I am no longer posting new episodes to the Recovering Faith blog and podcast as my mission to recover my faith has failed and I could not continue to go through the motions and I realized I couldn’t force myself to have faith.
The Recovering Faith Podcast is an honest and nonjudgmental discussion on faith in God, why it is often difficult to trust God and what we can do about it. Many of the topics discussed center on rebuilding faith after a tragedy or when coming to Christianity from a non-Christian or pseudo-Christian world view.
Hosted by Gene Curl. New content every Wednesday.
In LDS culture a mission served is said to be the best two years of a man’s life and is expected to strenghthen his testimony of the Church and keep him active within the Church for the rest of his life. This is the story of my mission and the role it played in ultimately leaving the Church.
Read MoreLee and Kathy Baker are former members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day-Saints (Mormon Church) and are the hosts of the Mainstream Mormonism radio program an are part of the 4Witness Ministry.
Lee was a faithful member of the LDS Church for 32 years, and was even a bishop, before he was excommunicated for asking questions about the Church and Kathy resigned from the Church when Lee was excommunicated.
Read MoreAs Christians we often say we take up our cross and follow Jesus, but are we still willing to take up our cross when it is identified to be something painful or something we are asked to give up that we are not sure we can part with?
Read MoreHow to officially remove you name and records from the membership records of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Read MoreThe Book of Mormon is claimed to be the most correct book on earth and the keystone of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. There are multitudes of problems withe the Book of Mormon, not the least of which is the fact that much of the later official doctrine of the church contradicts much of The Book of Mormon’s doctrine.
Read MoreGod loves the world so much that he gave the live of his son to save it, he loves the world collectively, but how do I know if he likes me as an individual or even likes me.
Read MoreThis is the 2nd part of the series on problems with The Book of Mormon, the supposed most correct book on earth, and this episode covers the problems with the second book in The Book of Mormon which is the book of 2nd Nephi.
Read MoreSome people ask why, If we are indeed saved by grace and can't earn our salvation, can't we live a life of sin and still be saved. There are a lot of reasons why we must live for God in order to be saved and in this episode I discuss a few of those reasons.
Read MoreThe Book of Mormon clams to be the most correct book on earth and the LDS Church admits that if it is not true than their church is a lie. This episode examines some of the multitudes of errors in the supposed most correct book on earth. Covers the title page through the end of 1st Nephi.
Read MoreWe often ignore the obvious warning signs of danger and do things that we know are not good, and as a natural result, we pay the price. I recently had some groundhogs in my yard that I gave every opportunity to leave and left no doubt that they were not welcome and were in danger if they stayed, and that story gives a good illustration of the positions we put ourselves into.
Read MoreAn interview with Desiree Moore, the host of God's Little Treasures blog. Some of the topics we discussed are faith, the foster care system, being reunited with your parents and why your faith should be based on Jesus and not on people.
Read MoreWhen we allow small things to cause us to question our faith, if we don’t take care, they will cause us to loose or faith.
Read MoreAn interview and discussion about grace and other topics with Scott Smith, the senior pastor at Wellspring Church in Webb City, Missouri.
Read MoreIn this episode I explore some of the reasons why people don’t believe in God and why it is so difficult for Christians and atheist to understand and relate to each other.
Read MoreWith all of the episodes I have posted on the Mormon Church I thought I should make an episode dedicated to the culture in the church so that those who have never been in the church will have a little better understanding of those who are in the church.
Read MoreSometimes we apologize with a self-serving or empty aplogy, and sometimes our apologies blame the one we wronged instead of conveying our sorrow at having hurt them by our poor actions. Through the examples of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Saul and David we are shown some Biblical examples of poor apologies and of some good ones as well.
Read MoreThe entire structure of the LDS Church depends on their claim that the Church that Jesus founded when he was alive fell into complete apostasy after the death of the apostles and that it had to be restored by Joseph Smith. The problem with that claim is that Jesus said the gates of hell would never prevail against his church, so that means that it did not fall away. Another problem is that the LDS Church claims to be a restoration of the original church that Jesus Christ founded, yet it looks nothing like what the Bible teaches of Jesus’ church.
Read MoreWhat does our movie and book collection say about our faith? A lot more then we would like to think actually. What we spend the most time on and what we fill our minds with is what is truly important to us, regardless of what we say is important to us. A hard look at my movie collection made me realize I needed to live more intentionally for Christ.
Read MoreThe LDS Church (Mormons) teach that Jesus and the devil are literal brothers, and that all humans are also the literal siblings of Jesus, born through spiritual intercourse by a heavenly father in a natural mother, born just as our bodies were born on earth through parents through natural means. Mormons don’t believe God can create matter, that he used to be a man, and that he is the same species as the devil and sinful humans, just better. This is not Christianity. True Christianity is that Jesus is God and was always God and was not created, nor are humans the same as God and never will be. God is good and we are not.
Read MoreHumans, by their very nature are sinful creatures and we are so far removed from God that we can never do anything to make up for our failures and be saved, but Jesus died for all that they may be saved if they have faith in Him and accept his grace and mercy.
We are saved by grace alone through faith alone and trying to earn our salvation is like trying to drain the ocean with a sponge, but luckily our salvation is not based on our merits but on Christ’s.
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