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The Mistake of Leviticus

My daily Bible reading plan recently took me to the front door of Leviticus. Oh the venerable wasteland of Leviticus and its neighboring partner in crime Numbers. The...

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Theology Unplugged: Problem Passages 14 – What was Paul’s Thorn in the Flesh?

[display_podcast] Join Michael Patton, Tim Kimberley and Sam Storms as they discuss Paul’s thorn in the flesh? Was it something specific that we can know about, or was...

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Why Am I Excited About the Problem of Evil?

To “excite” something is to arouse or to stir up. At least, that is the connotation I am using here. What I mean in saying we are excited about the problem of evil...

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The Rise of the Roman Catholic Church in a Nutshell

Here is what I taught last Tuesday at the Credo House. In order to be a good Protestant, you must be a good anti-Catholic. I am not Catholic. I am Protestant. There are many...

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Lisa Robinson
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Jeremiah 29:11 As a Life Verse?

(Lisa Robinson) As a follow to this post on life verses, I’ve been reminded that Jeremiah 29:11 is a fairly common one claimed as a personal, individual promise. But is...

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Mike Licona Musings – The Most Important Things

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Kingdom Warriors, Too

(Lisa Robinson) This past weekend a conference was going on here in Dallas for men entitled Kingdom Man.  For obvious reasons, I have no interest in learning about being a...

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The Solution to the Lordship Debate: Urine

(Since this has been an issue on my blog and Facebook, this is an appropriate re-post, I hope.) Last night I went to pick up Zach, my three-year-old, from his class at church....

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Rethinking Sanctification Because I Have To

Fifteen years ago I had it all figured out. My theology was perfect. My passions were flamed by the progressively growing belief that I was going to make a difference—a...

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The New Prophets: Authority, Experience, and the Collapse of Trust
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The New Prophets: Authority, Experience, and the Collapse of Trust

Podcast culture is telling us something—and it’s not just about who people are listening to, but why they trust them.

As voices like Joe Rogan and Shawn Ryan rise, trust in institutions continues to collapse. Government, media, and even scientific authorities are no longer seen as stable sources of truth. But this does not mean truth itself is disappearing. It means confidence in those who interpret and deliver truth is fading.

In this episode, I make a critical distinction: science isn’t collapsing—trust in interpreters of science is. Science is a method. But people don’t live by methods—they live by meaning. And when the messengers lose credibility, people begin looking elsewhere for something to anchor their understanding of reality.

The deeper issue is that we are no longer building complete worldviews. Instead, we are assembling beliefs like a playlist—pulling ideas from wherever they resonate without asking whether they actually fit together. But a real worldview must answer real questions: What is ultimate reality? How do we know anything? Are there real morals? What is our purpose? What happens after death?

When those questions go unanswered, a vacuum is created. And that vacuum never stays empty.

This is where the “new prophets” begin to emerge—not from institutions, but from experience. And in a world that no longer trusts shared authority, experience itself begins to take the throne.

This episode sets the stage for understanding how we got here—and why what replaces truth may be far more dangerous than what we lost.

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    The New Prophets: Authority, Experience, and the Collapse of Trust Podcast culture is telling us something—and it’s not just about who people are listening to, but why they trust them. As voices like Joe Rogan and Shawn Ryan rise, trust in institutions continues to collapse. Government, media, and even scientific authorities are no longer seen […]
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    Israel, the Camaro, and the Faithfulness of God Can a promise from God mean more than the original hearer understood without meaning less than what God actually said? In this episode of Theology Unplugged, we look at one of the most important questions in biblical interpretation: how should Christians understand Old Testament promises in light […]

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