Thinking Out Loud with Walt McFadden

False teachers look and sound like Biblical teachers. So, how do we discern who is a true teacher and who is a false teacher? We have to look at the fruit of the teacher. Are they building an empire? Are they building their personal resources? Pastor Walt tells us that’s not the role of the shepherd … the shepherd is there to serve the sheep. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church

Pastor Walt continues thinking out loud about Cessationism. The gifts of the Holy Spirt are instrumental to the church maintaining God’s presence. So, why do some people believe the gifts have ceased? They’ve been duped … the enemy has fooled them. God laid out the master plan of grace and how to serve one another. The gifts mean we operate in the power of the Holy Spirt and not our own power Visi...

Cessationism is an awkward word that defines the belief that the New Testament’s miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit ceased with the Apostolic Age. Pastor Walt thinks out loud and discusses that those miraculous gifts are for today, and that He is still speaking to the Church today and operates in those supernatural gifts from the Holy Spirit. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church

Pastor Walt Thinks Out Loud and tells us that preaching does matter … it really does. If we're not preaching the kind of life-giving Christ-honoring Gospel, you can see how Churches can slowly move away from the Biblical standards.  Scripture warns us and tells us, do not harden our heart. Once we harden our heart, we separate ourselves from the life of Christ. That's what's happened in the Church...

Pastor Walt continues thinking out loud about Divine Mystery. We live in a world where many things cannot be explained, and when we encounter things that cannot be explained we call them a mystery. Mysteries are just that … mysteries. So, why doesn’t God just make everything clear to us? Humans don’t have the capacity to fully understand the nature of God. God did this intentionally … so that we h...

Divine Mystery is something that faith deals with all the time. Pastor Walt helps us understand that He has made everything beautiful in its time, also He has put eternity into our heart, but we cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. So, God has put it in our hearts to think about eternity and God Himself, but we can’t know all the mysteries of God. Visit Walt McFadden at...

Some parents taught their children not to talk about two things … religion and politics. Well, in this episode Pastor Walt talks about both. So, how should Christians handle the discussion of politics? We need to do it in a civil manner, with a balanced and Biblical view. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church

In this final installment on the topic of manhood, Pastor Walt speaks boldly and unfiltered. He discusses what toxic masculinity is and how it’s evolved in our culture.  Men need to be able to say out loud that they are a man, and this gives them confidence to actually be a man. Every man (and woman) can learn something from listening to this series! Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church

In this second installment, Pastor Walt shares that we are in the middle of a war on masculinity and that something ominous is happening to men. He shares what drives him to discuss this issue and his own personal experiences. He explains how and where in the Bible men can learn how to be a man. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church

In this three-part series, Pastor Walt thinks out loud on the topic of manhood. This generation is losing the concept of what it means to be a man. Men are being stripped of their God given role to teach their sons how to be a man. Men need to know how to be a man, and the Bible teaches men how to be men. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church

Pastor Walt thinks out loud on the topic of the search for the real Jesus. Some so-called scholars say that the Bible isn’t an actual reflection of Jesus, and the disciple’s teachings of Jesus is an embellished view. So, is the Gospel account of Jesus accurate? Well, listen in and find out! Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church

Pastor Walt continues Thinks Out Loud about discernment. He says that sermons should be like billboards ... they get your attention, and make you want more. What about revival? Revival begins with repentance, without repentance there will be no revival. Repentance really means to change direction, change your mind, change your attitude … it is a course correction. Culture has creeped into the Chur...

Pastor Walt Thinks Out Loud about discernment. There is a distance between the pulpit and the pew today. Most Christians don’t have a Biblical worldview, and they just don’t get it … don’t get what the Kingdom of God really is. Pastor Walt helps us to understand what the role of the Church is in society, and to understand what the Kingdom of God really is. Pastor Walt helps us to learn how to disc...

Pastor Walt continues his discussion on the importance of Israel to the church. He talks about the theology of Israel, and Israel’s relationship with the church. Listen and learn about Israel and the church side-by-side. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church

Pastor Walt Thinks Out Loud and asks did Christmas change everything? Yes, it changed time itself, how we track time. The birth of Jesus Christ brought us the time before Christ and the time of the year of our Lord. The cultural upheaval that Christianity brought to the world in a good way … good for the whole of civilization. We celebrate the Christmas holiday, the tree, the gifts, the dinner … ...