Do you ever wonder how to hear from God? And if you think you’re hearing from him, how do you really know? Scott and Matt meet up to talk about the ways we can know God is speaking to us, and how we can train ourselves to hear him better.

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• Doubters Welcome YouTube Channel
• So Much More Than Sex Series

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Special guest, Matt Bellefeuille from Doubters Welcome, joins us to talk about the four types of doubts Christians can experience and how identifying the root cause of those doubts is a critical step in finding faith-satisfying answers.

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• So Much More Than Sex Series

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Our special guest, Mike McGarry of Youth Pastor Theologian, shares what he thinks today’s Christian teens need most — sound, theological teaching. Mike explains how knowing theology helps teens grow into a faith that will endure the struggles they will face and also responds to common objections to teaching theology in youth ministry.

📖 Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Youth Pastor Theologian’s Website
• Mike’s Books:
  • Discover: Questioning Your Way to Faith
  • Lead Them to Jesus: A Handbook for Youth Workers
  • A Biblical Theology of Youth Ministry
  • Gospel-Centered Youth Ministry: A Practical Guide (contribution)
• So Much More Than Sex Series

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In this episode from the archives, Scott and Shawn examine our culture’s prevailing ideas about justice and uncover what lies at the root of true justice, according to God and the Bible.

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• Confronting Justice without Compromising Truth by Thaddeus Williams
• So Much More Than Sex Series

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Why should God get to decide what’s just? And how can God be just if he simply forgives people for their sin when they place their faith in Jesus? How is that fair?

Scott and Shawn dig into the challenging subject of God’s justice and discover that the key to understanding God’s justice is to begin with the question, “What does God deserve?”

📖 Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth, by Thaddeus Williams
• Our episode, “Is God a Narcissist? Why God’s Demand for Worship Isn’t Selfish”
• Our episode, “Jesus Teaches on Hell (or Does He?)”

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If God is completely sovereign over all of his creation, can human beings be free to make real choices? Or, if God does sovereignly determine our choices as well, how can we be held responsible for those choices? Scott and Shawn dive into these difficult questions in an attempt to hold together the tension of these two apparently irreconcilable truths: God’s sovereignty and man’s free choice.

📖 Resources mentioned in this episode:

• “Gen Z and the Draw to Serious Faith”, by Trevin Wax
• What About Free Will? Reconciling Our Choices with God's Sovereignty, by Scott Christensen
• Hand in Hand: The Beauty of God's Sovereignty and Meaningful Human Choice, by Randy Alcorn

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Scott and Shawn tackle the question of why God allowed evil from three important angles. First, what’s a good ‘elevator’ response when someone confronts you with such a challenge but really aren’t giving you the time for a fully developed response? Second, what’s a quick response that’s often given that you should probably avoid? And third, what is the best biblical response to this question that, while maybe not resolving the tension, leaves the questioner to consider the truth about God’s ultimate purpose and destiny for his creation.

📖 Resources mentioned in this episode:

• “Why Did God Allow the Fall?”, James N Anderson
• “If God is Sovereign, Why is His World Full of Suffering?”, John Piper
• “Confronting the Problem of Evil”, Joe Rigney

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The first commandment God gave Israel was this: “You shall have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:3). And the rest of God’s commands and revelations throughout the Bible are consistent with this. God, and only God, is to be worshipped. Only God can get the glory.

But the skeptic looks at this and asks: “If anyone else acted the way God acts, we’d call them a narcissist and accuse them of outright selfishness. Isn’t his demand for worship just a sign of selfish egotism?”

In this episode, Scott and Shawn sit down to talk through this objection, looking to God and his word to answer this challenge against God’s character. Tune in and discover that far from an act of selfishness, God’s command that we worship him only is born from his selfless love.

📖 Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Kristi Burke’s video, “The Inherent Selfishness of the Biblical God”
• “What is the Relationship Between Apologetics and Theology?” by Scott Stein on YPT
• John Piper’s response in his book Life as a Vapor
• “Why Does God Command Us to Worship Him?” by John Piper
• Reflections on the Psalms by C.S. Lewis

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