Think Truth
We want to impact this generation of Anabaptist people through training them to think properly—to really engage with the questions that our communities face today. Thinking is not just using bigger words or reading thicker books. It is learning the mind of Christ—learning to love God and others more.
Episodes
56 episodes
On Bully Pulpits & Spiritual Abuse
Following up on Paul's recent post summarizing Kruger's book on spiritual abuse, Drew and Paul sit down to discuss the topic drawing from their experiences. They discuss how spiritual abuse has been a problem in our community, ways that we can ...
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Why Should Anabaptists Make Scientific Contributions?
With a new face on the podcast, Katie Heffner, Elijah discusses the history of Christians and science and talks about the complicated relationship that Anabaptists have had with higher education and science. Why aren't more Anabaptist young peo...
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How the Gospel Itself Changes Us
If we aren't careful, we fall prey to seeing the gospel as the start of our Christian journey, but not realize that to the New Testament authors, the gospel is also the ongoing way that we learn how to live like Jesus. It is the story of what J...
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Can Christmas Tradition Be a Good Thing?
What about the pagan origins of Christmas? Or Santa Claus and heavy commercialization? Drew and Elijah discuss some of these common objections, talk about their past experience with the holiday, and give some pointers on how to make Christmas a...
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Israel and the Church: Yesterday and Today
In this first live-audience podcast episode, Paul and Elijah consider the church's relationship to Israel. In light of the current conflict, it is crucial to understand how we are to think about the modern Jewish state. They argue that we shoul...
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Heaven or Resurrection? The Christian Hope
Heaven is what modern Christians tend to think about, but resurrection is what the apostles thought about. If creation was good, created by God, then the necessity of re-creation follows! Paul and Elijah do a dive into Scripture and early Chris...
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Plato Made Our Heaven
Our modern Christian concept of our ultimate hope is of floating up to a disembodied sky heaven. The Christian Hope is of Jesus reigning as king on earth, and heaven reunited to earth. How did we get off-track? Paul and Elijah argue that dualis...
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Reading Proverbs Wisely
Ever gotten stuck on a Proverb that you didn't understand? Or heard questionable advice on wealth-making from an obscure proverb? Or perhaps puzzled (or felt guilty) over why life doesn't always turn out the way Proverbs seems to indicate it sh...
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Is Submitting to Authority a Formula for Blessing?
Drew and Elijah continue their discussion on some of the fallout with teachings from Gothard and IBLP. In this podcast, they talk about the tendency in some settings to view submission to authority as a formula for success. Godly authorities ar...
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Jinger Duggar Vuolo, Recreation, and Oversensitivity
Have you ever felt guilty about enjoying an innocent activity? On the heels of Drew's recent post on Jinger's recent book, Becoming Free Indeed, Drew and Elijah discuss a specific example from the book about her oversensitivity as...
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How We've Misunderstood Bitterness
Should we avoid people who are bitter? What does bitterness even mean? Drew and Elijah discuss how bitterness has been misunderstood and weaponized against people who get hurt. Unforgiveness is something to overcome at all costs, but it is not ...
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Your Questions on the Book of Revelation
In this special Q&A episode, Elijah and Paul discuss a few of your questions related to the book of Revelation. Questions include: Could other apocalyptic works be borrowing from Revelation instead of vice versa? If Revelation is an example...
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How Can We Apply Revelation Today?
Revelation was written to a group of late first-century churches. It was meant to encourage and exhort them to be “conquerors.” But we’re far removed from them. On the other side, Revelation envisages events still in our future. How do we read ...
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What Is the Mark of the Beast?
Serious Christians are often on the lookout for the “mark of the beast.” And for good reason—it’s spiritually fatal! But should we be looking suspiciously at new technologies, vaccines, or payment methods? In fact, is this “mark” a specific, on...
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Episode 43
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How Should We Read the Symbolism in Revelation?
How do you read Revelation? Or do you read it at all? Maybe you find it fascinating, but don't know how to find any meaning in it. Or maybe you feel a bit jaded by controversies over strange symbolism in the book. Join Elijah and Paul in this f...
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Episode 42
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Technology and the Threat of Distraction
Drew and Elijah talk about how to use technology without it keeping us from things that matter. Realistically, for most of us, the quality of our lives will suffer if we don't make intentional choices about how we use--and don't use--our phones...
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Episode 41
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Distinguishing Between Arbitrary Lines and the Big Picture
Drew and Elijah acknowledge that we all use some arbitrary lines in fleshing out principles, at least individually. But how do we keep this separate from strong positions we take, especially publicly? The podcast is launched with ...
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Episode 40
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Asbury and Revivalism Trends
Drew and Elijah discuss their initial thought on the Asbury revivals. They also discuss their broader view of revivalism, in light of some of their past experiences. https://think-truth.org
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Episode 39
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Finding Reasonable Modesty Standards and Overcoming Lust
Drew and Elijah continue their discussion on modesty. Here they talk about the process of overcoming lust and lay out practical specifics for determining modesty standards.
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Episode 38
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Modesty, Sexuality, and Beauty: Is There a Tension?
Drew and Elijah have a lively discussion about Elijah's popular article on the Think Truth blog: https://think-truth.org/2022/10/20/how-modesty-is-weaponized/Ar...
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Episode 37
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Why Don't Serious Thinkers and the Experientially-Inclined Get Along?
In this last episode in their Holy Spirit series, Drew and Elijah talk about how easy it is to set up a dichotomy between serious thinking and experiences of the Spirit. Why does there often seem to be two camps and how can they learn to work t...
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Episode 36
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Should We Expect the Miracles of Acts?
Should we be seeing more manifestations of the Spirit today, especially of the kind we see in the book of Acts? And how do the miracles we see in Acts connect to the teaching of the Epistles? Drew and Elijah continue their Holy Spirit series by...
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Episode 35
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The Gifts of the Spirit and Second Baptism Theology
Drew and Elijah start a new series on the Holy Spirit. They discuss different beliefs about how the Spirit works in our lives, how we should seek to grow in the Spirit, and how we should view the gifts of the Spirit.
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Episode 34
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How Should We Respond to Trump's New Presidential Run?
Yesterday Trump announced his candidacy for the 2024 GOP nomination. Drew and Elijah discuss how the church should respond. Is there a good reason for Christians to support Trump? And how does widespread evangelical support for Trump affe...
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Episode 33
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