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In this episode, we navigate the growing phenomenon of platformed deconstruction — when former believers don’t just wrestle privately, but build audiences around their departure. How should pastors and leaders respond? Is silence wisdom, or does it leave the flock vulnerable? And when does addressing it unintentionally amplify it?

In this episode, we respond to John MacArthur, now deceased, who was a key figure in the Cessationist movement. We will be working on an extensive rebuttal of many of his materials from the Strange Fire Conferences. Stay tuned!

In this response video, we examine how tongues are often viewed and respond to the Corinthian admonition and the premise Paul outlined. While we agree that tongues need to be taught and that public regulation needs to be discussed, that doesn't mean we're to reject the use of tongues publicly and devotionally. #speakingintongues #acts238 #pentecostal #apostolicpentecostal

This episode drops another bonus response video! We examine the commonly misunderstood premise of speaking in other tongues and the effort to focus on an evangelistic means that ignores the biblical pattern in the book of Acts.

In this episode, we examine a theological viewpoint: "once saved, always saved." In a succinct way, we look at the Word of God to understand the answer to this question.

In this bonus episode, we respond to a well-intentioned young man who tries to reconcile the practice of baptism in the book of Acts with Matthew 28:19. He posits, "do both." This response, I posit, represents a "theological anxiety," that seeks to be inclusive and avoid theolgical tension or debate. What does scripture say? Let's take a look.

In this short video episode, we respond to a common mistake many make when contrasting grace with Acts 2:38, conflating the text and those who practice it into a works-based salvation.

You are about to embark on a special opportunity. Gain access to, not just a revolutionary series of episodes, but a preview of an upcoming future book being worked on called Redeeming Submission: A Theology of Authority. In this episode, we examine the need for redeeming submission and the intrinsic issue at hand in an hour where authority is under attack and submission is facing increased scrutiny and opposition. Listen in on this BONUS episode as we introduce a topic that demands humility, right motive, and a submission to God's Word.

We live in an age of screenshots, soundbites, and selective quotations, where being factually correct is often confused with being faithful. In this episode, we explore a dangerous distortion: truth without context.When words are ripped from their setting—whether in Scripture, relationships, or public discourse—truth loses its redemptive power and becomes a weapon. Accuracy alone is not wisdom. Discernment requires understanding who a truth is for, when it should be spoken, and what it is meant to accomplish.This episode examines how context shapes meaning, why Scripture itself resists slogan theology, and how truth misapplied can harden rather than heal. Drawing from biblical patterns, pastoral insight, and cultural observation, we challenge the modern impulse to weaponize “truth” and invite listeners into a slower, wiser, and more faithful way of speaking.

Long before modern debates about Santa, paganism, or December 25, Christmas was outlawed, fined, and erased from public life—especially by the Puritans, who saw it as unbiblical and socially dangerous. In this episode, we tell the story of how Christmas nearly disappeared, and how it returned transformed.From Washington Irving’s nostalgic vision of “Old Christmas” to Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, we explore how Christmas was rescued—not by laws or theology, but by imagination, compassion, and moral clarity. This episode reveals why Christmas still matters, why joy keeps returning, and why incarnation refuses to stay abstract.

In the previous episode, we explored how early Christians wrestled with language about God before later creeds settled the terms of the debate. In this follow-up, we return to the sources themselves—especially Tertullian’s Against Praxeas—to clarify what was (and was not) being claimed.This episode examines the instinctive resistance many ordinary believers had toward emerging theological categories, the difference between doctrinal systems and monotheistic reflexes, and how later orthodoxy was clarified, consolidated, and ultimately enforced. Rather than arguing for modern positions, this conversation presses into the historical complexity that often gets flattened after the fact.

When we look at the second and third centuries, a fascinating pattern emerges: the earliest Christians—“the simple, the unlearned, the majority,” as Tertullian calls them—pushed back strongly against emerging theological innovations that seemed to divide God into multiple divine persons. Though many of the systems of belief did not align with the Oneness doctrine, the instinct was unmistakably monotheistic. Their resistance, especially in Rome, Carthage, and parts of Asia Minor, was so strong that major writers such as Tertullian, Hippolytus, and later Epiphanius felt compelled to address it.

Join in on a 2024 interview with various listeners present, hosted by Dr. Dean Anderson with Preserving the Christian Family. This topic discusses the Threefold Cord of Development and how it can benefit anyone looking to plant a church and/or develop a culture of engagement in the local church.

We begin to do a deep dive into the Bible, and in this episode, we introduce the opening text of the Bible and how it relates to later texts and the Christian life.

In this episode, submission is reoriented toward a biblical pattern of understanding that lifts the idea above fallen premises of domination and subjection. Leadership should flow through submission, not above it or around it.

Listen in on our first theological narrative! This episode, and future ones, bring theological articles directly from the literary front of AlphaTav. This narrated article examines the biblical context of "touch not mine anointed."

In this episode, Pastor Tim Hadden explores the Council of Nicaea not as the triumph of truth, but as the birth of a compromise. When Constantine gathered the bishops of the empire, his goal wasn’t revelation—it was resolution. Between Arian subordination and Sabellian simplicity, the church drafted a creed that aimed for peace more than truth.

In this episode, Pastor Tim Hadden introduces Watchman Nee’s Spiritual Authority and explores how its influence has shaped both healthy and unhealthy approaches to leadership within Pentecostal contexts. He unpacks the spectrum between authoritarian control and passive non-leadership, and begins tracing how Nee’s ideas became foundational—sometimes problematically so—in modern church culture.

Laying the foundation for understanding what actual spiritual authority is — and isn’t. In an era of deconstruction and skepticism toward leadership, we take a closer look at spiritual authority, particularly a book that has played a significant role in many modern lessons on the topic: Watchman Nee's "Spiritual Authority."

Christianity’s claim that salvation comes only through Jesus Christ has always been controversial. In this episode, we confront the raw and often emotional question: “You mean my ____________ is in hell with Hitler?”  In this episode, we examine some common fallacies and our response to them.