“Special Knowledge” Is Back and It’s Dividing the Church with Pastor Gary Hamrick
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
It sounds spiritual, but it’s not new and it’s not harmless.
Christians are chasing “special knowledge” instead of standing on God’s Word and it’s leading to confusion and division inside the Church.
Pastor Gary Hamrick joins me to talk about why this is happening and how to stay anchored in truth when everything else feels loud and convincing.
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| 0:00.0 | We are living in a time when information is everywhere, but the truth feels harder and harder to find. |
| 0:06.3 | You guys know what I'm talking about? |
| 0:07.7 | The headlines are shifting by the hour. |
| 0:09.5 | Social media is full of speculation and stupidity. |
| 0:12.7 | And it seems like everybody has their version of what's really going on. |
| 0:17.7 | Conspiracy theories are everywhere. |
| 0:19.0 | And if we're not careful, we can spend more |
| 0:21.7 | time chasing theories than anchoring ourselves in what's actually true. Guys, listen, not everything |
| 0:27.8 | deserves your attention. So how do we discern the difference? How do we stay grounded? How do we |
| 0:32.9 | turn out the noise and back ourselves up and listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit. That's really what I want |
| 0:39.1 | to talk about today, and I'm glad to have my friend, Pastor Gary Hamrick, back on the show with me. |
| 0:44.2 | Gary is the senior pastor at Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg, Virginia. He has spent years |
| 0:49.4 | teaching God's word with clarity and conviction. He's one of my favorite Bible teachers on the planet. |
| 0:55.0 | He's helping believers to navigate this culture that is increasingly confused about what the truth |
| 1:01.0 | even is. So we're going to talk about that today. We're going to talk about how to think |
| 1:04.8 | biblically in an age of misinformation and how to avoid being pulled into every passing theory |
| 1:10.7 | and how to anchor ourselves our hearts every passing theory and how to anchor |
| 1:11.9 | ourselves our hearts and our minds in the unchanging truth of the Word of God. |
| 1:17.0 | This is the Heidi St. John podcast. I'm glad you're here. Stick around. I think you're |
| 1:20.5 | going to be encouraged. Well, thank you guys for being here today. |
| 1:40.4 | Listen, I just got back from a week at the Arc Encounter at the Answers Center for my friends at the Ministry of Answers in Genesis. |
| 1:49.5 | What an amazing time. |
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