The Signal Pres Podcast is back for the Advent season. This week Abby and Joey are talking about all the gifts of this season and how Psalm 63 - this week’s Psalm for our “Praying Scripture” emphasis - is a wonderful way to awaken our hearts to this season and all that it means. Come for the deep dive into how Advent is a season for what our hearts long for… and stick around for the first of likely many Muppet Christmas Carol references.

October is over but we have our heads held high - not least because we are starting our journey through the Psalms as together we learn to pray God’s Word. Abby and Joey are in the studio to talk through the gift of the Psalms and why it is that praying them is so important in the Christian life. We also talk our way through Psalm 143, the Psalm we’re inviting you to pray this week. Bonus this week: we get back to answering listener questions. This week we’re discussing a big one. “Did God create evil?”

This week on the podcast Abby and Joey are joined by everyone’s favorite podcast guest - Scott Bowen! Halfway through our series on the parables, we hear from Scott about what’s unique about the parables, what he’s noticed as we’ve gone through them, and what we can expect as we move forward through the rest of the series. We also take some time to talk about the gathering that gives our tradition its name - Presbytery. Signal Pres recently hosted a presbytery meeting, and so we talk about the gifts that come from our form of government. Come for all that, and also hear Abby quiz Scott on a biblical version of “Would you rather?”

This week on the Signal Pres podcast we are joined by someone we’re eager for you to get to know: Tommy Hayslett! Tommy serves as an elder here at Signal Pres, and he’s with us to talk about what elders do and why wisdom is at the heart of the calling of elder leadership. Along the way, Tommy shares about what wisdom is and how he’s sought to acquire it in his own life. It’s a conversation full of so many things we can’t wait for you to take away - including the mental image of Tommy breaking it down on the dance floor at a wedding. Take a listen and enjoy!

It’s officially the month of October, and that brings so many of our favorite things: sweater weather, beautiful foliage, chili-making, and more. In honor of this very best month, we’re spending some time for the next few weeks talking about all things Presbyterian and Reformed. With Reformation Day at the end of this month, Abby and Joey spend some time talking about what the big deal is with being Reformed. In particular, they talk about why the re-discovery of the Gospel that took place through the Reformation is such a good gift to us. Listen in!

This week on the podcast: meet our brand-new Director of Men’s Discipleship, Ken Pierce! Abby and Joey sit down with Ken in the studio and get to know Ken. We hear about the story of his marriage to his wife Aisyah, how God is at work when we do the next faithful thing he has for us, and why he is so excited to work with men at Signal Pres. Special bonus: learn about Ken’s brief career as a ranch hand in a town where they drop turkeys from airplanes. (Really!)

This week on the podcast we have not one but TWO guests. Becky Cox and Courtney Armstrong from Kids Discipleship join us. They’ve been BEGGING us to be on the podcast (not really) and they’re naturals behind the mic. They talk about where they serve with our kiddos, how you can support the discipleship of kids here at Signal Pres, and more. Someone may or may not snort laugh and good fun is had by all along with learning more about Signal Pres’ heart for kids. Join us!

Memorization! Last week we talked about the “Why” of memorizing Scripture - but what about the “how”? This week Abby and Joey talk dispense some helpful tips on how you can hide God’s Word in your heart. The answers involve both Gerard Manley Hopkins and Moana. Come for the practical advice, stay for more Signal Pres Podcast Singing.

Songs for Memorizing John 15:

• Verses, various songs on John 15

• Streetlights, John 15

This week on the podcast we’re switching things up: Abby Hutto finds herself on the other side of the interviewing desk in the podcast, being interviewed herself ahead of her teaching this coming Sunday at Formation 45. As enter into our third Scripture emphasis - memorization - Abby shares about why we’re focusing on this valuable (even while challenging) practice. All of this is yours to learn, along with listening to bad vocals of 1999 Billboard Hits like Smashmouth, N’Sync, Cher, and Britney Spears…

This week Abby and Joey sit down in the studio with the one and only Peggy Larochelle! Peggy and her husband Pete are long-time members who will soon be moving away to be closer to family, so we didn’t want to miss this opportunity to sit down with Peggy and capture some of the wisdom that this wonderful saint possesses and has shared with so many at Signal Pres over the years. We talk with Peggy about the gift of discipleship relations and the ways that God has both used others in her life and then used her in the lives of others. And we also hear about Beatitude Living, a ministry that Peggy has helped lead and that offers recovery and renewal for women. Tune in to learn from this woman that we like to call “the Jedi Discipler” here at Signal Pres…