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July 10, 2017 Episode 078: The (Still) Important Issue of Pornography
The (Still) Important Issue of Pornography In the last 10-15 years it seems as though pornography went from being an ultra-taboo topic in the church (no one talked about it), to being a regular taboo topic (some people have started talking about it). The reality is, the business and consumption of pornography is still a…
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July 10, 2017 Episode 078: The (Still) Important Issue of Pornography
The (Still) Important Issue of Pornography
In the last 10-15 years it seems as though pornography went from being an ultra-taboo topic in the church (no one talked about it), to being a regular taboo topic (some people have started talking about it). The reality is, the business and consumption of pornography is still a massive issue in the world – including men and women in the Church. Joining us this week to help re-inform us on the staggering stats of porn use as well as the affects it has on the brain is Chris McKenna – the Educational Resource Manager for Covenant Eyes and the creator of Protect Young Eyes.

Who’s Our Guest?
Chris McKenna is the Educational Resource Manger at Covenant Eyes. He has a BA in Accountancy and Spanish from Western Michigan University. After 12 years in business advising with Ernst & Young, God led Chris to a full-time student ministry role. He started protectyoungeyes.com in 2015 as a ministry to equip and educate parents and teens on the latest gadgets, apps, and how to use the Internet well, which led him to Covenant Eyes.

Episode Links
Chris is the Educational Resource Manager for Covenant Eyes, a Christian-based organization that provides Internet accountability and filtering.

Chris is also the creator of Protect Young Eyes. This organization trains parents and students on smart/safe tech use.

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*Below is an edited transcription of the audio conversation.

With me today is Chris McKenna. Chris is the Educational Resource Manager for Covenant Eyes. He’s also the creator of Protect Young Eyes. It’s great to be with you today Chris.

Isaac, it’s my pleasure. Looking forward to it.

Why don’t you first tell us a little bit about who you are, where you’re from. Also, how you met Christ. That’d be awesome.

Sure. So, I’m in Grand Rapids, Michigan – if your audience is familiar with where that’s at. I’ve been in Michigan my entire life. I grew up in a very religious home, but it wasn’t until I went to college, at a university there in Michigan, through a very powerful experience that the Lord truly grabbed my heart. And in a moment that I can only partially describe, because there aren’t words for it, I heard the words “You are mine,” and from that point forward, albeit very imperfectly, felt very much that I had be claimed.
In fact, you would see on my right wrist the tattoo of 1 Corinthians 6:20, that I am bought for a price. That I was paid for with His life. So I’m wanting to be reminded of that often, of His awesome sacrifice. So that was back in my early twenties.
Now, twenty years later, still feel that I have much to discover, and there’s just a constant desire for more. It’s as quickly as I can summarize 43 years.
The two roles that I have today, at both Covenant Eyes and Protect Young Eyes, when I look at my professional career, are two that I have not been doing for too long, because they are neither of them being things that I ever expected to be spending time on as a double major in accountancy and Spanish. Which are, of course not related to either of the roles that I have today. But, that is a whole separate conversation, that, maybe we’ll organically uncover as we continue to talk here.

You mentioned Covenant Eyes and Protect Young Eyes. So, I mean, I’m pretty sure people would be, if they were familiar with one of the two, they’d be familiar with Covenant eyes – it’s been around for quite a while.
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July 03, 2017 Episode 077: Understanding Loneliness
Understanding Loneliness Loneliness can affect us all to some degree – whether you’re a mature Christian, a new Christian, or a non-Christian. The question is, How should we, as Christians, understand loneliness? How can we make sense of it, and help ourselves out of it? Author and speaker Lydia Brownback has recently written a book called Finding…
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July 03, 2017 Episode 077: Understanding Loneliness
Understanding Loneliness
Loneliness can affect us all to some degree – whether you’re a mature Christian, a new Christian, or a non-Christian. The question is, How should we, as Christians, understand loneliness? How can we make sense of it, and help ourselves out of it? Author and speaker Lydia Brownback has recently written a book called Finding God in My Loneliness, where she dives into this relevant issue. We have the privilege of chatting with her this week, asking her some of the relevant questions around the topic of loneliness. “What do I do with my loneliness?” “Was it meant to be this way?” “I’m single and lonely, what do I do?” are some of the questions we answer during this week’s conversation.

Who’s Our Guest?
Lydia Brownback (MAR, Westminster Theological Seminary) serves as a senior editor at Crossway in Wheaton, Illinois, and an author and speaker at women’s conferences around the world. Lydia previously served as writer in residence for Alistair Begg and as producer of the Bible Study Hour radio program with James Montgomery Boice. You can find her blog here.

Episode Links
Lydia’s book is called Finding God in My Loneliness.

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*Below is an edited transcription of the audio conversation.

With me today is author and speaker Lydia Brownback. Lydia serves as a senior editor with Crossway Publishing, and at least through Crossway she’s written about nine books or so – maybe she can correct that, but thanks for being with me today Lydia.

I’m glad to be here Isaac.

Before we jump into our topic/issue today which is loneliness, why don’t you just first tell us who you are a little bit – what you do, and also if you could, how you met Jesus.

Well, we could take the whole interview with just that. I work at Crossway books; I’ve been here for about a decade. And before that I worked for a pastor named Alistair Begg in Cleveland, Ohio. And then I worked for James Montgomery Boice years before that, producing his radio program called the Bible Study Hour.
Along the way I started writing, and I’ve been doing that ever since. And that’s sort of where my passion is – I love to write, to communicate God’s Word and truths about God’s Word, to help women especially connect with God more fully and more truthfully. So that is my great passion.
But any way I can be working in the Word of God, whether it’s through my vocation or through my writing, that is exactly what my joy in life is.

And how did you meet Jesus?

Well, I was a teenager at the time. My parents had split up, and it was a very lonely time for me. And my mother became a believer as a result of that difficulty in our family. So through her faith I was led to know Jesus.

Now, last year you wrote a book called Finding God in My Loneliness, a provocative title. Before we dig further into that, what are you referring to here as “loneliness”? I feel like it’s an ambiguous term, what do you mean by that?

This book was not something I even thought about writing. A fellow writer and speaker suggested to me several years ago that I write on this topic, and I remember, at first, initially, I didn’t want to do it. I thought “Why? You’re just asking me or suggesting that because I’m single and you think I’d be a good one to write about that.” So I resisted the idea.
But then as I thought about it and began looking around I realized,

“No, it’s not just a singleness issue, it’s a universal issue,
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June 26, 2017 Episode 076: How Ordinary People Can Study the Bible
You Can Do Bible Study What exactly is Bible study? And how do I do it? Pastor and author Peter Krol joins us this week to help us understand what Bible study is and how anyone can do it. Not only does Peter help us understand the OIA method (observe, interpret, apply), but he also explains…
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June 26, 2017 Episode 076: How Ordinary People Can Study the Bible
You Can Do Bible Study
What exactly is Bible study? And how do I do it? Pastor and author Peter Krol joins us this week to help us understand what Bible study is and how anyone can do it. Not only does Peter help us understand the OIA method (observe, interpret, apply), but he also explains the Holy Spirit’s role in reading the Bible. Near the end of the conversation, he gives an appeal to all young Christians to just read the Bible. He asks the question: “If you were locked in a room with just a simple edition of the Bible, would it be like a first date with silence and awkwardness? Or would it be exciting and wonderful?”

Who’s Our Guest?
Peter Krol serves as the President for DiscipleMakers – a campus ministry in the state of Pennsylvania. Peter also serves as the Preaching Pastor at Grace Fellowship Church in State College, PA. In addition to this, Peter has also written Knowable Word: Helping Ordinary People Learn to Study the Bible. He blogs regularly at knowableword.com.

Episode Links
Peter’s book is called Knowable Word: Helping Ordinary People Learn to Study the Bible.

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*Below is an edited transcription of the audio conversation.

With me today is Peter Kroll. Peter is president of DiscipleMakers, it’s a campus ministry. He’s a pastor, he’s an author. A few years ago now he wrote a book called Knowable Word: Helping Ordinary People Learn to Study the Bible, and that’s the topic – Bible reading, Bible study – that’s the topic we’ll be getting at today. But anyways, thanks for being here today Peter.

Your welcome.

You know, before we jump into the topic, do you mind letting us know a little bit more about who you are? Specifically, how you came to know Jesus, and also what you’re up to in life right now?

Sure. I grew up in a Christian family in the suburbs of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. Heard the gospel from a young age and I remember praying to receive Christ when I was pretty young. It didn’t fully sink in for me until later in my high school years, when all the things that I had been trusting in fell apart on me all at once.
I just lived for music and for girls. I played the trombone and had a failed audition one year and I had a dating relationship that went sour. The combination of those things launched me into some depression and helped me realize that only Christ could really give me the life that I was looking for. So, I started really walking with Christ at that point.
I went off to college. While I was in college I was deeply impacted by DiscipleMakers’ campus ministry, as the folks that were invested in me helped me learn how to study the Bible and how to think biblically about everything I did. Applying the Scriptures and the gospel to all different areas of life. I had been so impacted and convinced by the benefit of reaching college students that I joined the ministry when I graduated. I served with DiscipleMakers for about fifteen years before being appointed president in 2016.
I also serve as preaching pastor of Grace Fellowship Church, my local church in State College, Pennsylvania which is right were Pennsylvania State University is.

What exactly, I mean, I’m a little bit unfamiliar with DiscipleMakers, so, what is it in a brief snapshot?

Well we reach students at secular universities across the state of Pennsylvania. We’re still small, but we’re working at reaching new campuses. And our mission is to, as you can guess from our name, it’s to make disciples of Christ.
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June 19, 2017 Episode 075: Legalism and Grace
Legalism and Grace From ancient Israel, to New Testament Pharisees, to priests and monks in the Medieval Church, to modern day North American Christians – legalism can definitely spread its roots in the church. Legalism can make it seem as though godliness is a super disciplined life. Marci Preheim, our guest this week, felt this…
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June 19, 2017 Episode 075: Legalism and Grace
Legalism and Grace
From ancient Israel, to New Testament Pharisees, to priests and monks in the Medieval Church, to modern day North American Christians – legalism can definitely spread its roots in the church. Legalism can make it seem as though godliness is a super disciplined life. Marci Preheim, our guest this week, felt this way growing up in her strict, fundamentalist church. But after coming back to the faith as a young adult, she began to see how the grace of God in the gospel of Jesus plays a massive role in the believer’s life. This is what this week is all about: how the grace in the gospel can free a person from thinking that they need to do in order to be in.

Who’s Our Guest?
Marci Preheim is an author and speaker from Nashville, Tennessee where she lives with her family. God has gifted Marci with the ability to teach the bible in a simple and understandable way. Many who have sat under her teaching will say that her passion for the Lord and His Word is contagious. You can find more about Marci by checking out her blog.

Episode Links
Marci’s book is called GRACE IS FREE: One Woman’s Journey from Fundamentalism to Failure to Faith.

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*Below is an edited transcription of the audio conversation.

With me today is Marci Preheim. Marci is the author of a book called Grace is Free: One Woman’s Journey from Fundamentalism to Failure to Faith. That’s an interesting title. She’s also active in doing different formal ministry events like teaching at women’s conferences, and Bible studies, and so on and so forth. Anyways, it’s great to be chatting with you today, Marci.
Great to be here. Thanks for having me.

Let’s just start with this. How did you meet Jesus, and where are you at now?

I was raised in a very strict fundamentalist church. It was non-denominational but very similar to maybe the Independent Fundamentalist Baptists. From a very early age, our behaviour was tracked to understand whether or not we were saved or not. There were multiple prayers of salvation just to make sure, Bible verse memory from a very early age, all kinds of spiritual activities.
We lived at church. My mother was the women’s ministries director, and my dad was an elder. We were at church three, four times a week. I knew the gospel but also came away with the understanding that you had to fit into a certain mold. I was a girl so I had to look, and dress, and act a certain way. I had to have certain gifts. Certain spiritual gifts were for men, and certain spiritual gifts were for women. That was hard for me because I have this great big personality. It turns out I love theology. I love to study. I love to teach. I love to write – so ironic to me that that’s not really a girl gift.
Also, I’m a sinner. The teenage years were hard for me or hard for my parents. We had a process of sin management at our church where you put forth a façade of good behaviour, and then if you’re a sinner, well, you do that where nobody can see you where you won’t ruin your testimony for Jesus, blah, blah, blah.
Anyways, so I moved to Hollywood at 19 to pursue my dreams of becoming a famous model and actress. Ironically, I met Jesus there through a series of extremely painful circumstances which drove me back to what I knew, back to a fundamentalist church. Just through a series of … which you can read about in the book.
I met Jesus for real. The difference between my salvation prayer at that time was that I wasn’t promising to do better,
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June 12, 2017 Episode 074: Doing Justice in the Ordinary with Tony Merida
Doing Justice in the Ordinary
When I first opened up Tony’s book, Ordinary, I was surprised to find a biblical appeal for Christians to act on justice and mercy. We’re excited to be talking with pastor and author Tony Merida this week on the issue of how we, as Christians, can do justice in the ordinary things of life. Often we can think (and I’m guilty of this) that justice and mercy ministries take away from “gospel,” but Tony quickly diminishes that idea by explaining that the gospel is what empowers us to do justice. Also, doing justice doesn’t always mean quitting your job and flying halfway around the world to bust a human trafficking ring (although it might), but it also looks like inviting your low-income neighbour over for dinner.

Who’s Our Guest?
Tony Merida is the founding pastor of Imago Dei Church in Raleigh, N.C. He has also served as Associate Professor of Preaching at Southeastern Baptist Seminary in Wake Forest, NC. His books include: Faithful Preaching, Orphanology, Ordinary: How to Turn the World Upside Down, Proclaiming Jesus and eight volumes in the Christ-Centered Exposition commentary series (B&H), of which he also serves as a general editor, along with Danny Akin and David Platt. He is happily married to Kimberly; and they have five adopted children.

Episode Links
If you’re interested in Tony’s book, Ordinary, be sure to check out the book site and trailer.

During our conversation, I found out that Tony also hosts a podcast for the Acts 29 Network.

And if you’re interested in looking at the church Tony preaches at, check out Imago Dei Church.

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*Below is an edited transcription of the audio conversation.

With me today is Tony Merida. Tony is the pastor for preaching and vision at Imago Dei Church in Raleigh, North Carolina. Thank you Tony for chatting with me today!
Thanks Isaac, great to be with you.

Before we get into the topic of our conversation, why don’t you first let us know who you are – specifically, I always love hearing how you meet Jesus (or how did Jesus find you?) and where are you and what are you doing now?

Yeah, so I was born in Detroit, Michigan but moved to Kentucky when I was small. Grew up with a dad who was not a Christian. He was a hard-working factory worker. My mom was a Christian. She took me to church services when I was young, but I never really understood the gospel until later.
I went to college, went to a small college in Kentucky on a baseball scholarship. In my sophomore year I was a shortstop, and our second baseman, Steven, was a Christian. Through his witness, I became a Christian in my sophomore year. It was really a dramatic conversion in many ways. I was living a very rebellious lifestyle – was not interested in God, the Bible, or anything to do with Christianity. And he just lived a very attractive, grace-filled Christian life in front of me. He had a tremendous impact on my life. The Lord used him to bring me to Himself.
Then I started sharing my testimony a bit, attended Bible studies, and began to see that I really loved to teach the Bible – to preach about God’s grace. But I really didn’t know what I was doing.
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June 05, 2017 Episode 073: Understanding the Popular Worldviews
Understanding the Popular Worldviews There are hundreds and hundreds of worldviews out there (a worldview being how one “sees” the world – what reality really is). You could even say that there are as many worldviews as there are people, since every person sees the world slightly differently. A few of the most popular, at…
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