Clearview Today with Dr. Abidan Shah
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Our Judgment Is Sealed — So What's Left to Talk About?
As believers, our judgment is sealed. It is finished. It is done. So why are we still talking about judgment? In this episode, we continue our series on eternity by working through the judgments that are still coming — not for your salvation, w...
Does God Judge His Own People Too?
We are mortal creatures created for eternity — and that should shape how we live. But there's one uncomfortable truth we have to reckon with first: everybody wants to go to heaven, just not right now. In this episode, we launch a new mini-serie...
Communion Started at the First Passover
We know what communion is — but why the bread, why the cup, why this specifically? In this episode, we go deeper into yesterday's conversation and trace communion all the way back to its origins: the very first Passover, when God told the Hebre...
Jesus Rewrote the Passover
Believers have disagreed on the form and function of the Lord's Supper for centuries — some churches don't even practice it anymore. In this episode, we pick up right where yesterday's conversation on baptism left off, comparing our own very di...
Baptism Doesn't Save You — So Why Do It?
Believer's baptism should be the one Christian practice we can all agree on — Jesus himself modeled it for us. And yet a sermon clip about baptism went viral for all the wrong reasons, with hundreds of comments and even accusations of heresy. I...
Have You Committed the Unpardonable Sin?
We have full confidence that the blood of Jesus has cleansed us of our sins. But there's still that one dark figure on the horizon that quietly terrifies a lot of Christians: the unpardonable sin. In this episode, we close out our ten-day serie...
Is All Sin the Same to God?
We know that every sin makes us equally guilty in the eyes of God. But come on — some sins have to be worse than others, right? In this episode, we tackle degrees of sin: legally, there's no difference between a white lie and murder. In consequ...
You Can Become the Chain Breaker in Your Family
Yesterday we talked about sin. Today we're answering the harder follow-up questions you've been sending in — are all people really sinful, even the good ones? What happens to babies who die? And can generations of unbelief in a family ever real...
Stop Calling Sin a "Struggle." Call It What It Is.
If you're a Christian, you probably do have a genuine desire to worship and obey God. But there's one three-letter word that keeps getting in the way. In this episode, we continue our Systematic Theology series by tackling sin head-on — startin...
Jesus Didn't Just Save You. He Came to Fix Your Reflection.
We talked yesterday about being made in God's image. But sin distorted that image in every one of us — so what happens now? In this episode, we continue our Systematic Theology series by looking at how Jesus came not just to save us from punish...
Get Ready to Take a Look in the Mirror
We've spent weeks getting to know God — His holiness, His unchanging nature, all of it. But how does that help us get along with people? In this episode, we launch a new stretch of our Systematic Theology series with the doctrine of humanity, s...
"I Know What the Bible Says — I'm Just Not Going to Obey It"
"I know exactly what the Bible says. I've heard preachers preach about it. I've heard it read to me my entire life. I'm just not gonna obey it." In this episode, we continue our Systematic Theology series by picking up where yesterday left off ...
Inspiration and Inerrancy — What They Actually Mean (It's Not What You Think)
The Bible is the inspired, infallible, unchanging Word of God — but what does that actually mean? In this episode, we continue our Systematic Theology series by turning to the doctrine of Scripture itself: where it came from, why it's trustwort...
The Holy Spirit and the Unforgivable Sin
We've talked about who the Holy Spirit is — now it's time to dig into what He actually does. In this episode, we continue our Systematic Theology series with the work of the Holy Spirit, including one of the most sobering things Jesus ever said...
The Holy Spirit Is Fully God, Not God's Assistant
We've talked about God the Father and God the Son — now it's time for God the Holy Spirit, the person of the Trinity we think we understand but usually don't. In this episode, we continue our Systematic Theology series with a deep dive into who...
How Jesus's Two Natures Actually Work Together
Could Jesus have actually sinned, or was real temptation even possible for someone who is fully God? In this episode, we continue our Systematic Theology series by digging deeper into the two natures of Christ — human and divine, united in one ...
How Would You Explain That Jesus Is Both God and Man?
Have you ever tried to explain to a kid that Jesus isn't just God's Son, but God Himself? In this episode, we continue our Systematic Theology series with one of the most important and most misunderstood truths in Christianity: the person of Ch...
Learn to Respond to Your Mistakes the Way Peter Did | TRUTH TALK LIVE
Everybody makes mistakes — the question is what you do with them. In this special extended episode, we host Truth Talk Live on the Truth Network for a full hour on mistakes, infractions, and how to actually recover from both.Dr. Abidan ...
Why Some Mistakes Are Too Costly to Learn the Hard Way (ft. Dr. John Check)
We all make mistakes — a lot of us make the same ones over and over. In this episode, we welcome back our friend Dr. John Check, pastor and author, to talk about his new book, Experience Is What You Get Right After You Need It, and what real mi...
Why the Trinity Is the Pattern Behind Every Family
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are three in one, perfect unity in the Godhead — and yet each has very different roles. In this episode, we wrap up our conversation on the Trinity by looking at two important distinctions: the economic ...
Why the Son Submits to the Father Without Being Less God
The Trinity is three distinct persons and yet one Godhead — but we still can't help but ask, who's really in charge? In this episode, we continue our conversation on the Trinity by naming a few more historic heresies, including Arianism (the be...
The Biblical Case for the Trinity, From Genesis to Revelation
Every illustration people reach for to explain the Trinity — ice, water, and steam, a three-leaf clover, even "one times one times one" — ends up breaking down somewhere. In this episode, we take on one of the most difficult and most argued-ove...
Why Jesus Created the World From Nothing
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth from nothing, and that detail matters more than it might seem. If God had used pre-existing material, the real question would just shift to who made that material. Creation ex nihilo point...
The Robinson-Pierpont 2026 Byzantine Textform Is Finally Here (ft. Dr. Maurice Robinson)
Every episode of Clearview Today is special, but not every day do we get to hold in our hands the culmination of fifty years of scholarship. In this episode, Dr. Abidan Shah welcomes back his mentor and professor, Dr. Maurice Robinson, to celeb...
Nature Tells You There's a God — Only Scripture Tells You Who He Is
How do we dig into who God actually is? In this episode of Clearview Today, we continue our Systematic Theology series by moving from yesterday's question — does God exist — to today's: who is He? Our inner sense tells us there's a God out ther...