Brewing with Jim

This week's questions: Should students be allowed to use AI to help do their homework? Think of the sermons you've delivered throughout your career. Do you have one or more that stand out and you felt were particularly powerful? Brewing with Jim focuses on giving biblical and experiential perspectives to life’s hard questions. We survey the students at CVCS and do our best to create a genuine conv...

This week's questions: Should Christians ever participate in "hustle culture?" What's a misconception people tend to have about you? Brewing with Jim focuses on giving biblical and experiential perspectives to life’s hard questions. We survey the students at CVCS and do our best to create a genuine conversation around the talking points the students want to know most about. We are excite...

This week's questions: Should pastors ever "get political" from the pulpit? If you could relive any day of your life, which day would you choose and why? Brewing with Jim focuses on giving biblical and experiential perspectives to life’s hard questions. We survey the students at CVCS and do our best to create a genuine conversation around the talking points the students want to know most...

This week's questions: Is it vain to pray for financial security? If you had to compete in any Olympic event today, which do you think you'd perform the best at? Brewing with Jim focuses on giving biblical and experiential perspectives to life’s hard questions. We survey the students at CVCS and do our best to create a genuine conversation around the talking points the students want to know most a...

This summer, Brewing with Jim will briefly shift from new recordings to a series of favorite episodes from the show’s backlog while Jim recovers from knee replacement surgery. New episodes will return later in the summer, but listeners can still expect weekly Tuesday releases featuring meaningful conversations from the past two and a half years of the podcast. Listeners are also invited to email q...

This week's questions: Why does God answer some prayers and not others? In what situations or contexts do you feel the closest to God? Silence? Prayer? In Nature? etc. Brewing with Jim focuses on giving biblical and experiential perspectives to life’s hard questions. We survey the students at CVCS and do our best to create a genuine conversation around the talking points the students want to know...

This week's questions: What's the point of homework? What's something about your wife that has always made you smile since? Brewing with Jim focuses on giving biblical and experiential perspectives to life’s hard questions. We survey the students at CVCS and do our best to create a genuine conversation around the talking points the students want to know most about. We are excited to bring you a sh...

This week's questions: Should I join the military? If you had to ascribe "chapter titles" to the different phases of your life, what do you think they would be called? Which are you in now? Brewing with Jim focuses on giving biblical and experiential perspectives to life’s hard questions. We survey the students at CVCS and do our best to create a genuine conversation around the talking p...

This week's questions: How can I justify praying for things in my life when there are so many people in the world that need so much more than me? Do you have a favorite smell? Brewing with Jim focuses on giving biblical and experiential perspectives to life’s hard questions. We survey the students at CVCS and do our best to create a genuine conversation around the talking points the students want...

This week's questions: How is it possible to understand or relate to the Bible when it was written for such a different culture? Why did you decide to make Brewing with Jim? Brewing with Jim focuses on giving biblical and experiential perspectives to life’s hard questions. We survey the students at CVCS and do our best to create a genuine conversation around the talking points the students want to...

This week's questions: What's the difference between loving God with all my "heart," "soul," "mind," and "strength?" What's a food that everyone seems to love, but you can't stand? Brewing with Jim focuses on giving biblical and experiential perspectives to life’s hard questions. We survey the students at CVCS and do our best to create a genuine conversation...

This week's questions: How important is it to attend one church at a time, as opposed to floating around a few? What story from the Bible would you most liked to have witnessed in peson? Brewing with Jim focuses on giving biblical and experiential perspectives to life’s hard questions. We survey the students at CVCS and do our best to create a genuine conversation around the talking points the stu...

This week's questions: How do you comfort someone who is grieving? [No second segment this week] Brewing with Jim focuses on giving biblical and experiential perspectives to life’s hard questions. We survey the students at CVCS and do our best to create a genuine conversation around the talking points the students want to know most about. We are excited to bring you a show once a week addressing t...

This week's questions: Is it wrong to want to be popular? What is the biggest way you feel like you've "changed" over the course of your life? Brewing with Jim focuses on giving biblical and experiential perspectives to life’s hard questions. We survey the students at CVCS and do our best to create a genuine conversation around the talking points the students want to know most about. We...

This week's questions: Why did God create us in the first place? What's a lesson you have learned from one of your students before? Brewing with Jim focuses on giving biblical and experiential perspectives to life’s hard questions. We survey the students at CVCS and do our best to create a genuine conversation around the talking points the students want to know most about. We are excited to bring...

This week's questions: Should Christians avoid stories that involve magic, witchcraft, or spellcraft? What's a mistake you made earlier in life that you're now thankful for? Brewing with Jim focuses on giving biblical and experiential perspectives to life’s hard questions. We survey the students at CVCS and do our best to create a genuine conversation around the talking points the students want to...

This week's questions: How do you keep friendships alive after high school? If you could only eat one kind of candy for the rest of your life, which would it be? Brewing with Jim focuses on giving biblical and experiential perspectives to life’s hard questions. We survey the students at CVCS and do our best to create a genuine conversation around the talking points the students want to know most a...

This week's questions: Is it okay for Christians to get cremated? What fashion trend do you wish you could bring back? Brewing with Jim focuses on giving biblical and experiential perspectives to life’s hard questions. We survey the students at CVCS and do our best to create a genuine conversation around the talking points the students want to know most about. We are excited to bring you a show on...

This week's questions: How do you best explain the "problem of evil" to a non-believer? Do you have any favorite card or board games that you like to play? Brewing with Jim focuses on giving biblical and experiential perspectives to life’s hard questions. We survey the students at CVCS and do our best to create a genuine conversation around the talking points the students want to know mo...

This week's questions: How do I stop obsessing over my grades? No second segment today! Brewing with Jim focuses on giving biblical and experiential perspectives to life’s hard questions. We survey the students at CVCS and do our best to create a genuine conversation around the talking points the students want to know most about. We are excited to bring you a show once a week addressing topics and...

This week's questions: What should I do if I don't like my friend's other friends? Have you ever been in a talent show? If so, what did you do to compete? Brewing with Jim focuses on giving biblical and experiential perspectives to life’s hard questions. We survey the students at CVCS and do our best to create a genuine conversation around the talking points the students want to know most about. W...

This week's questions: Can Christians believe in karma? What's something you (Jim) would like to know about me (Joseph)? Brewing with Jim focuses on giving biblical and experiential perspectives to life’s hard questions. We survey the students at CVCS and do our best to create a genuine conversation around the talking points the students want to know most about. We are excited to bring you a show...

This week's questions: How long should people date before getting married? How old should you be when you get married? Brewing with Jim focuses on giving biblical and experiential perspectives to life’s hard questions. We survey the students at CVCS and do our best to create a genuine conversation around the talking points the students want to know most about. We are excited to bring you a show on...

This week's questions: If non-Christians can be good people, why do we need Christian morality? If we magically added another standard–sized room to your house, what would you use it for? Brewing with Jim focuses on giving biblical and experiential perspectives to life’s hard questions. We survey the students at CVCS and do our best to create a genuine conversation around the talking points the st...

This week's questions: Should students be allowed to use AI to help do their homework? Think of the sermons you've delivered throughout your career. Do you have one or more that stand out and you felt were particularly powerful? Brewing with Jim focuses on giving biblical and experiential perspectives to life’s hard questions. We survey the students at CVCS and do our best to create a genuine conv...