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Welcome to The Causes of Things, a podcast from Sovereign Nations. The 1st century BC poet Virgil stated, “Blessed is he who understands the hidden causes of things.” This statement is as brilliant today as it was 2,000 years ago.
Primarily narrated by Michael O'Fallon, The Causes of Things is didactic in nature featuring a collection of teaching series & lectures, some of which are recorded specifically for this podcast, and some that are from public lectures. The show will offer discussion and information concerning a variety of complex ideas: The philosophical presuppositions behind the ideas that are aggressively shaping our world, the answers to those challenging ideas, and the necessary historical, hierarchical structure of the world as represented through the lens of Judeo Christian belief.
Primarily narrated by Michael O'Fallon, The Causes of Things is didactic in nature featuring a collection of teaching series & lectures, some of which are recorded specifically for this podcast, and some that are from public lectures. The show will offer discussion and information concerning a variety of complex ideas: The philosophical presuppositions behind the ideas that are aggressively shaping our world, the answers to those challenging ideas, and the necessary historical, hierarchical structure of the world as represented through the lens of Judeo Christian belief.
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Mar 18, 2019 • 8min
The Strategic Deconstruction of Evangelical Christianity | Michael O’Fallon | CPAC 2019
At CPAC 2019, Sovereign Nations gathered speakers from various positions and backgrounds to address issues surrounding the postmodern deconstruction of the greater evangelical church.
First, Sovereign Nations’ Founder Michael O'Fallon addressed the “top-down, bottom-up, and inside-out” strategies used by those wanting to create civilizational and societal change. Mr. O’Fallon explained the “top-down” strategies as being legislative and enforceable, the “bottom-up” being reflexive movements created through fertile fallacies, and the middle being the “glue” that holds our society together: national pastimes, patriotism, culture, and uniquely within America - the Christian Faith.
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Mar 18, 2019 • 29min
We Hold These Truths | Alan Keyes | CPAC 2019
At CPAC 2019, Sovereign Nations gathered speakers from various positions and backgrounds to address issues surrounding the postmodern deconstruction of the greater evangelical church.
Ambassador Alan Keyes focused on the understanding that the entirety of the grievance movement, intersectionality, and social justice violated the essential understanding of the Imago Dei and the Declaration. As Dr. Keyes so eloquently put it: “I basically learned to love America because of the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence is premised on that we are all created and that that means that I am NOT in my identity the result of my own passion, the result of my own choice, the result of an oppressors choice to brutalize my family or my ancestors or myself. What I am is the result of the will and power and loving intention of Almighty God: He told me what that intention is on the very first page practically of his word. That He made me to be in the image and likeness of God to reflect the power that is beyond all powers and the will that can constrain all wills producing the future that can encompass every hope and every dream and every possibility of that humanity that he made me to be in to achieve which one of their powers and their verbiage and their nonsense can be the equal of this identity that I bear. In spite of them, in spite of the world, in spite of every indignity that has been or could ever be done to me for I stand above it all basking in the glow of the image of God that shines forth upon me and that shines from within me because of His will there is no substitute for this there is no way they can overpower us when the source of who we are has nothing to do with their power and everything to do with the power they can never touch…”
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Mar 18, 2019 • 17min
Progressive Ideological Challenges to Biblical Christianity | Thomas Ascol | CPAC 2019
At CPAC 2019, Sovereign Nations gathered speakers from various positions and backgrounds to address issues surrounding the postmodern deconstruction of the greater evangelical church.
Dr. Tom Ascol, President of the Founders Ministries, brought a message addressing the influence of progressive schemes by stating that those within the church have “effectively enticed many churches to welcome godless ideologies into their environs and he's done it through the Trojan horse of what is commonly called social justice in the name of racial reconciliation.”
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Jan 30, 2019 • 53min
Social Justice And The Gospel: The Statement Framers Panel
In this informative panel discussion with Dr. Josh Buice, Dr. James White, Dr. Voddie Baucham, Tom Buck, Phil Johnson, and Dr. Tom Ascol, Sovereign Nations Founder Michael O’Fallon leads the presenting scholars in a exploration of the postmodern crisis within the Christian Church.
This panel discussion took place on January 16, 2019 at the Sovereign Nations 'Social Justice & The Gospel' Conference in Atlanta, Georgia preceding the G3 Conference. For more sessions, visit https://sovereignnations.com.
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Jan 30, 2019 • 33min
White Privilege: The New Original Sin | Dr. Thomas Ascol
The concept of “white privilege” has embedded itself within nearly every stratum of our culture in the United States, championed by progressives and those that are seeking to deconstruct our current narratives and historical hierarchies. As the church has become the purposed focus of those seeking to balkanize the church, it should not be a surprise that this pernicious concept has been used as a divisive tool to divide the church. Listen as Dr. Thomas Ascol of Founders Ministries examines the origins and effects of the foreign importation of “white privilege” in the body of Christ.
This presentation was given on January 16, 2019 at the Sovereign Nations 'Social Justice & The Gospel' Conference in Atlanta, Georgia preceding the G3 Conference. For more sessions, visit https://sovereignnations.com.
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Jan 30, 2019 • 36min
Brave New Religion: Intersectionality | Dr. Josh Buice
Intersectionality as a social concept has revolutionized the entire victimhood culture across the political and educational spectrum. Dr. Josh Buice, Director of the G3 Conference, explains how Intersectionality is a unifying framework hypothesis for a brave new religion.
This presentation was given on January 16, 2019 at the Sovereign Nations 'Social Justice & The Gospel' Conference in Atlanta, Georgia preceding the G3 Conference. For more sessions, visit https://sovereignnations.com.
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Jan 30, 2019 • 44min
An Exegetical & Historical Examination of the Woke Church Movement | Dr. James White
Does the ‘woke’ church movement have any Biblical and historical validity? Dr. James White of Alpha and Omega Ministries provides an exegetical examination of this current position from the pages of Scripture and historical theology.
This presentation was given on January 16, 2019 at the Sovereign Nations 'Social Justice & The Gospel' Conference in Atlanta, Georgia preceding the G3 Conference. For more sessions, visit https://sovereignnations.com.
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Jan 30, 2019 • 36min
Virtue Signaling: The New Evangelistic Strategy | Phil Johnson
Virtue signaling is the practice of trying to put one's own moral superiority on display by saying or doing something that has no real practical benefit other than to announce agreement with the most stylish opinion of whatever happens to be trending at the moment. Listen as Phil Johnson of Grace to You examines this aberrant micro-reflexive practice amongst the new ‘woke’ evangelicals.
This presentation was given on January 16, 2019 at the Sovereign Nations 'Social Justice & The Gospel' Conference in Atlanta, Georgia preceding the G3 Conference. For more sessions, visit https://sovereignnations.com.
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Jan 30, 2019 • 37min
Defining Social Justice | Dr. Voddie Baucham
Dr. Voddie Baucham brings our first detailed message by defining what “social justice” is by the definitions provided by the adherents of the movement. Dr. Baucham then provides a polemic from an orthodox Christian understanding of justice.
This presentation was given on January 16, 2019 at the Sovereign Nations 'Social Justice & The Gospel' Conference in Atlanta, Georgia preceding the G3 Conference. For more sessions, visit https://sovereignnations.com.
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Jan 30, 2019 • 3min
Introduction to the Social Justice & The Gospel Conference | Michael O'Fallon
Postmodern thought has now made inroads into what until very recently, were conservative, Biblical Christian circles, all with the smiling face of “social justice.” The rapidity with which these deadly ideas have spread from the culture at large into churches and Christian organizations is truly shocking - all with an ever-present progressive political undertone that has become noticeable as the movement has gained steam.
While the French postmodernists, Derrida and Foucault, will not be immediately familiar to many citizens of western culture, their collective concepts have wreaked havoc amongst the socio-political and educational landscape in North America over the past decade. As our secular educational institutions have become battlegrounds to “tear down the patriarchy” and to “root out white privilege,” this same battle has emerged within the most conservative of strongholds of the Christian church catching many congregants and seminarians unaware.
With this in mind, Sovereign Nations held its third purposed event titled “Social Justice & The Gospel: The God-breathed Hierarchy and the Postmodern Crisis within the Church.” It is our hope that these assembled scholars will help to elucidate the primary issues and concerns of this dangerous movement.
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