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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August 23, 2024 How to Restart a Church: One Year into Digital Ministry
We launched all our podcasting-y stuff around a year ago, and we've learned a lot in that time. We've figured out how to make content without overloading us. We learned that it's bad when all your studios are constantly over 90 degrees. We started making TikToks. And, we learned that we need to take the next leap into becoming a Christian media company.
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37min
August 21, 2024 The Goodness of God: 1 Kings 2:10-12, 3:3-14
King Solomon ascend the throne and immediately impresses God. He choose wisdom to serve the nation rather than something that was good for himself. Solomon reaches this conclusion despite growing up during his family's darkest period. He overcomes his background and shows humility and wisdom - even before God grants his request.
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35min
August 17, 2024 How to Restart a Church: Sanctuary Comics and Games
Village UMC wanted to do something new. Nash Carey had a whole model of ministry to reach a whole different group of folks by running a comic book store as ministry. They came together to open an Oklahoma City comic book store, owned by Village UMC, and operated by Nash. It's an amazing take on getting out beyond the church walls, taking something you know and love, and creating meaningful, Spirit filled, and life giving community. They clearly have been given great power, and they are definitely using responsibly.

"See inside the opening of Sanctuary Comics & Games second location in Oklahoma City." by Bryan Terry
https://www.oklahoman.com/picture-gallery/news/religion/2024/08/03/sanctuary-comics-games-opens-its-second-location-in-oklahoma-city/74640218007/
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48min
August 15, 2024 2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33
King screw up....royally....again. His actions and inactions lead to a rebellion, the death of two of his sons, and the slaughter of 20,000 of his own subjects. However, this story is as much about what doesn't happen as what does. God does reject David. If we extrapolate this out, God is a God of grace. We too can royally screw up, and God will still love us.
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42min
August 09, 2024 How to Restart a Church: Church Insurance, the Unsexy Thing That's Kill You
Much like Heart Disease in the human population, the shocking rise in church insurance costs over the last four years is the unsexy and even boring sounding thing killing churches. A combination of inflation, a pandemic, climate change, and massive empty facility have combined into what the Associated Press describes as a "perfect storm" to make insuring churches next to impossible. Churches are regularly seeing a 4x increase in insurance costs - in just a single year. That dramatic a shift that quickly puts ministries and overall stability at risk.

"How a perfect storm sent church insurance rates skyrocketing" by Bob Smietana
https://apnews.com/article/church-insurance-skyrockets-storms-disasters-2035fbdbb8cff8e03b1efc8f49eb5c94
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36min
August 07, 2024 2 Samuel 11:26-12:13
What does it mean to be like King David? In so many ways, King David and King Saul are a lot alike - military victorious, popular leaders, profoundly flawed. Both make decisions that turn out tragically for themselves and their families. The confrontation between the prophet Nathan and King David gives us a key window into the difference. When called out by God's voice box, David repents and finds redemption. This is something that we can all do.
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41min
August 02, 2024 How to Restart a Church: St. Lydia's in Brooklyn
Pastor Trey and his son, Thomas, report back on their field trip to St. Lydia's in Brooklyn. It's a dinner church with a storefront location and a focus on intentional simplicity. They provide an amazing example of what can happen, when you focus on your context, don't try and solve all the world's problems, but find a lane where you can do something powerful.

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47min
July 31, 2024 2 Samuel 11:1-15
King David messes up...royally. He peeps on a woman. He has his way with said woman. He monkeys with battlefield strategy to try and cover up his indiscretion. When that fails, he commits murder in the first degree. We can easily write this off as, "David is just bad, actually." This avoids the real question. How different are we from David?
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47min
July 26, 2024 How to Restart a Church: What's Statistically Up with Nones?
Ryan Burge, on his Substack Graphs About Religion, did a statistical survey of nonreligious people in conjunction with the Freedom From Religion Foundation. It folks from outside of church world digging into what is up with folks who are outside of church world. Some of their findings should be deeply convicting. Most of the folks who left religion did so before the age of 25, and the main reasons that they cite for leaving is religious people not living up to the religion that they claim to profess. We've got some work to do to be better.

"We Asked the Nones a Bunch of Questions About Leaving Religion" by Ryan Burge
https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/we-asked-the-nones-a-bunch-of-questions
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42min
July 23, 2024 2 Samuel 7:1-14
David wants to build a Temple. It seems like a good enough idea. It honors God. It's the kind of thing that kings do. God says, "No." It's a perfectly fine idea, but it drills down to one of the key factors in a life following God - doing God's will only. We can fairly easily tell the difference between morally right and morally wrong, at least most of the time. We don't always do it, but we know. However, a life of faith, like with David, means not just doing morally right things but doing the specific morally right thing that desires for us to do. The trick is discerning what that is.
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44min

FAQs about The Goodness of God:

How many episodes does The Goodness of God have?

The podcast currently has 151 episodes available.