In this episode Brian interviews Andrew Andreou.  An Ex-Jehovah's Witness now reaching out to current Jehovah's Witnesses in the U.K and on Youtube.  Andrew talks about his journey into, and out of the Watchtower. His Youtube Channel is http://www.youtube.com/user/muzzledchristians1?ob=0&feature=results_main

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Borrowed Catholic Doctrine? Salvation Through the Watchtower

In this episode Brian and Brock discuss how the Watchtower teaches that salvation depends on serving their elite 144,000 class.   We also discuss the parallels between the  Watchtower governing structure and the Catholic governing structure.  Did the Jehovah's Witnesses merely adopt the Catholic structure with a few minor tweaks?


Here is a link to the discussion of "Paradise Earth" discussed in the Podcast: http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/conference-messages/an-evening-of-eschatology

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Jehovah's Witnesses and the 2 Class System

This is a video response to a Jehovah's Witness apologist attempting to defend the Watchtower's 2 class (or as he states...  3 class system.

Dress Codes and Secret Agents

Episode 3 is a bit late but it's available now! In this episode Brian and Brock are joined by Bill Cwik from Midwest Christian Outreach and the Youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSnarkyApologist

We discuss the Bethel dress code, confirmatory and "secret agents."

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THE LONELINESS OF THE CHRISTIAN

by~A.W. Tozer

"The loneliness of the Christian results from his walk with God in an ungodly world, a walk that must often take him away from the fellowship of good Christians as well as from that of the unregenerate world. His God-given instincts cry out for companionship with others of his kind, others who can understand his longings, his aspirations, his absorption in the love of Christ; and because within his circle of friends there are so few who share his inner experiences he is forced to walk alone.

The unsatisfied longings of the prophets for human understanding caused them to cry out in their complaint, and even our Lord Himself suffered in the same way.

The man [or woman] who has passed on into the divine Presence in actual inner experience will not find many who understand him. He finds few who care to talk about that which is the supreme object of his interest, so he is often silent and preoccupied in the midst of noisy religious shoptalk. For this he earns the reputation of being dull and over-serious, so he is avoided and the gulf between him and society widens.

He searches for friends upon whose garments he can detect the smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces, and finding few or none he, like Mary of old, keeps these things in his heart.

It is this very loneliness that throws him back upon God. His inability to find human companionship drives him to seek in God what he can find nowhere else."

Drinking Deeply

Last year I memorized these verses From Psalm 74:

  Whom have I in heaven but you?
  And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
  My flesh and my heart may fail,
  but God is the strength of my heart
  and my portion forever.

Oh how I long for these verses to be as firmly planted and deeply rooted in my heart as they are in my mind.  This is the lens through which I want to view everything,  whether it be my pain or my pleasures, my joys or my struggles, my gains or my losses.  There is nothing that I posses that is not ash in my hands nor any desire that is not ultimately and completely satisfied in Him.

 ²⁸ But as for me, it is good to be near God.
       I have made the Sovereign LORD my refuge;
       I will tell of all your deeds.

Just Passing Through

From  J.C. Ryle

“A holy man will follow after spiritual mindedness. He will endeavor to set his affections entirely on the things above, and to hold things on earth with a very loose hand. He will not neglect the business of this life now; but the first place in his mind and thoughts will be given to the life to come. He will aim to live like one whose treasure is in heaven, and to pass through this world like a stranger and pilgrim traveling to his home.

All I can say is OUCH...

I am a Child of God Because…


Over the past couple of weeks I have spent a good bit of time reflecting on the first eighteen verses of the gospel of John. And for the last couple of days I have focused in on the sovereignty of God and the uselessness of man in every aspect of salvation in John 1:13 which reads: ..(children) who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Your heritage is Useless:

Whether one is born a Jew or Gentile, prince or a pauper, born to a Godly family or born a helpless orphan, no one is made a child of God because of their genealogy. The Jews of Jesus’ day were certain that they were God’s children because they had Abraham as their Father; however, a stinging rebuke from John the Baptist made it clear that they were dead wrong:

And do not think you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham
as our father.' I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. (Mat 3:9)

The faith of one’s parents, spouse, family, or ancestors has never and will never make one a child of God.

The Human Will is Useless:

The desire to love God, to serve God, to obey God does not come natural to us. We were all conceived and born in sin. And as a result of our fallen nature, we are willing to make any number of things our god, things that momentarily satisfy our sinful desires, but ultimately always leave us decimated and desperate for something else to feed our cravings. We will naturally embrace anything as our god, anything that is but God. It takes an “outside force,” something uncorrupted and pure, to create in us the desire for God. And it’s that desire that is the soil in which repentance and faith, watered by grace and mercy, take root and bloom into salvation and adoption as children of God.

"No one can come to Me unless the Father who
sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on
the last day. (John 6:44)

Human Effort is Useless:

Sonship is not a prize to be earned; it’s an underserved gift that is received. No amount of good works done in the flesh will ever qualify one to become a child of God. If it were true that one could work their way into this righteous relationship, to sonship, then mercy would no longer be mercy and grace would no longer be grace.

For by grace you have been saved
through faith; and that not of yourselves,
it is the gift of God (Eph 2:8 )

It is man’s utter and total dependence upon God for the desire to seek Him, for the repentant heart that shines light on the need for a Savior, and for the faith by which we call on His name to be forgiven and reborn as a child of God that pour the meaning into the words “mercy” and “grace.” It is because we cannot achieve it that God is merciful in His giving. And because we don’t deserve it, God is magnified and glorified as the gracious giver.

I am a child of God because of…….God

What Did I Do?

What did I do with my salvation today?

Did I rejoice in it, did I rest in it, did I delight in it?

Did I walk in it, did I talk in it, did I share it?

Did I overcome because of it, did I show love because of it, did I grow because of it?

Did I use it to free me, did I use it to shield me, did I use it to guide me?

Was I thankful for it, was I grateful for it, was I comforted by it?


Did I remember the Grace that was shown me, the Mercy that was given me, the price that was paid?

Or did it even cross my mind?

Amazing Grace

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