Thee Generation Podcast

Ed Loney traces Exodus 17 from Israel’s complaints about water to the battle with Amalek, where Aaron and Hur help keep Moses’ hands steady. He contrasts exaggerated grievances and internal conflict with prayer, cooperation, and consistent support, then applies the passage to participation in the local church and willingness to answer God’s call. The message urges believers to move beyond spectato...

Bob Holmes reflects on Philippians 2:5–11, moving from Christ’s equality with God to His willing humiliation, death on the cross, and exaltation. Personal testimony and accounts from school evangelism illustrate God’s care and the reach of His mercy, while an extended meditation on Christ’s suffering presses the call to lasting service. The closing applications connect gratitude for the cross with...

Mark Gillmore addresses the condition of people who have never heard the gospel through Romans 1–3 and biblical teaching that salvation is found in Christ alone. He distinguishes condemnation for sin from mere lack of information, then uses missionary accounts to shift attention from debating the unevangelized to taking responsibility for reaching them. The application moves from world missions to...

The TGYS panel invites Christian teenagers to identify the pressures and attitudes holding their generation back, then responds to their observations and questions. The conversation covers surrendering future plans, technology, biblical separation, fear of offending others, financial security, love for Christ, and youth ministry’s responsibility to train believers for service. The recurring emphas...

Stephen Zempel begins by distinguishing emotions, feelings, and moods and explaining that experiencing emotion is not inherently wrong. Using John the Baptist’s question from prison in Matthew 11, he develops three practical responses: focus faith on who God is and what He is doing, feed faith through Scripture, and exercise faith by acting on God’s Word. The workshop encourages talking with a tru...

Austin Brownlee examines spiritual apathy through Romans 13:11–14, distinguishing an active walk with God from merely checking the boxes of Christian service. He addresses hidden sin, bitterness, worldliness, materialism, and priorities that displace time with the Lord, using personal testimony and ministry examples to illustrate their effects. His answer follows the passage: recognize the time, c...

Joe Mueller uses the account of Eastern Airlines Flight 401 to introduce the danger of attending to lesser concerns while neglecting the most important responsibility. From Acts 11:23, he develops purposeful decisions and closeness to the Lord as the response to distraction, with supporting examples from Mary and Martha and Paul’s desire to know Christ. Practical applications include evaluating di...

Ed Loney examines Psalm 51 against the background of David’s sin with Bathsheba and his attempt to conceal it. The workshop develops three responses to the burden of shame: confessing sin honestly and personally, concentrating on the Savior’s mercy and cleansing, and continuing in service after repentance. It distinguishes outward religious activity from a clean heart and stresses that past failur...

Bob Holmes illustrates James 1:14–15 with volunteers representing the progression from being drawn away through lust and enticement to sin and death. Applying that progression to drugs, alcohol, sexual temptation, pornography, and vaping, he contrasts enticing appearances with destructive outcomes and examines the young man in Proverbs 7. The workshop addresses excuses about personal strength, pee...

Paul Rains begins with Peter’s question about John in John 21:18–22 and Jesus’ instruction to follow Him. He traces the tendency to compare abilities, possessions, appearance, and opportunities, explaining how incomplete pictures of other people’s lives, including what they share on social media, can foster pride, envy, insecurity, and disobedience. Drawing also from 2 Corinthians 10, he directs l...

Bobby Bosler examines Hebrews 12:1–3 through the picture of a runner trying to race with an overweight suitcase. He distinguishes besetting sin from spiritual weights—activities that may not be inherently sinful but hinder a believer’s God-given course, illustrating the latter with his own struggle with video games. The message emphasizes lifelong surrender, dependence on the Holy Spirit, and look...

Bobby Bosler explains Romans 8:2–4 through an extended comparison between gravity and aerodynamic lift. He distinguishes the law’s righteous commands from its inability to empower fallen flesh, then traces Christ’s work against sin and the Holy Spirit’s fulfillment of righteousness in believers. The message defines walking after the Spirit as an ongoing life of total surrender and total dependence...

Jim Van Gelderen examines Exodus 21:15, 17 and Deuteronomy 21:18–21, drawing applications about intentionally hurting parents, treating them lightly, and persistent disobedience. He connects these passages with the command to honor father and mother, distinguishing ancient Israel’s civil penalties from his present-day call to repentance. Personal accounts of his parents’ deaths close the message w...

Daniel Van Gelderen traces Joshua’s response to Israel’s defeat at Ai and God’s directions concerning Achan’s hidden sin in Joshua 7–8. His four applications—get up, clean up, look up, and buckle up—move from listening to God and confessing sin to trusting His promises and expecting His power in renewed service. The sermon addresses dishonesty, disobedience, impurity, anger, and other hidden strug...

Jim Van Gelderen explains Romans 13:8–10, showing how love for one’s neighbor stands behind the commands against adultery, murder, theft, false witness, and coveting. After an extended introduction about moral decline, he focuses on purity of heart and conduct, the effects of selfish choices on relationships, and the secrecy that sustains moral bondage. Personal testimony and a rescue illustration...

Ed Loney studies Jesus’ temptation in Matthew 4:1–11, organizing the message around the reality of temptation, the response to it, resistance, and eventual relief. He examines the temptations involving bread, the temple pinnacle, and the kingdoms of the world, then explains how Jesus answered each with Scripture relevant to the specific attack. Practical applications include guarding known weaknes...

Jim Van Gelderen examines Jesus’ command to have faith in God in Mark 11, using the withered fig tree and the picture of a mountain being removed. He applies the passage to three obstacles: self-confidence or self-doubt, difficult circumstances, and uncertainty about the future, illustrating God’s ability to use an unlikely life through his mother’s experience as an orphan. The sermon connects con...

Bobby Bosler and Dr. Jim Van Gelderen report from the lobby of Falls Baptist Church after the 2026 Thee Generation Youth Summit. Bob Holmes, Austin Brownlee, and Ed Loney share observations from the conference, and college student Jose tells how he led his mother to Christ. The conversation returns to the theme of rising above through surrender and dependence on the Holy Spirit. Topics Discussed T...

Judson and Janna discuss how changing emotions relate to the body, soul, and spirit, drawing on Hebrews 4:12. Using a swing-set illustration, they distinguish the soul’s response to circumstances from the believer’s secure identity in Christ and explain why positive thinking cannot replace the truth of Scripture. They also address disappointment in spiritual leaders and the practice of reading and...

Purity will never happen by accident. In this episode of Satisfied, Ryan Swanson opens Proverbs 7 and Romans 16 to show why avoiding deliberate sin is not enough when careless choices still put temptation in your path. Take an honest look at your scrolling, your safeguards, and your accountability, and choose to be intentionally pure. Topics Discussed The young man in Proverbs 7 who walked near th...

In James 1:21, believers are told to lay aside sin and receive the engrafted Word with meekness. Dr. Jim Van Gelderen explains how this command addresses double-mindedness: the pattern of trusting God, then responding to fear and circumstances with doubt. Using Peter walking on the water and Elijah fleeing Jezebel, he shows the place of confession, surrender, and obedience in dependence on the Hol...

God often begins gospel advance with a burden to pray for the next town. In this episode, Mark Gillmore talks with Andrew Haertl about how God led him from a surrendered teenager and college student to pastor a church in Shawano, Wisconsin, and to seek gospel advance in Clintonville and the surrounding region. Will you ask God to show you the next step of faith—and take it? Topics Discussed Andrew...

Episode Summary Success is not found in a platform, a ministry title, or a number on a dashboard. In this episode, Bobby Bosler opens John 1 and Galatians 6 to show that Christ’s simple call—Follow Me—defines a life of true success, whether it leads to a visible ministry or quiet faithfulness. Let go of the vision you have built for yourself and follow Jesus wherever He leads. Topics Discussed Chr...

God’s leading is rarely a matter of seeing the whole road at once. In this episode, Jennifer Teachout shares how the Lord used a childhood surrender, years of service in Quebec, and a long-held burden for French Guiana to teach her to keep walking with Him. As you obey Him in the small opportunities before you, trust God to lead you one step at a time. Topics Discussed Jennifer Teachout’s salvatio...

When free time finally opens up, where does your heart go by default? In this episode, Ryan Swanson opens Philippians 2 and challenges us to exchange self-serving patterns for the humble, intentional service modeled by Christ. Ask God who you can serve this week, and let the mind of Christ reshape what you reach for first. Topics Discussed The default patterns that emerge when no urgent demand con...