Pick Up the Mike

With Mike still out of the country, Will invited Josh Oliver on the podcast to share his story. Josh grew up in Ford City, raised by a single dad after his parents' divorced early on. He shares how he made a childhood profession of faith at a VBS Harvest, spent his teen years chasing hockey and parties instead of God, drifted through a rough freshman year college, and found his way back to Christ through the faithfulness of God and other fellow believers in the church. Along the way he met and married his wife Taylor, welcomed their first child into the world, and now he's stepping into a new role leading the Crave youth ministry this fall.

Nate's Testimony Episode

Will's Testimony Episode

Pina's Testimony Episode

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Video Chapters:

0:00 Intro

7:58 Josh's Early Years

28:33 Teen years drifting from faith

32:39 College struggles and academic probation

43:23 The turning point: renewing his mind

1:02:14 Meeting and pursuing his wife Taylor

1:14:35 Serving in kids ministry & stepping into Crave leadership

Fred Neal grew up three feet from Kittanning High School, sleeping to bass-thumping cars and sitting in the back row where "God can't find me back here." Hear how a friend's drug-fueled seizure sent him crying out to God with a kids' Bible in hand — and how that one Sunday led to 16 years on staff at Harvest, alongside his own father. A candid, often funny conversation about trading an engineer's plan for the pulpit and finally stepping out to plant Redemption Church.

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Video Chapters:

0:00 Intro

2:40 Family background & becoming "Fred III"

4:36 Growing up in Kittanning in the '90s

9:06 Church as a kid & drifting away as a teen

19:36 The turning point: getting saved at 16

28:03 Choosing Bible college over engineering

46:00 Coming to Harvest as youth pastor

1:14:01 Reagan's diagnosis & wrestling with suffering

1:25:09 Feeling the call to plant Redemption Church

Mike and Mandy dig into some of the worst preaching trends online right now — from Willow Creek's legacy to a lesbian bishop, a "God is a black woman" panel, and a Lutheran sermon that accuses Jesus of losing his temper. Then a turn toward hope: Conor McGregor's faith, an AI-made short film reviving old-school femininity, and a British history lesson on who actually ended slavery. Finally, a French tourist explains why America's real secret weapon is air conditioning — and a song about the state of the country moves Mandy to tears.

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Video Chapters:

0:00 Intro

7:55 Reacting to "God is a Black Woman" Video

12:48 "A Church for All" Diversity Book

16:06 Pastor Albert Tate on Guns & Abortion

18:05 Lutheran Preachers on the Canaanite Woman

30:53 Anglican Church Drag Queen Protest

43:36 James Talarico & Religious Pluralism

53:57 Matt Walsh, Catholics & Culture War Discussion

1:10:18 Pushback: Conor McGregor & Mary Sue AI Videos

1:22:44 Al Mohler on America as a Christian Nation

1:26:48 Slavery History AI Video ("Proud of Us")

1:35:44 World Cup Reactions: Foreigners Praising America

1:46:24 "Sweet Land" AI Song

1:58:20 Spencer Pratt's July 4th Speech

2:06:23 Ending with the French

In this week's episode, Mike and Will dig into Romans 6, tackling the question every Christian eventually faces: if grace covers all sin, why not just keep sinning? Along the way, they break down what it means to be "baptized into His death," push back on antinomianism, and get into a real debate over Catholic and Eastern Orthodox views on purgatory, the papacy, and church tradition vs. Scripture. They close out with a listener question on how to witness to people in your own church who claim to believe in Christ but show no fruit.

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Video Chapters:

00:00 Intro

9:50 Romans 6:1 – Salvation & Eastern Orthodox Debate

12:34 Justification, Regeneration & Evangelicalism

16:03 Antinomianism & Baptism Debate

21:53 Catholic & Orthodox Tradition vs. Scripture

35:21 Buried and Raised With Christ

49:08 Presenting Yourselves to God

1:08:16 Listener Q&A: Witnessing to Unbelievers in Church

Joe Zambotti grew up in a welding shop, riding motocross, and skipping church whenever his dad would let him — until his 13-year-old sister burned head to toe changed everything. Hear how a Pennsylvania body shop owner finally found what years of running from God never could — and how his dying sister led their own father to Christ from a hospital bed.

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Matt Cooper grew up outside Fox Chapel in an angry, "name it and claim it" household. He shares how a he got saved at 14 in a cabin, spent his teen years chasing girls instead of God, found his way back through a stranger's testimony in college, met and married his wife Laura, and bounced through five churches in five years before landing — almost against his will — at Harvest.

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Video Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

2:24 - Matt's Early Life

21:50 - Music, Faith, and How His Parents Met

31:56 - Giving His Life to Christ at Age 14

34:50 - Falling Away in High School

41:00 - Geneva College, Recommitting to Faith & Meeting Laura

1:05:27 - Bouncing Between Churches

1:19:01 - Finding a Home at Harvest

Thilak Pappu spent his early years in Kerala, India chanting Hindu devotional songs, climbing sacred mountains barefoot, and bargaining for idols at the market. But no amount of religion could answer his four questions. Hear how a Hindu worship leader from South India found what the Ganges River, a saffron-robed guru, and thirty million gods could never give him — and why he got on a plane back to India the moment he tried to leave for good.

CrossCon

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Video Chapters:

0:00 Intro

2:14 Growing Up Hindu in India

6:21 A Communist Father & Questions About God

13:36 India's Caste System Explained

22:24 Searching for Answers

43:29 How Thilak Found Jesus Christ

1:04:46 Radical Transformation After Coming to Faith

1:13:14 Seminary, Arranged Marriage & Returning to India

1:39:11 How to Reach Indians for Christ in America

Mike and Will tackle an anonymous question about what it actually means to be biblically married — and whether the government has anything to do with it. Then Romans 5, where one man's bite of fruit killed the whole human race and one man's obedience saves it. And finally, a sprawling conversation about AI, college graduation rates, and why the most historically unprecedented thing happening right now might be how many people aren't getting married.

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Video Chapters:

0:00 Intro

5:24 Listener Question: What Does It Mean to Be Biblically Married?

21:05 Romans 5:12 - Sin Entered Through One Man

33:31 The Law, Imputation & Why Sin Increased

51:03 The Free Gift vs. The Transgression

1:16:42 AI as a Tool: How Pastors & People Should Use It

1:42:08 The Crisis of Singleness & Declining Marriage Rates

Jim Bracelin never planned to learn sign language — just enough signs to share the gospel if he ever met a deaf person. Hear how that reluctant "bare minimum" commitment turned into decades of full-time deaf ministry, what it looks like when God moves a Scottish boy 3,617 miles just to cross your path, and why 93% of deaf people will never hear a clear presentation of the gospel in their lifetime.

Fantastic Saturday Registration

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Video Chapters:

0:00 Intro

1:14 Jim's Early Ministry & Bible College Days

6:09 What Does It Mean to Feel "Called"?

11:23 The Power of Just Getting Moving for God

14:16 How Jim Discovered Deaf Ministry

33:08 What Is "Fantastic Saturday" & How It Works

46:12 Jim Shares the Gospel (In Sign Language Too!)

53:06 ASL Is Not English — Why That Matters

1:02:06 Don't Be Afraid to Approach Deaf People

Mike and Will open with a question from the young adults group — does God actually hate Satan? — and find out it's harder to answer than it sounds. Then it's Romans 5, where Paul somehow makes suffering sound like good news. And finally, a crowdfunded documentary about Noah's ark, dinosaur bones with soft tissue, and why AI might be the best evangelism tool nobody's talking about yet.

The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis

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Video Chapters:

0:00 Intro

1:15 Ask the Pastors: Does God Hate Satan?

26:27 Romans 5:1 — Justified by Faith & Peace with God

33:45 Exulting in the Glory of God & in Tribulations

53:16 Saved by His Blood & the Great Exchange

1:06:57 The Ark and the Darkness — Movie Clips & Discussion

1:22:00 Evolution, Soft Tissue in Dinosaur Bones & Science Debate

1:39:29 Tower of Babel, Languages, AI & the Future of Storytelling