Elijah just won the biggest showdown of his prophetic career and immediately went and asked God to let him die under a tree. Relatable, honestly. This week Mike, Bri, Jeremy, and Paul sit with 1 Kings 19 and the moment God shows up, not in the wind, not in the earthquake, not in the fire, but in the quiet, with hotcakes and some water. Turns out God isn't in the business of plenty. Just enough. Bonus points if you can explain how the Mountain of God ended up in Wisconsin.

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Elijah just won the biggest showdown of his prophetic career and immediately went and asked God to let him die under a tree. Relatable, honestly. This week Mike, Bri, Jeremy, and Paul sit with 1 Kings 19 and the moment God shows up, not in the wind, not in the earthquake, not in the fire, but in the quiet, with hotcakes and some water. Turns out God isn't in the business of plenty. Just enough. Bonus points if you can explain how the Mountain of God ended up in Wisconsin.

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This week in Unlikely: Martha gets stuck doing dishes, Mary gets to sit at Jesus' feet, and Paul can't stop quoting the Byrds about it. Mike, Bri, Jeremy, and Paul dig into what it meant for two women to run a household with no man in charge, why "few things are needed" might be the most useful sentence in the whole Gospel for anyone who over-functions at church, and how the story quietly makes room for women who wanted more than the kitchen. Also featuring: a genuinely unreasonable number of birds.

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Moses has a résumé problem. Sentenced to death before he was born, wanted for a killing he fled, forty years out of the game babysitting sheep, and by the time the bush lights up he's eighty. So he does the reasonable thing. He argues. Who am I? What's your name? I'm not a good speaker. Fine, then please send literally anyone else.

Week two of Unlikely, and the panel takes the hint. Everyone goes around and confesses the excuse they used to stall their way out of ministry, which lands somewhere between encouraging and alarming depending on how you feel about your pastor. Along the way: why a burning bush is actually called a burning bush, whether Aaron was just the one with the better abs, Jethro's timeless pastoral counsel to stop doing everything yourself, and Mike's unshakable position that Die Hard is a Harry Potter movie.

Also a Dalek shows up. We don't fully explain it.

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Moses has a résumé problem. Sentenced to death before he was born, wanted for a killing he fled, forty years out of the game babysitting sheep, and by the time the bush lights up he's eighty. So he does the reasonable thing. He argues. Who am I? What's your name? I'm not a good speaker. Fine, then please send literally anyone else.

Week two of Unlikely, and the panel takes the hint. Everyone goes around and confesses the excuse they used to stall their way out of ministry, which lands somewhere between encouraging and alarming depending on how you feel about your pastor. Along the way: why a burning bush is actually called a burning bush, whether Aaron was just the one with the better abs, Jethro's timeless pastoral counsel to stop doing everything yourself, and Mike's unshakable position that Die Hard is a Harry Potter movie.

Also a Dalek shows up. We don't fully explain it.

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This week on RevCast, we're kicking off a brand new series called Unlikely, six weeks, six biblical characters who wouldn't have been anyones first pick. This week: Hannah. childless, getting picked on by her family, and when she finally pours her heart out to God, the priest on duty takes one look and assumes she's drunk. Pastor Paul shows up fashionably late per usual, and pastors Steve McCoy and Barry Petrucci cover for Jeremy, who ditched us for a Tigers game. We get into the "primary wife" politics, the recurring Scripture move of God working through the women everyone underestimated, and even, a full Sacha Baron Cohen detour.

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We close out the RESET series this week with Mark 2, the story where Jesus and the disciples get caught snacking on raw grain in a field on the Sabbath and the Pharisees lose their minds about it. Turns out the real question is not "did they break the rules" but "why does breaking the rules feel like the end of the world." Jesus answers by dragging up an old story about David walking into a chapel and demanding bread under a flimsy cover story (his gear was clean, for the record, that part mattered a lot to the priest). Mike, Paul, and Jeremy dig into fear-based legalism, what the Pharisees were actually so afraid of, and why a law meant to set people free can turn into another kind of prison. Bree joins from across the state via iPad, so you get roughly one Inception joke and several rounds of Lord of the Rings trivia none of you asked for. Somewhere in there is an actual answer to what makes a Sabbath practice good instead of just another rule to keep.

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We close out the RESET series this week with Mark 2, the story where Jesus and the disciples get caught snacking on raw grain in a field on the Sabbath and the Pharisees lose their minds about it. Turns out the real question is not "did they break the rules" but "why does breaking the rules feel like the end of the world." Jesus answers by dragging up an old story about David walking into a chapel and demanding bread under a flimsy cover story (his gear was clean, for the record, that part mattered a lot to the priest). Mike, Paul, and Jeremy dig into fear-based legalism, what the Pharisees were actually so afraid of, and why a law meant to set people free can turn into another kind of prison. Bree joins from across the state via iPad, so you get roughly one Inception joke and several rounds of Lord of the Rings trivia none of you asked for. Somewhere in there is an actual answer to what makes a Sabbath practice good instead of just another rule to keep.

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Unlikely flavors and a puppy named Mongo - the RevCast crew is back from vacation and somehow still lands on one of the deepest questions we can ask ourselves: are you living off a fire hose or drinking from still water? Mike, Bri, Paul, and Jeremy crack open Psalm 23 and ask what it means to let the Shepherd set your pace instead of running yourself into the ground. Plus: why "don't try to be the shepherd" might be the most countercultural thing you hear all week. New RESET series episode - Hotdog Ice Cream and Fire Hose Living, out now.

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Jesus wakes up before everyone, slips off to a deserted place, and basically plays the world's first game of holy hide-and-seek. This week, the RevCast panel resets their space with Mark 1:35-39, the morning Jesus disappeared to pray and came back knowing exactly where to go next, instead of letting the crowd pick for him. Mike, Bri, and Paul get into why physically stepping out of the room changes how your brain works, how burnout quietly became a flex instead of a warning light, and the radical idea that rest isn't a reward you earn but a mandate you already have. Also settled, once and for all: yes, sardines is in the Bible. Find your deserted place and press play.

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