Kingdom Culture Conversations

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

You know Martin Luther--the great reformer, the man that launched Protestantism?  Well, he certainly didn't mince words when he said of the New Testament's epistle of James, "“Therefore St James’ epistle is really an epistle of straw, compared to these others, for it has nothing of the nature of the Gospel about it.”  Believe it or not, Luther even suggested removing James from the canon of scripture.

It's also been suggested that James' view of salvation is markedly different from that of Paul.  Further, allegedly, James rarely mentions Jesus in his contribution to the New Testament.

Today, Robby Lashua works through these allegations and protestations, helping us to see the virtue in this brief epistle.  And, once we see it in the new light that Robby shares, we'll never again mistake the brevity of James for a lack of clarity in terms of who Jesus is and what He brings to the lives of His followers.

What is this Kingdom Culture Conversation podcast tradition, " 'What About?' Wednesday"?   Every-other-Wednesday, we are joined by Robby Lashua, of Stand to Reason Ministries, an apologetics ministry based in Southern California.

Robby's role within these special "What About?" Wednesday episodes?  Podcast listeners have the opportunity to email/text in their own "What About?" questions and during these episodes, Robby will work to answer the questions, point students towards the scriptural truth underlying their inquiry, and equip them to defend their faith!

If you are interested in submitting a question, please email [email protected].

To learn more about Stand to Reason, please visit 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.

"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!

Brain cancer.  For Peter Holcomb, a young husband and recent father who was just starting out on his family journey, it was a diagnosis that came out of left field, shaking him to the very foundations of his faith.  But that is the moment that God began to work.  As we'll hear today, cancer became secondary to the true miracle that the Heavenly Father rendered, quite unexpectedly, in Peter's heart and life.

"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.

"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!

In 2017, legislators in Kentucky passed a bill that made a Biblical literacy an aspect of the state's academic standards for public schools.  The American Civil Liberties Union, however, had a fit and immediately began to challenge the law but in a curious way.  They published what they describe as a "consensus document", pulling together a number of religious and secular organizations, to align on what facets of Scripture can be taught in public schools in agreement with, at least in their view, the First Amendment.

The resulting document is called "The Bible & Public Schools:  A First Amendment Guide" and it is an interesting read.

Can the Bible be allowed to be taught in public schools?  Can you treat the Bible like a text book?  Is the transformational power of truth diminished when we do?  If the Bible is allowed, do we also allow other religious source texts like the Koran?

In today's Kingdom Culture Conversation, we welcome back to the podcast Roger Erdvig from Summit Ministries.  Together, we work through these questions and more!

To read "The Bible & Public Schools:  A First Amendment Guide", please click on this link.

To better understand the American Civil Liberties Union, please follow this link.

To learn about Roger Erdvig, please click here.

To learn about the wonderful resources from Summit Ministries, 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.

"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!

The lights in the theater fade and the audience goes silent.  Cue Critical Theory entering from stage right.  Immediately, the crowd boo's and hisses...Critical Theory has become what Darth Vader was in the seventies and eighties...the ultimate villainous archetype.

"But, hold on a second," a student recently asked, "isn't Critical Theory, at least in a form, in the Bible?"  After we work through the shock of such a supposition, it's not a bad question.  "Take a look at the theological concept of the imputation of sin," reasons the student.  "Here, we see God ascribing the consequences of sin to all of humanity for the sins of a single man, Adam.  Nevermind whether or not that is fair, the issue is the similarity to Critical Theory.  One of the main Evangelical knocks against Critical Theory is that a whole class of people are lumped into a bucket of 'oppressor' because of their ethnicity, gender, or faith.  Isn't that what God does with humanity?  He lumps us all into the class of 'sinner' because we are descendants of Adam?  Doesn't that make God the ultimate Critical Theorist?"

Ouch.

But, Robby Lashua, regular KCC contributing guest and apologist from Stand to Reason, enters from stage left to answer the question...but does he save the day?  Find out in today's episode!

What is this Kingdom Culture Conversation podcast tradition, " 'What About?' Wednesday"?   Every-other-Wednesday, we are joined by Robby Lashua, of Stand to Reason Ministries, an apologetics ministry based in Southern California.

Robby's role within these special "What About?" Wednesday episodes?  Podcast listeners have the opportunity to email/text in their own "What About?" questions and during these episodes, Robby will work to answer the questions, point students towards the scriptural truth underlying their inquiry, and equip them to defend their faith!

If you are interested in submitting a question, please email [email protected].

To learn more about Stand to Reason, please visit 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.

"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!

"The science is settled".  It's a popular turn of phrase that has almost become ubiquitous since it was first made politically popular by Vice-President Al Gore in 2013 and then became all-too-familiar during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

So, is it possible to "settle the science"?  Or, is the phrase simply a billy club used by both sides within our polarized culture to stifle the intellectual curiosity of the other?

Nathan Johnson works within Colson Educators, an important facet of the ministry of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview.  Prior to his post there, however, Johnson worked with the aerospace industry where his role was to engineer rockets, helicopters, and jets whose precise designs were tantamount to life-and-death calculations.  The decisions that he helped to make, rooted in science, held men and women's lives in the balance.  In short, the notion of "settled science" has been of infinite importance throughout his career.   We are certain that you will appreciate Nathan Johnson's take on the issue!

For more information on the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, please visit 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.

"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!

With their right-on-the-nose name, The Jesus Church isn't mincing words.  They are a church set within a community in which, like Christ, they are bringing the Good News to the lost and needy.

Lead pastor Aaron Phetteplace and associate pastor Kyle Malcomson know that a key piece of the Good News is the opportunity to be set free.  But, as we'll learn today, the second in a two-part conversation with the pastors of The Jesus Church, the invitation to freedom--from persistent sin, addiction, guilt, bitterness, and so much more--often needs to be extended to the "found" just as much as the "lost".  In a fascinating, Bible-rooted, and far-reaching conversation, Aaron and Kyle explain that believers can also inadvertently allow temptation and bondage into their homes and lives.

But, of course, as we'll hear today, there's Good News.

To learn more about The Jesus Church, click here.

To plan a visit to The Jesus Church, 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.

"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!

With their right-on-the-nose name, The Jesus Church isn't mincing words.  They are a church set within a community in which, like Christ, they are bringing the Good News to the lost and needy.

Lead pastor Aaron Phetteplace and associate pastor Kyle Malcomson know that a key piece of the Good News is the opportunity to be set free.  But, as we'll learn today, the first in a two-part conversation with the pastors of The Jesus Church, the invitation to freedom--from persistent sin, addiction, guilt, bitterness, and so much more--often needs to be extended to the "found" just as much as the "lost".  In a fascinating, Bible-rooted, and far-reaching conversation, Aaron and Kyle explain that believers can also inadvertently allow temptation and bondage into their homes and lives.

But, of course, as we'll hear today, there's Good News.

To learn more about The Jesus Church, click here.

To plan a visit to The Jesus Church, 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.

"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!

In Anthony's last visit to the Kingdom Culture Conversations podcast, he explained how his work within Hope Partners International was born out of tragedy within his own family.  Today, Anthony returns to talk about daily tragedies that are a part of life for children living on the streets in places like Costa Rica.

Anthony and G are also joined by Northwest Christian's Lindsay Schlesinger and Jackson Schlesinger who spent part of the summer of 2022 working at a Hope Center in Costa Rica and are preparing to lead a trip there during the summer of 2023.

The upcoming Costa Rica trip is open to 8th through 12th grade students that are enrolled in Northwest Christian on-the-ground campus, online campus, or participating in Frameworks.  For more information on that trip, please follow this link.

For more information on Hope Partners International, 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.

"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!

Church attendance, Biblical literacy, and Evangelical affiliation:  all dropping in the U.S. to historic lows.  Some blame the pandemic, others the rise of post-modernism, cultural chaos in public schools, and the abundance of social media and technology.

Pastor Eric Marvin suggests the problem may actually be a bit closer to home.

In today's Kingdom Culture Conversation, Marvin walks us through the "what" and the "why" of theology and doctrine...revealing that America's first fully Biblical illiterate and doctrinally ignorant generation may be crying out for the hope found in scripture.

To learn more about Pastor Eric Marvin and his high school ministry at Palmcroft Church, please follow this link.

To find out more about Palmcroft Church, 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.

"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!

Earlier this year, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed Universal ESA's into law within the state.  Arizona, already a school choice leader, was suddenly propelled into the national spotlight, adding ESA's for every Arizona student to the already thriving state tuition tax credit system.

When Ducey signed the law, he had Pastor Drew Anderson on hand to commemorate the moment for the media that had gathered to report the occasion.  Pastor Anderson did not mince words:  School choice is the defining civil rights issue of our generation.  Further, he reiterated, Arizona's Universal ESA moment was the greatest civil rights moment in the United States since the founding of our country.

As shocking as a statement like that may be, there was another shocker in play:  Pastor Drew Anderson is a registered and politically active Democrat.  Why is that shocking?  In Anderson's view, school choice has largely been the domain of Republican white guys and, as a result, unless the political left wakes up to the educational perils plaguing this generation, we are going to miss out on a historical moment.

So, how did Pastor Anderson buck the Democratic trends?  Why is school choice a civil rights issue?  Today we find out!

For more information on Pastor Drew Anderson and his ministry, please click here.

To read the Arizona Daily Independent op-ed pieced penned by Anderson, please follow this link.

To watch the moment in which Anderson, a Democrat, was recognized, commended, and celebrated before the Arizona Senate by Arizona Republicans, 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.

"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.