Scripture-first teaching with doctrinal backbone.
What Christians Should Know is a Scripture-forward teaching show built around close readings, theological explanation, and direct Christian application. Recent episodes move from Jacob, Isaac, Rebekah, and Abraham to infant baptism and objections raised by religious skeptics.
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What Christians Should Know is a Christian teaching show with a strong commitment to biblical literacy and the sufficiency of Scripture. It is not built around interviews, banter, or devotional vagueness. The format is closer to a prepared lesson: a passage is introduced, its narrative setting is explained, and its theological meaning is pressed into Christian life. Recent episodes spend significant time in Genesis, especially the lives of Abraham, Isaac, Rebekah, Jacob, Esau, Leah, Rachel, and Laban. The show treats those narratives as more than ancient family drama. They become case studies in providence, sin, promise, exile, prayer, obedience, discernment, and grace. Short statements land with force. Longer stretches build layered arguments from text, doctrine, and application. Jacob's flight and return, for example, are framed around God's promise at Bethel, the command to leave exile, and the slow reshaping of a trickster into a man learning to trust God. Genesis 27 is handled as a household-wide moral collapse, where Isaac, Rebekah, Jacob, and Esau all reveal disorder in different ways. The teaching often links biblical narratives to contemporary experience, including burnout, career compromise, skepticism, and family strain. It does so without softening its confessional stance. Episodes on objections raised by religious skeptics are pointed, arguing that Christian truth claims are easier to consider when the assumptions beneath secular reasoning are exposed. The show also makes room for doctrinal reconsideration, as in the episode explaining a move from credo-baptism toward pedo-baptism. That shift is presented through biblical observation rather than personal branding. Hebrews becomes a frame for Abraham's trust in God's promise even when obedience appears impossible. Across the feed, the recurring emphasis is that God's providence works through confusing, painful, and morally compromised circumstances without surrendering control. The tone is serious, explanatory, and direct. It suits listeners who want Bible teaching with doctrinal firmness, practical pressure, and a repeated return to Christ as the final answer to sin, judgment, and the way back to God.
Made for: For Christians who want sustained biblical exposition, confessional doctrine, and practical theological reasoning. It especially suits listeners interested in Genesis, providence, baptism, faith, and responses to skepticism.
What sets it apart: The show combines slow textual work with unusually direct application, moving from specific biblical scenes to modern questions about work, family, doubt, and obedience. Its edge comes from conviction, not performance.
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Close biblical reading becomes practical theology here, with Genesis narratives traced into questions of work, family, prayer, obedience, and grace.
What Christians Should Know builds each episode around a biblical passage, with Dr. Elijah Sadafel reading substantial sections aloud before arranging his interpretation into numbered observations and practical applications.
Genesis becomes a mirror, and your family drama suddenly has patriarchs, providence, and consequences.
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Jacob's choice between Laban's offer and God's promise becomes a lesson in trust and returning home.
Jacob faces a choice as he prepares to return home: accept Laban's attractive offer or follow the promise God made before his exile. Dr. Elijah Sadoffel reads that choice as a change in Jacob.
Isaac's failed discernment anchors a reading of family blame and God's purpose.
Dr. Elijah Sadaful reads Genesis 27 as a family conflict in which Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob and Esau all bear responsibility. He opens with a question about imperfect families, then returns to the story's uneasy balance: each person bears blame, yet God's purpose persists through…
Sadafel reads Genesis 24 through providence, prayer, and the need to test guidance against Scripture.
In Genesis 24, Abraham sends his servant to find a wife for Isaac. Dr. Elijah Sadafel reads the servant's journey to Rebekah through the doctrine of providence. He draws a practical point from the servant's prayer: trust in God's care calls for action as well as prayer.
Sadaful reads Abraham's obedience through his trust that God could keep the promise to Isaac.
Abraham is asked to sacrifice Isaac, yet God's promise of descendants runs through Isaac. Dr. Elijah Sadaful stays with that difficult question in his reading of Hebrews 11:17-19.
Sadafel reads Babel beside Eden, then turns to the refuge he finds in Christ.
Dr. Elijah Sadafel reads the tower of Babel as a story about people trying to reach heaven by their own power. He places Genesis 11 beside Eden: Babel's builders make a city with bricks and mortar, while the garden is received and tended.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
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A sermon reflecting on the angel Gabriel's announcement to Mary about the birth of Jesus Christ and the prophecies concerning His life and ministry.