All Things New

On this week's episode, we are joined by John Starke, pastor of Apostles Uptown in New York City. We spend time discussing what church planting and ministry look like in Manhattan, as well as his upcoming book on the topic of prayer.

After our recent marriage mini-conference, we decided to spend some time going over the definitions of biblical masculinity and femininity laid out in John Piper and Wayne Grudem's book, "Recovering Biblical Manhood & Womanhood."

As we prepare for an upcoming marriage mini-conference, we decided to spend some time going over the definitions of biblical masculinity and femininity laid out in John Piper and Wayne Grudem's book, "Recovering Biblical Manhood & Womanhood."

Gather 'round for a spooky tale about a recent kerfuffle that Bob got himself into on political Twitter. This caused us to wonder - is there any hope of ever having a thoughtful debate on the social media platform? What causes people to lose any and all civility when using Twitter? In this special Halloween episode, we explore whether or not it's worth it to engage on political Twitter.

On this week's episode, we are joined by D. Valentine, an Acts 29 church planter from Cedar Hill, Texas. Valentine walks us through the story of how he came to plant Omni Fellowship and the adversity he's experienced along the way.

There couldn't possibly be anymore from James K.A. Smith's "Awaiting the King" that we could talk about, right? Wrong. The idea of separation of church and state has caused many Christians to wear their christian identity and political identity separately. In this episode, we discuss the provocative question, "What would it look like to be the church FOR the state?"

Recent controversy in the Evangelical community got us thinking about how the gospel speaks to issues of social justice. In this episode, we explore how some of the ideas from James K.A. Smith's "Awaiting the King" might challenge the way Christians respond to and engage with social justice.

After our recent conversations with James K.A. Smith, we received a number of questions from listeners. We decided to take some time in this episode and discuss more ideas from his book, "Awaiting the King."

We continue our conversation with Dr. James K.A. Smith - an author and philosophy professor at Calvin College. We discuss his book, "Awaiting the King," and the question he raises at the end of the book which he calls, "the Godfather problem."

In this week's episode, we are joined by Dr. James K.A. Smith - an author and philosophy professor at Calvin College. We discuss his book, "Awaiting the King," which focuses on how the church should (and shouldn't) involve itself in political and social matters.