making laws?

Continued — Biblical Reasons for Patriotism

Part One