With the pastoral staff out of town, Ben brings in Mandy and Juan to talk about the general questions of youth group and why students leave the church. It leads into a much broader discussion of how kids sense falsehood, the cultural differences with youth in church around the world, and what it is that makes the church a place that students keep coming back to.

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Andy talks about the various ways our words can have power, how they can have life and death, and the way we can say precisely the wrong thing. He talks about following God's instruction for controlling our words, and remembers an old friend who, time and time again, helped him to do so.

Proverbs 18:21

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Brandi discusses "the fiery tongue" discussed in Proverbs, which leads to a broader talk about how we should be living our lives - and what the world should expect to see in us.

Proverbs 18:21

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Andy, Brandi, and Ken discuss the fallout that comes after a shooting like Santa Fe, and explore the ways that we, as Christians, can respond to tragedies like this - and return to the Sermon on the Mount to see what Jesus had to say about it.

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In the midst of an packed, joyous service, Andy takes the stage to talk about the truest meaning of Pentecost - how God created a church to bring the gospel to the world, and how God made this church to bring the gospel to this city.

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Ken returns from paternity leave and joins Anthony in the studio to talk about Pentecost with Andy. The three of them explore their very different backgrounds and common fears and misconceptions people have when it comes to the Holy Spirit.

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"I hate to tell you this, church - but I'm not so convinced that we're not the religious insiders."

On Mother's Day, Brandi remembers what it was like to deal with her own mother when she had been disobedient, and then goes into the story of the centurion, who had unshakable faith in what Jesus could do. She studies the healing word that Jesus give - but also the challenge that the story actually give us.

Matthew 8: 5-13

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On Mother's Day, Ann returns to the blessing of Aaron, and what it means to actually give a blessing to someone. She ends up venturing out into the congregation to deliver a blessing to someone right there and then!

Luke 24: 50-53

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Today's topic is division within the church - that's church with both a big "C" and a little one - how do we pray for it, how do we avoid becoming splintered, and how do we stop from focusing on what everyone else is doing wrong?

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Andy looks at a story of Elijah, where God calls him out to hear him as he passed by. And just like Elijah found God in the silence, Andy helps us to find God in the same place. And because of who he is, Andy pushes us towards hearing it in the everyday - and once you hear it, doing something about it.

1 Kings 19:9-13

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