Faith in Focus

Have questions or comments about this (or a previous) episode, give us a text! The Southern Baptist Convention just had their annual meeting where they decided, in part, what to do with churches in their denomination that allowed for women pastors. This issue of women pastors is a very contentious issue and everyone on the internet has their opinion that is absolutely and unequivocally based in bi...

Have questions or comments about this (or a previous) episode, give us a text! With recent scandals at Hillsong Church and the Chosen making the news, I wanted to discuss some underlying biblical principles that may apply to these, and similar, issues. Romans 14 deals with "disputable matter" within the Church and if we can apply the teachings of that chapter it will help us deal with how we react...

Have questions or comments about this (or a previous) episode, give us a text! In this episode I gave an interview on the Gio and Joey Show about how I got involved in advocating for and partnering with the Innocence Project and the wrongfully accused. We discuss why this issue has been neglected by conservatives but that it ought to be conservatives broadly and Christians in particular who are mo...

Have questions or comments about this (or a previous) episode, give us a text! Paul has discussed how we have died with Christ but he is now addressing the reality that we're alive with Christ. That means we are alive in this mortal body...here on Earth! This radically changes our outlook because we've been freed from the cycle of sin and death. Now, rather than presenting ourselves to Sin we can...

Have questions or comments about this (or a previous) episode, give us a text! Gio Marin is a minister with the Seventh Day Adventist denomination as well as a plant-based, conservative podcaster. He hosts the Built, by Fitbod Podcast as well as the Gio and Joey Show. We sit down to discuss some tenets of the SDA denomination as well as how Gio came to faith in Christ. Built, by FitBody Podcast: h...

Have questions or comments about this (or a previous) episode, give us a text! The Bible has a rich theology of what the world empires are and how they are opposed to God. The problem we face is sometimes the things the Empire may want seem like they line up with the goals of the Church. The danger, however, is that when we partner with the world empires and fight like they fight we run the risk o...

Have questions or comments about this (or a previous) episode, give us a text! How does one get free of being enslaved to sin? The answer is simple: DEATH! Although if everyone dropped dead when they accepted Christ then evangelism would be even harder than it already is. Thankfully God has a much more elegant solution to get us out of the death in Adam and into life in Christ Until the end of the...

Have questions or comments about this (or a previous) episode, give us a text! In Romans 5 the Apostle Paul explains that we can be rescued from the wrath of God through the life of Christ. But what does that even mean? What are the mechanics of how the death and life of Christ apply to us? Follow my ministry with InFaith by going to: https://www.facebook.com/DennisInFaith If you have any question...

Have questions or comments about this (or a previous) episode, give us a text! When we hear the phrase "the wrath of God" we usually conjure up images of fire and brimstone; end times type stuff. This isn't to say the Bible doesn't speak to that kind of wrath. However, in the book of Romans, Paul speaks of a much more immediate form of the wrath of God and we need salvation from it everyday Follow...

Have questions or comments about this (or a previous) episode, give us a text! Six times in the Gospel of John there is a reference to "the disciple Jesus loved." You've probably heard that this is an unequivocal reference to the Apostle John. However, maybe there's internal evidence within the Gospel of John to point to another disciple Follow my ministry with InFaith by going to: https://www.fac...

Have questions or comments about this (or a previous) episode, give us a text! Suffering is a human universal. The righteous suffer and the wicked seem to prosper and this only adds to our confusion. If God is good then why does He allow this injustice to go on? These are the questions Habakkuk wrestled with 600 years before the time of Christ. The answer he received is one that we so rarely go to...

Have questions or comments about this (or a previous) episode, give us a text! How does one balance a Biblical, wise, Christian life and still engage in politics? Is this even possible when we're supposed to be focused on eternal things? Greg Garcia, host of Generation Mars Podcast, thinks this is absolutely possible. In fact, as he argue, our defense of the American Constitution can flow out of o...

Have questions or comments about this (or a previous) episode, give us a text! One of the dangers of protestant Christianity, as opposed to Catholicism, is that we don't have a universal agreement on what words and doctrines mean. This lends itself to pastors and Bible teachers being the ultimate authority on what words, and therefore passages of the Bible, mean. In a culture of relativism this su...

Have questions or comments about this (or a previous) episode, give us a text! This episode covers three articles that were front and center on the home pages of prominent news sites and covered stories of Christians going to court with other Christians. Why is this kind of thing permissible in the Church when the Bible explicitly admonishes us against doing things this way in 1 Corinthians 6? Wha...

Have questions or comments about this (or a previous) episode, give us a text! Does commitment to Christ automatically mean commitment to His Body? What does a committed member of the local church look like? Why should someone even be committed to the local church? Follow my ministry with InFaith by going to: https://www.facebook.com/DennisInFaith If you have any questions or comments that you'd l...

Have questions or comments about this (or a previous) episode, give us a text! Michael Knowles of the Daily Wire has recently made some "inflammatory" words about transgenderism. Other conservative podcasters like Matt Walsh have been accused of being too harsh on this topic. Are they being too harsh or is there a place for the kind of rhetoric they've used? And as Christians how should we respond...

Have questions or comments about this (or a previous) episode, give us a text! We as Christians talk an awful lot about the Gospel which is a good thing since it's the very message we're called upon to proclaim. But when we're asked to articulate the Gospel are we able to do so? Can we explain what the message is? What a person needs to believe in order to come to know God and grow in his or her w...

Have questions or comments about this (or a previous) episode, give us a text! EPISODE DISCLAIMER: I APOLOGIZE FOR THE MUFFLED AUDIO QUALITY ON THIS EPISODE. I HAD A MICROPHONE ERROR AND THE AUDIO DIDN'T RECORD PROPERLY SO I HAD TO SALVAGE AS BEST I COULD We tend to think that it is our job as Christians to save the world. This leads us to think in much grander ways about how to go about accomplis...

Have questions or comments about this (or a previous) episode, give us a text! It's shocking to see how bad our culture is at forming and maintaining deep, intimate friendships. Social media, obviously, convinces us that we have a LOT of friends but studies show people are more isolated and have less friends than they did thirty years ago. Unfortunately this crisis is mirrored in the Church; the v...

Have questions or comments about this (or a previous) episode, give us a text! In our pursuit of excitement and the "mountaintop experiences" of the Christian life we have taught people that the "high" of Christianity is what the norm should be. Certainly, God does exciting things in our lives and those times are awesome. However, the normal experience, those times when we're just doing ministry a...

Have questions or comments about this (or a previous) episode, give us a text! As we wrap up the book of James we see that he finishes with what he started the book with; a call to endure in suffering and to respond in a godly manners. Sometimes we suffer from sin and we need prayer but sometimes we just grumble and complain about it. Either way, we need to reject those modes of responding to suff...

Have questions or comments about this (or a previous) episode, give us a text! If you're anything like me you see all of these revivals breaking out and a streak of skepticism crosses your mind. You think, "Are these real revivals?" What even is a revival? What would that even look like? And why do we need them? I know my mind races with a lot of cynical and skeptical thoughts. That's why I want t...

Have questions or comments about this (or a previous) episode, give us a text! This issue of wives submitting and husbands loving their wives comes up in Ephesians 5 and always causes people to bristle a little bit. What does it mean to submit? What does it mean to love as Christ loves the Church? These are difficult topics but I try to answer some questions that don't often get asked surrounding...

Have questions or comments about this (or a previous) episode, give us a text! We have this policy in our culture and in our churches especially that we shouldn't "should" on people and shame them for their negative (or lack of positive) behavior. All forms of judgments like this are wrong. Ignore the fact that telling someone they "should not" "should" on people is a form of "shoulding" (if I can...

Have questions or comments about this (or a previous) episode, give us a text! If you have been living under a rock within the Christian community you may not have heard that there is a revival that has broken out in Wilmore, KY at Asbury College. It started as, what sounds like, a normal chapel service last Wednesday (February 8th) but has continued non-stop since then, almost a week later. It’s...