Straight Truth Podcast

Straight Truth Podcast
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Straight Truth Podcast Podcast

Join Dr. Richard Caldwell, Dr. Josh Philpot, and their guests as they discuss news events, current affairs, and cultural issues from a Biblical point of view. Find the truth at www.straighttruth.net. The Straight Truth Podcast is a weekly opinion show which is available as an audio podcast on iTunes or as a video podcast through YouTube or Vimeo. The duration of the podcast is approximately 10 minutes. We release new episodes every Thursday. The topics discussed in the Straight Truth Podcast are current events, matters that challenge traditional Christian values, and questions submitted by audience members. Dr. Caldwell, Dr. Philpot, and their guests seek to answer these questions with Biblical truths and from a Christian conservative point of view. The Holy Bible is the inspired, infallible, and inerrant Word of God; it alone is and will be the basis and authority of answering any and all questions. The Straight Truth Podcast is the perfect podcast for those seeking to strengthen their faith, to be informed on how to broach difficult topics with a Christian point of view, to share their faith with unbelieving friends, to challenge the status quo of their own beliefs by viewing them under the lens of the Scriptures, to interpret current news events from a Biblical point of view, and more.

  1. 2 DAYS AGO

    Why Every Christian Should Be Ready to Defend Their Faith

    Why Every Christian Should Be Ready to Defend Their Faith "Why Every Christian Should Be Ready to Defend Their Faith" | Watch This Episode on YouTube {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/why-every-christian-should-be-ready-to-defend-their-faith\/#arve-youtube-zyvm4ze7qtm-4","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Zyvm4ZE7QtM?iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0","name":"Why Every Christian Should Be Ready to Defend Their Faith","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/STP-S30-EP04-Why-Every-Christian-Should-Be-Ready-to-Defend-Their-Faith.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-09-05","description":"Why Every Christian Should Be Ready to Defend Their Faith"} Subscribe To Our YouTube Channel Support Our Podcast Join Our Mailing List Watch Us On Rumble Related MessagesRelated sermons:The Believer's Mindset for Suffering - Part 1The Believer's Mindset for Suffering - Part 2The Believer's Mindset - Part 3The Mindset & Manner of God's Servant "Why Every Christian Should Be Ready to Defend Their Faith " | Watch this episode on Vimeo {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/why-every-christian-should-be-ready-to-defend-their-faith\/#arve-vimeo-1004680976-4","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1004680976?dnt=1&app_id=122963&transparent=0&title=1&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0","name":"Why Every Christian Should Be Ready to Defend Their Faith","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/STP-S30-EP04-Why-Every-Christian-Should-Be-Ready-to-Defend-Their-Faith.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-09-05","description":"Why Every Christian Should Be Ready to Defend Their Faith"} Follow Us On Vimeo Listen to the Audio Podcast Subscribe on iPhone Subscribe on Android Subscribe on Spotify Why Every Christian Should Be Ready to Defend Their FaithWhat is Apologetics? We hear this word a lot within the Christian community, but do we really understand what it means and where it comes from? Is it important? In short, apologetics is being able to give a defense of the Christian faith. It is being able to explain what you believe and why you believe it; being able to give a reason for the hope that is in you. The primary text used for apologetics is found in the Bible, in the New Testament, in 1 Peter 3. So yes, it is important. But is apologetics something for only those Christians in academia to take up as a vocation or ministry? Or is there value and benefit for all the saints to have a proper understanding of apologetics and be apologists themselves? These questions are considered and answered in this episode of the Straight Truth Podcast. Join us and listen in as Dr. Richard Caldwell and Dr. Josh Philpot converse about this important topic today.Dr. Caldwell says the value of apologetics is the opportunity for evangelism. It is also valuable in the sense that it encourages the people of God with the knowledge that the truth is the truth. But if apologetics is separated from a pastoral purpose, it can easily become distorted. Dr. Caldwell believes this is often what we see in the landscape of Christendom, where people are practicing apologetics but with no real pastoral purpose. It’s really just a field for arguments and argumentation instead of having a godly purpose standing behind what they are doing.Dr. Caldwell brings up the text of 1 Peter 3:13-17 where Peter tells his readers (believers...

    10 min

  2. 29 AUG

    Can You Be Too Heavenly Minded?

    Can You Be Too Heavenly Minded? "Can You Be Too Heavenly Minded?" | Watch This Episode on YouTube {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/can-you-be-too-heavenly-minded\/#arve-youtube-oj2apgdbhcc-4","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Oj2apGdBHcc?iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0","name":"Can You Be Too Heavenly Minded?","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/STP-S30-EP03-STP-S30-EP03-Can-You-Be-Too-Heavenly-Minded.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-08-29","description":"Can You Be Too Heavenly Minded?"} Subscribe To Our YouTube Channel Support Our Podcast Join Our Mailing List Watch Us On Rumble Related MessagesRelated sermons:Heavenly-Minded PeopleA Warning Against WorldlinessCommanded to HopeHope & HolinessThe Call to EnduranceA Mature View of the MinistryAre You Prepared? "Can You Be Too Heavenly Minded? " | Watch this episode on Vimeo {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/can-you-be-too-heavenly-minded\/#arve-vimeo-1002142574-4","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1002142574?dnt=1&app_id=122963&transparent=0&title=1&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0","name":"Can You Be Too Heavenly Minded?","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/STP-S30-EP03-STP-S30-EP03-Can-You-Be-Too-Heavenly-Minded.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-08-29","description":"Can You Be Too Heavenly Minded?"} Follow Us On Vimeo Listen to the Audio Podcast Subscribe on iPhone Subscribe on Android Subscribe on Spotify Can You Be Too Heavenly Minded?Some people are so heavenly-minded that they’re no earthly good. Have you ever heard this statement or something like it? It’s a catchy quote attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. in the late 1800s, and many years later, in 1977, was embodied in a popular Johnny Cash song titled “No Earthly Good". A listener to the podcast has heard this phrase over the years and has written to us seeking to better understand what it really means. Aren’t Christians called to be heavenly-minded?  Is it actually possible to be so heavenly-minded that they do no earthly good? Can Christians even be too heavenly-minded? That is the topic for this week’s Straight Truth Podcast with Dr. Richard Caldwell and Dr. Josh Philpot. Join us and listen to the conversation as they seek to help us gain insight and understanding into what might be meant when someone uses this now widely familiar turn of phrase.Dr. Caldwell says if we begin by defining the phrase- heavenly-minded, according to the Scriptures, then the answer is no, a Christian cannot be too heavenly-minded. But, if we try to define what some people mean by describing someone as so heavenly-minded that they are no earthly good, it’s possible that what they mean is the person has an over-realized eschatology. This would be someone who responds to time and eternity in a manner that God never intended.  This is a circumstance where a believer knows they are headed to eternity, knowing that Jesus could come any day, and that is all they care about and are focused on. That would be an unbiblical response to the truths that God has given us about the return of Christ and about eternity. An example of this kind of living would be someone who sort of lives their life with their head in the clouds, so to speak, where they are not taking care of the things here on the earth that God has also assigned to His people.

    10 min

  3. 22 AUG

    Biblical Perspectives on Health and Fitness

    The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election "The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election" | Watch This Episode on YouTube {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/biblical-perspectives-on-health-and-fitness\/#arve-youtube-okbgbw1iiyw-4","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/okbgBW1iiYw?feature=oembed&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0","name":"The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/STP-S29-EP10-The-Armor-of-God-Explained.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-08-08","description":"The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election"} Subscribe To Our YouTube Channel Support Our Podcast Join Our Mailing List Watch Us On Rumble Related Messages Related sermons: The Beautiful Life & Civil Authority The Wisdom of Christ The Christian's Relationship to Governing Authorities Why the World Hates Christians Blind Opposition "The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election " | Watch this episode on Vimeo {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/biblical-perspectives-on-health-and-fitness\/#arve-vimeo-993146820-4","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/993146820?dnt=1&app_id=122963&transparent=0&title=1&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0","name":"The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/STP-S29-EP10-The-Armor-of-God-Explained.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-09-01","description":"The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election"} Follow Us On Vimeo Listen to the Audio Podcast Subscribe on iPhone Subscribe on Android Subscribe on Spotify The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election Every four years in the United States, we enter an election year where we are provided the opportunity, having been given the right, as citizens to vote for the President of the US. We are in the thick of that season as we prepare to vote this November, just three months away. It seems that we hear the news media increasingly telling us that this is the most significant election of our lifetimes, where the constant refrain is that if so and so is not elected or if this party is not elected, it will lead to the destruction of democracy or the loss of certain liberties we have as Americans. Dr. Josh Philpot shares that this year feels as though it's more consequential than previous years. He asks Dr. Richard Caldwell if he would talk briefly to the listeners of the Straight Truth Podcast about some of these things. He also asks Dr. Calwell to share how consequential an election like this might be within a biblical worldview.   Dr. Caldwell believes this year’s election is going to be very consequential. During his nearly 61 years of life, he has seen a significant change in this country, especially concerning its moral atmosphere. This is witnessed in a nation or a society where God removes His restraining grace from them and gives people over to their sinfulness. There’s this downward plunge into darkness and destruction where insanity sets in. Dr. Caldwell believes we’ve reached that place in our culture, and he shares examples of the kinds of moral insanity we are experiencing. Therefore, our country is different, and as we’ve descended into this moral insanity, we’ve lost touch with what made this nation what it once was.

    8 min

  4. 15 AUG

    The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election

    The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election "The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election" | Watch This Episode on YouTube {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/the-role-of-faith-in-the-2024-election\/#arve-youtube-okbgbw1iiyw-8","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/okbgBW1iiYw?feature=oembed&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0","name":"The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/STP-S29-EP10-The-Armor-of-God-Explained.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-08-08","description":"The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election"} Subscribe To Our YouTube Channel Support Our Podcast Join Our Mailing List Watch Us On Rumble Related Messages Related sermons: The Beautiful Life & Civil Authority The Wisdom of Christ The Christian's Relationship to Governing Authorities Why the World Hates Christians Blind Opposition "The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election " | Watch this episode on Vimeo {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/the-role-of-faith-in-the-2024-election\/#arve-vimeo-993146820-8","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/993146820?dnt=1&app_id=122963&transparent=0&title=1&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0","name":"The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/STP-S29-EP10-The-Armor-of-God-Explained.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-09-01","description":"The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election"} Follow Us On Vimeo Listen to the Audio Podcast Subscribe on iPhone Subscribe on Android Subscribe on Spotify The Role of Faith in the 2024 Election Every four years in the United States, we enter an election year where we are provided the opportunity, having been given the right, as citizens to vote for the President of the US. We are in the thick of that season as we prepare to vote this November, just three months away. It seems that we hear the news media increasingly telling us that this is the most significant election of our lifetimes, where the constant refrain is that if so and so is not elected or if this party is not elected, it will lead to the destruction of democracy or the loss of certain liberties we have as Americans. Dr. Josh Philpot shares that this year feels as though it's more consequential than previous years. He asks Dr. Richard Caldwell if he would talk briefly to the listeners of the Straight Truth Podcast about some of these things. He also asks Dr. Calwell to share how consequential an election like this might be within a biblical worldview.   Dr. Caldwell believes this year’s election is going to be very consequential. During his nearly 61 years of life, he has seen a significant change in this country, especially concerning its moral atmosphere. This is witnessed in a nation or a society where God removes His restraining grace from them and gives people over to their sinfulness. There’s this downward plunge into darkness and destruction where insanity sets in. Dr. Caldwell believes we’ve reached that place in our culture, and he shares examples of the kinds of moral insanity we are experiencing. Therefore, our country is different, and as we’ve descended into this moral insanity, we’ve lost touch with what made this nation what it once was.

    11 min

  5. 8 AUG

    The Armor of God Explained

    "Silence & Solitude: How Prayer & Meditation Strengthens Your Relationship with God" | Watch This Episode on YouTube {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/the-armor-of-god-explained-2\/#arve-youtube-okbgbw1iiyw-12","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/okbgBW1iiYw?iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0","name":"Silence & Solitude: How Prayer & Meditation Strengthens Your Relationship with God","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/STP-S29-EP10-The-Armor-of-God-Explained.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-08-08","description":"Silence & Solitude: How Prayer & Meditation Strengthens Your Relationship with God"} Subscribe To Our YouTube Channel Support Our Podcast Join Our Mailing List Watch Us On Rumble Related Messages Related sermons: The Christian's Battle - 4 Sermons on Ephesians 6 The Christian's Armor - 6 Sermons on Ephesians 6 The Importance of Prayer Perseverance in Prayer "Silence & Solitude: How Prayer & Meditation Strengthens Your Relationship with God " | Watch this episode on Vimeo {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/the-armor-of-god-explained-2\/#arve-vimeo-993146820-12","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/993146820?dnt=1&app_id=122963&transparent=0&title=1&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0","name":"Silence & Solitude: How Prayer & Meditation Strengthens Your Relationship with God","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/STP-S29-EP10-The-Armor-of-God-Explained.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-09-01","description":"Silence & Solitude: How Prayer & Meditation Strengthens Your Relationship with God"} Follow Us On Vimeo Listen to the Audio Podcast Subscribe on iPhone Subscribe on Android Subscribe on Spotify Silence & Solitude: How Prayer & Meditation Strengthens Your Relationship with God Today on the Straight Truth Podcast, Dr. Josh Philpot introduces us to Isaiah 59, which provides some Old Testament background to what Paul says in Ephesians 6 regarding the armor of God. The spiritual armor given in Ephesians 6 is a means for Christians to be strengthened in our daily walk with Christ. It’s meant to help us guard against the schemes of the devil. The armor of God is what Dr. Philpot would like Dr. Richard Caldwell to speak about in this episode today. Join in on the conversation to learn about the Christian's spiritual armor. You’ll hear about the pieces of armor we are to use and learn how we are to go about using them. Dr. Caldwell tells us what the two passages have in common is the kindness of the Lord. In His kindness, He gives us imagery that helps us grasp what He has supplied for us, for what He’s called us to be and do. The Isaiah passage is obviously what the Lord Himself is doing. But, in Ephesians, it is what He supplies us with. The imagery in Ephesians is of very practical things that are filled with spiritual significance and power that enable us to walk in His ability and strength. As we look at Ephesians 6, we are alerted to a world of activity that takes place all around us that we can’t see. Behind all this activity is the outworking of the devil, and we’re given this spiritual armor so that we can stand firm against his schemes.

    10 min

  6. 1 AUG

    Silence & Solitude: How Prayer & Meditation Strengthens Your Relationship with God

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    9 min

  7. 25 JUL

    The Problem with Culturally Focused Churches

    "The Problem with Culturally Focused Churches" | Watch This Episode on YouTube {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/the-problem-with-culturally-focused-churches\/#arve-youtube-ryxmckojlog-4","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/rYxMCKOjLog?iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0","name":"The Problem with Culturally Focused Churches","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/STP-S29-EP08-The-Problem-with-Culturally-Focused-Churches.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-07-25","description":"The Problem with Culturally Focused Churches"} Subscribe To Our YouTube Channel Support Our Podcast Join Our Mailing List Watch Us On Rumble Related MessagesRelated sermons:What Adam's Failure Meant to MankindOne New ManThe Church in It's Right MindThe Model for the Believer's MindsetThe Church - God's Glory & A Multi Ethnic AssemblyUnderstanding the Ministry "The Problem with Culturally Focused Churches " | Watch this episode on Vimeo {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/the-problem-with-culturally-focused-churches\/#arve-vimeo-987213487-4","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/987213487?dnt=1&app_id=122963&transparent=0&title=1&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0","name":"The Problem with Culturally Focused Churches","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/straighttruth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/STP-S29-EP08-The-Problem-with-Culturally-Focused-Churches.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-07-25","description":"The Problem with Culturally Focused Churches"} Follow Us On Vimeo Listen to the Audio Podcast Subscribe on iPhone Subscribe on Android Subscribe on Spotify The Problem with Culturally Focused ChurchesIn the United States, there are roughly 400,000 churches. This estimate includes Protestant and other Christian churches, plus Catholic and Orthodox churches. Within this number, some churches gather based on skin color, nationality, stylistic reasons, lifestyles, and even hobbies. Here in Texas, we have cowboy churches. How should we think about these kinds of church gatherings? Should churches be gathering and centering their identities around cultural identities? Does the Bible offer us any guidance? Join us this week on the Straight Truth Podcast to hear Dr. Richard Caldwell share his thoughts with Dr. Philpot on this issue of culturally centered churches as he looks at the Word of God and what it says about the church.Dr. Caldwell states that our identity needs to be taken from the Scriptures. We must ask ourselves if we really believe what the Bible says about everything. Do we believe what the Bible says about humanity? Do we believe what the Bible says about the church's identity now in Christ Jesus, which is one new man in Christ? Do we really believe these things? Dr. Caldwell is convinced that we use biblical language and tip our hat to the Scriptures, but we do not believe what they teach.Dr. Caldwell shares an example regarding the whole racial issue. He explains that the Bible does not deny the reality of nations, different languages, and cultures. Those are realities. But the Bible clearly teaches that man, all of humanity, emerged from one man and one woman. Adam and Eve are the father and mother of us all, meaning that the human race is one in Adam. The differences between us, like hair color, eye color, skin color, etc., are all explained naturally. But they do not mean different versions of humanity.

    8 min

  8. 18 JUL

    Exploring Women's Roles in Christian Ministry

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Join Dr. Richard Caldwell, Dr. Josh Philpot, and their guests as they discuss news events, current affairs, and cultural issues from a Biblical point of view. Find the truth at www.straighttruth.net. The Straight Truth Podcast is a weekly opinion show which is available as an audio podcast on iTunes or as a video podcast through YouTube or Vimeo. The duration of the podcast is approximately 10 minutes. We release new episodes every Thursday. The topics discussed in the Straight Truth Podcast are current events, matters that challenge traditional Christian values, and questions submitted by audience members. Dr. Caldwell, Dr. Philpot, and their guests seek to answer these questions with Biblical truths and from a Christian conservative point of view. The Holy Bible is the inspired, infallible, and inerrant Word of God; it alone is and will be the basis and authority of answering any and all questions. The Straight Truth Podcast is the perfect podcast for those seeking to strengthen their faith, to be informed on how to broach difficult topics with a Christian point of view, to share their faith with unbelieving friends, to challenge the status quo of their own beliefs by viewing them under the lens of the Scriptures, to interpret current news events from a Biblical point of view, and more.

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