A Word with God Podcast

How many shepherds were at the birth of Christ? How many wise men? Were there any wise men? Where was Jesus born? In a stable, a cave, or a house? Why do we celebrate on December 25th? Hopefully some of these questions will be answered for you on the Christmas edition of the Word with God podcast. Article 1 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/jesus-historical-jes...

Everyone who has been listening along will have heard Clare on the podcast before, but this time his wife Halima is here to join us. We hear both of their testimonies, and the story of them meeting in Nigeria and then coming back to Canada and all sorts of interesting things.

Brought my mom in for this one! She has been battling ovarian cancer for the last 7 years. She tells us her testimony, some of which was new for me, and talks about her struggles with this illness and all the following complications, and her faith during this time. We had some audio issues with this one unfortunately. Zoom seemed to only pick up either my mom or myself, but not both of us if we we...

The Chapples are another pair of missionaries to Mexico. Both of them were raised in the mission field in Ecuador and there was enough story there that we only made it up through their lives to their marriage. So treat this as part one, as we will be sure to have them back soon to talk about Mexico.

For their safety we aren't able to say much, but these two missionaries were raised in an Islamic country in the Middle East and found Jesus, which turned their lives upside down. These are two people who have really understood what it means to take up their own cross and follow Jesus.

Bethia was born in Nigeria, moved back to Canada, ministered on Indigenous reserves, worked in America, and much more.

Here we talk with my great friend Steve about changing direction from typical "full time" ministry to another field. What challenges that take place and what there is to look forward to.

I recently rewatched Les Misérables and thought that there is so much here in this story to talk about from a Christian perspective. I find this is very lacking in modern art so I broke down the songs into the parts that I thought were most important from our perspective. Huge spoilers ahead, so if you haven't seen the play or movie, or read the book, and plan to, stay away until then. 

Last time Ariel was on with us to speak about her experience of going through an abortion. We catch up with her now and she has started a job working with the pregnancy centre in Brantford. She tells us about what the women who come into the centre looking for advice are facing.

Kim Cook is a missionary to Guyana. Here she tells us her story of what might happen when you tell God you don't want to be a missionary, and the adventure of a lifetime that it leads to. She works with YWAM and is currently heading up one of their bases in Guyana. https://ywamguyana.org/

Steve was a wild man, and he still is, but now he directs that energy for the Kingdom. Listen to his inspiring story from 20 years of atheism and substance addiction to having his life turned upside down by God. A short video Teen Challenge produced about Steve: www.teenchallenge.ca/stephens-story Teen Challenge: www.teenchallenge.ca Steve's interview on 100 Huntley Street https://www.youtube.com/...

Treading into new territory with this one. It might dip it's feet a little too deeply into the well of nerdom, but there is still some life application here to be learned. Tolkien believed that we were all called to be sub creators, whereas God is the creator. Here I explore this idea in his writings.

Not a normal episode, but just myself babbling on about my trip to Colombia. I know some friends are interested in hearing about it so I thought why not do a recording while I'm stuck in quarantine with nothing to productive to do. 

Verity's resident church historian is back with us again to talk about Heaven, or Heaven and the New Earth, or, well, that final place we are going to end up I suppose. Really nothing to do with church history come to think of it. Maybe how the church has interpreted Heaven throughout the ages. Heaven is a very loaded concept. When we hear the word, the picture that comes to our mind is very often...

Samson and his family have been members of our church for the past 10 years. Here he recounts his journey to faith and the obstacles that he has had to overcome. After listening to his story, I have been reminded to be more grateful for the life I have here in Canada and how many of what we consider big problems here, are very small compared to what others go through globally.

I'm trying my hand at doing a solo episode here. Well it's not really an episode. It's an update about what is going on/testing a new recording app. Please let me know if there is anyone you want to see on the show, someone you want to see back, or topics you would like to see covered. I should probably say hear or listen, as we don't currently have a video component yet, but you get the idea.

We sit down with Santos this week. Santos was born in El Savidor but most of his early memories are from a refugee camp in Honduras, where his family fled to during the civil war. He arrived in Canada as a young boy and now is a minister of the Gospel. His story is one of hope and gratitude.

Today we're with Rebecca and hear her story of growing up in a difficult home, joining and leaving Mormonism, and her battles with mental health.

Ivan and Donna are with us today to share their story of serving God. They have served in Toronto, Oakville, Mexico, and now in Kitchener. Theirs is a story of God's provision. I couldn't fit all of Donna's miracle list below, but here are some of them: Miracles in relation to building of Sheridan Hills EMC. Working backwards! 1.Sat. it rained. Mud everywhere. I phoned Pat Frances and said that I...

Stan and I talk about health and wealth movements and the documentary "American Gospel."

Jim Stanley was a missionary in Senegal for 50 years to a tribe ignored by the majority of the population. He and his wife were told by many not to go and were not given support, but it appears God had a different plan. We had a few disagreements, but I'm sure you will find Jim's story of pursuing the dream that God had put on his heart as inspiring as I did.

Kerry bounces off a TED talk (found here https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10160548823870652) about how we have what the world is looking for. If you're struggling to find meaning in life, we have the answers.

We get together with Verity's new associate pastor Nathan Weber. We asking him probing questions about how he ended up here, his story, and why his last name is pronounced Webber instead of Weber.

This week Kerry brings a message on the division in our society and in the church that has been troubling him and the call to be united.

*This episode was recorded before we knew about all the allegations against Ravi and their confirmation. If anything this is now an interesting time capsule of how time and information changes perspective. Because of some technical difficulties this episode about the loss of apologetics master Ravi Zacharias is coming out a few weeks after we recorded it, but it's never too late to talk about Ravi...