Blackhawk Church Next Steps

This week Tiffany and Chris answer questions from this past Sunday, reflect on what’s stood out up to this point in our Live This Book series, and give an update on what’s ahead on the podcast.  Additional resources related to this week’s episode: Live This Book Resource Page If you have questions you’d like us to answer on the next episode, submit them to podcast@blackhawkchurch.org.

This week, Matt Metzger and Charles Yu join the podcast to answer your questions about marriage, divorce, and singleness.  Additional resources related to this week’s episode: Live This Book Resource Page If you have questions you’d like us to answer on the next episode, submit them to podcast@blackhawkchurch.org.

This week, Pastor Charles Yu joins the podcast to dig deeper into the idea that we’re made in “the image of God.” If that’s true, how can we lean into that reality and be renewed and transformed to more fully reflect the image of God to those around us?  Additional resources related to this week’s episode: Live This Book Resource Page If you have questions you’d like us to answer in the next...

This week, Pastor Chris Dolson and Jeff Hardin, a professor in integrative biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, join us for a conversation about science and faith.   Additional Resources: Live This Book Resource Page   If you have questions you’d like us to answer in the next episode, submit them to podcast@blackhawkchurch.org.  

Pastor Matt Metzger joins the podcast this week to talk more about some of the different ways we can connect with God. Then listen in to the Q & A section at the end as we talk more about the reading plans that are available and how to use them. Additional Resources: Live This Book Resource Page Sacred Pathways: Nine Ways to Connect with God | Gary Thomas If you have questi...

Pastor Charles Yu joins the podcast this week to peek behind the curtain of the Live This Book series – why this series, why now, what we hope God does over the next nine months, and what to do when you disagree with the Bible. Additional Resources: Live This Book Resource Page Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible | E. Randolph Richards...

This week, Tiffany and Chris are joined by Daniel Owen and Lynne Benik to talk about the ways they’re being formed and what books, podcasts, practices, and people God is using in their lives to shape and mold them. Questions or comments? Email us at podcast@blackhawkchurch.org

Listen in as Tiffany and Chris talk with Dr. Christopher James, the Associate Professor of Evangelism and Missional Christianity at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary. We’ll talk about the missional context here in Madison and Dane County, and some of innovative things churches are doing to love their neighbors well. 9:38 – An “ecology of churches” working together in Madison // 16:27...

This week we continue with part two of our conversation with Pastor Matt Metzger and get really practical as we talk about approaches to sharing our faith and what motives us to share the Good News with others. 1:04 – Turning the conversation toward spiritual topics // 7:56 – Practical ways to communicate the gospel and the power of sharing our stories // 12:55 – What motivates you to share your f...

Listen in as Tiffany and Chris talk with Pastor Matt Metzger about what it’s looked like for him to share his faith and how we can invest in relationships with those around us. Then join us next week for the second half of this conversation. 5:20 – Matt talks about what evangelism has looked like in his own life // 12:08 – Investing in relationships with people in our lives // 18:38 – How we might...

In part two of this conversation, Pastors Chris Kopp, Daniel Owen, and Adam Penning talk about some of the reasons they tend to shy away from evangelism, what motivates them to share their faith, and the perception in our culture that it’s inappropriate to tell people about Jesus. 1:04 – Reasons we shy away from sharing our faith // 4:52 - Is evangelism inappropriate? // 12:35 – What motivates you...

The Next Steps podcast is BACK! In part one of this conversation, Pastors Chris Kopp, Daniel Owen, and Adam Penning talk about the idea of evangelism, misconceptions surrounding it, and what it can look like. Join us next week for the rest of the conversation. Email us at podcast@blackhawkchurch.org

This week, we answer questions about Jesus’ return, whether we all need to agree on a specific end times theory, and we wrap up the Rooted series. If you have follow-up questions from today’s episode, email us at podcast@blackhawkchurch.org.

This week, we answer questions about Heaven and Hell and the shape of eternity. Thanks for sending in your questions! Due to the amount of questions we received, we weren’t able to cover all of them, but we’ll try to respond to as many of your emails as possible. If you have follow-up questions from today’s episode, email us at podcast@blackhawkchurch.org. If it would be helpful for you to talk wi...

This week, we answer questions about what it could look like not just to know ABOUT God but to know Him relationally, how God molds us and shapes us to more fully love others and care for the poor and oppressed, and what it might look like in 2021 to make disciples in each of our lives.

This week, we answer questions about what it could look like to be “rooted in the Church,” whether gathering with a few friends is the same thing as attending a local church, and what to do to find community in a large church. Email us at podcast@blackhawkchurch.org

This week, we answer questions about who the Spirit is in relation to God the Father and Jesus, we talk about how to discern if you’re hearing from the Spirit, and what to do in seasons where it’s hard to feel the Spirit’s presence in our lives. Email us at podcast@blackhawkchurch.org

This week, we answer questions about why sin leads to death, why Jesus had to die on the Cross, and how the Cross might impact our lives on a daily basis. Email us at podcast@blackhawkchurch.org

This week, we answer questions about what it might look like to live submitted to Jesus’ lordship in a sinful world, how to continue to grow in our surrender to Christ, and what helpful accountability can look like.

This week, we answer questions about what it means to be created in the image of God, the extent to which that image has been tarnished in us, and would it could look like to reflect God’s image in 2021. Email us at podcast@blackhawkchurch.org

This week, we answer questions about the Bible, including what we mean when we say that it’s “verbally inspired,” and “without error in the original writings,” and we discuss what to do when we disagree with something in Scripture. For more resources, check out https://www.blackhawkchurch.org/resources-tools/rooted/ Email us at podcast@blackhawkchurch.org

This week, we answer questions about the nature of God, including why he chose to create humanity, how nature and science can reveal God to us, and what to do with Old Testament passages linking God to violence and genocide. Email us at podcast@blackhawkchurch.org

This week, we sit down with Pastor Chris and his wife Becky to reflect on their 27 years at Blackhawk Church. They tell stories about doing backflips in the middle of the street, how they work on sermons together, and what they’re looking forward to in this next season. Don’t miss it! Email us at podcast@blackhawkchurch.org

This week, Pastors Tiffany Malloy and Chris Kopp talk with C.J. Klaas and John Reis about how they’ve used a tool called a Rule of Life to “rebuild differently.” Resources mentioned in this episode: “The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry,” John Mark Comer // “You Are What You Love,” James K.A. Smith // “The Road Back to You,” Ian Morgan Cron // www.practicingtheway.org // Rule of Life Workbook: https:...

This week, Pastors Tiffany Malloy, Michael Knapstad, and Chris Kopp continue in their conversation about doubt and deconstruction, share their own stories of deconstruction, and give some encouragement to those that might be in a similar season right now. Email us at podcast@blackhawkchurch.org