Every Square Inch Podcast

This week’s question comes from a listener who feels discouraged about the lack of value placed on art and beauty in today’s Christian sub-culture. Robert argues, however, that beauty has never been more important to Christian evangelism. Learn more about Beauty Table and support their mission at beautytable.org • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our con...

After many, many listener questions over the past week, Robert uses this episode to share his thoughts about the election and why Trump won. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

This week’s listener question is about alcohol and the role it should play in a Christian’s life, so Robert shares his thoughts about the Bible’s view of alcohol. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

In Part 1, Robert shared his thoughts about the value of professional counseling for Christians. Now, in part 2, he moves from the “why” to the “how” of counseling. LINKS: “Honor Your (Unhealthy) Father and Mother” episode available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify . • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription...

Robert shares his thoughts about the value of professional counseling for Christians.   • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

This week’s question is the one that Robert receives from parents all the time: where should I send my kids to school? • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

To start this new series of answering listener questions, Robert answers the most common question he receives: “What do you do?” • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Now that we’ve used our heads to examine the many government gospels trying to draw us away from Jesus, let’s get practical. In this episode, Robert gives us one application for our heart and one for our hands. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Equality of outcome is a commendable thing to pursue, but what happens when a system of government is built around it? In this week’s episode, Robert applauds the heart of socialism but warns against the government gospel it can inevitably become. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to o...

Nationalism at its core believes that seeking the common good of a group is a better way of governing than the individualism which is central to liberalism. There are affirmations to this view in scripture, but as you’ll hear in this episode, there are also pitfalls to this government gospel that do not line up with the gospel of Jesus.  • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky?...

Does political conservatism have a definition, or is it just about being against change? In this week’s episode, Robert examines conservatism, both its hopeful promises and also its potential for idolatry.  • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

This week Robert dives into the history of our current form of government and how our democracy finds its philosophical and theological roots in liberalism. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Last week, Robert set the table for this series from an ideological standpoint. This week, he lays out his goals for this series and preemptively addresses a few objections that some might have to the upcoming episodes. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Whether you consider yourself a political junkie, totally ignorant to Washington’s antics, or somewhere in between, the 2024 election discourse is demanding your attention. So before the election hype really starts to pick up, Robert hopes this series will ground Christians in a Biblical view of political engagement. In Part 1, Robert introduces us to the scholarship of David Koyzis and his work o...

In the final episode of this series, Robert shares some practices that can be helpful for guiding your preteen and teenage children in the area of technology. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

How do you help your children use technology well? In this episode, Robert focuses on some helpful practices for when your children are young (before they hit puberty, which will be the focus of the next episode).  • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Robert shares the third of four principles he recommends when making a plan for your children’s technology use. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

It’s time to address the most common topic of all the feedback received about this technology series: parenting. In this episode, Robert shares the first two of four principles he recommends when making a plan for your children’s technology use. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our...

This week Robert addresses a common question he’s received from listeners about the impact of artificial intelligence upon all of the themes he’s been addressing in this series. Is AI a totally new problem? Or is it a continuation of our existing cultural trends? • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription...

In this week’s episode, Robert responds to a listener question about what pastors and churches can and should do in response to the shifting technological trends in our society.  • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Let’s say that you agree that, in addition to its incredible benefits, technology has had significant negative effects on us individually and on our culture as a whole. It would be natural to ask, “Then what should we do with technology?” In this week’s episode, Robert shares two practical applications to help us be salt and light in a technology-rich world. • • • Want to support our work at Chris...

Perhaps the most under-appreciated negative impact of the internet era is the effect that pornography has had upon our culture. This week’s podcast contains a frank conversation about how the wide availability and nearly infinite supply of porn has harmed our society, before reminding us that God’s kindness and mercy, especially as depicted in Advent, can cover a multitude of sins. • • • Want to s...

Many studies have looked at the effect that technology has had upon our brain’s ability to think, process, and focus. The results aren’t great. In this weeks episode, Robert shows us how important it is to recognize the Internet and its endless information stream for what it is, and encourages us to return to the wisdom found in God’s Word. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentuck...

One massive part of our lives that has been altered by technology is community, from who we do (and don’t) have relationship with and how we communicate with them. In this week’s episode, Robert looks at the negative affects of technology upon our relationships and points us to the God who sets the example for how to relate to each other. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Clic...

Virtually every aspect of our lives is influenced by technology. It is all-encompassing, and yet there is relatively little written about how to honor Christ through our devices. The aim of this series on technology is to help Christians redeem the technology in their lives, and this introductory episode starts off the series by diving deep into the Christian theology of technology. • • • Want to...