Christians have the unique privilege to call God their Father. However, who is God the Father? What role in the Trinity and in our salvation does he play? Join Jay and Josh as they wrestle with who the first person of the Trinity is and what He has done for them.

At the heart of the heart of the Christian faith lies the Trinity. This was the doctrine over which the early church bled and died. This was the truth they confessed and explained. This is the truth that they maintained no saved person could not safely reject. In this episode, Jay and Josh continue their study of the Baptist Faith and Message, honing in on one of the most important answers to the question “What does it mean to be a Christian”.

What does it mean to be a Christian? What does it mean to be Southern Baptist. The problem with these terms is that if their is no uniting document or belief or identity, then the words mean nothing at all. This is why for the next couple of weeks Jay and Josh will be working through the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 (BFM2K) which serves as the doctrinal statement for the SBC. Starting with Articles 1, they speak out about the importance of inspiration and authority for Christianity to mean anything to anyone.

Where do we go when we die? This question has been a centerpiece of Christian evangelism, devotions, and funerals for a very long time. Yet, many believers have a vision of the present heaven that takes its cues from the New Heavens and New Earth instead. On this episode, Jay and Josh chew through passages that give us a glimpse of our hope beyond the grave while defending the importance of our great hope of Christ redeeming the Earth. Also, there are a lot of pirate references for some reason.

Most people with an eye to American culture have noticed a strange meshing of Christianity with politics, nationalism, and patriotism. Jay and Josh take on this sensitive and important topic with their typical "worldview work". A conversation about Fourth of July services, the founding of the country, biblical interpretation, and least favorite veggies ensues.

What is theistic evolution and does it contradict or supplement the faith? In this episode, Jay and Josh read an article by Ted Davis of Biologos which explains the core tenets of Theistic Evolution. They weigh these tenets against a Christian worldview and discover several deviations from foundational truths.

What is up for debate in evangelism and apologetics? In this episode, Jay will lay out an argument for God's existence as a presupposition. This means that when we debate or evangelize or make a defense of Christianity we do so not to prove that God exists but assuming that he does. What follows is a conversation about worldviews, evangelism, and trusting the Lord.

One of the unspoken debates in Christianity today is about language. More and more, Christians, especially younger Christians, are embracing curse words as a valid part of language. One of the nuances of this topic is that their is no list of "bad words" in the Bible. Jay and Josh think through what the Bible does say about how Christians should use their words and make their cases for whether cursing is off the table or not.

How many times have you heard something like "God will open a door for you" or "I felt like God was telling me..."? Too often, our theology can become muddled by Christian clichés rather than the Word of God. In this very special episode, Josh and Jay work through what is cultural, what is mystical, and what is biblical in the pursuit of knowing God's will for our lives.

The Westminster Catechism states that the "chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever." As Jay and Josh work through the "clencher" of the Sola's, they reflect on the amazing purpose of God spelled out in the Sola's. God has saved for himself a people according to Scripture alone, by faith alone, through grace alone, in Christ alone, to the Glory of God alone!