Kingdom Culture Conversations

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Is it possible?  Could we become so fixated on working out, diet, looks, and fitness, that our body image becomes a distraction in our pursuit of Christ?  If our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit (I Cor. 6:19-20), we need to keep the temple in good repair--but can that be carried to...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! It seemed as though the earth shook on May 2nd, 2022 when Politico published an alleged "leak" from the U.S. Supreme Court:  a February 2022 draft of a majority opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, which would overturn Roe v. Wade, a travesty of justice which has permitted...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Some have called it the Great American Experiment .  In the words of James Madison:  “We are teaching the world a great truth, that religion flourishes in greater purity without, than with, the aid of government.” All these years later, how's that working out, James?  It's time...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! January 6th, 2021 produced a host of thorny issues.  Aside from the historic events of that day, as Christ-followers, we're left to do the forensics on that day.  In so doing, we are well served to wrestle with a question posed on January 7th, 2021 by John Stonestreet, the president...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Young Life is a Christian ministry that reaches out to middle school, high school, and college students, on their campuses and in the homes, in all 50 of the United States and in more than 100 countries around the world. How is it that while ministries around the nation are being chased...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! It's a Star Wars sequel of sorts!  In our "May the Fourth" What About Wednesday? episode of Kingdom Culture Conversations, we got just a bit carried away discussing Star Wars and worldviews.  Therefore, today, a "part two"! For all of the popcorn-summer-movie fun...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! It's "May the Fourth", a date that has become synonymous with celebrating the cultural phenomenon that is Star Wars.  For all of the popcorn-summer-movie fun that the Star Wars franchise has produced since its unexpected success and launch in 1977, should we feel completel...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! What if the Christian hope for America has nothing to do with laws, politics, or freedom?   What if the calling of Christians in America has nothing to do with fixing our culture? Do we even dare to ask questions like that on a podcast called "Kingdom Culture Conversations"?  Y...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Just a year out of high school, Joel Mucklow is passionate about his pursuit of ministry and possesses a sense of maturity and insight that far surpasses his years.   In today's Kingdom Culture Conversation, you will hear from a young man who is driven, insightful, transparent, auth...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Dr. Collette House is an accomplished educator  who is part of the governing board for the Association of Christian Schools International while serving as the Superintendent of Aurora Christian Schools in Illinois. Recently, Illinois has become a front in the culture wars as the state&ap...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Did God intend for us to enjoy marijuana recreationally and medicinally?  Could this be what He meant when, in Genesis 1:29, God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it." Today's "What about? W...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Proverbs 12:10 is pretty clear:  "The righteous care for the needs of their animals, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel." Does that mean that hunting is prohibited in scripture and that, as Christ followers, we should not be involved in hunting or fishing? In today&ap...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Twice in April 2022, members of the CCV youth ministry team have been involved in chapel.  Riley Reinhardt--a student within the CCV Leadership Institute--spoke at the beginning of the month.  And, Ryan Schultz and Matt Newman will be speaking in two day's time on April 20th. Today,...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Walt Disney, the Beatles, Harry Potter, Martin Scorsese, Starbucks, Heinz, Wells Fargo, and Home Depot.  All these brands--and many others to boot--have been literally given the boot by evangelical families who placed them on the business end of boycott.  In today's "What about...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! You will hear it said in today's Kingdom Culture Conversation:  "Lee Humes was a force of nature."  Lee was the founder of Deep Within Rehab, a self-supporting residential drug and alcohol rehab facility located in Peoria, Arizona.  But, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the L...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Today's "What about? Wednesday" episode of Kingdom Culture Conversation presents a unique twist on the recent and raging debate over the use of preferred pronouns.  A student asked the increasingly common question regarding preferred pronouns this way:  "I understand...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Katy Hubbard is a Northwest Christian alumni, a current Crusader parent, and the Kids Ministry Director at the Anthem campus of Palmcroft Church.  She is also passionate about helping the K-5th grade students that she works with to understand the priority of God's word. Sadly, recen...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! After a run of KCC episodes in which Mr. G has been absent as one of the two KCC hosts, there have been some expressions of curiosity:  "Hey, where's G?" Chris Gardiners has been in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, completing training as a military chaplain in the U.S. Army R...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! It's all over the headlines and certainly the topic of choice around most school campuses and in most American homes:  what are the implications of the Russian/Ukrainian war?  Specifically, as Christ followers, how should we respond?  Students are asking:  Is war ever justified?  Un...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! In a chapel on the campus of Northwest Christian High School early in the spring of 2022, Melisha Alhambra opened by explaining that she was going to reveal the Gospel through TikTok.  From word one, everyone in the room was spellbound. Immediately after that chapel, Geoff Brown and Meli...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Just days before the start of his senior year at Northwest Christian High School, during Summer 2021, Luke Deal was enjoying a hike through the wilderness on the south end of Lake Tahoe.  As he and his family enjoyed the stunning mountain lake views, Luke was crossing a creek. That'...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! The "What About?" Wednesdays podcast tradition continues to take us into interesting new cultural territories!  Based on "What about?" questions submitted by students, G and Geoff question special guest Robby Lashua on the subject of tattoos.  Are tattoos prohibited i...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Today's Kingdom Culture Conversation is an uncomfortable one.  Very uncomfortable.  Why?  Because Austin Maranto doesn't mince words. Austin graduated from Northwest Christian in 2016 and today works at Grand Canyon University.  He is also deeply involved in his church,  Apolog...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! By all accounts, the OB/GYN private medical practice of Dr. Allan Sawyer was successful.  So what compelled him to leave it all behind in order to be a medical missionary in some of the most desperate and dangerous situations on the planet?  In places ravaged by war, tribal conflict, dis...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! For twelve years, Northwest Christian School has been involved in an annual, school-wide "Missions Learning" effort:  providing Hope to families in what is arguably the neediest public school district in the state, the Isaac School District.  All those years ago, it started wit...