King's Way Podcast

We can all feel the Christmas season continually ramping up in December. Our everyday scenery is changing--the light, the music, the presents, the commercials, the upcoming time off from work and the time with family. In the midst of this, our church has chosen for the past two years to not celebrate Christmas in our weekly worship gatherings until our Christmas Eve Eve service, and in its place,...

Our church is wrapping up this year's annual generosity campaign that we call Blessed to Bless, where we conduct an all-out assault on the place that money has in our hearts and give generously as God has given to us. In this episode, Trevor is joined by Nick and Sarah Vacca from Blackbox International. Blackbox is a ministry that provides wholistic aftercare and rehabilitation to young boys who h...

Our church has launched this year's annual generosity campaign that we call Blessed to Bless, where we conduct an all-out assault on the place that money has in our hearts and give generously as God has given to us. In this episode, Trevor is joined by King's Way's newest missions partners--Doug and Noi Welch! The group talks about their ministry in Laos, their unique story of how they met, and ho...

Our church has launched this year's annual generosity campaign that we call Blessed to Bless , where we conduct an all-out assault on the place that money has in our hearts and give generously as God has given to us. In this episode, Trevor is joined by a couple of returning podcast guests and missionaries in Kenya, Erica and Maurice White! The group talks about some ministry victories they have s...

Blessed be this podcast, for thus enlivens the fellowship of those crying "Hallelujah!" and "Hosanna!". Amen. Was any of that confusing? Well, if you found it to be so, you're not alone. Some of the words we say and sing in our weekly and yearly worship gatherings seem to have made sense to someone at some point, but don't make sense to us today. In this episode, Trevor and Ryan are joined by the...

We're taking a break between hard topics to come back around to talk about Harry Potter for the second time, almost exactly one year after our last time! Here at King's Way, we are big fans of Harry Potter because of how the story tests and shows each character's ability (or lack there of) to be an example of sacrificial love. In this episode, Trevor and Ryan talk over their love for the original...

Failure is not something that our culture teaches us to deal with well. Most of us are surprised by our own failure, and it can lead us to feel broken, anxious, guilty, shameful, or fearful, all of which leave us crippled and less able to deal with our failure. Following our last episode about how everyone needs to go to counseling, Ryan and Trevor talk in this episode about the typical unhealthy...

We mean it. Everyone needs to go to counseling. We need it for the same reason that we need to exercise, eat a healthy diet, and go to doctors for our bodily health. Everyone deals with bad habits and hurts in their lives, and many don't even realize that they are living with emotional trauma or genetic mental health difficulties. In this episode, Trevor and Ryan talk about their experiences in co...

Trevor and Ryan are back with another Verse of the Day episode! In case you're new to the podcast, we don't look at the verse of the day until the cameras are rolling, the mics are recording, and there's no help for us outside of the Bibles in front of us and everything we can remember from Bible college years ago. In this episode, after a short plug for our annual and upcoming "Blessed To Bless"...

In our third installment of episodes that cover the life of a biblical character, Trevor and Ryan are joined by John Cowherd to discuss the life of one of the most morally upstanding Old Testament characters in the entire Hebrew Bible. The story of Joseph's life (found in Genesis chapters 37 and 39-50) is a very interesting story full of ups and downs, twists and turns, and plenty of moments for t...

King's Way is currently pushing for people to sign-up to join small groups and to submit their names as people willing to lead small groups, but whether you are listening at the time we release this or months to years in the future, small groups will always be a part of our DNA. As stated in our fourth podcast in our Values series (episode 80), we believe that life change happens in small groups,...

At this point, these episodes need little introduction. In this episode, join Trevor and Ryan as they discuss the verse of the day, peeling back the layers of this Psalm, how it fits into the grand story of God, and how we can relate to God in our own situations and emotions. Join in the conversation by emailing us what you thought about the verse and our at the email address below.  ryan@kin...

God has really blessed the ministry and community at King's Way, and he is continuing to do so as we welcome Luke and Keila Palmquist into our King's Way staff! Luke grew up as the youngest of 6 at our church, and he and his wife are coming back after graduating from Bible college to minister to our community, with Keila serving as the Jr. High director and Luke as the Missions Coordinator. Listen...

With tens of these Verse of the Day podcasts under our belt, we switch up the roster in this episode, and Ryan is joined by John Cowherd, an elder and pastor at King's Way. Like normal, neither of them knows what the verse of the day is before the camera starts rolling, so this entire podcast is their exploration of the text with only the bibles in front of them and their knowledge of scripture. J...

We're flying dangerously close to our topical hard deck because in this episode, we're talking about a movie and its remake that have twice become a cultural phenomenon. As almost an Appendix to our series on story, Trevor and Ryan dig into the "why" behind the success of one of 2022's best movies--Top Gun: Maverick, covering its realism and authenticity, its focus on people's deep fears, drives,...

The Bible is a deep well where we can learn about God's character and history in a way that helps us hear his ancient words of love and learn to feel his presence with us today. The Bible is also a long and complex collection of ancient books that we are majorly separated from by time, space, and language. Is it worth the effort to get past those hurdles? In fact, how can we trust the Bible? Where...

The Bible is a deep well where we can learn about God's character and history in a way that helps us hear his ancient words of love and learn to feel his presence with us today. The Bible is also a long and complex collection of ancient books that we are majorly separated from by time, space, and language. Is it worth the effort to get past those hurtles? In fact, how can we trust the Bible? Where...

In our heavily divided world, the one place that Christians are regularly joined together with one united voice is in gathered worship where we sing the gospel, participate in fellowship with Jesus and each other, and interact with God and His Word as one body. This union is only as strong as our willingness to submit to it, and as many of us know, our worldly divisiveness has seeped into our gath...

The boys are back again with another verse of the day. Without having seen what it is beforehand, we started recording, opened up our YouVersion Bible apps, and dug into the text on air. Come along with us as we discuss the theme of childship (sonship and daughterhood) of God, Jesus being our wounded healer (see Henri Nouwen's book, The Wounded Healer ), and how Jesus' worldwide blessing of salvat...

In our heavily divided world, the one place that Christians are regularly joined together with one united voice is in gathered worship where we sing the gospel, participate in fellowship with Jesus and each other, and interact with God and His Word as one body. This union is only as strong as our willingness to submit to it, and as many of us know, our worldly divisiveness has seeped into our gath...

What do you think of when you think of a person with tattoos? Does that person drink, smoke, chew, or go with girls who do? What does God think about tattoos? In this episode, Trevor and Ryan tread into the tumultuous waters of Christians, the Bible, and tattoos, discussing the cultural faux pas and biblical evidence on the issue of tattoos. Join in the conversation with what you were taught about...

The boys are back with another impromptu study of the verse of the day purely out of their reading of the text, the surrounding literary context, their Bible college training, and their other previous studies into God's Word. In this episode, Trevor and Ryan unpack John 14:1, both in its surface reading, its meaning to the disciples in the present, its meaning to the disciple John who wrote it dow...

One of the most important things in human life and culture is story. Stories can capture the attention of a child in mere moments, attach themselves to our most strongly held beliefs and traumas, and are held with a death grip by governments and corporations who want to keep control of a people group or industry. Why? Because there is just nothing like them to reach people's hearts quicker or deep...

One of the most important things in human life and culture is story. Stories can capture the attention of a child in mere moments, attach themselves to our most strongly held beliefs and traumas, and are held with a death grip by governments and corporations who want to keep control of a people group or industry. Why? Because there is just nothing like them to reach people's hearts quicker or deep...

One of the most important things in human life and culture is story. Stories can capture the attention of a child in mere moments, attach themselves to our most strongly held beliefs and traumas, and are held with a death grip by governments and corporations who want to keep control of a people group or industry. Why? Because there is just nothing like them to reach people's hearts quicker or deep...