Removing Barriers

Episode 160

Series: What Do You Believe – 3

There are over a billion Catholics in the world and in most minds, the religion is synonymous with Christianity. What is it exactly that Catholics believe? Are they Christians in the biblical sense of the word? Can someone believe and live by the fundamental tenets of Catholicism and also be genuinely saved? Today on the Removing Barriers podcast we sit down with Shawn Henly, the fou...

Episode 159

Popular charismatic/Pentecostal preacher TD Jakes has been implicated as a regular friend of music producer Sean Combs and a participant in the infamously deviant parties he was known to throw and host. He has denied all allegations, but the accusation alone is enough to send shockwaves through the country, since he has a following number in the millions. What should Christians make of the allegations? Should we ev...

Episode 158

Parents across the globe differ in age, culture, faiths, political allegiance, and personal standards, but they would generally agree that we must protect our children from any threat. We are to protect them from dangerous situations and dangerous people (including themselves!) but today, a mutated threat has emerged with breakneck speed and incredible complexity: social media. It is many things at once: useful and...

Episode 157

In early 2024, Moms for Liberty representative Tiffany Justice sat down with MSNBC's Joy Reid to discuss the so-called book bans taking place in schools across the country, mostly in response to the shocking discovery that there are books in the libraries and media centers of public K-12 schools that contain explicit descriptions and depictions of sexual activities and violence. In almost all cases, the content...

Episode 156

Series: How Were Your Barriers Removed - 38

Today we continue the How Were Your Barriers Removed series with an interview with Bill. Bill grew up in a Christian home and received Christ as his personal Lord and Savior early on in life, but that doesn't mean that there were no barriers to salvation. Every instance of biblical salvation is a genuine miracle where the holy, triune Creator God reaches down to an un...

Episode 155

Series: On the Mission Field - 14

What moves a missionary to uproot their families and their lives and transplant into a country many would struggle to find on a map? Today on the Removing Barriers podcast, we sit down with Missionary Jacob to discuss this very thing. He is preparing to go to the mission field in the very near future, hoping to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the lost souls in Mozambique. He ...

Episode 154

Series: How Were Your Barriers Removed - 37

In this episode of the Removing Barriers podcast, we interview Tony, who experienced barriers to salvation in a very free upbringing, as opposed to a rigid one. God overcame those barriers to save his soul, and he joins us in this broadcast to testify to God's goodness and mercy. Barriers to salvation are erected in all kinds of seemingly contradicting ways and situat...

Episode 153

Bonkers - 6

It's the sixth installment of the series This World Has Gone Bonkers! In today's podcast, we discuss the latest in LGBTQIA2+ hypocrisy, bullying, and virtue signaling: the attack on parents seeking to protect their children from trans ideology. Meanwhile, the elite class are spending exorbitant amounts of money on debauchery and all manner of illegal activity (not new, but to what degree is incr...

Episode 152

This is an episode in which we evaluate the issue of class-based discrimination in the United States. Deja Taylor is a no-name everyday Jane while Hunter Biden is the son of the sitting president of the United States. Both committed the same crimes, and yet only one has had the hammer of justice come down upon them. Why is that? Is America's problem really racism? Or are we blinded by racism to the more pressin...

Episode 151

Series: How Were Your Barriers Removed - 36

In this episode of the Removing Barriers Podcast, we have the newest installment of the How Were Your Barriers Removed series. Today, we interview Pastor Harrigan to find out how the barriers to salvation he experienced were removed. Pastor Harrigan has been long-time acquaintance and friend to the hosts of the podcast and has agreed to put his testimony out into the worl...

Episode 150

Bonkers - 5

What do the Marine Corps, babies, COVID, and children have in common? They have all gone bonkers, of course! In this episode of the Removing Barriers podcast, we continue the series This World has Gone Bonkers. The Marine Corps has a scholarship and professional military education program that teaches participants how to implement feminist and DEI values in the upper echelons of decision-making and warfighti...

Episode 149

In early October of 2023, the terrorist group Hamas launched an attack on Israel via land and air that took the nation by surprise. Thousands of Israeli civilians were brutally killed, tortured, or taken hostage. The entire globe has very strong opinions about it one way or another, but one of the most disturbing developments is the blatant support for Hamas coming from many on the left here in the United States. W...

Episode 148

The death of George Floyd literally set the nation ablaze in 2020. The offending officers, most notably Derek Chauvin, were all prosecuted and given jail time, but now new revelations have three years later exposing the politicking behind the scenes that prioritized everything but justice and truth. In this episode of the Removing Barriers podcast, we evaluate the new claims and discuss what they may mean for the s...

Episode 147

As of fall of 2023, Donald J. Trump is the only serious republican candidate for the presidency of the United States in the elections of 2024, though hobbled and battered by an onslaught of lawfare that the majority of the country deems is political. His MAGA slogan, borrowed from Reagan's campaign in the '80s, has deeply resonated with much of the country in the face of an open southern border, a bad econo...

Episode 146

We are beginning a new series on the Removing Barriers podcast shining a spotlight on marriage: what makes it work and what should we be aiming for. In this episode of the Removing Barriers podcast, we sit down with recurring guest Pastor Todd and his wife Rebecca, a first time guest on the podcast. They have been married for 31 years and have graciously given of their time and energy to share what God has taught them a...

Episode 145

In this episode of the Removing Barriers podcast, we discuss a TikTok video which claims that if Christians were consistent, they would realize that Eve was transgender because she was made from Adam's rib and had male DNA. We will open the scriptures and see what the Bible has to say about this and how even in this dark and terrible confusion, the cross and gospel of Christ shines all the more brightly with the ans...

Episode 144

Bonkers - 4

Did you know that according to our bonkers world, the Bible is no different from Mein Kampf and is filled with bad and hateful speech like the word "sin?" Or that over three years after the domestic terrorism Black Lives Matter unleashed on the country, some people are only NOW realizing how much of a scam the movement is? What about a 22 year old woman who hated the idea of showering so much that ...

Episode 143

It seems that whenever there is an interaction between a white police officer and a black person, the question of race and/or police brutality inevitably comes up. In some instances, it is the first thing that comes up. Should this be the case in our society? On August 24, 2023, a 21-year old woman named Ta'Kiya Young was shot and killed by police after having been accused of shoplifting liquor from a local grocery ...

Episode 142

Vivek Ramaswamy is a riveting presidential candidate for the 2024 elections with great ideas to stymie America's precipitous decline (provided he gets past Donald Trump). A sticking point for some conservative Christians is this: he is a practicing Hindu. What is Hinduism, and what will it mean for the country if a practicing Hindu wins the White House? Will America be irredeemable? Will it all come crashing down? O...