The Holy Bold Podcast: Recent Episodes
TJ Lukkasson
What are the two most needful traits in the modern American church? My answer; holiness and boldness.
This show exists to promote both of these virtues and to discuss how Christian holiness and boldness should manifest in the world.
Your host is TJ Lukkasson, a member at King's Cross Church in Kirkland, WA, a Reformed Baptist church that holds to the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith.
What is sin? Is it simply that which hurts others, or is there a more transcendent definition? In this episode, we examine a modern misconception of the nature of sin, and begin to discuss the biblical idea of sin.
Resources:
- Matt Nightingale's Article
- The Threefold Use of the Law
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There is a dangerous syncretism today. Many American Christians have sought to synthesize the worldly doctrine that man is 'basically good' with classic, Protestant Christianity, and what they've created is a system very like that proposed by the 5th century heretic, Pelagius. In this episode, by looking at an article by R.C. Sproul titled, The Pelagian Captivity of the Church, we discuss how Pelagius' views contradict the teachings of Scripture and reject the heart of the gospel - grace.
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To respond to the doctrine of Prevenient Grace, we watched this video from Dr. W. Brian Shelton and Seven Minute Seminary. In this episode, we examine John 12:32, Romans 2:4, and Titus 2:11, which according to John Wesley - the most prominent Arminian of all time - are three of the four key verses that support the doctrine of Prevenient Grace. I assert that none of them, understood in context, support any such doctrine.
To respond to the doctrine of Prevenient Grace, we watched this video from Dr. W. Brian Shelton and Seven Minute Seminary. In this episode, we examine John 1:9, which according to John Wesley - the most prominent Arminian of all time - is one of the four key verses that support the doctrine of Prevenient Grace.
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To respond to the doctrine of Prevenient Grace, we watched this video from Dr. W. Brian Shelton and Seven Minute Seminary. We discuss his description of the doctrine and ask if it agrees with the biblical data.
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This week's thesis: The nature of faith is determined by the nature of its object.
Tune in as we dissect a Twitter thread about the idea of faith. The Twitter user suggests that God, "wanted a relationship with a people who would push back." Is that what it means to have faith? Listen and find out.
Click here to see the Twitter thread for yourself.
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In this episode, I play a sermon for you that I gave a couple years ago while serving as a youth pastor. In a series called Death by Zeitgeist, we discussed a variety of topics about which Christians are being misled by the culture and the proper Christian responses. This sermon, which was the third in the series, addresses the topic of transgenderism.
Resources:
- Family Policy Institute of Washington (YouTube Channel)
- The audio from the other sermons in the Death by Zeitgeist series.(Dropbox folder for file downloads.)
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In this episode, we discuss the idea of "Lived Experience," a term that is used to claim particular unquestionable and infallible knowledge that comes from our subjective experience. This so-called knowledge is the primary basis used to justify the social justice movement and the subversion of biblical authority in the church. But is "Lived Experience" to be trusted? That's what we'll discuss on this episode!
Here's a link to the meme that inspired the episode.
Helpful Resources:
- New Discourses website.
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This week, we discuss the dichotomy that Ibram X Kendi makes between so-called "Savior Theology" and his preferred system, Liberation Theology. We discuss how Liberation Theology falls short of biblical Christianity and a few ways that the ideas of Liberation Theology are subtly infiltrating Evangelical Christianity.
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Theologian Charles Hodge said rightly, "The Bible is a plain book." But if Scripture is clear, why do so many Christians in our day feign ignorance when the hard questions are asked? In this episode, we discuss the doctrine of Perspicuity, or the clarity of Scripture. Tune in to learn more.
Sources Used:
- Systematic Theology, Vol. 1, Charles Hodge
- Reformed Systematic Theology, Vol. 1, Beeke & Smalley
- The Bondage of the Will, Martin Luther
- The Clarity of Scripture (Sermon), Kevin DeYoung
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In this episode we look into the theological movement that undergirds Woke Christianity; the theology known as liberation theology. We discuss three key assertions of liberation theology and how they contradict the plain meaning of Scripture.
Sources Used:
- Introducing Liberative Theologies, Miguel A. De La Torre
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Sources Used:
- Samuel Paul Veissiere, Why is Transgender Identity on the Rise Among Teens?, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/culture-mind-and-brain/201811/why-is-transgender-identity-the-rise-among-teens
- Equality Act: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/5/text
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In this episode, we discuss the odd and unbiblical desire to differentiate between joy and happiness. In doing so, we pull so redefine 'joy' that it is unrecognizable when compared with biblical joy. Christians need to take back joy and become happy warriors.
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Resources:
- Postmodernism, Encyclopedia Britannica
- The Story of Philosophy, Will Durant
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This is a long one, but it's worth it. There are few Christian virtues as underappreciated today as boldness. In fact, while few Christians would actually discourage boldness, many Christians would scoff at or flee from the practical applications of boldness described in Scripture. Why is that? In this episode, we'll discuss it.
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This week, we examine the topic of holiness as it relates to mankind. What does it mean for a person to be holy? How has the modern church misconstrued this idea, and what does Scripture actually reveal about it?
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In this Excursus, we watch a brief clip that has been flying around the internet from Ms. Sarah Silverman's podcast in which she rejects the doctrine of hell. While this may be considered somewhat superfluous, given that she also rejects the existence of God himself, we pause a moment to examine the Christian doctrine of hell and why Christians should not be ashamed of it.
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Welcome to the Holy Bold Podcast! Thanks for tuning in. This episode is the second in a series discussing the holiness of God.
Sources used in this episode:
- Reformed Systematic Theology, Joel Beeke & Paul Smalley
- The Holiness of God, R.C. Sproul
- Christianity and Liberalism, J. Gresham Machen
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Without a proper understanding of God's holiness and the fact that he is the moral standard to which all mankind will be held accountable, the Christian church cannot preach the whole gospel. Listen as TJ discusses what God's holiness means and how it should impact our interaction with the world.
Sources for This Episode:
- R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God
- Beeke & Smalley, Reformed Systematic Theology
- Jacquez Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence - 1500 to the Present - 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
- The Second London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689
- J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism
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