Steve Hartland

Which One-Volume Bible Commentary Should You Have in Your Home? — APS Episode 63

May 13th, 2026  |  Season 2  |  2 mins 43 secs

bible commentaries, bibles, christian household, maryland church near me

We have a couple changes for APS, and Steve answers a question about which Bible Commentaries (and Bibles) every Christian household should consider.

Q1: How Should Christians Approach Dreams? Q2: A Healthy Fear of Hell? Q3: Preterism? — APS Ep. 62

April 22nd, 2026  |  Season 2  |  9 mins 6 secs

ask a pastor - intimate dreams, baptism reformed church, gospel, maryland near me congregation, preterism, should we mention hell in church, sin, theology

Steve discusses the following questions he got sent in from you!

Q1: How should Christians respond to dreams that have sinful content and acts? - Q2: Is it ok for a healthy fear of Hell to be a motivator to believe the Gospel? - Q3: Can you tell us more about Preterism and its strengths and weaknesses.

Q1: Mediums? Q2: How Do You Approach Jehovah's Witnesses? Q3: Would You Parent Differently? — APS EP. 61

April 8th, 2026  |  Season 2  |  9 mins 1 sec

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Q1: What does the Bible have to say about trying to contact spirits through a Medium?

Q2: How Do You Best Approach Jehovah's Witnesses That Come to Your Door?

Q3: Would You Parent Differently, if Given the Chance?

Q1: Retain our gender roles? — Q2: Confessing public sins? — Q3: Our prayers & God's will? — Ep. 60

March 11th, 2026  |  Season 2  |  6 mins 55 secs

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Here's today's questions:

Q1) Do we still retain our gender roles in heaven?

Q2) Can we confess public sins? Or are we only meant to confess our personal sins?

Q3) Do our prayers affect God's sovereign will, and if so, how?

Q1: Is it Sinful to Watch Programs With Swearing? Q2: AI's Implications on the Church Q3: "Soul-Ties" — APS Ep. 59

February 25th, 2026  |  Season 2  |  11 mins 3 secs

bible, christian podcast, church, ephesians, god is not dead, marriage, reformed theology, sola scriptura

Steve discusses the following questions he got sent in from you! (Q1) How Should Christians Approach Programs with Foul Language? (Q2) What Limits and Usages Should Churches Have for AI?

Q1: Did God Ever Love the Devil? — Q2: Christians that Refuse to Attend Church? — Q3: Elihu's Counsel to Job? — APS Ep. 58

February 11th, 2026  |  Season 2  |  7 mins

bible, christian podcast, church hurt, did god love the devil, maryland usa, pastor answering questions, prophets, satan, theology, wrong prophecy

Steve discusses the following questions he got sent in from you!

Timestamps:

00:07 - (Q1) Did God Ever Love the Devil?
01:50 - (Q2) Christians that Refuse to Attend Church?
05:23 - (Q3) Elihu's Counsel to Job?

(Q1) How Should We Interpret Revelation? — (Q2) Where Did The Wives For Cain & Abel Come From? — APS Ep. 57

January 28th, 2026  |  Season 2  |  6 mins 59 secs

believer, christianity, church, meat, milk, stoicism, systematic theology

Steve has two questions for us today (the first is rather a long answer).

1. What is the best way to interpret the Book of Revelation in the Bible?
2. What is the best explanation for the origin of the Wives for Cain and Abel?

Q1 Pastors Get Things Wrong and Double Deaths in the Bible — Q2 Are There Yet Undiscovered Holy Scriptures? and Q3 Fasting for Health Reasons and Taking Communion? — APS Ep. 56

January 14th, 2026  |  Season 2  |  8 mins 56 secs

bible, church, communion, fasting, holy scriptures, lazarus raised, maryland, pastor answers, pastors wrong, theology

Here are the questions that Steve will answer for us today:

1. How should a congregation handle when their Pastor gets something wrong in the pulput + Lazarus was raised twice?
2. Are there yet undiscovered parts of Holy Scripture, and if found, what to do with them?
3. Fasting for health reasons and taking communion?

1) Affirm Sola Scriptura & Extrabiblical Resources — 2) We are Inheritors? — 3) Present Their Wives?

December 31st, 2025  |  Season 2  |  9 mins 7 secs

bible, christian podcast, church, ephesians, god is not dead, marriage, reformed theology, sola scriptura

Here are the questions that Steve will answer for us today:

1. Can We Affirm Sola Scriptura as Well as Extrabiblical Resrouces
2. If God is not Dead, How Can we be an Inheritor?
3. How do Husbands "Present Their Wives", like in Ephesians 5?

Q1) Christianity and Stoicism? — Q2) How to Know what is Milk? — Q3) How to get into Systematic Theology? — APS Ep. 54

December 17th, 2025  |  Season 2  |  6 mins 22 secs

believer, christianity, church, meat, milk, stoicism, systematic theology

Steve answers your following questions!

Q1) Are Christianity and Stoicism Compatible?

Q2) How to Know what is Milk and What is Meat?

Q3) How to get into Systematic Theology for a Time-Constrained Believer?

Q1) Formal Counseling Ministries in Churches — Q2) Head-coverings for Women — Q3) How is There Only One Resurrection? (Rev 20:4-5)

December 3rd, 2025  |  Season 2  |  8 mins 27 secs

Steve answers the following questions on today's episode:

1) What do I think of formal counseling ministries in churches?

2) Head-coverings for women in church?

3) How is there only one resurrection? (Rev 20:4-5)

Episode 52: In What Settings Should Women Lead in Prayer? Children's Professions of Faith are Unreliable? Are There Prophets in the World Today? - APS Ep. 52

November 19th, 2025  |  Season 2  |  8 mins 7 secs

baptism, baptize, children, church, prayer, prophet, women, women leaders

Steve answers the following questions for us today:

1) Should women be leading in prayer?

2) Should we baptize our children, even though they could give an unreliable profession of faith?

3) Are there still prophets from God in our world today?

Q1: How to Assess if Your Child Has Faith | Q2: Who to Pray to When We Pray? | Q3: What About Mercy Suicide? — APS Ep. 51

November 5th, 2025  |  Season 2  |  8 mins 43 secs

bible, christian, faith, prayer, suicide

Today, Steve answers the following questions:

• How can you Realistically Assess if Your Child Has Faith?

• Which of the Godhead Should we Direct our Prayers Towards?

• What Should we Think About When Believers are Desiring a "Mercy Suicide"?

Contemplation for Transitioning Mothers, Traumatic Visions, and Best Approaches — APS Ep. 50

October 22nd, 2025  |  Season 2  |  14 mins 22 secs

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Steve answers the following questions:

• What should mothers consider when leaving work outside the home?

• I have a child experiencing traumatic visions, what should I do?

• What is the best approach to letting a believer know that they are divorcing on unbiblical grounds?

What does the Bible say with regard to Self-Defense? Speaking in tongues? Gap theory? — Ask Pastor Steve Ep. 49

October 8th, 2025  |  Season 2  |  11 mins 25 secs

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Steve questions an important question regarding self-defense as well as:

• Is it Biblical to speak in tongues?

• What about Gap theory?

Homosexuality's Usage in the Bible, How Should we Think About our Enemies and the Right Kind of Compassion — Ask Pastor Steve Ep. 48

October 1st, 2025  |  Season 2  |  10 mins 6 secs

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On today's episode, Steve deals with some difficult questions that are important for us to know the answers to, as Christians in this day and age:

• Was the word Homosexual always in the Bible?

• How do we reconcile what the Bible tells us to do in regard to our enemies?

• How can we balance having compassion for others, but not being untethered in our compassion?