Well-Driven Nails
Trinity Presbyterian Church’s Well-Driven Nails podcast with hosts Andrew Dionne and Jeremy Peirce. A podcast about Christ, Christianity, culture, and anything else that might occur to us. ”The words of wise men are like goads, and masters of these collections are like well-driven nails; they are given by one Shepherd” (Ecclesiastes 12:11). www.trinityspartanburg.com
Episodes
Friday Mar 29, 2024
30. Transhumanism (Part 2)
Friday Mar 29, 2024
Friday Mar 29, 2024
We continue our discussion of the transhumanist's quest to usher in immortality through technology. The Christian Transhumanist Association thinks the quest is generally well-intentioned. We think not.
Mentioned in the show and recommended reading:
Tony Reinke's God, Technology, and the Christian Life
Friday Mar 22, 2024
29. Transhumanism (Part 1)
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Friday Mar 22, 2024
What is a transhumanist? What is the agenda of the transhumanist movement? How are Christians to view the transhumanist attempt to overcome aging and death through technology?
As to what happened to Baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams's cryogenically head, read this crazy account. For only $80,000 you can get your head frozen too. Maybe you'd like to get your pet frozen with you so you can be back together after you are revived and reintegrated into society.
Friday Mar 15, 2024
28. Some of Our Favorite Books
Friday Mar 15, 2024
Friday Mar 15, 2024
We start with one movie recommendation (*with reservations!) and then recommend some books that have impacted our walk with the Lord. After Scripture, some writings—old and new—should get your attention.
Friday Mar 08, 2024
27. New Age Spirituality
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Jeremy and Andrew continue their conversations about religions and the religious. New Age spirituality is hard to pin down; it steals from Hinduism and occultism and generally anything else that gives off a spiritual vibe. We discuss some of the modern movements that led to New Age, some of the very old elements, and some warnings for us when we get dangerously New Agey.
Friday Mar 01, 2024
26. Don't Be Afraid to Fill the Earth
Friday Mar 01, 2024
Friday Mar 01, 2024
Have you heard of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement? They want you to curse God and die, leaving the earth to flourish in her innocence without man. But God says, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth" (Gen. 1:28). No need to be afraid of Malthusian tipping points. God, our Father, will provide.
Friday Feb 23, 2024
25. Paul Harvey's "If I Were the Devil"
Friday Feb 23, 2024
Friday Feb 23, 2024
The podcastosphere is in awe of Paul Harvey's "If I Were the Devil." We give our take (it's generally good, but not prophetic) and wander into another of Paul Harvey's most famous recordings: "An Open Letter From God" (It's terrible).
If I Were the Devil
An Open Letter From God
Friday Feb 16, 2024
24. Judaism
Friday Feb 16, 2024
Friday Feb 16, 2024
Our tour of religions continues. Judaism is the false religion that emerged from a complete misunderstanding of the Old Testament Scriptures.
Friday Feb 09, 2024
23. Buddhism
Friday Feb 09, 2024
Friday Feb 09, 2024
The bleakness of Buddhism. Nirvana is not all it is cracked up to be.
Friday Feb 02, 2024
22. Hinduism
Friday Feb 02, 2024
Friday Feb 02, 2024
Jeremy and Andrew turn to consider Hinduism. What is Hinduism? What is Brahman? Dharma? Karma (it’s not what you think it is)? What about the Caste system that dominates the areas where Hinduism originated? What’s the goal of Hinduism? How does Yoga fit in? And, of course, how does it differ from Christianity?
Friday Jan 26, 2024
21. Islam (Part 2)
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Jeremy and Andrew continue their discussion of Islam. This is part 2 of two episodes.
Friday Jan 19, 2024
20. Islam (Part 1)
Friday Jan 19, 2024
Friday Jan 19, 2024
This episode is the first in several podcasts that will look at false religions: Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Jeremy and I give a brief introduction to Islam.
Friday Jan 12, 2024
19. 2 Bears Maul 42 Boys (2 Kings 2)
Friday Jan 12, 2024
Friday Jan 12, 2024
2Kings 2:23 Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!” 24 When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads of their number. 25 He went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.
Friday Dec 15, 2023
18. New Year’s Resolutions
Friday Dec 15, 2023
Friday Dec 15, 2023
Jeremy and Andrew make their case for and against New Year's resolutions.
Jonathan Edwards's resolutions.
What is A2 milk? Here's the answer.
Friday Dec 01, 2023
17. Christmas Traditions
Friday Dec 01, 2023
Friday Dec 01, 2023
There is a gravitational pull to our secular Xmas traditions that Christians ought to resist. Yes, put up the tree, bake the cookies, leave the nativity scene packed up in the attic, and feast...but don't be so silly and distracted as to miss the greatest joy of the season: the birth of the Savior of the World.
Friday Sep 29, 2023
16. Put Off & Put On
Friday Sep 29, 2023
Friday Sep 29, 2023
Jeremy and Andrew discuss addictions and how to put off old habits and put on new habits.
Eph. 4:17 So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; 19 and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. 20 But you did not learn Christ in this way, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, 22 that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, 23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.