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Scott and Bryan are back with part five of our ongoing series exploring Paul and spiritual beings. In this episode, we turn our attention to the climactic moment of the story—the cross—and what it means for the rebellious powers that oppose God and influence the world.

How did Jesus’ death accomplish victory? What did Paul mean when he spoke of rulers and authorities being disarmed? And how does the cross reshape the way we understand spiritual warfare today?

Join us as we unpack how, through what looked like defeat, Jesus secured a decisive and cosmic triumph—breaking the grip of the powers and opening the way for a new kind of life.

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In this episode, Scott sits down with Matthew Sharpe for an honest and thoughtful conversation about spiritual abuse in the church. Together, they explore what spiritual abuse is, how it can take root in Christian communities, and the lasting impact it has on individuals and congregations.

Matthew brings clarity and compassion to a difficult topic, helping listeners recognize both subtle and overt forms of manipulation, control, and misuse of authority. The conversation also moves beyond diagnosis to pastoral response—offering practical and theological insights on how the church can faithfully care for those who have been wounded.

Importantly, Scott and Matthew also address the often-overlooked question: how should we minister to those who have caused harm? With wisdom and nuance, they discuss the difficuty to develop pathways toward accountability, repentance, and restoration—without minimizing the pain of victims.

Whether you’re a church leader, a ministry volunteer, or someone seeking healing, this episode invites you into a deeper understanding of grace, truth, and the kind of community the church is called to be.

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Scott and Bryan are back with part four of our ongoing series exploring the Apostle Paul and spiritual beings. In this episode, they turn their attention to angels—the faithful spiritual beings who serve God’s purposes throughout the biblical story. What did Paul believe about angels? How do they function in the unseen realm, and what role do they play in the life of the church and the mission of God? Join the conversation as Scott and Bryan unpack the significance of these loyal messengers and what their presence means for how we understand the spiritual world today.

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Welcome back to the podcast. Today Bryan and Scott are continuing the series on the apostle Paul and the supernatural world. This is part three of our conversation, where we explore Paul’s understanding of rebellious spiritual beings and their influence on humanity.

In the world of the New Testament, Paul didn’t see evil as merely abstract or symbolic. He spoke about real spiritual powers—beings that oppose God’s purposes and work to distort human allegiance. Today we’ll focus especially on the figure known as the Satan, along with the wider network of rebellious spiritual beings that operate behind the scenes of human history.

What did Paul believe about these powers? How do they influence individuals, cultures, and systems? And how does Paul’s theology of Christ reshape the way believers understand and confront this unseen realm?

So join us as we continue our journey into Paul’s worldview—pulling back the veil to explore how the apostle understood the conflict between God’s kingdom and the rebellious powers that seek the worship of mankind.

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Welcome back to the podcast. I’m Scott, here with Bryan, and this is Part Two in our series exploring the world of the Apostle Paul — not just his theology, but the supernatural worldview that shaped it.

Last episode, we began peeling back the curtain on Paul’s understanding of reality — a reality that included powers, principalities, thrones, dominions, angels, and hostile spiritual forces. Today, we’re going deeper.

For Paul, spiritual beings weren’t metaphors. They weren’t psychological projections. They weren’t just ancient ways of talking about political systems. They were real.

From his encounter with the risen Jesus on the road to Damascus, to his language about rulers and authorities in passages like Epistle to the Ephesians and Epistle to the Colossians, Paul consistently speaks as someone who believed the cosmos was alive with personal, spiritual intelligences — some loyal to God, others in rebellion.

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Join Bryan and Scott as they launch a new series exploring Paul’s writings as the testimony of a man who assumed the world behind the veil was real, active, and decisive for human life. 

In this series, we’ll explore how Paul’s self-understanding, his encounters, and his confidence in the supernatural frame everything he writes—from righteousness and resurrection to suffering, loyalty, and hope.

This isn’t Paul the armchair theologian. This is Paul the witness.

This is episode one in a new series of deeper dives into his writings to help us comprehend who Jesus is against the supernatural backdrop of the Scriptures, leaving us with an even greater love for our Savior.

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“Today we’re stepping into a sobering and often misunderstood biblical theme—apostasy.

In the New Testament, apostasy isn’t simply doubt, struggle, or seasons of spiritual dryness. It’s the deliberate turning away from Christ after having genuinely encountered the truth of the gospel. Scripture speaks about it carefully, seriously, and always with a pastoral concern for the church.

Passages like Hebrews 6, Hebrews 10, and the warnings of Jesus Himself remind us that faith is not merely something we profess once, but something we are called to hold fast to, to persevere in, and to guard with humility and vigilance. These texts aren’t written to terrify sincere believers—they’re written to awaken us, to call us to endurance, and to point us again to the sufficiency of Christ.

As we talk about apostasy today, we’re not doing so from a place of fear, but from a desire for clarity—asking what the Bible actually says, how these warnings function in the life of the church, and how they ultimately drive us toward deeper dependence on Jesus, who is able to keep us to the end.”*

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Welcome to the conversation. Today, Bryan and Scott dive into the profound depth of Jesus’ humanity. Too often, we rush past the reality that Jesus didn’t just appear human—He fully entered into our experience. He knew hunger and exhaustion, joy and sorrow, friendship and betrayal. He wept, He prayed, He wrestled, and He obeyed.

In this episode, Bryan and Scott explore what it means that Jesus was fully human while remaining fully God—and why that truth matters so deeply for our faith today. They’ll reflect on how Christ’s humanity shapes our understanding of suffering, obedience, temptation, and hope, and how it invites us to trust a Savior who truly understands us from the inside out.

This is a conversation about incarnation, empathy, and the nearness of God—so settle in as Bryan and Scott unpack the beautiful mystery of Jesus, fully God and fully human.

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Today on the podcast, we’re joined by Leslie VanHoven, the Executive Director of Designed to Thrive, a marriage enrichment ministry dedicated to helping couples build strong, Christ-centered relationships that truly flourish. Leslie brings years of experience walking alongside couples, leaders, and churches, offering practical wisdom and deep compassion for the real challenges marriages face. In our conversation, we’ll explore God’s design for marriage, the common pressures that can erode intimacy, and how intentional enrichment can help couples not just survive—but thrive. We’re grateful to have Leslie with us today.

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Today on the podcast, we’re stepping into one of the most surprising connections in Scripture—the way the story of Jonah quietly points us toward the salvation story of Jesus. Jonah, the reluctant prophet who ran from God yet was still used to bring mercy to an undeserving city, becomes a living foreshadow of a much greater rescue to come.

In the life of Jonah we see shadows—three days in the deep, a message of repentance, and a God whose compassion refuses to give up on broken people. But in Jesus, we encounter the true and better Jonah: the One who didn’t run from His mission but ran toward us; who didn’t face the depths because of His disobedience, but willingly entered death itself to bring us life; who didn’t simply warn of judgment, but bore it on our behalf.

As we explore this theme today, we’ll see how the entire arc of Jonah’s story lifts our eyes to the greater Savior—Jesus Christ—who fulfills what Jonah could only hint at. Let’s dive in.