Welcome to 2022! In this episode, Connor and Mike share what they are most excited about as we enter a new year. We hope this encourages you as you look ahead to 2022!

As Christmas approaches, Mike and Connor take a few minutes to speak into the current conversations about masks and vaccines in light of the most recent California health guidelines. The overall encouragement: Christians should love each other and choose humility when faced with diverging opinions and convictions. We hope this is an encouragement to you as you seek to value others above yourself during Christmas time this year. Blessings!

In this special Christmas edition, Mike and Connor cover giving gifts, advent devotionals, candlelight services, and rejoicing in Christ's birth. What's not to love in that? We hope this helps to prepare your heart for Christmas as you consider the incredible gift of the Son of God come in flesh to save us.

In this episode, Mike and Connor consider three related questions that all have to do with spiritual growth in the context of the local church. First, how can I help others in my own household pursue godliness? Second, how can I learn from and imitate godly examples? Finally, how can believers become more and more beloved to one another?

How can a church love and welcome outsiders without compromising truth? Is there a difference in how we welcome believers and unbelievers? How can individual believers intentionally show care and hospitality to unfamiliar faces when the church gathers together? All of this and more in today's episode. We hope this is helpful to you!

This week's podcast is as bit of a mixed bag. Mike and Connor talk about Paul's desire for believers to become beloved to one another, how Paul prays for the church, and a bit about hard hearts. We hope this is an encouragement to you this week!

How important is sleep? What does the Bible say about it? How should believers think about it? How can believers rightly value this gift and pursue God-honoring sleeping habits? All this and more in today's episode.

How should believers deal with conflict in the church? In this episode, Connor and Mike reopen this topic from our latest Grace Bible Institute and talk about some highlights from the night. This is practical stuff for every believer who longs to see unity in the body. Happy listening!

Mike and Connor tackle a controversial and sometimes discouraging topic in this episode: How to make sense of all the divisions in evangelicalism today. Specifically, what are we to make of serious disagreements between believers over issues of politics and social engagement, questions of authority and abuse within the church, and other contemporary issues? In this episode we try to give some biblical perspective to shape our understanding of what is happening in the church, and encourage believers to remember that the gospel enables supernatural unity in Christ even as we face these challenging and far-reaching issues.

We recorded this episode on Mike's birthday, and Mike shared three of the most significant lessons he has learned in his 59 years of life. This one is definitely worth a listen for some encouragement and practical wisdom. Happy listening!