As Winter concludes and Spring arrives, how should we care for the vehicles entrusted to us? What’s the routine maintenance to engage, which can provide preventative care and prolong the life of our vehicle? After the cold season, we all want to enjoy the delights of the Spring and the fun of the Summer. So, as the temperature rises, our mileage does also. So, we'll need to invest in our vehicles, just as they’ve invested in us.

In Episode 8 (Season 2) of "C.A.R.s, Coffee, & Christ", our team members discuss the practical importance of regular maintenance, giving tips on how to establish good vehicle care habits. They also touch on performing tune ups and checkups as certain ‘milestones’ are reached. These are all ways to care and love our vehicles.

Then, and as our team loves to do, we talk about the parallels between good vehicle maintenance and the practice of God’s ‘spiritual disciplines’, which He provides to help us stay close, as well as grow closer, to Him. And just as the neglect of vehicle maintenance leads to a vehicle breakdown, neglecting the spiritual disciplines can lead to our lives falling apart.

In the spiritual disciplines, God is showing us He wants more than an informal relationship – He wants us to learn to enjoy Him! And this happens when we use these habits – which should become joys (not chores) – and help us grow in closeness to God. This episode is full of practical wisdom that should benefit both the care of your vehicle and the care of your heart.

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Why do so many in today's culture think of work "as a grind" and seek "a side hustle" (or two)? What's behind the desire to monetize hobbies, and to squeeze work into every waking hour of the day?

In Episode 7 (Season 2) of "C.A.R.s, Coffee, & Christ", several of our team Leaders dive into the challenges presented by what has been termed "Hustle Culture". While work is intrinsically good, and developing a work ethic is important, hustle culture goes beyond this, pushing the limits and forgetting the boundaries of work - boundaries which God says are good for our lives.

After discussing the importance of work boundaries, along with wisdom about when to set them, the team discusses God's design and established pattern of work and rest, which was embedded in creation during God's original "Work Week". They answer the question, "What is the Sabbath?", provide definitions for work and rest, and give practical, real-life applications on how to trust God with our work, rest with purpose, and honor God in both.

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Love and Marriage, Love and Marriage ... so the opening line goes in the famous song by Frank Sinatra.

Our world is obsessed with love ... and romance! But it often leaves marriage out of the equation, even relegating it to a social construct of antiquity. But the Church, which upholds the institution of marriage, often fails to promote and cultivate a fully formed love, which embraces intimacy within its sacred confines. So, how do we keep love and marriage together, as God intended for our flourishing?

In Episode 6 of Season 2, C.A.R.'s Founders get together to discuss how to keep love and marriage together, as well as how to invest in developing a healthy marriage. The team debunks some myths of love and marriage and promotes tried and true ways of growing a healthy relationship between the two.

Lastly, the team discusses how God uses the marriage metaphor to describe His relationship with His People. So, relationship with God is not just positive feelings, but mutual affection, demonstrated tangibly and regularly. Yes - God loves us! But we need to love Him back. The good news is that God has promised that if we are His 'spouse' - we will! Not perfectly this side of Heaven, but we will love Him faithfully.

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In Episode 5 of Season 2, the Founders discuss a very difficult topic, asking the question, “Why Suffering?” Why is there so much pain, tragedy, and ultimately, death in our world? Is this just the way life is, or is this not the way it was meant to be?

The team discusses how the Christian Faith, which is centered on Jesus, unfolds before us in God’s Great Story of His good creation, our ugly sin, but His amazing restoration. The story doesn’t begin with sin, suffering, and death (nor does it end there) but in the middle, we experience this great dilemma. Why? Because we are sufferers in a fallen world, victims of an Enemy’s lie, but also part of the problem as sinners, being responsible for that part of our plight. We do not want to answer this difficult question like Job’s friends – simplistically and harmfully.

Ultimately, the team reflects on how Christianity tells a better story. But God’s solution and resolution are complex, because a complex problem requires a thorough solution. So, God answers the dilemma of our sin on the Cross; the division of human beings at Pentecost; the issues of injustice at the Final Judgment; and the question of why suffering and death at the Resurrection.

The team finishes the conversation, by reflecting on Paul’s famous conclusion on the matter in 1 Corinthians 15, which shows that God not only honors suffering, giving it integrity, but endures it Himself unto death on the Cross, then defeats Death, our final enemy by His resurrection from the Dead.

God forgive sinners. But He also comforts suffers, because He gets it. And as He comforts us, He points us ahead, to hope in a glorious future, a New Creation – where suffering, tragedy, and death have been swallowed up. Therefore, those who trust in Christ, will find that Jesus’ resurrection was not the End of the Story … but the Beginning of Everything!

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In Episode 4 of Season 2 of C.A.R.s, Coffee, & Christ, 'the guys' gather around to talk shop, particularly around choosing a good engine for your vehicle, as well as how and when we should challenge traditional thinking about engines. We also answer the all-important question, "When do we need more power?" The answer? Always!

Then, in our typical fashion, we move our discussion to speak about the parallels between vehicle engines and the human heart, which serve as the central headquarters of each, respectively. The men discuss how an engine needs to be replaced when repairing it is no longer possible or is the better financial option.

Yet we see in the Bible that our hearts are in disrepair from the start. Thus, in a spiritual sense, we are 'dead on arrival'. So, as fallen humans, because of sin, we don't eventually become ‘broken-hearted’, but are ‘heart-broken’ from the start. We've all been born into spiritual brokenness, though it takes most of us longer to recognize than we care to admit.

We conclude our episode by speaking about the amazing promise God makes in His New Covenant (Ezek. 36:26-27; Jer. 31:31-34), where He promises to extract the old, spiritually dead heart, and by an act of divine grace, replaces it with a new heart, a new engine, and one that's even better than the old one. Our new heart 'fires up', just like a new engine, and now beats for God, walks in His ways, and wants to obey His commands. Therefore, God is both the Great Physician and the Great Technician!

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In the 3rd Episode of Season 2, we dive into what Christians mean by the word, 'Salvation'. Often a confusing concept for both Christians and non-Christians alike, the team discusses how important it is to first understand the 'Story of Salvation' (the Bible), and the Savior in God's Story (Jesus Christ). By understanding these, we can better understand what salvation is about.

Too often we enter this conversation asking loaded questions or making religious statements such as, "Am I saved? Are you saved? I have been saved", yet without knowing much of the Story or the Savior. This kind of thinking will lead to the formation of religious 'clubs', rather than producing healthy churches, and can promote more confusion than clarity. When we learn the Story and trust the Savior, we will see more clearly how God invites us into both, by faith, which brings salvation.

And while our acceptance in Jesus is profoundly beautiful and gracious, it will lead to hard work and personal transformation. So, the team concludes by sharing how the Church is for recovering addicts of self, sin, and stuff, who now savor the Story and the Savior!

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In the 2nd Episode of Season 2, we discuss motorcycles, motorcycle culture, and how we can be a part of that community in a meaningful, yet Gospel-centered way.

Several members of our team talk about good beginner bikes to purchase, the 'do's and don'ts' of how best to get started, and answer questions about when bikers should level up to bikes with higher CCs. The discussion then shifts to motorcycle culture, how it is different than car culture, and how it is often misunderstood in society.

Lastly, we speak about how best to minister to the motorcycle community by valuing the people in it and promoting light in places where it may be dark. As Christians, we want to be "in the world" but not "of the world". And by doing so, we can share in their stories and community but also expose them to the bigger story of God and His global community, the Church.

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In Episode 1, we kick-off an exciting new season of our Podcast with a discussion we call, "The Great Exchange".

I sit down with our Co-Owner/Founder, Joshua King to discuss the various 'exchange rates' we find in current culture, then compare the 'exchange rate' offered to us in God's Kingdom. Some questions we cover include:

1. Is the world really able to deliver on its promises? And why do so many buy into the 'pyramid schemes' and shallow investment strategies offered?

2. What does Jesus teach to counter these failed promises and empty strategies? And how does His exchange rate and Kingdom differ?

3. What's the 'payoff' of investing in God's Kingdom rather than our own?

4. How can God afford the incredible returns he gives when we invest with Him?

5. What is "The Greatest Exchange" God has made, which underwrites every trade He makes with His trusting children?

This episode serves as a 'teaser' for our soon-to-be-released booklet of the same name, that covers not only these kingdom principles, but additionally God's grand story of 'How He Does Business with Man'. We hope you'll tune in, leave a comment and visit our webpage for more!

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In Episode 10, we conclude Season 1 of our Podcast with a discussion about our "Year in Review". We look at both the highlights and the challenges of 2025.

We then turn our attention to 2026 and "The Year Ahead", discussing our dreams, our hopes, and (yes) our resolutions for the upcoming year.

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In Episode 9, our team gets into the core mission of our company - the integration of restoring cars and how God restores people.

Along with discussing the purpose and passion behind car restoration, we share our personal favorites vehicles. This is a rich discussion about how vehicles tell stories, encapsulate dreams, and are shared, generational bonds within family.

Then, we dive into how this work of vehicle restoration serves as a metaphor, as well as a biblical theme throughout scripture, particularly, that God is in the business of restoring His creation and His people in the image of His Son, Jesus Christ.

This is one of our favorite discussions yet, so we hope you'll tune in, leave a comment and visit our webpage for more!

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