Welcome back to the Patterns of Truth podcast — we’re diving into one of life’s most powerful questions: Who am I?

It’s a question we’ve all wrestled with at some point, and for believers, it carries a deeper weight. As life changes, we may question our identities completely. Am I still a sinner, or am I something new? Does my past define me? What does it mean to have an identity in Christ?

For those who are not saved, we challenge you to consider your identity: a sinner, on your way to a Christless eternity. More specifically, what that means is eternal suffering and separation from God in a conscious state for eternity. This is not what the Lord intended – listen to the call of the Gospel. Good news that the Son of God was born as a baby, grew into a Man, fully man, fully God, and died on the Cross to pay a price you could not pay. Your Sin was condemned, and your sins were paid for; accept the free gift of salvation and have a new identity today: new creation in Christ.

In this episode, we’re going to unpack what the Bible says about who you really are — not who the world says you are, not who your mistakes say you are — but who God says you are.

So whether you’ve just started your faith journey or you’ve been walking with Jesus for years, this conversation is for you.

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This episode comes as a lecture from one of our regular contributors. Aaron (the speaker in this lecture) takes up the question, Is truth captured or held in creeds and traditions? We think this is a very important question because we are seeing more return to traditions and rituals in our Christian circles. Aaron does something interesting. Instead of answering the question, he starts by looking at the scripture and what it tells us or reveals about God, and God the Son.

Along the way, he compares historic creeds like the Apostles’ Creed and Nicene Creed with the “whole counsel of God” found in the Bible. Are these man-made statements helpful, or do they risk missing the fullness of God’s revelation? Aaron emphasizes that while creeds can summarize aspects of truth, only Scripture itself is living, active, and able to transform hearts.

This episode challenges us to seek truth not in human constructions but in the Word of God, which remains forever.

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Welcome to another episode of Patterns of Truth — a podcast where we explore challenging questions through the lens of Scripture.

We’ve got a big topic on the table: Calvinism.

In today’s episode, we’ll be unpacking the major ideas behind the five points of Calvinism — commonly remembered by the acronym TULIP. But what do those points actually mean? And what does Scripture have to say about them?

We recently published an article on this topic: A brief review of Calvinism: TULIP, or not TULIP?, but we thought it would be helpful to bring the authors Roy and Aaron and expand on it further and address some questions our audience might have.

Before we dive in, a quick disclaimer: our guests today aren’t professional theologians or scholars — we’re simply believers aiming to examine this topic carefully and biblically.

Whether you’re curious, skeptical, or fully on board, we’re really glad you’re here. Check out the article that sparked the discussion:

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