The Truth Barista

Fallen people have a warped nature that’s prone to sin. That sin nature compels people to rebel against God’s standard of who we are to be and how we are to live. But according to the Bible, that fallen nature changes when a person is transformed inside by God’s power. However, Christians still struggle with the urge to sin (do things our way) and many pastors blame it on our “sin nature.” What is...

How are we to handle those awful situations that totally rock our world? Why does the Lord allow us to go through these events that overturn our preconceived ideas of how our life will unfold? Sometimes the Lord needs to give us a “significant emotional experience” to redirect us. Frothy Thoughts with the Truth Barista Visit HighBeam Ministry, The Truth Barista Check out the Frothy Thoughts Blog!...

God’s permanent promise to Abraham has three aspects – a land, a family, and a nation. To prove His faithfulness, Israel’s God has preserved all three of these things despite the troubles the Jewish people have endured for the past four millennia. Now, after two thousand years of global dispersion, Abraham’s physical descendants, the Jews, are back in their land as a family and a nation. Frothy Th...

Does God have a permanent Covenant with His people, Abraham’s physical descendants? Sadly, too many Christian pastors, academicians, and followers of Jesus think not. However, God is clear that His Covenant with Abraham will remain in effect until His plan has been completed. Dr. Jay and Amazing Larry unpack the Scriptures and why this question is so crucial to the world. Frothy Thoughts with the...

Dr. Jay, the Truth Barista, interviews Patrick Verbeten, the National Director for Bridges For Peace (bridgesforpeace.com), a Jerusalem-based ministry of Christians supporting Israel and building relationships between Christians and Jews in Israel and around the world. Patrick shares his heart about the terrifying October 7, 2023, Hamas attack and how Bridges For Peace is helping the Israeli peopl...

Jacob’s wrestling match with God in Genesis Chapter 32 is more than just a Biblical cage match. It’s a powerful lesson that illustrates those times we all wrestle with God to reach His promises and plans for our lives. When God wrestles with you and you hang in there until the match is done, you’ll never be the same. Frothy Thoughts with the Truth Barista Visit HighBeam Ministry, The Truth Barista...

What is idolatry? What is an idol? Dr. Jay and Amazing Larry take a deep dive into the topic of past stereotypical pagan idols to the source of idolatry … our natural desires to enjoy, obtain, and achieve. It comes down to whether we place God or ourselves at our life’s center. Frothy Thoughts with the Truth Barista Visit HighBeam Ministry, The Truth Barista Check out the Frothy Thoughts Blog! Che...

Finally! We’ve reached the end of our Book of Revelation study. In this final episode, Dr. Jay and Amazing Larry explore Revelation Chapter 22. With evil, sin, and death destroyed, life flows like the River of Life described by John. We will live in God’s presence forever! John’s final words serve as an encouragement to Christians in every age. May Jesus come soon! Frothy Thoughts with the Truth B...

As Dr. Jay and Amazing Larry move into Revelation Chapter 21, we see God creating a New Heaven and a New Earth. The word used for “new” means a complete restructuring and restoration of what had existed previously. The only difference is sin and its effects will be completely erased! Check out John’s description of the New Jerusalem. Wow! Frothy Thoughts with the Truth Barista Visit HighBeam Minis...

When Jesus fulfills His Father’s promised Millennial Reign and Satan has been dispatched to the Lake of Fire, Jesus turns the Kingdom over to His Father and another time of judgment begins … the Great White Throne. This judgment is for those who have rejected Jesus, followed by the New Jerusalem for those who have embraced Jesus. Frothy Thoughts with the Truth Barista Visit HighBeam Ministry, The...

What will Jesus’ Millennial Reign be like? The Truth Barista, Dr. Jay, and Amazing Larry explore Satan’s incarceration and release and a challenging speculation about the nature of the New Millennial people. Will the world have mortal and immortal people on earth? Who will make up Satan’s anti-Jesus army at the Millennium’s end? Frothy Thoughts with the Truth Barista Visit HighBeam Ministry, The T...

The Cavalry arrives! Jesus the King arrives in Revelation 19:11-16 to defeat all of God’s enemies who stand opposed to God’s kingdom on earth. The “rock not cut by human hands” from Daniel 2:34,44-45 finally appears to end the long line of human dominions. Frothy Thoughts with the Truth Barista Visit HighBeam Ministry, The Truth Barista Check out the Frothy Thoughts Blog! Check out The Truth Baris...

To understand what’s happening in Revelation Chapter 19, we need to take a look at the Jewish engagement and wedding customs of Jesus’ day. The Marriage Supper of the Lamb is the culmination where all believers – the glorified living and resurrected dead believers – finally join together to culminate the engagement that began at the First Passover, just before Jesus’ crucifixion. The Bride is asse...

We now hit the “Fallout” section of Revelation, Chapters 19-20. Satan and the corrupt world system finally get what’s comin’ to ‘em! Jesus and His redeemed and restored entourage arrive to dispatch His enemies – the Antichrist, the False Prophet. The martyrs’ cry of “How long, O Lord?” is finally answered! Frothy Thoughts with the Truth Barista Visit HighBeam Ministry, The Truth Barista Check out...

John now turns his prophetic eye toward Babylon the Great. This city is the epicenter of the world system, filled with all manner of corruption, spiritual degradation, and demonic influence. In the End, God will destroy this ground-zero of anti-God rebellion on earth. Frothy Thoughts with the Truth Barista Visit HighBeam Ministry, The Truth Barista Check out the Frothy Thoughts Blog! Check out The...

Dr. Jay, the Truth Barista, and Amazing Larry discuss the enigmatic Woman that rides the Beast. Her name is “Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and of the Detestable Things of the Earth.” Could she represent the world system that seduces the world’s leader? Take a listen! Frothy Thoughts with the Truth Barista Visit HighBeam Ministry, The Truth Barista Check out the Frothy Thoughts Blog!...

Revelation Chapter 16 sets the stage for the final conflict between three major armies and the God of Israel. With the 7th bowl, the world will be thrown into turmoil, rocking and rolling with massive tectonic upheavals and cosmic calamities Frothy Thoughts with the Truth Barista Visit HighBeam Ministry, The Truth Barista Check out the Frothy Thoughts Blog! Check out The Truth Barista Books! Check...

Revelation Chapter 16 opens with God pouring out His judicial wrath upon rebellious humanity. These final judgments will bring about the total collapse of the earth’s ecosystem. As you listen, notice how these bowl judgments reflect the same plagues that struck Egypt as God and Moses battled Pharaoh and the false Egyptian gods. Frothy Thoughts with the Truth Barista Visit HighBeam Ministry, The Tr...

As God’s presence bursts forth from His throne room in Revelation Chapter 15, seven awe-inspiring angels stride forth with the world-consuming plagues of His wrath. These final judgments climax God’s wrath against sinful, rebellious humanity. God is love, but we can’t dismiss His wrath against sin. Humanity’s great sin brings God’s intense wrath. Frothy Thoughts with the Truth Barista Visit HighBe...

Revelation Chapter 14 continues the stunning End Time transition with the two “harvests” as the Son of Man, Jesus, nears. These two harvests are the righteous and the wicked people in this final separation at the end of the Tribulation. Dr. Jay and Amazing Larry discuss the Rapture and which version will likely be … pre/mid/or post-Tribulation Rapture. Frothy Thoughts with the Truth Barista Visit...

Beginning with Revelation 14:6, God begins the final push against the dominion of fallen humanity that has sought to control the earth apart from God. Three angels move over the world to warn humanity about God’s swiftly approaching judgment, the fall of the global system with roots in Babylon, and the terrible retribution on those who have sworn allegiance to the Beast, the head of the wicked wor...

In this episode, Dr. Jay and Amazing Larry discuss the 144,000 Jewish followers we first saw in Revelation Chapter 7. Here in Chapter 14, we learn more about Jesus’ entourage, this special group of believers unlike any other people in God’s Kingdom. Frothy Thoughts with the Truth Barista Visit HighBeam Ministry, The Truth Barista Check out the Frothy Thoughts Blog! Check out The Truth Barista Book...

At the end of Revelation 13, we were left with the Holy Trinity (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) and the Unholy Trinity (Satan, Antichrist, False Prophet), the mark of the beast, not being able to buy or sell, and the number of the beast’s name. Dr. Jay and Amazing Larry put these elements together to speculate how Revelation 13 could be fulfilled in our day. Frothy Thoughts with the Truth Barista Visit...

Dr. Jay and Amazing Larry move from discussing the geo-political “beast from the sea,” a.k.a. the Antichrist, to the False Prophet who will perform stunning supernatural miracles to deceive as many as possible. One of those miracles is an animated “image.” Our dynamic duo discusses the infamous “number of the beast’s name.” Frothy Thoughts with the Truth Barista Visit HighBeam Ministry, The Truth...

Why is the “beast from the sea” described as part leopard, bear, and lion? Why does it speak harmfully against the God of the Bible? Join Dr. Jay and Amazing Larry in the Ersatz Coffee Shop as they dig into John’s description of the final beast empire. Frothy Thoughts with the Truth Barista Visit HighBeam Ministry, The Truth Barista Check out the Frothy Thoughts Blog! Check out The Truth Barista B...