Spare No Arrows

Send a text This is a very brief defense of Biblical and Christ-like table flipping, voice raising, and battle fighting. We're all in a war right now if we like it or not, and we at least should be facing the right direction when we're in the front lines.  ___________________________________________________________________ Check out all my links here https://linktr.ee/goodmonsters  Suppo...

Send a text I've noticed professing Christians admonish other Christians, myself included, by saying "Yeah, but you're not Jesus" when a faithful Christian tries to argue for faithfully imitating Christ. Watch out for this happening. There's no reason any professing Christian should ever say this to anyone unless they're trying to walk on water. It is simply an attack...

Send a text The hilarious new phrase that's been sweeping the nation and only picking up steam, "Let's Go Brandon," is obviously controversial among liberals, but also among some conservative Christians. But the phrase is actually a valuable tool in the Christian tool belt for reclaiming the respect that the office of president deserves in a revelatory, mocking, and jovial way....

Send a text This is an episode about reality and all of the ways that Christians aren't living in it.  We live in the real world surrounded by people also living in the real world who either don't believe they're in the same reality, or they know they are but they don't act like it. Christians are guilty too.  This is characterized well by the word "lens" that we like...

Send a text John Piper released an article today with shockingly bad reasoning and an appropriately bad conclusion based on twisted facts alongside a vacuous application of Scripture. Worst of all, he's speaking to a problem that, pastorally, he has no reason to address.  ___________________________________________________________________ Support the Show! https://www.patreon.com/goodmonster ...

Send a text We're doubling up on episodes this week with a story of a censored and deplatformed health conference my wife and I volunteered at. We learned lots, had a good time, and oh, the powers that be tried to shut down the convention on the second day. We moved across the street to a public park and continued as though nothing happened. Overall a good and entertaining experience! I also...

Send a text Jon Harris comes on the show to talk about Social Justice, the danger of the ideology, it's history, and how it presents itself as a religion. We also discuss how to have conversations with people about social justice and how to identify teachers and churches who may be on the social justice train. Christians cannot follow two religions. So the religion of social justice has no pl...

Send a text This episode explores many of the reasons why pastors, both maliciously, but usually out if ignorant unfaithfulness, will justify sinful actions using what they legitimately believe to be good reasons. Specific examples and stories are given along with the ultimate solution, which is a love of God over the things of man and rightly ordering your priorities based on that.  _____________...

Send a text This week we explore a local vaccine and mask mandate protest and interview some of the protestors, asking them questions about the purpose of the freedom rally and their motivations behind participating. There were people there of different ages, races, and sexes. But all of the people I spoke with love freedom and are fighting not only for their own freedom, but the freedom of those...

Send a text Ed Litton's back in the news for lying to cover up all the old lies. Big surprise. Let's examine his claims and see if he really has super powers like he said, or if he is just trying to make himself look good. In the end, the only real solution for Ed is to repent and resign (since it can pretty easily be concluded that he's not qualified for pastoring due to the inabil...

Send a text This episode is a conversation with a Progressive Christian with similar experiences in churches as myself, but who came to very different conclusions about faith. In this episode we cover topics like Truth, Scripture, Love, current events, masks, and more.  ___________________________________________________________________  Good Monsters on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV...

Send a text Language is an important thing. The words we use, even for something so obvious as the love of life can be twisted and used against us. This is why we Christians must be clever and specific in our language. In this episode, I discuss a couple of common objections coming against Pro-Lifers right now as well as the responses and a solid tactic for narrowing conversations about these thin...

Send a text Our world seems topsy turvy right now. Everything is upside down. Evil is running rampant. How long can it last? It can't last forever. What can we do about it? More than we are doing now. Be a crack in the dam holding back goodness, righteousness, and reason. If enough cracks turn up, the whole dam comes down.  ___________________________________________________________________  ...

Send a text While our country used to be proudly known as a Christian nation, currently it's no shock that it's now often labeled post-Christian. But not only is our society post Christian, but I argue it's flat out anti-Christian. Christian values now have no place in the public square. Merely affirming the most basic of Christian doctrines in some countries can get you fined, fire...

Send a text Of course as Christians we need to affirm that the Bible is the Word of God and therefore true. We also must recognize that each and every passage has a meaning that we can learn. But sometimes we get that meaning wrong. Each and every one of us is guilty of this in some way or another. So how do we treat our own understanding of the Bible as true while recognizing the possibility that...

Send a text Most Christians would say that we ought to obviously follow our conscience in areas where the Bible doesn't give us specific instruction. Conscience has a serious place in our behavior. But let's see how quickly Christians abandon this Biblical view whenever it forces them to allow people freedom to make choices they don't like. We also discuss freedom and it's plac...

Send a text That didn't last long, did it? With the previous lockdowns and mask mandates fresh in everyone's minds, many cities will be bringing masks back within a week. The church has failed terribly the first time in resisting tyrants and treating the authority of civil government, family, and church the way it ought to be treated. How are we going to do this time around?  ___________...

Send a text This isn't just another Ed Litton podcast! This episode discusses the morality of using ideas that don't originate with us in a way that's more nuanced than what most people have been saying. Is taking ideas and claiming them as your own really wrong? If so, you may be plagiarizing about 10 million times a day. Perhaps there's a more nuanced answer. And don't w...

Send a text I've been discouraged recently by the prevalence of unrepentant sin in churches. This episode is a reflection on this, and discusses things like pride month, the Southern Baptist Convention and their values, Critical Race Theory, and more.  _____________________________________________________________________  Good Monsters on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVwB26yxtYWUo...

Send a text Looking back at the past year, we can judge very easily where the loyalties of certain Christians lie between God and man. Obviously we want Christians and churches to be loyal to God above all, but looking back at the actions of many churches through the pandemic will make very clear if their loyalty actually lies with God first or with men first. Listen to this episode to hear variou...

Send a text  This episode is part two of our episodes looking at Elevation Church, Steven Furtick, and Elevation Worship. Steven Furtick is the lead pastor of Elevation church, the very same church that is the home of Elevation Worship.  In the previous episode, we established that Steven Furtick is a false teacher and a heretic. But what about the music the church produces? Many people who are aw...

Send a text Many states and cities, including my own, are dissolving the strict masking mandates, and as a result, loads of people are relieved to finally be allowed to take their masks off. But there's a serious problem in this.  The problem is in the unbelievable hypocrisy of taking your masks off when the thing going around right now is just as dangerous as it always was - not much. Exactl...

Send a text Steven Furtick is the lead pastor of Elevation church, the very same church that is the home of Elevation Worship. This episode and the next will analyze Furtick's preaching and answer if Christians should be listening to him. The following episode will discuss the ramifications of the teaching on their worship music and answer the question if Christians should even be listening t...

Send a text The Gospel Coalition contains some good content. But it also contains lots and lots of bad content, including the article we discuss in this episode. If your church regularly allows people behind the pulpit who preach that Scripture shouldn't be taken seriously, that the Bible shouldn't be followed, and that we should disregard loving God, that would speak pretty poorly to th...

Send a text  Watch out for false teachers... they're everywhere. And they're some of the most dangerous kind of people around, no matter how many fans they have, expensive cars they own, the cost of their house, or the number of people who fill their church. False teacher is sometimes thrown around a bit much. And sometimes it's not used nearly as much as it should. This episode tak...