Threshing Floor

Everybody's got a story. Today's goes back to the early church — a time when big questions about Jesus and human nature were being fought over, sorted out, and sometimes gotten badly wrong. Pastor Jeff sits down with his co-host Pastor Tommy Creutz for Part 2 of Heresy Hunters, exploring Legalism and Gnosticism — where these ideas came from, why the church rejected them, and why they still matter to ordinary Christians today.

Executive Producer and Host: Pastor Jeff Bucknam

Everybody's got a story. Today's goes back to the early church — a time when big questions about Jesus and human nature were being fought over, sorted out, and sometimes gotten badly wrong. Pastor Jeff sits down with his co-host Pastor Tommy Creutz for Part 1 of Heresy Hunters, exploring Arianism and Pelagianism — where these ideas came from, why the church rejected them, and why they still matter to ordinary Christians today.

Executive Producer: Wesley Cassford

Everybody's got a story. And if you've spent any time in the church, you've probably encountered a conversation about spiritual gifts — maybe a great one, maybe an awkward one. Today, Pastor Jeff and Stephanie Geisler, Central Director of Women's Ministry at Harvest, open up 1 Corinthians 12–14 and dig into the sign gifts together. Honest, helpful, and maybe a little surprising.

Welcome to Conversations with Jeff Bucknam. Today, Pastor Jeff sits down with Kent Shaw—a ministry leader who has spent years in the trenches of church planting and training pastors—to talk about what it actually takes to start a church. What does it look like on the ground? What do you wish someone had told you before you started? And what keeps church planters going when it gets hard? Grab a cup of coffee and pull up a chair—this is a conversation worth having.

On this episode of the podcast, Pastor Jeff Bucknam tackles an important question for every church: What should churches sing? Music shapes the worship, theology, and even the spiritual formation of a congregation. But how should churches decide what belongs in a worship service?

We often hear people say, 'I love Jesus, but I don't need the church.' But can you really have the Head without the Body?

Are Catholics Christians? What are the key doctrinal differences between Catholicism and biblical Christianity? In this thoughtful and gracious conversation, guest host Pastor Dave Learned and Bill Ciofani help unpack the similarities, clarify the distinctions, and bring biblical clarity to an important question.

“Conversations with Jeff Bucknam” is a production of Harvest Bible Chapel.

Can forgiveness exist without repentance? In this episode of Conversations with Jeff Bucknam, Pastor Jeff and Pastor Brit Gilman tackle this thoughtful and sometimes controversial question, examining what the Bible says about repentance, grace, and the heart of the gospel.

“Conversations with Jeff Bucknam” is a production of Harvest Bible Chapel.

Have you ever wondered why Christians—people who follow Jesus—can sometimes come across as harsh, judgmental, or just plain unkind? And if we’re honest… did the Church actually learn anything from Covid, or did it just expose what was already there?

In today’s episode, we’re asking some hard but necessary questions: Why are Christians such jerks sometimes? And what did the last few years reveal about our faith, our witness, and our love for others? Ben France, from our Crystal Lake Campus, joins Pastor Jeff Bucknam as they talk candidly about lessons learned, mistakes made, and how the Church can reflect Jesus more faithfully moving forward.

Welcome to Conversations with Jeff Bucknam. In this episode, Jeff is joined by Dr. Kyle Meeker for a timely and important conversation about deciding on doctrine—how Christians think about truth claims, weigh theological differences, and stay grounded when everything from secondary doctrines to conspiracy theories is competing for our attention.