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Sola Media originates with the launch of the White Horse Inn broadcast.
What was the place of Christianity in early America, and is "Christian nationalism" an anachronism? Miles Smith and Darryl Hart join the conversation.

Observing creation should inspire believers to rejoice and delight in God himself, the author of the beauty on display in the visible world. When we understand that nature reveals God’s power, providence and goodness, we praise him as a benevolent Creator.

Episode 1583 | What does it mean for Christians to be in the world but not of the world? Pastor Adriel Sanchez, Aaron Simon, and Arianna Quiroz discuss what it looks like to embrace the aspects of Christianity that make followers of Jesus genuinely countercultural and “weird,” while remaining meaningfully engaged in the world around them.

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The reformational doctrines that distinguish our tradition — law and gospel, two kingdoms, the means of grace, and more.
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Why can't I seem to keep a job? Is this relationship healthy, or do I need to end it? Was moving states the right decision for my family? What will happen if I can't make the rent this month? Will God cure my daughter of cancer?

Richard Lints traces how the PCA's urban church-planting strategy, meant to bridge Reformed conviction with evangelical mission, ended up loosening the denomination's theological cohesion.

John Wilsey makes the case that a rightly ordered patriotism loves God first, neighbor second, and country third — letting Christians honor their nation's virtues without excusing its sins.
Spotlight

There Is No Breath in Them
AI poses a modern form of idolatry, argues Joshua Torrey, shaped perfectly to our desires. Drawing on Jeremiah, it has no breath in it.

Debunking AI's Myths About Constantine and Christmas
Did Constantine invent Christianity and Christmas to unite his empire? Michael Horton reviews and debunks AI generated claims about their origins.

5 Essential Truths for Christians Engaging with AI
As AI generates sermons and counsels the grieving, Christians need a framework for engagement. This episode outlines five truths drawn from scripture.

Why Is Silicon Valley Fascinated with Heretical Christianity?
Why is Peter Thiel drawn to eschatology, gnosticism, and Calvinism? Michael Horton responds to his conversation with Ross Douthat on the antichrist.

Escaping Death: AI, Transhumanism, and Gnosticism
From AI recreations of loved ones to redefining death itself, culture's answers fall short. Horton, Holcomb, Strickland, and Hiller talk biblical hope.

The Case for Religion Amidst AI, UFOs, and Psychedelics
Ross Douthat joins Michael Horton to discuss his book Believe. Amid AI, UFOs, and psychedelics, is there still a case for organized religion?

What Christians Get Wrong About the Mark of the Beast
Is the mark of the beast physical or symbolic? Pastor Adriel Sanchez answers this question and clears up common myths about interpreting Revelation.

We Reviewed ChatGPT's Answers to Your Theology Questions
Horton, Holcomb, Strickland, and Hiller evaluate ChatGPT's theological answers, and how to engage people outsourcing life's biggest questions to AI.
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Romans 1 says all people know God through creation — so why does general revelation never save anyone on its own?

A conversation on why Christians can work alongside unbelieving neighbors in common cultural endeavors without compromising the gospel.

Why the light of nature leaves us without excuse, but never without a Savior.

From Aquinas to the Reformers: how the church has handled what reason can and cannot prove.

Observing creation should inspire believers to rejoice and delight in God himself, the author of the beauty on display in the visible world. When we understand that nature reveals God’s power, providence and goodness, we praise him as a benevolent Creator.

Episode 1583 | What does it mean for Christians to be in the world but not of the world? Pastor Adriel Sanchez, Aaron Simon, and Arianna Quiroz discuss what it looks like to embrace the aspects of Christianity that make followers of Jesus genuinely countercultural and “weird,” while remaining meaningfully engaged in the world around them.

What do you say to the Maker of the Universe when you’re exhausted beyond words, burdened to your bones by your own sins, heavy-laden with sickness or sorrow, or simply feeling far away? How do you draw near to God in prayer when praying is hard?

When Peter stood up at Pentecost, his audience was entirely Jewish. What did they hear when he declared that “the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself” (Acts 2:39)? What they heard would have immediately governed their covenant practice […]

When I first became a Christian and visited various churches, one of the most noticeable differences was how they celebrated Communion. Many churches celebrated on a monthly basis, while others observed it every week. Some celebrated sporadically throughout the year for special occasions or when it fit the sermon on that particular Sunday.

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Make Christianity Weird Again
Episode 1583 | What does it mean for Christians to be in the world but not of the world? Pastor Adriel Sanchez, Aaron Simon, and Arianna Quiroz discuss what it looks like to embrace the aspects of Christianity that make followers of Jesus genuinely countercultural and “weird,” while remaining meaningfully engaged in the world around them.
Am I Predestined?
In 1524 Erasmus of Rotterdam decided to engage the famous Martin Luther in a debate over free will and salvation. Critical of Luther’s grace-oriented approach, Erasmus warned that Christians should not “through irreverent inquisitiveness rush into those things which are hidden, not to say superfluous.” Among the list of irreverent or superfluous debates, Erasmus included […]

The Theology of C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity, Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, Till We Have Faces, and the Space Trilogy. Sophia Holcomb joins the hosts once again to delve into the theology of Lewis’s wider writings. Together, they discuss Lewis’s apologetic strengths, spiritual insights, and the areas where Christians may thoughtfully disagree with Lewis. on this episode
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Core Christianity
Pastor Adriel Sanchez gives biblical answers to tough questions, showing why Christianity is true, good, and beautiful, so believers can experience the comfort of the gospel.

Know What You Believe
Michael Horton engages today's thought leaders through interviews and apologetic discussion to help Christians navigate cultural trends and theological debates.

White Horse Inn
Applying the rich resources of the Reformation to today's church in a multi-denominational roundtable discussion about theology and culture.

Tell Me a Story
Immerse your children in the grand themes of the Bible. More than morals—every story points to Christ.

Core Christianity
Pastor Adriel Sanchez gives biblical answers to tough questions, showing why Christianity is true, good, and beautiful, so believers can experience the comfort of the gospel.

Know What You Believe
Michael Horton engages today's thought leaders through interviews and apologetic discussion to help Christians navigate cultural trends and theological debates.

White Horse Inn
Applying the rich resources of the Reformation to today's church in a multi-denominational roundtable discussion about theology and culture.

Tell Me a Story
Immerse your children in the grand themes of the Bible. More than morals—every story points to Christ.

With Adriel Sanchez
Pastor Adriel Sanchez gives biblical answers to tough questions, showing why Christianity is true, good, and beautiful, so believers can experience the comfort of the gospel.

With Michael Horton
Michael Horton engages today's thought leaders through interviews and apologetic discussion to help Christians navigate cultural trends and theological debates.

Applying the rich resources of the Reformation to today's church in a multi-denominational roundtable discussion about theology and culture.

Immerse your children in the grand themes of the Bible. More than morals—every story points to Christ.
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Toby Kurth
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Adriel Sanchez
Adriel Sanchez is pastor of North Park Presbyterian Church, a congregation in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). In addition to his pastoral responsibilities, he also serves the broader church as a host on the Core Christianity radio program, a live, daily call-in talk show where he answers listeners' questions about the Bible and the Christian faith. He and his wife Ysabel live in San Diego with their five children.

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Kim Riddlebarger is pastor of Christ Reformed Church in Anaheim, California. He is a visiting professor of systematic theology at Westminster Seminary California and a frequent contributor to Tabletalk and Modern Reformation. Among his publications is A Case for Amillenialism: Understanding the End Times, and The Man of Sin. Kim also writes at the Riddleblog which is devoted to Reformed theology and eschatology.
Ken Brown
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Editor’s Pick
Paul’s unbroken link from God’s foreknowledge to our glorification — and the four great distinctions the Reformation recovered along the way; justification and sanctification, imputed and infused righteousness, inward and outward call, union with Christ and Christians.
I
Two distinct words God speaks: one demands, one delivers. Confuse them and you lose both.
II
Word, sacrament, and prayer — God's ordinary way of building his people, week after week.
III
Word, sacrament, and prayer — God's ordinary way of building his people, week after week.
IV
The kingdom has come in Christ and is still to come. Living in between is the whole Christian life.
V
God speaks to all through creation and conscience, and savingly to his people through Christ in Scripture.
VI
Why we trust the old creeds and confessions to say what Scripture says — and what we lose when the church doesn't.
VII
Scripture's storyline of promise and fulfillment — the thread that ties Adam, Abraham, Moses, David, and Christ together.
VIII
God made all things out of nothing, and he holds all things now — including your hardest day.
IX
What God has secretly ordained and what he has openly commanded — and how to rest in the first while obeying the second.
X
Scripture alone, faith alone, grace alone, Christ alone, for the glory of God alone. The Reformation in five words.
XI
God reveals his power through weakness and suffering, not triumph — a hard lesson, an unshakable hope.
XII
Christ's reign over the church and his rule over the common life of the world — distinct, not separate.
XIII
Luke 24 was not a footnote. The Scriptures speak of Jesus from Genesis to Malachi — and we learn to read them that way.
XIV
The law as mirror, as restraint, as guide — what it does in the world, in our conscience, and in the life of the saint.
XV
The church you can name and number, and the church God alone knows in full — both real, both his.
XVI
Luke 24 was not a footnote. The Scriptures speak of Jesus from Genesis to Malachi — and we learn to read them that way.

For Calvin, the Old Testament sacraments weren't empty foreshadowing — Stephen Spinnenweber traces how they carried real spiritual substance, like scaffolding supporting the same building as the New Testament sacraments.

God isn't commanding holy war today the way he did Israel — Daniel Nealon looks at how that Old Testament pattern has been transformed into a spiritual conflict awaiting Christ's return.

Mary Van Weelden reviews Preston Sprinkle's book on women in church leadership, praising its breadth and tone while questioning its theological framework and depth.

Only someone fully God and fully man could stand in for us — Donnie Medlen walks through why anything less leaves the gospel without a Savior.

Long before today's debates, Virginia Presbyterians argued that a state-enforced religion harms souls, church, and society alike — P.C. Kemeny revisits their case for disestablishment.

As Stephen faced death, he saw Jesus standing at the right hand of God — James Olson considers why Luke records Christ standing rather than seated.

For Calvin, the Old Testament sacraments weren't empty foreshadowing — Stephen Spinnenweber traces how they carried real spiritual substance, like scaffolding supporting the same building as the New Testament sacraments.

God isn't commanding holy war today the way he did Israel — Daniel Nealon looks at how that Old Testament pattern has been transformed into a spiritual conflict awaiting Christ's return.

Mary Van Weelden reviews Preston Sprinkle's book on women in church leadership, praising its breadth and tone while questioning its theological framework and depth.

Only someone fully God and fully man could stand in for us — Donnie Medlen walks through why anything less leaves the gospel without a Savior.

Long before today's debates, Virginia Presbyterians argued that a state-enforced religion harms souls, church, and society alike — P.C. Kemeny revisits their case for disestablishment.

In "Take and Eat: Recovering the Regular Celebration of the Lord’s Supper," Harrison Perkins explains the historic understanding of the Lord’s Supper, its importance in gospel proclamation and the importance of reviving a weekly communion practice in today’s world.

John Hardenstine Cleaner Vance, Gregory Thrater, and Almaie McLeash as they explore common misunderstandings of justification through faith. This discussion will empower believers to articulate and defend their beliefs with grace.

John Hardenstine Cleaner Vance, Gregory Thrater, and Almaie McLeash as they explore common misunderstandings of justification through faith. This discussion will empower believers to articulate and defend their beliefs with grace.

John Hardenstine Cleaner Vance, Gregory Thrater, and Almaie McLeash as they explore common misunderstandings of justification through faith. This discussion will empower believers to articulate and defend their beliefs with grace.

What do you say to the Maker of the Universe when you’re exhausted beyond words, burdened to your bones by your own sins, heavy-laden with sickness or sorrow, or simply feeling far away? How do you draw near to God in prayer when praying is hard?

When Peter stood up at Pentecost, his audience was entirely Jewish. What did they hear when he declared that “the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself” (Acts 2:39)? What they heard would have immediately governed their covenant practice […]

When I first became a Christian and visited various churches, one of the most noticeable differences was how they celebrated Communion. Many churches celebrated on a monthly basis, while others observed it every week. Some celebrated sporadically throughout the year for special occasions or when it fit the sermon on that particular Sunday.

Jesus prepared his disciples for his departure by telling them about the Holy Spirit, who would take up residence in each one of his people. By his Spirit, he would stay near to his people. And by his Spirit, he would bless his church throughout the world in all generations.

In recent years, there has been a fair amount of criticism of our cultural institutions. Whether they be political, academic, or ecclesiastical, anyone comfortably in a place of leadership in any institution is in the crosshairs of this criticism. Things have only gotten worse on their watch, after all. […]
Switch views to explore the same twelve documents by era chronology, or tradition.
c. AD 180
The shortest and most universal of the Christian creeds, recited at baptisms in the early church and in nearly every tradition since.
AD 325 / 381
The confession of the First Council of Nicaea, expanded at Constantinople, defining the full deity of Christ and the Spirit.
c. AD 500
A fierce, precise statement on the Trinity and the two natures of Christ — not by Athanasius, but faithful to him.
1561
The confessional standard of the Reformed churches of the Low Countries, summarizing the faith in thirty-seven articles.
1563
Warm, personal, pastoral — the most-loved catechism of the Reformed tradition.
1571
The doctrinal articles of the Church of England, establishing its Reformed and catholic character.
1580
The collected Lutheran confessions — Augsburg, Apology, the Catechisms, Smalcald Articles, Formula of Concord.
1618–19
The Synod of Dort's answer to the Remonstrants — the source of the five points often summarized as TULIP.
1647
A concise catechism for children and new believers, famous for its opening answer.
1646
The doctrinal standard of Presbyterian churches throughout the English-speaking world.
1648
The Assembly's fuller catechism, written for ministers and more mature readers.
1689
A Baptist confession modeled on Westminster, shaped for a Particular Baptist understanding of the church and the covenants.
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In-depth workbooks for personal & group study

The Kingdom of God and the Work of Christ
500th Anniversary Edition
A concise introduction to two-kingdoms theology

The Honor of God
Recovering the Doctrine of Divine Impassibility
A study of God’s unchanging nature and glory

The Bondage of the Will
500th Anniversary Edition
In-depth workbooks for personal & group study

Heaven Came Down
A Theology of Communication
How the incarnation reframes every act of ministry

Ephesians Bible Study
Strong in the Lord
In-depth workbooks for personal & group study

The Kingdom of God and the Work of Christ
500th Anniversary Edition
A concise introduction to two-kingdoms theology

The Honor of God
Recovering the Doctrine of Divine Impassibility
A study of God’s unchanging nature and glory
The God Who Justifies
Theo Global’s 2026 symposiums worldwide will focus on Soteriology. Our 2026 symposiums will be titled “For God So Loved The World: The God Who Justifies.” Globally, as well as in regional conversations, we will investigate and discuss the church’s understanding of salvation, justification, atonement, and related concepts from biblically-based perspectives.


The God Who Justifies
Over the next 10 years, Theo Global is producing Theology Together, a five-volume systematic theology series collaboratively written by leading scholars from around the world. Published in partnership with Zondervan Academic, this series is uniquely designed for churches, Bible colleges, and seminaries globally. The first volume, Prophet, Priest, and King: Christology in Global Perspective, was published by Zondervan Academic in 2025.

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The God Who Justifies
Theo Global’s 2026 symposiums worldwide will focus on Soteriology. Our 2026 symposiums will be titled “For God So Loved The World: The God Who Justifies.” Globally, as well as in regional conversations, we will investigate and discuss the church’s understanding of salvation, justification, atonement, and related concepts from biblically-based perspectives.
Application & Importance
What changes when we get this right — and what we lose when we don't.
The Beauty
Common grace lets Christians receive good science, good art, good government, and a kind unbelieving neighbor's virtue as genuine gifts from God — without needing any of it to be saving. You can honor what's true and good outside the church without pretending it gets anyone to heaven.
The Cost
Collapse the distinction and you get one of two errors: withdrawing from culture as if nothing outside the church has value, or assuming unbelievers already possess saving truth through reason and conscience alone. Either way, the church loses either its neighbors or its Gospel.
The Challenge
It's tempting to over-credit fallen reason (a natural theology that claims to prove what only Scripture reveals) or to deny common grace outright (making any cultural engagement suspect). The Reformed answer holds both revelations, and both graces, distinct but never separate.
Doctrine Overview
God gives two distinct kinds of grace. Common grace is his non-saving kindness poured out on the whole human race — sunshine and rain, reason and conscience, art and justice, the restraint of sin and the preservation of society (Matt. 5:45; Acts 14:16-17). It doesn’t save anyone, but it holds the world together and lets fallen people build genuinely good things.
Special, or saving, grace is different in kind, not just degree: it’s God’s grace given only to his elect, effecting regeneration, faith, and union with Christ. Common grace restrains sin in unbelievers; special grace actually removes it.
Alongside this, God reveals himself in two ways. General revelation — creation, providence, and the human conscience — is available to every person everywhere and leaves all people without excuse (Ps. 19:1-4; Rom. 1:19-20; 2:14-15). But general revelation was never sufficient for salvation, even before the fall.
Special revelation is God’s spoken and written Word, culminating in Jesus Christ, and it alone reveals the way of salvation. Confusing these two distinctions leads to two opposite errors: expecting saving truth from nature and reason (a natural theology that overreaches), or dismissing the goodness of God’s ordinary gifts to unbelieving neighbors and culture as if common grace weren’t real. The Reformed tradition insists both revelations, and both graces, are genuinely from God — but only one of each actually saves.
Definitions
Common Grace
God's non-saving kindness poured out on all humanity — reason, art, justice, and the restraint of sin — that sustains society without granting salvation.
Special (Saving) Grace
God's grace given only to the elect, effecting regeneration, faith, and union with Christ — different in kind, not just degree, from common grace.
General Revelation
What God makes known to every person everywhere through creation, providence, and conscience — leaving all people without excuse, but never sufficient for salvation.
Special Revelation
God's spoken and written Word, culminating in Jesus Christ — the only revelation that makes the way of salvation known.
Key Scriptures
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Sola Fide answered the anxious question indulgences had only made worse: how can a sinner stand righteous before a holy God? The Reformers’ answer — through faith alone in Christ’s finished work, not through purchased merit or accumulated penance — was, in their own telling, not an innovation but excavation: the gospel Paul preached, buried under centuries of accretion, brought back into the light.
“The Reformers did not set out to start a new church. They set out to return an old one to the gospel it had forgotten.”
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Confessions
How different branches of the Reformation have articulated this distinction.
Belgic Confession (1561)
“We know God by two means: first, by the creation, preservation, and government of the universe, which is before our eyes as a most elegant book... Second, God makes himself more clearly and fully known to us by his holy and divine Word.”
Article 2
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“Although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men inexcusable; yet are they not sufficient to give that knowledge of God, and of his will, which is necessary unto salvation.”
Chapter I.1
Read moreCanons of Dort (1618–19)
“There is, indeed, a certain light of nature remaining in man since the fall, by virtue of which he retains some notions about God... but so far is this light of nature from being sufficient to bring him to a saving knowledge of God.”
Third/Fourth Head, Art. 4
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“Whence knowest thou this? God himself first revealed it in Paradise; afterward proclaimed it by the holy patriarchs and prophets... and finally fulfilled it through his own well-beloved Son.”
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We exist to see reformation in hearts, homes, and churches around the world — by helping Christians know the good news of justification in Christ alone through faith alone.
Our desire, in everything we do, is for believers to experience the joy of Christ's sufficiency, walk confidently in the assurance of salvation, embrace freedom for their callings, and live with relentless hope in Christ's coming kingdom.
Soli Deo Gloria.
We are rooted in the historic confessions of the Protestant church and shaped by the theology of the Reformation. We believe these offer unparalleled clarity, theological depth, and continuity with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Not a private tradition. Not an academic hobby. The faith the Church has confessed, tested, and handed down.
Traditions / Creeds / Confessions
Sola is committed to the historic Christian faith as confessed across four great traditions — Reformed, Lutheran, Anglican, and Baptist.
Reformational Distinctives
We are shaped by the theology of the Reformation. We believe these theological distinctions offer unparalleled clarity, depth, and continuity with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Sola Media serves today’s global church by producing resources for reformation grounded in the historic Christian faith.
Sola Media serves today’s global church by producing resources for reformation grounded in the historic Christian faith.
I. Reformer Spirit
Recover the heart of the gospel for each generation.
We carry the conviction and courage of the Reformers by seeking to recover the heart of the gospel for each generation. The Reformation was not a revolution against the church, but a recovery of its biblical teaching. That posture still guides us: every generation must do the work of returning to the well of Scripture, drawing up what's clear and life-giving, and offering it again.
II. Truth with Charity
Conversational, not combative.
We are conversational, not combative. We strive to build bridges while holding firmly to biblical conviction, engaging others with both theological precision and pastoral warmth. For thirty-five years, that's meant four theologians disagreeing in public, on the air, and trusting their listeners to follow the argument. It's a slower way to do media. It's the only way we know.
III. For the Local Church
A bridge to a pew, not a substitute for one.
We exist to strengthen, not replace, the local church. Sola is not a substitute for a pew. It's a bridge to one. We serve pastors and laypeople with tools to deepen gospel understanding, enhance biblical literacy, and build flourishing church communities. We know the real work of formation happens Lord's Day after Lord's Day, one congregation at a time.
Sola Media serves today’s global church by producing resources for reformation grounded in the historic Christian faith.
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