Not Your Father's Faith

Scott's sister Wendy heard the last episode on Prayer and thought we needed to be schooled a little bit. Armed with scripture and quotes and books on prayer, she teaches us a lesson or two. 

Listen as Scott turns to Pastor Jeff and Dave to unlock the mystery of prayer. Their answers may surprise you. 

Listen as Pastor Jeff and Scott kick around the subject of masculinity and what it means to express your love for one another. How has our role as men changed in the last generation or two? Did your father tell you he loved you? Did he hug you? Are you telling your sons today you love them? Are you hugging them? WWJD?

Pastor Jeff gave us a good health scare 3 months ago but is back with the best excuse ever for his not so up to par golf game. Listen as we learn about his extended hospital stay and successful (almost) complete recovery.

What an exciting now year as we continue to get to know the members of our church family. And in this episode we welcome 26-year-old Austin Lewis to Not Your Father's Faith. Finally, some youth. Or as Fred Gwynne's character asked in My Cousin Vinny, "what's a yoot?" Listen to find out. 

If you, like many others, grew up Catholic, you will relate to Michelle Gardiner's early challenges understanding God. She takes us from Hopewell to Clarion to Roland's to a life with 4 men/boys. Listen and get to know a woman that started in the back row of Freedom Life Center to the front. 

From Flint to Brussels to Minnesota to Florida to Africa. Try to keep up as Michelle Winters takes us around the world in her life's journey with the Lord including Jeff robbing the cradle. 

As we continue our quest to learn everyone's story in our faith community, we welcome Connie "Perk" Rostosky in to the NYFF studio to share her incredibly inspirational and revealing journey of family and faith.

Come to a service at Freedom Life Center or watch the live stream and you can't help but notice a larger than life man in the second row. Turns out Lonnell Becoate's heart is at the heart of an incredible story of hardship, inspiration and giving. Listen and learn as we continue to get to know the fascinating people in our faith community. 

Pastor Jeff and Scott pick the brain of our resident Neuropsychologist Jamie Petrick in a fascinating discussion about our heads and hearts and God.

If you've ever joined us for a service at Freedom Life Center you've heard Pastor Jeff poke fun at Marty Toth for representing the elder members of the congregation. Listen as we all get to know our favorite Martin.   

Listen as Pastor Jeff and Scott explore the spiritual gifts God has given us to serve him in church and in the community. And how is that someone else may be better at recognizing our gifts than we do. 

Jeff, Scott and Dave recommend a book a piece for you starting with a book that could save your life. 

With an election less than 3 weeks away, we thought we would kick around some issues and policies that might help guide you through the process of deciding who to vote for as a Christian. 

Who wrote the bible? Why were these scriptures written down? Who were they meant for? Do the various translations do justice, or not to the spirit of the word? Join Jeff, Scott and good friend Dave in this effort to answer some difficult and fascinating questions about the most important book ever written. 

We try to understand why God is a lawman in the Old Testament but sends us a loving Jesus, his human form, in the New Testament. How do we reconcile the stark differences between the old covenant and the new covenant.   

Do you have any regrets? Is it healthy to think about regrets? Should regret be the first step in a process of repentance that leads to spiritual grow? Explore the subject of regrets with Pastor Jeff and Scott in this new episode.

When you are out in the world, can you recognize the fellow Christians among us? If so, what does a Jesus follower look like? And what can we do to better represent our selves as a Christian? What does it take for someone in the world to look at us and say, "they are a believer."    

Following a couple episodes exploring the before/during/after journey Pastor Jeff took with his recent open heart surgery, this episode fails miserably at answering the age old question of why does a loving God allow us to suffer if he is all powerful. 

Jeff presses the microphone against his chest to reveal that his newly repaired heart can play Iron Man by Black Sabbath. Tell me if you don't hear it.

How do you take your 89 year old aunt to her cardiologist appointment and YOU'RE the one that gets the open heart surgery? Jeff has some explaining to do in this latest episode.  

Learning To Float author and friend of the podcast Dave Stradling joins us for an episode that was recorded in church that teaches us how to write a book and ultimately, through his latest book, to discover a life of purpose and joy. 

Following Father's Day weekend, Jeff and Scott reminisce about their dads and grade themselves as fathers.

Listen to the unbelievable story of our friend Pete Rostosky's brush with death and his mantra, 'Way2BU". And Scott is schooled on how to say his name.  

Our buddy from New York, Dave Stradling joins us as the prolific author releases another book, this one describing a very personal, often times painful journey of self doubt and eventual growth threw the help of a special letter writing relationship.