Denzel's Ministry and What We Want From Celebrity Christians
The Esau McCaulley Podcast
Esau McCaulley
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🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Denzel Washington was recently baptized and now believes he's been called to ministry. How does he compare to other celebrity Christians and do we expect too much, or not enough from the most famous believers? Also, Esau talks about a recent CT article on family estrangement drawing from his own personal experience. How do we follow the commandment to honor our mother and father when we are cut off from them?
Christianity Today article on Estrangement: https://www.christianitytoday.com/2024/11/estrangement-parents-love-carrie-mckean/
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| 0:00.0 | Passion in my pockets or my pennies should be. |
| 0:10.8 | What they selling is cheap so I'm buying that this freedom is free. |
| 0:13.6 | I've been becoming me. |
| 0:15.1 | See when Jesus taking the lead with purpose I bleed and riles like doing under the heat. |
| 0:19.5 | Defeat is a never. |
| 0:20.5 | You can't |
| 0:21.1 | reattach with a sever what's bringing you pleasure can tell you where you stacking your |
| 0:24.6 | treasure when storm is your weather know that it gets worse for it's better welcome to the |
| 0:35.2 | Esau McCauley I'm your host Esau McCauley on the show, we have two good friends of mine who both had the misfortunes at different points of their life at being at the same academic institution as me. |
| 0:47.4 | Devin DeLarder, who went to Swanee with me, but he is now actually gone to do much better things. He is the assistant professor of education at |
| 0:54.7 | Belmont University in Nashville and Joyce Sherrod, who is now the discipleship pastor at, what's |
| 1:02.8 | name of that church? Signal Mountain Presbyterian. Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church. |
| 1:07.5 | And he had the misfortune of having to do, we did that PhD work together at the |
| 1:11.5 | University of St. Andrews. I had the wisdom to do the Bible. I think he was doing theology, |
| 1:15.6 | which is a little bit different because we do the exact scriptures. It's so different. |
| 1:19.9 | Yeah. So this is not like story time. So anything that happened on campus, we were talking about |
| 1:26.2 | off the podcast. But on the podcast today, |
| 1:28.9 | I wanted to talk to you a little bit about like faith, Hollywood, and politics. We'll get to that. |
| 1:33.7 | But first, we're going to bring back one of my favorite days, if you ever done in a few weeks, |
| 1:38.3 | it's called are you washed? And the whole point of are you washed is I ask you questions. |
| 1:44.5 | And if you can answer the question, you have shown your ability to engage in culture and ways that are helpful. |
| 1:51.1 | So the first one, I'm going to see if you can get it. |
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