The hosts (Becca and Terrance) and guest Tyler kick off Season 4 of the Northeast Equipping Podcast, themed around controversial Christianity. They dive into the week’s topic: singleness.

Tyler explains the church chose this topic because they haven’t taught directly on singleness since 2016 and because the church has more singles and “single agains” than people realize. As he says,

“We have more singles in our church than we would imagine…”

Why Northeast Doesn’t Have a Singles Ministry

Terrence shares from his past as a singles pastor that standalone singles ministries often:

Instead, the church wants singles fully included in men’s, women’s, and small group ministries.

Can Christians Remarry After Divorce?

They discuss biblical grounds for divorce and remarriage. Tyler summarizes three legitimate reasons a marriage covenant may be broken:

He emphasizes repentance, grace, and honoring marriage as covenant, not convenience.

How Should a Christian Date Today?

They caution that dating apps can shape people in unhealthy ways—teaching them to commodify others and removing community accountability. Apps aren’t wrong, but Christians should date with boundaries, healing, and intentionality. As Terrance notes:

“There are a lot of unhealed people running into relationships, hurting other people because they’re unhealed.”

In this episode, we explore a variety of ways church hurt can happen meerly because of being misunderstood. How can we each do our part to gracefully love and support each other with our own sin struggles, questions, doubts, and cultural backgrounds making our church a place for all?

In this episode, we explore a number of ways where someone in the church may feel ignored or forgotten and how to effectively bring this to attention and show grace to each other.

It can be hard to see a clear and Godly path forward when you've been hurt in a deep way, especially if it was intentionally. What do you do if you feel betrayed or harmed by someone in the church? 

In this episode, we explore what to do if/when we are offended or annoyed by someone in our church. Whether it's from someone in our small group, from one of our spiritual leaders, or even from the church culture, how can we navigate and adrress these feelings in a healthy manner?

In this season, we wanted to walk through the difficult conversation of Church Hurt. What is it? What is it not? And how can we as the body of Christ address conflict, disagreement, and sin in in the way Jesus and the Apostles share with us. 

In our final episode in the Advent series, we explore the Christian concept of love as sacrificial and rooted in Christ, contrasting it with worldly definitions. How can we define our own Christmas tradtions more around Christ's love?

In today's episode, we reflect on the topic of joy; it's connection to worship and community, and how it differs from happiness. The Joy we get in Christ offers the stability in life that we all seek and are reminded of during the Christmas season.

In today's episode, we reflect on the topic of peace. What is the peace that God gives? What are misconceptions about peace? And how can believers experience this peace in their lives?

As we enter the Christmas season, we begin by reflecting on the advent theme of hope. In a world still full of darkness, how do we hold on to the hope of Jesus that one day all darkness will be gone?