The Adrian Warnock Christian Podcast

This portion of Newton’s autobiography has been updated into modern English. It will form part of my book Amazing Grace: How Faith Grows in the Human Heart . I wanted to share this with you today in case you feel like you have been drifting away from God, or even deliberately rebelling against Him. You are not alone and I’m confident that if you’ve found this podcast episode, He isn’t finished wit...

This is a brief episode where I share some rough thoughts about how I plan to navigate the use of Substack. Where do the notes, the articles and the video podcasts fit in. But also, what about Patheos, where I’ve been a blogger since 2003. I don’t want to stop that. And how I can use Substack to feed social media of other forms. You can read the article version of this on Substack: https://adrianw...

I was joined today by Daniel Johnson , the leader of London School of Theology’s Theology and Worship programme. An article summarising the key points of our conversation can be found on my Patheos Blog. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/adrianwarnock/2026/07/would-a-wretch-like-john-newton-be-welcome-in-our-churches/ You can watch the video here, or listen to the audio wherever you find your podcasts...

In today’s episode I share the audiobook version of my book Raised with Christ: How the Resurrection Changes Everything this is available along with a paperback and hardback and of course kindle on Amazon: https://mybook.to/raisedwithchrist Visit Substack for the text of this introduction https://adrianwarnock.substack.com/p/introduction-to-raised-with-christ Thanks for listening to Adrian Warnock...

Barnabas Piper grew up as a son of John Piper and with that surname came many expectations. Divorce wasn't one of them. But God wasn't finished with him, now he is remarried and a pastor. Video also available on Facebook YouTube and Patheos.com where there is also a transcript. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/adrianwarnock/2024/06/barnabas-piper-pastors-kid-divorcee-and-minister/  This is a...

This episode addresses the way God brings healing to Elijah using the biopsychosocial-spiritual model. Learn about Elijah, his moment of crisis, and the very kind and multifaceted way in which God responded. Understand that the Prophet was not immune from Suicidal thoughts and yet God graciously: * meets Elijah’s biological needs by giving him sleep, food, and exercise * meets his psychological ne...

Some of us have wrongly assumed that email is somehow in the past, and particularly email newsletters. But actually, email has not gone away and it’s not going anywhere fast. How could you make the most of your newsletter? If you have a church email newsletter, or if you’re a writer trying to produce an email list of people who might be interested in early access to your books to review, or buying...

Join me as I interview leading Christian  thinker and author Prof John  Lennox. What does human and artificial intelligence tell us about the  existance of God and our place in the universe? We mention Dr. Jordan B. Peterson several times during this discussion as well as Timothy Keller .  Few people are really challenging the roots of our defective modern culture more than Peterson, Keller, and L...

Live with two of the earliest Christian bloggers, Adrian Warnock and Aaron Armstrong, who are now both old, settled, and mortgaged: The collapse of social media and how to recapture bridge-building. Well hi everyone, I’m Adrian Warnock, and I’m here with my old friend,” I said, before apologizing for the word “old.” But looking at Aaron Armstrong on the screen, I had to admit it: “You’re just as g...

I had scheduled my official first Substack video conversation for next Monday, but thought I had better try out the system. What quickly ensued was actually a fascinating serendipitos conversation with the author of Practical Theology . We discussed a range of subjects including our early experiences of Substack, and how it feels like the early days of blogging and Twitter. We both enjoy the real...

Andy Burnham 55% Bounce Shocks Labour’s Keir Starmer The results of the Makerfield by-election are in. Andy Burnham didn’t just scrape in as many predicted. His personal political brand dominated Reform in one of its heartlands. And whilst Restore, beloved of Elon Musk, did take votes away from Reform, Burnham’s share of the vote was greater than all other parties combined at 55%. In this podcast,...

When Your Life Falls Apart “No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to be healthy, wealthy, comfortable with friends and family, and successful with our career — something will inevitably ruin it.” (Tim Keller) This podcast episode is nothing less than an attempt to explain the four-legged stool approach which I hav...

Maybe this is the first podcast of mine which you have watched or listened to. Maybe you have never read one of my articles. Or maybe you have been with me for the whole journey since the giddy early days of blogging, when back in 2003 I jumped aboard the roller coaster. Perhaps you have been following along through Crossway publishing my first book,  Raised With Christ , and throughout my journey...

Imagine receiving these words as a message written just for you today by your friend and pastor, a certain John Newton. “I can truly say, that I hold you in my heart and in my prayers. I rejoice to see the beginning of a good and gracious work in you. I have confidence in the Lord Jesus, that he will carry this work on and complete it, that you will be among those who will sing about redeeming lov...

Trump’s claims about his blasphemous picture shows us how important deception is. Truth matters. But what about self deception from the Traitor Within? Franklin Graham denies Trump's blasphemous image has any Spiritual references. Sorry, but his father was able to reach across political divides to be the pastor of every presidents for decades. What he has done is shameful enabling. Read more o...

This video shows how to use the books you just bought in your Logos library in a very simple way.... You can get your 2026 Library here: ⁠ https://logos.sjv.io/VOaAgk⁠ ⁠#logos⁠ ⁠#logosbible⁠⁠#review⁠ ⁠#biblestudy⁠ Note: I was kindly given a copy of one of the Preacher libraries by Logos so that I would review it, but I’m not constrained as to what kind of review I give. I confess that I so spend a...

Logos Bible Software Review Part One. You can get your 2026 Library here: https://logos.sjv.io/VOaAgk    #logos   #logosbible #review   #biblestudy Note: I was kindly given a copy of one of the Preacher libraries by  Logos  so that I would review it, but I’m not constrained as to what kind of review I give. I confess that I so spend an awful lot of money of my own on  Logos . If you want to contri...

Seeing is not believing. We say that seeing is believing, and yet we know that's not true. Since the advent of deep fakes, particularly, we can't trust any videos we see online anymore. We don't know if that video we've just watched of a celebrity doing something, or a normal member of the public doing something, is true. It could be a sort of drama that someone's made up, or m...

Stephen said he left The Traitors UK with his moral compass intact. Was he right? This video looks at how humans make difficult choices, using The Traitors as moral theatre. / Final spoilers ahead 👉 Questions like this sit at the heart of my book The Traitor Within: Understanding and Healing Our Deceitful Heart: https://mybook.to/traitorwithin #thetraitors #thetraitorsuk #morality #psychtok #Book...

We all experience storms. We can know peace in the middle of them. And we can know Jesus saving us and leading us safe to shore just like Jonah and John Newton. Come find me on TikTok : https://www.tiktok.com/@adrianwarnockbooks/   @Christian Heritage London   #mylighthouse   #johnnewton #suffering   #storms   #booktok This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscrib...

Do you live alone? Are you lonely? I know those two things don’t necessarily go together. You can live with other people, be busy at work, and have what looks to others like a good social life. You might even be part of a large, thriving church. And yet, somehow, even among the crowds, you feel completely alone. You feel misunderstood. You might feel embarrassed, or even  ashamed . Did you know th...

Another year begins. Another Christian celebrity scandal emerges. Generally, I refuse to comment on these, although my heart sinks a little more with each of them.  I do not need to express an opinion about every Christian breaking news story. But there is something powerful for us to learn about shame from Philip Yancey’s admission of guilt. Yancey speaks about shame in a 5 year old blog post abo...

This video encourages us to like, share and review content we have found helpful. But it also speaks about how life can be really tough and when suffering hits we don’t want to feel alone. I discuss the story of John Newton and William Cowper and how they gave the world two amazing hymns the same 36 hours that also contained a catastrophic mental health breakdown. How Newton helped his friend over...

I interviewed my friend and hero Peter John Smyth ("PJ") who many of my connections will remember fondly as a passionate preacher and Christian leader. Among other things we spoke about his experience of blood cancer, and what it was like being the son of the man whose scandal led to the Archbishop of Canterbury resigning. This covers some of the same same territory as the recent  See No...

Christmas is all about Jesus. He was the baby born to live, die and rise again for us all. He raises us with him, sharing his life with us, and will come back for us one day. Sometimes the best presents are the ones you give yourself. Why not buy a copy of the updated Raised With Christ: How the Resurrection Changes Everything , Now in a new cover with expanded content and a study guide. Available...