Sermons for costly kingdom faithfulness.
God's Resistance Press brings a forceful sermon style to biblical texts from John, Acts, and Zechariah. Its episodes connect crucifixion, church life, purity of heart, public power, and personal self-deception to a call for costly Christian faithfulness.
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God's Resistance Press is a sermon-centered Christian theology show with a confrontational, pastoral edge. It treats Scripture as something that judges motives, exposes false security, and calls the church into visible obedience. The pacing is urgent. Episodes usually begin with a sharp question or social observation, then move into a biblical passage and draw the listener toward a personal reckoning. John 19 becomes a meditation on the cross as a disturbing sign of guilt, redemption, courage, and divided responses. Acts 5 supplies two different warnings: one about trusting the Holy Spirit instead of self-management, and another about maintaining a religious appearance while hiding deception. Acts 2 becomes a portrait of church growth rooted in prayer, fellowship, teaching, shared life, and kingdom community. Zechariah 9 is read against war, broken promises, political hope, and the promise of a humble king. The show also uses historical contrasts. Rome's confidence, Joseph Stalin's fear, the Salvation Army's emphasis on a clean heart, William Booth's emphasis on a clean heart, and Spurgeon's image of a praying church basement all become illustrations for spiritual power or its counterfeit. These examples are not treated as trivia. They are used to press a theological claim into the present. The show has a strong preference for binaries: mask or honesty, fear or courage, surface peace or real salvation, empire or kingdom, self-trust or faith. That gives it momentum and clarity. It also gives it a stern tone. Listeners looking for soft spiritual reflection may find the show too direct, while listeners drawn to revival language, repentance, prayer, holiness, and early-church patterns will understand its appeal quickly. God's Resistance Press is not casual religious chat. It is preaching framed for audio, with Scripture, warning, illustration, and exhortation tied together in a steady call to live under King Jesus rather than under comfort, image, or fear.
Made for: God's Resistance Press is for Christians who want direct biblical preaching on repentance, holiness, prayer, courage, and the kingdom of God. It especially suits listeners comfortable with revival language and urgent moral application.
What sets it apart: The show pairs close attention to biblical passages with forceful contrasts between empire, image-making, self-trust, and Christian obedience. Its tone is less conversational than proclamatory, shaped by sermon structure and repeated calls to inward honesty.
Welcome to God's Resistance Press podcast where we resist sin, self, the devil, and the world! We deal with issues of the heart, mind, body, and soul. Our first responsibility is to “take the beam” out of our own eyes to lead others into the kingdom of God! Believers are sons and daughters of the kingdom of God. We are fitting every soul for war against the counter-kingdom of satan. We are reclaiming ground in ourselves and in the world for King Jesus! Please subscribe for weekly sermons that were previously broadcast on the radio and other content to furnish us for the battle!
This is the pulpit where Greek word studies meet Stalin's locked bedroom.
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A sermon on John 19 asks what people do when the cross interrupts ordinary life.
In John 19:31-42, the request to remove the bodies before the Sabbath leads into a harder question: what do people do when the cross interrupts the day they hoped to have? The preacher follows the soldiers as they find Jesus already dead, then turns to the spear wound.
An Acts 2 sermon asks what prayer and shared life could mean for a church community today.
Reading Acts 2:42-47, the speaker asks what church growth might look like if a community gave itself to teaching, fellowship, shared meals, prayer and meeting people's needs. Prayer gets the most attention.
A Christian argument against limited atonement built around the meaning of propitiation.
Did Jesus die for everyone or only for the elect? In this installment of God's Resistance's series against Calvinism, the host argues against limited atonement by looking closely at "propitiation." He moves through Luke, Hebrews and 1 John, reading the word in terms of mercy and…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Scripture, surrender and faith put into practice.
This episode explores Proverbs 4:7 to explain why acquiring wisdom without acting on it leaves you spiritually stuck, emphasizing that wisdom must be applied to transform life.
An exposition of Galatians 5:16-26 explaining the conflict between flesh and Spirit and how to live a Spirit-led life.
This episode debunks the Calvinist doctrine of Limited Atonement, arguing from a biblical perspective that Christ's sacrifice was universal and not limited to an elect group.
A sermon exploring John 19:31-42, focusing on the crucifixion and burial of Jesus as a kingly act of redemption.
A religious discussion analyzing Zechariah 9:9-13 in the context of Alexander the Great's conquests and God's judgment.
A sermon examining Acts 5:12-42, contrasting self-trust with trust in God, using Stalin's life as a cautionary tale.
A sermon analyzing the story of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5, contrasting authentic faith with the temptation to curate a false spiritual image for social approval.
This episode contrasts the Roman Empire's power with the spread of the Gospel through the early church, showing how God used Roman infrastructure to advance His kingdom.
God’s Resistance Press frames Acts 2:42-47 as the pattern behind the early church’s growth, with "the apostles’ teaching," "the fellowship," "the breaking of bread," and "the prayers" at the center.
This episode discusses the lack of power in modern Christianity, attributing it to a need for a clean heart, using the historical success of the Salvation Army as an example.
This episode argues that God's boundaries are expressions of love that protect and enable abundant life, using the metaphor of a shepherd and a balcony railing.