Refuge Church (Utah)

<p>In this episode of Stump the Pastors, Pastor Brian takes up a touchy subject. What do we do when we think our friends are bad parents? Should we speak up or shut up?<br><br>Have a question of your own? Head over to the Refuge Church app and tap the Q+A button to leave us your question on theology, Bible, faith, philosophy, culture, politics—or whatever's on your mind!</p>

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<p>Pastor Brian continues our study of the book of Proverbs with with Parenting, Part II. In this second part, we look at our children as students to instruct and as sheep to protect.<br><br>Apologies for the lower quality audio and missing video. Our AV system decided to show us that we still live in a cursed world.</p>

<p>In this episode of Stump the Pastors, Pastor Dan and Brian take up the question of Christmas. Is it a pagan holiday, covered only with a thin veneer of Jesus? Are we engaging in idol worship if we decorate a Christmas tree?<br><br>Have a question of your own? Head over to the Refuge Church app and tap the Q+A button to leave us your question on theology, Bible, faith, philosophy, culture, politics—or whatever's on your mind!</p>

<p>Pastor Brian continues our study of Proverbs with Part I of our look at parenting.</p>

<p>In this episode of Stump the Pastors, Pastor Dan and Brian take up the question of free will and predestination. Do humans have free will? Are our decisions like the movement of puppets at the end of a string? <br><br>Have a question of your own? Head over to the Refuge Church app and tap the Q+A button to leave us your question on theology, Bible, faith, philosophy, culture, politics—or whatever's on your mind!</p>

<p>Pastor Brian continues our study of the book of Proverbs with a look at feminine glory.</p>

<p>In this episode of Stump the Pastors, Pastor Dan and Brian take up the question of Wesleyanism and Calvinism. What are the differences between the two? Why does it matter?<br><br>Have a question of your own? Head over to the Refuge Church app and tap the Q+A button to leave us your question on theology, Bible, faith, philosophy, culture, politics—or whatever's on your mind!</p>

<p>The book of Proverbs is many things. But one thing it is fundamentally is a book about making men. A book particularly about making masculine men. About making men with Godward souls, men with God-fearing hearts, men with chests. Making men of thought and wisdom and men of verve and joy. Making tenacious men—men who glory in shouldering weight in the service of the good and the true. <br><br>In this sermon, Pastor Brian continues our verse-by-verse study through the book of Proverbs with a look at masculinity.</p>

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<p>Pastor Brian continues our study of Proverbs with a look at justice. What is it? Where do we get it? Who's responsible to do it? What responsibility does the government, the church, the family, and the individual bear?</p>

<p>In this episode of Stump the Pastors, Pastor Dan and Brian take up the question of homosexuality, our nature at birth, and the justice of God. If I'm born gay, how can God accuse me of sin?<br><br>Have a question of your own? Head over to the Refuge Church app and tap the Q+A button to leave us your question on theology, Bible, faith, philosophy, culture, politics—or whatever's on your mind!</p>

<p>Revelation 20:1–10.<br><br>The text where we get the term Millennium. The battleground between views. And it took us until Part VII of Eschatology to get there, I know.</p>

<p>Pastor Brian continues our study of Solomon's Proverbs with Proverbs 5:15–23. In the first half of the chapter, Solomon told his sons the kind of sex he was to avoid at all costs. In this second half, he instructs his sons in the kind of sex he is to throw himself into wholeheartedly. Yes, there is a bed to flee from. But there is also a bed to flee *to.*</p>

<p>In this episode of Stump the Pastors, Pastor Dan and Brian take up the question Deacons and local church government. Does Refuge have Deacons? What even are Deacons?<br><br>Have a question of your own? Head over to the Refuge Church app and tap the Q+A button to leave us your question on theology, Bible, faith, philosophy, culture, politics—or whatever's on your mind!</p>

<p>Pastor Brian continues our thematic study of the book of Proverbs with Proverbs 15:1–14, a text on sex gone wrong. If those who hate wisdom love death, what happens with those who hate sexual wisdom? In this passage, God sits down with us as a good Father and talks us through the gift and the peril of human sexuality.</p>

<p>In this episode of Stump the Pastors, Pastor Dan and Brian take up the question of altar calls—are they a good idea? How do we land the Gospel proclamation plane?<br><br>Have a question of your own? Head over to the Refuge Church app and tap the Q+A button to leave us your question on theology, Bible, faith, philosophy, culture, politics—or whatever's on your mind!</p>

<p>In Part VI of our Eschatology study, Pastor Brian and Dan walked through the Olivet Discourse. This week, they follow up on a great listener question and give a short expansion on one of the key portions of that important teaching of Jesus.</p>

<p>Pastor Brian continues our study of the book of Proverbs with a look at friendship.</p>

<p>In this episode of Stump the Pastors, we take up the question of whether or not Christians should vote for Bernie Sanders. Is his vision for equality just? How do we evaluate political aims and claims?<br><br>Have a question of your own? Head over to the Refuge Church app and tap the Q+A button to leave us your question on theology, Bible, faith, philosophy, culture, politics—or whatever's on your mind!</p>

<p>Pastor Brian continues our study of the book of Proverbs with a word on wealth. What is it for? Is it bad? Good? Neutral? How do the wise get wealth, use wealth, and set up a guard against the dangers of wealth?</p>

<p>From hospitals to homeschooling, your work matters. In this sermon in our survey of the book of Proverbs, Pastor Brian takes up the topic of work—building a theology of vocation in the light of Solomon's wisdom.</p>

<p>In this episode of Stump the Pastors, we take up the question most likely to offend at least half of you: Should I spank my child? Pastor Dan and Brian open the Bible and weigh in! <br><br>Have a question of your own? Head over to the Refuge Church app and tap the Q+A button to leave us your question on theology, Bible, faith, philosophy, culture, politics—or whatever's on your mind!</p>

<p>Found in all three synoptic gospels (Matthew 24–25; Mark 13; Luke 21), The Olivet Discourse is one of the most central teachings of Jesus with respect to the doctrine of last things. However, it is a teaching that has been widely misunderstood.<br><br>Pastor Dan and Brian open the Bible and lay out a careful interpretation of this text that helps us see Jesus' eschatology—and where it departs from lots of popular ideas about the same.</p>

<p>There is something you do upwards of 700 times in a single day. Something that has the power to weave worlds and destroy them. Something that holds death and life in the balance. Something so important that Solomon addresses it more by volume than any other topic in the book of Proverbs.<br><br>In this sermon in our survey of the book of Proverbs, Pastor Brian takes up the topic of the tongue—an instrument of death or of life.</p>