Come To The Sacrifice Podcast by Brock Jones

This episode examines Celebrate Recovery’s use of the Beatitudes and its sequential recovery process, asking whether the curriculum’s lessons, steps, and exercises function as the means of Christian freedom.
Using Romans 6 as the primary counterpoint, the host Brock Jones argues that biblical freedom is grounded in union with Christ and his finished work, not produced by human steps, and previews a continued study through Romans 7–8 on sanctification and the Spirit’s role.

In this episode Brock Jones examines Matthew 5:5 (“Blessed are the meek…”) with its background in Psalm 37 and compares Jesus’ meaning to how Celebrate Recovery applies the verse as a recovery principle. He contrasts the Beatitudes’ context with Paul's order in Romans—indicative (what Christ has done), reckoning by faith, then obedient living by the Spirit—and questions whether recovery steps should be read into the Beatitude.The episode concludes by promising a follow-up that will define what Celebrate Recovery means by “recovery” and whether its method aligns with New Testament sanctification rooted in union with Christ and Spirit-enabled obedience.

Host Brock Jones continues a series evaluating Celebrate Recovery, asking whether its eight principles truly arise from Scripture.The episode analyzes Matthew 5:4 and the Beatitudes, contrasts exegesis with associating verses to preexisting recovery steps, and examines Philippians 2:12–13 to highlight union with Christ and the Spirit as the biblical basis for sanctification rather than a human-derived recovery system.

In this episode Brock Jones begins a careful, fair series examining the Celebrate Recovery movement — not to attack people who’ve been helped, but to test the movement’s theology and use of Scripture. The focus is hermeneutical: does the recovery structure actually come from the biblical text or has scripture been fitted around an existing program?
The episode opens with a review of Romans 6–8 and the doctrine of progressive sanctification, emphasizes the difference between testimony and biblical proof, and starts a verse-by-verse look at Matthew 5 (the Beatitudes), beginning with “poor in spirit.” Brock explains the stakes: where Christians place their faith (in Christ alone versus Christ plus a program) and how proper interpretation must govern any claim that a passage provides a recovery process.

In this final episode of the Romans 6–8 series, host Brock Jones unpacks Romans 8:9–13, showing how the believer's union with Christ and the indwelling Holy Spirit provide the power for progressive sanctification. Rather than relying on self-effort or legalism, Christians are called to reckon themselves dead to sin and, through the Spirit, put sinful deeds to death so they can live.Jones emphasizes practical outworking of faith: the Spirit who raised Jesus brings life to mortal bodies and enables believers to mortify sinful deeds—not by passive waiting or mere willpower, but by active dependence on Christ’s finished work and the Holy Spirit’s power.

In this episode Brock Jones walks through Romans 8:5–9, explaining the difference between the mind governed by the flesh and the mind governed by the Spirit. He emphasizes that sanctification comes not from self-effort or religious activity but from the Holy Spirit working through the finished work of Christ.Jones offers practical application and reflection questions to help listeners examine where they place their trust, urging believers to rely on Jesus and the Spirit for ongoing growth rather than human ability or rules.

Pastor Travis Deer joins the Come to the Sacrifice podcast to preach on the biblical reality of hell, using the example of the rich man and Lazarus to explain its misery, permanence, and the absence of God’s presence.
The episode calls listeners to urgent repentance, stresses the duty to share the gospel, and offers a clear invitation to receive Jesus as the only way of escape.

Host Brock Jones continues the Romans 6–8 series, focusing on Romans 8:3–4 to show how God, through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, accomplished what the law and human effort could not: condemning sin in the flesh and bringing life and righteousness into believers.The episode contrasts law-based self-effort with Spirit-led transformation, urging listeners to depend on Christ’s finished work rather than human ability, and previews upcoming discussion on what it means to walk after the Spirit.

In this episode we arrive at Romans 8 and hear Paul’s answer to the exhausted cry of Romans 7: freedom is not achieved by stronger will or stricter law, but by union with Christ and the work of the Holy Spirit.Focusing on Romans 8:1–2, the message explains “no condemnation” and “the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus,” showing how the Spirit makes Christ’s death and resurrection experiential and produces true transformation and holiness.

In this episode we unpack Romans 7:22–25, highlighting the conflict between the desire to obey God and the overpowering law of sin. The speaker explains how sincere desire and willpower cannot produce sanctification, and how legalism and self-effort only lead to exhaustion. Paul’s cry, "Who shall deliver me?" points to the true answer—Jesus Christ and His finished work—setting the stage for freedom in Romans 8.