Lead Defend

In the last episode of season 3, the guys sit down with J. Warner Wallace from the Lead Defend 2022 Conference. You might recognize Wallace as this isn’t the first time he’s been at Lead Defend!

Wallace is a cold-case detective, and you might’ve seen him on Dateline. He’s a national speaker and best-selling author. The guys chat with him about finding the truth, marriage, and life in the Christian faith v. non-Christian faith.

Check out J. Warner Wallace's sites below:

Cold-Case Christianity

The Thin Blue Life

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In this episode, Ryan and Brock talk with Brett and Erin Kunkle of MAVEN. They were speakers at this year’s Lead Defend Foundations Conference

MAVEN was created by Brett and Erin to help equip and mobilize youth and beyond to share the Gospel in a broken world. The guys talk to them about their mission, what they’ve seen through it and how it came to be.

You can check out and connect with MAVEN here.

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In this episode, Brock sits down with one of Lead Defend Foundation speakers, Kolby King.

Along with his wife, Mary Beth, the King’s created ThreeThirty Ministries. They travel to churches, camps, youth groups, etc. sharing the Gospel in fun and unique ways like ventriloquism, fire-eating, balloon animals, drama, humor, stunts and more.

Brock and King talk about rooting yourself in the truth, how to accomplish that and what the world might be telling you otherwise – and Kolby might perform an allusion so be sure to watch this episode on Youtube!

As we continue our series of hearing from Lead Defend 2022 Conference speakers, Ryan sat down with Jamar Andrews, pastor at Word Baptist Church in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

Andrews led a session on how to defend your faith with scripture and led students through an exercise where he pretended to be an atheist or non-believer and challenged students on how to answer his questions and defend their faith. He walked Ryan through this session with examples of texts and illustrations he used as well.

To connect with Jamar, email him at [email protected]

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In our first episode live from the Lead Defend 2022 Conference, Ryan sat down with Rhyne Putman to talk about this new “fade” of Deconstructing Christianity. He led a session at Lead Defend this year on this very topic, and the dynamics behind the reason people are going towards this new trend - and how we can deflect from it.

Putman is the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Director of Worldview Formation & a Professor of Christian Ministries at Williams Baptist University in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas.

To get in touch with Rhyne, email him at: [email protected]

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In another live episode from the Evangelism conference in January, Brock and Ryan sat down with National NextGen Director at the North American Mission Board, Shane Pruitt. 

Shane loves Gen Z and shares his heart for how God will use them. They also talk about his time touring with Winter Jam, how we're called to ministry/missions right now, not just the future, how to share the Gospel better and be a little less scared and more! 

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In this episode of Lead > Defend, we recorded a couple of live shows at this year's ECON (Evangelism Conference) held in Little Rock with the Arkansas Baptist State Convention. 

Ryan and Brock sat down with Dithson Noel, who works with the International Mission Board (IMB) and the Go2 Initiative. They talk about that work, plus dive into why it's important for college students to consider doing missions work after college. 

To get connected with Go2, click here. 

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In the last live recorded show from the Arkansas Baptist State Convention in October, Ryan and Brock sit down with Warren Gasaway, Student Ministry Specialist on the Church Health team at the ABSC. 

They start chatting about Warren's time at the 1994 Razorback Championship game, something most of us have only heard about, and then wander into how parent/child relationships change over time as they grow from high school to college and beyond. Gasaway, as a father himself, talks about his own parenting style and talks about how parents, and students, can learn to relate and communicate effectively with each other to maintain, or mend, their relationship with one another as time goes on. 

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As we continue with our live recorded shows from the Arkansas Baptist State Convention in October, the guys sat down with University of Arkansas student, Matt Sparks. 

Sparks didn't take the traditional route of going from high school to a big, 4-year university. Instead, he took a detour and did a few years at the community college before transitioning to a bigger school. It's a non-traditional route that's not talked about a lot.

In this episode, they talk about his journey to faith in high school, the transition that took place when he did finally leave home and head off to a bigger school, and how you should approach being in a new town with new places and new challenges. 

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Welcome back to the Lead Defend Podcast! We hope you had a great Christmas/New Year's break, but we're hitting the ground running with new episodes here in 2022. 

Back in 2021, Ryan and Brock recorded a couple of Live Shows at the Arkansas Baptist State Convention on October 25-26. In this very first one, they sat down with Chris Roller, Student Pastor at First Baptist Church, Rogers, and Brock's boss. 

They discuss how important it is to learn apologetics young, as students in Jr. High/High school, and how apologetics and discipleship really do go hand in hand. They also talk about how to effectively put those two to work in your lives as well as many other things! 

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