What would you do if a leading psychologist — following data, not religion — concluded that the Hero every culture has ever imagined looks exactly like Jesus Christ? That’s where this conversation begins. In this episode, we work through Paul’s farewell speech on a dock in Miletus and ask the question his life raises: what does a fully aimed life actually look like? From the concept of telos to the tentmaker’s integrity argument to the double-portion prayer — this is a conversation about purpose, work, and what it means to finish well.

The world is more spiritually hungry than it has ever been — and more confused about what it's hungry for. In Acts 17, Paul walks into Athens and finds a city full of people reaching in every direction, including an altar built to a god they hadn't yet named. In this conversation, we explore what it looks like to recognize that spiritual hunger in the people around us, why most people come to faith slowly rather than all at once, and what it means to go to where the seeking is happening rather than waiting for seekers to find their way in. Scripture: Acts 17:16–34

God's Larger Plan | The Intersection with Dr. Jonathan Beck

What do you do when the door you were sure was the right one closes in your face? In this conversation, we explore a five-verse passage from Acts 16 where Paul hits two dead ends in a row — and discovers that the closed doors weren't obstacles. They were navigation. Drawing on William Ury's concept of going to the balcony, Joseph's story in Genesis 50, and Bill Hybels' challenge to just walk across the room, this episode is for anyone sitting in the in-between — equipped, waiting, and wondering when God is going to point them somewhere. You'll walk away with a new way to read the closed doors in your own life, and a concrete first step toward the person in your life who needs to hear the gospel.

Scripture: Acts 16:6–10 · Genesis 50:15–20 · Ephesians 2:10

The Intersection is the content ministry of Dr. Jonathan Beck — pastor — helping people live faithfully at the intersection of faith and life.

AI DISCLOSURE: This episode is an AI-generated audio conversation created by Dr. Jonathan Beck as part of his content ministry, The Intersection. The conversation was generated using NotebookLM and is based on Dr. Beck's original sermon manuscript.

What do you do when the cost of faithfulness is real — not theoretical, not someday, but right now? This episode follows Paul and Silas from a public flogging in a Roman forum to a midnight jail cell where they sang instead of ran — and traces the question that broke the surface when they stayed: "What must I do to be saved?" From Pentecost to a desert road to a Philippian jail, that question has never stopped being asked. This conversation explores what it means to live inside the answer.

Scripture: Acts 16:16–40

The Intersection is the content ministry of Dr. Jonathan Beck — pastor — helping people live faithfully at the intersection of faith and life.

AI DISCLOSURE: This episode is an AI-generated audio conversation created by Dr. Jonathan Beck as part of his content ministry, The Intersection. The conversation was generated using NotebookLM and is based on Dr. Beck's original sermon manuscript.

One man quit. Another refused to write him off. This conversation follows the disagreement between Paul and Barnabas over John Mark — and what happened when one person's belief in someone changed everything.

Pew to Pavement is the content ministry of Dr. Jonathan Beck — pastor — helping people live faithfully at the intersection of faith and life.

AI DISCLOSURE: This episode is an AI-generated audio conversation created by Dr. Jonathan Beck as part of his content ministry at Pew to Pavement. The conversation was generated using NotebookLM and is based on Dr. Beck's original sermon manuscript.

Philosophies of this age offer liberation which causes confusion, anxiety, and lack of direction. Some churches offer rules, lots of rules and hoops to jump through to be considered a Christian. That produces fear, anxiety, insecurity, and lack of self worth. God offers us a deeper freedom that brings life, joy, meaning, and direction. Learn about the differences and how you can find the kind of freedom that transforms.

On the first Easter Sunday, two people were walking away from Jerusalem — away from where everything had fallen apart. They had followed Jesus believing he would change everything. But they had him wrong. So they walked.

Somewhere on that road, a stranger fell into step beside them. He opened the Scriptures and showed them how everything they thought they knew had been pointing toward exactly what had happened. The suffering was the plan. The cross was the hinge, not the end.

In this Easter message from Munholland Methodist Church in Metairie, Louisiana, Dr. Jonathan Beck walks the road to Emmaus with two disciples who are grieving, confused, and carrying a rumor they can't dismiss — and finds there a story that speaks directly to everyone who has ever walked away from something they believed in.

Wherever you are on the road today — the invitation is the same: stay with me a little longer.

Scripture: Luke 24:13–35 Series: Easter 2026 Church: Munholland Methodist Church | Metairie, Louisiana

Most people call it coincidence. This episode calls it something else. God is working in two people simultaneously — miles apart, no mutual connection — moving them toward a meeting that neither of them arranged. What if the most important relationship of your life is already in motion, and all you have to do is open the door?

Most of us spend our lives avoiding disruption. This episode asks a harder question: what if God's most important work in your life comes through interruption — not comfort? Two people. One certainty shattered. One safety surrendered. And a calling neither of them saw coming.

Most people underestimate encouragement. Barnabas didn't. This episode traces three levels of encouragement that can change the people around you — and change you in the process. New episodes every Monday morning.