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  • Dan Bartol

    Our guest is Dan Bartol. He’s a part of Metro Church in Olomouc, Czech Republic.
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    Show Notes
    3:00 – The Dan Bartol Story
    4:30 – How He Met His Wife
    6:15 – How He “Left The Military And Moved Into A Crack House”
    9:30 – Why They Started Thinking About Moving To The Czech Republic…
    15:00 – The State Of Religion (And Superstition) In The Czech Republic
    18:30 – What They’re Doing With The Church In Olomouc
    20:30 – What It’s Been Like Learning The Language (For Them, And Their Kids!)
    22:10 – The Difference Between Immersion And Submersion
    24:20 – Have They Thought About Leaving?
    25:50 – How We Can Pray For Them
    30:45 – Favorite Book, TV Show, And Movie He’s Read/Watched Recently
    33:15 – Favorite Meal He’s Had Recently
    34:15 – Nerdiest Thing He’s Into Right Now
    35:50 – Where He’d Put A Billboard And What It’d Say
    Links
    • Metro Church
    • The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
    • Brooklyn Nine Nine
    • Black Panther
    • Svíčková
    • Infinity Wars
    • Power Rangers Theme Song
      • 40 min
    • Jason Procopio

      Our guest is Jason Procopio. He planted Connection Church in Paris, France.
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      Show Notes
      3:45 – Who Jason Procopio Is (And How He Met “The Only French Girl In Florida”)
      6:30 – How John Piper Became His “Gateway Drug”
      10:45 – How To Pronounce The Name Of Their Church
      11:30 – How They Decided To Plant In The Heart Of Paris (After Initially Saying It Was The One Place They Wouldn’t Plant)
      16:25 – Challenges They’ve Faced As They’ve Planted
      21:55 – Successes They’ve Seen Since Planting
      31:20 – What To Do When You Run Out Of Space (Spoiler: They’re Not Sure)
      33:10 – How The Terroristic Acts Of 2015 Effected Them
      40:20 – How To Support And Pray For Them
      46:20 – Favorite Show / Book He’s Watched / Read Recently
      Links
      • Connection Church
      • Breaking Bad
      • White Teeth: A Novel
      • 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
      • Old Major
        • 59 min
      • Dan Marotta

        Our guest is Dan Marotta. He planted Redeemer Anglican Church in Richmond, Virginia.
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        Show Notes
        3:15 – Who Dan Marotta Is, And What He Does
        6:35 – How He Discerned God’s Call To Move To Richmond And Plant A Church
        12:20 – Challenges And Successes He’s Faced Since Planting
        18:00 – How They’ve Navigated Racial Tensions In Virginia
        21:30 – How You Can Pray For Them
        24:20 – Favorite Book / TV Show / Move As Of Late
        25:50 – Best Meal He’s Had Recently
        26:35 – The Nerdiest Thing He’s Into Right Now
        28:03 – Where He Would Put A Billboard And What It Would Say
        Links
        • Redeemer Anglican Church
        • Richmond Pastor’s Statement
        • The Fool of New York City
        • The Office
        • Tarrants Cafe
          • 31 min
        • Barnabas Piper

          Our guest is Barnabas Piper. He’s the author of The Pastor’s Kid: Finding Your Own Faith and Identity, Help My Unbelief: Why Doubt Is Not the Enemy of Faith, and The Curious Christian: How Discovering Wonder Enriches Every Part of Life.
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          Show Notes
          2:30 – Who Barnabas Piper is, and what he does
          9:15 – Assumptions that people make about pastor’s kids
          14:15 – How pastor’s kids would be treated in an ideal world
          16:25 – What led him to write a book titled “Help My Unbelief”
          20:40 – What Jacob wrestling with God teaches us about life
          24:55 – Why Christian curiosity is vital
          30:00 – Why humility and curiosity are inextricably linked
          32:00 – Favorite TV show as of late
          33:00 – Favorite book as as of late
          38:00 – Best hot chicken in Nashville (and where it came from)
          39:40 – Where he would put a billboard, and what it would say
          Links
          • Justified
          • The Get Down
          • Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing
          • Peg Leg Porker
          • Stoney River Steakhouse
          • Good Poems
          • Prince’s Chicken
          • Barnabas Piper’s Website
            • 44 min
          • Kelley Nikondeha

            Our guest is Kelley Nikondeha. She’s the author of Adopted: The Sacrament of Belonging in a Fractured World.
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            Show Notes
            1:30 – Who Kelley Nikondeha is
            5:00 – What compelled her to write her book
            7:30 – How to think about theology and adoption
            11:10 – How to help adopted kids understand that they belong in their family
            14:00 – What grasshopper pie is
            16:30 – How to have the “you are adopted” conversation with your kids
            19:30 – How to work through potential bitterness with the birth mom
            30:00 – Challenges associated with raising children of a different ethnicity
            35:30 – How to think about the financial costs associated with adoption
            39:30 – Favorite TV Shows
            40:20 – Favorite Recent Meal
            41:30 – Nerdiest Thing She’s Into
            44:30 – Where She’d Put A Billboard, And What It Would Say
            Links
            • The West Wing
            • Game of Thrones
            • Taco Flats
            • Money and Possessions
              • 48 min
            • Jemar Tisby

              Our guest is Jemar Tisby. He’s the cofounder of the Reformed African American Network and the cohost of Pass the Mic.
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              Show Notes
              2:25 – Who Jemar Tisby is
              5:00 – What he learned while doing Teach For America in the Mississippi Delta
              7:35 – Why he decided to go from being a teacher to a seminary student
              9:45 – Why he decided to get his PhD in History
              12:35 – Why the confederate statues went up (and why they must come down)
              14:20 – The history of white supremacy in American churches
              17:30 – Recommended resources on the history of segregation in the American church
              21:50 – Lessons he learned from being in a multi-ethnic church
              26:10 – The best way for a church to respond after an event like Charlottesville
              30:15 – Longer term steps to becoming multi-ethnic
              35:40 – His issue with Malcom Gladwell’s podcast about Brown vs. Board
              37:45 – Why it’s so important for teachers to invest in their students (and why we need more minority teachers)
              40:50 – Three books by African American authors that everyone should read
              43:15 – If he could put a billboard anywhere, where it would go and what it would say
              Links
              • Vice Charlottesville Documentary
              • The Fierce Urgency of the Now
              • The Image of God and the African American Experience
              • After Charlottesville, will white pastors finally take racism seriously?
              • Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
              • Jude 3 Project
              • Malcom Gladwell Podcast
              • Jesus and the Disinherited
              • The Coming Race War in America: A Wake Up Call
              • Let Justice Roll Down
                • 46 min
              • Karen Swallow Prior

                Our guest is Karen Swallow Prior. She’s an English professor at Liberty University. She’s also the author of Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me and Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More ?Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist.
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                Show Notes
                1:23 – Why Dr. Prior goes by all three names (Karen Swallow Prior)
                3:45 – Who she is and where she comes from
                6:15 – How and why she made the move to Liberty University
                9:38 – What it’s been like working at Liberty for almost 20 years now
                14:03 – How she thinks about church (“It’s not about me”)
                15:45 – What are legitimate criteria for leaving a church of which you are a member?
                17:45 – What she does with her summers (“I sit around and eat bon bons…”)
                19:00 – What her new book is about…
                21:40 – What her first book – Fierce Convictions – is all about
                23:25 – A great question from a listener…
                30:05 – If she had to pick three classics for everybody to read, they would be…
                32:15 – Best thing she’s watched recently
                33:25 – Nerdiest thing she’s into right now
                34:30 – Best thing / worst thing she’s seeing in this generation of students
                37:30 – Best meal she’s had recently
                38:15 – If she could put a billboard anywhere in the world, where would she put it, and what would it say
                Links
                • Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me
                • Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More ?Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
                • Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics)
                • Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
                • Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
                • Broadchurch
                • Get Out
                  • 41 min
                • Derek Rishmawy

                  Our guest is Derek Rishmawy. He’s a PhD student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He’s also a blogger and a podcaster.
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                  Show Notes
                  1:55 – Who Derek Rishmawy is…
                  7:25 – Why he ended up studying theology at “TEDS”
                  10:15 – How and why he decided to pull out of ministry work to pursue further studies
                  16:30 – Why you might decide to NOT pursue a graduate degree
                  19:00 – How to minister to millennials
                  22:45 – Me, boiling his TGC talk down to a few sentences (and him agreeing with it)
                  24:45 – The four books he would put in front of every millennial
                  29:00 – How to balance things you feel like you “should” do vs. the things you “want” to do
                  35:00 – How he thinks about daily and weekly rhythms
                  41:15 – The worst pronunciation of his last name he’s ever heard (and the worst one he’s done to someone else’s last name)
                  44:45 – The best burger in Chicago…
                  47:45 – If he could put a billboard anywhere in the world, where would he put it, and what would it say?
                  Links
                  • The Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical Linguistic Approach to Christian Doctrine
                  • Remythologizing Theology: Divine Action, Passion, and Authorship (Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine)
                  • Biblical Authority after Babel: Retrieving the Solas in the Spirit of Mere Protestant Christianity
                  • The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, Revised Edition
                  • Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God’s Will
                  • Gospel Coalition Breakout
                  • The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
                  • Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical
                  • The Skeletons in God’s Closet: The Mercy of Hell, the Surprise of Judgment, the Hope of Holy War
                  • The Pursuing God: A Reckless, Irrational, Obsessed Love That’s Dying to Bring Us Home
                  • Knowing God
                  • Ecclesiastes
                  • The Sickness unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification & Awakening by Anti-Climacus (Penguin Classics)
                  • Derek’s Website
                  • Derek’s Podcast
                  • Key and Peele – Substitute Teacher
                  • Au Cheval
                    • 51 min
                  • Andy Crouch & N.D. Wilson

                    Andy Crouch is the author of The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place, as well as Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power, and Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing.

                    N.D. Wilson is the author of Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God’s Spoken World, Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent, and a number of children’s books.

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                    16 min
                  • Nancy Guthrie

                    Our guest today is Nancy Guthrie. She’s the author of, like, a million books. I won’t try to name them all, but you can find them here!
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                    Show Notes
                    2:10 – Why did God create Satan if He knew he would fall?
                    8:45 – Helpful ways to walk with people through pain and suffering (hint: show up and say something)
                    18:10 – How to avoid the extremes of “silent sufferer” and “over-sharer”
                    23:00 – Nancy’s Books!
                    Links
                    Nancy’s Books
                    33 min

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                  Welcome to the Park Church Podcast, where Sunday’s teaching doesn’t stop at the church doors. We’re here to take the big ideas of faith and walk them right into the heart of everyday discipleship.…