The Goodness of God

By Trey Comstock

Every week, Pastor Trey and Pastor Emily talk about Scripture and what it means to try and be the Church in the 21st Century.

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March 12, 2024 Ephesians 2:1-10
The free gift of God's grace is an incredibly powerful offer. We know that we need to do better, but better always exists just out of reach. With God's grace, we can truly heal. It helps too if we're honest about our need for God's grace. It shows others that they are not alone and truly what God's power can do in their lives.
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46min
March 08, 2024 1 Corinthians 1:18-15
The Corinthians seemed to find Paul lacking - not in understanding of God but in the cultural markers of success. They go one step further and question is calling because he just doesn't look right to them. This dangerous logic is something that we keep doing today. We like leaders who make the numbers go up, but the wisdom of God works in way beyond our understanding. What looks foolish to us may be the very power and presence of God.
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40min
March 06, 2024 How to Restart a Church: The "He Gets Us" Superbowl Ads (Repost)
(Editor's Note: We had a posting issue with the original version of this episode, so here is the corrected version)

If you like 123 million of your follow earthlings watched the Kansas City Taylor Swifts defeat some other team, you probably saw an ad for Jesus that centered on "He Gets Us." This is part of a many tens of millions of dollars effort to rebrand Jesus as not a hater. Pastor Trey and Pastor Emily delve into who made these ads, how people react to them, and what they tell us about the attractional model of getting folks to church.
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35min
March 06, 2024 How to Restart a Church: Healing and Thriving after a Church Split (Part 1)
Pastor Trey is joined by Rev. Raegan Seaton, Senior Pastor of Montgomery UMC, to share her experience of leading a church after a close vote split the church in two. There certainly have been trials and tribulations, but the core of the Montgomery UMC story is one of hope, of healing, and of what God can do in our midst, when you can only move forward.
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42min
March 01, 2024 How to Restart a Church: The Church Abandoning Public Square
Pastor Trey and Pastor Emily reflect on the editorial in Comment Magazine, "Church, Where Are You?" by Anne Snyder, and how folks feel that the Church has abandoned it's role in uniting and brining depth to existence. Folks are finding it in other places because the human need for those things is part of God's design. The Church is failing at the other part of the divine plan - that the Church would answer those needs.

"Church, Where Are You?" by Anne Snyder
https://comment.org/church-where-are-you/
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28min
February 27, 2024 Romans 4:13-25
in trying to pull together the totality of the God and humanity story into one 16 chapter letter, Paul sets up Abraham as the example of what righteousness through faith looks like. It wasn't what Abraham did that really counted. Abraham, like us, got counted as righteous (despite not actually being righteous) because he chose to believe that God could do the impossible. For him, God then did the impossible. The 100 year old man becomes the father of many nations. God can and will do the impossible for us as well - make us whole and heal our world.
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46min
February 21, 2024 Genesis 9:8-17
The story of Noah's Ark is true if you really think about it. Sure, we love the cute animals. The giraffe's head peaks up above the roof. It's so adorable. We leave out the millions of dead bodies floating the water around the ark. You can read it as history, but that starts to call into question God's goodness. Or, you can read it, way less literally, as a hyperbolic parable about human frailty and God's mercy.
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40min
February 17, 2024 How to Restart a Church: Interview with Tod Bolsinger
Pastor Trey and Pastor Emily are joined by the amazing Tod Bolsinger, whose book Canoeing the Mountains has become one of the leading texts to teach pastors to lead effective change. He gives insight into helping congregation cope with change, how to preserve through the change process, and how to face the fact that we are all working in a world that we were never prepared for. We have to lead change because for 1,700 years, the church played on home turf. We don't anymore. We need new types of leaders, and Tod's vocation has become equipping those leaders.
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41min
February 15, 2024 Mark 9:2-9
No, Christ's transfiguration on a mountain top, long ago, wasn't a sitcom, but like a sitcom, how it plays out should show us how real life plays out. Jesus doesn't stay up there. He doesn't stay all glowed up. Instead, he goes back to looking the way he did and plunges back into the grit of life. The complete grandeur of God suffer alongside us. We too don't stay on mountain tops. We end up in valleys. Christ showed us that it be like that sometimes and gives us strength to make it through.
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44min
February 10, 2024 How to Restart a Church: (Movie Report) The Bubble: Golf, Booze & Guns: Inside Boomer Paradise
Imagine a world where there is nothing but retirees as far as the eye can see. That's the world of The Villages, the Florida retirement community that is also one of the fastest growing municipalities in the country. The Bubble by filmmaker Valerie Blankenbyl delves into this surreal world and finds what lies at the hurt of the phenomenon: a sense that society has left them behind.

While a world full of retirees describes The Villages, it also describes a good number of our churches. We too have become a haven for an older population that the world forgets or rejects. The question becomes, not just how to be become younger but how to be multigenerational?

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30min

FAQs about The Goodness of God:

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The podcast currently has 204 episodes available.