Ask Pastor Steve

We're Here to Answer Your Questions of the Christian Faith!

About the show

Your Questions of the Christian Faith Answered in ~15 minutes or less every other week.

If you would like to submit a question to Pastor Steve please text the word "Question" to 410-220-2977. (Please let us know in the text if you would like to be anonymous or you can list your name and where you're from! You can also submit your questions on your social media platform of choice, or if you would like to submit your question anonymously, send it to: [email protected] with 'Anonymous in the subject line.)

We hope that Ask Pastor Steve will become a helpful resource for you and others as we tackle the toughest and strongest doubt-inducing questions of the faith.

Episodes

  • Heaven and the Eternal Destiny of Preborn Infants - Ask Pastor Steve Ep. 18

    July 3rd, 2024  |  Season 1  |  7 mins 23 secs
    ask pastor john, bible, catholic, catholicism, christian, christianity, church, cross, god, heaven, jesus, learn, miscarriage, pastor, sermon, son of god, ten commandments

    Steve answers a question close to hearts and home, as well as some follow up questions - one of which pertains to a difference between Protestant and Catholic Believers.

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    How Do We Lovingly Guide Church Members Away From False Teaching? - Ask Pastor Steve Ep. 17

    June 19th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  10 mins 57 secs
    ask pastor john, bible, children, christian, christianity, church, cross, false teachers, god, husband, jesus, joel olsteen, kids, learn, liberal theology, marriage, parent, parenting, pastor, sermon, sin, son of god, wife, women

    This is an important topic for the internet age, where we are inundated with false pastors left and right.

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    Alternative medicine - A Christian perspective - Ask Pastor Steve Ep. 16

    May 29th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  10 mins 53 secs
    alternative medicine, apostasy, ask pastor john, bible, children, christian, christianity, church, cross, eastern medicine, fasting, god, husband, jesus, kids, learn, liberal theology, marriage, medicine, parent, parenting, pastor, sermon, son of god, wife, women

    Steve answers questions surrounding alternative medicine, fasting and apostasy.

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    Do you believe that you are one of the elect? Can you know? - Ask Pastor Steve - Ep. 15

    May 15th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  14 mins 28 secs
    alistair begg, ask pastor john, bible, children, christian, christianity, church, cross, doctrine of election, elect, god, husband, jesus, kids, learn, liberal theology, marriage, parent, parenting, pastor, sermon, sin, son of god, wife, women

    Steve goes over what went down with pastor Alistair Begg, answers the question of believer's election and tops it off with a word about raising children.

    Thanks for sending in your questions, and we hope that the questions Steve answers are helpful to your walk with the Lord!

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    Indwelling Sin in Believers - Ask Pastor Steve Ep. 14

    May 1st, 2024  |  Season 1  |  8 mins 42 secs
    ask pastor john, bible, children, christian, christianity, church, cross, god, husband, indwelling sin, jesus, john owen, kids, learn, liberal theology, marriage, parent, parenting, pastor, sermon, sin, son of god, wife, women

    Pastor Steve goes over why it is that we continue to sin.

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    The problem with saying "God told me this" - Ask Pastor Steve Ep. 13

    April 17th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  11 mins 30 secs
    ask pastor john, bible, children, christian, christianity, church, cross, elevation, elevation church, god, husband, jesus, kids, learn, liberal theology, marriage, parent, parenting, pastor, sermon, son of god, stephen furtick, wife, women

    Ever hear a preaching say a phrase like, "God Told Me _____ "? Pastor Steve addresses this issue commonly happening in modern day preaching.

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    Should Christians embrace The Chosen? - Ask Pastor Steve Ep. 12

    April 3rd, 2024  |  Season 1  |  11 mins 58 secs
    ask pastor john, bible, children, christian, christianity, church, cross, god, husband, jesus, kids, learn, liberal theology, marriage, parent, parenting, pastor, sermon, son of god, the chosen, wife, women

    Steve gives his thoughts about The Chosen as well as some other questions.

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    Are Pictures of Jesus Ok? - Ask Pastor Steve Ep. 11

    March 20th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  14 mins 31 secs
    ask pastor john, bible, catholic, catholicism, christian, christianity, church, cross, god, jesus, learn, pastor, sermon, son of god, ten commandments

    Is it against the Ten Commandments to look at images of Jesus?

    Steve addresses this and two other important question in today's episode!

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    Comfort for Infertility - Ask Pastor Steve Ep. 10

    February 21st, 2024  |  Season 1  |  15 mins 48 secs
    ask pastor john, bible, children, christian, christianity, church, cross, god, husband, infertility, jesus, kids, learn, liberal theology, marriage, parent, parenting, pastor, sermon, son of god, wife, women

    Steve goes over his answers to three tough questions:

    • What virtues or blessings are in store for people who are struggling with long-term infertility?

    • [2 Sam 6] Uzzah and the Ark of the Covenant, was Uzzah saved? (God struck him dead)

    • Sometimes I hear Pastors or Christians say "God told me to tell you", what should we think about that?

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    Episode 9: Can Women Preach? - Ask Pastor Steve Ep. 9

    February 7th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  15 mins 17 secs
    ask pastor john, bible, children, christian, christianity, church, cross, god, husband, jesus, kids, learn, marriage, parent, parenting, pastor, sermon, son of god, wife, women

    Ask Pastor Steve - Here to answer your Questions on the Christian Faith.

    Can women preach in front of a congregation?

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    How can we know if someone has really fallen away? - Ask Pastor Steve Ep. 8

    January 17th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  10 mins 35 secs
    ask pastor john, bible, children, christian, christianity, church, cross, god, husband, jesus, kids, learn, marriage, military, parent, parenting, pastor, sermon, singing, son of god, wife

  • Poured out for a drink offering and 3 other questions - Ask Pastor Steve Ep. 7

    January 3rd, 2024  |  Season 1  |  13 mins 52 secs
    ask pastor john, bible, christian, christianity, church, cross, god, jesus, learn, pastor, sermon, son of god

    Steve answers 4 questions from people at CCC:

    • Poured out for a drink offering
    • What is the "SHV"?
    • Did God create Satan?
    • What about mockery?
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    Tell them about Santa Claus...? - Ask Pastor Steve Ep. 6

    December 20th, 2023  |  Season 1  |  7 mins 19 secs
    ask pastor john, bible, christian, christianity, church, cross, god, jesus, learn, pastor, sermon, son of god

    Pastor Steve tackles this question as well as two other interesting questions about the beginning and the end of things.

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    What should be the Christian response to the war in Israel? - Ask Pastor Steve Ep.5

    December 6th, 2023  |  Season 1  |  8 mins 12 secs
    bible, christian, christian podcast, doctrine, family, husband, israel, israel war, palestine, podcast, theology, war, wife

    Relating to the current Israeli-Palestine conflict, what should be a Christian's response to those who hold a pro-Palestinan position? What about pro-Israel?

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    Does the Bible say Jesus is God? - Ask Pastor Steve Ep. 4

    November 22nd, 2023  |  Season 1  |  7 mins 37 secs
    ask pastor john, bible, christian, christianity, church, cross, god, jesus, learn, pastor, sermon, son of god

    Today's question is: Why does the Bible say Jesus is God only in the Gospel of John?

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    Why don't we have a cross? - Ask Pastor Steve Ep. 3

    November 8th, 2023  |  Season 1  |  7 mins 35 secs
    ask pastor john, bible, christian, christianity, church, cross, learn, pastor, sermon

    Steve explains why there isn't a cross at our church.