DAVID WHEATON
host, The Christian Worldview
Born and raised in Minnesota as the youngest of four children, David Wheaton came to saving faith in Jesus Christ in his early twenties while he was competing on the professional tennis tour. In 2002, he transitioned into radio, first hosting a program called Beyond Sports. Then two years later, The Christian Worldview began, focusing on current issues in the faith and the world.
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Past Programs
TOPIC: What to Discern from the Church Fracture Where David Platt Pastors – Part 1
Print-friendly transcript David Platt is one of the most influential evangelical pastors in America. He came to prominence after the release of his best-selling book Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream. He has served as president of the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, one of the [...]
TOPIC: How Your Church Can Avoid Mission Drift
Print-friendly transcript Guest: Matthew Fletcher, senior pastor, Webster Bible Church (NY) Last week we discussed the very troubling situation that the new president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Ed Litton, plagiarized sermons for several years from the immediate past president JD Greear. What’s worse is that, as of yet, Litton hasn’t resigned [...]
TOPIC: Pastors and Plagiarism—Sermon Prep or Sermon Theft?
GUEST: JUSTIN PETERS, founder and preacher, Justin Peters Ministries Just days after our recent program on the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Annual Meeting, which in part focused on the election of new president, pastor Ed Litton, and where he stands on various issues, it was revealed that Litton had for many years [...]
TOPIC: The Psychological Manipulation of Critical Race Theory
GUEST: KATHERINE KERSTEN, senior policy fellow, Center of the American Experiment Contrary to what the mainstream media and some Evangelicals are saying about Critical Race Theory (CRT)—that it’s a “bogeyman” (that it’s made up, nothing to fear)—Christians who are paying even half attention know and see how this insidious ideology that pits [...]
TOPIC: Confession Without Conviction—Southern Baptist Annual Meeting Recap
GUEST: TOM ASCOL, senior pastor, Grace Baptist Church (FL) The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is the largest Protestant church denomination in North America, with six seminaries, 47,000 churches, 14 million church members, and affiliate entities in 41 states. Some of the largest churches and most influential pastors in America are part of [...]
TOPIC: An Aged Perspective on the Country and the Church
Print-friendly Transcript GUESTS: Bruce and Mary Jane Wheaton (David’s parents) Our country has long commemorated one Sunday in May and in June to honor mothers and fathers. Sadly and tragically, in our day and age of social and familial transformation, mothers are now called “birthing people” (actual term from the Biden administration’s [...]
TOPIC: The Cause and Effect of Critical Race Theory Part 2 of 2
Critical Race Theory (or Critical Theory more broadly beyond race) is now the de facto worldview of the political left, academia, mainstream media, corporations, and even the military. This worldview sees everything through the Marxist prism of oppression, with white, male Christians being the source of injustice and inequality in society. CRT [...]
TOPIC: The Cause and Effect of Critical Race Theory Part 1 of 2
Every cause produces an effect. Drop a pebble in a pond (cause) and small ripples form and travel outward (effect). Likewise, ideas are causes that produce effects. Good ideas produce good effects and bad ideas bad effects. Big, unbiblical ideas are not like dropping a pebble into a pond but rather a [...]
