Shades Midweek

This week we interviewed SVCC member Zac Cook! 

JM's Album Of The Week: Pearl Jam - Dark Matter

Bradford's Book Club (Zac's Pick): Keep Your Love On: Connection, Communication & Boundaries by Danny Silk

Shades Cinema is back with special guest Grant Premo and we discuss the new Sci-Fi epic Dune: Part Two directed by Denis Villeneuve!

JM's Album Of The Week: Hans Zimmer - Dune: Part Two (OST)

Bradford's Book Club (Grant's Pick): Dune Chronicles by Frank Herbert

Dr. Robert Smith Jr. returns to Midweek for an in-person interview on preaching!

Robert Smith Jr. serves as professor of Christian preaching and holds the Charles T. Carter Baptist Chair of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School. An ordained Baptist minister, he served as pastor of the New Mission Missionary Baptist Church in Cincinnati, OH for twenty years. He earned his PhD while serving as a pastor. He is a contributing editor for a study of Christian ministry in the African American church, Preparing for Christian Ministry, and is co-editor of A Mighty Long Journey. He has written the book, Doctrine That Dances: Bringing Doctrinal Preaching and Teaching to Life (B&H Publishing Group, Nashville: 2008), which was selected as the winner of the 2008 Preaching Book of the Year Award by Preaching magazine and the 2009 Preaching Book of the Year Award by Christianity Today’s preaching.com. Smith has spoken at more than 135 universities, colleges, and seminaries in the United States, Great Britain, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean. He has taught congregations in several countries including Greece, Turkey, Rome, the Holy Land and Switzerland. At Beeson, Smith teaches Christian preaching and other electives in homiletics. He received Beeson Divinity School’s “Teacher of the Year Award” in 2005. He and his wife, Wanda Taylor-Smith, Ph.D., are the parents of four adult children (one in heaven). 

JM's Album Of The Week: Khruangbin - A LA SALA

Bradford's Book Club: God's Big Picture Bible Storybook: 140 Connecting Bible Stories of God's Faithful Promises by N.T. Wright

SVCC member Nate Rubin joins us this week for our ongoing "Meet A Member" series!

JM"s Album Of The Week: Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us

Bradford's Book Club (JM's Pick): Rich Mullins: An Arrow Pointing To Heaven by James Bryan Smith

Our deacon over the arts ministry, Ami Ross joined us this week to update everyone on the upcoming Art Nights at SVCC and more! We also take a Sports Break and announce some upcoming events at Shades.

JM's Album Of The Week: Tenacious D - ...Baby One More Time (from Kung Fu Panda 4) - Single

Bradford's Book Club: The Ascension Of Christ: Recovering A Neglected Doctrine by Patrick Schreiner

Grant Premo joins us for the fifth time (congrats Grant!), and leads an interview with our special guest author David Sunde. David discusses his new book Small-Batch Disciplemaking: A Rhythm for Training the Few to Reach the Many. We also take a quick March Madness sports break!

JM's Album Of The Week: Hotline TNT - Cartwheel

Bradford's Book Club: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

We made it to 200 episodes! We celebrate and reflect on the podcast and all of the good things happening at SVCC. We also have a sports break and visit the email corridor!

JM's Album Of The Week: Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well

Bradford's Book Club: Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies by N.T. Wright & Michael F. Bird

This week, SVCC member and frequent guest Patrick Smith joins Midweek for another installment of Shades Cinema featuring the 2023 biopic The Iron Claw directed by Sean Durkin. We also briefly discuss the 2024 Oscars.

JM's Album Of The Week: Ryan Gosling & Mark Ronson - Ken The EP

Bradford's Book Club: Exiles: The Church in the Shadow of Empire by Preston Sprinkle

This week we interviewed Barnabas Piper about his book, The Pastor's Kid. Barnabas is a pastor at Immanuel Church in Nashville, an author, and co-hosts The Happy Rant podcast! He also writes regularly for He Reads Truth

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JM's Album Of The Week: Young Oceans - Somehow I Know It's Love

Bradford's Book Club: The Pastor's Kid: What It's Like and How To Help by Barnabas Piper

This week we sat down with one of our Deaconesses, Joni Ford who leads the food pantry at SVCC! You can check out all of our ministries by visiting shadesvalley.org/serving-teams

JM's Album Of The Week: Ryan Adams - Sword & Stone

Bradford's Book Club: Humility: The Joy of Self-Forgetfulness by Gavin Ortlund