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Send us Fan Mail The Christmas story is full of answered prayers.  In this episode, the VC turns our attention to how prayers are answered according to the Scriptures.  

Send us Fan Mail Of all the surprising things that Jesus says in His Sermon on the Mount, his address of the Lex Talionis ("an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth") remains one of the most interesting.  Listen to hear what Jesus teaches and what that has to do with us as believers.

Send us Fan Mail The teachings of Scripture are very clear that we are to sacrificially love our neighbor.  The Christian should ask themselves how to do that in a world full of sin and misery.  In this episode, the VC works through the Scriptures to help illuminated the call of loving neighbor and how the Bible applies that in all the Scriptures.

Send us Fan Mail Jesus clearly says His kingdom is not of this world.  He was telling us something about the nature of His kingdom.  Pacifists assert that this has to do primarily with the nonviolent nature of His kingdom, but is that a sufficient explanation for the information?  Was Jesus setting up a rival earthly kingdom but through alternative means or was His kingdom radically different in e...

Send us Fan Mail One major assumption of Christian pacifism is that weapons are evil and that removing them is a positive good.  The VC looks at the Scriptures which deal directly with disarmament to help paint a better picture of how we ought to think about disarmament.

Send us Fan Mail The Bible teaches us how to live, including on the use of violence. The believer need only explore the Word. Here the VC touches on some of the most prominent teachings in the Bible on the correct use of violence.

Send us Fan Mail Romans 12 has some strong teachings which favor our neighbor and motivate us against injury to others. Every Christian should take them seriously. But are these new teachings found only in the NT or did God tell OT Christians the same things? In this fifth episode in the series Against Christian Pacifism, the VC will show how the NT ethic is a continuation of the OT ethic for beli...

Send us Fan Mail The Old Testament is full of laws requiring punishment and warfare.  In this episode, the VC explores how pacifists view those passages and addresses their place in the larger canon of Scripture.

Send us Fan Mail At the beginning of Genesis, we find a paradise of peace created by God which descends into a world of death and destruction.  In this 3rd episode of the series Against Christian Pacifism, the VC directs his listeners on how the testimony of Scripture deals with the presence of violence in a post-Eden world.

Send us Fan Mail The Good News of the Gospel transforms people from enemies of God to His people instead.    Many pacifists take the news of Christ's work for His people and apply it to our treatment of our earthly enemies.  Is this a biblical application of the standard?  In this second episode of the series Against Christian Pacifism, the VC walks us through the Scriptures to better see the...

Send us Fan Mail Christians are often told that the Bible teaches they're to be pacifists.  In this episode, the VC helps the listener to understand what the Bible actually requires of Christians and how countercultural the instructions really are.  

Send us Fan Mail People hear a lot of conflicting answers about what to do to get a blessing, and there are a lot of schemes out there.  Listen to this  episode to learn more about what God tells about about receiving a blessing.  

Send us Fan Mail The VC is back to answering listener questions, and our listeners come up with really interesting questions.  This episode deals with whether or not Daniel was a eunuch, and the VC takes the Bible, history, and tradition into consideration in his answer.  Learn what the Bible has to say about those who have been physically altered and what hope they have in Christ. 

Send us Fan Mail Humans obviously use language, but researchers in several fields have attempted to answer the question of language origins.  The VC uses his background in linguistics and his knowledge of the Bible to help the listener see the riches of God's revelation in both the natural world and the Scriptures.  

Send us Fan Mail Malachi starts with God loving His people, and in the end He promises to save them.  Check out this episode to see the transition that the Word of God had on these people.

Send us Fan Mail Theft is such an obvious and strong sin that it's quite shocking to hear someone is robbing God.  The prophet Malachi says such a sin was being committed by the people.  Listen to this episode to hear how a people might steal from God.

Send us Fan Mail The people have hard a lot of hard things from the Lord, and yet there is great hope in the message of Malachi as well.  Hear how even the most caustic of proclamations fire and refinement still include great grace for the people of God.

Send us Fan Mail The information and advice for marriage and family far exceeds that for singles.  In this episode, the VC takes a dive into 1 Corinthians 7 to see what advice we might find for singles from the Scriptures.

Send us Fan Mail The narrative of the Bible is constructed in large part around covenant with there being both covenant keepers and breakers.  In this episode, the VC dives into the biblical understanding of covenant as outlined in Malachi.

Send us Fan Mail People often assume God will be happy with whatever we bring simply because we did something, but Malachi paints a very different picture of God.  In this episode, the VC helps to unfold the second portion of Malachi where God makes His standards clear for everyone to see.

Send us Fan Mail The book of Malachi is rich with important information for Christians, but so many are intimidated by this Old Testament prophet.  In this series, the VC makes the message of Malachi accessible for people of all ages.

Send us Fan Mail When we think of sacrifices, we often think of things which we give up or which have to die, so Rom 12:1 can really come as a surprise to many people.  Here the VC explores what’s meant by Living Sacrifice.

Send us Fan Mail We love this series where the VC interviews missionaries to help capture their stories.  Dr. Hoke has lead a life of obedience to the will of God, following His plans wherever they may take him.  Hear more about it on this episode.  

Send us Fan Mail Hear about the work of the Lord in one of the most challenging environments in the world from the mouth of a missionary in Karamoja.  The VC interviews James Folkerts who along with his family have been serving in Uganda.  We hope it will be a blessing to you.

Send us Fan Mail In this series on final things, the VC takes time to exegete 1 Corinthians 15:50-58 as a deep dive into the nature of death and resurrection.