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My next guest is Max Mooney, a friend from church and a coffee friend. He owns Narrative Coffee which has locations in Everett and Bellingham, WA. Max is an incredibly smart and capable guy with a unique story of faith. I’m struck not only by his intellect, but also his clarity and the intentionality with which he uses those things to serve and see God. In our conversation, Max shares how he came to faith, how he got into coffee and why coffee matters. Yes, we also talk a lot about coffee, and yes, it gets nerdy, but not snobbish.

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My next guest is Thomas Hodzi, who along with his sister, Ruth are the driving force behind Christ of First Importance Ministries. Thomas and his family are dedicated to strengthening churches, planting churches, and caring for vulnerable children in Zimbabwe, his home country. I was struck by Thomas’ patient approach to training pastors and building infrastructure to faithfully fortify God-honoring churches in Zimbabwe, especially the more remote villages. Thomas’ care for the people of Zimbabwe is deep and sincere, and the testimony of faith that God is writing in his life was a great encouragement to me!

One note: this episode is not broken up, since most podcast players allow you to pause and restart where you left off. Hopefully the episode length isn’t too intimidating–AND hopefully it still listens well at faster playback speeds!

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This is the third and final episode of my April conversation with Tim Burns, missionary in Nagoya Japan with his wife, Chie and three kids. In this last part, we talk about a concerning trend Tim has noticed with parachurch ministries in Japan started by younger Americans. Which leads us to delve into some of our concern for the church in America.

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This is the second part of my April conversation with Tim Burns, missionary in Nagoya Japan with his wife, Chie and three kids. In this episode, we talk about ways the Japanese culture makes it hard to share the love of Christ, and his perspective on it.

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My next guest is Tim Burns, church planter in Nagoya Japan with his wife Chie and their three kids, who are stateside on furlough. Tim was also my very first guest back in October 2019 and I wanted to have him back to hear how ministry has been the last two and a half years, how COVID was in Japan, and the missions landscape in Japan at the moment.

In this first episode of three, Tim and I talk about what has happened since October 2019. Also, we actually recorded a couple months ago in April. 

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This is the third and final episode of my recent conversation with Aaron Gray, pastor for preaching and vision at Sound City Bible Church in Lynnwood, WA, where my family and I attend.

We talk about what it’s been like for Aaron to pastor during COVID-19, and what we see for the church moving forward in an unsettled and evolving American culture.

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This is the second part of my conversation with Aaron Gray, pastor for preaching and vision at Sound City Bible Church in Lynnwood, WA, where my family and I attend. In this episode, we talk about The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill podcast from Mike Cosper and Christianity Today. We talk about Aaron’s participation in it, our thoughts on how it could benefit the church, and our reflections on it as a whole.

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My next guest is Aaron Gray, pastor for preaching and vision at Sound City Bible Church in Lynnwood, WA, which also happens to be where my family and I attend. Aaron has a real thirst for knowledge, high energy, and a perspective on life and the church that I wanted to peer into.

Our conversation is broken up into three parts that I’ll release over the next couple weeks. Part 1 is about Aaron’s upbringing around church, becoming a pastor, and joining Mars Hill Church in the greater Seattle area in its last few years.

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