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According to 1 Thessalonians 5:18, believers in Jesus Christ are to “give thanks in everything, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.” But does ‘everything’ include giving thanks to God when we suffer? Listen as Darrell Harrison and Virgil “Omaha” Walker look to Scripture for answers to that crucial question. “What God Ordains Is Always Good” – hymn arrangement by Josh Bauder (YouTube video) “We Complain Because We Forget” – blog article by Steven Lee (Desiring God) “The Gift of Suffering” – white paper by William H. Gross (PDF) “Making Sense Out of Suffering” – sermon series by John MacArthur (Grace to You) “Why Are You Afraid?” – Just Thinking podcast episode 113 “Why Are You Afraid?” – book by Darrell Harrison and Virgil Walker (G3 Press) “Suffering Is Not for Nothing” – teaching series by Elisabeth Elliot (Ligonier Ministries) Support To support the podcast, please click here or copy/paste the following link into your browser - https://justthinking.me/support/ Disclaimer © Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking Ministries - 2012-2022. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking…for Myself with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-just/support

Disclaimer: This episode of the Just Thinking podcast contains material that may not be suitable for young children. Parental discretion is strongly advised. Indwelling sin. It is a reality that professing believers in Jesus Christ must deal with until the day we die or Christ returns to take us home to heaven. But how are we to deal biblically with that reality? How can we, as possessors of a new nature in Christ, navigate the tension between being regenerate while having remaining sin within us? Listen as Darrell Harrison and Virgil “Omaha” Walker look to God’s Word for answers in this episode of the Just Thinking podcast, titled Indwelling Sin in Believers. Pornography in the Church — Just Thinking podcast Women and Pornography — Truth in Love podcast (Association of Certified Biblical Counselors) Helping Women Put Off Life-Dominating Sins — Susan Heck (Association of Certified Biblical Counselors) Thanksgiving and Pornography — article by Dr. Heath Lambert (Association of Certified Biblical Counselors) Crafting Temptation and Repentance Plans to Help Addicts — article by Keith Palmer (Association of Certified Biblical Counselors) Helping Wives Whose Husbands Struggle With Pornography — Martha Peace (Association of Certified Biblical Counselors) The Grace-Filled Path From Pornography to Purity — Dr. Heath Lambert (Association of Certified Biblical Counselors) Why Change Is Possible — Kevin Carson (Association of Certified Biblical Counselors) Overcoming Sexual Sin — Dr. Heath Lambert (Association of Certified Biblical Counselors) Fighting Lust --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-just/support

Does the world have anything to offer the Church today? It appears that some protestant churches, denominations - and their leaders - seem to think so. But to what end? What's the payoff for them? Are there to be no distinctions between the kingdom of darkness (the world) and the kingdom of Light (the Church) in our churches and denominations? Those questions, and others, are the focus of Darrell Harrison and Virgil "Omaha" Walker in this episode of the Just Thinking podcast, titled "Cultural Denominationalism." "The Church & Culture" - Just Thinking podcast "Evangelical Deconstructionism" - Just Thinking podcast "Ashamed of the Gospel" (book) - John MacArthur (Grace to You) "The Truth War" (book) - John MacArthur (Grace to You) "Christ's Call to Reform the Church" (book) - John MacArthur (Grace to You) "What Denomination Should I Join?" (blog article) - Dr. John Frame "Denominations in the American Religious Experience" (video) - Dr. W. Robert Godfrey (Ligonier Ministries) "What is Denominationalism?" (article) - Got Questions "Why Denominational Identity Still Matters" (article) - Dr. Nathan A. Finn "Explaining Schisms in American Protestant Denominations, 1890-1990" (PDF whitepaper) - John R. Sutton Mark Chaves Support To support the podcast, please click here or copy/paste the following link into your browser - https://justthinking.me/support/ Disclaimer © Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking Ministries - 2012-2022. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking…for Myself with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-just/support

Behavioral perfectionism – not to be confused with the doctrine sometimes referred to as Christian perfectionism or sinless perfection – is a sin many professing Christians struggle with (yes, it is a sin). But not only is the individual perfectionist affected by their behavior, so are those who are closest to them. In this episode of the Just Thinking podcast, Darrell Harrison and Virgil “Omaha” Walker leverage their experience as biblical counselors to walk you through what the Word of God, and other trusted biblical sources, have to say about dealing biblically with the issue of behavioral perfectionism toward the goal of gaining victory over it. Counseling the Perfectionist – article by Cody Newcome, Association of Certified Biblical Counselors Lay Aside the Weight of Perfection – article by Jon Bloom, Desiring God The Sin of Perfectionism (PDF) – article by Dr. Stanley G. Gale You Can Change: God's Transforming Power for Our Sinful Behavior and Negative Emotions – book by Dr. Tim Chester (Amazon.com) Picture Perfect: When Life Doesn’t Line Up – book by Dr. Amy Baker (Amazon.com) How Does Sanctification Work? – book by Dr. David Powlison (Amazon.com) “Christian Contentment” – Just Thinking podcast (episode 96) “Why Are You Afraid?” – Just Thinking podcast (episode 113) “Why Are You Afraid?” – book by Darrell Harrison and Virgil Walker, G3 Press Support To support the podcast, please click here or copy/paste the following link into your browser - https://justthinking.me/support/ Disclaimer © Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking Ministries - 2012-2022. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking…for Myself with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-just/support

In Colossians 2:8, the apostle Paul exhorts believers to not be taken captive through philosophies and deceptions that are rooted in the traditions of men. Deconstruction, a philosophy that has its origins in Marxism, is one of those deceptions. And yet, there are those within evangelicalism today who are actively promoting and advocating that deconstruction is good and virtuous for the church. In this episode of the Just Thinking podcast, hosts Darrell Harrison and Virgil ‘Omaha’ Walker make it clear that they do not concur with that view. Listen as they “turn pages” and discuss what God’s Word has to say about “Evangelical Deconstructionism.” That’s the title of episode 117 of the Just Thinking podcast.   Support To support the podcast, please click here or copy/paste the following link into your browser - https://justthinking.me/support/ Disclaimer © Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking Ministries - 2012-2022. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking…for Myself with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-just/support

We hear that phrase that Christians are 'in the world, but not of the world'—but do we really understand what is meant by that? Do we have any idea from where that concept is derived in Scripture? In this episode of the Just Thinking Podcast, Darrell Harrison and Virgil "Omaha" Walker look closely at what Christ meant by this phrase. This episode takes a close look a the "Church and Culture." Pre-Order: "Why Are You Afraid" - Just Thinking Ministries & G3 Press Order: "Just Thinking: about the state" – Just Thinking Ministries & Founders Press The Just Thinking Scholarship – Just Thinking Ministries & The Master's University Support To support the podcast, please click here or copy/paste the following link into your browser - https://justthinking.me/support/ Disclaimer © Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking Ministries - 2012-2021. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking…for Myself with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-just/support

With over 5,000+ registered, the 2021 G3 Conference was a massive success and with the theme being - "Christ" - it was great to hear so many great messages on the deity of Christ. With the primary focus on the deity of Christ, Darrell and Virgil took a different route in order to focus on the anti-Christ agenda that is fully at work in the hearts of the "culture" that seeks to elevate "blackness" as it's cultural savior. Support To support the podcast, please click here or copy/paste the following link into your browser - https://justthinking.me/support/ Disclaimer © Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking Ministries - 2012-2021. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking…for Myself with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-just/support

The 2021 G3 Conference is right around the corner and Darrell and Virgil are excited to see so many of you there! Check out our preview message and we will see you at the conference. Support To support the podcast, please click here or copy/paste the following link into your browser - https://justthinking.me/support/ Disclaimer © Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking Ministries - 2012-2021. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking…for Myself with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-just/support

COVID-19, mask mandates, vaccine passports, inflation, job security - these realities and more have many professing Christians today locked in the throes of fear and anxiety about the future. To be sure, not all fear and anxiety Christians experience is sinful, and yet there are times when the fear and anxiety we feel is, in fact, not in keeping with how God would have His people respond. How do you recognize and respond rightly to sinful fear and anxiety? What’s the remedy for overcoming it? Darrell Harrison and Virgil Walker consider those crucial questions through the lens of the Word of God in this episode of the Just Thinking podcast, titled “Why Are You Afraid?” Related Links - please visit https://justthinking.me/113   Support To support the podcast, please click here or copy/paste the following link into your browser - https://justthinking.me/support/ Disclaimer © Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking Ministries - 2012-2021. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking…for Myself with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-just/support

The topic of 'women preachers' and 'women pastors' has been hotly debated for decades within the evangelical church. Categories such as "complementarian" and "egalitarian" have been created to describe the two primary camps that seem increasingly divided over this subject. However, in this episode of the Just Thinking podcast, Darrell Harrison and Virgil "Omaha" Walker assert that this topic is not a matter of "ism's," but is a simple question of submission and obedience to the clear teachings of the Word of God. Listen as they look to the Scriptures to answer the age-old question, "Has God Really Said?" Does the Bible Permit a Woman to Preach? - John MacArthur, Grace to You What Does the Bible Say About Women Pastors? - Got Questions? "Ask Ligonier" with Pastor H.B. Charles: "Can you speak to the current topic of women as pastors/preachers?" - Ligonier Ministries (Pastor Charles's response begins at the 30:14 mark of the video) Support To support the podcast, please click here or copy/paste the following link into your browser - https://justthinking.me/support/ Disclaimer © Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking Ministries - 2012-2021. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking…for Myself with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-just/support

The #LeaveLOUD movement is urging black evangelical Christians to exit white evangelical spaces, primarily on the basis that white evangelical Christians don't recognize or celebrate black evangelical Christians for who they are. But is such a movement biblical? On this episode of the Just Thinking podcast, Darrell Harrison and Virgil 'Omaha' Walker take a look at #LeaveLOUD through the broader lens of "activist theology," and Christians who see an activist gospel as a means to achieve a particular end within the Church. Pre-order: "Just Thinking About the State" - Just Thinking Ministries & Founders Press The Just Thinking Scholarship - Just Thinking Ministries & The Master's University Wokeness & the Gospel Conference - June 11-12, 2021 at Denton Bible Church, Denton TX The Myth of Influence - John MacArthur, Ligonier Conference 2003 "When Should People Leave Their Church?" - John MacArthur, Grace to You blog Support To support the podcast, please click here or copy/paste the following link into your browser - https://justthinking.me/support/ Disclaimer © Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking Ministries - 2012-2021. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking…for Myself with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-just/support

In this episode, with moderation from Dawain Atkinson, Darrell and Virgil take to the stage at the 2021 Ligonier National Conference for a freestyle discussion that continues on the topic of EP # 109 |Theory vs. Theology. The road is narrow yet a wide path is making itself known through the adoption of analytical tools as both a means of understating and interpreting Scripture. The world is going it's own way yet may we remain rooted in biblical truth.   Support To support the podcast, please click here or copy/paste the following link into your browser - https://justthinking.me/support/ Disclaimer © Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking Ministries - 2012-2021. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking…for Myself with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-just/support

The evangelical church is at a crossroads. It’s not the first time. Worldly philosophies, such as Critical Race Theory and the ‘social gospel’ are distracting the church from its fundamental mission: proclaiming the evangel—the good news—of salvation in Jesus Christ to unbelieving sinners. In this ‘freestyle’ episode of the Just Thinking podcast, Darrell Harrison and Virgil “Omaha” Walker look to Scripture as they consider the issue of which road the church will take: theory or theology.   Support To support the podcast, please click here or copy/paste the following link into your browser - https://justthinking.me/support/ Disclaimer © Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking Ministries - 2012-2021. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking…for Myself with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-just/support

Critical Race Theory, or CRT for short, is, for many professing evangelicals today, a philosophy that is steeped in confusion and ambiguity. That is by design. In this expanded episode of the Just Thinking podcast, Darrell Harrison and Virgil “Omaha” Walker spend more than three hours unpacking the origins, tenets, and threats that Critical Race Theory poses not only to the evangelical church, but to society as a whole.   Resources Related episodes EP # 045 | Social Justice & the Gospel Related blog articles The Master’s University/Just Thinking Scholarships 2021 Evangelicals and Race Theory — Dr. Carl Trueman, First Things NO! Critical Race Theory Does NOT Continue the Civil Rights Movement — Dr. James Lindsay, New Discourses Race and Racism in the Bible — Toby Jennings, Founders Ministries Equity or Equality? — Darrell B. Harrison, Just Thinking Blog The Human Dignity of Equality — Virgil Walker, G3 Ministries Support To support the podcast, please click here or copy/paste the following link into your browser - https://justthinking.me/support/ Disclaimer © Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking Ministries - 2012-2021. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking…for Myself with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-just/support

One Race, One Body, One Blood. Special guests Darrell Harrison and Virgil Walker from the Just Thinking Podcast join Cooper Stuff for this absolutely FIRE episode. We talk about “race”; reconciliation; what’s the way forward? Darrell and Virgil turn some pages of the Bible to explain the great news of the gospel that truly unifies us as the one body of Christ.   Support To support the podcast, please click here or copy/paste the following link into your browser - https://justthinking.me/support/ Disclaimer © Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking Ministries - 2012-2020. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking…for Myself with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-just/support

Subsequent to the presidential election held in the United States on November 3, 2020, many evangelical leaders, primarily on social media, began exhorting Christians to come together in a spirit of unity around the presumed incoming administration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Notwithstanding that, officially, the outcome of the aforementioned contest had yet to be determined, a fundamental question remains: What kind of unity is acceptable to the church and, more importantly, to God? In their final episode of the 2020 podcast season, Darrell Harrison and Virgil "Omaha" Walker answer that question expositionally—and unequivocally—from Scripture.    Resources Related episodes EP # 047 | Where is Your Hope? EP # 079 | One Church, One Body EP # 096 | Christian Contentment EP # 099 | Assurance of Salvation Related blog articles The Gospel in a Hostile World - Jeremiah Johnson (Grace to You blog post) The Basis of Christian Unity - D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Amazon.com) Holiness - J.C. Ryle (Amazon.com) Christ's Call to Reform the Church - John MacArthur (Grace to You) Support To support the podcast, please click here or copy/paste the following link into your browser - https://justthinking.me/support/ Disclaimer © Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking Ministries - 2012-2020. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking…for Myself with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-just/support

In the United States, another major and, potentially divisive, election cycle is upon us. Consequently, the ever-present question has arisen: How are professing Christians to vote? In this episode of the Just Thinking podcast, Darrell Harrison and Virgil "Omaha" Walker look to the Scriptures for answers to that important question, while not mentioning any political candidates by name.   Enter the Steadfast Bibles Handy Size Preacher’s Bible Giveaway! (ends November 4, 2020)   Support To support the podcast, please click here or copy/paste the following link into your browser - https://justthinking.me/support/ Disclaimer © Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking Ministries - 2012-2020. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking…for Myself with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.   --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-just/support

In the wake of the killing of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year old black woman, by Louisville, KY police officers on March 13, 2020—and the subsequent decision by a grand jury to not charge the officers with murder—many people, including many professing Christians, are nevertheless calling for “justice” for Breonna Taylor. But was “justice” not done? More importantly, what is “justice” to begin with? What should “justice” actually look like in society? Is “justice” primarily a matter of subjective standards or of objective truth? Listen as Darrell Harrison and Virgil (“Omaha”) Walker bring some hard biblical truths to the issue of “justice” in this special episode of the Just Thinking podcast.   Resources Related episodes EP # 045 | Social Justice & the Gospel EP # 062 | A Biblical Theology of Socialism Related blog articles Equity or Equality? by Darrell B. Harrison So, You Want ‘Social Justice’? Be Careful What You Ask For by Darrell B. Harrison A Few Words About ‘Justice by Darrell B. Harrison Support To support the podcast, please click here or copy/paste the following link into your browser - https://justthinking.me/support/ Disclaimer © Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking Ministries - 2012-2020. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Darrell B. Harrison and Just Thinking…for Myself with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.   --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-just/support

In this "freestyle" episode, Darrell and Virgil ("Omaha") discuss some of the fundamental doctrines that guide the organization Black Lives Matter and how those beliefs are more resemblant of a "church" with its own religion than a political entity seeking social justice.   Resources Related episodes EP # 013 | Cultural Marxism and Public Education EP # 039 | Christian Socialism EP # 045 | Social Justice & the Gospel EP # 062 | A Biblical Theology of Socialism EP # 082 | A Socialist Savior EP # 093 | A Biblical Theology of the Role of Government EP # 102 | Black Lives Matter? Related blog articles Equity or Equality? by Darrell B. Harrison The Subjective Indignation of the Social Justice Movement by Darrell B. Harrison Related external media Black Lives Matter Vision for Black Lives (BLM policy demands manifesto)  The Agenda of Black Lives Matter is Far Different From the Slogan - New York Post BLM Co-founder Describes Herself as 'Trained Marxist' - New York Post Karl Marx vs. Charles Spurgeon: An Epic Struggle for the Souls of Men in 19th-Century London - Larry Taunton --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-just/support

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