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By Jeff Mikels

The weekly podcast of Jeff Mikels encouraging you to wake up from misunderstandings and misconceptions about the teaching of the Bible and how it applies to our modern world.
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Evangelical Preacher Problems Part 2

Good Morning ChurchApr 11, 2023

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Evangelical Preacher Problems Part 2

Evangelical Preacher Problems Part 2

Sooo... this episode is a bit long. Remember how I was critical of a sermon I heard a couple weeks ago? Well, this is my conclusion to that episode, the conclusion to my thoughts on how that pastor misunderstood the passage, but more than that, why that pastor misunderstood the message. Ultimately, I don't blame him. I blame the American Evangelicalism that trained him to see the Bible through a specific lens that led to his own misunderstanding.

Apr 11, 202351:12
Evangelical Preacher Problems - Malachi 2:17

Evangelical Preacher Problems - Malachi 2:17

This is the first in a series of episodes where I'm going to talk about some problems commonly found among evangelical preachers while also talking about the problems I myself have when listening to other preachers!

This first message teaches us to point the fingers at ourselves first even if we sometimes need to address the errors we see in other people.

And it's not that passage about taking the log out of your eye!

Mar 14, 202328:44
Noah, Ham, and the Curse on Black People

Noah, Ham, and the Curse on Black People

I was taught that all Black people descended from Noah's son Ham.

I was also taught that Noah pronounced a curse on Ham's children.

That created in me a lingering racial bias that I never really confronted until a few years ago.

Mar 02, 202327:32
The Mark of Cain Wasn't Blackness

The Mark of Cain Wasn't Blackness

The story of Cain and Abel is commonly taught to children in American churches, but in white contexts, the implication is often that God punished Cain by turning him black. Not only is that a misunderstanding of the text, it actually perpetuates the opposite lesson we are supposed to learn from the passage.

Feb 27, 202318:28
Adam and Eve Were Not White

Adam and Eve Were Not White

No one ever taught me that Adam and Eve were white, but lots of tiny details in the way it was taught definitely led me to that presupposition. In fact, many aspects of the story led me to think that being white was "normal" and if being white is "normal," then any focus or attention given to the Black experience would be celebrating something that wasn't normal. In other words, the way we talk about Adam and Eve has led many including myself to disregard or discount the experience of non-white people. I used to consider Black History Month to be itself racist. In this episode, I share briefly how I came out of that misunderstanding.

Feb 21, 202321:32
Waking Up

Waking Up

For some reason, the term "Woke" has become a negative term among modern evangelical Christians. However, the Bible is filled with references to "wakefulness" and commands to "wake up."

In this introductory episode, I cover some of those passages to see what it means to be Biblically Woke.

Feb 16, 202330:43