God, Law & Liberty Podcast

Religion & Spirituality Podcas

God, Law, and Liberty is a podcast of the Family Action Council of Tennessee featuring David Fowler. We seek to educate listeners on matters of law and current issues relating to how we understand liberty and the Constitution per a Christian worldview. For years, FACT has been engaged with members of the Tennessee General Assembly in advocating for life, marriage, family values, and religious liberty issues in our state. As a family policy council, we are tackling head-on, current issues that have a national impact such as same-sex marriage, abortion, transgenderism, and other issues related to what we consider God's design for the family. How we address these issues in our culture in terms of how we treat them in law will have an impact for generations to come. Please join us on this journey.

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United States

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Religion & Spirituality Podcas

Description:

God, Law, and Liberty is a podcast of the Family Action Council of Tennessee featuring David Fowler. We seek to educate listeners on matters of law and current issues relating to how we understand liberty and the Constitution per a Christian worldview. For years, FACT has been engaged with members of the Tennessee General Assembly in advocating for life, marriage, family values, and religious liberty issues in our state. As a family policy council, we are tackling head-on, current issues that have a national impact such as same-sex marriage, abortion, transgenderism, and other issues related to what we consider God's design for the family. How we address these issues in our culture in terms of how we treat them in law will have an impact for generations to come. Please join us on this journey.

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@factennessee

Language:

English

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615-591-2090

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https://www.factennessee.org/

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info@factn.org

Episodes

S3E128: Understanding the Pastor/Politician Discipleship Problem

5/10/2024

A recent interview of an evangelical pastor disappointed by his friend, Virginia Governor Youngkin, signing a same-sex “marriage” bill into law reveals how Christian discipleship falls short, not just with those wanting to hold office, but often with the pastors and policy organizations supporting them. David explains why what may sound and look good to many people in the pews too often turns out so disappointing. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:24:01

A Thesis for What Leads to Enactment of Righteous Civil Laws

5/2/2024

The floundering of the pro-life movement since Roe v. Wade was reversed provides the context for David asking in today’s episode, “What makes for a Christian community, state, or nation, and where in that process do righteous civil laws come into play?” In answer, David offers for consideration a thesis drawn from a re-examination of the Great Commission in Matthew 28. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:30:19

S3E126: How do you disciple a nation in law and politics?

4/26/2024

Today, David talks about how discipling a nation (Matthew 28:19) might look different from what is being done today in law and public policy. He uses a statement made on the Tennessee House floor this week by an influential Christian Republican to show what he thinks is missing. He also offers part of a speech he recently gave to a group of Christian lawyers and policy leaders as a way forward. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:22:59

What Does “Disciple the Nations” Mean for Law and Politics?

4/19/2024

God promised “nations” would come from Abraham and Jesus told his disciples to disciple the nations. With that in mind, David uses scripture and some observations from Choc Knox and Jason Farley (Knox Unplugged) to explain how this kind of “nation building” is influencing the focus of his work in law and politics. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:27:15

S3E124: Nation Saving or Nation Building?

4/11/2024

Many Christians, including preachers, politicians, and policy organizations, seem bent on “saving” America from further ruin by various means. Is that really the purpose for which the mystery of God was revealed in the person of Christ? Does the covenant with Abraham, illuminated by the new covenant in Christ, suggest a national purpose relative to law and civil government that Christians have not considered? And what kind of politicians and policy makers (and preachers) would we need, given our present ones seem to have failed us. Join David as he works through these questions. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:32:01

S3E123: How and Why Jesus Matters in Law and Civil Government

4/5/2024

Eric Metaxas’s new book, Letter to the American Church, Biden’s use of the image of God in proclaiming Transgender Awareness Day, and 29 years of direct legal and policy advocacy have brought home to me with increasing urgency observations made about Christianity and society by Abraham Kuyper in the 1890’s. Is Christianity and the work and activism of most Christians in law, civil government, and public policy Christ-less? How does it matter? John Owen’s Christologia provides a needed answer. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:54:02

Thinking Through “Practical Christian Politics” with Kuyper

3/22/2024

In a speech given in 1891 to open the First Christian Social Congress, Abraham Kuyper nailed the problem Europe was experiencing and that America is now experiencing. His precise definition of the problem and concise explanation of it will help us evaluate whether the “practical politics” practiced by evangelical legal and policy organizations is exposes the absence of something vital to Christianity and culture. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:30:33

S3E121: Religious Victory or Retreat?

3/14/2024

A Christian legal organization recently trumpeted a “victory for religious liberty,” but whether it was a victory depends on one’s theology. Today David uses Colossians 2 and Robert Haldane’s commentary on Romans 2:1 to show what many Christian legal and policy organizations think “victory” means, why that is their sole objective, and what a different theology might have them doing. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:33:36

S3E120: Did SCOTUS's Trump Decision Expose the Folly of a Faithless Christianity?

3/7/2024

With its 9 to zero decision on Monday reversing Colorado’s removal of Donald Trump from the ballot, the United States Supreme Court schooled some Christian legal and policy organizations on how the Fourteenth Amendment works. And in doing so it exposed the “Hagar method” of legal advocacy they are employing to “protect” parental rights. Don’t be seduced by the promise this method holds out because God seems slack in His promises. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:27:45

S3E119: Exposing the Christian Divide over a Civilization-Defining SCOTUS Decision

3/1/2024

When the United States Supreme Court held in 2015 that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibited states from issuing marriage licenses to only male and female applicants, it didn’t expand the definition of marriage, but abolished it. Today David explains why this was a civilization defining decision, how gay rights lawyers are using it to redefine the parent-child relationship, and how certain Christian legal and policy organizations seem not to understand what happened to our nation. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:34:46

S3E118: Justice Alito Scorches Christian Policy Leaders and Pastors

2/23/2024

This week Justice Alito released an opinion in a case in which Christians were presumed to be unfit to sit as jurors in a case involving a lesbian. David uses remarks from the Hale Institute’s Jeff Shafer and from Rosaria Butterfield to explain why Christian legal and policy leaders and pastors should have known such a result was coming. In doing so you will also learn how Christian organizations are working to “queer” parental rights in the states. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:27:28

S3E118: Justice Alito Scorches Christian Policy Leaders and Pastors

2/23/2024

Duration:00:26:30

What Would Exercising Dominion in Law Look Like?

2/16/2024

Do you think of the world as an allegory? If not, why not? Today David takes a look at those questions using exchanges between Choc Knox and Jason Farley and then explains how the “world as allegory” could better inform our understanding of the dominion mandate in relation to law and its development. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:25:15

S3E116: Lessons for the Dominion Mandate from Recent Pro-Abortion Victories

2/9/2024

The United States Supreme Court’s abortion jurisprudence got better with the reversal of Roe v. Wade last summer. So, why, if the “law” got better at the constitutional level is the law in the states getting worse than under Roe’s abortion regime? David tackles that question using observations by Choc Knox, Jason Farley, and George Grant. The answer may surprise you. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:34:10

Satan Clubs and the Cosmological Soil for Exercising Dominion

2/2/2024

Today David uses the Satanic Temple’s description of its after school Satan Clubs, Karl Marx’s critique of religion, and an exchange between Jason Farley and George Grant to look at the fundamental change that took place in our “creation cosmology” and how that relates to the dominion mandate. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:29:40

The Dominion Mandate Meets Positive Law

1/26/2024

The proposed federal “Parental Rights and Responsibilities Act, and similar legislation in the states, may look like it is in furtherance of the dominion mandate, because parents have God-given rights and a God-given jurisdiction in relation to their children. Today David explains why there could be nothing further from the truth than that assumption. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:30:59

S3E13: Looking at the Dominion Mandate in Real Time

1/19/2024

In recent years, the “dominion mandate” in Genesis 1 has come alive for many Christians. Today David begins a three-week series that looks at various considerations for its fulfillment. This week, he looks at its application in the context of abortion legislation, and the divisions it has exposed among Christians. Has this situation exposed something that must precede taming the wilderness? Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:28:42

S3E12: How I Would Analyze and Vote on Upcoming Abortion Legislation

1/11/2024

Today David explains why, if he were still a state Senator, he would evaluate forthcoming legislation in several states that would subject pregnant women to a criminal sanction through the prism of Matthew 6:33 and how he would do it. Then he will give the remarks he would provide in a legislative hearing. Finally, he closes with a challenge to Christians on both sides of the issue. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:35:11

S3E11: Re-Evaluating the Pro-Life Establishment’s Approach

1/5/2024

Recent videos by EndAbortionNow have focused on two approaches often taken by mainline pro-life organizations to justify their approach to abortion legislation. David looks at those approaches, as well as his own in times past, to see if they align with the gospel. He points to aspects of the gospel that would have Christians re-calibrate their perspective on this and any number of other political and electoral issues. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:38:34

Do Some Abortion Abolitionist Have a Gospel Problem?

12/29/2023

A new video by EndAbortionNow.com asserts that women who make an abortion decision should be subject to criminal penalties. Some in the video contend that not doing so denies to her the gospel. Today, David uses Sinclair Ferguson’s The Whole Christ and Robert Haldane’s Exposition of Romans to consider whether such thinking reveals a problem with our understanding of the gospel. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:30:59