In this episode, my guest is Dr. Rex Rogers, a Christian leader who spent 35 years in Christian higher education and 17 years as President of Cornerstone University. Now for 13 years, he has been President of SAT-7 USA, a Middle East and North Africa Christian broadcast media ministry.

Coming out of college, he pursued a career that he felt God calling him to in education. Find out what prompted his move to international Christian ministry. Listen to Dr. Rogers explain some of the similarities as well as differences in serving in these two Christian ministry endeavors.

While fundraising isn’t most executive leaders' favorite ministry activity, learn why Dr. Rogers enjoys it.

Dr. Rex Rogers is host of Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex Rogers where he examines different topics in culture, current issues, and everyday life while applying unchanging biblical principles in a rapidly changing world, doing Christian critical thinking, and using spiritual discernment. 

In this episode, I visit with dance educator and author Mary Bawden. She began choreographing dance within church services in 1994. In 2016, she noticed a dangerous trend in children’s dance and founded DA:NCE (Dance Awareness: No Child Exploited) in an effort to raise awareness and educate others to take action and stop the hypersexualization of children in dance choreography, costumes, and music.

Alongside dance ministry, she developed the Soul to Sole Choreography method transforming dance movement into prayer-in-motion, providing education and resources to support a Christian dance ministry.

Mary Bawden received a BA in modern dance from the University of California Riverside, a MA in worship (emphasis in dance) from Hope International University in Fullerton CA, and a California secondary teaching credential.

In this episode, hear how an African American Christian teenager overcame racism and injustices in his community in the South. As a teenager, Charles Graham was challenged, not only by the racism in the community, but the racism in the Church. 

Graham is author of the book No Back Doors. His ministry in song has taken him all over the United States as well as overseas. He has ministered in several countries including England, Scotland, Wales, Norway, Germany, France, Canada, Israel, Africa, and South America. Graham has ministered at the Governor’s Mansion in Atlanta, GA and for various Mayor’s Prayer Breakfasts in other parts of the country. God continues to use Charles's life and ministry in AR with the ministry of The Fountains.

Charles is a man dedicated to the call of God on his life. Not only does he have a tremendous natural talent, but he also works tirelessly to minister with love and encouragement to people wherever he goes. Find out more at https://charlesgrahamministry.com/.

This episode will hear from world-renowned archaeologist Dr. Mark Fairchild, a Huntington University Bible and Religion Profession, and a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar. In part II of my podcast conversation, we discuss Dr. Fairchild’s discovery of the oldest known synagogue in the world.

You will learn about his extensive research at the site of the well-known Council of Nicea. The place where over 300 leaders of the early church met with the emperor Constantine, culminating in the confessional statement known as the Nicene Creed.

Dr. Mark Fairchild's website https://www.ancientbiblicalworld.com/about-mark-r-fairchild/

Dr. Mark Fairchild, a world-renowned archaeologist, explains the chronology of the Apostle Paul’s time after the Damascus road experience and before his three missionary journeys. Was there an earlier missionary journey?

After Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus, his life was imperiled, and he fled to his hometown of Tarsus. There, for the next seven to nine years, the apostle began to share his new faith with people in communities throughout Syria and Cilicia. This early mission of Paul’s was never mentioned in the book of Acts, yet it was here that Paul learned and developed a ministry to non-Jewish people (the Gentiles). Where did Paul go and how did he approach the task?

Since joining the faculty at Huntington University, Dr. Fairchild has made numerous academic contributions to biblical research. A two-hour documentary film entitled “The Last Apostle” followed Fairchild on his travels as he retraced the course of Paul’s journeys through Cyprus and Anatolia.