Thy Kingdom Pod

Merry Christmas, and welcome to a special Holiday edition of Thy Kingdom Pod: a podcast about living in the unfinished mission of Jesus. In this episode, Sarah, Jim, Sonji and Jonathan will be talking about Christmas traditions from around the globe, what they say about their respective cultures, how your Christmas tree might actually introduce a colony of praying mantises into your home, and how we as Christians can approach the holiday season in a way that engages our culture but still recognizes the wonder of Jesus.

In this episode, we’re delighted and honored to have our first guest on the podcast. Joining us today is Dr. Bryan Loritts. Bryan is a teaching pastor at Summit Church in North Carolina; he’s written seven books and he’s also the founder of Kainos Movement, an organization committed to seeing the multiethnic church become the new normal in our world. Brian joined us on the pod to talk about the many divisions we face in the United States, how our country has been discipled by the concept of race, and how the church can be a unifying presence in our society.

To find out more about Bryan Loritts, his books, and his podcast, you can go to his website at https://bryanloritts.com/

To find out more about the Kainos Movement, you can go to www.kainos.is

What does the word integrity mean to you? It’s a word that’s often synonymous with authenticity but we also use the word to describe upstanding character. In this episode, we’ll examine the differences between those aspects and begin a conversation over what’s a better understanding of integrity. We’ll also dive a bit into the current trend of call-out culture, the difference between holding others accountable and publicly shaming them, and how God calls his Kingdom to be people of integrity.

If you didn’t already know how adaptable a person you were before 2020, odds are this year has been a revealing experience. Today, we’re going to talk about what it looks like to be adaptable in this season but also in a broader sense of life, ranging from your five-year plan to what’s for dinner, and more importantly how we surrender our desire for control before God. (20:04)

Have you ever felt like there was something that was keeping you from knowing your neighbors? Maybe you were experiencing isolation even before the pandemic?. Well today, we’re going to be talking about community, the challenges of finding it in America, the ways we can be more intentional approaching it, and how it points us to the character of God.

The topic of today’s conversation is about the posture of being a learner. What does that mean? How is being a learner important in the daily life of God’s kingdom, and how do we prepare ourselves to be better learners? Can we learn how to learn? 

Welcome to Thy Kingdom Pod, this a podcast about Living in the Unfinished mission of Jesus. This episode was recorded over a series of conversations about why we started podcasting, and in these conversations, we touch on what we mean by “living unfinished,” why bad things continue to happen in our world even though the Kingdom of God is here, and what it looks like to be part of that Kingdom in a post-Christian society.

We recommend: How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels, by N.T. Wright.  

"How God Became King reveals the surprising, unexpected, and shocking news of the gospels: this is the story of a new king, a new kind of king, a king who changed everything, and a king who invites us to be part of his new world."

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