Entrenched In The Truth

Pastor, Kevin Cox
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Welcome to Entrenched in the Truth — a podcast committed to anchoring every conversation in the unshakable truth of God’s Word. We explore sound doctrine, real-life Christian living, and a biblical worldview on everything from world events and politics to culture, social justice, and spiritual formation. In a world flooded with shifting opinions and shallow narratives, we dig deep — into Scripture, into history, and into the heart of what it means to follow Christ in today’s culture.  New episodes weekly — Subscribe now and join the conversation.

  1. 2d ago

    The Covenant That Cannot Be Broken

    Something is shifting in the evangelical church, and if you've been paying attention, you've noticed it. Voices that once stood firmly on a biblical understanding of Israel are softening.We don't begin with current events. We begin in Genesis 12. With a covenant. With a ceremony. And with a God who walked through the pieces alone and staked His own name on a promise He has never broken.In this opening message of The Ancient Promise, Pastor Kevin Cox walks through the six promises God made to Abram, the covenant ceremony of Genesis 15 where God bound Himself and Himself only, and Paul's declaration in Romans 11:29 that the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.In this message:What God actually promised Abraham, clause by clause.Why a covenant ceremony in the ancient Near East required both parties to walk between the pieces — and why God put Abram to sleep.The Hebrew berith and the difference between a suzerain-vassal treaty and a royal grant.Why ametameletos in Romans 11:29 means a promise that cannot be revised, recalled, or repented of.What it means for your own security that God keeps His word to Israel

  2. Jul 13

    GO - The Sent Church

    Eight weeks ago we asked the question that every church has to answer before it can answer anything else: whose church is it? We spent seven weeks answering it — establishing the ownership of Christ, submitting to His active headship, returning to the blueprint of Acts 2, calling every member out of the seat and into the field, building the relational culture that makes the gospel credible, confronting the idol of ministry competence, and coming to the altar of full surrender. Every stone laid. Every foundation set. This is the final message of the Built series. And it is not an ending. It is a sending. In Week 8, Pastor Kevin Cox takes the congregation to the mountain in Galilee where the risen Christ gathered eleven imperfect, still-doubting disciples and gave them eight words that have carried the church for two thousand years: go therefore and make disciples of all nations. This message works through the Greek grammar of the Great Commission and uncovers a detail most readers miss — there is only one imperative verb in Matthew 28:19–20, and that single imperative reframes everything the church thinks it is measuring when it evaluates the effectiveness of its outreach. It examines the word exousia and what it means for the church to go not in its own authority but under the authority of the One who holds all authority in heaven and on earth. It unpacks the four concentric circles of Acts 1:8 — Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth — and names specifically what each circle demands of this congregation in Loveland, Colorado, right now. And it closes with the promise that carries every sent person through every day of the mission: behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age. The church was never designed to be a destination. It was designed to be a sending station. This is what eight weeks of foundation was always pointing toward. You are not a church attendee. You are a sent one.

  3. Jul 6

    Living Sacrifice

    Seven weeks ago we began a journey together — back to the blueprint, back to the foundation, back to what God actually designed the church to be. We have covered a lot of ground. We established that this church belongs to Christ and that He is its active Head. We examined the four devotions of the early church and asked whether we are genuinely devoted to them. We confronted the spectator culture and called every member into active, gift-contributing participation in the body. We looked at what it actually means to love one another the way Jesus commanded. And last week we talked about what it looks like to depend on the Spirit's power rather than our own competence. All of it has been building toward this message. This week — Week 7 of our Built series — we come to the message that holds everything else together. Romans 12:1–2. The Living Sacrifice. Paul opens with a single word that gathers eleven chapters of the most sustained theological argument in the New Testament — therefore — and presses it toward one inescapable conclusion. Given everything God has done. Given the mercy He has shown. Given the redemption, the adoption, the Spirit, the promise of glory — here is the only proportionate response: present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. Not a feeling. Not a spiritual experience. A decision. Specific. Dated. Embodied. Everything you are, placed on the altar of the One who gave everything for you.

  4. Jun 30

    Not By Might, Not By Power

    Why did Jesus tell His disciples to wait — at the exact moment the most urgent mission in human history was beginning?In Week 6 of the Built series, Pastor Kevin Cox confronts one of the most counterintuitive truths in all of Scripture: the kingdom of God does not advance because the church works harder. It advances because the church depends more. Drawing from Zechariah's word to a discouraged Zerubbabel facing an impossible rebuilding project, and from Jesus' command to His disciples to wait in Jerusalem before launching the mission of the church, this message confronts the subtle idolatry of ministry competence — the belief that strategy, talent, and organizational excellence can produce what only the Holy Spirit can actually produce.This message unpacks the Hebrew words behind Zechariah's most famous verse, traces the Greek word dunamis — the power Jesus promised His disciples in Acts 1:8 — and calls the church back to a posture this generation has largely lost: genuine, expectant dependence on the Spirit of God.

  5. Jun 22

    The One Another Church

    We are living in the loneliest moment in recorded human history. More connected than any generation before us — and more isolated than any generation before us. The U.S. Surgeon General has called it a public health epidemic. And into that exact cultural moment, the church carries one of the most countercultural claims in the world: a love for one another that the surrounding culture cannot produce and cannot fully explain.In Week 5 of the Built series, Pastor Kevin Cox takes the congregation into the upper room of John 13 and into the most relationally demanding passage in Paul's letters — Romans 12:9–16 — to ask what it actually looks like for a church to love the way Jesus commanded. This message confronts the gap between performed community and genuine community, unpacks the Greek word anupokritos — love without a mask — and walks through nearly a dozen specific "one another" practices that define the relational culture God designed for His church: bearing burdens, showing honor, weeping with those who weep, rejoicing with those who rejoice, and crossing every social line the world uses to divide.Jesus said the world would know His disciples by one thing — not their doctrine, not their production quality, but their love for one another. This message is a call to become that kind of community.

  6. Jun 11

    Moving From Knowledge to Application

    What's the gap between everything you know about the Bible and actually living it? In this teaching from Joshua 1:8 and Psalm 1:1–4, Pastor Kevin Cox identifies the bridge God designed to move us from knowledge to transformation — biblical meditation. This is not Eastern emptying of the mind, but the ancient Hebrew practice of zakar (remembering), hagah (inward reflection), and siach (going over a matter deeply) — a determined, disciplined engagement with Scripture that produces genuine insight, Spirit-illumined understanding, and practical application. Using Proverbs 15:1 as a hands-on example, Pastor Kevin walks through five concrete meditation methods you can begin practicing this week. If you've ever felt stuck between knowing the truth and living it, this message is for you.

  7. Jun 8

    Not Spectators - Members

    Most people who attend church regularly have never once been asked to do anything more than show up and give. Attend the service. Enjoy the experience. Fill out a connection card. Come back next week. It is a model built for consumers — and it has produced exactly what every consumer model produces: people who are passive, dependent, and completely unprepared for the life of discipleship that Jesus Christ actually calls them to. In Week 4 of the Built series, Pastor Kevin Cox works through one of the most structurally important passages in Paul's ecclesiology — Ephesians 4:11–16 — and dismantles the consumer model from the inside out. This message exposes a centuries-old mistranslation that quietly reassigned the work of ministry from the congregation to the clergy, uncovers the Greek word katartismos and what it reveals about the true purpose of pastoral leadership, and confronts the doctrinal vulnerability that passive church attendance creates in believers who have never been equipped to stand. The goal of the church, Paul says, is not a larger crowd. It is a mature body — every joint supplying, every part working, the whole structure building itself up in love toward the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. That body is not built by spectators. It is built by members.

  8. Jun 6

    The Biblical Blueprint of The Church

    What would it look like if a church stopped trying to improve on God's design and simply returned to it? In Week 3 of the Built series, Pastor Kevin Cox takes the congregation deep into Acts 2:42–47 — the most concentrated portrait of the early church found anywhere in Scripture. In one passage, Luke gives us four devotions that defined the first Christian community: the apostles' teaching, fellowship, the breaking of bread, and prayer. These were not four programs running in parallel. They were four expressions of a single reality — a Spirit-filled community living in wholehearted surrender to its Head. This message works through the Greek word proskartereo — the word translated "devoted" — and what it reveals about the difference between casual church attendance and genuine discipleship. It examines what koinonia actually means and why you can attend a small group for years and still feel completely unknown. It unpacks the dual meaning of the breaking of bread and the word anamnesis — the active, present-tense remembrance that makes communion far more than a ritual. And it traces the fruit that followed these four devotions in Acts 2:43–47: awe, radical generosity, favor with the city, and the Lord adding to their number daily. The blueprint has not been updated. The question is whether we are willing to build by it.

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Welcome to Entrenched in the Truth — a podcast committed to anchoring every conversation in the unshakable truth of God’s Word. We explore sound doctrine, real-life Christian living, and a biblical worldview on everything from world events and politics to culture, social justice, and spiritual formation. In a world flooded with shifting opinions and shallow narratives, we dig deep — into Scripture, into history, and into the heart of what it means to follow Christ in today’s culture.  New episodes weekly — Subscribe now and join the conversation.

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  • Creator
    Pastor, Kevin Cox
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    19
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Pastor, Kevin Cox
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