Indigenous Faith

Question:   Are you asking Native people to abandon all their cultures to follow Christ?  Can a Christian be visited by a dead relative and how do we process that kind of incident if it's already happened?  These are just a few of the questions that the Indigenous Faith leaders address in today's episode and upcoming sessions that you won't want to miss.  The panel, including Craig...

In this, the final of a three part episode Craig Smith has titled, The Come Down Kingdom , he wraps up his insights about the Kingdom of God and how it differs from all other human and earth based religious systems.  Its uniqueness is found in its come down status.  It was not developed in the incubators of fallen human cultures, but came down to earth from another world, another place, a place ca...

In this last part of Craig's session he's titled, The Come Down Kingdom, Craig clarifies what happens to every person on planet earth when they come to saving faith in Jesus Christ.  The Scriptures tell us that we are redeemed from every tribe, language, people and nation.   We are elevated out of every sin-stained human culture to a new kingdom, the Kingdom of God!  We now join the rede...

In this fifth session of the Indigenous Faith teaching series, Craig Smith takes us once again to the Scriptures to show the stark contrast between all human based religious systems and the message of the gospel and Christian faith.  While all human based religions were birthed out of fallen human cultures, and established on this earth's soil, the Christian message was a come down message. ...

In today's devotional study, Dr. Vern Charette further develops his thoughts on the authority and sufficiency of the Scriptures.  In previous episodes, he spoke of the Authority of God's Word over every human culture with its universal, absolute truth.  He also presented some powerful insights on the sufficiency of the Scriptures to save, to sanctify, and now, to separate.  But separate...

In this third and final installment of Craig and LaDonna's important series titled,  Lessons from Ezekiel, Craig continues to unpackage some of the most profound points in the whole Indigenous Faith teaching series.  But not before LaDonna returns to finish sharing the steps they take when someone comes for ministry with demonic manifestations and in need of deliverance from the powers of dar...

In part two of Craig's important lesson from the Old Testament prophet, Ezekiel, LaDonna joins Craig comes to share with the attendees some helpful instructions from what they've learned on confronting the powers of darkness found in animistic practices through the ministry of deliverance.  The Smiths see way too few pastors, academics, and everyday believers who know how to minister to...

As we turn the corner to 2023, Craig Smith continues to lay out his teaching series that is the heart and center of this Indigenous Faith broadcast.  These sessions were recorded live in the summer of 2022, and included not only Craig and LaDonna Smith, but features their special guest, Ojibwe theologian Dr. Vern Charette as well.  Today, Craig begins his third of his six teaching sessions as he i...

As brother Vern continues his message on the sufficiency of the Scriptures to sanctify, he reminds us of the importance of being in the Scriptures on a regular basis in order to learn how to live lives pleasing to the Lord.  That is accomplished in several very important and equally needed ways in our lives.  One being the regular and personal reading and studying of God's Word.  The other be...

Dr. Vern Charette comes once again to build on the foundation he already has laid on the sufficiency of Scripture to save.  Today, he expands the Scripture's impact in the doctrinal truth of the sufficiency of Scripture to Sanctify.  This doctrine means to be set apart by God for holy living.  It's the current work of the Word of God as applied in the life of each and every believer in C...

As Craig concludes this crucial session on the Biblical Anatomy of Culture , he raises a question of utmost importance.  If there is no biblical support of God giving the cultural ways to all nations, then where did human cultures come from?  The only answer, he contends, is from fallen human nature, which leaves the syncretists to answer the question, are you willing to put all your theological m...

In today's second installment of his teaching session titled, The Biblical Anatomy of Culture, Craig takes us to both Old and New Testaments to explain what God's Word has to say about human cultures.  Beginning in Genesis 11, he takes us back to where he describes all of humanity, runs into each other at a place called the Plains of Shinar. Here we see our common ancestors demonstrating...

As we begin the third session in Craig's six-part Indigenous Faith teaching series, Craig chooses to include in this episode the all-important backstory to their near fatal and life-altering auto accident which happened on June 9, 2009, in which both he and LaDonna should never have survived.  It gives you some important context on why they are compelled to present this important teaching ser...

Dr. Vern Charette comes back to the podium to present his third devotional teaching on the Authority of Scripture.  He began this informative and inspirational series with the doctrine of General Revelation through His creation, then in his second session directed listeners to the all important doctrine of Special Revelation, which God gave to mankind primarily through the revealed Scriptures.  In...

In this, the fourth and final part of Craig's session on the Authority of Scripture, he discusses the impact the Redeeming of Culture  teachers have had on the North American Indigenous evangelical churches and institutes of Christian higher education.  He continues to explain the path the syncretists have taken in bringing this false teaching into the Native evangelical world, describing it...

In today's episode, Craig Smith presents clear information about the difference of mere intellectualism being misunderstood as the Spirit of God speaking to our souls and what it really means about letting the Spirit of God speak to us through His Word and understand it and obey it.  Why does this simple process sound so important?  Because often times intellectuals, especially those of highe...

In today's second part of a three part series Craig's titled, The Authority of Scripture, Craig delves into the fallacy of Universalism which denies Christ own words where He said, I am the way, the truth and the life, no one can come to the father except through me.    He also introduces us to the process called Hermeneutics which is the process of interpreting the Scriptures which is s...

In today's episode, Craig Smith takes us into the second session in his six-part Indigenous Faith teaching series.  Today, Craig begins to present his important session on the Authority of Scripture.  In it, he introduces the process of discovering what the original intent of God's Word was when the Lord moved upon the forty some human scribes who were moved by the Spirit of God to write...

Dr. Vern Charette comes once again to unpackages for us God's Word on the Authority of the Scriptures.  In today's episode, brother Vern contrasts the doctrine of Special Revelation vs. the doctrine of General or Natural Revelation.  In a message not soon forgotten,  the importance of this crucial doctrine is laid out for all to hear, leaving us with an important understanding that salva...

In this, the final episode in Craig's first session titled, Contending for the Faith, Pastor Smith unpackages for us this timely message from the heart of Jude to the church on the importance of preaching sound doctrine and protecting the congregation from false teaching.  To contend for the faith, Jude says, means not indifference, but action.  A pushing back on false teaching whenever and w...

In today's episode, Craig Smith takes the stage and begins presenting the first session in his six-session Indigenous Faith teaching series.  Today's session is titled, Contending for the Faith , which is take from the New Testament book of Jude. Craig sets the table for the rest of this series as he explains why this whole Indigenous Faith focus of Tribal Rescue Ministries came to be. ...

In today's episode, Dr. Vern Charette continues his initial message on the Authority of the Scriptures by unpacking the doctrine of General Revelation, which Scripture teaches is available to every person around the world and at all time because it is represented in all that God has made.  His creation shouts loud and clear that there is a God, a Sovereign Creator of all things.  The only pro...

With today's episode, Craig and LaDonna Smith begin sharing their updated Indigenous Faith teaching materials at their recently held Indigenous Faith International Leader's Conference on August 10-13, 2022 at Oak Hills Christian College in Bemidji, Minnesota!  Many folks who were not able to attend this event reached out to the Smiths indicating that they only wished that they could have...

In this final episode of the Smith's series titled,  The Coming of the Lord, Pastor Smith concludes his message that helps listeners understand what the Bible has to say about last day living in light of the imminent return of Jesus Christ as he raptures his Church away, saving them all from the wrath to come.  Understanding the "pre-millennial, pre-tribulation rapture of the Church,&quo...