Good Christian People

This week, we begin a series of critical conversations on the pursuit of racial reconciliation. We are joined by Dr. Adam Alvarez and we discuss the history of systemic racism in America, the difficulties we have in recognizing it, and the call God has given us to work towards racial reconciliation. This is one for the record books.

To conclude our series on worship, we sit down with Dr. Raymond Higgins - who has forgotten more about worship than we could ever hope to know. We talk about worship philosophy and how corporate worship has changed over the years, for better or worse! 55 years of worship leading wisdom gets dropped by pretty much the kindest, most sincere man on the planet.

For the past few weeks, we’ve taken a look at the significance of corporate worship, but even more important to our spiritual health is our personal worship experience. In this episode, we begin with a discussion on critical current events, and then share our thoughts on how to improve our personal worship.

This week, we welcome Brianna Jarrett back as we continue our series on worship, corporate and personal. In this episode, we share stories of our experiences in worship ministry and give a behind-the-scenes look at corporate worship ministry in the Church. And all God's people said..."A-woman".

On this super-size episode, we begin a conversation with worship leader, Brianna Jarrett (esq.), on the significance of worship in the life of the Church and good Christian people. We go behind the scenes and pull back the curtain to share some of the challenges of leading worship when things get messy. We get super honest in this one. Also, Brianna is a lawyer, in case that doesn't get mentioned ten times throughout the episode.

This has been an incredibly hard year, but God didn’t bring us through just to survive. He was doing something this year. So, we take a look back on the ups and downs of 2020 and share our experiences and lessons learned.

Join us in sending out 2020 well by answering these questions along with us:

What will you remember from 2020?

What are you proud of from 2020?

What do you regret about 2020?

What lessons did you learn in 2020?

What goals/resolutions will you set for 2021?

Merry Christmas from your favorite podcast recorded on Mondays in Glen Burnie, MD! Or, if not your favorite podcast recorded on Mondays in Glen Burnie, MD, then at least Top 5! We want to wish you a Merry Christmas from the bottom of our heeeaaaarts!

Christmas is just a few days away and we wrap up our Advent series breaking down the overwhelmingly undeserved and remarkably kind love of God who would come to rescue a bunch of NOT good Christian people. The confessions are convicting and somewhat uncomfortable this time around. We also give a lot of attention to a disturbing recent event that requires some heavy discussion. We don't want to, but we gotta talk about the Jericho March.

Life is hard. Life can beat us down. But in the midst of our struggle, our grief, and our scars, God has made a way for us to have joy in all of it – and that is rooted solely in Emmanuel; our God, who is with is.

In an increasingly polarized world, one thing we ALL recognize we need is peace…but we want others to bring it about. We aren’t often the initiators of it. As we continue looking at Advent, we will discuss how Jesus makes it possible to have peace and be people OF peace. Plus, we talk about music, monoliths, and human meat steaks makes a return!

"Advent is Actually Quite Political" - Kaitlyn Schiess

https://christandpopculture.com/advent-is-actually-quite-political/ (https://christandpopculture.com/advent-is-actually-quite-political/)

"5 Reasons Jesus is Still the Prince of Peace" - Sheila Alewine

https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/topical-studies/reasons-jesus-is-still-the-prince-of-peace.html (https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/topical-studies/reasons-jesus-is-still-the-prince-of-peace.html)

Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture

https://iasculture.org/news/institute-releases-democracy-dark-times-sapc (https://iasculture.org/news/institute-releases-democracy-dark-times-sapc)

"Restoring Shalom" - Paul Tripp

https://www.paultripp.com/articles/posts/restoring-shalom (https://www.paultripp.com/articles/posts/restoring-shalom)

Your Peace Will Make Us One (song) - Audrey Assad

https://open.spotify.com/track/3b6kJ9mpFD0t6tpADOHmI4?si=AXY8eYSvTIiGqxdzPGxVoQ