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Orpheus Hayward explains the authority and purpose of Scripture through 2 Timothy 3:16, showing how God-breathed Scripture teaches, reproves, corrects, and trains believers for every good work. He applies this to church leadership, the preacher’s role as God’s herald, and uses a pilot-and-tower analogy to encourage trusting Scripture in life’s uncertain moments.
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Chad Ragsdale of Ozark Christian College shows how apologetics often serves Christians—especially young believers—by helping them identify what they truly believe. Through quick exercises and a target illustration, he sorts beliefs into three buckets: essential (bullseye), important, and personal convictions.
He emphasizes essential beliefs—God’s existence, Jesus as the risen Lord, salvation by grace, and perseverance—and explains how clarifying these priorities improves discipleship and prevents personal convictions from becoming divisive. Romans 10:9 is given as a core affirmation of the faith.
Tuesday Apr 28, 2026
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Carol Swain shares her journey from academia and personal struggles to a devout Christian faith and explains what it means to live counterculturally in today’s society.
She discusses life, marriage, race, gender, materialism, and biblical justice, offering practical, faith-based guidance drawn from her own experiences.
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In this episode of the Real Life Theology Podcast, Bobby Harrington warns that modern media and culture are "out-discipling" our churches and families, and urges Christians to "triple down" on discipling minds with Scripture.
He outlines three responses: prioritizing deep, sustained theological formation; using trusted discipleship resources like the 775-page Real Life Theology project; and building a strong theological tribe to support and sustain disciple-making in local churches.
Tuesday Apr 21, 2026
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Jonathan Storment challenges Christians to resist cultural formation by returning to wholehearted discipleship to Jesus. Drawing on examples from Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer and lessons from the Gospel of Matthew, he warns against inventing a convenient Jesus and urges a life marked by nonviolence, generosity, racial inclusion, and sacrificial love.
This episode calls listeners to fall deeply in love with the true Jesus, embrace radical obedience, and prioritize disciple-making over political or cultural alignment.
Thursday Apr 16, 2026
Thursday Apr 16, 2026
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This episode explores how ministers and churches exhausted by pandemic, conflict, and change can be renewed by the Holy Spirit. Using Ezekiel’s vision of dry bones and Jesus’ teaching, David Young encourages listeners to ask God, “Can these bones live?” and to return to spiritual fundamentals.
He offers practical steps—seek the Holy Spirit, pray in the Spirit, worship, give thanks, and submit to one another—and leads a prayer asking God to fill and revive weary hearts for renewed ministry and mission.
Tuesday Apr 14, 2026
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In this episode Renée Sproles explains that our confidence in Scripture ultimately rests on who Jesus is and what He taught about the Old and New Testaments. She explores why many young adults are skeptical of outside authority—tracing roots from the Enlightenment to today’s internet and social media culture—and calls Christians to embrace wholehearted trust and submission to God’s reliable Word.
Sproles shows how Jesus affirmed the Old Testament, prepared for the New Testament through the apostles, and modeled obedience to Scripture, urging listeners to respond by believing, obeying, and living under Christ’s lordship.
Thursday Apr 09, 2026
Thursday Apr 09, 2026
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Nate Ross joins the Real Life Theology Podcast to explain why leaders must surrender to Jesus as their true success. Through personal stories (including a memorable baptism and a failed capital campaign), scripture from Acts and John 5, and practical leadership teaching, he shows how surrender — not effort or sacrifice alone — allows the Holy Spirit to move the church forward.
Ross urges leaders to stop relying on their own striving, "raise the sail" instead of rowing the boat, and speak boldly about Jesus. This short episode offers encouragement, biblical clarity, and a call to trust Jesus as the source of power and hope.
Tuesday Apr 07, 2026
Tuesday Apr 07, 2026
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From the 2020 National Gathering, this episode challenges Christians to follow Jesus' radical command to love their enemies. The speaker examines how modern society personifies ideologies as enemies, shares real-life stories of reaching hurting youth, and calls listeners to lead with compassion without sacrificing conviction.
Practical takeaways include building relationships across divides, feeding and caring for those we fear, and overcoming evil with good (Romans 12:20-21).
Thursday Apr 02, 2026
Thursday Apr 02, 2026
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Corey Tremble challenges listeners to pursue courageous, Spirit-empowered discipleship that neither hides from the world nor surrenders biblical truth. He explains how expository teaching, intentional relationships, and Holy Spirit-led insulation—not isolation—equip churches to reach diverse communities without compromise.
The episode offers practical encouragement to lead boldly, love authentically, and invest time in making disciples who make more disciples.
Tuesday Mar 31, 2026
Tuesday Mar 31, 2026
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Matt Proctor explores Revelation to answer the weary question, "Why am I doing this again?" He walks listeners through three powerful portraits of Jesus — a terrifying King (Revelation 1), a tender Lamb (Revelation 5), and a triumphant Warrior (Revelation 19) — to show why believers should persevere in gospel allegiance.
Using personal stories, historical context, and pastoral encouragement, Proctor reminds us that Jesus’ holiness, love, and victory give purpose, courage, and hope in hardship.
Thursday Mar 26, 2026
Thursday Mar 26, 2026
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Mark Moore explores discipleship as allegiance, beginning with a powerful true story about abuse that illustrates how knowing the Bible isn’t enough. He explains why regular Bible engagement is the most important discipline for spiritual growth and walks through three biblical passages that reveal different dimensions of the Word.
Mark Moore shares practical tools—like memorizing core verses—and emphasizes that true growth happens when believers both live the Word and speak it into others’ lives, leading to healing, transformation, and multiplication of faith.
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CAN WE LEAN INTO THE ISSUES AND LOVE WELL?
How should disciples of Jesus navigate a society clawing itself apart through politics? Should we disengage? Pick a side? Offer slogans which sound nice but express little? Insist that true Christians vote in such-and-such a way? Pursue tranquility by making contentious topics off-limits for church?
Following Jesus in a Politically Divided World suggests that disciples of Jesus navigate a politically divided world . . . by being disciples of Jesus. Jesus models the character and provides the tools we need to live as perceptive and peaceable in volatile times. Whittaker and McCoy invite you to answer 21 questions, including:
Together, let’s face stormy horizons the way Jesus showed us: fully awake, yet filled with peace.
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A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR DISCIPLESHIP OF THE MIND
Why should we devote time to becoming a better thinker? Is it to be the most interesting person in the room? To dominate the ideological opposition? To cultivate confidence?
Or this: the better we think, the more we become like Jesus.
What our world needs is serious disciples of King Jesus. If you desire Christlikeness in yourself and the people you lead, then let Jesus disciple your minds. A concise, punchy guidebook, The Disciple’s Mind walks you through core how tos for discipleship of the mind, including how to spot toxic ideas, cultivate intellectual virtues, think redemptively, disagree graciously, and seek the Holy Spirit’s renewal of our minds.
Your thoughts powerfully guide your life’s direction. The Disciple’s Mind will help set your thoughts in the direction of true life.
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How to Live as a Disciple of Jesus (Real Life Theoloogy)
OVERWHELMED BY LIFE?
SLOW DOWN AND LEARN THE HOW TOS.
When does playing music go from formidable to fun? It starts getting fun when you feel the rhythm and join in. In the same way, the Christian life gets more doable when you take the time to learn its rhythms. Knowing what we ought to do only leaves us feeling guilty until we take time to learn the how tos.
This podcast series features 4 episodes talking about the Rhythms of life. Click HERE to view the series.
Have you been wading in the shallows of Christianity? When longtime Bible student Jeremy Bacon began seriously studying the Sermon on the Mount, he found his tidy worldview exploding.
In the Sermon on the Mount, street-level wisdom and prophetic declaration collide. This sermon forces you to decide whether you’re going to remain part of the crowd or step out in faith and be a devoted student of Jesus.
Choosing the way of Jesus means more cost—and more reward—than you ever would have guessed. Sermon on the Mount is a forty-day discipling resource that walks you through the ways of Jesus’ Kingdom. Will you respond to the call to go deeper?
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Tina Wilson, author of Step into Scripture, develops Biblical literacy by exploring the nature of God, the centrality of Christ, the context and purpose of biblical texts, and shadow—fulfillment connections within the Bible.
Scripture in Black and White is a show that examines what scripture teaches with clarity and no uncertain terms. We discuss the scriptures in black and white and bring perspectives from ministers who happen to be black and white.
