Think Deeper

By Focus Press

Listen to a podcast, please open Podcast Republic app. Available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.

Image by Focus Press

Category: Religion & Spirituality

Open in Apple Podcasts


Open RSS feed


Open Website


Rate for this podcast

Subscribers: 10
Reviews: 0
Episodes: 246

Description

The Think Deeper Podcast is a weekly show created to explore the challenges facing Christians today and address current issues from a distinctly Christian view.

Episode Date
Hot Takes: Bible Characters Edition
May 04, 2026
What Does "Christ-Like Mean?" Examining Christian Clichés
Apr 27, 2026
Is Porn Addiction Grounds for Divorce?
Apr 20, 2026
Has Persecution Reached America?
Apr 13, 2026
Do the Churches of Christ Have "Popes?"
Apr 06, 2026
Does A Future Spouse’s Past Matter?
Mar 30, 2026
Think Fast: Another Dugger Downfall
Mar 28, 2026
Wilkie/Nortier Baptism Debate Recap!
Mar 25, 2026
9 Obstacles to Youth Faithfulness
Mar 16, 2026
The "Loud Kids In Church" Issue
Mar 09, 2026
Can Christians Observe a 'Sabbath?' Should They?
Mar 02, 2026
An Alarming Stat On Men’s and Women’s Wages
Feb 28, 2026
The Bible, Polygamy and Misogyny
Feb 23, 2026
Epstein, Bad Bunny, and the Outrage Cycle
Feb 16, 2026
Genocide and Slavery in the Bible
Feb 09, 2026
The Biggest Challenges Facing the Church in 2026, Pt. 2
Feb 02, 2026
The Biggest Challenges Facing the Church in 2026, Pt. 1
Jan 26, 2026
Rethinking Bible Class
Jan 19, 2026
6 Different Ways to Read Your Bible
Jan 12, 2026
Israel, Judaism, and "Jewish Influence"
Jan 05, 2026
Think Fast: The Somali Daycare Scandal
Jan 02, 2026
2025 in Review: AI, Trump, Charlie, the Pope, and more
Dec 29, 2025
Santa Claus: Fun Myth, or Dangerous Lie?
Dec 20, 2025
What is the Church?
Dec 15, 2025
Think Fast: Is it a Lie to Tell Kids Santa Claus is Real?
Dec 11, 2025
How You Can KNOW You're Saved
Dec 08, 2025
Episode 200!
Nov 24, 2025
Sexual Abuse in the Church
Nov 17, 2025
Hellfire and Brimstone
Nov 10, 2025
Snap/EBT, Charity, and the Church
Nov 03, 2025
Think Fast: Nick Fuentes and the 'Platforming' Problem
Oct 31, 2025
Top 5 Struggles for the Churches of Christ
Oct 27, 2025
How to Stand for Truth
Oct 20, 2025
Get a Backbone
Oct 13, 2025
Rethinking the Church’s Approach to Sexuality
Oct 06, 2025
Getting Out of the Church of Christ Bubble, with Marco Arroyo
Sep 29, 2025
Can The Church Capitalize On This Moment?
Sep 22, 2025
They Shot Charlie Kirk
Sep 11, 2025
5 Misused Verses: Jesus Edition
Sep 08, 2025
Scripture, Authority, Tradition, and the Case for the Churches of Christ
Sep 01, 2025
Think Fast: Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift's Engagement
Aug 28, 2025
Cracker Barrel’s Lessons for Building a Church Culture
Aug 25, 2025
Q&A: Demons, Church Troubles, Jesus As A Boy, And More!
Aug 18, 2025
Does Your Kid HAVE To Marry A Christian?
Aug 11, 2025
7 “Acceptable” Sins to Guard Against
Aug 04, 2025
Think Fast: Pedro Pascal's "Anxiety"
Jul 31, 2025
Pros and Cons of the Booming Church Conference Culture
Jul 28, 2025
Think Fast: Why the Coldplay Scandal Went so Viral
Jul 24, 2025
The Gaines Controversy and Appeasing the World
Jul 21, 2025
Grow Up: Why Young People Aren’t Turning Into Adults
Jul 14, 2025
Think Fast: AI Goes Rogue
Jul 11, 2025
VBS, Worship, and the Place of Reverence
Jul 08, 2025
Is Command, Example, Necessary Inference an Error?
Jun 30, 2025
Answering Ex-Church of Christ Critiques
Jun 23, 2025
Think Fast: Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Trans Treatment for Minors
Jun 19, 2025
Don’t Be That Guy: 10 Church Member Stereotypes to Avoid
Jun 16, 2025
Think Fast: Simone Biles Flips on Trans Athletes
Jun 13, 2025
An Inside Look at Hollywood's Darkness, with Vince Boling
Jun 09, 2025
Think Fast: Is Pride Month Fading?
Jun 06, 2025
Are There Degrees of Heaven and Hell?
Jun 02, 2025
Think Fast: Phil Robertson and the Duck Dynasty Legacy
May 29, 2025
The Sins of Men, the Sins of Women
May 26, 2025
Think Fast: Joe Rogan Goes to Church
May 24, 2025
Guide, Guard, and Direct Us: Church of Christ Lingo
May 19, 2025
Think Fast: Do Christians Have To Support Israel?
May 15, 2025
Millennials and Boomers, Xers and Zoomers
May 12, 2025
The Prom Question & the Importance of Rites of Passage
May 05, 2025
Think Fast: Tariffs and Living with Less
May 02, 2025
REWIND: Lines of Fellowship and Church Autonomy
Apr 28, 2025
REWIND: Toxic Feminism
Apr 21, 2025
REWIND: Masculinity Matters
Apr 14, 2025
REWIND: Christians and Self-Defense
Apr 07, 2025
Were We Wrong? Think Deeper, Re-Examined
Mar 31, 2025
How Much of the Old Law Are We Supposed to Follow?
Mar 24, 2025
Should These Hymns Be Removed From Our Song Books?
Mar 17, 2025
A Dire Warning for the Near Future
Mar 10, 2025
How To Not Get Tricked By False Teaching
Mar 03, 2025
Maybe We All Aren't As Busy As We Think
Feb 24, 2025
Is Woke-ism Dying?
Feb 17, 2025
How to Find a Spouse
Feb 10, 2025
Does JD Vance Love His Neighbor?
Feb 03, 2025
The Preacher Pay Problem
Jan 27, 2025
Has Church Benevolence Gone Too Far?
Jan 20, 2025
Satan's Attack on the Home
Jan 13, 2025
12 Practical Things You Can Do To Grow This Year
Jan 06, 2025
Kennedy, Mangione, Trump, Diddy, and More - 2024 In Review
Jan 01, 2025
Holiday Hangout: Listener Hot Takes, Blind Ranks, and More
Dec 23, 2024
HyperConservative churches of Christ
Dec 16, 2024
The Progressive churches of Christ
Dec 09, 2024
What the Church Can Learn from the Influencers
Dec 02, 2024
Why People Hate Their Parents
Nov 25, 2024
Does Church of Christ Doctrine Downplay Grace?
Nov 18, 2024
Parenting, with Dr. Brad Harrub
Nov 11, 2024
Tone-Deaf Christianity
Nov 04, 2024
Horror, Witchcraft, and the Halloween Question
Oct 28, 2024
Better Bible Study: What, Why, and How
Oct 21, 2024
Oft-Misunderstood Bible Terms
Oct 14, 2024
How To Know When A Church Has Been Captured
Oct 07, 2024
10 Lessons We Want To Pass On To Our Kids
Sep 30, 2024
How the Holy Spirit Works Today
Sep 23, 2024
Church Traditions: When to Keep, When to Drop
Sep 16, 2024
The Art of Personal Conflict
Sep 09, 2024
Q&A, Pt. 2 - Cremation, "Leave and Cleave," Apostolic Succession, and more
Sep 02, 2024
Q&A: Judging, New Christians, Denominations, and more!
Aug 26, 2024
Troubleshooting Weak Worship
Aug 19, 2024
Musical Worship
Aug 12, 2024
Confronting Evil: Olympics, Assassination, and more
Aug 05, 2024
Top 10 Bad Bible Arguments
Jul 29, 2024
Does God Expect Married Couples to Have Kids?
Jul 22, 2024
Therapy Culture: Harmful or Helpful?
Jul 15, 2024
Persecution, Revival, and the Church’s Future
Jul 08, 2024
Is Our Ministry System Broken?
Jul 01, 2024
Rethinking the Role of Preacher
Jun 24, 2024
Is Every Christian Called to Evangelize?
Jun 17, 2024
Rethinking Camp, VBS, and Summer Spiritual Highs
Jun 10, 2024
Pride Month: Where Did the Slippery Slope Start?
Jun 03, 2024
Taylor Swift, Andrew Tate, and Today’s Role Models
May 27, 2024
Pharisees in the Church?
May 20, 2024
Rejecting Brain-Free Christianity
May 13, 2024
Is "Placing Church Membership" Biblical?
May 06, 2024
Drafting All 66 Bible Books
Apr 29, 2024
Women, Kids, and More Questions About Prayer
Apr 22, 2024
How Does Prayer Work with an All-Knowing God?
Apr 15, 2024
The Biggest Threat to the Church Today
Apr 08, 2024
The Feminized Church
Apr 01, 2024
The Lost Art of Church Discipline
Mar 25, 2024
3 Marriage Lessons We’ve Learned
Mar 18, 2024
Thinking Biblically About Immigration
Mar 11, 2024
The Age of Accountability
Mar 04, 2024
Don’t “Follow Your Heart”
Feb 26, 2024
Fear, Indoctrination, and Climate Change, with Dr. Brad Harrub
Feb 19, 2024
Marriage, Faithful Kids, and Elder Qualifications
Feb 12, 2024
Why Christians Need to Be Ready for AI
Feb 05, 2024
Women’s Roles: Church Offices, Ladies’ Days, and More
Jan 29, 2024
How Much Free Will Do We Have?
Jan 22, 2024
Does God Choose Who He Saves?
Jan 15, 2024
Suicide: Selfish and Sinful, or Something Else?
Jan 08, 2024
Why Goals and Growth Are Essential for Christians
Jan 01, 2024
Q&A: PM Worship, CoC Leaders, and More
Dec 26, 2023
Lines of Fellowship and Church Autonomy
Dec 18, 2023
Romans 14, Christmas, and Matters of Opinion
Dec 11, 2023
The Church Clothes Controversy
Dec 04, 2023
Best Case, Worst Case for the Church in 10 Years
Nov 27, 2023
100 Questions in 100 Minutes - Episode 100
Nov 20, 2023
How Masculinity and Femininity Improve Sexuality
Nov 13, 2023
The Church's Mishandling of Sexuality
Nov 06, 2023
Paganism’s Alarming Return
Oct 30, 2023
Israel, the Church, and the End of the World
Oct 23, 2023
What Happens When We Die?
Oct 16, 2023
Bad Meme-ology
Oct 09, 2023
Self-Love, Self-Care, Self-ish?
Oct 02, 2023
Was Jesus a Socialist?
Sep 25, 2023
Misunderstandings About Money
Sep 18, 2023
How "Nice Guys" Destroy the Home, Church, and Society
Sep 12, 2023
19 Duggar Kids, Purity Culture, and Other Evangelical Trends
Sep 04, 2023
"Religion Over Relationship" and Other Evangelical Trends, Pt. 1
Aug 28, 2023
The Church's Deadly Cancel Culture
Aug 21, 2023
Worship Reexamined
Aug 14, 2023
Aliens and UFOs: Hoax, Real, or Something Else?
Aug 07, 2023
The Top 5 Bible Books
Jul 31, 2023
Does God Tempt? Has Man Seen God? and Other Alleged Contradictions
Jul 24, 2023
Why You Can Trust Your Bible
Jul 17, 2023
Situational Discipleship
Jul 10, 2023
"Choose Your Own Adventure" Christianity
Jul 03, 2023
Do We Need Preachers?
Jun 26, 2023
Racial Division
Jun 19, 2023
"Is Drinking a Sin?" and Other Questions About Substances
Jun 12, 2023
Pride Month: Protecting Kids, Boycotting, and Fighting Back
Jun 05, 2023
When Relationships Get Difficult
May 29, 2023
Pursuing Brotherhood, Sisterhood
May 22, 2023
The Silent Epidemic
May 15, 2023
The Church's Marriage Crisis
May 08, 2023
Gentle Parenting
May 01, 2023
6 Fake Enemies of Jesus
Apr 24, 2023
The Case for Christian Elitism
Apr 17, 2023
The Church's Leadership Crisis
Apr 10, 2023
Extended Adolescence in the Church
Apr 03, 2023
5 Ways the Churches of Christ Are Excelling
Mar 27, 2023
Christian Optimism in a Dark World
Mar 20, 2023
Married or Single: Does God Care?
Mar 13, 2023
Help! God Feels So Distant
Mar 06, 2023
Q&A #2: Church Innovations, Women’s Work, Vaccines, and more
Feb 27, 2023
The Great Evangelism Challenge!
Feb 20, 2023
Movies, TV, Music, and the Christian
Feb 13, 2023
10 Decisions That Helped Us Stay Faithful
Feb 06, 2023
Deconstruction: Why People Leave the Faith
Jan 30, 2023
Is Anger Always Wrong? On Christ-like Emotions
Jan 23, 2023
Courtship, Dating, or Neither?
Jan 16, 2023
5 Sneaky, Everyday Sins to Guard Against
Jan 09, 2023
A Frank Look at the State of the Church
Jan 02, 2023
Holiday Hangout: Church Hymns, Hot Takes, and more
Dec 26, 2022
Q&A: Women's Roles, Head Coverings, When to Forgive, and more
Dec 19, 2022
Angels, Demons, and Spiritual Warfare, with Dr. Kerry Williams
Dec 12, 2022
Christmas and the Religious Holiday Debate
Dec 05, 2022
God’s View of Reproduction and Fertility Practices, with Dr. Brad Harrub
Nov 28, 2022
Understanding Your Spouse's Needs, with Dr. Brad Harrub
Nov 21, 2022
Reclaiming Sexuality from the Culture
Nov 14, 2022
7 Underrated Tools for Spiritual Maturity
Nov 07, 2022
Actually, Jesus DOES Care About Politics
Oct 31, 2022
Halloween, Horror, and Holiness
Oct 24, 2022
Be a Better Member, Minister, or Elder
Oct 17, 2022
Honoring Your Parents Matters More Than You Think
Oct 10, 2022
The 5 Most Difficult Bible Commands?
Oct 03, 2022
Work isn't a Four-Letter Word
Sep 26, 2022
A Time to Kill? Christians and Self-Defense
Sep 19, 2022
The Most Neglected Spiritual Discipline
Sep 12, 2022
Healthy Living: Biblical Principle, or Personal Preference?
Sep 06, 2022
Critical Race Theory Is Wrong
Aug 29, 2022
How to Know if You Have a Biblical Worldview
Aug 22, 2022
What 3 church practices would you change?
Aug 15, 2022
“Church Family” isn’t a figure of speech
Aug 08, 2022
Church Reset: The Key to Resetting the Church
Aug 01, 2022
Church Reset: Consumer Christianity
Jul 25, 2022
Unpopular Bible Words - “Submit”
Jul 18, 2022
Christian Singleness, with Cary Gillis
Jul 11, 2022
Patriotism: The Positives and Pitfalls
Jul 04, 2022
6 Biblical Commands Christians Forget
Jun 27, 2022
How Progressivism Tricks Honest Christians
Jun 20, 2022
Why Modesty Matters
Jun 13, 2022
Abandon Public Schools
Jun 06, 2022
Debunking Baptism Myths
May 30, 2022
Pornography - The Church’s Silent Plague
May 23, 2022
Tech Addiction, Social Media Debates, and Shining Your Light Online
May 16, 2022
Camps, VBS, Vacation, and Summer's Spiritual Highs and Lows
May 09, 2022
It's Time for "Box Checking" Christianity to Die
May 02, 2022
Think Fast: Do We Really Need Sunday Night Worship?
Apr 29, 2022
How to Be a Better Bible Student, with Dr. Denny Petrillo
Apr 25, 2022
Should Christians Use People's Preferred Pronouns?
Apr 23, 2022
Think Fast: Should Christians Teens Go to Prom?
Apr 21, 2022
What Do We Do About LGBT Gender Insanity?
Apr 18, 2022
Think Fast: Should Christians Boycott Disney?
Apr 14, 2022
Marriage Myths that Hurt Us
Apr 11, 2022
Toxic Feminism
Apr 04, 2022
Masculinity Matters
Mar 28, 2022
The Top 5 Most Misused Bible Verses
Mar 21, 2022
The 3 Biggest Challenges Facing the Church in 2022
Mar 14, 2022
"Once saved, barely saved"
Mar 07, 2022
Youth Ministry: Helping, or Hurting?
Feb 28, 2022
Does Christianity address mental health?
Feb 22, 2022
Reviewing the church's response to Covid
Feb 15, 2022
Developing a Biblical View of Death
Feb 08, 2022
"Christian Nationalism" and how Christians view government
Feb 01, 2022
Finding joy in the Christian life
Jan 25, 2022
Generations at war
Jan 18, 2022
Redeeming the Time in a New Year, Pt. 2
Jan 10, 2022
Redeeming the Time in a New Year, Pt. 1
Jan 02, 2022