In this episode of All His Church, Chris gets honest about a season of transition—kids leaving home, career questions after 30 years, and a surprising struggle to show up for Sunday worship. When his wife quietly says, “We need the Eucharist,” it sends him back to Scripture and to the heart of what Communion really is.

Praying through Psalm 78:23–29 and walking slowly through John 6:25–71, Chris reflects on Jesus as the true bread from heaven and what it means to “eat his flesh and drink his blood” in a church world full of different Eucharistic theologies—Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Anglican, Reformed, Methodist, and symbolic memorial views. Rather than trying to solve the mystery, he invites you into it: a real Presence that meets us in our fatigue, doubt, and inconsistency, and calls us back to the table.

If you’ve been slipping from Sunday to Sunday, or wrestling with what the Lord’s Supper actually is, this episode is a gentle but clear reminder: we don’t just need more discipline—we need the Eucharist.

Chris shares a raw reflection on 30 years in corporate America, wrestling with the pull between "soulless" mammon (Matthew 6:24) and God's calling. Inspired by St. Catherine of Siena's fire-setting quote and St. Faustina's Divine Mercy story, he urges listeners to ask: "What did God make you for?"

This week on All His Church, Chris prays through Psalm 86:1–13, reflecting on God’s steadfast love and deliverance “from the depths of Sheol.” In the midst of Holy Week, he finally brings the Apostles’ Creed into the conversation, exploring how this ancient confession summarizes the passion, death, burial, descent, and resurrection of Jesus. Walking day by day from Palm Sunday through Easter, Chris offers a brief Holy Week overview and then lingers on Holy Saturday, asking: What was Jesus doing while his body lay in the tomb and his friends mourned? Join this ecumenical, contemplative journey as a “regular dude on a spiritual journey” invites you to pray the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be, and to meditate on Christ’s hidden work between the cross and the empty grave.

Psalm 2, Microsoft’s endless newsfeed, and the Big Bang all collide in this Holy Week reflection. Chris starts with a kid‑friendly explanation of the Big Bang, then asks what (or who) stands behind a universe scientists still call “unknown” at its deepest level. Along the way, he explores the Bible as God’s long rescue mission, the stunning preservation of Scripture across 1,500 years, and how Old Testament hints of resurrection point to Jesus as more than a “good moral teacher.” With help from C.S. Lewis, Fr. Georges Lemaître (the priest behind the Big Bang model), and the Catechism’s teaching that faith and science cannot truly conflict, this episode lands in a personal place: your life with God is not random, and Christ’s coming was never “out of nowhere.” Closing with prayer, “All His Church” invites you to see both creation and salvation as the work of the same loving Father.

Host Chris reflects on Psalm 133 and the goodness of brothers and sisters dwelling together in unity. From his own journey through multiple traditions—Catholic, Episcopalian, Baptist, Methodist—he unpacks the story behind the name “All His Church,” describing how a season of praying about denomination led to Jesus’ reassurance: “Chris, it is all my church”.​

This episode offers a fast, accessible walk through Christian history—from Roman persecution and early heresies to Chalcedon, the Great Schism, and the Protestant Reformation—to show how human disagreement has splintered one Church into tens of thousands of denominations today. Chris then turns that history into a personal challenge, asking whether we still come to Jesus for clarification—through Scripture and prayer—or just follow our politics and upbringing, and inviting listeners back into the kind of unity Psalm 133 celebrates

Opening with a note that today's reading comes from Sirach 15, a Deuterocanonical book not found in most Protestant Bibles, Chris invites Protestant listeners to explore it in the spirit of the podcast's ecumenical heart. The passage places fire and water before every person and says plainly: whichever you choose will be given to you. From there, Chris reflects on reading the Bible cover-to-cover four or five times and what it means to finally let God's full self-revelation sink in — including the thunderous blessings and curses of Deuteronomy 28 — arriving at the conviction that free will and obedience are not opposites but the very hinge on which the whole story turns.

Rooted in Psalm 78 and God's choosing of David — a shepherd boy pulled from the sheepfolds to guide Israel "with upright heart and skillful hand" — Chris opens with a practical meditation on waking up early, walking through the morning routines of Jocko Willink, Tim Cook, Anna Wintour, and The Rock to make the case that the first battle of the day is won before the world wakes up. He then pivots to the twelve tribes of Israel, noting that their names — unlike our modern habit of naming children after relatives or making names up — each carry a specific meaning given by God, asking what it means to be called by a name the Lord himself chose. The episode sits with the mystery of divine election and what it looks like to be faithful to a calling you were given before you understood it.

Chris opens Psalm 149 with a confession: he hated math, got an English degree partly to avoid it, and yet found himself doing math in his free time — running the numbers on human overconfidence. Citing Gallup polls, GMO research, political science studies, and the jaw-dropping statistic that 75% of Americans believe they are the best person they know, he builds an ironclad mathematical case that a crisis of humility is at the root of most of our problems, spiritual and civic. He weaves in sayings from The Desert Fathers — including the devil's own admission to the monk Macarius that humility is the one weapon he cannot overcome — and ends with a personal gut-punch: calculating how many meals and how many lives (9, specifically) could be saved if he traded his expensive car payment for charity. The math, he says, does not require calculus — just the Lord

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Opening with Psalm 66 and the image of being brought "through fire and through water," Chris explores how fire in Scripture is not destruction but refinement, tracing that theme through Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the furnace, St. Polycarp, St. Lucy, and St. Dominic de Guzmán — whose trial-by-fire debate with the Cathars led directly to Mary appearing and handing him the first Rosary as a "battering ram" for spiritual warfare. He introduces the Millennial saint Carlos Acutis — a Halo-playing teenager who catalogued Eucharistic miracles online before dying at 15 in 2006 — and asks what excuse the rest of us have for staying silent about our faith when faced with far lesser fires. The episode is a call to fearless witness, venerated across Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran traditions alike.

Anchored in Psalm 96, Chris opens with the image of a half-acre yard teeming with hundreds of living creatures — owls, raccoons, a white squirrel named Gandalf — and asks what it means that God made every single one of us in His image with equal worth. Through a jarring memory of a teenage night in Savannah, where a girl named Sara whispered "my home is a little wild — this is not who I am" before walking into a house filled with artifacts celebrating slavery, Chris challenges every listener to look at their own "wedding pictures" and honestly ask who is in them. Drawing on Paul's letter to the Galatians, Acts 17, and John's Revelation, he calls the whole Church — Catholic, Protestant, every tradition — to deliberately cross into the parts of God's creation they have been unconsciously leaving out.