Anchored and Devoted with Pastors Jeremy and Joseph

What do you do when the people around you don’t act towards you the way that they always have? How do you trust them anymore? How do you trust God when He gets outside of His box? This is what we will wrestle with today. 

Worldwide, Christian suffer at the hands of other christians. We tend to think of this suffering as the anomaly, but it is both real, deeply painful, and if you’re wise) completely predictable. Join us for a discussion of expectations, sin, hurt, faith and humility as we try to unpack an experience that you have most likely already gone through many times. 

When was the last time you heard someone talk about envy, or jealousy? Have these ideas been grown out of, or just forgotten in our society? And, what is the net result of either indulging, or ignoring this deeply insidious part of our soul?

This episode is PG-13 rated, so if you are listening with your kids, grab some headphones, or wait till your drive into work. You’ve been warned.  What is lust? Is it a thing? Is it a problem? We are going to wrestle with these questions and try to find some clarity. BLUF - your sex drive is not meant to be in the driver’s seat.

As much as going through our own childhood made us, parenting our kids through their childhood has an even more profound impact on how we understand the deepest parts of ourselves, and on who we are each day that we wake up, and what is different when we go to bed that night. 

Today we are going to open up a box set and talk about stories. Did you know that over 60% of the Bible is story, and 100% of the Bible is telling the story of God and the rescue mission He went on to save His lover? Well, we are going to explore this concept and look at what makes both a good and a god-like story. 

Jesus has promised all of His followers that in this life we will suffer grief. Yet, our society, and even within our churches, have developed a deep and visceral aversion to the reality of grief. In today’s episode, Dave and Jeremy will open this box and prod around inside to help you in your journey with grief. 

If you’ve been around a church for 5 seconds you have heard a pitch for the small groups - or community groups, - or D groups - or any one of several hundred internal re-branding efforts. Today, Dave and Jeremy are going to talk shop about the areas where small groups fall short and what should be done about it. More than a gripe session, but not less. 

When you have DONE something wrong to someone else., how do you make it right again? Is it enough to just give back what was stolen? Is the purpose for paying the person back just to relieve your obligation to them? Today we are going to peel back this topic and squeeze it for all it’s worth. 

Every Christian is both himself a disciple, and called to make disciples. Today we are going to discuss the call to discipleship and the cost and benefits as well as some pitfalls to avoid in your own disciple-making.

What is friendship? What does it mean, and what does it take to create, cultivate and maintain friendship? In our society there is an epidemic of friendlessness. The impact of this cultural deficit is having wide and profound impacts all over our world and today, we are going to address them. Listen today for some basic guidelines for understanding, defining and building true friendships - the goo...

Live No Lies a book by author John Mark Comer lays out for us the three major traps of deceit that we face over and over again and the three main sources of those lies. He also lays out a biblical response and approach to living in the truth. Join us as we discuss these truths and our experience wrestling through them again as we read this book.

Okay, hold onto something, cuz we are coming strong today. We are tackling this taboo topic unapologetically, and earnestly, and spoiler alert - you already know what we are going to say. But, maybe we’ll surprise you yet. You’ll have to listen to find out. 

Today, Pastors Panda and Jer dive in to a discussion on the benefits of developing an intentional practice of gratitude. But lest you think this is just some flakey-spiritualism oneness with everything mumbo jumbo, you should be warned,.. as always, they are going to ground all the entire topic in scripture, and in our growing relationship with God.

What actually happens when we get before God for the purpose of waiting on Him? We are going to explore this question, and generally talk about the discipline of silence and solitude and what it means and looks like for the christian disciple. 

We have been blessed by many many godly leaders, so what do we do when the pastor we have been led by has a moral failure? In today’s episode we are going to look at some real life issues, some challenges to all participants of the church, and most importantly, the state of our own hearts in light of the Gospel of Jesus.

Ephesians 4:1-15 give us some very powerful directions, requiring us to walk in humility, not timidity, and to operate out of love not our of anger. For most people this can be a very tricky needle to thread. So, Pastors Joseph and Jeremy will share their own struggles with this aspect of their discipleship today in the hope that you may be encouraged along with them towards even greater dependenc...

Growing to be more like Jesus is a practice of imitation. Not the flatter sort, but the sincere, “I wanna be just like you when I grow up, so I do things the way you do them” sort. For christians, this means that developing a consistent and regular habit of fasting is critical to growing in relationship with the Father - because, that is what Jesus did. 

Loving the least of these. This simple statement is super easy to get behind, and even easier to get behind on… if you know what we mean. Today, we are going to discuss a fun approach that is designed to help us keep this in our sight more than maybe yesterday.

What do the ideas of hiding, being God, and creating have in common? And, why are they a part of a discussion from two non-experts on AI? Listen, and you’ll find out.

For this 4th of July (in the USA) we are going to look at the beauty of freedom, and the attractiveness of independence. And, if we are especially lucky, we’ll even split the difference between the two. You see, for many christians, the idea of indpendence has been laid over the concept of freedom, and caused more than a bit of confusion. Let’s try to unravel it together. 

When you start something good you should let it ride. So, that’s what we are doing today. We are still off the beaten path today with a continuation to our conversation in the last episode surrounding our responses to Trump’s conviction. More has developed in our minds, and we invite you to eaves drop on us again. 

Today’s episode is a bit of a one-off. Pastors Joseph and Jeremy sit down to discuss their reactions to and thoughts on the criminal conviction of Pres. D. J. Trump. We are sharing this discussion between two friends with you, but it’s really for our kids so that they can hear our thoughts when they are older, as we see this moment as being truly unprecedented. 

Today Pastors Joseph and Jeremy invite you in to their probing of a scripture from the letter to the Galatians. They are going to try to understand the last phrase in the passage and all that it may entail for the church 2,000 years ago, and for them, and you, today.

Well, It’s the summer solstice, and we hope you’re enjoying  the longest day of sun shine this year. It got Pastor Jer musing, and, well, now you have this episode. We hope it’s useful.