Pastoral Perspectives

Episode 46: Becoming Loving Listeners

You've certainly experienced conversations in which the person you are talking to clearly seems to have stopped listening carefully to you. In this episode we consider an underappreciated aspect of loving one another: listening well. It is not just a skill, it is an act of love.

Episode 45: On Anger with God

How is a Christian to process and work through anger towards God?

Episode 44: Counterfeit Maturity: Pietism

In episode 40, we looked at how the Bible describes true spiritual maturity. We continue this mini-series in this episode, looking at the first of several unbiblical "isms," pathways to spiritual maturity that many people are drawn to. Pietism makes spiritual maturity exclusively about the experiential and devotional aspects of a person's life.

Episode 43: Eschatology 101: The Timing of the Rapture

We continue our series on eschatology 101, discussing various key theological topics and debates among Christians. When will the rapture happen? Before the tribulation? Halfway though the tribulation? After the tribulation? We look at each of these views, and the biblical arguments for them. Hopefully it is helpful to you.

Episode 42: When You Feel Like No One Truly Understands Your Pain

"People just don't get it." "They have no idea how hard this really is." "No one truly understands my pain." How should suffering Christians process and sort through these kinds of thoughts biblically?

Episode 41: Pornography: Examining and Overcoming

Use of pornography is a sin that often goes under-addressed in the church. In this episode, we talk about the nature of the sin, how Christians must engage in warfare against it, and how we can overcome it by the grace of God and the power of the Spirit.

Episode 40: Rethinking Spiritual Maturity

What does it mean to be spiritually mature? What does it look like? How does the Bible describe a mature Christian? In this episode, we look at some key biblical aspects of true maturity as the introduction to a series that will challenge various counterfeit models of spiritual maturity.

 

Document Referenced in the Episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oxSb4tV-9keaE2ApqQ0EVeVz1i0QkDIPFsk3ZjozBjI/edit?usp=sharing

Episode 39: How Should Christians Think About UFOs/UAPs?

The topic of UFOs and UAPs has become prevalent online and even in the news lately, with the US government making some previously classified reports available to the public. We figured we should spend a little time talking about how Christians should think about these things.