Episodes
A Message to Our Founding Members Whoever You Are
Shawn's teaching focuses on recruiting founding members for a ministry centered on love, humility, and kindness, fostering unity and spiritual maturity, respecting diverse beliefs.
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The Mongoose on the Loose – Let’s Talk About Sex
Shawn's teaching covers human sexuality's complexity, focusing on natural development, cultural/religious challenges, biblical views, and the importance of open dialogue.
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Tossing the Steak
Shawn urges believers to deepen their understanding of God, moving from basic to complex biblical truths, challenging beliefs, and embracing spiritual maturity.
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In the Jungles of Vietnam
Shawn teaches Jesus' victory ended spiritual war; believers should live in God's fulfilled Kingdom, embracing love, reconciliation, and spiritual peace.
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Smoking Cigarettes
Christian perspective on smoking/vaping: prioritize faith over worldly habits, avoid fear-based teaching, focus on mature faith discussions, informed decision-making.
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Shawn Admits He Is a Homo
Shawn stresses equality, authenticity in faith, aligning heart and actions, criticizing superficial standards. True belief leads to genuine expression, avoiding hypocrisy.
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Four Types of Saved
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Determinism or Free Will?
Shawn's teaching balances determinism and free will, emphasizing love's need for choice. It contrasts theological views, noting probabilistic existence allows diverse outcomes.
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Another Lesson Learned
Shawn's teaching highlights compassion over judgment, recognizing struggles, extending love, and reflecting God's mercy, inspired by a personal encounter and a grieving mother.
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Was Jesus a Pacifist?
Jesus taught forgiveness and peace, urging followers to turn the other cheek, but acknowledged self-defense and allowed personal choice in military and political involvement.
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Do We Need to Ask for Forgiveness?
Shawn teaches God's love for all, regardless of sexual orientation, emphasizing love, faith growth, and acceptance without judgment, focusing on Christ's transformative power.
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Finally, I Understand
The Gospel's power to salvation is through Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection, emphasizing universal reconciliation, transformation, and new life in Christ.
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It Does Not Matter
Shawn McCraney teaches that in Christ's Kingdom, earthly identities like race, gender, and politics are irrelevant. Focus on unity in faith, living by the Spirit.
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Does God Hate Fags?
God's love is unconditional, embracing all regardless of sexual orientation. Focus on personal faith, not societal norms. Preach Christ, respect individual choices.
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For Women Everywhere
Shawn's teaching highlights the Spirit's role over strict scripture, using 1 Corinthians 15 and Mary Magdalene's story to challenge gender biases and restore women's roles in Christianity.
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Battery Life
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Does God Change?
God's traits are constant, but He may change His mind due to intercession, showing a dynamic relationship with creation and prompting reflection on prayer's impact.
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A New and Improved Christian Diet
The teaching contrasts the forbidden fruit's knowledge with Jesus as the "bread of life," emphasizing faith, humility, and self-denial for eternal life through His sacrifice.
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The Pastor’s Hippocratic Oath
Shawn suggests pastors adopt a modern Hippocratic Oath to respect biblical views, show empathy, respect privacy, and focus on well-being over rigid doctrines.
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Does God Want Us to Go to College?
The teaching summary highlights the personal nature of faith decisions, the centrality of Jesus' resurrection, the role of faith in religious claims, and the importance of open-minded truth-seeking and apologetics.
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Calling All Founding Members
Shawn McCraney's movement promotes a non-denominational, inclusive Christian approach, focusing on subjective interpretation, spiritual liberty, and love beyond church authority.
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The Hard Reality of True Christian Compassion
Shawn discusses challenges in ministry aid, stressing discernment over exploitation. He advocates empowering support, inspired by biblical stories, to avoid dependency.
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The Law of the Land vs. The Law of God
Shawn distinguishes between following secular and divine laws, urging Christians to respect government laws unless they conflict with Christian principles, like proclaiming Christ's kingdom.
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Birth of a New Christian View
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Two Things Even God Cannot Fix
God grants free will and humility fosters divine connection; pride obstructs spiritual growth. Humility enables guidance, while pride leads to isolation from God.
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The Flood
Shawn leads a discussion on Noah's flood, suggesting it was regional, supported by science and biblical hyperbole. He encourages balancing faith with logic and open dialogue.
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The Curious Case of Romans 3:22
Shawn examines Romans 3:22, debating if righteousness is by faith in Jesus or Jesus' own faith. He analyzes translations, urging personal interpretation with love and faith.
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Pastor Billy Goes Deep Sea Fishing
Evaluate faith orientation by identifying personal biases like seeking experiences or community. True growth is challenging biases to love universally in Jesus' name.
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Can You Be a Christian and Be Wealthy?
Christian wealth isn't contradictory; it's about perspective, acquisition, and use. Prioritize God, manage wealth wisely, avoid corruption, and maintain spiritual focus.
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Outrage
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Danger Will Robinson
Shawn uses 1960s imagery to teach that faith and love, guided by liberty and humility, lead to hope and harmony, while rigid doctrine leads to fear and unrest.
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Children with Incurable Disease
Terminal illness in children raises questions of divine love, free will, and suffering. Religion offers eternal perspective and comfort, contrasting atheism's transient view.
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A Complete Conjecture
Shawn envisions the afterlife as engaging in God-like activities, extending love, light, and life, akin to Jesus' mission, with earthly virtues preparing for divine service.
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5 People Die & Go to Heaven
Shawn teaches universal access to heaven through Jesus, with faith affecting rewards. God's love is unconditional, urging followers to love all as joint heirs with Christ.
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Modern Day Revelation with Bonus Topics
Shawn discusses modern-day revelation, faith-science coexistence, belief in Christ, heart transformation, God's existence through design, and the universe's mysteries.
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Is Church Membership Important?
Churches often defend and promote the need for official church memberships with signed covenants and a list of requirements for members to follow. They use Scripture to defend this idea, but what does the Bible really teach on this subject? Here's a quick response to anyone claiming official church memberships with a signed covenant is necessary for local Christian churches today.Go to checkmychurch.org to learn more and don't forget to follow and like our page on Facebook, too!https://www.facebook.com/checkmychurch
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Are You a Pharisee
Shawn urges embracing love and acceptance over doctrinal disputes, focusing on unity and understanding others' beliefs, prioritizing love for God and neighbors.
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6 Month Notice
Shawn invites all but assassins to a baptism event, focusing on personal faith over doctrine. Encourages genuine seekers of Christ's love to stay engaged, offering a fresh take on 1 Corinthians 13.
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Swearing
Christians should align language with biblical teachings, focusing on intent and context. Avoid negative language, respect cultural contexts, and set a Christ-like example.
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A Little Insight from Paul
Shawn examines Paul's view in Philippians 3 on faith in Christ for deeper understanding, aiming for a special "out-resurrection" as a reward for faithful discipleship.
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Are You a Life Giver or a Life Taker?
Life Givers emulate Jesus, enhancing others' well-being through kindness and sacrifice. Life Takers drain others through selfish acts. Choose selflessness for a fulfilling life.
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Can a Christian Own a Sinister Business?
Christians should align business with faith, avoid judgment, and foster love and understanding, focusing on shared beliefs and respectful dialogue for transformation.
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Mormonism – Jesus Our Brother
Shawn critiques Mormonism, categorizing beliefs as "Black," "White," or "Gray," and emphasizes personal faith over institutions. He contrasts LDS and traditional Christian views of Jesus, advocating for spiritual adoption and unity among Christians.
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Body Building
Shawn teaches that all religious perspectives, despite differences, contribute to God's plan, promoting peace, love, and understanding over perfect beliefs.
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Does the Holy Spirit Leave Me When I Sin?
Belief in Jesus is a personal choice for salvation, guided by the Holy Spirit. Redemption is through faith, not actions. Engage with non-believers, explore spiritual needs.
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What Religious Leaders Rarely Emphasized
Shawn critiques "playing church," advocating for heart-centered spirituality over external conformity, emphasizing personal liberty, inner renewal, and Spirit-led worship.
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A Super Short Proof
Shawn teaches universal reconciliation through Christ, emphasizing God's unchanging love and justice, rewarding deeds based on free will, ensuring heaven, not hell, after death.
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Christian Sex
Shawn's teaching covers evolving Christian views on sex, marriage, and ethics, addressing topics like sodomy, homosexuality, and monogamy, with humor and open-mindedness.
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Sunday’s Best: Youth Edition
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The Deified Flesh
Shawn teaches Jesus wasn't God on earth but became God post-resurrection, challenging Trinitarian views. Believers, through faith, become heirs with Christ.
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