Collective Young Adult Ministry Podcast

What if the biggest thing keeping you from experiencing God's love... is believing you have to earn it? Whether you've been in church your whole life or you're just exploring faith, most of us carry the same assumption: if we're good enough, God will love us more. If we fail, He'll love us less. It sounds normal, but according to Jesus, it's the exact opposite of how...

If Christianity is supposed to be about love... why do so many Christians seem so judgmental? It's one of the biggest reasons people walk away from faith. But what if Jesus had just as much of a problem with judgmental religion as we do? In this episode, Josiah explores one of Jesus' most famous and misunderstood teachings: "Do not judge." This isn't a conversation about i...

When a million people were asked to rate how loving they are, every single one put themselves above average. Which is mathematically impossible. We all think we're kind. We all think we love well. This week pokes at that assumption with a few uncomfortable questions: why you keep some people close and quietly let others go, why "they drain me" comes so easily, and whether a lot of w...

Everyone thinks they're a loving person. But this week Josiah walks through one of the most famous stories Jesus ever told and asks a question most of us aren't ready for: what happens when the person who needs you is someone you can't stand? Turns out love isn't a feeling. It has a price tag. And most of us have been capping ours without realizing it.

Nobody wakes up thinking, "I'm arrogant." Most of us think the problem is everyone else. Their opinions. Their blind spots. Their inability to see what seems obvious to us. But what if the thing holding you back isn't ignorance? What if it's the growing belief that you're already right?

Most people are not looking for chaos. They’re looking for relief. For some people, getting high feels like the only way to slow their thoughts down, breathe deeply, or make life feel manageable again. But what happens when the thing helping you cope slowly becomes the thing you depend on to function? This episode talks about anxiety, peace, coping, and whether escaping your storm is the same thin...

Most of us have parts of ourselves we wish looked different. Some people obsess over mirrors. Some avoid them completely. Some spend hours in the gym. Some skip meals. Some quietly believe their life will finally start once they look different. This episode is about why so many of us feel trapped in our own body, why self-confidence never seems to fix it, and the exhausting pressure of trying to e...

Most of us think we're just venting, or joking, or getting advice. But this week Josiah makes the case that what slips out when we're frustrated, the eye roll when someone's name comes up, the subtle comment that makes someone look bad, and the quiet satisfaction when someone who annoyed you finally fails... none of it is random. It's all coming from somewhere. This one gets un...

How do I know when it's time to walk away from a friendship? How do I know if I'm supposed to stay? This week, Isaac makes the case that the friendship you actually need looks a lot different than the friendship you've been settling for and that the people closest to you are either pushing you toward the life you want or quietly making it harder to get there. Tune in for week 5 of &...

Most of us think about our own faith in pretty individual terms. What I believe, what I struggle with, what I'm working on. But this week, we get into a dimension most people never consider: the ways the 5% you're holding back might not just be affecting you. The people around you are watching closer than you think.

Most of us think jealousy is just wanting things we don't have. But it's actually something a lot deeper than that. This week Josiah gets into why comparison quietly poisons everything, why getting the thing you're jealous of never actually fixes it, and what it says about what you're really living for.

Why does God care about alcohol? Most people drink for one of four reasons, and none of them are actually about the drink. This week Josiah gets into what's really going on underneath that, why God has anything to say about it at all, and what it would actually look like to not need it anymore.

Most people think being mostly committed is good enough. Mostly honest. Mostly all in. But this week Josiah walks through one of the most uncomfortable stories in the Bible and makes a case that "mostly" might be the most dangerous place you can be. This one doesn't pull punches. But it ends somewhere you might not expect.

It's the question most people are actually asking underneath everything else. If God is real and He actually loves you, why did He let that happen? Why didn't He show up? This week, Josiah sits with that question and doesn't try to explain it away. Instead he walks through a story where Jesus shows up four days too late, a grieving woman says exactly what she's thinking, and Go...

Everyone has something. The thing you think about most, spend the most time on, the thing that has the most control over your emotions. You might not have named it, but it's running your life whether you know it or not. And here's the part nobody talks about: the more power you give it, the more it gives back, but it always takes four times more than it gives. This week Josiah walks thro...

How do you actually know what you’re supposed to do with your life? Most of us are waiting for clarity. Maybe a sign or a clear direction. Something that tells us exactly where we’re going before we take a step. But what if that’s not how it works at all? In this episode, Josiah walks through one of the earliest stories in the Bible, where Abraham is told to leave everything familiar without being...

How do you actually know if God is first in your life? Well, the answer is a test. In this episode, Josiah walks through one of the most controversial stories in the Bible, where Abraham is asked to give up the thing he loves most. Not to show blind obedience, but to reveal something deeper about how faith actually works. Why the biggest spiritual moments often feel like tension and how to tell wh...

God makes Abraham a promise. Abraham believes it. And then Abraham and Sarah decide to help God out a little, just to make sure it actually happens. What follows is one of the messiest, most relatable moments in the entire Bible, and honestly, most of us are living our own version of it right now. This week Isaac walks through what happens when faith turns into control, why the things we add to Go...

Many of us have a version of spiritual anxiety we don't talk about. The fear that if we're not doing enough, believing hard enough, or living right enough and God is going to reject us. This week, Josiah goes back to one of the oldest stories in the Bible and finds an answer that most people completely miss. "In this message, I borrowed heavily from two messages that have deeply imp...

If something feels off, how do I know if I should end it? This week, Vinnie gets personal about a relationship he held onto way longer than he should have, the excuses that kept him there, and what it finally took to be honest with himself. If you've been in a relationship that feels like it's pulling you in two different directions, this one's for you.

**We apologize for the poor audio quality this week. Our systems crashed while recording. While we did our best to recover the audio, we're sorry if things are hard to understand.** This episode is for the guys! How do you know what to be looking for in a girl? This week, Josiah goes somewhere most people won't: the real green flags and red flags that actually predict whether a relations...

Most of us were never taught what to actually look for in a partner. We go off vibes, attraction, and whether they seem like a good person and then wonder why things fall apart five years in. This week, Josiah gets specific about what separates a healthy man from a toxic one and the answer might not be what you expect. It's not about who's hotter, more successful, or says the right thing...

There's a reason breakups sometimes hurt way more than they "should." Or why you can't stop thinking about someone you know wasn't good for you. Or why that situationship left you feeling more empty than fulfilled. Turns out, there's actual neuroscience behind it and it has everything to do with how bonding, oxytocin, and intimacy work in your brain. This week, Josiah...

Romance causes more anxiety than almost anything else in life. How do you find the right person? How do you avoid repeating the same mistakes? How do you know when to stay or when to walk away? And why does something we want so badly so often end up hurting us? In this episode, Josiah lays the foundation for a series on relationships by challenging one of the biggest assumptions in modern dating:...

In this live Q&A episode, Josiah Bogue, Chuck Olminsky, and Vinnie Lobello respond to some of the most common questions people have about Christianity. Has the Bible been changed over time? Are there real contradictions in it? Are some translations more trustworthy than others? Why does suffering exist if God is loving? Can you be a “good person” and still end up in hell? These questions come...