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We begin a 4 week excursion, talking about some of the ideas that are 'in the water' of our culture and often act upon us and shape us, often without our really thinking about it. We overview this excursion, explain why we're doing it, and begin by talking about hedonism in this episode.

In my final episode with Shane, we talk about his life since the album, at how he and his wife chose to adopt their boys and invest in helping at risk kids in their attempt to be faithful to God's calling on their lives - and we hear another of Shane's songs, "Chosen."

I continue my talk with Shane Lankford and in this episode, focus on the inspiration for and creation of the album, Orphan Found, looking specifically at the song "Paupers Unfulfilled," which you can hear in its entirety at the end of the episode.

My childhood best friend, whose voice you hear at the start of every episode, joins me to talk about the music on this podcast & more, as we talk about how being rooted in the church helped us through tough times and his desire to be faithful to his calling.

Jason and I follow-up on the episodes with J. Mark Bertrand about wisdom and discuss the biblical books that are classified as wisdom literature and some of the lessons they can teach us as we seek to grow in this vital area of the Christian life.

In this final installment of my conversation with Mark Bertrand about wisdom and the importance of pursuing wisdom we talk about his call to and work in pastoral ministry and seek to connect pursuing wisdom to pursuing depth in the Christian life.

In this third part of my conversation with Mark Bertrand about the importance of wisdom and pursuing wisdom for the Christian life, we discuss among other things, 5 lessons about wisdom we can learn from the siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453.

This is the second part of my interview with Mark Bertrand on the essential importance of wisdom and pursuing wisdom for the Christian life. We pick up where we left off last time and discuss how wisdom is not what you think it is.

This episode is the first of four parts in which I interview J. Mark Bertrand, author of Rethinking Worldview, and we discuss the essential importance of wisdom and pursuing wisdom for the Christian life.

Jason and I follow up on my conversation with Daryl Madi about Church Hurt, talking further about the importance of being connected to a church even while acknowledging the reality of her imperfection.

This is the final installment of my conversation with Daryl Madi about Church Hurt, and as we acknowledge the failings of the institutional church, we also acknowledge Christ's love for her and our place in her midst.

This is part 2 of my conversation with Pastor Daryl Madi about church hurt, where we continue to discuss the church, the need for accountability in the church, and also our need of the church.

This is part one of my conversation with my friend, Pastor Daryl Madi, on the subject of 'Church Hurt,' as we talk about the varieties of things that can be referred to by that name and examine both the flaws of the institutional church and our need of it.

Jason Van Bemmel joins me to talk, not just about science and faith and the questions of origins that so often divide us, but about disagreement and conflict in the church, and how we can distinguish between primary, secondary and tertiary differences when we find that we do disagree.

In this episode we talk about three different positions Christians take on the question of origins, not to advocate for any one of them but to better understand them, their appeal, their challenges, and talk about how they interact with the early chapters of Genesis.