Episodes

  • Turning the Other Cheek Is Not About Passivity but Resistance

    Turning the Other Cheek Is Not About Passivity but Resistance
    Oct 12 2026
    The most abused line in the Sermon on the Mount is the one about turning the other cheek. People treat it like a divine order to become a human doormat, to absorb every insult, every injustice, every advance of evil without lifting a finger. That reading is wrong. It is not what Jesus taught, and it is not how He lived.

    Matthew 5:39 does not command passivity. It commands a refusal to play the other man’s game. “But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.” The Greek word rendered “resist” is antistenai. It means to stand against in the same manner, to answer force with matching force, to mirror the attacker’s method. Jesus is forbidding retaliation in kind, not forbidding resistance itself.

    Read More: https://www.blessed.report/p/turning-the-other-cheek-is-not-about
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    12 mins
  • God's in Control and Nobody's Coming to Save Us

    God's in Control and Nobody's Coming to Save Us
    Jun 30 2026
    It makes sense to apply our Biblical beliefs to the way we perceive politics and pretty much everything else in the world.
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    10 mins
  • Pastor Gives Sermon for 96 Hours

    Pastor Gives Sermon for 96 Hours
    Jun 22 2026
    In Jones County, Mississippi, Pastor Matt Olson of First Baptist Church of Sharon stood in the pulpit and delivered the full counsel of God from Genesis to Revelation over four straight days. For 96 hours, with minimal breaks, he proclaimed Scripture without ceasing, setting an unofficial world record for the longest marathon sermon. His closing declaration rang out clearly: “Jesus is worthy.”

    Read More: https://jdrucker.com/mississippi-baptist-pastor-preaches-entire-bible-in-96-hour-marathon/
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    8 mins
  • The 'Hidden' Significance of 'Our Daily Bread'

    The 'Hidden' Significance of 'Our Daily Bread'
    Jun 9 2026
    We pray “Give us this day our daily bread” so often that we stop hearing it. But Jesus chose every word, and the words are pointed. He did not teach us to ask for a surplus, a savings buffer, or security against the unknown. He taught us to ask for today — and only today.

    The Greek makes the point sharper than English can carry it. The word rendered “daily” is *epiousios*, a word found nowhere else in all of Greek literature. The Gospel writers appear to have minted it, deliberately passing over the ordinary word for “daily.”

    Read More: https://www.blessed.report/p/the-hidden-significance-of-our-daily
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    8 mins
  • When We Remake God in Our Own Image We Lose Him Entirely

    When We Remake God in Our Own Image We Lose Him Entirely
    May 29 2026
    America is not, on the whole, an atheist nation. Polling still shows large majorities professing belief in some kind of higher power. What it has become, however, is something arguably more dangerous than secularism — a culture that has refashioned God into a flattering reflection of itself, a deity so manageable, so endlessly affirming, and so reliably silent on inconvenient subjects that He can no longer command reverence from anyone. The question worth asking is whether such a god is even worth the prayers being directed at him.

    That is precisely the question pastor and author Adam B. Dooley puts to his readers in a striking new essay at The Christian Post, titled “Are we inventing a fake God? Why reverence is dying.” Dooley revives a warning from the late theologian R.C. Sproul, who observed before his death in 2017 that the most urgent spiritual need of the age is for people to rediscover who God actually is. Nearly a decade later, the diagnosis has only sharpened. Few in the modern West openly reject God. Far more are content to invent a new one.

    Read More: https://www.blessed.report/p/when-we-remake-god-in-our-own-image
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    26 mins
  • The Evolutionary Worldview Keeps Crumbling Under Revelations of Science

    The Evolutionary Worldview Keeps Crumbling Under Revelations of Science
    May 27 2026
    The evolutionary narrative that has dominated Western institutions for generations is facing yet another serious challenge. Recent scientific reports continue to uncover evidence that aligns more closely with the straightforward timeline of Scripture than with the deep-time assumptions required for Darwinian evolution.

    Far from being an outdated religious text, the Bible’s account of creation, the Fall, and the global Flood stands up remarkably well under honest scientific scrutiny.

    Read More: https://www.blessed.report/p/the-evolutionary-worldview-keeps
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    9 mins
  • The Megachurch Built a Generation That Couldn't Find God in It

    The Megachurch Built a Generation That Couldn't Find God in It
    May 19 2026
    For thirty years, the dominant American church-growth strategy assumed that the way to reach the next generation was to make Christianity feel less like Christianity. Lower the lights. Lose the hymnal. Trade the pulpit for a barstool. Replace the cross on the wall with a tasteful abstract panel. Preach in jeans. Quote movies more than Moses. Make Sunday morning feel like a TED talk, a concert, and a coffee shop fused into one experience the unchurched would not find threatening.

    It worked, by the only metrics that strategy was designed to measure. The buildings got bigger. The parking lots got bigger. The brand got bigger. A generation of pastors became national figures. A generation of churchgoers became consumers of religious content.

    Read More: https://discern.tv/the-megachurch-built-a-generation-that-couldnt-find-god-in-it/
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    14 mins
  • Antinomianism and Legalism Are the Same Disease Wearing Different Clothes

    Antinomianism and Legalism Are the Same Disease Wearing Different Clothes
    May 15 2026
    Somewhere along the way, much of American Christianity quietly traded the cross for a coupon. The cross calls a man to die; a coupon merely entitles him to a discount. And in too many pulpits and pews today, the gospel has been reduced to little more than a heavenly fee waiver — a one-time transaction that grants permanent immunity from God’s law and lifelong exemption from anyone, including God Himself, telling the believer how to live.

    This is the diagnosis Pastor Wilson Van Hooser offers in a recent essay at Gospel Reformation Network titled Antinomianism: The New Pharisaism. His thesis is provocative because it is precise. The old enemy of grace was the Pharisee, the man who added rules to Scripture and trusted his own performance for salvation. The new enemy of grace, Van Hooser argues, looks like the opposite — a lawless, anti-authority, do-what-thou-wilt religion — but is in fact the same disease wearing different clothes. The Pharisee and the antinomian end up at the same place. Both are running from Christ. They just take different exits.

    Read More: https://www.blessed.report/p/antinomianism-and-legalism-are-the
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    14 mins