Kingdom Culture Conversations

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! The image and importance of trees is inescapable in Scripture.  From the Genesis account in the beginning--the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden--to the Tree of Life in the end within the book of Revelation, and every tree in between--the Tree in Psalm 1 or the...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! "Wisdom and Worldview are two sides of the same coin."  It's a statement that seems obvious enough but it opens the door in today's Kingdom Culture Conversation with Stefan Wilson, to a deep dive into belief and behavior. As part of Northwest Christian School's a...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Crusaders Charge into Summer 2024 picks up in our second week with the critical query, "What is it that wisdom is meant to produce in our lives?"  Starting with King Solomon's thesis is Proverbs 1, Stefan and G discuss why true Godly wisdom runs so much deeper than an inte...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Starting today, and running all summer long, Kingdom Culture Conversations features conversations drawn from the "Crusaders Charge into Summer 2024 Reading" campaign . This summer, our theme is " WisDUMB " and all summer we will be wrestling with the question, "H...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Yesterday, we enjoyed a Kingdom Culture Conversation with Chris Zimmerman, the head of Northwest Christian School ministry partner Red Five Media and the mastermind behind "I Witness-The Lazarus Project", a podcast-based audio drama that has gone viral within the last month. To...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! We'd hoped it would be big.  For the sake of the students and staff who poured their hearts and talents into it, we were praying that the reception for I Witness would honor their efforts. God answered those prayers!  I Witness--the story of a group of high school students who go ba...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Marietta Wright's earliest memories are framed by tragedy and trauma.  Wright vividly recollects that, when she was a child living in Holland, Nazis worked to exterminate Jews that she counted as friends and neighbors.  Her parents hid the Jewish members of their community within th...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! This year, Phoenix played host to the NCAA final-four and the NCAA national collegiate championship basketball game.  The events brought tens-of-thousands of basketball fanatics to town. As well, two Jesus fanatics. With backgrounds steeped in the game of basketball, Randy Shepherd and J...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Debbie Yee is a force of nature!  She serves Northwest Christian School in so many capacities, it's difficult to keep track.  She's charging forward in school academic initiatives like the ACSI Regional Speech Meet or the NCS Math Olympiad team.  She writes grant proposals to n...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! As you will hear discussed in today's Kingdom Culture Conversation, there are a host of theological issues that our foundational to the Christian faith.  Conversely, there are other issues that, while important, are not as pressing as others. Some issues represent prerequisites to s...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! As we continue to espouse the benefits of the Family Care Learning library of online parenting courses and resources, today we sit down for a Kingdom Culture Conversation with Jennie Dalcour, a clinical supervisor for Christian Family Care in Phoenix, Arizona.  In today's Kingdom Cu...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! As we continue to espouse the benefits of the Family Care Learning library on online parenting courses and resources, today we sit down for a Kingdom Culture Conversation with Jennie Dalcour, a clinical supervisor for Christian Family Care in Phoenix, Arizona.  In the first of a two-part...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! As you watch Colleen Pfitzinger, a member of Northwest Christian's third grade team, around campus, you might be tempted to think she's a bit reserved. But, that's not the story that's coming out of her classroom. Nope.  For years, students have reported quite the opp...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! At first glance, Luke 2:52 seems harmless enough. "Jesus increased in wisdom, in stature, and in favor with God and man." But, wait a minute... Jesus increased in wisdom?  In other words, the pre-incarnate Word from John 1 "grew in wisdom" over the course of time?  Ho...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! If you’re a busy parent or caregiver that is looking for high-quality, research-based instruction designed to meet pressing needs within your home, Christian Family Care's Family Care Learning library of online, video-based courses is designed to make an immediate impact in your hom...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! "Matthew 1 is boring!" "The genealogies are a waste of time!" Think again, friend. Given the absolute economy of words within Scripture, as we will learn today with Northwest Christian's Chelsey Lawson, there is an unrivaled efficiency to the presentation of unfe...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! If you’re a busy parent or caregiver that is looking for high-quality, research-based instruction designed to meet pressing needs within your home, Christian Family Care's Family Care Learning library of online, video-based courses is designed to make an immediate impact in your hom...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! As you spend time with Mike Potter, the CEO of the Tyndale Group of Christian Schools in Australia, you are first impressed by his warmth and wit.  Actually, more than wit--the dude is seriously funny.  Spend even more time and you'll discover a man wholly committed to Christ and me...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Tanner Wisely is a Northwest Christian alum that is presently serving in the U.S. Army in Fort Bliss, Texas and about to move to a new post in Germany.  Walker, his brother and a NC senior, is getting ready to play football at Western New Mexico University.  In today's Kingdom Cultu...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! To say that Australian education is unique from American education is an understatement.  Yet, even within that paradigm, Steve Downes' Calvary Christian College is vastly different than most Australian Christian schools. How? That's the subject of today's far-reaching Kin...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! What does it mean when Jesus says "abide in Me" within John 15?  Is it a trick question?  Can we bring ourselves to accept that His love surpasses my tarnished past? Today, Geoff Brown and Chris "G" Gardiner walk through what may be Jesus' most amazing and revela...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Dr. Craig Murison's research efforts are garnering international attention from Christian educators the world over.  And, they are starting to ask questions.  Awkward questions. Is it possible that the long-pursued aspiration of "Biblical integration" is actually misservin...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! In the span of a singularly beautiful chapter, John 8, we see Jesus coming to terms with the broken--a woman caught in adultery, facing a death sentence--and the self-righteous.  As we will hear from Tyler and Tammy Collins today, Jesus does this all with His inimitable grace and truth....

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! As we will learn today, education in Australia is different.  Very different.  Without the stringent separation between church and state that we find in the U.S., the Australian government uses public funding to support both public and private schools.  As a result, close to half of Aust...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Elijah Mizsak has been doing theater for ten years with multiple theater companies.  But, as a Christ follower, he soon began to see a growing disconnect between his personal faith and aspects of the productions in which he was involved. So, in 2021, as a young man still in his teens, El...