Extended Cut
Extended Cut is a podcast that dives deeper into the sermon and Scripture. When time in the pulpit isn’t enough to explore every detail, this podcast continues the conversation—unpacking the Bible verses, context, and insights that didn’t fit on Sunday.
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Guard and Contend: Antichrists Ad Infinatum (opens the original)
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John says the antichrist is not one person coming at the end of the world. It is a spirit that has been at work since the first century, and it has produced many antichrists, including people who once sat in John's own church. Some of them deny Jesus outright, but the most dangerous ones revise him, telling you that what you know about Jesus is not quite enough. That is what the Affirmer, the Improver, and the Watchman all do: they find a place where you feel you are lacking and offer to fill it
Guard and Contend: War of Desires (opens the original)
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John writes to people he has already called forgiven, victorious, and children of the Father, and only then does he tell them not to love the world. He is not warning them off creation or people, but off a whole spirit of life running against God: the flesh craving consolation, the eyes craving what belongs to someone else, and the pride craving to be seen as somebody. He calls those desires foreign, born of another father, so that a Christian carrying them raises the question of whose child he
Guard and Contend: Advocate for Failures (opens the original)
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John writes to people who have found ways to manage their sin without ever admitting it, either by claiming they have outgrown it or by claiming it no longer touches them. Both moves are named as lies, because the truth is not in anyone who says he knows God while walking in the dark. The alternative is not better performance but confession, since anyone who does sin has an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. This advocate does not argue innocence or plead extenuating circumsta
Guard and Contend: Know Thy Enemy (opens the original)
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John writes to help the church recognize the Gnostic heresy. The Gnostics are trying to take away our confidence that we can know God through reading scripture, and are claiming that there are only a few elite spiritually sensitive people who can lead others into enlightenment. This creates an inner circle at church that everyone must try to get into in order to have spiritual knowledge. This creates a lot of church hurt. However, by putting our confidence in scripture and in Jesus, we can conte
Unshaken Faith: Heaven and Hell (opens the original)
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Matthew 25:31-46 says that when Jesus returns, everyone is gathered and separated, and there are only two places to go. Hell is not devils with pitchforks. It is the full wrath of God with no filter, and the weeping and gnashing of teeth shows that the people there are still angry at God, still refusing him, which is why the door is locked from the inside. Heaven is the opposite. It is God's own joy, endless and always new, with none of the "yeah, but" that trails every good thing in this life.
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