The Cultivate Podcast Mercyview Church

After more than a month away, Trey and Brad return to finish out the discussion around Mercyview's Counter-Culture series. Spring Break, Easter, and general busyness made this one a long time coming! Listen in as we cap off this series of episodes.

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In this episode:

0:00 - Introduction - Where we’ve been, life updates, church life updates and the like. 

4:55 - Finishing out the Counter-Culture Conversations

7:20 - How did the conversation about gender ideologies get fuel and traction? 

16:30 - Approaching the world of 2024 with our eye wide open and aware of what’s happening in the world. 

22:15 - Tone and how we say things not really being the issue folks have with what Christians say and believe.

27:00 - The goodness of our embodied existence

32:00 - How the Ten Commandments relate to the gender conversation

37:30 - Mercyview being a place where we can show radical hospitality 

40:15 - This series was for the church (specifically Mercyview) not the broader world

41:30 - Practical outworking of discipleship downstream from the series

42:40 - “You’re not David!” ??? But you better be a Shadrack, Meshack, or Abindigo. 

44:00 - Christian, you have a duty. 

47:20 - Outro 

Trey and Brad are once again joined by Mercyview's other elder, Sean, for a conversation around last Sunday's sermon. They talk about the why of the series again, the place of anthropology in our hierarchy of theological issues, gospel faithfulness, and the issue of homosexuality in the culture and the church.

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In this episode:

0:00 - Introduction

1:20 - Again on why we are talking about this as a church, and the danger of being charged with “being known for what we are against instead of for.” 

7:30 - Fight? Really? 

9:00 - Anthropology and natural law reasons for our sexual ethic

16:10 - The trap of searching for respectability when we should speak clearly. Seeking God’s glory and radical hospitality.

21:00 - Being a refuge for those who come out of their sin, by being willing to be clear about what we believe. 

25:12 - Biblical and gospel faithfulness as a path toward being honest and clear in our words and deeds. 

28:05 - Don’t flatten out Jesus, as if his only posture is one of compassion, and not also the just judge of the world. 

30:10 - Returning to the sufficiency of Scripture for life and practice. 

36:25 - Mortifing sin together for the glory of God.

37:27 - Outro

After taking a week off, Trey and Brad are back discussing topics ranging from the move to Will Rogers this past Sunday, the panel discussion from a couple weeks ago, and this past Sunday's sermon on biblical justice over and against other forms and theories of secular justice.

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If you are in one of our Gospel Communities (or just interested in the resources we mentioned) you can get your group study guide here.

If you have questions for one of our two panel discussions you can as those here,

And as always, if you have enjoyed the podcast and would like to help us out the best thing you can do is leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcast or Spotify.

In this episode:

0:00 - Introduction - Why the break on the podcast

1:30 - Recording in our new worship space and how our first Sunday went

7:30 - What stood out in the questions asked and discussed in the panel on February 24th

14:00 - Why we spent time making resources for GC leaders going into the series, and the thorny nature of touching cultural issues. 

17:30 - The panel helping re-approach the framework for how we got to this series - theological triage and the four categories of evangelicalism

20:39 - Rabbit trail about the need for natural theology and its relation to anthropology

23:15 - How homosexuality and the upcoming sermon is a hinge issue, and how the Obergafell decision has accelerated the cultural shift; Carl Trueman’s Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self

26:12 - Talking about biblical justice and this past week’s message

29:30 - Why adding modifiers to the word justice removes it from the category of justice that God gives in the Scriptures

32:20 - Thaddeus Williams and his article and book

36:45 - Final thought on justice this week - a reminder about how we are to act and think about justice. 

39:50 - Outro

Books mentioned in the episode:

The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, Carl Trueman

Strange New World, Carl Trueman

Confronting Injustice Without Compromising Truth, Thaddeus Williams

This week Trey takes on the podcast solo and discusses the sermon from Sunday on technology. How do we use technology with wisdom, what are some way we can think more critically about the tech we bring to gathered worship, and what were those other three commitments of the Tech-Wise Family he left out of his sermon on Sunday?

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If you are in one of our Gospel Communities (or just interested in the resources we mentioned) you can get your group study guide here.

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And as always, if you have enjoyed the podcast and would like to help us out the best thing you can do is leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcast or Spotify.

This week Trey and Brad spend their time on the Cultivate Podcast talking again about why we need to address cultural issues today, what it is like to preach and teach hard truths, and re-capping Trey's sermon from Sunday unpacking a theology of life by addressing abortion.

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If you are in one of our Gospel Communities (or just interested in the resources we mentioned) you can get your group study guide here.

If you have questions for one of our two panel discussions you can as those here,

And as always, if you have enjoyed the podcast and would like to help us out the best thing you can do is leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcast or Spotify.

This week Trey and Brad bring you the Cultivate Podcast from the cab of Trey's truck once again and continue talking about the issues we are wading through in the church's "Counter|Culture" series. The conversation today centers on death; in particular, the way a Christian worldview shapes our hope in the face of death.

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If you have topic suggestions for future podcasts you can submit those here.

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If you are in one of our Gospel Communities (or just interested in the resources we mentioned) you can get your group study guide here.

If you have questions for one of our two panel discussions you can as those here,

And as always, if you have enjoyed the podcast and would like to help us out the best thing you can do is leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcast or Spotify.