After 25 years of Real Life Ministry, Pastor Sean reflects on God's Faithfulness and tells the stories of the biggest challenges along the way.

This Sunday River City Community Church will celebrate 25 years of ministry, multi-generational families, and gratefulness for God's Faithfulness. Pastor Willie Mayfield who has been with Pastor Sean since day one, joins the conversation and celebration.

Dr. Katie McCoy serves at the Director of Women’s Ministry at Texas Baptists and holds a Ph.D. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. She is the author of To Be A Woman: The Confusion Over Female Identity and How Christians Can Respond. It's an important conversation Pastor Sean has as they track the how the gender confusion issue has peaked in this decade, and what the Scripture and science have to say on the matter.

Today Pastor Sean takes a rapid fire look at the headlines from today, and responds with the same Kingdom perspective you'd expect. Hot headlines include the Republican Debates, Contraception on the School Supply List, New Mask Mandates, and Women's Weightlifting Record Shattered By Trans-Athlete in Canada. The common denominator is always "truth in love".

Pastor Sean rarely gets political from the pulpit or in this podcast. He'll be the first to tell you he's not a Republican or a Democrat...he's a Christian! And the decisions he makes in the Booth are based on The Book. Today Sean calls out not the Left and not the Right in Washington DC, but those Christians in the media that shamed Believers for supporting the previous President, but are silent on calling out the corruption of the current President. How should a Christian respond? Ah...you have to listen to "a rant from Pa-Paw" as Pastor Sean calls it.

The next generation will start school next week for the first time...and a whole bunch of GenZ-ers are heading off to college. How ya doin' Mom and Dad? Did you train 'em up in the way they should go? Did you teach your children well? In this episode of Reaching for Real Life, life gets even more real for those enrolled at the Universities. Pastor Sean has been there, and shares some solid advice, and closes with a special prayer for you and your family.

Kasey Leander (Breakpoint Contributor at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview) recently co-wrote an interesting article "When Artificial Intelligence Makes Art, What Becomes of the Artist?" (Or did he? :) ) Pastor Sean starts the conversation with one of Leander's passions : apologetics, and when it comes to AI, both Sean and Kasey agree that everything points back to the Creator.

Jamie McGuire is a secret weapon for the Kingdom. She serves on staff at River City Community Church as the Next Gen Pastor, but she also serves as a Lt. Col. in the United States Reserves. Pastor Sean says give me some one from the military and loves Jesus ready to serve and watch out! Life lessons inside this conversation in leadership, including raising your kids.

Sean comments on the headlines of the week - Afghanistan, Haiti, Immigration in Texas, and new Mask Mandates - and if you only read the headlines then you need to stop...and "Listen" / "Be still and know that I am God".

Pastor Sean welcomes to the show the man known as America's Fire Chief (appointed by President Obama), Chief Kelvin J. Cochran who went through his own fiery furnace when he was fired for his Christian beliefs on a very public stage. But just like the 3 Hebrews in Nebuchadnezzar's day, somebody else was with him. His new book "Facing the Fire: The Faith That Brought America's Fire Chief Through The Flames of Persecution" tells the full story of his persecution, and how to take the heat...and the lessons learned from it. Stand for the truth and watch what God does.