Too often disabled persons are pushed away from the church or made to feel unwelcome in any number of ways. But the good news of Jesus affirms God's image in all people.  Autism Pastor Lamar Hardwick talks with Ed Stetzer about steps and strategies the church can use to build stronger, truly inclusive communities of faith.

Christ told believers to go out and spread the gospel message to all the world.  Today, Muslims make up about a quarter of the world's population. So how do we spread the gospel to the Muslim world?  Dr. Alfonse Jahved, Executive Director of Heart for Muslims, talks with Ed Stetzer about how we can reach our Muslim neighbors for Christ and take a role in the global mission.

When someone asks you why you have hope, do you have an answer? As believers, our hope is in both walking through life with Christ at our side, and envisioning a future with Him. Ed Stetzer talks with Wheaton College's Dr. Laura Barwegen about how to disciple believers and work through that answer of where our hope lies.

While the world has been fixated on jihadist threats in the Middle East, terrorist groups across Africa have been carrying out massacres of whole villages, including its mothers and children. Their intention is to rid Africa of its Christians, either by forced conversion to Islam or by destruction and murder. Ed Stetzer talks with Kairos Company Founder and CEO Johnnie Moore about his experience in Nigeria, and the urgent call to Christians for action against this threat.

The election is just weeks away and the nation is facing a number of crisis... a global pandemic, economic uncertainty and racial tensions. Ed Stetzer talks with Pastor David Platt on how we find unity in the church around Jesus and not the politics of the day. 

Today’s youth struggle with difficult questions of sexual identity and gender.  The culture's view on these issues are changing and that often makes it tough on knowing how to talk with our teens and others we love about these issues.  Wheaton College Professor Mark Yarhouse talks with Ed Stetzer about how to discuss sexual identity while being faithful to Scripture, informed by science and sensitive to the culture.

 

 

 

Thousands of people have been protesting the racism that's been dividing our country in cities throughout the country in recent months. So how do we as Christians reflect God's love of all people.. especially today, when our culture is trying so hard to divide us? Ed Stetzer talks with Lisa Fields, the founder of Jude 3 Project, to discuss how we as believers can be salt and light amidst racial tensions in our culture.

What do you do when you have friends or family who say they're Christian but they don’t know Jesus?  We’ve all encountered cultural Christians. They say they're Christian, but they’re far from God.  Pastor and Author Dean Inserra talks with Ed Stetzer about how to reach these friends with honesty, compassion, grace and most of all the real love of Christ.

It's amazing how heavy the weight of emptiness can be. How much pain and struggle can be caused by something that isn't even there. Disappointment in relationships, loneliness, a craving for things that don't satisfy, a search for purpose and meaning, unfulfilled dreams. Author Nancy Guthrie talks with Ed Stetzer about how our emptiness can allow God to do his best work in our lives, by filling it with himself.

During these difficult times in our culture, some within the African American community are questioning the place of the Christian faith in the struggle for justice.  But New Testament scholar Esau McCaulley argues that reading Scripture from the perspective of Black church tradition is invaluable for addressing the urgent issues of our times. He talks with Ed Stetzer about how this model can speak to topics sometimes overlooked, such as ethnicity, political protest, policing, and slavery.