Salvation is not the finish line. It is the starting line.

You trusted Christ. You are justified — declared righteous, fully and permanently, on the basis of what he did. Nothing can add to it and nothing can take it away.But you still woke up this morning with the same temptations. The same broken patterns. The same tendencies toward sin. So how do you actually walk through it?Episode 3 of Roots covers five things every believer should know, believe, and be willing to defend:

Christianity does not rise or fall on your spiritual experience, your church's programs, or your pastor's preaching ability.It rises or falls entirely on one man, in one moment, in one place in history.Jesus of Nazareth. The cross. The empty tomb.Episode 2 of Roots walks into the eye of it — who Jesus actually is, why only he could save, what the cross was really accomplishing, why the resurrection is either everything or nothing, and why grace alone is the only ground that holds when the storm hits full force.Five doctrines. Clearly taught. Grounded in Scripture.This is The Eye of It.Roots — Things Worth Believing, Defending, and Dying For.The Buffalo Podcast.

Before you walk into the storm, you need to know what you're standing on.

Episode 1 of Roots covers the five foundational truths every believer should be able to name, explain, and defend — the authority of Scripture, the Trinity, creation, the imago Dei, and the fall of humanity.

Not opinions. Not trends. Two thousand years of Christian confession, taught plainly and applied to the life you are actually living.

Roots. Things worth believing, defending, and dying for.