Thoroughly Equipped

Thoroughly Equipped Season 3 Episode 3

At the 10 year anniversary of the IF:Gathering back in February, Jennie Allen announced a new calling from God to assemble the global church on March 1st 2025.

There are some questions and concerns I have with this "new calling" ranging from how this vision began to what Jennie is insinuating about Christ's rule over the church to what it means for the IF:Ministry to assemble the global church.

Let's talk about Gather25.

Thoroughly Equipped Season 3 Episode 2

An interesting spat occurred on X about a month ago over a post by Samuel Sey who stated that he had to discipline his 4 month old son. The majority of responses accused Mr. Sey of mistreatment of his son.

This made me wonder about what Christians have been taught over the last couple of decades about what discipline is. And so I thought I would talk about it.

Thoroughly Equipped Season 3 Episode 1

T.E. is back for a 3rd season! 

For episode one of this season I interview Doreen Virtue on her conversion from the New Age religion to Jesus Christ. 

Doreen Virtue was a top-selling new age author with heretical publications in 38 languages by various publishers, appearances on Oprah, and sold-out international workshops before God graciously saved her in 2017. Now she is a whistleblower exposing new age deception, and warning the church of false teachings on her YouTube channel, social media pages including Facebook, and in frequent interviews. Doreen has been featured on American Gospel 3, American Gospel TV, Daily Wire, Moody Radio, Spillover, Christianity Today, Cultish, and other Christian media. Doreen graduated with a Masters Degree in Biblical and Theological Studies (56 units with highest honors) from Western Seminary in 2021, and she holds a BA and MA in Counseling Psychology from Chapman University. 

On this episode we talk about certain beliefs within the New Age and it's similarities with the progressive, NAR, and deliverance ministries within the "evangelical" church. 

May this episode bless you and bring glory to God!

Doreen Virtue Resources:

Season 2 Episode 39

Submission is often a controversial topic, and in Evangelical Women's ministry is often ignored. But Scripture has a lot to say about submission.

Do you struggle with submitting to your husband? You are not alone! Today I have a guest on T.E. where we want to share with you our struggles with submitting and how theology plays a role in understanding submission.

May this episode bless you and bring glory to God!

Other resources:

Presenting Be the Bridge's beginnings, history, and impact since it's founding in 2016.

Topics include:

• the success of Morrison's Be the Bridge book
• How Be the Bridge ministry was started
• It's growth since 2016
• How it enters the local churches
• Jennie Allen's involvement
• Is Anti-racism part of christian discipleship?

May this episode bless you and bring glory to God!

Other resources:

Thoroughly Equipped Season 2 Episode 38

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion has been a hot topic in the economic sphere, but it’s actually not limited there. This anti-racist infiltration has made a huge mark in the education realm and now has for the last couple of years gained access to Christian institutions and organizations.

Under the last step given to white bridge builders in the Be the Bridge 101 guide, Be the Bridge exposes their desire to fundamentally change the church by defeating the white supremacy within it. How do they believe this work is done? Through Diversity, Equity and Inclusion training But not merely diversifying the leadership, but working toward equity and inclusion of, not only race, but theological views.  

How might diversity, equity, and inclusion come into your church? Let’s dive in…

Topics include:

• How Be the Bridge uses a false historical narrative to urge it's readers to become "Accomplices" within the American Church.
• How Anti-Racist presuppositions can influence how one sees the Church's role in the Abolitionist Movement.
• The difference between diversity, equity, and inclusion and how they will be used to challenge Headship and Authority within the Church.
• How D.E.I. ministry programs ultimately incite a rebellion against God and Christ's institution of authrity in the Church.

May this episode bless you and bring glory to God!

Resources used in this episode:

Season 2 Episode 37

The Be the Bridge Ministry has it's white bridge builders start with teaching them about their whiteness; in hope of helping them learn humility to grow in racial righteousness. The Be The Bridge 101 Guide: Foundational Principals Every White Bridge Builder Needs to Know helps give them 4 steps to addressing their whiteness.

We have address the first 2 in the last episode and are going to talk about the 3 foundational principle in this one: White Fragility. And during the episode we will ask some questions about white fragility to help us see what's behind the idea.

Topics Include:

• What is white fragility?
• What spurs it on?
• What cultural ideas ignite white fragility on white people? And are they ideas worth being challenged and cast aside?
• What are the presuppositions behind white fragility?
• Is teaching white people to over come it a good or bad thing? Does overcoming white fragility, as we are instructed in Be The Bridge 101 tell us, actually bring unity to God's people?
• White fragility and real racism
• How do we as Christians REALLY become humble and fight ethnic hatred and false bias?

May this episode bless you and bring glory to God!

Resources in this episode:

Be The Bridge Podcast Episodes used in opening clip:

Thoroughly Equipped Season 2 Episode 36

Latasha Morrison made the New York Times Best Seller list for her book Be The Bridge. While the book informs Christians of the importance of racial reconciliation, it's also the gateway into her training program/ministry of the same name. To become a Bridge Builder, we are told to follow the Be the Bridge FaceBook group. In signing up for the group ALL members are required to silentlt observe the conversation in the group and do the REQUIRED reading of the guides before commenting and entering into the conversation.

Today I will present to you their first required reading for white people titled Be the Bridge 101: Foundational Principals Every White Bridge Builder Needs to Know and the first 2 tenants of Whiteness, white people must learn about so they can start leveraging their whiteness; ridentify their white heritage, divest themselves of their pride, privilege, & fragility, and fight against white supremacy as ani-racists.

Topics include:

• What is the Be the Bridge Ministry?
• Should white Christians identify with their white heritage to reconcile and unify with POC?
• Is privilege a sin?
• What is oppression and how do we fight it according to Scripture?
• We look at some of the privileges Be the Bridge says white people have. Are they actual privileges besed on race?

May this episode bless you and bring glory to God!

Other Resources:

Thoroughly Equipped Season 2 Episode 35

Exposing Be The Bridge’s connection with Anti-racism in  training its Bridge Builders to believe that God reflects certain aspects of His image in ethnicities; perpetuating a belief that its members need to adopt collective practices to sanctify them and teach them to be color brave and not color blind.

Resources for episode:

Thoroughly Equipped Season 2 Episode 34

Exposing how Be The Bridge presupposes the postmodern theory of Intersectionality and trains people up in the ministry to identify racism through historical narratives and the stand points of POC.

Topics:

• Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality
• What is Intersectionality?
• What is Post-modern Theory?
• What is Standpoint Epistemology?
• How is SE used to identify racism?
• Why using Intersectionality is a problem

May this episode bless you and glorify God!

Other Resources:

Exposing how the American Christian Church is accepting the tenants of Critical Race Theory through Be the Bridge's ministry on racial reconciliation. This "ministry" trains people to believe that racism is systemic and white people are complicit and/or are racist by perpetuating the system because they do not act against it through leveraging their privilege and working toward equity.

Resources used for this episode:

Be the Bridge by Latasha Morrison

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep.32

What is Critical Race Theory? What does it teach? Should Critical Race Theory be used as an analytical tool? And is this theory something you should worry about?

In this episode I interview Andrew Rappaport from the Rapp Report to tackle these questions.

Before we dive into the Be the Bridge ministry and other racial reconciliation ministries promoted at the IF:Gathering, we need to lay the ground work and look at the presuppositions that come with Critical Race Theory. This way when we look at these ministries and what they claim and teach, we will see how they incorporate CRT as an analytical tool and assume certain things in regards to racism and white superiority.

If we get the problem wrong, the solution will be wrong. If we misdiagnose the problem there will be no reconciliation. So will incorporating Critical Race Theory as an analytical tool help the church with racial reconciliation? Does it accurately diagnose the problem?

May this episode bless you and bring glory to God!

Season 2 Episode 31

On this episode, I present to you my discussion with Jon Harris from The Conversations That Matter YT Channel, where we discuss the Social Gospel and the  infiltration of Social Justice ideology in the church today.

Jon Harris is the author of Christianity and Social Justice and Social Justice Goes to Church, both which were incredibly informative on the Social Gospel and Social Justice. I’ve been a subscriber to his channel for awhile and it’s been a great resource in helping me identify how both are entering the evangelical church today. So I wanted to bring him into TE to look more at what the Social Gospel is, where it stems from, and how it connects Social Justice. If you want to dive into this issue as well, I suggest you pick up his book and check out his channel.  It was such an honor to meet Jon Harris and discuss this topic.

May it bless you and glorify God!

Resources

Conversations That Matter YouTube Channel:

What does IF:Equip's Arise teach about Jesus and Social Justice?

IF:Equip's Arise, claims that Jesus’ ministry was mostly focused on the marginalized, oppressed, and poor in society. His purpose was to always set free, heal, and feed and that these acts of mercy and compassion were Jesus fighting for justice.

In this episode we will look at how IF:Equip's Arise presents Jesus. We will look at what they claim His mission and ministry was. Both Social Gospel and IF:Equip's Arise teach that Jesus set about to uproot social norms, and to bring temporal comforts to social groups. They claim that Jesus was stating that His this was His mission by quoting Isaiah 61:1-2 to make this claim in Luke 4:16-18. But is this true? What did Jesus mean by quoting Isaiah 61:1-2? 

IF:Equip's Arise also makes the claim that Jesus was always quick to heal, feed, and rescue the oppressed;  that Jesus always did these things when presenting the Gospel and was even willing to "break a rule" to love His neighbor through social acts of restoration. I wanted to look at Scripture and see if that was true.

Bottom line: what is the problem with presenting Jesus as a Social Justice warrior? Where might this lead an unbeliever or a new convert? What might this do to the faith, assurance, and sanctification of a wife and a mother?

Resources used for this episode:

Stand to Reason YT Channel- Jesus Did Not Come to Preach Social Justice

Thoroughly Equipped Season 2 Episode 29

IF:Equip's Arise, claims that the church is the light of the world whose mission is to bring restoration to it by "fighting against the darkness".

Today we will look at the other 2 foundations IF:Equip's Arise presents for why Christian (specifically Christian women) are to fight for justice…that, as followers of Christ, we are the light of the world and must “push back the darkness of injustice” and that we were restored to restore the world through reconciliation. In essence the mission of the church is to bring justice to this world.

All of this at first glance sounds biblical, sounds true. The statement that Christ followers are the light of the world and are to push back against the darkness is a true statement. Where we start to see problems is when we begin to understand what Arise means by being lights, and what Arise teaches about how we are to push back against the darkness. Arise has a specific teaching in this study about what it means to be a light. What does IF:Equip's Arise teach the darkness is? What does IF:Equip's Arise teach about what it means to be the light and walk in the light? How is a Christian to bring restoration? What does the church need to do to bring reconciliation?

Does IF: Equip's Arise teach what Scripture teaches about what it means to be a light in the world, what it means to fight the darkness, and how a Christian woman is to bring reconciliation and restoration? Let's compare it to Scripture.

Resources used for this podcast:

IF:Equip's Arise: A Study on God's Heart for Justice-

Thoroughly Equipped Season 2 Episode 28

Justice is an important issue that is at the foundation of the Gospel. It has been a highly charged topic in our society today. God is just therefore justice should be important to the Christian. But to exercise justice it must be rightly defined, depend on who God is, and should be guided by God's word. We can claim God is just but we must first ask what does it mean to be "just". Does IF:Equip's women's discipleship study Arise: A Study on God's Heart for Justice lay a solid foundation that will produce true justice?

Let's dive in and look at what IF:Equip's Arise teaches about justice.

Topics include:

• Why is justice important according to IF:Arise?
• What is justice and what does it have to do with righteousness?
• The image of God a good place to start with when we want to study justice?
• Is justice a Gospel work?
• Does IF:Arise sow Social Gospel seeds?
• Justice and God's Law

Resources:

IF: Arise Trailer:

Thoroughly Equipped Season 2 Episode 28

Continuing our look at Dr. Curt Thompson's teachings. 

Dr. Curt Thompson, Visionary Leader of the Center for Being Known, is a psychiatrist who speaks at Jennie Allen's IF:Gathering and IF:Lead Conferences. He has spoken at many conferences including the Torrey 2016 Conference and the Jubilee 2022 Online Conference; has been on the Red Ink Revival Podcast, the Trinity Forum Podcast,  among many others, and is co-host of the Being Known podcast.

Topics in this episode:

• What is the doctrine of regeneration
• What is the doctrine of redemption
• Is regeneration and redemption our work?
• What does Thompson teach about regeneration?
• How does Thompson connect brain regeneration to redemption?
• Thompson on Spiritual Disciplines, specifically centering prayer

My purpose for looking at Dr. Curt Thompson's teachings in depth is to show how incorporating psychoanalytical tools with Christianity will produce different doctrines resulting in a different transformation.

May this episode bless you and bring glory to God!

Resources used in this episode:

Thoroughly Equipped Season 2 Episode 27

Continuing our look at Dr. Curt Thompson's teachings. 

Dr. Curt Thompson, Visionary Leader of the Center for Being Known, is a psychiatrist who speaks at Jennie Allen's IF:Gathering and IF:Lead Conferences. He has spoken at many conferences including the Torrey 2016 Conference and the Jubilee 2022 Online Conference; has been on the Red Ink Revival Podcast, the Trinity Forum Podcast,  among many others, and is co-host of the Being Known podcast. 

Topics presented:

• Review of what Thompson believes about the Fall & sin.
• How Jesus did what He did
• What Jesus won for us at the cross
• What it means that Jesus bore our shame on the cross
• What is the Gospel according to Thompson

My purpose for looking at Dr. Curt Thompson's teachings in depth is to show how incorporating psychoanalytical tools with Christianity will produce different doctrines resulting in a different Gospel.

May this episode bless you and bring glory to God!

Resources used in this episode:

Thoroughly Equipped Season 2 Episode 26

Continuing our look at IF:'s incorporation of the analytical tool of Psychology as Dr. Curt Thompson (a regular speaker at the IF:Gathering and IF:Lead conferences) intergrates Interpersonal Neurobiology with Scripture. I hope to show you how he psychoanalyzes the Fall in Genesis 3 and psychologizes sin to make our problem more about shame instead of trangressing God's law.

Topics in this episode:

• How Dr. Thompson believes Neuroscience is a language God uses to reveal himself and how we can incorporate it to share the Gospel
• What Dr. Thompson believes about the temptation of the Serpent
• Was Eve's sin a result of shame over her inadaquacy in her relationship with God?
• Sin, shame, and nakedness
• Is Shame the antecedent of sin?
• Where these teachings from Dr. Thompson may lead women

May this episode bless you and glorify God!

2023 Homegrown Generation Conference:

Thoroughly Equipped S. 2 Ep 24

Starting the final portion of our critique of the IF: Ministry; I present a message given by Dr. Curt Thompson who has been a reoccurring speaker at the IF: Conferences for the past couple of years. Dr. Curt Thompson is a Psychotherapist who has spoken on podcasts, at colleges, conferences, and YouTube channels where he teaches on the soul, shame, desire and being known in community.

In this episode we review his message, Dwell, from the 2019 IF: Lead Women's Conference.

Discussion topics:

• What are Analytical Tools?
• Integrating Psychological tools such as Behavior Neuroscience with Scripture to equip women to disciple other women
• Psalm 27:4
• What Dr. Thompson teaches about "dwelling"
• A glimpse of what Dr. Thompson believes the Good News is
• Is our problem shame or sin?
• Vulnerability and the cross?

IF:Lead 2019- Dwell

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep.24

In this episode we I take some time to present to you who is touted as the Spiritual Masters in the IF:Equip Enjoying Jesus study.

It's a long episode. But it's worth educating yourself in what these Christian Mystics teach and why it contradicts the Gospel so we can see the spiritual DANGER they pose. It shuld make us ask why does Jennie Allen include them in this study? 

The Spiritual Masters we will look at:

• Brother Lawrence
• Dallas Willard
• Richard Foster
• Julian of Norwich
• Ruth Haley Barton

Extra Study:

Fighting for the Faith episode on Dallas Willard (critique starts at 1:08:00) -http://podcast.fightingforthefaith.com/fftf/F4F020410.mp3

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep. 23

In this episode we look at Mysticism and more specifically Christian Mysticism. The purpose of this episode is to lay the foundation for the next episode where we will look at those IF:Equip quoted in the Enjoying Jesus study as some of the Spiritual Masters who teach on the Spiritual Disciplines.

Topics include:

• What is Mysticism?
• What is Christian Mysticism?
• What does Christian Mysticism teach about God's nature, Man's nature, the nature of Sin, and the nature of Salvation?
• How Christian Mysticism effects the faith and sanctification of a woman.

May this episode bless you and bring Glory to God!

Other Resources:

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep.20

Today I had the pleasure to talk with Dr. Rhenn Cherry about the use of the Enneagram as a Christian tool.

Topics Discussed:

• His book Enneagram Theology: Is it Christian?
• The McCord's teachings on the Enneagram from their books
• The gospel according to the McCord's and what is missing
• Their connection to Richard Rohr
• What is the appeal of tools like the Enneagram
• Should women use it for Christian discipleship?

Please see these other resources to help you discern the theology and historical roots of this "Christian" tool:

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep.19

Starting the 4th part of TE's critique of the IF: women's ministry where we will look at a tool promoted at the 2019 IF:Lead Conference- the Enneagram. Beth McCord, Chief Executive Officer of YourEnneagramCoach.com gives a presentation to the ladies explaining the importance and purpose of using the Enneagram to "be the person [they] always wanted to be" and assist them to lead/disciple others.

Topics in Episode:

• What is the "Gospel-centered" Enneagram?
• What is its purpose?
• Should the Enneagram be our flashlight, exposing where we go wrong?
• Do we need the Enneagram to lead and disciple other women?

May this episode bless you and bring glory to God!

Other Resources:

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep.18

In this Titus 2 Time episode I bring in a co-host, Amy Russo from Grace & Peace Radio, to continue our talk about the book Radical Womanhood by Carolyn McCulley.

Topics Discussed:

• The Golden Age of Domesticity
• The effects of the Industrial Revolution on the home
• The change from the home contributing to the economy to the home becoming a place of consumption and this effect on women's roles in society and the church
• The Sexual Revolution and the Raunch Culture
• Feminism's attack on Motherhood and children
• The home as an extension of church life

May this episode bless you and bring Glory to God!

Resources:

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep.17

In this Titus 2 Time episode I bring in a co-host, Amy Russo from Grace & Peace Radio, to talk about the book Radical Womanhood by Carolyn McCulley.

Topics discussed:

• The women behind feminism
• First, Second, and Third wave feminism
• The hypocrisy within the movement
• Submission and the Gospel

May this episode bless you and bring glory to God!

Resources: 

Thoroughly Equipped  S.2 Extra Episode

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep.15

Taking a short break before we dive into the 4th part of my series evaluating Jennie Allen's IF: ministry.

During the break I thought I'd share with you a workshop I did at Victory Bible Church's Home Education Conference early on in August.

In this workshop I look at some of the main philosophies behind our current system of education, discuss God's calling to parents to train up their children, his hand in our vocation as parents, and the vocation that God has called our children to in his providence.

Topics include:

• The 7 main educational philosophies that direct the world's idea of education
• Why do we need to think biblically about education?
• Looking at 2 lost doctrines that will help us think biblically about education
• What is the Doctrine of Vocation?
• What is the Doctrine of Providence?
• What does the doctrine of Vocation and the doctrine of Providence have to do with Education?

May this episode bless you and glorify God!

Other great resources:

S.2 Ep. 14 Thoroughly Equipped

A "2 Opposing Doctrines" episode with special guest Andrew Rappaport from Striving For Eternity. We discuss hermeneutic, the science of interpretation.

Topics discussed:

• What is Hermeneutics?
• Why is it important?
• Why should we study the Bible?
• Study of bible vs reading the bible as devotions, what’s the difference?
• What are the typical ways people misinterpret the Bible?
• How does one rightly handle the Bible?
• Why is context so important?
• What are the different types of context?
• What are the different types of literature?
• Why should women make an effort to learn hermeneutics?
• How does knowing hermeneutics help God’s women learn discernment?
  

Hope this episode blesses you and brings glory to God!

Other resources:

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep. 13

In this episode we are critiquing the last session of the 2020 IF:Gathering conference where Jennie Allen had each of the speakers present a message on a portion of Romans 8. Sadie Robertson-Huff was given Rom. 8:39 to give a message on.

Topics include:

• Looking over Romans 8:31-39 in context
• Will Sadie's message change the hearts of these women?
• Looking at John 21
• Does the charcoal fire recorded in John 21 have anything to do with "remembering our past" as we meet with God?
• Can we miss out on what God's doing in our life if we "turn" to observe what God is doing in other people's lives?
• Do our testimonies have the power to raise the dead to life?

May this episode bless you and bring glory to God

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep.12

Continuing our critique on the very popular women's conference the IF:Gathering. In this episode we will critique a message given by Ann Voskamp on Romans 8:32.

Topics in this episode:

• What does Paul mean by God "not sparing his Son" in Rom 8:32?
• What does Paul mean by "all things" Rom. 8:32?
• Is Jesus the "Way Maker"
• What does Scripture mean when Jesus says "I am the way, the truth, and the life"?
• Is God's love lavish and wasteful?
• Is God "like a mother" who wants to smother you with kisses?
• Is repentance merely "accepting that you are accepted"?

May this episode bless you and bring glory to God!

Other resources:

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep.11

Continuing our IF:Gathering critique series, we are looking at the way these popular speakers handle the Scripture at the conference. Bianca Juarez Olthoff was given Romans 8:31-37 to teach on.

Topics included in this episode:

• What is Romans 8:31-37 all about?
• What does Paul mean by "we are more than conquerors"?
• How are we more than conquerors?
• Do we "possess a power within ourselves"?
• Who's power is being emphasized in Romans 8:31-37?

I HIGHLY suggest you listen to Martin Lloyd Jones' sermon titled "More Than Conquerors"(link provided below) and compare it to what I've played for you. What a difference! 

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep.10

Continuing our critique of the IF:Gathering. In this part of the series we are looking at the 5th session of the 2020 conference, presented by Ruth Cho-Simons where she was to give a message on Romans 8:24-27.

Topics in this episode:

• A quick review of the past 4 sessions of the 2020 conference
• Looking at Romans 8:24-27 in context
• What is our hope in Romans 8?
• What does Paul mean by weakness?
• How does the Spirit help us in our weakness?

Hope this episode blesses you and brings glory to God!

Other resources:

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep. 9

Continuing to look at the IF: Gathering, we are addressing the 4th session of the conference back in 2020. In this session, Jo Saxton gives a message on Romans 8:14-17. We look at how she handles this portion of Scripture.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• A synopsis of Romans chapter 1-8
• What Paul is trying to tell us in Romans 8:14-17?
• What did Paul mean by "a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear"?
• What does Paul mean by adoption?
• What is our inheritance as sons of God?
• Can we be slaves to our fear?
• Is our inheritance gifts from God to accomplish our purpose in this world?
• Are we at risk of not receiving our inheritance if we are slaves to our fears?

May this episode bless you and bring glory to God!

Other great resources:

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep. 8

Continuing to look at the IF:Gathering, we will dive into the 2020 conference where each speaker was assigned a portion of Roman 8 to give a message on it. This was the perfect opportunity to look at how these popular speakers handle Scripture.

On today's episode we will critique a message about Romans 8:9-11 given by Beth Moore.

Topics discussed:

• Looking at Romans 8:9-11 in context
• What is the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer?
• Is the Spirit given to us to live supernatural lives?
• Can we miss God's calling for our lives?
• How does Beth Moore handle Romans 8:9-11?

Other great resources:

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep.7

Continuing to look at the IF:Gathering, we will dive into the 2020 conference where each speaker was assigned a portion of Roman 8 to give a message on it. This was the perfect opportunity to look at how these popular speakers handle Scripture.

For this episode we will dive into Jada Edwards message on Romans 8:1-4 and Jennie Allen's message on Romans 8:5-8. Will they exegete they the passage?

Topics in this episode:

• What is our greatest problem?
• Why there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus
• Is the Gospel the message that "God pursued us"?
• What does Scripture mean by "setting the mind on the Spirit"?
• Do negative thoughts hinder us from setting the mind on the Spirit?
• Do negative thoughts come from an enemy?
• Are negative thoughts lies?
• Does Scripture give us weapons to fight spiritual battles? What are they?
• Are negative thoughts centered on 3 fundamental lies?

Other great resources:

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep.6

Before we go over the teaching presented at the IF:Gathering women's conference, I wanted to lay a foundation for WHY we should determine to know nothing but Christ and Him crucified. George Whitfield's commentary on 1 Corinthians 2:2, I believe, explains quite masterfully our need for this knowledge.

Topics presented in this episode:

• What does it mean to "determine to know nothing but Christ and Him crucified"?
• Why should we know nothing but this?
• Mr. Whitfield's exhortation to put this determination into practice.

May this episode bless you and bring glory to God!

Other resources:

S.2 Ep.4 Before we continue on our critique of the IF:Gathering Conference and look at it’s popular speakers, I wanted to lay a foundation for why it is necessary to discern what Scripture says about women who even occasionally preach or teach over men in a Sunday service.

Some of the topics discussed in this episode:

Thoroughly Equipped Season 2 Ep. 3

Let's talk about the IF:Gathering. What is the purpose of IF:Gathering? Is discipleship God's means by which He changes the world? And does it need to be reclaimed?

Topics discussed in this episode:

• What is discipleship?
• Is discipleship God's means by which He changes the world?
• What tools are needed to make disciples?

Hope you enjoy the episode, and may God be glorified!

Resources:

Thoroughly Equipped

A break episode on how I wrestled with 1 Corinthian 11. I hope to encourage other women not to be afraid to study this text nor to neglect the text. I truly believe this topic is extremely important today and should be something every Christian woman should look into.

May this episode edify you and bring glory to God!

Resources:

What is the “covering”?

Thoroughly Equipped EXTRA break Episode

Just my 2 cents on the modesty controversy on Twitter.

Used in this recording:

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep.2

Titus 2 Time episode on defining "woman".

Topics discussed:

• What is Woman?
• Where do we go to answer this question?
• What does God have to say about woman?
• What was God's reason for making woman?
• What does it mean for "woman to be the glory of man"?
• The eternal plan of God in gender.

May this episode bless you and bring glory to God!

Resources:

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep.1

My interview with Amy Russo from Grace and Peace Radio on God's grace in her life and how he brought her out of darkness and into his marvelous light.

Topics discussed:

Thoroughly Equipped "break" episode.

Sharing with you another awesome Podcast from the Christian Podcast Community. Mr. & Mrs. Mynyk discuss 4 things you should never do when dealing with conflict in your marriage.

Thoroughly Equipped "Break" Episode.

Sharing an bible study lead by Andrew Rappaport from Grace & Truth Bible Church in Bucks County, Pa.

The topic is on suffering and the Church, a very poignant topic as we see more and more persecution coming for Christians on the horizon.

May this episode bless you and glorify God.

Thoroughly Equipped "Break" episode.

In this episode I explain T.E.'s disappearance for the last month and share with you one of my new favorites: The Grace and Peace Radio Podcast. Anthony and Amy discuss humility. What is humility and how can we display it and meditate on the perfect example we have of Christ in His humility?

May the episode bless you and glorify God!

Other great resources:

Thoroughly Equipped “break” episode.

Reading a beautiful devotion by Catherine Hartel on Charles Wesley’s hymn “Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus”.