The Sin That’s Killing Us with John Elmore

Stay True with Madison Prewett Troutt

Madison Prewett Troutt

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to the Dare to be True Series on Stay True Podcast! Today, Madi is joined by John Elmore, Teaching Pastor at Harris Creek Baptist Church and author of “Freedom Starts Today”. This conversation is all about the seriousness of sin: why it matters, how it impacts our relationship with God, and the hope we have in Christ to be set free. John unpacks the subtle ways we can minimize or justify sin and points us back to God’s holiness, grace, and forgiveness. Together, Madi and John talk honestly about confession, repentance, and the freedom that only comes when we stop hiding and start walking in the light.

Whether you’ve been battling secret struggles, stuck in cycles you can’t break, or just need a reminder of the weight of sin and the even greater power of grace, this episode will encourage you to take sin seriously and take Jesus at His word.

Stay you and stay true!

Questions/topics discussed and answered:
• How do you break an addiction?
• What is the cycle of sin?
• What role does confession and repentance play in true freedom?
• How does the gospel free us from shame and guilt?
• Why understanding the seriousness of sin deepens our love for Jesus

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Sin at some level is enjoyable, pleasurable, or else no one would ever do it.
0:05.0	Right.
0:06.0	But it's a false imitation of what God's given us.
0:08.0	How do we not return back to that bondage of sin and continue in the freedom that Christ offers?
0:14.0	An idol will give you what you want because it's you that it wants.
0:21.6	So many of us want God to, you know, save us from hell, but we don't want to be saved from our own self and from our own sin because we want to keep living in sin.
0:29.6	We are not sinners who's saint. We are saints who sin and it really, really matters.
0:35.6	How would you define an addiction? And then in a moment,
0:39.8	everything goes dark and he is in hell. And he's like, what, what happened? I didn't go to your
0:44.6	side. I was on the fence. Satan said, the fence is mine. Desire gives birth to sin and sin when full
0:51.6	grown is death. I mean, Laura will say to me often, it's not what you said.
0:55.8	It's how you said. You can finish the sentence.
1:05.3	What's up, guys? Welcome back to another episode of Stay True podcast. I'm your host, Madison
1:10.6	Pruitt Trout.
1:12.0	And I am in the podcast studio with one of mine and grants dear friends, John Elmore.
1:17.7	Hey, man, so good to be with you.
1:19.6	John Elmore, you guys, he is an incredible person, pastor, friend, husband, father,
1:26.6	and he has written a book that has honestly encouraged me
1:29.8	in my faith so much, as well as Grant. And it is called Freedom Starts Today, which we're
1:35.4	going to be talking a little bit about it today in our conversation. But Grant is actually
1:40.0	like leading and discipling some guys right now through your book, which is so cool.
1:45.6	And so I'm just literally seeing it change lives like in real time right here right now.
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