Rick and Svea answer your questions about truth.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:58 Loaded Questions takes on a different format from other messages
• 06:38 Why does truth matter?
• 10:51 Is it possible for Christianity to be true and other religions to be true?
• 15:05 How can we know Scripture is true?
• 19:06 In Scripture is it possible the authors were biased?
• 22:48 What do I need God for?
• 24:43 How can you discern if what you're hearing is from God or the devil?
• 26:48 Do you obtain knowledge at all? How do the disciples know they saw Jesus?
• 31:49 How do we know what denominations are teaching truth when they have different beliefs but are still using the Bible as the source of that belief?
• 35:41 The Apocrypha: Is it true and how is it distinguished from Scripture?
• 37:23 Jesus' mother, Mary.
• 39:38 I'm not a Christian for the perks, I'm a Christian because I'm convinced it's true.

Rick and Svea finish off the series on Galatians mostly focusing on burdens, loads, and pride.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• 00:00 Intro
• 03:26 A LOT of diverse topics to cover is Galatians 6.
• 04:44 What resonated with Svea that she wasn't able to cover in this passage?
• 05:41 Carrying our own load and bearing each other's burdens.
• 11:40 God isn't calling you to fix the people who sinned against you.
• 17:21 I'm responsible for what I contribute, now necessarily how other people respond.
• 20:01 How do you tell the difference between someone caught in sin and someone doing something you don't like?
• 22:00 Presenting pride in the affirmative vs being the root of all sin (the pride Jesus died to forgive vs the pride commended in this passage).
• 29:14 Swinging on the pendulum of feelings of inferiority and superiority.
• 34:49 As Christians how do we engage with people and ideas that offer insight into human nature but are deeply hostile to the gospel?

Today Rick and Svea contrast works of the flesh with fruit of the Spirit.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• 00:00 Intro
• 02:21 "Don't bite and devour each other..."
• 04:50 Defining ourselves by obeying rigid rules or religious structures invites comparison on who is and isn't achieving and breeds pride.
• 06:09 How might Jesus has told the parable of The Good Samaritan to Autumn Ridge Church?
• 08:16 If the Gospel stops messing with us, we're changing it; it's not changing us.
• 11:09 Paul was writing to believers, not unbelievers. Works of the flesh happen within church people.
• 13:38 We don't conquer works of the flesh by religious rule-keeping. Change happens by the Spirit growing Christ-like character in you.
• 17:04 Contrasting religious rule-keeping with living by the Spirit.
• 26:03 when we live by the Spirit, we can no longer stomach biting and devouring each other.