Pocket Theology

after a nearly 6-month hiatus (!!!) Martin and Jason are back with a new season of Pocket Theology. This episode is a brief intro telling you what we've been up to, and giving a few tidbits about things we've been learning, why discipleship is important, and why the Church needs capable administrators.

"Theology" is a fancy word that describes what pastors do, or bearded seminary professors in dimly lit studies.... right?

Jason and Martin think theology is something that EVERY Christian can (and should) do. In this episode they tell you why and give some advice on how normal people can start "doing theology" better.

For many of us, the word "missionary" evokes images of brave evangelists trekking through wild lands to reach remote people who have never heard the gospel.

But... the Bible teaches that we're all called to evangelize. In this episode, Martin and Jason talk about how all Christians are called to be missionaries.

In part two of their conversation about the origins of the Bible, Martin and Jason talk more specifically about the origins of the Old and New Testament, and why you have footnotes in your Bible

Ask most Christians what the Bible is and they'll say "the Word of God"... but let's be honest, that's not a very helpful definition.

So what IS the Bible? Where did it come from? How do we interpret it correctly? Martin and Jason are tackling those questions in this podcast.

The Book of 1 Peter has some wild verses in it. Peter talks about Spiritual prisons, calls women weak, and claims that we're smarter than prophets... Or does he?

Today Martin and Jason are talking about some difficult-to-understand passages in 1 Peter and (hopefully) making them a lot easier to understand and apply to our lives today.

Martin and Jason talk about the author, audience, and themes of 1 Peter to help you prepare for reading an often-ignored book written by one of Jesus' closest friends.

You can help solve the shortage of full-time ministers the church is facing. In this episode, Martin and Jason finish up their conversation from last week, and then spend most of the episode telling you how you can help keep your pastor around, and a few ideas for how to raise up the next generation of pastors.

The church in America is running out of pastors. In spite of that (or maybe because of it) some people think the Church is due for a youth movement in its most senior leadership positions.

In this conversation, Martin and Jason talk about some reasons why the Church is having so much trouble holding on to ministers, and reasons why the we might (or might not) have a wave of young pastors incoming.

Many of us were taught as kids that the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11 is a story that tells us where different languages originated. In this episode, Jason and Martin talk about how the Tower of Babel isn't primarily about language at all, but is really a story about pride, arrogance, violence, and God's mercy.