All Saints Podcast | Believe Doubt Seek

Show notes You prayed, you felt peace, and then you woke up and the worry was back. In the final episode of our series on worry, we talk about why that isn't a failure of faith, and why peace is something we practice rather than something we feel once. Drawing on Philippians 4 and Lamentations 3, we look at how Paul learned contentment in prison, why “I can do all things” is really about staying s...

Episode 4: Stop Trying to Stop Worrying: Asleep in the Boat Episode Summary What do you do with the worry that comes after you’ve already prayed? In this episode we step into the boat with the disciples in Mark 4:35–41. A furious squall hits the Sea of Galilee, seasoned fishermen are bailing for their lives, and Jesus is asleep on a cushion in the stern. Their cry, “Teacher, don’t you care if we d...

Stop Trying to Stop Worrying: Not Yours to Carry ``` Episode : 3 Some of the heaviest worry isn't about us at all. It's about them. This week we look at what it means to cast our cares on God, especially our worry for the people we love. Part of the series Stop Trying to Stop Worrying. The friend who stopped returning your texts. The marriage coming apart that isn't yours. Your mom, whose memory s...

Stop Trying to Stop Worrying Episode 2: Today Has Enough Matthew 6:25–34 Most of our worry isn't about right now. Right now, we're usually okay. Worry is a kind of time travel: it carries us into a future we haven't reached, shows us the worst version of it, and drops us back in the present, worn out from a trip we never needed to take. In this episode, we sit with Jesus' words from the Sermon on...

Stop Trying to Stop Worrying Psalm 46:1–5, 10 & Philippians 4:6–7 Maybe nothing in your life is on fire. It's just a lot: the emails, the test results you're waiting on, the kid who won't talk to you, the bills, the news. Any one of them you could handle. All of them together keep you up at 2 a.m. This episode looks at two passages written by people who knew that feeling. One is a temple song...

Episode Show Notes: More Than a Belief System-Why We Need the Holy Spirit for Everything We don't just need the Holy Spirit for church — we need him for our politics, our relationships, and every hard conversation in between. Whether you believe all of this, doubt most of it, or you're just seeking and not sure yet, this episode is for you. What we cover - Why the most qualified people in history...

Knit Together in Love — Colossians 1:24–2:5 What does it actually take to keep turning a whole life toward Jesus especially in a season marked by division and drifting doubt? In this message, we sit with Paul's words to the Colossians and ask what it means to be "knit together in love," to let Christ be the center not once, but daily. We talk honestly about suffering, about the doubts our kids and...

Show Notes: Be Still and Know That I Am God Psalm 46:10 and the practice of trust in an anxious, always-on world Episode Summary In a culture built on constant notifications, instant answers, and nonstop motion, six ancient words still cut through the noise: "Be still, and know that I am God." In this episode, we slow down with Psalm 46:10, a verse written in the middle of chaos, not calm, and ask...

All Saints is a community for All who believe, doubt, and seek. But believing, doubting, and seeking only make sense if they are directed at someone. In this episode, we talk about why Jesus must remain at the center of everything we are becoming. Romans 1 tells us that creation reveals the reality and power of God. But creation alone cannot give us the fullest picture of who God is. That picture...

Creating a Movement, Part 2: Rhizome Scripture: Acts 8, 10, 11 (with roots in 1 Peter 2:4-12) A tree grows from one visible trunk, top-down. A rhizome spreads underground, sideways, sending up new growth in places you'd never predict, and it still has one life running through the whole thing. That's the image for this episode, and we trace it through three moments in Acts: believers scattered by p...

What if this community simply wasn't here? Not "would people miss it" would anything in your actual life, your actual relationships, be different? This week we're talking about prayer the discipline most of us quietly struggle with and why it's the starting point for everything we believe God is calling All Saints toward next. We'll also open up Movement 6: the invitation to help build what's comi...

Here's a question some of you may already be asking, maybe not out loud: why not just keep doing what we've been doing? All Saints has a good life. Why change anything? That's a fair question, and I'm not going to rush past it. Join us for a look into what All Saints can become.

How can we know the resurrection actually happened? A listener sent me that question. They’ve read the research and considered the arguments. They want to believe. They just can’t seem to get all the way there. Maybe you understand that. The first disciples did. When Jesus appeared to them, they were frightened and confused. Some of them doubted what they were seeing. Jesus didn’t criticize them o...

We often hear 1 Corinthians 13 at weddings. It feels warm, poetic, and inspiring. But that's not why Paul wrote it. He wasn't describing romance. He was confronting a church filled with gifted, successful, ambitious people whose character hadn't caught up with their talent. Sound familiar? Our culture celebrates achievement, influence, productivity, and being right. But God is far more interested...

Was Jesus a Democrat or a Republican? He wasn't either, and he turned down every chance to be. Our podcast this week is looking at the question that actually got Jesus killed (not the one trending on your feed): what kind of King did he come to be? Because once you answer that, the Constitution, the culture war, and the fight in your group chat all start looking different. We're not telling you ho...

It's one of the defining questions of our time. We live in a world shaped by war, political division, AI, endless information, and growing skepticism. We question headlines, social media, institutions—even each other. Everyone seems to have an agenda. So where do we turn? In Acts 1:8, Jesus doesn't tell his followers to become more persuasive, influential, or better at controlling the narrative. I...

There is a time to plant. And there is a time to uproot. Most of us don't like the second part. Many people today are questioning the faith they inherited. They're examining long-held beliefs, leaving churches, and wondering if there's still a place for them in God's story. Some call it deconstruction. Others call it a crisis. But what if seasons of uprooting aren't always signs of failure? What i...

Blessed Are the Weak?
A Kingdom Manifesto for an Age of Power Matthew 5 We live in a culture obsessed with power. Be strong and successful. Defeat your opponents. Then Jesus opens the Sermon on the Mount and says: "Blessed are the poor in spirit."
"Blessed are those who mourn."
"Blessed are the meek." What if the people Jesus calls blessed are the very people our culture overlooks? What if the Kin...

In this episode, our guest, Ron Herms, looks at the issues facing American Christians in America. Why does so much of American Christianity seem disconnected from the teachings of Jesus? In this episode of the All Saints Podcast, I sit down with biblical scholar Ron Herms for a wide-ranging conversation about empire, power, Christian nationalism, apocalyptic literature, and the church's role in ou...

Many people have walked away from faith not because they stopped caring about truth, but because they grew tired of certainty being used as a weapon. Too often, Christianity becomes about having the right answers, winning arguments, or correcting people who disagree. But Jesus seemed far more interested in honesty than performance. The religious leaders in John's Gospel were certain. Certain enoug...

Everyone wanted Jesus to pick a side. The Pharisees wanted Him to oppose Rome.
The Herodians wanted Him to support it. Instead, Jesus shattered their categories."Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's." His kingdom wasn't built through political power, cultural dominance, or winning elections. It was revealed through self-giving love, enemy-love, sacrifice, and a cross. What if...

A lot of people are deconstructing their faith right now.
Not because they stopped caring about truth, but because what they inherited often felt hollow, performative, guilt ridden and emotionally exhausting. If Christianity only produces fear, image management, culture wars, anxiety, and the pressure to constantly prove ourselves, something is deeply broken. Jesus didn’t say the world would know...

We live in a world filled with war, anxiety, injustice, abuse, grief, and unanswered prayers. And for many people, suffering is not just painful—it becomes the reason they walk away from faith entirely. Because if God is all-powerful, why doesn’t He stop evil? And if He can stop it but chooses not to—can He really be good? This week, we wrestle honestly with one of the hardest questions in Christi...

We obsess over control.
Career. Politics. Money. Relationships. The future. We are told: “Your future is whatever you make it.”
But what if that pressure is crushing us? Proverbs presents a terrifying and liberating paradox:
Your choices matter deeply… and yet God is not absent from the chaos. You are responsible. But you are not alone. You are free.
But you are not abandoned. Even the storms you...

We’re living in a moment where every headline screams the same message: hit back harder. In the Iran conflict, retaliation is expected. Escalation is applauded. Leaders are measured by how forcefully they respond, not how wisely they restrain. But what if the real crisis isn’t just geopolitical…
What if it’s our addiction to anger? Ancient wisdom dares to say something almost unthinkable in today’...