The Cory Truax Show

On this Episode: THE CHURCH CALENDAR IS AN OPPORTUNITY Ash Wednesday is upon us. The weeks of Lent are coming up. We have an opportunity now to set our minds toward Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Resurrection Sunday. Practicing and recognizing the church calendar is an incredible tool to live distinctly -- no matter where the Christian lives on this planet. DAVE RAMSEY CONTROVERSY...

On this Episode: A "No Excuses" Life I've been thinking lately about how much we allow life to happen TO us instead of TACKLING life. How would life and the world be different if we lived on purpose? Children, Fertility, and the Romney Tax Credit Plan Senator Mitt Romney has a tax code idea that would offer parents close to $70,000 over 18 years for each child in the household. We're country that...

On This Episode: ROBINHOOD/GAMESTOP/HEDGE FUNDS/REDDIT This has been an incredibly intriguing and sort of confusing story. So, let's take some time to understand it first. Then, I have some analysis and Christian worldview to bring to it. Truly, this is one of my favorite stories in a long time, and it's a lot of fun to learn about and discuss. THE TALE OF ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY This investment story m...

On this Episode: CHRISTIAN AMERICANS FEELING EXILED I have been feeling like an exile in a foreign country for a long time now. I'm slightly frustrated that it took political happenings to make a lot of other believers feel this way, but I'm also just grateful for the company. The country is getting both more secular and more pagan at the same time. For Christians, maybe we were made for this exac...

On this Episode: CULTURAL ROTTENESS I recently saw a secular college professor bemoan that Biblical illiteracy in her students makes it more challenging to teach the Great Books and great writers of history.  The Bible birthed and undergirded the Enlightenment and Western Civilization. Our Biblical illiteracy is the core of cultural rottenness. So what do we do? COVID LOCKDOWNS Out of nowhere...

On this Episode: It was a significant week in politics for the US. I'll look back on it, call good "good" and evil "evil," and shed light on the numerous hypocrisies exposed. After that, listeners submitted insightful questions. I'll finish with a look forward after the surprising Georgia run-off results.

Georgia Senate Reaction: Bonus 8-minute Mini-Episode

On this Episode:  -Isaiah 1 has an important lesson about being intentional in worship and in all of life. -"Important" political week with Georgia Run-Offs and the Electoral College Objection Debate. I have a ton of thoughts. -We're entering a new chapter of Covid response, so let's talk about those new dynamics. -A lot more!

On this Episode: Reflecting on the Year I get it. It was rough. A Pandemic. An economic crash. Social Unrest. An Impeachment. An Election. Natural Disasters. I get it. We also have abundant reasons for gratefulness. Let's not ignore the challenges of the year. Instead, while starting them in the face, let's also count our blessings. Reflecting on Under-Reported Stories from 2020 -Both culturally a...

I got to teach through 1 John, Chapter 3 today at Beechwood Church. We capped off Advent season with concluding its final week’s theme of love. I John 3’s argument is: -God has loved you, Jesus-follower, in a way that makes you CHILD of God (dwell on the access a child has to a good father). -That love was made clear at Christmas by Christ appearing to (1) take away sin and (2) destroy the works o...

On this Episode: CHRISTMAS DAY IS ALMOST HERE The joy of Christmas is upon us. Almost always, though, I (and maybe you) have a moment on Christmas night where I ask, "Was that it? That's what we waited for all year." Let's talk about that feeling, the promises Christmas breaks and keeps, and how to prepare. THOUGHTS ON JUPITER AND SATURN'S CONVERGENCE What an incredible sight that was! How can tha...

Advent, Week 3: The Durable Joy of Christmas

On this Episode" ADVENT, WEEK 4: LOVE The story of Scripture is God purposing himself toward the gathering of a people. We trace from Adam to Noah to Abraham and finally to Jesus to see how the love of God is made abundantly clear at Christmas. STEWARDSHIP If we recognized all we have -- resources, family, skills, talents, households, etcetera -- are entrusted to us by God as stewards, we would th...

In Luke 1, we see how the Holy Spirit-empowered response to hope is to prepare our lives for that hope to be fulfilled.

On this Episode: -Week 3 of Advent has the theme of Joy. Joy might be the emotional marker of this season for most people. I'll take the time to differentiate between deep-rooted joy and situational happiness. We also examine the 4 core places the human heart goes for joy (approval, influence, comfort, and control), and why those place never lead to joy. -Over the years, from all sides, I have hea...

We finish week 1 of Advent with a sermon on hope.

On this Episode: Advent Week 2: Preparation When we truly have hope that something is going to happen, we prepare for it. We know Christmas is coming, so we put up the tree, decorate the house, prepare the meals, wrap the gifts, and make a ton of plans. We prepare. This Advent week is also a reminder that we have a living hope for Jesus's second coming. As sure as Christmas commemorates that He ga...

On this Episode: -Advent Week 1: Hope Christmas is a day; Advent is a season, and we just started it. The first theme is holding to hope in a seemingly hopeless world and anticipating the justice and plenty of the world to come. -Voter Fraud Allegations I tire of these allegations. We now have an attorney claiming what would be the most significant crime of at least the last 500 years. If she can'...

On this Episode: Gratefulness Now lower income American lives in more luxury than King George III or King Louis VIII. We take for granted that when we turn the faucet, hit the switch, and toggle the knobs that we get, on demand, clean water at the temperature we want and electricity to power our lives of relative leisure. We even get angry when the miracles of technology we enjoy don't work the ex...

I am grateful for the dozen or so of my listeners who have reached out to me to express gratitude over my voice being one of hope and optimism right now. I've kept this refrain: we're all going to be okay. Part of this episode explores this reality: my adult lifetime, for political administrations, I've lived through the most ideologically radical (Obama) and the most personally erratic (Trump), a...

What else would be on this show except the election results and what they mean going forward.

Election Preview Mini-Episode

On this episode: -A reminder: we're going to be okay. -Is Joe Biden trying to distance himself from the Left? -Tips for Election Night -A listener challenges me on a few items. -John Piper's Election 2020 article -Mark Ruffalo gets a Tweet really wrong.

On this Episode: -The Hunter Biden Story -How the social media companies responded to the Hunter Biden story. -Should we regulate Facebook, Twitter, Google, etcetera? -If the Left packs the court, it's a revolutionary act. Here's how the Right should respond. -Talking about the Lindsey Graham race. -I prefer keeping everyone "healthy" when talking about Covid. Saying "safe" sends the wrong message...

On this Episode: -I know you can sometimes hear my dogs on my show. You don't have to keep telling me. -Know your coffee order. -I react to the VP Debate. -Court packing would leave to dissolving the country. -Reviewing "The Social Dilemma"