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This episode concludes the conversation I was having in the last episode with Max Benfer and Jason Van Bemmel, by moving to both the need for depth in the church and to discussing how we can pursue that depth.

In this episode, I welcome in two of my pastor friends, Max Benfer and Jason Van Bemmel, and we discuss one of the central assertions of this podcast, that the American Church is shallow.

Episode 36 looks back and reflects on the jouney of the podcast so far, pauses to reflect on John Donne’s Holy Sonnet 14, and looks forward at the plans for the podcast moving forward.

In our final episode on our 4th main theme – root yourself in the body of Christ – and of the first phase of the podcast, we look at the reality that for all our desire to be independent and all our illusions of self-sufficiency, we need one another and it is for our own … Read More “Episode 35 – You Need the Church” »

As we move toward the conclusion of our 4th main theme – root yourself in the body of Christ – and of the first phase of the podcast, we take some time to discuss the important reality that we are a body and that the church needs the gifts that God has given to every … Read More “Episode 34 – The Church Needs You” »

In episode 33 we continue to talk about the importance of rooting yourself in the body of Christ as we discuss the importance of valuing both our individual responsibility but also our place in the community of faith. We look at the problem of the one of the many, how the Trinity helps us to … Read More “Episode 33 – Valuing Both Community & Individuality” »

As we continue to explore our 4th main theme – root yourself in the body of Christ, community life is non-negotiable – we examine the individualistic nature of American culture and three of the many individualistic strands that have infiltrated and impacted the American Church.

As we move into the discussion of our 4th main theme – root yourself in the body of Christ, community life is non-negotiable – we begin by exploring how the Bible presents a unified vision in the Old and New Testaments of embracing God and his salvation as embracing a place among the people of … Read More “Episode 31 – A People Belonging to God” »

Our 4th and final “Lesson from Exile” discusses two lessons on prayer, one taken from Nehemiah and the other from Jeremiah, as we wrap up this arc of episodes designed to illustrate the importance of applying the mind to study scripture that we might stand under its authority as we seek to live lives of … Read More “Episode 30 – Learning to Pray” »

Our third “Lesson from Exile” takes a close look at Ezekiel 9 and lessons we can learn from it about the importance of grieving over sin, as we continue to model applying the life of the mind to the study of scripture in our ongoing pursuit of faithfulness.