The Worst Phrases Christians Use
Thinking Fellows
1517 Podcasts
4.8 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this fun episode, the Thinking Fellows take turns sharing some of their least-favorite phrases or platitudes that Christians use. They discuss how these platitudes can discourage fellow believers and how they often function as a way to fill silence while avoiding the real vocational needs of our neighbors.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to the Thicky Fellows podcast. My name is Caleb Keith, and today I'm joined by Scott Keith, Adam Francisco, and Bruce Hillman. The Thicky Fellows is part of the 1517 podcast network of shows. You can go to 1517.org slash podcast to see our shows. You can also follow 1517 on |
| 0:42.3 | YouTube. You can see some short versions of these episodes. We do like a recap of 15 minutes or less |
| 0:48.5 | recap of these topics over there. So you can see that by subscribing to 1517 on YouTube. And if you |
| 0:56.4 | watch the Thinking Fellows on there, don't forget to like and subscribe to this channel as well. |
| 1:03.7 | Okay, our topic today is kind of a fun one. We are talking about the worst phrases Christians use. This is coming, we did something, |
| 1:14.2 | like, kind of adjacent to this a month ago or so. I don't remember what it was, but it did |
| 1:20.6 | very well. Uh, everybody liked it. Uh, lots of, lots of downloads and things like that. So |
| 1:26.3 | figured we should, we should do a similar topic. And this one |
| 1:29.5 | actually came to us by our co-worker, David Ruffner, who suggested that we cover the phrases, |
| 1:36.9 | the cringy phrases that Christians use or the worst ones that they use, maybe phrases that |
| 1:42.9 | defeat or overcome their own theology |
| 1:46.9 | or confessions of faith sometimes too. And I think depending on how this goes, everybody will |
| 1:53.5 | get a chance to do one or two of these. So I'll just pass it around. I'm going to pick, let's see, let's do Bruce. |
| 2:03.5 | Bruce, you can go first. |
| 2:04.8 | You went with the safe one first. |
| 2:07.0 | Of course you did. |
| 2:09.0 | Bruce can have a spicy one. |
| 2:10.5 | What was that episode? |
| 2:12.3 | We used an Indian curry rating for our last hot take. |
| 2:15.6 | Oh yeah, that's right. |
| 2:16.8 | I don't know any of Indian curry. |
| 2:19.3 | But, Bruce, what chili pepper level do you have for us today? |
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