FOUNDRYcast

Country singer (and writer of the greatest redneck Christmas song ever, Merry Christmas from the Family) wrote a song called Love's a Word I Never Throw Around . I think we could all stand to process that idea and talk about our use of the word. Just this afternoon, while on a break from writing this sermon, I told someone I loved gas station meat pies. Clearly, I need to spend more time reflectin...

Everyone loves a good story. One with tension, great characters, and a fantastic story about taking chances. We love that part in the arc when you get to the point, right on the edge of your seat…waiting for it all to happen. The occasionally, just every now and then, the storyteller has done such a good job we realize we haven't even arrived at the summit. We've hit a false summit, just what we t...

You remember that whole getting picked process when you were a kid? We all had things we could easily make the front of the shuffle, and some of us have memories of being the last person standing. it's always a frustrating memory. Then we all love a good underdog story. I mean seriously, how do you not like the Mighty Ducks? Any conversation on who is in or out gets awkward. And for many people, R...

Have you ever been super excited to get something, then suddenly realized it wasn't that cool? I remember when I was a kid my parents made me save the money up to buy a Nintendo Entertainment System. It took years and felt like sweet victory. Around a month after I bought it the Super Nintendo came out and rendered my new prized toy obsolete. I ended up realizing that I was behind the video game c...

What does it mean to agree to something? Or, what does it take for you to agree to agree? That's a mouthful. For some people, all they need to really do is believe in the person or the vision of a big picture. For others, they need to see the plans. These are the folks that have serious questions. Once those are answered, then they make the decision to agree. And another group of people won't real...

Chad and Jack go deep into chapter 7 this week as a follow up to the "Tears" sermon. Their conversations include iron maiden bible shenanigans  pericope Palm Branches Amen Building up Biblical Memory Johnny Cash reading the New Testament Chad scares people with Revelation Random Questions the location of the redeemed presuppositions we come into Revelation with parable of the sower little apocalyp...

Have you ever used a pair of binoculars or a scope? The first few times are tough. it's hard to focus on what you are watching. At first, I tried to start off with too much magnification, and I learned it was easiest to back off all the way and zoom in only if needed. Revelation is like this. It's really easy to focus on one tiny thing and miss everything around it. That leads us to some pretty ja...

Chad and Jack have a conversation about Revelation 5, the makeup of the throne room, and why we aren't really chasing rabbits. We also talk about ; Apocalypse Playlists Armored Caravans The Office Why streaming television is like reading Revelation How has the church read Revelation in the past?  Worthy? Waynes World death to the world. The last true rebellion Creating a people of belonging #rever...

When I was in college I finally got an interview for a job I'd been wanting since high school. I got through the initial phone call and had the chance to sit down with a manager of Gadzooks. You remember, the late 90's/early 20's store that was the pinnacle of alt-culture? Yeah, I actually wanted to work there. For everyone who tried to be different during that era, it was the place to be. We didn...

Chad and Jack are back together for a follow-up conversation on Revelation 4's sermon "center". If you want to go back and check out the Sermon Preview and audio, you can find it at wearefoundry.com.    Alladin is a post-apocalyptic movie Chad's theory about Dirty Dancing and Red Dawn Jamie Smith " You are what you love"  Greg Beale "We Become What We worship"  Big conversation on Worship the supe...

What is at the center of your life? One of the easiest ways to find is to look at two things. Your bank account and your schedule. You have probably heard this befoe, but where I think the illustration falls apart (and actually begins to make even more sense) is how few of us actually do a good job keeping up with these two things. We might sit down occasionally, but many people live a life that r...

Each week, Jack and Chad get together to have a follow-up conversation about the previous weeks sermon. We are jumping off into our conversation about Revelation 1:4-8 Mad Max references. Multiple jack has pages of questions. pages Even more mad max references. And even more.  The title of the sermon.  why Chad was absolutely terrified of Revelation and how Chad challenged that fear.  If we don/t...

I'm excited about kicking off this series on Revelation. I think it is one of the least read and most misunderstood books of scripture. If you missed my video on my wild Revelation story and why I think the book matters, check it out on our Facebook. In short, Revelation matters because it is part of scripture. We get the beginning and the end, and we don't talk nearly enough about the end. We let...

Worship gets a little iffy. We have a hard time defining it. For some folks, it means singing out loud in front of random friends and strangers. (#allthenopes). Other people might just use it as a generic term for "church". So what is really going on when we worship? Is there a bigger point to this besides loud music and awkward public singing? Yep.  And we are going to talk about why worship matt...

What's the deal with the Devil?  We touched on that a little this past Sunday, but we want to get a little bigger of a look. So Chad sits down with JR Forasteros , a pastor at Catalyst Rowlett in Dallas. He is the author of Empathy for the Devil, a fantastic look at the motivation behind antagonists in scripture.  So we dig into the Biblical identity for the Devil/Satan, what a timeline for his fa...

What does it mean to really belong?    This week, Chad shares a message from 1 Peter 2:9-10. It's about what it means to be chosen by God and how it offers us a belonging wildly different from that of the world. 

What does it mean to be good? What does it mean to be dependable? While those questions sound like the start of a job interview, they are also questions each of us asks in our own hearts. We ask them of others, we ask them of ourselves as we internalize our relationships, we project them onto the people who can guide us or simply create a better way forward. In essence, it all comes back to the id...

What does it mean for something to really be great? I've been thinking about it over the last few weeks, and one of the things I slowly realized were many of my initial answers weren't great for anyone but me. Does that truly make it great, or just personally beneficial? Great things tend to have a bigger impact than us having a personal win. We've been throwing around the phrase "even greater thi...