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In this week's episode Aaron and Kevin sit down with Austin Krautheim. Austin is a farming father of four girls who loves his little hobby farm when he's not working as the facilities manager at Saints Peter and Paul. Oh, and he's got a rockin' beard. 

This conversation is a dive into the joys of living on this side of Easter. 

As always our goal is that you'll hear something in this conversation that will inspire you to go start another spiritual conversation with someone else. 

We hope you enjoy it! 

In this week's conversation, Aaron and Kevin talk about Palm Sunday (and the rest of Holy Week as well) as they share our own experiences walking through this journey with Jesus. 

We hope you enjoy it!

Have you heard of the character in the Bible named "Zacchaeus?" His story only shows up in the Gospel of Luke. It's not in Matthew, Mark, or John. And, it's just a quick 10 verses. Yet, it's quite common to find Zacchaeus' story in many children's Bible stories and Sunday School Curriculums. But, why? 

In this conversation, Aaron and Kevin unpack this beloved story and draw many connections to our lives today. 

As always, we hope you enjoy this conversation and it inspires you to go start another conversation about Jesus with someone else. 

We hope you enjoy it!

P.S. We're sorry about our audio quality today... it's not what you're normally used to. It was human error! We got excited about improved video quality and forgot to press a button to make our microphones work! "Can't win 'em all," they say. :) 

In this week's episode, Aaron and Kevin are joined by guest Alex Dewald. Alex has been a member of Saints Peter and Paul Lutheran Church in Houghton, MI for basically his entire life from the time he was adopted at age 3 from Russia. Alex shares his story of growing up in the church, but how he fell away from active engagement with his church community and his faith, replacing that with a pursuit of the things in this world. He had a moment where he sensed God calling out to him to return, and from there, he followed the leading of the Holy Spirit and got involved in a discipleship relationship with Pastor Kevin which has drastically changed his life and walk with Jesus. 

As always, this is a faith-filled conversation which we hope will inspire you to go and start another conversation about Jesus with someone else. 

We hope you enjoy it!  

The parable of the Good Samaritan is a beloved story. Perhaps it's the best known of all the parables that Jesus tells. It's one thing to know the story, it's another to let it affect you and change your heart and behavior. 

That's the reason Jesus told it in the first place. There was a lawyer who was trying to put Jesus to the test and the man wanted to justify his behaviors. He was pretty certain he was keeping the law of God just fine. But, Jesus forced him to think differently. 

In this conversation, Aaron and Kevin discuss this parable, give some more Scriptural background to the events and characters included, and apply it to our modern context. 

As always we hope you enjoy it! 

In this week's episode, Aaron and Kevin have a conversation about the time that Jesus forgave a prostitute of her sins. 

It's very easy for us to quickly judge and determine the seriousness of people's sins (according to our own understanding). We're quick to acknowledge that someone like a prostitute must be a serious sinner, while I, who has never done anything close to prostitution, am not as much of a sinner. 

But, what we learn in this story from Luke 7 is that Jesus offers his grace to everyone. Everyone is given the same opportunity to be forgiven! AND, more than that, sin is not just about what we do wrong. But, we're also sinning when we claim that we are without sin, because that's just a lie. 

As always, we hope you hear something in this conversation that encourages you to go and start another Spiritual conversation with someone else. 

We hope you enjoy it! 

It's our 200th episode! Thanks for hanging with us all these years week after week. It's truly our joy to have these conversations and we just pray that they are edifying for you and inspiring you to start Spiritual conversations with those you have relationships with. 

In this conversation, we're talking about young Jesus. What do we know? What don't know we know? 

We'll take a look at these questions and much more. 

We hope you enjoy it!

For the past 8 weeks, Saints Peter & Paul has been working through 1 Corinthians 10-14, discovering their "Spiritual Giftedness" - as Paul once shared with that Corinthian congregation.

But, this was no mere reality for the Christians in Corinth. As the rest of the New Testament makes evident (Romans 12:3-8, Ephesians 4:11-16, and 1 Peter 4:10-11) - these gifts are for ALL Christians at ALL times and ALL places!

So...how are you "gifted for good"?

In this conversation, Pastor Kevin and Marcus Huff discuss their own journeys to discovering their gifts, and encourage the listener to explore their gifts in community.

Are you a member of Saints Peter & Paul? Listen and consider what opportunities you might be gifted for! That we all might share in the joy of connecting our God-given talents, to a God-given purpose.

We hope you enjoy it!

One of the things that Christian churches (and Christians in general) are most known for is their public worship. For a lot of people, that's all that they know about Christians. "Those are the people who go to the church on Sunday mornings." Obviously, if you're a Christian, you know that our Christian walk is all-encompassing of our life. It's not just relegated to the one hour on Sunday mornings. 

And yet, that one hour on Sunday mornings is still VERY significant. But, why? 

Perhaps you've heard people say, or even said yourself, "Why do I need to go to church on Sunday to be a Christian? I can believe in Jesus and just worship him on my own." Is that really possible? 

In this week's conversation, we're going to discuss ideas like that and others that people have about Christian public worship. 

We hope you enjoy it! 

In this week's episode, Aaron and Kevin depart a little bit from the norm of discussing the sermon theme to talk about their most recent trip to the Best Practices for Ministry Conference. 

What did they do? What did they learn? How did they contribute? 

Much more about that in this week's conversation. 

We hope you enjoy it!