The Cory Truax Show

On This Episode: STRINGING TOGETHER THOUGHTS I have recently been ruminating on these three topics: 1) How the Kingdom of God gets from 2 billion people to 7 billion; 2) Not letting politics affect our emotions as presidential season kicks up; 3) choosing the “white pill” (hope) over the red pill (conspiracy thinking) or blue pill (sleepwalking through life). I think I bring those together into so...

The Latest in the Gospel of Mark series

On This Episode: EVEN THE BIBLE’S “WEIRD LAWS” ARE GOOD There’s laws about not boiling a baby goat in its mothers milk and about covering up holes you dig in ground. How are these laws to love and apply to today? Let’s talk about it. ARE WE ROBBING THE POOR AND MIDDLE CLASS FROM POTENTIAL WEALTH? Giant corporations and banks are buying houses in bulk in major American markets. This is making it al...

Cody is the excellent host of Westminster Doxology Podcast. We're both wrestling with a question inside western evangelicalism lately. That question regards the Christian's role in culture and government -- and a lot more. 

The latest in the Gospel of Mark Series.

On This Episode: PRIORITIES ON CULTURAL ROT I saw a lot of folks [rightfully] criticizing the satanic display at the Grammy’s. However, I want to be sure we critique rot INSIDE the church as much ferocity and volume. I’ll give two examples. EVIL IS BORING Besides the Grammy’s having an immoral performance, they also displayed on grey and boring evil is. Virtue and truth are exciting. Displaying th...

The latest in my Gospel of Mark Series

On This Episode: BEAUTY, TRUTH, AND THIS UGLY WORLD A petition is circulating, calling on dictionaries, and us, to “undefine beauty” – no redefine it. This is a really good opportunity to explore how we think about beauty. Ultimately, beauty is that which corresponds to truth. Evil is ugly. Goodness is beautiful. I want to talk about that in depth. The world longs for beauty, but doesn’t know wher...

On This Episode: BIBLE-READING THIS WEEK: WHEN WEARE FAILURES, GOD IS FAITHFUL In the chronological reading of the Bible this week, there’s a theme of God’s people being total, embarrassing failures and God continually reaffirming His commitment to them. There’s a ton of comfort in that. THE SPIRIT OF OUR AGE IS DECONSTRUCTION FOR THE SAKE OF IT I want to systemize my definition of the ethos that...

On This Episode: WHAT DO WE DO IN A CULTURE GROWING MORE HOSTILE TO CHRISTIANITY? We’re seeing stories of a Christian kicked out of the mall for wearing a “Jesus saves” t-shirt, of pastors being denied “Pastor Story Hour” at libraries that host “drag queen story hour,” of college athletes being benched and berated for not submitting to the spirit of the age, or people fired for following the wrong...

On This Episode: HOW DO WE EXPLAIN AND EXPERIENCE SUFFERING Let’s talk about Job, and its ancient interaction with the question of suffering. Job challenges us to trust God and acknowledge we don’t have the perspective to know always what is good and right. STOPPING THE PORN INDUSTRY Louisiana made great progress in stopping the porn industry from getting to our kids. It’s time for South Carolina...

On This Episode: A NEW IDEA FOR 2023 This year, I’m going to try and open every show with a reflection on Scripture reading. The twist is that I’ll be using a CHRONOLOGICAL reading of the Bible. So, for this week, we start in Genesis. LISTERNER QUESTION: WHAT DID JESUS MEAN WHEN HE SAID…. Jesus said that unless you’re more righteous than the Pharisees, you won’t enter the Kingdom of Heaven. What d...

On this Episode: MY MOMENTOUS YEAR From engagement, to home selling, to home buying, to travel, and finally to wonderful marriage, it was an incredible year for me. THEME OF THE YEAR 1: Anger From viral videos of temper tantrums on planes, in groceries stores and in restaurants, the rage came often this year. Let’s consider how NOT to add to it and how to be a force for peace in the new year. THEM...

My 2022 Christmas Sermon: 1. Christmas, The Miracle of Incarnation. 2. Christmas, the Tattle-Tale. 3. Christmas, the Long-Awaited Answer

On This Episode: ADVENT WEEK 4: Love The Christmas story is filled with love – Elizabeth choosing joy instead of jealousy about Mary’s pregnancy and Joseph choosing belief instead of skepticism about the same. But the greatest act of love was the incarnation itself. I have some thoughts from Romans 5 about how this Christmas seasons exemplifies God’s love for his children. CHRISTIAN LOCALISM There...

On This Episode: ADVENT WEEK 3: Joy When hope is fulfilled, there is joy. We’ll take a brief look at the shepherds, Simeon, and Ana to examine how the first Advent brought joy. We’ll also take that cue to think about the first Advent as a signpost, pointing us to the second and final Advent of Christ. If we’ll live in that light, we’ll walk in joy. WHAT DOES “REIGNING WITH CHRIST” MEAN? I heard a...

On This Episode: ADVENT WEEK 2: Preparation Week 1’s theme was hope. As we hope for ultimate Advent of Christ, though, we prepare. I’ll note in this segment that a too-common experience is that a promise – even a fulfilled promise – can sometimes leave us underwhelmed. Sometimes we overestimate our joy at an experience. The Second Advent will not be that, though. Whatever hope you have for Jesus’s...

On This Episode: GRATEFULNESS IN AN ENTITLED TIME Happy Thanksgiving! We live in a time totally unimpressed with our relatively easy lives. I have some thoughts to encourage you to be blown away by the physical and spiritual blessings we enjoy. ADVENT WEEK 1: HOPE One of main themes of Christmas is light invading the darkness. We live in a weary world that needs the thrill of hope. We live in a ca...

On This Episode: ON MARRIAGE I’m finally a married man, and I couldn’t be happier. I highly recommend marriage, first because of the companionship. There’s nothing like coming home to your best friend (I’m also fortunate my best friend is a beautiful woman). But second, I recommend it because it calls us higher and to be better. I also recommend all inclusive resorts in Cancun! I have some other t...

On This Episode: ELECTION 2022 PREDICTIONS AND ANALYSIS What happened in this election is one party talked about the economy, crime, and inflation while the other talked about a terrible event at the Capitol 2 years ago, “threats to democracy,” and their love for abortion. The issues people care about right now aligned with the first party while the second party yelled at them for not caring about...

On This Episode: LEARNING FROM BRIDGET JONES’ DIARY A listener sent me an effective line from this popular series of books that highlights a them of my show: our crisis of meaning and the negative effect thereof. This also served as a great reminder to watch, listen, and read with discernment – filtering everything through Scripture. ELECTION SEASON BRINGS MADNESS TO PULPITS From a “Renew America”...

On This Episode THE U.S. UNDER JUDGMENT I recently heard a sermon that, in part, itemizes the actions and attitudes that invite God’s wrath on a people. As I heard it, I was personally convicted, but I also saw that the US is INVITING God’s judgment on us in very specific ways. I also lay out how His judgment is already being made clear. THE “HE GETS US” CAMPAIGN Some group is spending $100 millio...

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On This Episode: NATURAL DISASTERS RUIN THE GENDER NARRATIVE The national narrative regarding gender has morphed and then radicalized over the past 50 years. We have folks who seem to embrace a full egalitarian relationship between men and women. During hurricane Ian, though, I noticed women were mostly doing the hard work of caring for the hurting while men were out sandbagging, rescuing in boats...

On This Episode: LESSONS FROM A CS LEWIS PLAY My soon-to-be wife got us tickets to see what was an incredible biopic play about CS Lewis last week. I left wanting to preserve some examples he gave us about having an intellectual but simple faith as well as understanding how pleasures and pains are all hints much more profound truths. I'll provide details A STORY THAT'S HARD TO BELIEVE FOR ME The m...