The Postscript Show

Ministry is often portrayed as a calling, as it should be filled with purpose, impact, and divine fulfillment. Yet the reality for many pastors, missionaries, and church leaders is that gospel ministry comes with seasons of deep discouragement and often failure. Learning to recover from errors in judgment and feelings of failure and fruitlessness is absolutely crucial for someone's leadership, not just for our own personal well-being, but also for sustaining long term faithfulness in the work of the ministry. 

Too often, leaders internalize their setbacks as a sign that God has rejected them, but failure does not mean the end of ministry. Failure can be the very place where growth and deeper faith in Christ begins. In today's episode, we talk with Pastor Mitch Dobson, Biblical Studies Instructor of the Living Faith Institute, to explore these difficult yet transformative moments, turning to the Scriptures to remind us of God’s promises during these critical times in life and ministry.

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In this episode of the Ps+ we join Pastor Blade Sbisa in a discussion about humanity’s ongoing integration with technology and how we can interface with technology in a biblically thoughtful way. 

In this long-form installment of the Ps+ we join Pastor Eric Phillips in a conversation about our flesh, what the Bible says about it, and how we can trust the Lord to deal with it to the glory of God. 

The Living Faith Bible Institute has a heart for church planting. Our curriculum, and experienced pastoral instructors and professors, focus teaching on equipping men and women for the work of missions and church planting, domestically and all over the world.

Many of our graduates are investing in this very work, one of whom is Blade Sbisa, who along with his wife and his children, are currently preparing to leave their home church in Lee's Summit, Missouri, to establish another disciple-making church across the state in Saint Louis. He's heading east. Blade tells us all about that work and what God's doing in his life.

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In this episode of the Ps+ we join Pastor Blade Sbisa in studying what the Bible has to say about what constitutes as a human. In today’s conversation, we find that the Bible asserts that man is more than just an advanced animal, but is a living soul with far greater worth and significance than any other earthly creature. 

In Revelation 11, we are given a depiction of the second half of the tribulation, the moment in the end times narrative where two men, two prophets, will be used to open the eyes of the Jewish people to the reality that Jesus Christ is the Messiah.

Revelation 11:3 says, “And I will give [power] unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.”

These two witnesses will spend three and a half years performing miracles like the prophets and apostles of old – with command over the weather, power over plagues, the ability to breathe fire, and will even be raised from the dead!

These two unnamed men, called “olive trees” in Zechariah 4, stand tall as central figures in the story of Israel’s redemption and the second advent of Christ – but who are they? Can we know? Is it important to our understanding of the Bible?
 
To chat about the identity of the two witnesses, provost Brandon Briscoe has invited Sam Miles, president of the Living Faith Bible Institute and biblical studies instructor, onto the show.

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In this episode of the Ps+ we join Pastor Blade Sbisa to discuss man's rational mind, the constant noise of information and content in our world, and the Bible's call for to press beyond logic and reason in making comprehensive, ontological claims.

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Since the inception of The Postscript, we have been meeting with Pastor Greg Axe, Church History instructor at the Living Faith Bible Institute, to discuss just that, the history of the church and God's work in the world through his people.

The last few times we met, we chatted about Europe during the Reformation and then the Counter-Reformation. We've discussed quite a cast of characters over the last few episodes: Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Bloody Mary, Queen Elizabeth, but today we want to discuss King James, King of England and Scotland at the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century.

King James was undoubtedly a flawed man. His legacy as king is marked by peace, unity and general prosperity, as well as the sins of an unrighteous man. Even greater than these strengths and also his weaknesses, was God's determination to accomplish an incomprehensible work, a translation of the Bible that would ultimately change the whole world. 

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We have made a habit over the years of inviting church planters and missionaries onto The Postscript to share their testimony, along with the twists and turns of the work of church planting, which is not an easy endeavor. One such church planter is Vinnie Nigro and his wife, Megan, of First Baptist Church in New Philadelphia, Ohio. Brandon Briscoe, the provost of Living Faith Bible Institute, has invited missionary Vincent Nigro to discuss the many ways God has shaped his heart for the mission field, as well as how he discovered Kosovo, the predominantly Muslim nation which he intends to plant a church.

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In this episode of the Ps+ we join Pastor Blade Sbisa in a conversation about Biblical Anthropology. This series will focus on a biblical study of what makes us human—beginning at the soul-level.