Welcome to One Little Candle. In today's very important episode, host Rebecca unpacks the challenging topic of immigration, focusing on the emotional, political, and spiritual divisions it sparks within families, communities and sometimes, even churches.

Rebecca encourages listeners to move beyond reactionary politics and media-driven outrage, instead approaching the issue of illegal immigration with empathy, discernment, and a biblical foundation.

Drawing on scripture and personal stories, Rebecca explores how Christians can balance compassion with respect for law and order, and why spiritual maturity is essential in such complex debates. With the aim of bringing clarity and wisdom to a highly charged topic, this episode invites you to consider how to be a light in the darkness—grounded in truth, love, and genuine understanding.

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Love is greater than power. In a culture that often measures spiritual health by manifestation, platform, and influence, Scripture recalibrates our priorities. In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul makes it unmistakably clear: prophecy will pass away, tongues will cease, knowledge will fade… but love never ends. Gifts are real and good, but they are temporary. Love reflects the eternal nature of God Himself. If our pursuit of power ever outruns our pursuit of Christlike character, we have missed the point.

This episode wrestles honestly with revival culture, spiritual gifting, and the sobering words of Jesus in Matthew 7. Power without love is noise. Ministry without intimacy is empty. In the end, what remains is not how impressive we were, but whether we reflected the heart of the King.

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After Jesus had become indignant when His disciples were rebuking people who were bringing children to Jesus, He then says that you must become like a child to enter the Kingdom of God. Now in the passage for our consideration, a rich young man, said to be in a ruler position, comes to Jesus asking the wrong question. "What must I do to inherit eternal life?" How will Jesus answer him?

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This episode is part 1 of 2 addressing a video from Dan McClellan called "Was 1 Enoch considered inspired scripture?"

Dan McClellan claims to be a Latter-day Saint, although his views don't reflect those of typical Mormons. He has impressive credentials and he uses them to make Tiktok and YouTube videos that promote a deconstructionist view of Scripture under the guise of "Data > dogma." He also promotes leftist political ideas that are uniformly Marxist and identity politics.

This episode looks at McClellan's argument that the canon was not certain in the first century A.D. and that Josephus didn't clarify which books were in the 22 books he regarded as Scripture. He argues that 1 Enoch may have been considered Scripture during this time before that idea faded out later because of how many copies of it were found in the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran.

We see what the Essenes believed in the Qumran community and why they may have liked 1 Enoch. We also test Josephus' threefold division of the Tanakh to see if 1 Enoch could fit.

Sources Cited:

Dan McClellan, "Was 1 Enoch considered inspired scripture?"

Dan McClellan, YHWH’s Divine Images: A Cognitive Approach, (SBL Press, Atlanta, 2022).

Ether's Elephant, "Dan McClellan being Woke for 8 Minutes"

Dan McClellan, "Does the Social Justice of the Bible Differ from the Social Justice of Today?"

Eva Mroczek, "How Many Books are in the Bible? Qualitative Numbers, or Math for Biblical Scholars," (University of California, Davis, July 2016).

"The Scroll of the War of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness I-II – The Thirty-Five Years War"

Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (Translated by William Whiston)

2 Esdras 14 (RSV), Bible Society UK.

First Enoch (Christian Classics Ethereal Library)

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EPHESIANS 2: GRACE, IDENTITY, & HOPE IN CHRIST

In this episode Adam preaches a sermon to his local congregation on Mark 10:35-45 focusing on the theme of suffering and how God uses it to fashion us into the image of Jesus.

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Matt Slick Live (Live Broadcast of 02/20/2026) is a production of the Christian Apologetics Research Ministry (CA RM). Matt answers questions on topics such as: The Bible, Apologetics, Theology, World Religions, Atheism, and other issues! You can also email questions to Matt using: info@carm.org, Put "Radio Show Question" in the Subject line! Answers will be discussed in a future show. Topics Include:

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