The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua!

The image and importance of trees is inescapable in Scripture.  From the Genesis account in the beginning--the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden--to the Tree of Life in the end within the book of Revelation, and every tree in between--the Tree in Psalm 1 or the Tree on Golgotha--trees are integral.

In today's Kingdom Culture Conversation, G and Stefan tackle these trees, tying Psalm 1 to Genesis 1, and discuss practical steps that we can each take to see God's wisdom more fully realized in our lives.

As part of Northwest Christian School's annual "Crusaders Charge into Summer Reading" campaign, we are in pursuit of wisdom, gearing up for reading the 31 Proverbs during the month of July 2024.

For more information on this year's Crusaders Charge into Summer Reading campaign, please follow this link.

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created by Northwest Christian School in Phoenix, Arizona.

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.

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua!

"Wisdom and Worldview are two sides of the same coin." 

It's a statement that seems obvious enough but it opens the door in today's Kingdom Culture Conversation with Stefan Wilson, to a deep dive into belief and behavior.

As part of Northwest Christian School's annual "Crusaders Charge into Summer Reading" campaign, we are in pursuit of wisdom, gearing up for reading the 31 Proverbs during the month of July 2024.

For more information on this year's Crusaders Charge into Summer Reading campaign, please follow this link.

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created by Northwest Christian School in Phoenix, Arizona.

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.

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua!

Crusaders Charge into Summer 2024 picks up in our second week with the critical query, "What is it that wisdom is meant to produce in our lives?"  Starting with King Solomon's thesis is Proverbs 1, Stefan and G discuss why true Godly wisdom runs so much deeper than an intellectual enterprise.

Running all summer long, Kingdom Culture Conversations features conversations drawn from the "Crusaders Charge into Summer 2024 Reading" campaign.

This summer, our theme is "WisDUMB" and all summer we will be wrestling with the question, "How do I stop making DUMB decisions and start walking in Godly WISDOM?"

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created by Northwest Christian School in Phoenix, Arizona.

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.

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua!

Starting today, and running all summer long, Kingdom Culture Conversations features conversations drawn from the "Crusaders Charge into Summer 2024 Reading" campaign.

This summer, our theme is "WisDUMB" and all summer we will be wrestling with the question, "How do I stop making DUMB decisions and start walking in Godly WISDOM?"

Today, we kick off the summer-long quest for wisdom with a conversation with Stefan Wilson, a member of the Colson Educators team at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview.

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created by Northwest Christian School in Phoenix, Arizona.

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.

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua!

Yesterday, we enjoyed a Kingdom Culture Conversation with Chris Zimmerman, the head of Northwest Christian School ministry partner Red Five Media and the mastermind behind "I Witness-The Lazarus Project", a podcast-based audio drama that has gone viral within the last month.

Today, as a special KCC episode, we're playing episode 1 of I Witness so KCC listeners can check it out!

To hear more episodes of "I Witness-The Lazarus Project", please follow this link.

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created by Northwest Christian School in Phoenix, Arizona.

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.

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua!

We'd hoped it would be big.  For the sake of the students and staff who poured their hearts and talents into it, we were praying that the reception for I Witness would honor their efforts.

God answered those prayers!  I Witness--the story of a group of high school students who go back in time, via virtual reality, to Bethany in the first century--has been blowing up literally all over the country!  And, to date, nearly two dozen countries outside the U.S.!

So, today, Geoff and the podcast's mastermind, Chris Zimmerman of Red Five Media, sit down to discuss the viral podcast and ask some looming questions...

Will there be a season 2 of I Witness?

Will we hear more from Miles or Quinn?

To listen or learn more about "I Witness--The Lazarus Project", please follow this link.

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created by Northwest Christian School in Phoenix, Arizona.

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.

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua!

Marietta Wright's earliest memories are framed by tragedy and trauma. 

Wright vividly recollects that, when she was a child living in Holland, Nazis worked to exterminate Jews that she counted as friends and neighbors.  Her parents hid the Jewish members of their community within their home--and in so doing became the targets of Nazi hostilities.

What motivated the Wright family to risk life and livelihood to defend their neighbors?  Where did the strength come from to confront evil?  How did Marietta find it in her heart to forgive the atrocities that she came to see as part of her daily existence?

Today's powerful Kingdom Culture Conversation follows a special chapel at Northwest Christian School in which the 85-year-old Marietta Wright told her story to 6th through 12th grade students.  Following the chapel, students compiled a list of questions that they had for Mrs. Wright.  And, in today's Kingdom Culture Conversation, Marietta answers those questions.

In the episode, G references a wonderful piece of art that Marietta painted for the school.  You can see that piece here.

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created by Northwest Christian School in Phoenix, Arizona.

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.

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua!

This year, Phoenix played host to the NCAA final-four and the NCAA national collegiate championship basketball game.  The events brought tens-of-thousands of basketball fanatics to town.

As well, two Jesus fanatics.

With backgrounds steeped in the game of basketball, Randy Shepherd and Jaime Johnson put their b-ball talents and passion for the game on the alter before the Lord and asked Him to use their abilities for the glory of God and the Gospel.  The end result was a phenomenal partnership and a thriving international ministry that has seen them globetrot in pursuit of lives changed.

In today's Kingdom Culture Conversation, we'll hear their amazing story!

For more information on Crossfire Ministry, please follow this link.

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created by Northwest Christian School in Phoenix, Arizona.

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.

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua!

Debbie Yee is a force of nature!  She serves Northwest Christian School in so many capacities, it's difficult to keep track.  She's charging forward in school academic initiatives like the ACSI Regional Speech Meet or the NCS Math Olympiad team.  She writes grant proposals to non-profit foundations on behalf of the school.  On any given day--most days, in truth--she is the substitute teacher that fills in within a classroom on a moment's notice.  And, as cornerstone to all of that, she's a mom and a pastor's wife.

Wow.

Though she doesn't have it to spare (surely), today Debbie takes the time to join Geoff and G for a Kingdom Culture Conversation that represents the culmination of the Red Letter Challenge.  That's right, Sunday, April 21st was the final day of the Red Letter Challenge!  Tune in as we reflect on students in the gospels for the last three months!

To download your own copy of the Spring 2024 edition of the Red Letter Challenge, please follow this link.

To learn more about the Red Letter Challenge and the extrinsic incentives the school is using to remind the students of the virtues of an intrinsic desire for daily time in God's word, please click here.

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created by Northwest Christian School in Phoenix, Arizona.

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.

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua!

As you will hear discussed in today's Kingdom Culture Conversation, there are a host of theological issues that our foundational to the Christian faith.  Conversely, there are other issues that, while important, are not as pressing as others.

Some issues represent prerequisites to salvation.  Others represent preferences.

But, as our student question goes today, where does baptism lie?  Is it a necessary point in the journey towards eternity with Christ?  Or, is it simply a point along the journey we all take in pursuit of Christ.

The difference may seem subtle.  But does eternity hang in the balance?

For more information on Robby and Stand to Reason, please visit this link!

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created by Northwest Christian School in Phoenix, Arizona.

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.