In this episode of the Rapp Report, Andrew talks with author and pastor Jim Osman on the topic of Spiritual Warfare (and their love for guns). Jim and Andrew discuss the problems with those who claim to have gone to Heaven and back and the abuse of taking spiritual warfare within the wrong context. 3:00 Reading book covers and introductions. 6:40 Stairways to Heaven. Jim talks about his book and the other books about visitations to Heaven. 12:40 Jesse Duplantis Cable Car and Matt Slick being shocked. 15:05 The Dangers of these types of books. Scripture is enough. 20:10 The Dangers of the Prosperity Gospel. Name that Fallacy. 24:05  African Missionary with the Prosperity Gospel. 29:51 Prosperity of the Wicked. Psalm 73 33:10 Truth or Territory. Views of Spiritual Warfare. 37:15 Handcuffs and Ropes are not part of the Armor of God. 39:00 What true biblical spiritual warfare looks like. 42:40 Crazy Andrew and Photobombs. 43:45 #JustinIWin Support Justin Peters. justinpeters.org 47:50 Spiritual Transition Game. Trains and the Gospel. 51:35 Rubber Erasers in 12th Century Scotland. 56:45 Wrapping up the Discussion. Buy Jim’s Books. Pastor Jim Osman’s church: https://kootenaichurch.org/ Pastor Jim Osman’s book: http://truthorterritory.com/ ================================================================ This podcast is a ministry of Striving for Eternity and all our resources strivingforeternity.org Get the full interviews with your support at http://www.patreon.com/StrivingForEternity Please review us on iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/rapp-report/id1353293537 Give us your feedback, email us mailto: info@StrivingForEternity.org Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/StrivingForEternity Join the conversation in our Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/groups/326999827369497 Watch subscribe to us on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/StrivingForEternity Support us financially at http://StrivingForEternity.org/donate Get the book What Do They Believe at http://WhatDoTheyBelieve.com Get the book What Do We Believe at http://WhatDoWeBelieveBook.com

Darrell Harrison and Tom Buck join Andrew Rappaport to talk about the 9 Marks article by Isaac Adams "More Christian than Black or White". The racism issue is a cultural divide but the social justice warriors are destroying the church with this division now. This podcast covers the issues of race in the church by directly interacting with this article. This is a danger to the church and more so to the gospel. The church must be about proclaiming reconciliation with God by the gospel, not social justice.   Resources mentioned: THE PROBLEM IS ENMITY, NOT ETHNICITY JT 23 ‘MLK 50 CONFERENCE’ The B.A.R. Podcast Black churches in America with Dawain Atkinson Are Christians falling into the media’s trap with gun control   Other resources from Voice of Reason Radio: Are We Responsible for the Sins of our Fathers: A Response to Thabiti Anyabwile Are We Responsible for the Sins of our Fathers, Pt. 2 ================================================================ This podcast is a ministry of Striving for Eternity and all our resources strivingforeternity.org Get the full interviews with your support at http://www.patreon.com/StrivingForEternity Please review us on iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/rapp-report/id1353293537 Give us your feedback, email us mailto: info@StrivingForEternity.org Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/StrivingForEternity Join the conversation in our Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/groups/326999827369497 Watch subscribe to us on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/StrivingForEternity Support us financially at http://StrivingForEternity.org/donate Get the book What Do They Believe at http://WhatDoTheyBelieve.com Get the book What Do We Believe at http://WhatDoWeBelieveBook.com

A hotly debated issue within the church is the roles between men and women.  The question asked often, is there a difference between men and women in the church and can women serve in any function or are they limited.  The position known as egalitarianism teaches that women can serve in any role no different than the man.  A competing view of that, and the biblical one is complementarianism.  This is a teaching that God has ordained certain roles only for men within the church and the household.  Our culture would see this as a major problem.  However, we get our instructions as Christians from God and not culture. In this special episode, Andrew speaks with Amy Hall from Stand to Reason.  They will discuss the differences between men and women in the church, home, and culture.  They will also get into a lengthy discussion about sharing the gospel and how we conduct ourselves as Christians in doing so.  If you listen you will learn a lot about Stand to Reason in the ministry that they are doing there.  To learn more about Stand to Reason go to their website www.STR.org. Other resources to listen to from the Theology Gals podcast Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Q&A Discussion on Women’s Roles Complementarianism Part 1 Genesis 3:16 & Complementarianism with Wendy Alsup Concerns With Complementarianism: Where Does That Leave Us? ================================================================ This podcast is a ministry of Striving for Eternity and all our resources http://strivingforeternity.org/ Get the full interviews with your support at http://www.patreon.com/StrivingForEternity Please review us on iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/rapp-report/id1353293537 Give us your feedback, email us mailto: info@StrivingForEternity.org Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/StrivingForEternity Join the conversation in our Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/groups/326999827369497 Watch subscribe to us on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/StrivingForEternity Support us financially at http://StrivingForEternity.org/donate Get the book What Do They Believe at http://WhatDoTheyBelieve.com Get the book What Do We Beleive at http://WhatDoWeBelieveBook.com

Andrew talks with Dawain Atkinson from The B.A.R. Podcast about black churches in a America. B.A.R. stands for Biblical and reformed. Dawain discusses his upbringing and how he came to Christ. He was in the Word of Faith movement and at one point even called an “apostle”.  He went from being a player to an “apostle” to being reformed. Dawain shares how men like Justin Peters, John MacArthur and others helped him come to biblical faith. Then the discussion came to how did he lead his wife out of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR). Dawain gives good advice for leading a wife to a Biblical position. Andrew and Dawain discuss the black churches and reformed theology. They discuss the emotional style of worship from the music to the preaching. Dawain points out that thinking is not encouraged in the Word of Faith movement. the behavior is a learned response. Andre refers to a video of a girl “preaching” with this trained style (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtS_tVCyHIs). They also discuss the music in the black community with the rap or hip hop. The B.A.R. Podcast can be found at http://www.thebarpodcast.com Contact Dawain at mailto:thepodcast21@gmail.com On Facebook http://www.facebook.com/thebarpodcast Other references mentioned: Wrath and Grace Curse Reversed video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY6UhnVcOQk) We will be giving away a new Preacher’s Bible designed by John MacArthur on April 15th. To enter follow @AndrewRappaport on Twitter or like the Striving for Eternity Ministry page and share any episode of The Rapp Report podcast with the hashtag #RappReport. You can enter daily per episode so you can share many of the daily 2 min podcasts a day. This podcast is a ministry of Striving for Eternity and all our resources http://strivingforeternity.org/ Get the full interviews with your support at http://www.patreon.com/StrivingForEternity Please review us on iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/rapp-report/id1353293537 Give us your feedback, email us mailto: info@StrivingForEternity.org Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/StrivingForEternity Join the conversation in our Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/groups/326999827369497 Watch subscribe to us on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/StrivingForEternity Support us financially at http://StrivingForEternity.org/donate Get the book What Do They Believe at http://WhatDoTheyBelieve.com Get the book What Do We Beleive at http://WhatDoWeBelieveBook.com

This week's Rapp Report is one you should not listen to. In this episode, we prove that transgender is an makes the arguments for atheism self-refuting. Chaz Bono says, “There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99% of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, their mismatch. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate." This quote is an attempt to normalize the definition by providing new terms. When we deal with transgender is and we're dealing with a new definition of terminology in an attempt to normalize something that was previously identified as a mental illness. One transgender remembrance Day poster stated, "34% of trans people attempt suicide.  64% are bullied.  73% of trans people are harassed in public.  21% of trans people avoid going out in public due to fear."  Now even if the statistics are accurate, there is no comparison to the statistics and other groups. Many teenagers attempt suicide, and are believed, and are harassed in public, and avoid going public due to fear.  But should that mean that we should change society to accept those who feel fearful, or should we encourage those who are doing the bullying to refrain?  In fact, what we see in our culture today is that the LGTB community are the ones that bully any who do not celebrate their perversion. We see this argument for celebration in a quote from Andreja Pejic, “We’re human beings, and this is a human life. This is reality for us, and all we ask for is acceptance and validation for what we say that we are.  It is a basic human right."  This statement is a logical fallacy known as begging the question.  It assumes a fundamental human right to prove that it is a basic human right.  Throughout this argument I would challenge someone to ask the question does this apply to the serial rapist or serial murderer?  The serial rapist wants to be left alone and feels that they are born this way.  Should they be celebrated?  Should they be accepted?  Should they be validated?  There is a difference between the way we are born and the responsibility we have to behave in society. As we embark on this discussion, we must remember that we are talking about people and not issues.  These are individuals who are struggling both to fit in with society and themselves.  Most of them are not trying to make some political statement.  However, they do want acceptance from the culture.  Many of them are being caught in the crossfire between those who want to argue for political issues.  As Christians, we need to be more focused on the people who will face a living God as the judge than the issues of the country. Let us begin, with the question of what is transgenderism? Up until recent years, one's gender had been determined by biology, whether they had the chromosomes for male or female. Gender had always been a scientific issue based on anatomy and the chemistry of the chromosomes.  Transgenderism has to do with the way people think or feel their gender is, rather than what their chromosomes or anatomy prove.  Therefore, transgenderism has more to do with the way people feel or identified themselves than the chemical makeup of the body.  Thus this is not about biology but the soul.  This is not about science.  It is about psychology.  If transgenderism is true then we are more than just chemical reactions as atheism argues. We must recognize, that a majority of children who experienced strong feelings that they were born in the wrong gender to have those feelings disappear entirely by adolescents.  Therefore, we should not encourage this sort of thinking and assume that the majority of children will grow out of it. There are many theories about why people have gender dysphoria, whether it be the thought that people have a male brain in a female body where female brains in a male body or the thought that one&...

After the school shooting in Florida, many in the media started laying a trap for Christians associating guns with Christianity rather than the U.S. Constitution. Are Christians falling into the media’s trap with gun control? This episode will address a concern with churches that are using church services that should be for the worship of God for the celebration of guns. Should Christians support this? Here is the video played on the podcast of a church celebrating their guns in church and the reaction to it from CBS news: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/witnesses-describe-harrowing-florida-bridge-collapse-its-totally-smashed-to-the-ground/ Other resources mentioned: Let’s Repeal Second Amendment Christianity What The Bible Says About Gun Rights Should Christians Support Gun Control? ———————————————————————— Striving for Eternity is having a Preacher’s Bible giveaway. We are giving away a Preachers Bible designed by John MacArthur to one person on April 15th. To enter the contest you must share the Rapp Report podcasts on Twitter or Facebook. On Twitter, you must follow @AndrewRappaport and share the episodes with the hashtag #RappReport. On Facebook, you must like the Striving for Eternity Ministries page and share the episodes with the hashtag #RappReport. ———————————————————————— We read and respond to an email from Doug P. about some criticism about the ministry and podcast.  If you want to email us mailto: info@StrivingForEternity.org If you would like to purchase the process of reconciliation charts for yourself they are available at the Striving for Eternity store: http://strivingforeternity.org/product/flow-chart-side-1-process-reconciliation-card  ================================================================ This podcast is a ministry of Striving for Eternity and all our resources http://strivingforeternity.org/ Get the full interviews with your support: http://www.patreon.com/StrivingForEternity Please review us on iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/rapp-report/id1353293537 Give us your feedback, email us mailto: info@StrivingForEternity.org Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/StrivingForEternity Join the conversation in our Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/326999827369497 Watch subscribe to us on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/StrivingForEternity Support us financially: http://strivingforeternity.org/donate

With America allowing Mulsim immigrants into the country, many people believe that we should not allow them in because they will take over the country. However, as Christians should we be more concerned with sharing the gospel with them than the effects on our country? Many Muslims have no opportunity to hear the gospel in their Muslim countries. Should we as Christians support legal Muslim immigration so that we can share the gospel with them? ================================================================ This podcast is a ministry of Striving for Eternity and all our resources http://strivingforeternity.org/ Get the full interviews with your support: http://www.patreon.com/StrivingForEternity Give us your feedback, email us mailto: info@StrivingForEternity.org Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/StrivingForEternity Join the conversation in our Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/326999827369497 Watch subscribe to us on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/StrivingForEternity Support us financially: http://strivingforeternity.org/donate