P. Andrew Sandlin's Podcasts, Preaching, And Lectures

The Bible isn’t just a book for church and theology. It’s a book designed to orient all of our lives and culture. A narrow theology has led us to a narrow faith. And failure. 

Christians today are under increasing persecution internationally, including in the United States, but this is not an unprecedented development. What is it about Christianity that makes it such a frequent target of persecution?

Satan’s end game is not to make all moral choices equally acceptable but to make immorality alone acceptable. 

Our time suffers from an abysmal ignorance about God’s law. This talk summarizes what the Bible teaches.

Almost all great revival and reformation begins with a revival and reformation of prayer, great, persevering prayer, not prayer that mildly accepts  the status quo as the will of God or hides behind the eternal decrees. If you want great Reformation, start praying.

Discussing three identifiable groups within the present evangelical controversy surrounding “social justice.”

The apostle Paul was the greatest Christian theologian in history. Here’s why. 

If you’re enduring great trails and hardship just now, never assume that God is the author, and always assume that he delights to deliver his people who cry out to him in faith. Our God is a good God, and he wants only what’s best for us.

Jesus Christ is mediator of creation, not just redemption, and he is vitally interested in material creation: the visible church, clothing, architecture, and physical healing. 

The Christian goal must be to de-normalize the current godless plausibility structure and re-normalize the holy plausibility structure. Q & A about supporting Donald Trump, the genetic predisposition to homosexuality, secular presuppositions in children’s movies, and the logical consequences of a homosexual plausibility structure. 

There can be no “Christian liberals,” and conservatives cannot long preserve their position if they abandon the Faith. Libertarianism, constitutionalism, and paleo-conservatism will not sustain conservatism. Christ alone sustains politics. 

Gnosticism is the most dangerous and recurrent  heresy in Christian history. It increasingly corrupts both modern church and culture. The cure is Creational Christianity, which has been tragically missing in the modern church. 

Two mutually irreconcilable philosophies and and worldviews were on graphic and dramatic display last Thursday. One was godly. One was ungodly.

Why are recently conservative evangelicals fallling for the “social justice” of Cultural Marxism? Because grace, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

Direct, unapologetic treatment of controversial topics: Radical sexual autonomy (springing from Enlightenement, Romanticism, and existentialism) versus biblical covenantalism. Homosexualization versus sexual fidelity. Egalitarianism versus Complementarianism. “Sexual identity” (both heterosexual and homosexual) versus male or female. And the normalization of singlehood and celebacy versus the creational norm of fruitful marriage.

The gospel is calculated to create an antithesis between good and evil and gradually purge evil by the blood and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Soft-pedaling righteous living is an assault on the gospel.

Science is not only not in conflict with Christianity. Apart from Christianity, there can be no science.

Classical Marxism (dialectical materialism and state socialism) and Cultural Marxism (human liberation and identity politics) are the greatest ideological threats to Christian culture.

Man’s God-appointed work in the world is the Cultural Mandate. God’s self-appointed work in the world is his Kingdom. Understanding these foundational truths is fundamental to the Christian life.

The worship of man in the culture and church is the new idolatry standing under God’s judgment.