Captivate & Conform

Alex sits down with Director of Outreach Nathan Trommler to give an insightful update of life on the field in Chad. Support Alex . Sign up for GO Conference 2024, The Word to the World (October 9-13). --- If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a positive review and share it with a friend! If you have any questions for the show, email us at podcast@cedarcrest.church . Visit Captivate & Co...

Alex Moyer shares about his childhood, how he drifted from the faith during college, and how the Lord finally brought him back through the birth of his oldest son. Discover what’s coming this fall at Cedar Crest! --- If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a positive review and share it with a friend! If you have any questions for the show, email us at podcast@cedarcrest.church . Visit Captiv...

Tori Zbinden, who serves on staff with DiscipleMakers, shares a 6-step approach to evangelizing fellow image-bearers who suppress the truth of the gospel. --- If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a positive review and share it with a friend! If you have any questions for the show, email us at podcast@cedarcrest.church . Visit Captivate & Conform | cedarcrest.church/podcast Learn more a...

As the longest serving member on the Elder Board, Bill Walters has seen God’s sovereignty at work in Cedar Crest more than most. From a shy band kid to a college graduate living in his parents’ basement, Bill shares his journey to faith and leadership, along with what God has taught him along the way. --- If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a positive review and share it with a friend! If...

Pastor Jules returns to the show to share how the Lord called him out of his Catholic upbringing and to recount a few key moments of growth as a young youth pastor. --- If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a positive review and share it with a friend! If you have any questions for the show, email us at podcast@cedarcrest.church . Visit Captivate & Conform | cedarcrest.church/podcast Le...

When Dave severely injured himself in a lawnmower accident as an unbelieving teenager, he felt abandoned by everyone but a few Christian friends. This proved to be a pivotal turning point in Dave’s journey to faith. --- If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a positive review and share it with a friend! If you have any questions for the show, email us at podcast@cedarcrest.church . Visit Cap...

Rick Whitmire shares about his early years near Buffalo, his time at Messiah University, and how God forged his view of divine sovereignty through the near-death experience of his wife, Keri, and their son, Caleb. --- If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a positive review and share it with a friend! If you have any questions for the show, email us at podcast@cedarcrest.church . Visit Capti...

Dave Tress is a Lehigh Valley and Bible Fellowship Church native through and through, having spent only a brief 4-year stint out of state for the Air Force. He joins the show to share his story. --- If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a positive review and share it with a friend! If you have any questions for the show, email us at podcast@cedarcrest.church . Visit Captivate & Conform...

Pastor Jason discusses the state of our nation in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump; how are Christians and the church to respond and think about such things? --- If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a positive review and share it with a friend! If you have any questions for the show, email us at podcast@cedarcrest.church . Visit Captivate & Conform | cedarcres...

How can God find fault in man if he has chosen some as vessels of mercy and others of wrath before the foundation of the world? How can man still be held responsible? These perennial questions of the church find their answers in rich texts such as Romans 9, John 6, and Matthew 20. For this episode, we visit the archives and listen to segments from two Discipleship Institute lectures on these BFC A...

How a children’s Christian radio singalong broke a man for Christ. --- If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a positive review and share it with a friend! If you have any questions for the show, email us at podcast@cedarcrest.church . Visit Captivate & Conform | cedarcrest.church/podcast Learn more about Cedar Crest Bible Fellowship Church | cedarcrest.church

Pastor Adam kicks off our Summer Stories series! Each episode, one of the elders of Cedar Crest joins the show to share their testimony. --- If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a positive review and share it with a friend! If you have any questions for the show, email us at podcast@cedarcrest.church . Visit Captivate & Conform | cedarcrest.church/podcast Learn more about Cedar Crest B...

Since the podcast launched one year ago, the Lord has enabled this platform to exceed our humble expectations. In celebration, we reflect on the past year, react to comments from our audience, and even make a few phone calls to our listeners. --- If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a positive review and share it with a friend! If you have any questions for the show, email us at podcast@ce...

Whether for a moment or an extended period of time, every Christian has doubted their salvation. Cliff Boone returns to the show to discuss assurance. Saints can stand firmly on the promise of salvation—confident in Christ’s shed blood on their behalf and the Holy Spirit’s power to help them persevere to the very end. --- If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a positive review and share it...

Special guest and new Director of Outreach Nathan Trommler joins the show to share his powerful story of how he came to know the Lord. Nathan talks about his past gang lifestyle, the night that turned his life upside-down for good, and why every testimony is “dramatic.” --- If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a positive review and share it with a friend! If you have any questions for the...

On this final installment of our series on eschatology, we drill deeper into premillennialism, the official eschatological position of the BFC. Specifically, Pastor Chris and Pastor Jason defend historic premillennialism and identify the weaknesses of the dispensational view. Resource Recommendation | The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views (Boettner, Hoekema, Hoyt, & Ladd) Part 3 of a 3-epi...

Slavery appears all over Scripture, from the Israelites’ captivity in Egypt to Paul’s epistle to Philemon, beseeching him to take back and forgive a runaway slave. So with these examples in the Bible, what does it have to say about the actual ethics of slavery? Does it simply accept and regulate the institution wholesale, or does it condemn certain practices while emphasizing the transformative po...

Jules and Adrianne Hull come on the show to share their experience as adoptive parents of two children, with a third one hopefully on the way! Learn how you can support Jules and Adrianne at Hull Family Adoption . --- If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a positive review and share it with a friend! If you have any questions for the show, email us at podcast@cedarcrest.church . Visit Capti...

Why you should read biographies, what the Methodist ruling on homosexuality means for state of the church, and why motherhood matters. Resource Recommendations | Is God Anti-Gay? by Sam Allberry, What Does the Bible Really Teach About Homosexuality? by Kevin DeYoung --- If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a positive review and share it with a friend! If you have any questions for the show...

What do the world famous atheist Richard Dawkins and postmillennialism have in common? They both wish to see cultural Christianity flourish. Take a listen as we unpack the four main eschatological positions: Historic Premillennialism, Dispensational Premillennialism, Amillennialism, and Postmillennialism. Resource Recommendations | The Meaning of the Millennium by Robert Clouse, An Evening of Esch...

Eschatology, or the study of end times, is typically a polarizing topic. On either end of the spectrum are extreme views that either obsess over details in a sectarian way or dismiss the last days as entirely unimportant. On this series, we aim to thread the needle down the middle by breaking down the widely accepted and disputed parts of eschatology within the church, along with the different pos...

Dr. Farnham shares 9 apologetic parenting principles on raising children and grandchildren in a world of secular influences. --- If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a positive review and share it with a friend! If you have any questions for the show, email us at podcast@cedarcrest.church . Visit Captivate & Conform | cedarcrest.church/podcast Learn more about Cedar Crest Bible Fellows...

Occasionally, disagreements arise within Christianity. These disputes vary from doctrine to how a church should run to even the attire of the pastor. But in order to determine how important an issue is, like in medicine, we must triage it. ER Nurses Jeanna Werner and Sadie Gehman join the show to explain the medical background of triage, bringing clarity to how it applies to theology. Resource Rec...

We continue our conversation on biblical counseling, and how every believer to a certain degree is called to counsel their brothers and sisters in Christ. If you are seeking counseling or are interested in becoming a counselor, visit our Care Ministry to learn more. Part 2 of a 2-episode series. --- If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a positive review and share it with a friend! If you h...

Ever since Jesus rolled the stone away, unbelievers have been devising false theories of the resurrection, including the Pharisees who immediately spread the lie that the disciples had stolen the body. Why is this? Because every person must reckon with the empty grave. Each individual must make the choice whether to believe the supernatural biblical account—that Jesus rose from the dead—or some ot...