Don’t be Wimpy, Weak, and Woke, with John Cooper

[@srikantmantravadi]

Love John Cooper

[@marssionary]

when your transition into a comercial comes on, it is scaring me to death every time! Gotta get used to that. LOL

[@Lilacs4]

Yeah I like the new intro and transition cuz its nice and short but the volume levels are way too unbalanced 😅

[@oneblockwonderwoman6833]

Yes! Especially as I listen with earbuds in so I can be productive around the house at the same time. The sudden increase in volume about blows my eardrums out.

[@kellyadahl]

Thank you for commenting on the commercial transitions. I jump every time the music cuts in. Yikes!! Please fix! I LOVE these conversations ❤

[@rodneyaustin3999]

Hi Alisa, I know you are married so this is not a subtle or unconscious flirt. I just want to say it's refreshing to see a woman age so beautifully and with such grace. I have a twelve year old daughter, removed from my life by the testimony of an bias "expert witness" who lied in her reports and could not corroborate her reports in court. Unfortunately she is an expert witness for that same court for over a decade so the lazy judge followed her recommendations. Anyway, I have a daughter and I'm concerned with what she could see in this world, the AI, social media clout, fake lips, plastic surgery, etc. I hope you do videos directed to women on beauty.

[@SuePenn]

Excellent! Love listening to you both. So much truth here.

[@michellepeterson6320]

Yes, God has put eternity in the hearts of men. Love.

[@gailpurcell1649]

It feels so overwhelming to counter the lies that our culture believes for many, many years and is being taught at every level of education, media, and Hollywood.

[@RainbowMan.]

Beautiful!! 😻

[@2Snakes]

Fundamentalism at it's best.

[@michaelutley128]

Thomas Dowell wrote a book in the 90's about the Constrained verses Unconstrained vision.......called A Conflict of Visions.......excellent work......

[@michaelutley128]

Thomas Sowell..

[@jacquelineandrea8172]

Thank you, so good

[@chrislawler3203]

Keep up the GREAT work!!! Love your content! Keep sharing the gospel!

[@michellepeterson6320]

For the education piece is really helpful to look into Paulo Freire.

[@YissakarScribe]

Keep up the great work; we have it on order and its on the way! Keep it up!

[@Craggyo]

This is great discussion, relevant and timely. I also think it’s easy to blur lines between Christianity and culture. Left or right. Once our opponents are primarily defined by a political position, we are taking a political position. Not to say Christians can’t politically engage, just that God doesn’t take sides in this way. We are to take His side as Christians. The enemy is ever and only spiritual, and the goal is salvation for the lost of spiritual Israel, not any nation, culture or party.

[@tsuemcmahon9118]

🎉love John and his stand for truth!

[@michellepeterson6320]

John, yes 23:00. Absolutely. Power struggle. Oppressed v. oppressor. Intersectionality. It only makes sense through the framework of critical theory.

[@list1726]

Thanks for posting

[@julielynne68]

This world is so evil! We're on the cusp of the rapture! Maranatha!🅰️🅱️🅱️🅰️🆙️🙏

[@SuePenn]

Come Lord Jesus 🙏

[@rebekahtemple250]

Love this one and all the others I've watched! Praying for you and John. ❤

[@stas1kacicki392]

So pleased to listen to this podcast, very informative and necessary

[@friendofjesus1680]

thank you for the deep discussion, love it, very helpful to know the roots of these modern ideologies

[@pianogal853]

Thank you for delving into challenging subjects!

[@michellepeterson6320]

"The Other Half of Church", Emotional intelligence books, clergy abuse...these and many other boths and ideas can be a part of creating this utopian church setting where it is the ultimate safe space (some of the house church movement).

[@Lilacs4]

Yeah the new intro and transition is nice cuz it's short but it's music is way too loud compared to the talking 😅

[@marssionary]

What he is saying around the 50 minute mark also sounds a LOT like hyper charasmatic teaching and NAR belief in the power of our spoken words. It crosses over a lot!

[@carld2796]

"Come unto me all you that labor and are heavy burdened." And that includes the ones that he called out. He didn't exclude them, he confronted them about their condition with the purpose of leading them to repentance. And no, I'm not woke by any stretch of the imagination.

[@carlafoss9248]

Great stuff!

[@chardo24]

"In the Bible, Jesus drove the merchants and consumers out of the temple during Passover. Jesus said, "My house will be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves". "He who has ears to hear, let him hear"

[@rakastellar8955]

I love you both

[@bridgetgolubinski]

I love that the end of your videos now transition to you singing. Not sure if this is only a temporary change, but it is such an amazing outro!

[@journeygentil1512]

I watch cult documentaries as well (and have the textbook "Kingdom of the Cults"). I enjoy watching them for many reasons. It's crazy how most, if not all, have included Christian theology in some way and then warped it. My heart breaks every time I watch one of these because I can see the hurting and searching of people who are looking for Jesus, but are manipulated into thinking that these "prophets, messiahs, etc." have the answer.

[@micpoll7]

Wow! This is excellent!

[@victoriaclarke4442]

Alisa I love so much of videos, info and love of true doctrine Your advertising pre-order of the book with a “ free chapter and 60 free audible” yet we are paying for all of it with pre-order right ? Or is this a chapter that’s not in the book God bless

[@jonathancampbell586]

Yes, Many people don't really want to see the real Jesus. Love your Podcasts, Alisa!

[@Priscilla_Bettis]

Wimpy, Weak, and Woke is on my TBR!

[@rebukey]

That was too short. 🫤

[@freethinker4048]

Hey John, do you have a Bible study that goes with any of your books???

[@keyman6689]

Utopia. "We must burn Utopia." I believe the quest for Utopia is a reflection of our internal purpose for eternal relationship with God in heaven. I don't think we need to burn it, but lean in to that inate desire as a means to share the gospel. Utopia is coming. It's eternity in heaven. It's not possible in this world, but that desire is there for a reason.

[@ThorfinnSkullsplitter-fz7ff]

One of my degrees is in economics. Along with Marx and other thinkers, I studied Hegel in college and even wrote a term paper on him. I can't believe I got a great grade on that paper since I barely understood what he was talking about! The class was great, Comparative Economic Systems (ASU). I really had to struggle to understand Hegelian Dialectic Materialism, and Marx's Capital, but I sailed though the stuff regarding Adam Smith, Schumpeter, Hayek and all of the New-Classical stuff. Loved economics, not so much Hegel and Marx though.

[@arielmarbury467]

Many people don't want to know the real Jesus. One of the things Jesus said that really woke me up to his authority, strength, and straight forward way of speaking was when he said "Let the dead bury the dead" to the man who wanted to go home first and bury his father. Following Jesus was clearly the most important thing thar could be done. Jesus was clear on priorities. It was NOT our feelings. He had compassion for real suffering and helped. He DID NOT pander to ANYONE. I have had it with this made up false Jesus that has been invented by the "woke". Jesus was NOT a social justice warrior. He wants to save our eternal souls. This world has an expiration date on it. Praise God!! People are not just thrown away by God. People CHOOSE to hate the real Jesus. Even the Gospel is offensive to the self righteous. I was one of those people 20 years ago. Our wonderful God pursued a very undeserving, rotten person like me and saved me. I don't deserve his mercy, forgiveness, or love. There is no reason to make up a whimpy weak God, when we have such an amazing, awesome, perfect, and patient God. ❤️ ❤❤

[@JeremyCannonJSC]

That very line about the dead is what drew me closer to Christ! God bless you.

[@MaryMay-x6x]

Like if I care about Flint having bad water and kids getting poisoned that's social justice and they should just deal with it because Jesus didn't come here to help with people's problems. I guarantee if you lived in a city and your water was that bad you'd want God to fix it real quick and if you do I'm going to call you a social justice warrior preaching another gospel and I'll tell you that life isn't about this world as you drink your drink water. That's how you sound and come across to me.

[@daniellenunez185]

Be militant. We are the church militant. ❤

[@SaraCarozzolo]

Commercial break sound is way too loud! Hopefully that gets evened out because I love your content!

[@carriestout6422]

There are differences between men and women. It's obvious my husband can carry much more than me. Nothing to be jealous about. Women have muscles around womb for children. Men seem to handle being sick worse than women. My husband goes to bed with a head cold and I can study for lessons and tough it out. Physically and mentally there are wonderful differences. I like being a woman. No desire to carry heavy things.

[@raygiguette8677]

I think his book points out two of Christianity's glaring faults: (1) There can be no "Eden" or utopia without the Christian god, and (2) The purpose of Christianity is not to promote "equity" but to promote itself.

[@victoriaclarke4442]

Great video ❤ Your background mucus between for sponsors is much louder than the rest each time

[@joelweidenfeld471]

SHILLY

[@Jenn_Psalm25.4-7]

What blog post has the list of all the names Jesus called people?

[@list1726]

Greetings I enjoy your videos. If i may can i make a suggestion about your transitions to the sponsor portions of your video. Could you fade in the music? I ask because the sound of your interview is such a contrasr to the transition music.

[@list1726]

The way the video ends and transitions to the outro is what I am suggesting

[@ThorfinnSkullsplitter-fz7ff]

John, Maybe you've done this before but one of these times when you're on here perhaps you could relate the Genesis story of the Tower of Babel to Marxism. In my opinion this story distills the whole text of Marx's Communist Manifesto down into just 9 Bible verses. A man-made, one world government with no God but the god that man creates for himself.

[@cdrcluster9282]

He who endures to the end will be saved! Matt 24 v 13. A great War is coming.

[@annestansell1523]

What John is describing as the " magic process of yelling slogans to make something happen" reminds me of the prophets of Bael in 1Kings 18: all their chanting and cutting themselves did not cause fire to fall. Also relevant is that those who followed Bael, were Children of Israel, not other nations. Sounds like today to me.

[@judyskountrykakery]

You know I really feel the reason you were attacked so vehemently when you put out that book title, probably had a lot to do with the fact that we live in a culture that only reads headlines anymore. And for all the reasons you stated people are ready to jump People are divided things like that is what made this so much worse they really don't want to know what you have to say You are exactly right.

[@DCMT80]

Its interesting how even within the dialectic, which argues for eventual "oneness", and argues against " the binary", is in itself, binary. Taking a thesis and the antithesis to form a new synthesis, cannot occur without a binary. Having a thesis and an antithesis is binary. Also, could an argument be made that if synthesis is the thesis, "anti-synthesis" would then be the antithesis, which would then argue that anti-synthesis is binary. But I guess Hegel would argue that synthesis and anti-synthesis are contradictory, which is the dialectic. But doesnt the contradictory, in order to be contradictory, require a binary? A singularity cannot produce a contradictory, one thing cannot contradict a "nothing". Two things, or a binary, are required to produce a contradictory. And according to Hegel, if the full synthesis occurs, and the oneness is manifest, does the contradictory then cease to exist? What, then, happens to the dialectic? It makes me thing he is arguing for his argument to become so successful and reach a completion that it collapses in upon itself.

[@citytrees1752]

the music at the beginning is so loud I had to throw off my earphones. Please adjust the music volume level to match the volume of the conversation.

[@dtmc4509]

How do you reconcile the fact that you are a woman and you preach and the Bible says women are not to preach and lead a church? I am so confused on this. I hear preachers saying the Bible and God's word are the same yesterday today and tomorrow. His commands do not change just because it is 2024 on and on and on..Then when the subject of women preaching is questioned that's different, that's the old way, the old testament, the old beliefs, old culture, rules, whatever. How can women preachers have it both ways? Thank you for your response.

[@Brutuscomedy]

Don't be conscious, aware, and concerned about prejudice and racial discrimination. Oooookay Not everyone wishes to be comatose.

[@darrenplies9034]

Stain on American church history = when Rob Reiner has a better view of what’s wrong with the evangelical American church than the church does. Lord help us.

[@michellepeterson6320]

No, he doesn't

[@Adam2-13]

Hebrews 8 A Superior Covenant 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for a second one. 8 But finding fault with His people,[c] He says:[d] Look, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah- 9 not like the covenant that I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by their hands to lead them out of the land of Egypt. I disregarded them, says the Lord, because they did not continue in My covenant. 10 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be My people. 11 And each person will not teach his fellow citizen,[e] and each his brother, saying, “Know the Lord,” because they will all know Me, from the least to the greatest of them. 12 For I will be merciful to their wrongdoing, and I will never again remember their sins.[f][g] 13 By saying, a new covenant, He has declared that the first is old. And what is old and aging is about to disappear.

[@rodneyaustin3999]

@Alisa Childers- I cannot find one of my comments? Did you delete it?

[@rodneyaustin3999]

@@AliciaGarcia-Webster - I wasn't referring to that one. (thank you). It was a response to richsmith6997 under the marielundstrom7694 comment. I posted it then made the comment about it being deleted. I checked again just now and it's been deleted again. I'm no longer a fan of this channel. She censors comments.

[@rodneyaustin3999]

@@AliciaGarcia-Webster I hope so too. I really like her videos and I promise that my comment was not controversial. I only voiced my doubt on Trump being a Christian. I did say only God truly knows but there is little fruit of repentance I see in Trump's character and actions.

[@colinpurssey9875]

I made some similar remarks on another Childers youtube presentation ., and even though I expressed them in a respectful diplomatic way they were nevertheless deleted . Pretty churlish .

[@kathyanderson4962]

What about Trump? Have you heard his rhetoric…?Very confusing meanness. What about MAGA?

[@sarahkokura6349]

I’d say uptopians and invisible hand “American dream” people of the same coin. How many people died because America decides what all countries need to be. Starts wars and millions of people die. It’s all spiritual. Both those sides worship their ideologies. Also, people need to get their terms correct. Socialism is not the same as communism. There is also of socialist democracies. That work. Maybe not to your values. But American democracy isn’t working either because if the same reason. Sin nature. American culture allows more of the powerful to take advantage of the weak. It’s just different governments allow different sin natures to really thrive.

[@Adam2-13]

Here’s the context on who Jesus actually condemned Matthew 23 Religious Hypocrites Denounced 23 Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples: 2 “The scribes and the Pharisees are seated in the chair of Moses.[a] 3 Therefore do whatever they tell you, and observe it. But don’t do what they do,[b] because they don’t practice what they teach. 4 They tie up heavy loads that are hard to carry[c] and put them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves aren’t willing to lift a finger[d] to move them. 5 They do everything[e] to be observed by others: They enlarge their phylacteries[f] and lengthen their tassels.[g] 6 They love the place of honor at banquets, the front seats in the synagogues, 7 greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by people. 8 “But as for you, do not be called ‘Rabbi,’ because you have one Teacher,[h] and you are all brothers. 9 Do not call anyone on earth your father, because you have one Father, who is in heaven. 10 And do not be called masters either, because you have one Master,[i] the Messiah. 11 The greatest among you will be your servant. 12 Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. 13 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You lock up the kingdom of heaven from people. For you don’t go in, and you don’t allow those entering to go in. [14 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You devour widows’ houses and make long prayers just for show.[j] This is why you will receive a harsher punishment.][k] 15 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to make one proselyte, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as fit for hell[l] as you are! 16 “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever takes an oath by the sanctuary, it means nothing. But whoever takes an oath by the gold of the sanctuary is bound by his oath.’[m] 17 Blind fools![n] For which is greater, the gold or the sanctuary that sanctified the gold? 18 Also, ‘Whoever takes an oath by the altar, it means nothing. But whoever takes an oath by the gift that is on it is bound by his oath.’[o] 19 Blind people![p] For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift? 20 Therefore, the one who takes an oath by the altar takes an oath by it and by everything on it. 21 The one who takes an oath by the sanctuary takes an oath by it and by Him who dwells in it. 22 And the one who takes an oath by heaven takes an oath by God’s throne and by Him who sits on it. 23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You pay a tenth of[q] mint, dill, and cumin,[r] yet you have neglected the more important matters of the law-justice, mercy, and faith. These things should have been done without neglecting the others. 24 Blind guides! You strain out a gnat, yet gulp down a camel! 25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed[s] and self-indulgence! 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup,[t] so the outside of it[u] may also become clean. 27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and every impurity. 28 In the same way, on the outside you seem righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. 29 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous, 30 and you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have taken part with them in shedding the prophets’ blood.’[v] 31 You, therefore, testify against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ sins![w] 33 “Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape being condemned to hell?[x] 34 This is why I am sending you prophets, sages, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and hound from town to town. 35 So all the righteous blood shed on the earth will be charged to you,[y] from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. 36 I assure you: All these things will come on this generation!

[@wayne4424]

Wokeness/world]'s Utopia is ONENESS in UNRITHEOUSNESS rather than Oneness in Righteousness (Life in Jesus). Our inheritance of unrighteousness in Adam is the issue. How can we escape being in him? God can take us out of Adam and put us into Jesus through faith in his shed blood, death, and resurrection (nothing is impossible with God), then being baptized by the Holy Spirit into Jesus. Consequently we receive Jesus' inheritance of Righteousness, fulling realized in the new earth and new heaven.

[@Adam2-13]

1 Timothy 2 Instructions to Men and Women 8 Therefore, I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or argument. 9 Also, the women are to dress themselves in modest clothing, with decency and good sense, not with elaborate hairstyles, gold, pearls, or expensive apparel, 10 but with good works, as is proper for women who affirm that they worship God. 11 A woman should learn in silence with full submission. 12 I do not allow a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; instead, she is to be silent. 13 For Adam was created first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and transgressed. 15 But she will be saved through childbearing, if she continues[b] in faith, love, and holiness, with good judgment.

[@Adam2-13]

Colossians 2 8 Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition, based on the elemental forces of the world, and not based on Christ. 9 For the entire fullness of God’s nature[b] dwells bodily[c] in Christ, 10 and you have been filled by Him, who is the head over every ruler and authority. 11 You were also circumcised in Him with a circumcision not done with hands, by putting off the body of flesh, in the circumcision of the Messiah.[d] 12 Having been buried with Him in baptism, you were also raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. 13 And when you were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive with Him and forgave us all our trespasses. 14 He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it out of the way by nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and disgraced them publicly; He triumphed over them by Him.[e]

[@Adam2-13]

Funny you won’t mention the context of Jesus saying all of those things because he said those things to the religious hypocrites! Not to ordinary people he said all those things to the religious influencers and leaders who claimed to love God but really didn’t sounds a lot like the modern evangelical culture church today

[@berglen100]

”We will take a simple little verse and show you why it is not addressed to the natural man, Ecclesiastes 3:15: “That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.” The “natural man” cannot grasp that, for to him reality is based only on the evidence of the senses. The man of reason could justify the verse’s end, saying if it has any meaning then the writer must mean recurrence. The sun comes every day and the moon completes its cycle and the seasons come and go. If we took a picture of the universe today, the scientists can compute how long it will take to return to this point in the picture. So the intellectual man could justify the verse; but that is not what is meant, for it is addressed not to the man of reason or the man of sense, but to the man of Imagination. What is it all about? “That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been, and God seeks what has been driven away.”

[@robynnelson2303]

Me too!!!! Pretty please turn that down!

[@JohnDarwin7]

Do you truly have a good reason to believe in the Supernatural?🌹

[@jrfree88]

Alisa had to drop a critical thinking class? Would she still be a Christian if she would’ve followed through?

[@jrfree88]

Pedophilia is going to be legal? Beastiality is going to be legal? I’m far left and I’ve never ran into anyone on my side that has promoted anything like that.

[@ThorfinnSkullsplitter-fz7ff]

P--dep-ilia, or more accurelty peoderasty, has always been a key component of the h--os--ual game.

[@jrfree88]

@@ThorfinnSkullsplitter-fz7ff that has been a thing said by bigots for decades that has NEVER been verified.

[@sarahkokura6349]

I’d be careful to make the correlation that liberal = democrat. Black people are more likely to vote for the Democratic Party but do not make them liberal.

[@jrfree88]

Listening to cult members talk about other cults is hilarious

[@TheCorrupt420]

Yall are so very lost. Right wing media has corrupted so many. As soon as he cited Thomas Sowell it started to all add up.

[@colinpurssey9875]

Memo to John Cooper : Your persistent and vehement repudiation of socialism as being antithetical to Christian values is ironically antithetical itself to those same values . Consult Acts 2: 41-47 and Acts 4: 32-37 . I've never yet heard any of you right wing evangelists publicly cite those texts . They identify unequivocally socialism as the Christian sociological ideal, antithetical to the individualist oriented variety of capitalism that you and your ilk champion .

[@MarkDouglass-dt9ky]

Alissa is the most beautiful woman on KZbin, inside and out. It gives me hope for America that there's a woman such as she living in this once great nation.

[@BobbyFriston]

Why can't Christians and Muslims love one another through their mutual homophobia ?

[@johnnyappleseed5029]

Why do queers have heterophobia? Homophobia is just a made up, meaningless word used to disparage those who don't agree with the perversion of nature AND GOD's laws....

[@rodneyaustin3999]

Nice one keyboard troll. It's seems you are one of those of use "phobia" to label anyone you disagree with in order to denounce them and justify the chance to debate. Christians are not homophobic.

[@Pipers_hooman]

Would you go say this on a Muslim video?

[@BobbyFriston]

@@rodneyaustin3999Please read the first comment from Johnnyappleseed above your comment.

[@BobbyFriston]

@@johnnyappleseed5029 Your God's and Allah's law ? Are they one and the same God ? Or twins ?

[@marielundstrom7694]

Not you to Alicia, falling for the Trump evanhelicals. Praying sincerely for Trump mot coming close to the White House ever again. And I dont even live in America.

[@johnnyappleseed5029]

Your statement is steeped in ignorance.

[@JohnSmith-zo6ir]

​@@johnnyappleseed5029Yeah agree. And this person probably claims to be a Chistian. Unbelievable.

[@jammystarfish]

Trump Derangement Syndrom

[@rodneyaustin3999]

I will vote for Trump in 2024. I do not believe in Christian nationalism. I do not believe Trump is a Christian. But I must ask, are you only here to type a response without merit or are you really that ignorant? What policies hurt America did Trump enact? What policies from Biden have made America better?

[@richsmith6997]

​@@rodneyaustin3999Well, we could start with his blatant lies about a stolen election. Or maybe we could simply start with the events of January 6th, 2021 and work backwards to 2016. But his many remarks about immigrants, and his treatment of the same, which go against the clear and repeated teachings of Scripture, are alone enough for me to reject voting for Trump again.

[@tonyraffetto931]

There is no god