The Biola Hour

Josh Smith is the pastor of Mountainside Communion in Monrovia, CA. As the church interacted with their neighbors, they realized that a community need was in immigration. Thus, they started the Immigration Resource Center of San Gabriel Valley to serve their community. With President Trump's call to terminate DACA last week, Pastor Josh is uniquely positioned to speak on immigration and DACA from a pastoral and theological perspective.

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Lisa Igram, Landon White, and Mike Ahn discuss the wisdom from last week's podcast, especially the practicality of developing spiritual habits. Sometimes we see spiritual disciplines as burdensome and overwhelming, but they discuss a refreshing way to approach spirituality in a more helpful and meaningful way.

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Christa Dietzen, captain of the US Women's Volleyball Team in last year's Rio Olympics, shares the side of an athlete we rarely get to hear about - performance anxiety. She shares how her faith and practical spirituality helped center herself more deeply in her identity in Christ and gave her the strength to overcome her performance anxiety.

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Lisa Igram, Chad Miller, and Mike Ahn unpack lessons from the previous podcast, especially the idea of crafting worship services with process more than perfection in mind. They brainstorm ways that worship services can better reflect the actual experiences of the congregation so that we can be more in tune with what the Holy Spirit might be doing in our everyday lives.

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Matt Lewis has nearly two decades of experience as a worship leader, technical advisor, conference speaker, and local church pastor. Landon White has nearly a decade of experience in similar capacities. Together, they sit down and unpack the importance of reimagining our worship services. Instead of simply adopting values from our entertainment culture, they believe that we should start with biblical principles and discipleship in mind.

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Lisa Ishihara, Landon White, and Mike Ahn unpack the relevance of intergenerational discipleship and how that's played an important part of their own walks with God. They talk about how comfort and compartmentalization help us feel more effective in our church settings when we might be called to being more present and open to our differences.

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Dr. Matt Jenson teaches theology in Biola's Torrey Honors Institute and Carol Sato serves as an administrator at their local church. They have generational differences which are magnified by ethnic, cultural, and gender differences as well. Still, their relationship is a beautiful picture into what the church is meant to be - a place where believers can encourage each other into deeper discipleship.

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​Chris Barragan, Justin Sinclair, and Mike Ahn sit down to discuss the grief in their lives - from romantic breakups to unexpected family deaths to helping friends cope with​ tragedy. They jump into this conversation a bit unsure of what to expect, but they realize the importance of "sitting in our Saturdays" to develop the resilience necessary to recognize God's presence in the most trying times of life.

Brooke Mardell does a lot of things - she's a lawyer, runs a charitable real estate company, and is a blogger/speaker/author. Going through extreme sorrow a few years ago, she had a difficult time finding appropriate resources to help her process grief well. She's had to learn on her own, and through her own investigation of the Bible, she wrote a resource to help others along that journey. In this episode, she recognizes that the church doesn't do grief well, and invites us to look at the lows of life as opportunities to know God better.

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Lisa Igram, Chad Miller, and Mike Ahn continue to unpack the wisdom from Eugene Cho in last week's podcast. They discuss how they've fallen short in the ways they approached short-term mission trips, worship music, multiculturalism, and social justice issues - and how they've learned to engage well in these issues that are close to God's heart.

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