51 countries around the world. 1,200 cities around the United States.  Thousands of individuals.  And counting...

The numbers are compelling.  Within its two seasons ("The Lazarus Project" and "Silent Night"), Northwest Christian School's hit podcast-based audio drama, "I Witness", has gone viral.  NCS students are literally making an impact around the globe!

In today's Kingdom Culture Conversation, we have the opportunity to visit once more with Chris Zimmerman, NCS alum and the founder of Red 5 Media, the company which has partnered with Northwest Christian to produce the podcast.  We'll hear about the impact from season 1, the inspiration behind season 2, the work behind creating the drama, and the trajectory of future seasons.

To learn more about Red 5 Media, please follow this link.

To enjoy the "I Witness" podcast, please click here.

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created through Frameworks, a Biblical worldview initiative of Northwest Christian School.

For more information on Frameworks, please visit: https://frameworks.ncsaz.org/

For more information on Northwest Christian School, visit: https://www.ncsaz.org/

To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email [email protected] or you can reach him by cell phone: (623)225-5573.

Northwest Christian School's "Build Here, Build There" campus improvement campaign is unlike most any other capital campaign.  In keeping with its mission to teach Biblical worldview to its students, the BHBT effort invests time and resources into ministries outside the school in an effort to provide ministry opportunities to young people.

That part of the plan will not change.  However, as Mike Waypa discusses today, there are aspects of the plan that are changing...and it is time to get excited...

To learn more about the Build Here, Build There plan, please follow this link. 

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created through Frameworks, a Biblical worldview initiative of Northwest Christian School.

For more information on Frameworks, please visit: https://frameworks.ncsaz.org/

For more information on Northwest Christian School, visit: https://www.ncsaz.org/

To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email [email protected] or you can reach him by cell phone: (623)225-5573.

Northwest Christian School's "Build Here, Build There" campus improvement campaign is unlike most any other capital campaign.  In keeping with its mission to teach Biblical worldview to its students, the BHBT effort invests time and resources into ministries outside the school in an effort to provide ministry opportunities to young people.

That part of the plan will not change.  However, as Mike Waypa discusses today, there are aspects of the plan that are changing...and it is time to get excited...

To learn more about the Build Here, Build There plan, please follow this link. 

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created through Frameworks, a Biblical worldview initiative of Northwest Christian School.

For more information on Frameworks, please visit: https://frameworks.ncsaz.org/

For more information on Northwest Christian School, visit: https://www.ncsaz.org/

To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email [email protected] or you can reach him by cell phone: (623)225-5573.

To call Nick Reynoso's testimony "powerful" would be an understatement to be sure.  But today, we have the amazing opportunity to hear how a soldier in the U.S. Army experienced the power of the Gospel, saw it transform his life, and then dove head first into ministry - literally ministry in the trenches.  As a chaplain in the U.S. Army Reserve, Nick has the opportunity to meet soldiers where they are at and to convey that same power that he experienced to them...

To learn more about Nick Reynosa and his ministry, please follow this link.

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created through Frameworks, a Biblical worldview initiative of Northwest Christian School.

For more information on Frameworks, please visit: https://frameworks.ncsaz.org/

For more information on Northwest Christian School, visit: https://www.ncsaz.org/

To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email [email protected] or you can reach him by cell phone: (623)225-5573.

As the NextGen Pastor at The Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona, Zac Driscoll is doing an amazing job of connecting with the next generation of Christ followers that will become and lead the Church.

But, he has some concerns.

As he watches, young people are living in a time of unprecedented advantage, technology, and opportunity.  Yet, they are bound to anxiety, addiction, sin, and fleshly desires.  In today's Kingdom Culture Conversation, Zac shows why he's a young man called to shepherd this next generation in pursuit of true freedom in Christ.

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created through Frameworks, a Biblical worldview initiative of Northwest Christian School.

For more information on Frameworks, please visit: https://frameworks.ncsaz.org/

For more information on Northwest Christian School, visit: https://www.ncsaz.org/

To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email [email protected] or you can reach him by cell phone: (623)225-5573.

Homecoming.  Was.  Epic.

Maybe too epic?  After a spirited Spirit Week chock full of hijinks and shenanigans, the Northwest Christian community wheeled into the day of Homecoming and blew the doors off.  It started at 7:00am with Big Boys on Campus, our monthly men's prayer breakfast, continued with a parade, an assembly, a carnival, an alumni dinner, and ultimately a sound beating of St. Mary's High School's football team.

But, for all that happened that day, the morning's prayer breakfast speaker may have been the singular moment in which the power and purpose of Northwest Christian was most ably presented.  Jared Nightingale, class of 2008, spoke and gave potent testimony to the enduring legacy of Christian education within his life.  
In today's Kingdom Culture Conversation, we hear as Jared walks us through his testimony, his marriage, his growing family, and his career.  In so doing, we're reminded not just of the potency of Christian education but what it means and what it looks like to thrive within the Biblical design for living that the Lord has ordained.

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created through Frameworks, a Biblical worldview initiative of Northwest Christian School.

For more information on Frameworks, please visit: https://frameworks.ncsaz.org/

For more information on Northwest Christian School, visit: https://www.ncsaz.org/

To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email [email protected] or you can reach him by cell phone: (623)225-5573.

This dude is in it to win it.

Marko Susnjara is leading the youth ministry at Phoenix Bible Church, located on the central corridor right in the middle of Phoenix.  And, his ministry has traction.  This is not a ministry with a country club mindset.  It's a ministry where the students are real and they are working through the real issues that our meat-grinder culture is putting them through.  It's a ministry where the full power of the Gospel is on display every week.

In today's Kingdom Culture Conversation, you're going to get the view from the front lines of real youth ministry from a dynamic young man with courage, perspective, experience beyond his years, and wisdom.

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created through Frameworks, a Biblical worldview initiative of Northwest Christian School.

For more information on Frameworks, please visit: https://frameworks.ncsaz.org/

For more information on Northwest Christian School, visit: https://www.ncsaz.org/

To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email [email protected] or you can reach him by cell phone: (623)225-5573.

Jay Rudolph is a renaissance man.  What is a "renaissance man"?  Websters states, in its inimitable and characteristic fashion, "a person with many talents or areas of knowledge."

And, yes, that definition certainly applies to Jay.  A nationally syndicated radio host whose program, "The Plumbline", originates in Iowa but airs nationally, Jay knows apologetics, politics, theology, science, business...and, yes, goats.

So, while this particular Kingdom Culture Conversation starts in one of the oddest directions in the three year history of the podcast, it meanders into an area of culture and theology you won't soon forget!

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created through Frameworks, a Biblical worldview initiative of Northwest Christian School.

For more information on Frameworks, please visit: https://frameworks.ncsaz.org/

For more information on Northwest Christian School, visit: https://www.ncsaz.org/

To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email [email protected] or you can reach him by cell phone: (623)225-5573.

It's like that moment at the end of Iron Man 1 when Tony Stark says, "I am Iron Man." 

The Redeemed Zoomer has gone viral!  We originally published today's episode of Kingdom Culture Conversations - an interview with the mysterious alter ego known as "Redeemed Zoomer" - on May 30, 2024 because so many Northwest Christian were into RZ's YouTube channel. 

But, between then and now, the Redeemed Zoomer has gone viral!  His identity is known but, more to the point, his heart for students and youth culture is all the more apparent!  So, today, we're rebroadcasting that original interview so that our listeners can hear again that the Lord can literally use ANYTHING - including the video game sensation Minecraft - to reach people and grow the Kingdom.

The original show notes follow...

He has a secret identity, an alter ego of sorts.

And, he's  rather like a theological super hero.

No kidding.

Known only as the "Redeemed Zoomer", he's working to redeem mainline protestant churches from the inside, using Youtube and Minecraft as his primary tools.  For the time being, he's not revealing his identity but instead is known only as his screen name, his Youtube handle.  But with one of his videos having garnered over 7 million views, it's clear that his message is resonating with a very large and diverse audience around the world.  Using Minecraft play as the visual that draws younger viewers in, as he plays the game, he explains Biblical worldview, Kingdom culture. and Biblical orthodoxy.  In the process, he's inviting a younger generation of Christ followers not to leave the traditional, mainline denominations but to lay hold of the authority of God's word and begin working to redeem them.

By the way, he's only twenty-years-old.  Wow.  This is going to be a very interesting episode of Kingdom Culture Conversations!

To experience the Redeemed Zoomer's Youtube channel, click here.

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created through Frameworks, a Biblical worldview initiative of Northwest Christian School.

For more information on Frameworks, please visit: https://frameworks.ncsaz.org/

For more information on Northwest Christian School, visit: https://www.ncsaz.org/

To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email [email protected] or you can reach him by cell phone: (623)225-5573.

So, Geoff takes a one day off.  Just one day! 

And, G takes over the International Podcasting Headquarters of Kingdom Culture Conversations with pastoral dynamo Aryan Wallwork and turns in an episode about pirates and eye patches.

But, seriously, you will LOVE today's conversation:  Pastor Wallwork, repping His Church AZ, shows why charisma for legitimate community and passion for discipleship are causing a church plant meeting at Sonoran Foothills School in Arizona to go big time.

And, yes, somewhere in this unforgettable conversation a couple of guys spend far, far too much time talking about pirates.

To learn about Aryan and his wife Allison, and to get a sense of the excitement they bring to church life, please follow this link.

To plan your visit to His Church, click here.

And, apparently, if you want to learn more about pirates than you thought you needed to know, hit 'play'.

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created through Frameworks, a Biblical worldview initiative of Northwest Christian School.

For more information on Frameworks, please visit: https://frameworks.ncsaz.org/

For more information on Northwest Christian School, visit: https://www.ncsaz.org/

To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email [email protected] or you can reach him by cell phone: (623)225-5573.