Red Couch Theology

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we have Jessica Rust on the show with us because she brought the message on Sunday. And she was sort of assigned the task to talk about exiting the wilderness from our series, our series called The Space Between. And today we talk on the show about how her plan for the sermon changed multiple times throu...

There’s only so much we can cover in a Sunday morning gathering! Each week, you’re invited to tune into our podcast, “Red Couch Theology – Sermon Conversations with Alex and Aaron.” We record our podcast live every Thursday at 11am. What can you expect? Pastors Alex, Aaron, and the occasional guest have a casual conversation, diving deeper into ideas related to last Sunday’s teaching.

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we are talking a little bit about trust. What is God trying to teach us when he's trying to teach us how to trust him anyway? What is trust? And are there things we can do to grow in our trust for God? These are some of the questions we deal with today, and we also address some things that this serie...

Hello, hello. Welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week I'm excited because Angela Dunn, one of our connection formation pastors, is hosting, and she's gonna be asking me some questions about last Sunday. Today, we talk about how to find joy in the midst of pain and suffering as the scriptures describe, and yeah, how do you deal with that, and what's...

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we are talking about lament. I have a guest today. It's Kevin Butcher. He brought the message on Sunday and he invites us to a journey of lament that is so powerful and he makes a case for us needing to learn how to lament. Not only is it important for our thriving, but it is also important for us to...

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we talked a lot about evangelism and why that word is sort of hard to stomach sometimes in certain church communities, and what is an evangelical, and wait, we also talked about demon possession, and is that a real thing, and like, how does that work? Yeah, all of these kinds of convoluted questions. It'...

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week we have Erin Young joining us on the show because she brought the message this past Sunday and we talk about serving and how sometimes the difficulty of serving is that the person that we're called to serve, which is everyone that is nearby us, that's what Jesus says as a neighbor. Sometimes those peo...

There’s only so much we can cover in a Sunday morning gathering! Each week, you’re invited to tune into our podcast, “Red Couch Theology – Sermon Conversations with Alex and Aaron.” We record our podcast live every Thursday at 11am. What can you expect? Pastors Alex, Aaron, and the occasional guest have a casual conversation, diving deeper into ideas related to last Sunday’s teaching. Send in your...

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, we're talking about listening, and no, it's not completely silent for the entire episode because neither Alex nor I feel like we're experts in this topic, but we also spent some time talking and making a case for the beauty of listening to someone and the transformative power of that. Why it'...

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we talked about Sunday's sermon where Alex kicked off our neighboring series and we talked about how difficult this actually can be to learn to love our neighbor as ourselves. What if our neighbor is the worst, and if, like we learned on Sunday, our neighbor. Is anyone around us in proximity to us? A...

There’s only so much we can cover in a Sunday morning gathering! Each week, you’re invited to tune into our podcast, “Red Couch Theology – Sermon Conversations with Alex and Aaron.” We record our podcast live every Thursday at 11am. What can you expect? Pastors Alex, Aaron, and the occasional guest have a casual conversation, diving deeper into ideas related to last Sunday’s teaching. Send in your...

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, we're going into John chapter 18, and we're gonna get in the weeds because I promised you that we would when I preached John chapter 18. So Alex and I just wade our way through almost verse by verse and pull out a bunch of little nuggets that we've noticed in this glorious book of John. And, yeah...

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we are talking about John chapter 17, and Alex thinks this passage is one of the more important, pivotal moments in the book of John, where he starts to shift towards the rubber meeting the road, the church being the church, and the commission that God gives the church. And today's episode, we're...

Well, hello. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast. This week on our show, we are actually exploring Alex's sermon from last week, where he talked about what parts of our lives, the branches of our lives, are supposed to stay. Does God invite us to maybe grow fruit that's beyond our capacity? Like maybe he made us not just to bear fruit, but to bear fruit s...

 Well, hello. Hello and welcome everyone to the Red Couch Theology Podcast. Hey, this week we have two different guests. We have Angela Dunn, who taught the Alpha class last night, and we have Sean Switzer, who brought the message on Sunday. And we're talking about two main topics that actually tie together in an interesting way. First, Sean talked about those times when God prunes us, and we...

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, we cover sort of two major topics. One is sort of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit's relationship to prayer. And how do we know when God's speaking, and what that experience is like, and how do we know what he's saying to us? And then the second major component we discuss is the nature of scri...

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we are talking a little bit about prayer and the sovereignty of God. Does God cause bad things to happen directly and is he trying to get messages to us about our behavior or get through to us to change course? And then how do we know when he's speaking to us anyway? What does God's voice sound l...

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we talk about John chapter 13 and in there we talk about what's going on with Judas and Peter and these betrayers and deniers. We talk a little bit about, at the end of this episode, we talked about like this demon possession thing that, is in the passage and then we talk about like how do you, how d...

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we're doing some serious theology. We're talking about atonement, or maybe put more for some of you out there, if you're not sure what atonement is, it's how in the world does the cross and resurrection save us? Like, really, what happens there? How does this event that took place thousands of years ago...

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, we have several questions submitted through our Alpha course, and one that actually touches on last week's Sunday sermon a little bit. We're gonna talk about Lazarus and what was going on with his soul or his spirit while he was dead, and was his resurrection the same kind of resurrection as Jesus? We also discussed...

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week, we actually have 2 episodes. This is our bonus episode because I get to sit down with Sean Switzer and Diego, who brought our sermon last Sunday. And talk a little bit about his journey of faith, about the sermon he gave to us on Sunday, and so on and so forth, but one of the highlights in this episode...

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week, we ask several questions. If you remember, we're tracking with the alpha class during this season of our show. And this week, we asked some questions about faith in life. The first one came from one of Alex's sermons: What is the good life as defined by Christianity? Is there any benefit to Christianity...

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we're doing something a little bit different. This week, we're gonna go through John chapter 9, the passage Alex preached last Sunday. And I'm gonna talk to him about how in the world he studied this text. How does he approach a new passage? How did he work through the difficult parts of this passage and...

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week, Alex and I talk about diving back into the book of John. We talk about what true freedom looks lik,e and we make an announcement about the kind of content and nature of this podcast going forward because there's going to be some tweaks at least for a short period of time. So tune in to find out a little...

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we have Dan Elliott on the show because he preached the message. We're gonna get answers to things like, what in the world is Battle Rattle? What is a crocus after all, and why in the world do we have so much? Joy in this season that seems so heavy, that is called Advent, and wait a minute, one final que...