The Cory Truax Show

On This Episode: MATTHEW WEST'S SONG TO HIS DAUGHTERS AND THE REACTION THERETO (0:00-19:11) Matthew West released a song that encouraged his daughters to dress modestly. Some critics said the song adds to a toxic culture of blaming women for male behavior. While the song is good-natured, it's worthwhile considering how we talk to girls about how they dress and the pressures we put on them. I have...

This is the latest sermon in my Gospel

On this Episode: A STORY ABOUT A POORLY BEHAVED FATHER (0:00-13:00ish) I saw a story recently of a father who dumped thousands of pennies on his ex-wife's lawn to make his final "child support" payment. The mother and daughter took this vindictive action and turned it around. This is a good opportunity to focus on what unforgiveness can do to us -- and the beauty that comes when we release our bit...

On this Episode: THE DEEPER LESSON FROM THE AOC ABUELA STORY (0:00-19:26) Rep. Ocasio-Cortez recently complained about the conditions in which her grandmother was living. It never even occurred to her that he had the capacity to help. She had only the instinct for the all-powerful state/government to help. How does that happen? From where does that worldview emanate? I'll trace a philosophical his...

I sat down with a good friend, Brandon Burkhalter, to talk about taking the time to pause, think, and rest in our "go-go-go" and highly stimulating world.

On this Episode: I sat down to talk with Nathan McDowell, soon heading off to a PhD program at he University of Illinois at Chicago, about the last year in the US. We talked about Covid, mask-wearing, racial justice issues, whether or not we're a "racist country," policing, election uncertainty, the Qanon riots, individualism vs. collectivism, vaccines, the value differences between liberals and c...

On This Episode: ANOTHER DECONVERSION STORY --THIS ONE FROM "CHRISTIAN ARTIST" DC TALK (0:00-13:55) Kevin Max from 1990s Christian subculture fame recently announced he is an "Exvangelical" but that he still follows the "Universal Jesus" -- whatever that means. He also offered a lot more of nonsensical word soup that demonstrates whatever Jesus he's following, it isn't the Biblical one. I'll provi...

On this Episode: I HAVE SOME THOUGHTS AS AMERICANS TAKES OFF THEIR MASKS (0:00-17:40) I suspect the vast majority of Americans saw mask-wearing as a temporary, necessary step and felt it at various levels of annoyance. Another group hated them and refused. Still another imbued them with almost mystical powers or simply aren't mentally/emotionally ready to let them go. Now that the masks are coming...

ON THIS EPISODE: A COUPLE STUDIES SHOW AMERICANS ON THE LEFT OVER-ESTIMATE SOME PROBLEMS (0:00-14:00  Here's the Story: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/briefing/atlanta-shootings-kamala-harris-tax-deadline-2021.html Liberals over-estimated Covid severity. Here's another study, showing those on the Left vastly over-estimate police shootings on racial lines: https://www.skeptic.com/research-...

On This Episode: MEANINGFUL LESSONS FROM THE CENSUS (0:00-13:07). I love the Census; I'm a demography nerd. Here's one lesson from this Census showing we're at an historically low growth rate: we're an unhealthy people. Healthy things -- organizations, organisms, churches, businesses -- grow. We're soon to be shrinking, meaning we're not healthy. Our values are rotten. Our national goals are in di...

On this Episode: MAJOR CHRISTIAN FIGURE'S SON BECOMES ANTI-CHRISTIAN TIKTOK PERSONALITY (0:00-16:24) I don't want to gossip, so I'll leave the names out of it. A beloved Christian figure's adult son has been making anti-Christian content on TikTok. While the son has some valid points and some stupid ones about the institution of Christendom, I have a different concern: how do we prevent the heartb...

TREVOR LAWRENCE WITH A POWERFUL LESSON WE ALL NEED TO LEARN (0:00-13:30) Trevor Lawrence recently took some flack for defining success as something other than winning football games.  First, we can learn from this young man. We all tend to define success by something external: earning a certain amount of money, marrying a particular person, getting approval, power, or comfort. We let those de...

On this Episode: BE CAREFUL OF HAVING YOUR MIND CAPTURED (0:00-12:48) Colossians 2 warns Christians not to have their minds taken captive by secular, worldly, deceptive philosophies and ideologies. Our culture presents plenty of them: Woke-ism, Qanon-ism, and dozens of gradients in between. Colossians also gives us the solution: be rooted in the faith as Scripture describes it, take every thought...

On this Episode: GEORGIA VOTER LAW I'll take a full 20 minutes to look at the provisions on the bill that is being called "Jim Crow on steroids." In short, there is no good reason for the hysterics around this bill. It's fully in line with other state rules regarding voting, and some of what you've heard isn't even true. So, I take a truly objective look at the facts of what the law does. Then, yo...

The latest sermon the Gospel of Mark series

On this Episode: RESURRECTION DAY (Easter) REFLECTION (0:00-9:02) The seminal hours of human history took place on a Passover weekend in Jerusalem just over 2,000 years ago. We’ll take a brief look at what Jesus’s work on the cross dis for us. ALL THE SLIPPERY SLOPE ARGUMENTS OF THE 2000s ARE PROVING TRUE (9:02-23:00ish) The slippery slope is technically a logical fallacy, but I’m finding that arg...

The Latest sermon in the Gospel of Mark series

On this Episode: (0:00-7:35ish) PALM SUNDAY REFLECTION Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week is quickly approaching. I have a brief reflection on the meaning of Palm Sunday in an effort to prepare your heart and mind for Holy Week. (7:35ish-25:00) CNN's DON LEMON TRIES TO DO THEOLOGY AND FAILS MISERABLY For some reason, The View asked Don Lemon about the Catholic Church not changing their the...

The 21st sermon in the Gospel of Mark series.

On this Episode: TWO NEW WOKE-ISM CONTROVERSIES (0:00-13:00ish mark) There's now an "Autonomous Zone" in Minneapolis. Why are we letting people take over city blocks? Senator Tim Scott also takes some heat for talking about Woke Supremacy. HOW DOES THE CHRISTIAN LIVE IN A WOKE CULTURE? (13:00ish mark - 19:00ish mark) Jeremiah 29:4-7 give us a wonderful guide on how to live as a Christian in a paga...

The latest sermon in my Gospel of Mark Series

STATES ARE RE-OPENING There is a divide in the US that is genuinely confusing. One side seems to think unless you require an action and/or require the government to pay for it, you are not actually for the thing happening. The other side just seems to leave people to liberty and freedom. State re-openings are exposing that divide. WOKE-ISM IS CONDESCENDING When I see people, I see a human, made in...

WOKE-ISM DESTROYS EVERYTHING Remember the Co-Exist stickers? Remember the argument in favor of being a pluralistic society? For the Woke, those days are over. The Woke will have its way, power, and dominance -- whatever it must do.  It's small, annoying things (stories from the Bachelor, Mr. Potato Head, and Oreo tweets). It's more concerning things (CocaCola's employee training, a letter fro...

On This Episode NASHVILLE CHURCH GOES APOSTATE A Church in Nashville alleges that the Bible is not the inerrant, infallible, Word of God. I'll respond with the fact and why Biblical authority is essentially vital to the Church. It's also essential for functional living. CATEGORIZING PEOPLE IS KILLING US Western cultures have adopted the practice of no longer seeing individual human beings. We see...

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