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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October 10, 2023 Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20
The Ten Commandments have two sections - how to love God and how to love neighbor. Keep to the love neighbor section is that we have to actually mean it, when we love neighbor. It's not enough to simply not kill them or to avoid taking their stuff. We cannot let even a psychological barrier come up between us and our neighborhood (even in a age of shocking levels of polarization).

Also, the worship songs that we sing matter. The example of Porter's Gate shows us that not all our songs produce good fruit for folks suffering from mental illness, and we can and should do better.
https://religionnews.com/2023/09/21/the-porters-gate-album-bridges-gap-between-mental-health-and-faith/
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October 03, 2023 Acts 19:23-41
Christianity went from a ragtag group of brave missionaries to a global force within a few hundred year. It totally transformed the religious landscape of the Greco-Roman world. Certainly, the Holy Spirit was the wind in their sails, but it involved a lot of direction action and risk taking by people like Paul, who took the leap and went on the journey. This early Christian way of life hit a roadblock, when it started pushing up against economic interests in Ephesus, but this scene in the Theatre of Ephesus only draw out how God's power made this whole thing happen.
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1h 11min
September 26, 2023 Matthew 20:1-16
Humans crave hierarchies. We like winners, losers, and getting a higher status than the next guy. We want exclusive villas at exclusive festivals. We want to rise up a ladder. God doesn't seem to value any of that. Instead, the first are last, and the last are first. Everyone gets the same reward in God's Kingdom. You cannot buy a higher tier. For churches, this means that all can serve, and all can be served. Church is ministry "with" not ministry "to."
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September 19, 2023 Exodus 14:19-31
The escaping Israelites find themselves between an advanced military and the ocean. They probably would have rather had a rock and hard place. Yet, God shows up in a reality bending way, shifting an entire sea to create a way. That same way making ability is our lives as well, but as churches, we have to learn to use it faithfully and responsibility.
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1h 7min
September 12, 2023 Matthew 18:15-20
Pastor Trey and Pastor Emily are joined by Shawn Winburn and Shaun Sandefur from the Spiritual But Not Religious podcast to deep dive on church conflict, how it can bleed into everyone's spiritual life, and how to make church more a place for more kinds of people. Do you want more young folks in your faith community? Shawn and Shaun do a show on that, and the answer may surprise you! Actually be a decent and humble church.

Want to hear Shawn and Shaun's show?
https://www.youtube.com/@SpiritualNotReligiousPodcast

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1h 24min
September 06, 2023 Exodus 3:1-15
In Scripture Talk:
Moses gets God's name, and God gets to work kicking Pharaoh's butt using Moses as the mouthpiece. Exodus isn't a hero's journey. It's God thoroughly wiping the floor with Pharaoh and remaining present with God's people from that moment forward. We should remember that we have power in our corner too.

In How to Restart a Church
The church may be back from the pandemic, but pastors are not. Pastor Trey and Pastor Emily look at Alexander Lang's blog post on why he left the ministry, see how it resonates with their own experience, and consider what to do about the great pastor resignation.

Alexander Lang's Post: https://www.restorativefaith.org/post/departure-why-i-left-the-church
Summary of the Hartford Institute for Religion Research Study: https://religionnews.com/2023/09/05/giving-is-up-at-churches-and-people-are-back-but-clergy-are-thinking-about-quitting/
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1h 18min
August 29, 2023 Romans 12:1-8
Paul calls us to give the totality of ourselves over to God and use the gifts that God gives us to serve God's people. He sets this up as the true way to respond to God's grace, yet how many of us can confidently declare that we actually do it? Pastor Trey and Pastor Emily take on this challenge and explore what it means for us and our churches.
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1h 6min
August 23, 2023 Genesis 45:1-15
Joseph forgives his brothers, breaks a vicious cycle, and replaces it with a virtuous one. The whole family of God could have died out and may have deserved that fate. Instead, Joseph, and, by proxy, God provides proving that forgiveness gives life, and God's provision can come from the most unexpected places. This resonates deeply with Pastor Trey and Pastor Emily's experience of life and ministry.
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1h 2min
August 15, 2023 1 Kings 19:9-18
Pastor Trey and Pastor Emily are joined by Rev. Katie Newsome, Pastor and Executive Direction of Union Coffee in Dallas to talk through how Elijah (and all of us) are not failures in the eyes of God, when we don't live up to some earthly standard of success and to dive deep into the joys of a coffee shop meets church.
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1h 14min
August 09, 2023 Matthew 14:13-21
Jesus feed the 5,000 shows up in all four Gospels, and it's a wonderful display of how God can break the rules of reality to take care of God's people. It can work on another level too. Pastor Trey and Pastor Emily see also the challenge for all of us to be a part of God's miracle of provision. Also, Pastor Emily is famous now or at least a church she works with made the news for its work of restarting in a new and modern way.

https://religionnews.com/2023/08/07/left-behind-by-conservatives-texas-towns-united-methodists-charter-a-new-church/
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1h 7min

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The podcast currently has 204 episodes available.