Live Free with Josh Howerton

What if avoiding politics isn’t protecting the Church, but surrendering to the culture?

In this LIVE FREE bonus episode, Pastors Josh Howerton, Ryan Visconti, and Josh McPherson tackle one of the most pressing questions facing Christians today: Should the Church avoid politics, or is civic engagement part of biblical discipleship? Through a powerful conversation on the Great Commission, cultural leadership, and Christian statesmanship, they unpack why silence in the public square may actually hinder long-term flourishing for families, churches, and future generations. This episode challenges believers to think beyond partisan labels and embrace a comprehensive biblical worldview that applies God’s truth to every area of life—including government, policy, and culture.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

Why many pastors are rethinking political disengagement

How policy impacts discipleship, family, and church health

What Christian statesmanship means biblically

Why the Great Commission includes cultural responsibility

How to think about politics through a biblical worldview

Why “If godly people won’t lead, godless people will” is a crucial warning

Stand firm. Think biblically. Live free.
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Is UFO disclosure preparing the world for truth, or setting Christians up for deception?

In this episode of LIVE FREE, Pastors Josh Howerton and Paul Cunningham unpack Acts 25–26, Paul’s bold witness before political leaders, and what his example teaches Christians about courage, evangelism, and using every opportunity to share the gospel. They also celebrate 741 baptisms at Lakepointe and share practical ways everyday believers can live on mission in their workplace, business, and daily life.

Then the conversation turns to UFOs, aliens, UAP disclosure, demons, angels, and biblical cosmology. As headlines grow louder and government conversations around “non-human intelligence” continue, this episode gives Christians a clear, biblical framework for thinking about the unseen realm without drifting into fear, obsession, or speculation.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

Why Paul’s defense before Agrippa is a model for bold Christian witness

How believers can share their faith naturally at work and in everyday life

What the Bible teaches about angels, demons, the heavens, and the unseen realm

Whether alien life would actually disprove Christianity

Why many UFO and alien encounters may have a darker spiritual explanation

How Christians should respond to UFO disclosure without fear or obsession

Stand firm. Think biblically. Live free.

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Who decided which books are in your Bible?

Pastor Paul Cunningham responds to Father Mike Schmitz's case for the Apocrypha, walking through the historical record, early church fathers, and the canon that Jesus himself recognized and quoted. This isn't an attack, it's a careful, evidence-based conversation about one of the most consequential questions in all of Christianity: which books are truly the Word of God?

From Jerome's own doubts about the books he translated, to what the Dead Sea Scrolls actually reveal, to the stunning detail hidden in Matthew 23, this episode gives you the biblical and historical confidence to know why the 66 books of the Protestant Bible are simply THE Bible.

In this episode, you'll learn:

What the Apocrypha is and why Catholics and Protestants have different Bibles

Why the earliest Christians (centuries before Martin Luther) debated the Apocrypha

What Jesus actually quoted as Scripture and why it matters enormously

Why even Jerome, the man who translated the Catholic Bible, rejected the Apocrypha as authoritative

How to have gracious, informed conversations with Catholic friends about the canon

Stand firm. Think biblically. Live free.

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What happens when suffering, politics, and moral confusion collide?

In this episode of LIVE FREE, Pastors Josh Howerton, Carlos Erazo, and Paul Cunningham tackle two of the most critical doctrines for modern Christians: God’s sovereignty and the role of conscience in a collapsing culture. Through Acts 23, Romans 8, Titus 1, and 1 Timothy 4, they unpack how believers can trust God’s control over suffering while developing the moral clarity necessary to stand firm in truth.

From free will, to abortion, civic engagement, suffering, and the dangers of a weak or seared conscience, this conversation offers a deeply biblical framework for navigating personal hardship and cultural chaos. Rather than retreating in fear or compromise, Christians are called to trust God’s providence, guard their conscience, and live courageously.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

How God’s sovereignty provides peace in suffering and uncertainty

What is compatibilism, free will, and open theism

The four types of conscience and why they matter spiritually

How culture distorts morality—and how Christians can resist it

Why suffering can become ministry in God’s hands

How biblical truth shapes both private faith and public responsibility

Trust God’s sovereignty. Guard your conscience. 

Stand firm. Think biblically. Live free.

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Did the Founding Fathers actually want Christianity out of government, or is that the biggest historical lie ever told? Pastor Josh Howerton sits down with Tim Barton of WallBuilders to go straight to the original documents: the Aiken Bible endorsed by Congress, Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence arguing against slavery, the prayer proclamations of John Hancock, and the letter that gave us the phrase "separation of church and state." What you were taught in school and what the primary sources actually say are two very different things.

This conversation doesn't just rewrite the narrative, it goes back to the original sources to recover what was always true. From the Marxist roots of revisionist history to the founding fathers' forgotten anti-slavery legacy, this episode will challenge everything you thought you knew about America's founding.

In this episode, you'll learn:

Why Congress endorsed and recommended the Bible to the inhabitants of the United States

What Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration actually says about slavery, and why it was removed

What "separation of church and state" really meant and where the phrase actually comes from

Why the founding fathers quoted the Bible more than any other source in their writings

How Marxist ideology deliberately rewrote American history, and why it matters for Christians today

Stand firm. Think biblically. Live free.

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