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Wesley and Teddy continue their discussion with Stephen McDowell, president of Providence Foundation and author of God'Blueprint for Life, Liberty, and Property: A Bible Study on the Ten Commandments. To read a short review by Wesley click here.

In this episode, the team discusses the second two commands of the first table, don't take God's name in vain and keep the Sabbath. Do Christians keep the Sabbath even though we worship on Sunday? Is taking God's name in vain more than just something we say?

To listen to the previous episodes on commandments 1 and 2 click here.

Persecution is not only part of Christian history, it very much a part of Christian present. Christians across the world right now are experiencing hardships for their faith in Christ.

We experience persecution because of the gospel. But the cause of our persecution also provides our response to it. So how are we as believers to respond when people hate us for us our faith? What is the gospel response when we hear of brothers and sisters have been killed for their faith?

Wesley and Teddy continue discussing the gospel response to persecution with Tom Doyle. Tom is regional director for the Middle East and Asia for e3 Partners. He also organizes 8thirty8, a ministry alerting Christians across the world to persecution happening right now.

Tom and his team provide specific prayer requests for brothers and sisters in the faith experiencing persecution.

The trio also talks about how to help Christians in persecution,and how we can consistently pray for the.

Persecution is not only part of Christian history, it very much a part of Christian present. Wesley and Teddy discuss what persecution looks like and how Christians in America can bless our spiritual brethren across the world.

Wesley and Teddy continue their discussion on Christian persecution with Tom Doyle, e3 Partners' director of the Middle East and Asia. Doyle is also the author of Killing Christians: Living the Faith Where It's Not Safe to Believe.

Doyle is also the man who developed the idea of the Orange Letter Campaign where Engage readers had an opportunity to write encouraging letters to the surviving family members of the 21 Coptic Christians killed by ISIS in February 2015. Doyle recounts handing those letters to wives, mothers, and children.

Cortney Sargent joins Wesley and Teddy to discuss how we can apply the truths of the gospel to the way we work, the way we interact with coworkers, even how it can apply to our schedules (other than being extremely grateful for wonderful tools such as Google calendar).

The trio also discuss Cortney's conference Up Together, which Engage will be sponsoring.

The gospel has implications for the believer and the unbeliever alike. For the unbeliever, the gospel is for salvation. For the Christian, it is for sanctification. Each of us are in as much need of the gospel today as the day we entered a relationship with Jesus.

Wesley and Teddy discuss this fact and how it applies to their everyday lives.

From the time of creation, marriage has been one example of God's love for mankind. The covenant commitment, the two beings becoming one flesh, all the aspects of these relationship on earth point to an eternal reality: the gospel.

Wesley and Teddy draw truths from Scripture on how pursuing Jesus is the best way to pursue your spouse, and how much we all need the gospel to have a healthy marriage.

There is a reason most marriage vows include the phrase, "for better or for worse." Good times will come. Bad times will come. But in both times, and all the times in between, marriage is an illustration of the gospel.

But how does the love of God apply when one of the worst tragedies imaginable hits a marriage? How does a couple apply the gospel when their marriage is wrecked by a miscarriage? Engage writer Ashley Gillespie discusses the deep, hurtful, and hopeful truths in this episode.