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May 7, 2020
The Way Home: Daniel Grothe on wisdom and living well
Daniel Grothe joins me to talk about wisdom and the importance of learning from those your senior. Daniel is Associate Senior Pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
This episode of The Way Home is sponsored by our friends at The Good Book Company, publishers of Talking Points: Abortion by Dr Lizzie Ling & Vaughan Roberts.
Show Notes
Book: Chasing Wisdom: The Lifelong Pursuit of Living Well [image error]
Instagram: @mrdanielgrothe
Twitter: @mrdanielgrothe
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April 30, 2020
The Way Home: Derwin Gray on shepherding his church and ‘Finding True Happiness’
Derwin Gray joins me to talk about how he is shepherding his church through this difficult time, as well as his new book The Good Life: What Jesus Teaches about Finding True Happiness[image error]. He is the founding and lead Pastor of Transformation Church (TC) in Indian Land, South Carolina, just south of Charlotte, North Carolina.
This episode of The Way Home is sponsored by our friends at The Good Book Company, publisher of Where is God in a Coronavirus World? by John Lennox.
Show Notes
Book: The Good Life: What Jesus Teaches about Finding True Happiness [image error]
Website: derwinlgray.com and transformationchurch.tc
Twitter: @DerwinLGray
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April 28, 2020
The Way Home: Scott James on the unknowns of COVID-19 and how we can pray
Scott James joins me for a bonus episode of The Way Home. On Tuesdays we will be releasing episodes focused on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. James is a pediatric infectious disease physician. He joins me to talk about COVID-19, the struggles of the unknown, and how we can pray for healthcare workers. Dr. James also serves as an elder at The Church of Brook Hills.
Previous episodes:
Justin Lonas and Jerilyn Sanders on COVID-19 and the economy
Jared Wilson on pastoring and encouragement during COVID-19
Jesse and Julie Masson on new challenges families face during COVID-19
Keith Getty on family and hymn sings during COVID-19
Show Notes
Book: Where Is Wisdom?: A Treasure Hunt Through God’s Wondrous World, Inspired by Job 28 [image error]
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April 23, 2020
The Way Home: Vance Pitman on being free from the burden of religion
Does following Jesus feel impossible? Are you trying hard to be a good Christian while secretly feeling exhausted and overwhelmed? Vance Pitman joins me to talk about his first book Unburdened: Stop Living for Jesus So Jesus Can Live through You[image error].
Vance is the senior pastor at Hope Church Las Vegas.
This episode of The Way Home is sponsored by our friends at The Good Book Company, publisher of Where is God in a Coronavirus World? by John Lennox.
Show Notes
Book: Unburdened: Stop Living for Jesus So Jesus Can Live through You [image error]
Website: hopechurchonline.com
Twitter: @vancepitman
Podcast: Vance Pitman Leadership Podcast
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April 22, 2020
Some Personal News: A New Opportunity at NRB
Six and a half years ago I got an email that changed my life. It was from Phillip Bethancourt on behalf of Dr. Russell Moore, someone I greatly admired. I had read Dr. Moore’s books and articles and had had the opportunity to interview him for Christianity Today and was overjoyed that he would be the new president of ERLC. After a series of conversations over the ensuing weeks, I was offered a job as Vice-President of Communications. We packed up our family, offered an awful, tearful goodbye to our church in Chicago, and moved to Nashville, a city that has now become our home. This was, in many ways, a dream job and a dream team that I had the chance to work with. We built something significant and helped shape the public conversation and equip pastors and church leaders to think well about moral and ethical issues. Dr. Moore’s investment in my life is deep and wide. I’ve learned more theology in car rides with Dr. Moore than almost anywhere else. I’ve grown in every way in this season of my life at ERLC than almost any other season. ERLC has given me an opportunity and platform to flourish.
But alas, God has moved in our hearts to take on another challenge. I’ve accepted an offer to become Senior Vice-President of Communications at NRB. National Religious Broadcasters is an important organization that has, since the middle of the 20th century, equipped and advocated for Christian broadcast ministries. When I think of the scope of these ministries, it’s staggering, how many people around the world have heard the gospel on the radio and television and over the Internet. And it has come full circle in many ways for me. I grew up listening to Moody Radio. Ministries like Chuck Swindoll’s Insight for Living and Allistair Begg’s Truth for Life (among many others) were crucial in my formation in my early twenties. And Moody Radio has been an instrumental platform for getting the word out about my books.
I’m intrigued now by the opportunity to equip the next generation of Christian communicators. I’ve spent most of my career communicating: words, writing, preaching, radio, podcasting, TV, etc. I’m also overjoyed to work with my good friend, the new CEO of NRB: Troy Miller, who loves the gospel and has a vision for building an NRB for this next generation.
So this is a bittersweet announcement: I’m sad to leave my incredible and gifted colleagues at ERLC and I’m excited to join this new team and see what God has in the days ahead. One of the guiding principles of my life is Proverbs 16:9: “A person’s heart plans his way, but the Lord determines his steps.”
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April 21, 2020
The Way Home: Keith Getty on family and hymn sings during COVID-19
Keith Getty joins me for a bonus episode of The Way Home. On Tuesdays we will be releasing episodes focused on the COVID-19 pandemic.
An impromptu St. Patricks’ hymn sing that the Gettys did from their home in Nashville garnered great engagement. They’ve since decided to be live on Facebook each Tuesday evenings at 7:15 p.m. CT sharing songs and encouragements with their children.
Previous episodes:
Justin Lonas and Jerilyn Sanders on COVID-19 and the economy
Jared Wilson on pastoring and encouragement during COVID-19
Jesse and Julie Masson on new challenges families face during COVID-19
Show Notes
Website: gettymusic.com
Twitter: @gettymusic
Facebook: facebook.com/watch/gettymusic
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April 17, 2020
The Way Home: Sharon Dirckx on human identity and our minds
What does it mean to be human in regards to the connection between the body and the mind? Are we more than machines? Is free-will an illusion? Dr. Sharon Dirckx joins me to talk about this and more.
Dr. Dirckx is an author, tutor, and apologist who speaks and writes widely on the problem of evil and suffering.
This episode of The Way Home is sponsored by our friends at The Good Book Company, publisher of Where is God in a Coronavirus World? by John Lennox and Am I Just My Brain?[image error] by Dr. Dirckx.
Show Notes
Book: Am I Just My Brain? [image error]
Website: rzim.org/speakers/sharon-dirckx
Twitter: @sharondirckx
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April 11, 2020
Easter and COVID-19: 3 Reasons the Message Fits the Moment
When the calendar rolled around and your leadership team gathered to plan out 2020, undoubtedly you had big plans for Easter.
You’d urge your people to canvass the neighborhood, inviting friends and relatives to join them on what is still, in many places, the one time of year to go to church.
Easter is when you go all out, with activities for children, vivid recreations of passion week for the adults, and a time to lean in on the central truths around which Christianity is formed.
But alas an unseen enemy came roaring in, making its way around the world. And those best laid plans for this holiday aren’t happening.
In what nobody could have predicted, even in the wildest, weirdest end times fiction scenario, churches are closed on Easter, celebrating the Jesus’ death and resurrection at home, online.
Click here to read more at Facts and Trends
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April 10, 2020
How Good Friday Helps Us Cope with the Pandemic
This year, thanks to the coronavirus, I will not be able to experience one of my favorite moments in the church calendar: Good Friday. I love Easter, with its bright colors and signs of spring, the celebration of a concept on which rests the entire Christian faith: resurrection. And yet sometimes we Christians rush too quickly past Good Friday, especially when the gospel writers devoted enormous space in the sacred texts to the ugly scene of Jesus dying an unjust and shameful death on a Roman cross.
This moment we are in, in a week when fatalities from COVID-19 are expected to rise dramatically, at what the surgeon general has called “our generation’s Pearl Harbor,” we need to linger longer, even if from our living rooms, at the message of Good Friday.
In normal times (remember those?), the end of life is not something we like to dwell on, but now, as the stench of death surrounds us, as frozen trucks parked outside hospitals serve as overflow morgues, as funeral directors prepare for a volume of work they never anticipated, as an invisible virus makes its menacing journey through our cities, we need to think about death. On Good Friday there are no pastel eggs or bright dresses, no Peeps or perfume. There is only a somber, sober reflection on the agony of the most unjust death in the history of the world. The Christian story says that, in God’s Providence, Jesus, both human and divine, was put to death by the very creatures that he formed with his hands and into whom he breathed the breath of life.
Click here to read more at National Review
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April 9, 2020
The Way Home: James Merritt on why character matters in leadership
Dr. James Merritt joins me to talk about character, leadership, pastoring, and the Southern Baptist Convention.
Dr. Merritt is pastor of Cross Pointe Church in Duluth, Ga. He is the host of broadcast ministry, Touching Lives.
This episode of The Way Home is sponsored by our friends at The Good Book Company, publisher of Where is God in a Coronavirus World? by John Lennox.
Show Notes
Book: Character Still Counts: It Is Time to Restore Our Lasting Values [image error]
Website: crosspointechurch.com and touchinglives.org
Twitter: @drjamesmerritt and @touchinglivestv
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