Red Couch Theology

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast. Hey, this week I invited a guest on our show because Alex is traveling and I didn't even give her any time to prep. I invited her this morning to join us on the show, and you'll just have to see how well she does. I'm not even gonna tell you who it is. You'll get that in just a moment here. But we talk about,, the letter to t...

Well, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we are diving in the deep end on our revelation series and hey, I'm proud of Alex. And I, because I feel like we actually covered a lot of ground in this episode. We dove right into the text itself. We talk about principles of interpretation. We talk about the weirdness of this particular genre, and then...

Hello. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast. This week we're talking about community. Again, we're actually concluding the community series. We have a guest on the show who actually brought the message to Sean Switzer. He's our student director and he shared with us about the sacrifices that are required in order to enter into community. But then he makes a case t...

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast. This week we're continuing in our community series and we talk a little bit about prophecy because Alex talked about the book of Ezekiel. And we talk a little bit about how to interpret prophecy. Why is it complicated and that sort of thing? But then we also talk about the beauty of this passage that invites us into becoming...

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week, we're talking about some of the nerdy things that Alex discovered in this passage of Exodus; well, it started in Exodus. It jumps to Genesis, and then it jumps even further back into the beginning. Genesis. It's all over the place, but it's so fascinating. And Alex shares a little bit about his lament from Sun...

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast. Hey, this week, we get to talk a little bit about one of my favorite subjects: the nature of scripture. And how do we know what hills to die on and all that sort of thing? And then is there something that should, should separate us in our unity in the church or are there things that we should just let go and all of that kind...

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast. Hey, this week we have a guest on our show because Kevin Butcher brought the message last Sunday, and let me tell you, Alex, myself, and Kevin were in the room. We were the three preachers for the series, and we sort of just went through almost the whole series and talked about the heart of the father and why we struggle with...

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast. Hey, I invited a guest to host the show this week on the podcast, and I'm super excited. I won't even tell you who it is now because you'll get to meet him in just a moment. But he did a great job because he let me talk a lot. So, you're gonna have to listen to this. We're talking about the prodigal son story about the elder...

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week, we're starting a conversation about our newest series of the Prodigal Son story. And if you've heard this story much of your life, or if you've been around this story for much of your life, I'd encourage you to tune in because even Alex and I are discovering new things about this story and finding ways that it...

Hello, hello and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast this week, Alex and I are back together and the podcast I think worked. So that's exciting. We talk about the end of the sermon on the Mount series which Alex brought us to the authority of Jesus and the way he spoke. And we also talked a little bit about politics. We talked about all sorts of exciting things. We address...

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, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast. Sometimes, on the show, I'm just completely surprised by where the conversation goes, and I start getting really convicted and learning stuff that I wish I didn't have to know. And all of those sorts of, this was one of those episodes. So, if you want to find out why you have to listen, I'm not telling you anything more. Let'...

Hello, Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast. This week, we're diving back into the sermon on the Mount proper and I'm super excited because we're gonna review this really interesting passage that offers us some tension, some confusion, some curiosity. It says, don't judge, but also don't cast your pearls before pigs. What's up with that? Why do those sound so in...

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, we have our guest preacher from this past Sunday. Rob Karch is joining us remotely and will share more of what was on his heart from Sunday's message. And I think he was really sort of frustrated, he couldn't share more on Sunday, but today he shares a lot more about what are the actual implications of the Kingdom...

This episode features a lively discussion between Alex Walton & Andrea Jones about the challenges and joys of preaching, the significance of serving within a church community, and the spiritual growth that comes from embracing new roles and responsibilities.

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, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast, where we forget to turn on the volume at the beginning. You can tune in to hear a little about some of the disillusionment we often feel around the gospel itself. Is this Christian life as good as we were promised when we signed up for it or what does Christianity actually have to offer us in a middle class western life that...

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week, I did something very unkind, and I threw a new guest into one of the most complicated subjects in all of theological history, the problem of evil. But Lexi, one of our new staff members was willing to jump in and I told her about it just this morning. And so, hey, you're gonna have to listen in, see how she di...

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week, we are talking about some of the challenges we find in church leadership. Why is it that Christians are oftentimes the number one reason why people don't wanna be Christians? What's up with that? It's painful. Maybe you've been hurt by the church. We're gonna talk about some of those tensions and how we're not...

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast. Hey, this week, we're continuing our series on Doubt. And Alex actually invited us to doubt our doubts to remember that. Yes. Even in the midst of our confusion and our doubts, it's ok to recognize that Christianity is a viable way of being human in the world. It's intellectually honest. There are very, very good reaso...

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast. This week, we're talking about our doubt series. In this episode, we talk about the challenge of feeling out but also the freedom that God gives us to cede our doubt as a guidepost on a journey toward him. So, let's dive in.

Hello, hello and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast this week, Alex is out of town, but we have a special guest on our show and I'm gonna let you find out who that is in just a moment, but we actually started to talk about doubt. The series we're about to start at South is a series on doubt. And we have a conversation today about the importance of allowing hard questions...

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, today we had a challenge. Can we talk for an hour about a 25-minute sermon? And the answer is not quite, but it was still a fascinating conversation. We talked about textual criticism. You'll have to listen to know what that means. We talked about the complexity of this particular passage that Alex shared, and we...

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast. This week, we're gonna be talking about Star Wars and birds, actually, a little bit less about birds and we're gonna be talking about how hard it is to sometimes believe that God's gonna take care of us and that we can trust that. So we're going to dive right in.

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week, we talk mostly about economics. and not even that spiritual of economics. We talked about fiat currency and the gold standard and spent a decent chunk of time talking about cryptocurrency. Why did we do that? You're gonna have to listen to find out. So, let's dive in and figure out why economics affects...