Clearview Today with Dr. Abidan Shah

Dr. Abidan Shah
Dr. Abidan Shah
  • 4.8 (40)
  • Christianity
  • Updated Daily

Engaging mind and heart for the gospel of Christ. If you like this content and want to support the show you can visit us at clearviewtodayshow.com. Don't forget to rate and review our show! To learn more about us, visit us at clearviewbc.org. If you have any questions or would like to contact us, email us at contact@clearviewtodayshow.com or text us at 252-582-5028. 

  1. 2d ago ·  Video

    Our Judgment Is Sealed — So What's Left to Talk About?

    As believers, our judgment is sealed. It is finished. It is done. So why are we still talking about judgment? In this episode, we continue our series on eternity by working through the judgments that are still coming — not for your salvation, which is already settled, but for nations, and for how believers actually lived. We trace the judgment of the nations through Joel 3, Isaiah 2, and Matthew 25's sheep and the goats, and carefully unpack a hard teaching: that nations and generations will answer for how they treated God's people, without that changing the truth that salvation is by grace through faith alone. Dr. Abidan Shah uses Martin Luther's own late-life writings against the Jewish people as a sobering warning, and Ananias and Sapphira as a picture of how seriously God takes what we do with what we've been given. The episode closes at the Bema seat, the judgment seat of Christ, where believers will be rewarded not based on resources but faithfulness — the same lesson Jesus drew from a widow's two mites. 0:00 – Our Judgment Is Sealed — Here's Why That Matters (And Debunking the Suicide Myth) 5:03 – The Judgment of the Nations (Joel 3, Isaiah 2, Matthew 25) 11:53 – Reading Matthew 25: The Sheep and the Goats 15:42 – A Warning From Martin Luther's Worst Chapter 18:09 – Ananias and Sapphira: A Lesson From the Past — And Why God Still Judges Individually 24:50 – The Bema Seat: How Believers Will Be Judged (And the Widow's Two Mites) Support the show Dr. Shah writes a personal letter every week — reflections on Scripture, faith, and living it out with clarity and purpose.  GET THE LETTER  If you enjoyed the show, please like and follow our Facebook and Instagram pages, and also subscribe to our YouTube channel. This is an excellent way to stay connected to the Clearview team and ensure you don't miss a thing. PRE-ORDER BYZANTINE TEXTFORM: https://subsplash.com/u/-MPJ586/forms/d/1090d08a-49c0-498a-ad97-5c0fd575fa9e SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: MIGHTY MUSCADINE SUPPLEMENTS LEBLEU ULTRA-PURE WATER KEEP YOUR KIDS PROTECTED ONLINE --- >> DR SHAH'S BOOKS >> SUBSCRIBE ON YOUTUBE >> CHECK OUT ALL OUR SHOWS

  2. 3d ago ·  Video

    Does God Judge His Own People Too?

    We are mortal creatures created for eternity — and that should shape how we live. But there's one uncomfortable truth we have to reckon with first: everybody wants to go to heaven, just not right now. In this episode, we launch a new mini-series on eternity, starting with the one place theology has to begin: God as judge. We work through why holiness, not love or mercy alone, is the hub that everything else about God's character flows from — and why judgment isn't in tension with love but a natural outflow of it. We dig into a real theological disagreement over whether believers face any future judgment at all, or whether that's settled the moment you're saved, and what it would mean for your assurance if it weren't. The episode closes with a story Dr. Abidan Shah has carried his whole life — his own great-grandfather, a devout Muslim, weeping at the words "God has a place for you in heaven," because in Islam, there is no such guarantee. 0:00 – Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven — Just Not Yet 4:16 – Have We Adopted an Eastern View of the Afterlife? 7:10 – God as Judge — And Why Heaven and Hell Are the Summation of Judgment 11:13 – Can God Be All-Loving and Still Judge? (Holiness Is the Hub) 16:04 – Does God Judge His Own People? (And What Redemption Actually Means) 19:37 – Three Judgments or One? Two Competing Views 23:10 – Why the Puritans Struggled to Feel Saved 26:57 – A Grandfather's Tears Over No Assurance Support the show Dr. Shah writes a personal letter every week — reflections on Scripture, faith, and living it out with clarity and purpose.  GET THE LETTER  If you enjoyed the show, please like and follow our Facebook and Instagram pages, and also subscribe to our YouTube channel. This is an excellent way to stay connected to the Clearview team and ensure you don't miss a thing. PRE-ORDER BYZANTINE TEXTFORM: https://subsplash.com/u/-MPJ586/forms/d/1090d08a-49c0-498a-ad97-5c0fd575fa9e SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: MIGHTY MUSCADINE SUPPLEMENTS LEBLEU ULTRA-PURE WATER KEEP YOUR KIDS PROTECTED ONLINE --- >> DR SHAH'S BOOKS >> SUBSCRIBE ON YOUTUBE >> CHECK OUT ALL OUR SHOWS

  3. 4d ago ·  Video

    Communion Started at the First Passover

    We know what communion is — but why the bread, why the cup, why this specifically? In this episode, we go deeper into yesterday's conversation and trace communion all the way back to its origins: the very first Passover, when God told the Hebrews to eat standing up, belts fastened, ready to run for their lives. We work through why God commanded that same meal to be repeated every single generation — not just to remember what happened, but so that each person would see themselves as if they personally were there that night. Dr. Abidan Shah connects that idea to his own mentor's mentor, the rabbi Gamaliel, and shows how Jesus took that same framework and recast it at the Last Supper. The episode closes with a sobering cautionary tale: the church at Corinth, who got communion so wrong that people were leaving drunk while others went hungry — and what that still has to teach us today. 0:00 – Recap: What Is Communion, Really? 4:26 – Baptism vs. Communion: One-Time vs. Ongoing 6:39 – Instituted at the First Passover 10:38 – "You Were There" — Not Just Remembering 14:37 – Gamaliel, Paul's Mentor, and the Mishnah 18:37 – The Church That Got Communion Completely Wrong (And the Meal Culture Behind It) 24:32 – What This Series Has Really Been About Support the show Dr. Shah writes a personal letter every week — reflections on Scripture, faith, and living it out with clarity and purpose.  GET THE LETTER  If you enjoyed the show, please like and follow our Facebook and Instagram pages, and also subscribe to our YouTube channel. This is an excellent way to stay connected to the Clearview team and ensure you don't miss a thing. PRE-ORDER BYZANTINE TEXTFORM: https://subsplash.com/u/-MPJ586/forms/d/1090d08a-49c0-498a-ad97-5c0fd575fa9e SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: MIGHTY MUSCADINE SUPPLEMENTS LEBLEU ULTRA-PURE WATER KEEP YOUR KIDS PROTECTED ONLINE --- >> DR SHAH'S BOOKS >> SUBSCRIBE ON YOUTUBE >> CHECK OUT ALL OUR SHOWS

  4. 5d ago ·  Video

    Jesus Rewrote the Passover

    Believers have disagreed on the form and function of the Lord's Supper for centuries — some churches don't even practice it anymore. In this episode, we pick up right where yesterday's conversation on baptism left off, comparing our own very different memories of communion growing up, and then digging into what it actually is: a symbolic act of remembrance, looking back, around, and forward, not a magical transformation of bread and juice. We trace it all the way back to the Last Supper and the four cups of the traditional Passover meal, and land on one of the most striking details in the whole story — Jesus deliberately did not drink the fourth and final cup. Dr. Abidan Shah explains why, and what it means that He's still waiting to drink it with all of us, together, in His Father's kingdom. The episode closes with practical guidance for anyone whose church doesn't currently practice communion, and why Clearview moved from a quarterly ritual to a deeply participatory observance every six weeks. 0:00 – Communion Growing Up: Soggy Bread and Homemade Juice 4:52 – What Happened to the Leftover Bread and Juice? 7:36 – What Is Communion, Actually? (And Does the Bread Literally Become His Body?) 11:16 – The Night Jesus Changed Passover Forever 16:29 – "This Is My Body" — The Shocking Words at the Table 19:44 – The Four Cups of Passover 22:28 – Why Jesus Never Drank the Fourth Cup — And How to Bring Communion to Your Church Support the show Dr. Shah writes a personal letter every week — reflections on Scripture, faith, and living it out with clarity and purpose.  GET THE LETTER  If you enjoyed the show, please like and follow our Facebook and Instagram pages, and also subscribe to our YouTube channel. This is an excellent way to stay connected to the Clearview team and ensure you don't miss a thing. PRE-ORDER BYZANTINE TEXTFORM: https://subsplash.com/u/-MPJ586/forms/d/1090d08a-49c0-498a-ad97-5c0fd575fa9e SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: MIGHTY MUSCADINE SUPPLEMENTS LEBLEU ULTRA-PURE WATER KEEP YOUR KIDS PROTECTED ONLINE --- >> DR SHAH'S BOOKS >> SUBSCRIBE ON YOUTUBE >> CHECK OUT ALL OUR SHOWS

  5. Sep 18 ·  Video

    Baptism Doesn't Save You — So Why Do It?

    Believer's baptism should be the one Christian practice we can all agree on — Jesus himself modeled it for us. And yet a sermon clip about baptism went viral for all the wrong reasons, with hundreds of comments and even accusations of heresy. In this episode, we tell that story and then walk through what the Bible actually says about baptism: complete immersion, always after salvation, with no saving power of its own. We take a quick historical survey through Qumran's purification washings, John the Baptist's call to repentance, and Jesus's own baptism, and land on Romans 6 and what it means to be immersed into Christ's death. The episode closes with a story Dr. Abidan Shah has never fully told on the show — his own father's baptism, turned away by an established church afraid of the consequences, and finally immersed in a river by a street evangelist who had never baptized anyone before in his life. 0:00 – The Sermon Clip That Went Viral 4:49 – What the Bible Actually Says About Baptism 6:53 – Does Infant Sprinkling Count? 10:01 – A Quick History: Qumran, John the Baptist, and Jesus 15:17 – Baptized Into His Death (Romans 6) 18:03 – Dr. Shah's Father: Turned Away From Baptism 22:21 – The Street Evangelist Who'd Never Baptized Anyone 24:48 – Why Baptism Isn't Optional Support the show Dr. Shah writes a personal letter every week — reflections on Scripture, faith, and living it out with clarity and purpose.  GET THE LETTER  If you enjoyed the show, please like and follow our Facebook and Instagram pages, and also subscribe to our YouTube channel. This is an excellent way to stay connected to the Clearview team and ensure you don't miss a thing. PRE-ORDER BYZANTINE TEXTFORM: https://subsplash.com/u/-MPJ586/forms/d/1090d08a-49c0-498a-ad97-5c0fd575fa9e SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: MIGHTY MUSCADINE SUPPLEMENTS LEBLEU ULTRA-PURE WATER KEEP YOUR KIDS PROTECTED ONLINE --- >> DR SHAH'S BOOKS >> SUBSCRIBE ON YOUTUBE >> CHECK OUT ALL OUR SHOWS

  6. Sep 17 ·  Video

    Have You Committed the Unpardonable Sin?

    We have full confidence that the blood of Jesus has cleansed us of our sins. But there's still that one dark figure on the horizon that quietly terrifies a lot of Christians: the unpardonable sin. In this episode, we close out our ten-day series on sin by tackling it directly. We start by correcting a myth that's caused real pain for real families — no, suicide is not the unforgivable sin. From there we walk through what Jesus actually said in Matthew 12:31 and Mark 3:28, and why blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is a matter of willful, deliberate rejection — not a moment of doubt, a hard question, or an intrusive thought. We also address Hebrews 6:4, a passage many people misread as proof you can lose your salvation, and show why its real context points somewhere else entirely. The episode closes with a story Dr. Abidan Shah's father carried with him for years — a dying man, abandoned by his family in a shed, who heard the gospel clearly and still could not bring himself to receive it. It's a sobering picture of what real hardness of heart looks like. And if you've ever quietly worried that you've crossed that line yourself, the episode ends with sixty seconds of real, direct hope. 0:00 – Is Suicide the Unforgivable Sin? (No — Here's Why) 5:40 – What Jesus Actually Said (Matthew 12:31, Mark 3:28) — And Why It's Willful Rejection, Not Doubt 10:45 – Does Hebrews 6:4 Mean You Can Lose Your Salvation? 18:58 – Different Views on Who Can Commit This Sin (And the Full Story in Matthew 12) 21:48 – The Man in the Shed 27:25 – What the Unpardonable Sin Actually Is (And 60 Seconds of Hope) Support the show Dr. Shah writes a personal letter every week — reflections on Scripture, faith, and living it out with clarity and purpose.  GET THE LETTER  If you enjoyed the show, please like and follow our Facebook and Instagram pages, and also subscribe to our YouTube channel. This is an excellent way to stay connected to the Clearview team and ensure you don't miss a thing. PRE-ORDER BYZANTINE TEXTFORM: https://subsplash.com/u/-MPJ586/forms/d/1090d08a-49c0-498a-ad97-5c0fd575fa9e SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: MIGHTY MUSCADINE SUPPLEMENTS LEBLEU ULTRA-PURE WATER KEEP YOUR KIDS PROTECTED ONLINE --- >> DR SHAH'S BOOKS >> SUBSCRIBE ON YOUTUBE >> CHECK OUT ALL OUR SHOWS

  7. Sep 16 ·  Video

    Is All Sin the Same to God?

    We know that every sin makes us equally guilty in the eyes of God. But come on — some sins have to be worse than others, right? In this episode, we tackle degrees of sin: legally, there's no difference between a white lie and murder. In consequences, the difference is enormous. We work through Adam and Eve's single act of disobedience and why one sin carried such catastrophic weight — using the picture of a single speck of gravy ruining an otherwise spotless white tablecloth, because it's a matter of God's holiness, not human proportionality. We look at Jesus's own words in John 19:11, where He tells Pilate that the one who betrayed Him "has the greater sin," and we dig into Dr. Abidan Shah's honest take on why he refuses to plant his flag as either Calvinist or Arminian. The episode closes with a hard, necessary question for believers: are you presuming on God's grace, treating a few sins as harmless because you're already saved? 0:00 – Are There Really Degrees of Sin? 4:17 – Adam and Eve's One Sin — And Why It Was So Costly 8:09 – The Holiness of God and the Tablecloth Illustration 12:54 – Judas Has "The Greater Sin" — And Why Dr. Shah Refuses to Pick a Theological Camp 17:25 – Imagining Judas's Day of Judgment (And a Stricter One for Teachers) 21:45 – Are You Presuming on God's Grace? (And What's Happening in Europe) Dr. Shah writes a personal letter every week — reflections on Scripture, faith, and living it out with clarity and purpose. Join the family: https://abidanshah.com/join If you enjoyed the show, please like and follow our Facebook and Instagram pages, and also subscribe to our YouTube channel. This is an excellent way to stay connected to the Clearview team and ensure you don't miss a thing. Another great way to support the show is to use promo code TODAY when checking out at mightymuscadine.com. To learn more about Clearview Church, visit us at clearviewbc.org. If you have any questions or want to contact us, email us at contact@clearviewtodayshow.com or text us at 252-429-6069. Check out the links below for more content from Dr. Shah and the Clearview team! Read - https://abidanshah.com/books/ Watch - https://www.youtube.com/@abidanshahphd Listen - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sermons-by-abidan-shah-ph-d/id619888508 Clearview Worship - https://open.spotify.com/artist/2m3OQUdBsucUTj6AFHg81S?si=a16NTbdLTs224kcXjfsvYA Donate - abidanshah.com/give Support the show Dr. Shah writes a personal letter every week — reflections on Scripture, faith, and living it out with clarity and purpose.  GET THE LETTER  If you enjoyed the show, please like and follow our Facebook and Instagram pages, and also subscribe to our YouTube channel. This is an excellent way to stay connected to the Clearview team and ensure you don't miss a thing. PRE-ORDER BYZANTINE TEXTFORM: https://subsplash.com/u/-MPJ586/forms/d/1090d08a-49c0-498a-ad97-5c0fd575fa9e SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: MIGHTY MUSCADINE SUPPLEMENTS LEBLEU ULTRA-PURE WATER KEEP YOUR KIDS PROTECTED ONLINE --- >> DR SHAH'S BOOKS >> SUBSCRIBE ON YOUTUBE >> CHECK OUT ALL OUR SHOWS

  8. Sep 15 ·  Video

    You Can Become the Chain Breaker in Your Family

    Yesterday we talked about sin. Today we're answering the harder follow-up questions you've been sending in — are all people really sinful, even the good ones? What happens to babies who die? And can generations of unbelief in a family ever really be broken? We work through Psalm 14 and Romans 3:23 on why every single person stands guilty before God — including history's most admired "good" unbelievers — and why no other world religion makes that same claim about itself. We dig into when sin nature actually takes hold (Psalm 51:5 says at conception, contrasted with John the Baptist being filled with the Holy Spirit from the womb), and Dr. Abidan Shah's honest, careful answer on what happens to children who die before they can choose Christ. The episode closes with a deeply personal story — the grandfather-in-law Dr. Shah never met, whose faithfulness set off a chain that led to his own family — and a challenge for anyone listening who could be the first in their own family line to break that chain. 0:00 – Are All People Really Sinful? (Even the "Good" Ones) 6:59 – No Other Faith Says We're All Equally Guilty 12:36 – When Does Sin Nature Actually Take Hold? 17:27 – Does God Show Special Favor to Believers' Children? 23:01 – David's Son, and Becoming the Chain Breaker in Your Family Support the show Dr. Shah writes a personal letter every week — reflections on Scripture, faith, and living it out with clarity and purpose.  GET THE LETTER  If you enjoyed the show, please like and follow our Facebook and Instagram pages, and also subscribe to our YouTube channel. This is an excellent way to stay connected to the Clearview team and ensure you don't miss a thing. PRE-ORDER BYZANTINE TEXTFORM: https://subsplash.com/u/-MPJ586/forms/d/1090d08a-49c0-498a-ad97-5c0fd575fa9e SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: MIGHTY MUSCADINE SUPPLEMENTS LEBLEU ULTRA-PURE WATER KEEP YOUR KIDS PROTECTED ONLINE --- >> DR SHAH'S BOOKS >> SUBSCRIBE ON YOUTUBE >> CHECK OUT ALL OUR SHOWS

See All (985)

4.8
out of 5
40 Ratings

About

Engaging mind and heart for the gospel of Christ. If you like this content and want to support the show you can visit us at clearviewtodayshow.com. Don't forget to rate and review our show! To learn more about us, visit us at clearviewbc.org. If you have any questions or would like to contact us, email us at contact@clearviewtodayshow.com or text us at 252-582-5028. 

Information

More From Dr. Abidan Shah

You Might Also Like