Discernment Episodes

Have you ever walked out of a lecture with a completely different understanding than the person sitting next to you? Later you meet at a coffee shop, pull out your notes, and start comparing. That’s when you realize you both heard exactly the same words, but you understood them on completely different planes. That’s what happened in the streets of Philippi. A slave girl is proclaiming: "These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation." When I first read...

I had no idea that this deep dive would go down this trail. Perhaps this is a rabbit hole where you don't want to dig. I don't blame you. Ultimately I like where it landed so if you do listen, listen all the way. Don't let your curiousity lead you away from the message. Some Other Way: What the Demons Said, and Why Seekers Are Listening. DMT users report meeting the same beings again and again, across different sessions and different people. Beings of light. Full of love and non-judgment....

Confession: I was the guy who wrote the articles about the seeker and the wanderer. At the time, I felt I was absolutely correct. Today, I see things differently. Truth be told, that day, when I wrote those articles, was not so long ago and those old tracks, though not completely fresh, are still there. That is what today’s deep dive is about. Forging new trails. Fortunately, there is a trail blazer ahead of you. Keep an eye on him... The Singletrack: Following the Trail Christ Left When you’r...

Few questions carry more weight in the life of a believer. For some it is a private fear: I keep failing in the same way. Am I still His? For others it is grief: My son professed Christ for years, and now he wants nothing to do with Him. Was he ever saved? Is he lost now? Those fears deserve an answer that comes from the text, not from a denominational slogan and not from what we wish were true. So we will state the answer plainly, then test it against every major passage on both sides of the q...

Today is the final episode of our A.I. mini-series. It began with a hard question: could AI bring about the end of humanity? We didn’t choose that question as click-bait. The warning comes from the people building these systems. Some have asked whether they mean it, or whether fear simply makes good marketing. After all, nothing gets attention like the end of the world. But the alarm isn’t coming only from the builders. Researchers in AI safety are sounding it too, many of them with nothing t...

“Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost…?” (Luke 14:28) There’s a story about Joseph, Jacob’s son. God showed Pharaoh in a dream that famine was coming to the whole world, and Joseph told Pharaoh what to do: “Let Pharaoh appoint commissioners over the land… They should collect all the food of these good years… to be held in reserve for the country, to be used during the seven years of famine” (Genesis 41:34–36). Joseph prepared Egypt not only t...

Walk into any Christian bookstore and you’ll find nearly as many readings of Revelation as there are readers. Most of them make the same mistake: they pick one way of reading the book (preterist, historicist, futurist, or idealist) and force every chapter to fit it. This episode takes a different approach. Instead of choosing a bucket first, we let the text tell us what kind of reading each passage needs. Revelation holds five layers: what its first readers were living the Old Testamen...

So I started today like it was going to be another Parable podcast. But it was a single line and didn't feel too difficult to grasp. I had in my notes that we were going to cover Matthew 13-51-52 as a Parable podcast but it was short and honestly didn’t need a lot of teaching. I still hold to the idea that it is not worthy of a separate parable study. But I couldn't walk past the scripture that is pointing straight back at me. And so today is a bit more of a personal deep dive into the journey ...

Solving the Mystery of the Restrainer was the subject of a recent podcast. However, once we landed on the identity of the restrainer, we noticed a whole new window of revelation open. The baseball coach or the tennis coach refers to the follow-through. You don’t swing at the ball; you swing through it. Done correctly, the ball flies much farther. The original article opened some doors that were literally that - open. Once you walk through the doors, you see what’s on the other side with amazing...

We’ve fallen for this, I admit it. I mean us too. Rabbit Holes and Meditations is a journey. You can easily pull up our podcasts on Rapture and see a variety of interpretations. We don’t hide what we used to believe. The point is that we keep searching. Today, I rest in this one thought. If a person can imagine an end times scenario where he is looking up to the heavens and wondering why he is still standing there and his brother was taken, wondering why perhaps his brother was raptured and he ...

I know you're hearing it in every religious circle. We are in end times. Right? It's right around the corner. We will see Christ return in our lifetime. There is a lot going on in the world. Iran! AI! Economic uncertainty. Christian persecution (if you're not seeing this, you have to perhaps look outside your own social bubble), Political uncertainty. Transhumanism. Israel instability. Ukraine. and on and on. And very often, in that same circle, the is a person with the charts - mapping out th...

I was just watching the news this morning and wondering what the world would be like if we consumed our Bible like we do the news. Soundbites curated by those hearing the news and changing the channel or switching to a different feed when the news doesn’t just fit what you believe to be true. I think we live our daily lives in our own curated state of delusion sometimes. So today, you are confronted with the debate of the Christian and the Muslim. You switch to the proper channel that feeds you...

A genuinely good person can be one of the hardest people to approach. We tackle this subject straight on with the person (either an non-practicing believer or even an atheist) who says: "I'm a good person. If God is a Loving God, and I believe He is, then I'll see you in heaven." I'm A Good Person Article Episode Link: https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/im-a-good-person/

We recently discussed two corrections associated with modern Biblical prophecy. The Holy of Holies of Bible Prophecy, and The Continual were discussed in previous podcasts deconstructing the text in Daniel 9 and in Daniel 12 respectively. This podcast posits the theory that there are two deceptions running concurrently. There is the false religion which details the Islam religion. It is not just a counterfeit to Christianity, it’s end times eschatology mirrors Christian end times even with a cas...

For three thousand years the prophets mocked the idols of the nations with a single taunt: "They have mouths, but they speak not... there is no breath at all in the midst of it" (Psalm 115:5; Habakkuk 2:19). Every idol in history was silent. Then Revelation 13 describes the day the silence ends — an image made by human hands, given breath, that speaks, deceives, and enforces worship. This podcast highlights a study that builds from the ground up, the way a Berean would. Four footings, poured ...

I won't lie, this gets heavy. I almost didn't publish this episode but decided that this podcast, as much as it is about Christianity and biblical truth, is also about a journey... mine obviously. So I hope it's provocative and mind-bending. For me, going through this was convicting. When I created the article (in the notes), I decided not to push that personal experience into the background. I think it's important to see a real person behind what is produced in this podcast. Let’s face it, we ...

Today we go for the Christian jugular. We asked the Berean search app some of the toughest questions about Christianity. Today’s podcast is Straight Up Challenges and Straight Up Answers to Christianity. The challenges. The New Testament is loaded with contradictions. Challenging the necessity of Baptism And the validity of infant Baptism Challenging Christian Exclusivity Science Disproves the Bible Challenge to the Deity of Christ Why is there Evil and suffering in the world Challenging...

I created this short story to make a point. >> Julian I would recommend you read the story first before listening to this podcast. Some who follow this podcast will get it; most people won't get it without the context. Hand the story to someone else but not the commentary (which I'll also post here). This podcast delves into the creative process behind developing the story, and the commentary is a word-for-word discussion with AI to write the story. The story itself, is developed through an int...

I saw this video, “The Real Reason Fasting Attracts God,” and fed the transcript into the Berean filter to isolate the claims that overstepped the concept of fasting. I’ve always had this question about fasting, so today I used my quiet time to look at the texts called out in the video, to ignore conclusions that sometimes seemed overreaching, and ultimately to establish my own framework for fasting. Notes for Not So Fast Episode Link: https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/not-so-fast-the-...

If you have followed this podcast for some time, you might detect some discrepancies. And you would be right. I’m not what many would call a seasoned Christian. My journey as a Christian has been but a few short years. Perhaps my life was preparing me for the journey, only God can say, because when I finally embarked on this journey, it was what many would describe as fervent, zealous - even fanatical if you ask some. I have a “four to eight” program (Go to bed at 4 PM, get up at 4 AM, study un...

Some of the most challenging tests for the Berean Filter app come from religions that don’t negate Jesus but redefine Him. We saw this when we researched the Muslim challenges to Christianity. Today, we looked at the top 5 challenges a Jehovah's Witness would present and fed them into the Berean Search app to test the response. Armed with the response from the Berean Search app, we then turned it around and started asking questions that would make the average Jehovah’s Witness uncomfortable. Un...

We scoured the web for some of the top objections a Muslim person would raise against Christianity. Then we fed those questions into the Berean Teacher Search App to get a direct scriptural response. This was part of our plan to test the abilities of the Berean Teacher to respond to some of the toughest objections a Christian might face. When the question of lineage comes up, there is something the Berean app initially failed to bring up that completely reframes why Mary's genealogy is so imp...

This is exciting for us! Today, we launched The Berean Teacher so our listeners can access the same tool we use daily to understand the Bible and find answers to scripture that are supported by scripture. We will be refining this tool to adhere strictly to Berean standards, supporting scripture with scripture, avoiding interpretive traps and doctrine. The tool is not meant to flatter or affirm the user’s ideas; it is meant to correct and teach appropriate scripture based strictly on what the Bib...

We’ve talked a lot on this podcast about how the internet and AI can lead you astray with one simple strategy: affirmation. Your social media account, all the places you’ve visited online, all the videos you watch, all of it is a reflection of you. Jump into an AI chat, tell it what you're thinking, even if it’s completely wrong, and you’re likely to get the most amazing support to the point where you’re convinced that you could never be wrong on this. It’s worse when there are multiple, but unp...