Brooklyn's Dad Talks About the Bible
Brooklyn's Dad Talks About the Bible
Michael Francis Scotto
A podcast centering on conversational Christian theology and Bible study. Along the way, we may detour and visit myriad of topics from baseball to bass, pop culture to politics, movies to music, history to histrionics and just about everything in between from a conservative, yet somewhat unorthodox and dispensational Christian point of view. Your humble host is a former Religious Education teacher who chucked it all to become a lonely workman trying to rightly divide, compare things that differ, so as not to be ashamed. (2 Tim 2:15) There is only one theology that matters in the end, YOUR OWN.
S5 Ep21 A Walk Through Psalm 139 for the Present Age
We examine the Psalm of David wherein he starts noting the Lord searches his heart and knows him intimately. The King finishes with him imploring the Lord to not only search him, but then lead him in the way of the age. A beautiful and comforting song of love.
Jul 14
21 min
S5 Ep20 Progressive Churches: It's OK to Judge *Some* Sins
Satan has several strategies and one of his most effective within the walls of Christendom in 2026 is shaming true believers into staying quiet about clearly defined biblical sins. However, the same people that are quick to self-flagellate and condemn the exposing of sin somehow have no problem loudly pointing out what they deem as sin.
Jun 24
20 min
S5 Ep19 Satan is Busy with Good Works and Deception
First Timothy teaches us about the last days and Second Corinthians give us some insight into one of Satan's most effective strategies; religion, good works, and self-righteousness. Some things Christians do in the name of the faith, while not bad on their own, become evil when Christ, his finished work, and the message of rescue from death is subjugated to somehow trying to "make the world a better place" and performing rituals in an attempt to put God in our debt. Adding rituals makes us feel even more special.
Jun 21
27 min
S5 Ep18 Pentecost is Overshadowing the Resurrection in Many Churches
More rambling about the neglect of the resurrection (the Lord's and ours) as we just came through Pentecost which, in most places, is celebrated far more than the third day. Putting aside that I don't believe that Pentecost is "the birthday of the Church," on its own it shouldn't be celebrated even at 1/10,000 of how we should celebrate the resurrection. Man's "Lent" and the crucifixion occupy most of Christendom as the greater undoing of the curse and the only hope of redemption, the rising up of the Lord Jesus Christ by his own power, is relegated to one day... and most believers can't tell you the significance. If mom is already dancing in heaven, who needs a resurrection? Sad.
Jun 5
20 min
S5 Ep17 The False Revival and Other Last Days Stuff
General commentary on the ecclesiastical direction of the conservative movement in America as Catholics Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, Megyn Kelly, and others take the headlines. If you think those extremists won't last, they're not the only ones in the movement. More conventional conservatives Like J.D. Vance and Jack Posobiec present an even greater threat as they move on organizations like TPUSA. Recorded April 17, 2026.
May 10
20 min
S5 Ep16 The Kingdom on Earth in Scripture Will Be Israel's Kingdom #theology
From the time God instructed Abraham to walk the length and breadth of the land God promised him and his offspring, through the prophets' vision of a future kingdom, to the declaration of John the Baptist, to the Lord's teaching on the topic, to the offer of the Kingdom to Israel by the Apostles, to the realization of real kingdom on earth in the Revelation... the Lord's promises stand firm. To Israel belong the promises, the fathers, the covenants, the priesthood, and the Kingdom. That is God's plan for the earth. We should be concerned with the greater blessing and the hope in heavenly places.
Apr 29
25 min
S5 Ep15 The Victory in Christianity is Christ’s Resurrection (and Ours)
Despite the almost universal adoption of the creature known in Christendom as Lent, it is the resurrection that we need to exalt. If not for the resurrection of Christ, two things would be true: we'd still be in our sins, and once we die we'd be dead forever.While we praise the Lord Jesus for suffering and dying on our behalf, without the resurrection we'd have no hope. God has no interest in us giving up chocolate for forty days and God knows no such creature as a "bodiless soul" running around heaven. Men have turned the resurrection into an asterisk by adopting Plato's idea of the "immortal soul" after Augustine inflicted it on the faith.
Mar 18
23 min
S5 Ep14 The Problem in the Charismatic Movement is the Movement
We don't judge the sincere believer in the pew. We cannot read hearts. We acknowledge our own limitations and failings. But can some of the egregious scandals that have rocked the Charismatic-Pentecostal movement since its inception be simply an expected byproduct of the theology itself?We pull back the lens on the recent scandals (theological and moral) at Bethel Church and other places like The International House of Prayer (IHOPKC) and examine what makes these teachers and congregations so seemingly vulnerable to scandal and disappointment and error.
Feb 5
25 min
S5 Ep13 Calvin Attacks the Apostles (Because He Thought God Was Kidding)
We look again at Calvin's Commentary, this time his harsh words for the enlightened and chosen apostles of Christ in Acts 1. Calvin's refusal to see that the God who promised a land and a kingdom to his earthly people will keep those promises.In Acts 1 when the risen Lord teaches his apostles (to whom he promised would sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel in Matthew 19:28) about the kingdom, they ask him one question. The Lord does not chastise them for asking the question nor does he accused them of misunderstanding his teachings on the kingdom. So John Calvin took it upon himself to scorch the Lord's chosen.Just as his failure and refusal to see the fulfilment of the promises to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, and the nation of Israel all through the Lord's ministry as we saw in our studies on Calvin and the Sermon on the Mount, so here does Calvin refuse to see God as a God who keeps his word.The Lord's disciples believed the prophets and the Lord. The apostles believed the promise of the "new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah" replacing the covenant he "made with THEIR fathers in the day that I took THEM by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt." John Calvin and his disciples somehow want to make God a liar and greedily claim the kingdom for themselves. The irony here is that in doing so, they ignore the greater hope of blessings in the heavenly places revealed through Paul for the current age.
Jan 22
23 min
S5 Ep12 Our Relationship to Government in the Current Age
Teachers and Preachers often take us to Romans 13 when speaking of the believer's duty to "obey" the government. But did Paul give those instructions for all men of all ages? Obviously I don't think so or I wouldn't have posed the question as such! We will compare Romans 13 with the Post-Acts instructions in 1 Timothy (as we did with Paul's instructions for marriage and child-rearing in the two ages).We speak briefly again concerning the convergence of a false Christendom and its outward revival. As we have noted, the only way for any semblance of what is called "Christian Nationalism" to emerge is for the true faith to compromise every single foundational truth.If we are looking for a revival of a Christ alone, Faith alone, Grace alone, Scripture alone we are not going to find it. And in the eagerness to obtain some fantasy of cultural and political control, all of that will be jettisoned for the sake of "unity" to achieve an unachievable goal.
Oct 26, 2025
26 min
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