Foundational U Podcast: Ep. 14 – The Significance of the Word of God pt 2

Foundational U Podcast: Ep. 14 – The Significance of the Word of God pt 2

What significance do the definition and the use of the 5 words in the Holy Scriptures that are translated as “word” in our English Bibles have upon how we study, teach, preach, and make application of the Word of God to our life? Last week we began looking at two of the Hebrew words translated…

Foundational U Podcast: Ep. 13 – The Significance of the Word of God pt 1

Foundational U Podcast: Ep. 13 – The Significance of the Word of God pt 1

I recently received a listener question that I would like to answer in today’s podcast. Pastor Dean, the word “word” appears in various forms in the Holy Scripture, Old and New Testaments. Would you define each form and explain the outworking of each in the context of study, teaching, preaching, and practice? LIstener Question There…

4 Breakpoint Moments for Pentecostal Churches Today

4 Breakpoint Moments for Pentecostal Churches Today

The Pentecostal movement is at a breakpoint moment. She has never faced such a challenge in the one hundred and thirteen years of her history. It is the making of a perfect storm spiritually, with cultural pressure from without and ecclesiastical pressure from within. This hedonistic, pluralistic cultural of relativism is no longer demanding the…

How Should Christians Respond When the Church Moves New Age?

How Should Christians Respond When the Church Moves New Age?

The Christian community finds itself at a significant junction. Adversity and persecution are on the rise. The Ten Commandments are considered hate speech. Pro-life and moral purity is misogyny. If you believe marriage is between one man and one woman you are homophobic. Christianity is believed to be in tolerant, hateful, and the source of…

This Is What Happens When a Culture Rejects God’s Word

This Is What Happens When a Culture Rejects God’s Word

The common term being used today is “Middle Ages.” Go back fifty years and the time period from approximately 476 AD to 1500 AD was referred to as the “Dark Ages.” Why the “Dark Ages?” Europe was awash in illiteracy and rulers were domineering, controlling and manipulative. Christian faith was low. Spiritism, shamanism, and witchcraft…