Into the Pray

Dear Listener, A reader named Alex wrote a long, seemingly courteous letter to me — more careful and more genuinely wrestling with Scripture than most criticism I receive, but making serious charges all the same: that my teaching is doctrinally vague, that it amounts to extreme separatism, and that it risks pushing isolated believers into a dangerous, unaccountable "lone wolf" Christianity with no fellowship at all. In this episode, I explain why I'm not going to answer him privately, p...

Dear Church, Last week's video exploring why true believers often feel so disconnected in today's church, pulled in over 1.5 million impressions and 111k views on YouTube. If you haven't watched it yet, you can catch it here. In this week's video, Mairi and I discuss our confession of faith that has formed since 2019 when we began to acknowledge the fundamental errors within the institutional understanding — and practices — of the churches. In Christ, Nick & Mairi Fanks P.S. This is...

Dear Church, You can watch the video that this podcast is referring to here. In this deep-dive follow-up to this video, Nick and Mairi unpack the stark, sobering reality that occurs when the structural machinery of modern churches collides with the true Word of the LORD. If you have ever felt a profound, unsettling disconnect between the casual peace of the church platform and the heavy burden in your own soul for genuine faithfulness, this conversation is for you. We break down three c...

Dear Church, You can watch the video version of this podcast here. Sick of the apostate 'church'? Read our statement and confession of faith here. In 1883, the volcanic island of Krakatoa gave months of warning signs—tremors, ash, and minor blasts—before its catastrophic eruption. Yet, many ignored the data until it was too late. Spiritual history mirrors natural history. In this teaching, Nick dives into Acts 3:17-21 where the apostle Peter confronts a crowd that missed the definitive ...

Dear Church, Greetings to you all! You can watch the original YouTube version of this podcast here. Relevant email correspondence (anonymous) here. OUR STATEMENT & CONFESSION OF FAITH IS HERE. In this video I pluck up the courage to call the finest men and brothers in the land to repentance — the men of Puritan and Reformed tradition — who should be calling and leading and teaching the national Church to repentance, NOT leveraging a call to national prayer to raise millions of...