Theology. Driven.

A blog and weekly podcast aimed at bringing glory to God by writing about and discussing His various attributes, and how we can best serve Him and each other, despite our finite, broken minds.

What is Theology. Driven.?

Theology. Driven. is a website, blog, and podcast devoted to proclaiming the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, bringing glory to His name, and edifying His Church. Our aim is to preach, defend, and protect the Gospel in hopes of helping equip the saints to do the same.

JAMES, SCOTT, AND KEVIN HAD THIS EARTH-SHATTERING IDEA TO START
A PODCAST AND BLOG BECAUSE, LIKE, NO ONE ELSE IS DOING THAT.
AFTER LISTENING TO THE GUYS OVER AT DOCTRINE AND DEVOTION
RECORD A PODCAST IN THE CAR BECAUSE THEY WERE SHORT ON TIME,
KEVIN PITCHED AN IDEA TO JAMES AND SCOTT TO DO ALL OF THE
PODCASTS (WHICH WERE GOING TO BE THEOLOGICALLY DRIVEN
ANYWAY) WHILE CRUISING IN THE CAR.

THUS WAS BORN THE PROGRAM: THEOLOGY. DRIVEN., A PODCAST IN
WHICH THE GUYS HOP IN A CAR, DRIVE AROUND TOWN, AND
DISCUSS VARIOUS TOPICS AND EVENTS THROUGH A BIBLICAL
LENS, LETTING PROPER THEOLOGY DRIVE THE CONVERSATION.

Your Drivers

Just a few wretched, depraved sinners who have been saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, your drivers met in early 2017 as new friends James and Kevin searched for a local church. James and Kevin then met Scott, who was an elder candidate at Reformation Christian Fellowship, the church with which James and Kevin would become covenant members. A wonderful friendship between the three was born out of a love for the proclamation and defense of the Gospel.

JAMES LIPFORD
A FOUNDRY APPRENTICE GRADUATE AT NEWPORT NEWS SHIPYARD IN VIRGINIA, JAMES GREW UP IN WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA, WHERE HE ATTENDED CHURCH AS A KID, BUT REBELLED TO PURSUE HIS OWN FLESHLY DESIRES FOR MANY YEARS. GOD, IN HIS GREAT FORBEARANCE AND MERCY, SAVED JAMES IN 2009 AND GAVE HIM A PASSION FOR TEACHING THE TRUTH OF HIS WORD WHICH IS SO SWEET TO HIM. IN 2013, GOD BLESSED JAMES EVEN FURTHER WITH THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE, STACI, WITH WHOM HE IS MOST BLESSED. JAMES IS CURRENTLY ATTENDING BOYCE BIBLE COLLEGE ONLINE, STRIVING FOR A DEGREE IN BIBLICAL AND THEOLOGICAL STUDIES.

ANAHN E. MOO
OK, HIS FRIENDS CALL HIM KEVIN, BUT DUE TO HIS CAREER IN LAW ENFORCEMENT, HE PREFERS TO MAINTAIN A SOMEWHAT ANONYMOUS (OR ANAHN. E MOO) PRESENCE ONLINE. AS A FALSE CONVERT, KEVIN SAT UNDER TEACHINGS LIKE THE PROSPERITY AND WORD-OF-FAITH FALSE GOSPELS FOR YEARS, UNTIL THE LORD MERCIFULLY SAVED HIM IN 2013. KEVIN IS A POLICE OFFICER IN VIRGINIA. HE AND HIS WIFE, LYNNETTE, WERE MARRIED IN 2005, AND AS THEY STRUGGLE THROUGH AS-YET UNEXPLAINED INFERTILITY ISSUES, THEY HAVE BEEN APPROVED IN AN ADOPTION PROCESS, AND ARE CURRENTLY WAITING FOR A CHILD TO BE PLACED WITH THEM.

SCOTT HUNT
A NAVY VETERAN AND REFORMED CHRISTIAN, SCOTT IS FINISHING HIS UNDERGRAD IN BIBLICAL AND THEOLOGICAL STUDIES, AND PLANS TO ATTEND SEMINARY. THE LORD SAVED SCOTT FROM A LIFE OF IDOLATRY AND OUT OF ROMAN CATHOLICISM, AND FURTHER BLESSED HIM WITH A WONDERFUL WIFE, KAYLEIGH. SCOTT LOVES CHURCH HISTORY AND REALLY OLD BANNER OF TRUTH BOOKS WITH THE UGLY COVERS. HE AND KAYLEIGH LIVE IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY OF VIRGINIA.

Faith Statement

Click the arrows below to find out what your drivers believe!

The Triune God

THERE IS ONE GOD WHO EXISTS ETERNALLY IN THREE PERSONS: FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT. THESE THREE PERSONS ARE CO-IDENTICAL IN NATURE, CO-EQUAL IN POWER AND GLORY. (DEUTERONOMY 6:4; JOHN 1:1-4; JOHN 16:7-15; LUKE 1:35; MATTHEW 3:16-17)

God the Father

GOD, WHO IS SPIRIT AND A PERSON, IS ABSOLUTELY SOVEREIGN, INFINITE, ETERNAL, AND IMMUTABLE IN BEING, POWER, HOLINESS, GOODNESS, WISDOM, JUSTICE, AND TRUTH. (EXODUS 3:14; DEUTERONOMY 4:15-18; NUMBERS 23:19; JOHN 4:24)

God the Son

THE ETERNAL SON OF GOD, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, BECAME A MAN WITHOUT CEASING TO BE GOD. HE WAS CONCEIVED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT AND BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY, IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT REVEAL GOD AND REDEEM SINNERS (JOHN 1:1,2,14; LUKE 1:30-35; PHILIPPIANS 2:5-8; HEBREWS 4:15; MATTHEW 1:18-25). JESUS CHRIST ACCOMPLISHED OUR REDEMPTION THROUGH THE SHEDDING OF HIS BLOOD IN DEATH ON THE CROSS AS A REPRESENTATIVE, SUBSTITUTIONARY SACRIFICE; AND THAT OUR JUSTIFICATION IS MADE SURE BY HIS LITERAL, PHYSICAL, RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD (ROMANS 3:24-25; I PETER 2:24; EPHESIANS 1:7; I PETER 1:3-5). WE BELIEVE THAT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST ASCENDED TO HEAVEN, AND NOW EXALTED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, WHERE, AS OUR HIGH PRIEST, HE FULFILLS THE MINISTRY OF REPRESENTATIVE, INTERCESSOR AND ADVOCATE (ACTS 1:9-10; HEBREWS 7:25; 9:24; ROMANS 8:34; I JOHN 2:1-2).

God the Holy Spirit

THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A DIVINE PERSON – NOT MERELY AN INFLUENCE. HE IS THE SOURCE AND POWER OF ALL ACCEPTABLE WORSHIP AND SERVICE. HE CONVINCES THE WORLD OF SIN, RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUDGMENT, AND CONVICTS AND REGENERATES SINNERS. HE DWELLS IN THE HEARTS OF BELIEVERS, AND SANCTIFIES, PROTECTS, GUIDES, AND COMFORTS THEM IN THIS WORLD TO THE GLORY OF CHRIST. THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL NEVER DEPART FROM THE CHURCH NOR FROM THE WEAKEST BELIEVERS (JOHN 14:16-17,26; JOHN 16:13-15: ACTS 1:8; ACTS 5:3-4; ROMANS 8:2,16; I CORINTHIANS. 6:19; I CORINTHIANS 12:13; GALATIANS 5:22-23; EPHESIANS 4:30; 5:18).

Man

MAN WAS CREATED IN THE IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF GOD, BUT WHEN ADAM SINNED, THE RACE FELL, INHERITED A SINFUL NATURE, AND BECAME ALIENATED FROM GOD. MAN IS TOTALLY DEPRAVED IN THE SENSE THAT HIS WHOLE BEING IS AFFECTED AND CURSED BY SIN SO THAT HE CANNOT PLEASE GOD. MAN IS UNRIGHTEOUS IN AN ABSOLUTE SENSE AND CAN ONLY ACCOMPLISH RELATIVE GOOD. HE IS LOST AND, OF HIMSELF, UTTERLY UNABLE TO REMEDY HIS LOST CONDITION (GENESIS 1:26-27; EPHESIANS 2:1-3, 12; ROMANS 3:22; 5:12). SALVATION IS THE GIFT OF GOD BROUGHT TO MAN BY GRACE AND MAN IS JUSTIFIED BY FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST ALONE. MAN IS THUS GIVEN A NEW POSITION OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HOLY STANDING BEFORE GOD, IN WHICH HE BECOMES A NEW CREATION IN CHRIST, A SON OF GOD BY SPIRITUAL REBIRTH (JOHN 1:12; ROMANS 8:1,38-39; I CORINTHIANS 1:14-15; 10:10; II CORINTHIANS 5:17). ALL WHO ARE REDEEMED BY CHRIST, ONCE SAVED, ARE KEPT BY GOD’S POWER AND ARE THUS SECURE IN CHRIST FOREVER (JOHN 6:37-40; JOHN 10:27-30; ROMANS 8:1,38-39; I CORINTHIANS 1:4-8; I PETER 1:5). IT IS THE PRIVILEGE OF BELIEVERS TO REJOICE IN THE ASSURANCE OF THEIR SALVATION THROUGH THE TESTIMONY OF GOD’S WORD, WHICH, HOWEVER, CLEARLY FORBIDS THE USE OF CHRISTIAN LIBERTY AS AN OCCASION TO THE FLESH. (ROMANS 13:13-14; GALATIANS 5:13; TITUS 2:11-14)

Satan

SATAN IS A FALLEN ANGEL, AND THE OPEN AND DECLARED ENEMY OF GOD AND MAN. HE IS THE PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR, OFTEN APPEARING TO MAN AS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT. HE ATTEMPTS TO FRUSTRATE ALL OF GOD’S PURPOSES THROUGH HINDERING THE TRUE PROCLAMATION OF THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. EVENTUALLY SATAN AND THOSE SEPARATED FROM THE GOODNESS OF GOD WILL BE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE TO BE ETERNALLY TORMENTED AND SEPARATED FROM THE GOODNESS OF GOD. (JOB 1:6-7; ISAIAH 14:12-17; EZEKIEL 28:12-19; MATTHEW 4:2-11; JUDE 6-7; REVELATION 20:10)

The Scriptures

THE VERBAL, PLENARY, GOD-BREATHED INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE, BOTH THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT, CONSISTING OF 66 BOOKS, IS INERRANT IN THE ORIGINAL WRITINGS. THE COMPLETED CANON OF THE BIBLE IS GOD’S SUFFICIENT REVELATION TO MAN AND THERE IS NO NEED FOR ANY ADDITIONAL REVELATION FROM GOD. (II TIM. 3:16,17; MATT. 5:18; II PETER 1:21,22; JOHN 16:12,13)

The Eternal State

EVERY UNREPENTANT, UNBELIEVING SINNER WHOSE SINS HAVE NOT BEEN FORGIVEN THROUGH JESUS CHRIST WILL IMMEDIATELY BE CONDEMNED AFTER DEATH TO CONSCIOUS TORMENT UNTIL THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT, WHEN THEY WILL BE REUNITED WITH THEIR BODY AND CAST INTO A LITERAL, ETERNAL PLACE OF CONSCIOUS TORMENT. THEY WILL NEVER BE ANNIHILATED, RATHER THEY WILL BE PUNISHED BY GOD HIMSELF, WITH EVERLASTING TORMENT FOR THEIR SINS, SEPARATED FROM ALL THAT IS GOOD ABOUT GOD. ALL WHO HAVE RECEIVED THE GIFTS OF REPENTANCE AND FAITH IN OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST WILL, AT DEATH, IMMEDIATELY ENTER INTO HIS PRESENCE IN HEAVEN AND WILL THERE REMAIN IN CONSCIOUS COMFORT UNTIL THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY AT HIS COMING FOR HIS BRIDE, THE CHURCH, WHEN SOUL AND BODY WILL BE REUNITED AND THEY, TOGETHER WITH THE SAINTS FROM ALL AGES, WILL DWELL WITH HIM FOREVER IN GLORY (LUKE 16: 19-26; 23:43; JOHN 3: 36; II COR. 5: 8; PHIL. 1: 23; II THESS. 1: 7-9; REV. 20: 11-15; 21: 8).

Christian Testimony

CHRISTIANS SHOULD BEAR A GOOD TESTIMONY FOR THE LORD JESUS CHRIST BY LIVING LIVES SEPARATED UNTO GOD, ABSTAINING FROM WORLDLY PRACTICES. (ROM. 12:1-2; I COR. 3:16-17; 8:13; II COR. 6:3,14-18; I THESS. 5:22; I JOHN 2:15)

The Lord’s Supper

THE LORD’S SUPPER IS A SYMBOLIC MEAL OF BREAD AND WINE THAT REPRESENTS THE DEATH OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. THE LORD’S SUPPER DOES NOT CONFER FORGIVENESS, AND SHOULD ONLY BE PARTAKEN BY THOSE WHO ARE REPENTANT BELIEVERS WHO ARE WILLING TO MAKE AMENDS WITH ANYONE IN THE BODY IF THERE IS DIVISION. THE FAILURE TO RIGHTLY EXAMINE ONE’S SELF IN THIS MANNER COULD RESULT IN WEAKNESS, SICKNESS, OR EVEN DEATH (MARK 14: 22-25; I CORINTHIANS 11: 23-24).

The Church

THE BODY AND ESPOUSED BRIDE OF CHRIST, KNOWN AS THE CHURCH, IS A SPIRITUAL ORGANISM MADE UP OF ALL BORN AGAIN PERSONS OF THIS PRESENT AGE. THE ESTABLISHMENT AND CONTINUANCE OF LOCAL CHURCHES IS CLEARLY TAUGHT AND DEFINED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES. (ACTS 14:27; 20:17,28-32; I TIM. 3:1-13; TITUS 1:5-11)

Baptism

EVERY NEW BELIEVER SHOULD BE BAPTIZED, WITH FEW EXCEPTIONS, BY IMMERSION, IN WATER AS A PHYSICAL PICTURE OF THE DEATH, BURIAL AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST, AND AS A PICTURE OF THE BELIEVERS DEATH TO SELF, AND RESURRECTION TO NEW LIFE IN CHRIST. BAPTISM DOES BY NO MEANS CONFER FORGIVENESS. FURTHER, BAPTISM DOES NOT INITIATE AN INFANT INTO A PROTECTIVE COVENANT WITH GOD. BAPTISM IS AN OUTWARD PICTURE OF AN INWARD WORK OF GRACE (MATTHEW 28: 19-20; ACTS 10: 48)

The Second Coming

THE IMMINENT, PERSONAL AND BODILY RETURN OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST WILL OCCUR WHEN HE IS READY TO GATHER HIS BRIDE, THE CHURCH. HIS SECOND COMING SHOULD BE THE JOYFUL HOPE OF EVERY BELIEVER (ACTS 1: 11; I THESSALONIANS 3: 13; 4: 16-17; COLOSSIANS 3: 4; REVELATION 19: 11-16).

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