Redeemer Connects

We're doing a throwback to the first ever episode we recorded on this podcast. We had the blessing of talking with Dr. Bob Kolb about the most difficult topic of life--Why do we suffer in this world? Why is there pain and brokenness in the world? If God is so good, why does he allow such suffering to take place? It seems like the headlines always include shootings, crime, and death. Is there any h...

Pastors Sam and Caleb return to the original focus of this podcast: "The intersection of Christ and culture". Today, we focus on the topic of Cancel Culture. Cancel Culture is everywhere these days. Where does it come from? Is there good to it or just bad? How do we prevent ourselves being cancelled? How do we respond to being cancelled? Does the church ever cancel anyone? We mention the 8th Comma...

Pastors Sam and Caleb return to the original focus of this podcast: "The intersection of Christ and culture". Today, we focus on the topic of Honor | Shame Culture. Sam and Caleb are joined by Emily Belvery, from Mission of Christ Network, a network that prepares missionaries to spread the gospel of Jesus. Typically, America has been a culture of Guilt | Innocence. Either you are guilty or innocen...

Pastors Sam and Caleb return to the original focus of this podcast: "The intersection of Christ and culture". Today, we focus on the topic of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism. God created and orders the world and watches over life on earth. God wants people to be good, nice and fair to each other. The goal of life is to be happy and feel good about oneself. God doesn't need to be involved in one's lif...

Pastors Sam and Caleb return to the original focus of this podcast: "The intersection of Christ and culture". Today, we focus on the topic of Nihilism. If everything has lost meaning and value, what is life worth anymore? Can you be Christian and be a nihilist? Everything is assigned a value and everything is competing with other values, so where does that leave us with things like church, faith a...

Pastors Sam and Caleb return to the original focus of this podcast: "The intersection of Christ and culture". Today, we focus on the topic of Nihilism in Part 2. If everything has lost meaning and value, what is life worth anymore? Can you be Christian and be a nihilist? Everything is assigned a value and everything is competing with other values, so where does that leave us with things like churc...

On today's episode, Pastors Sam and Caleb discuss "The Big Day", one of Sam's favorite things about Christmas. We discuss our own traditions around Christmas Eve and Christmas Day when we were growing up in Florida and Arizona and how things changed after we got married and how they changed even more when we became pastors. We focus heavily on traditions and expectations surrounding "The Big Day"...

On today's episode, Pastors Sam and Caleb discuss "Christmas Decorations", one of Caleb's favorite things about Christmas. We discuss how Christmas decorations tell a story and convey a message and Sam encourages us to consider the message that our decorations are giving. We discuss if decorations are actually essential to Christmas or not. We then go on to talk about some of the decorations in ou...

On today's episode, Pastors Sam and Caleb discuss "Christmas Movies", one of Sam's favorite things about Christmas. We discuss how Christmas movies show us what Christmas is "supposed to look like" and how Christmas movies are forming and shaping our expectations of Christmas for both good and bad. We talk about White Christmas, The Santa Clause, Elf and Home Alone. We hope that this season on the...

On today's episode, Pastors Sam and Caleb discuss "Christmas Music", one of Caleb's favorite things about Christmas. We discuss how Christmas music is full of both nostalgia and hope and how the lyrics we sing about the birth and coming of Jesus is our story. We talk about the best Christmas artists of all time like Andy Williams, Bing Crosby, Manheim Steamroller, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como and mor...

On this episode, Pastors Sam and Caleb preview Season 9 of The Table. On this season, we pick our "Mount Rushmore of Christmas". In other words, Sam picked two of his favorite things about Christmas and Caleb picked two of his. Together, they are objectively the four best things about Christmas (in their subjective opinions). One episode will be released each week of the Advent season, with four t...

Join Pastors Sam and Caleb as we begin Season 8 of The Table. This season we're focusing on 3 topics: Suicide, Grief, and Counseling. With all that has happened in the past year and a half, we think it's vitally important to discuss these deep topics. We will be joined by a guest for all 3 episodes of this season and we pray that you will be blessed by their wisdom. On this episode, Pastors Sam an...

Join Pastors Sam and Caleb as we begin Season 8 of The Table. This season we're focusing on 3 topics: Suicide, Grief, and Counseling. With all that has happened in the past year and a half, we think it's vitally important to discuss these deep topics. We will be joined by a guest for all 3 episodes of this season and we pray that you will be blessed by their wisdom. On this episode, Pastors Sam an...

Join Pastors Sam and Caleb as we begin Season 8 of The Table. This season we're focusing on 3 topics: Suicide, Grief, and Counseling. With all that has happened in the past year and a half, we think it's vitally important to discuss these deep topics. We will be joined by a guest for all 3 episodes of this season and we pray that you will be blessed by their wisdom. On this episode, Pastors Sam an...

Join Pastors Sam and Caleb as we continue Season 7 of The Table. Our theme will be "Book Club" and we will read and discuss 7 total books every other week during the summer months. We would love for you to purchase any or all of the books and read along with us in preparation for our discussion on that particular book. On Part 1 of today's episode, we begin our conversation on "Till We Have Faces"...

Join Pastors Sam and Caleb as we continue Season 7 of The Table. Our theme will be "Book Club" and we will read and discuss 7 total books every other week during the summer months. We would love for you to purchase any or all of the books and read along with us in preparation for our discussion on that particular book. On Part 2 of today's episode, we continue our conversation on "Till We Have Fac...

Join Pastors Sam and Caleb as we continue Season 7 of The Table. Our theme will be "Book Club" and we will read and discuss 7 total books every other week during the summer months. We would love for you to purchase any or all of the books and read along with us in preparation for our discussion on that particular book. On Part 1 of today's episode, we begin our conversation on "Get Your Life Back"...

Join Pastors Sam and Caleb as we continue Season 7 of The Table. Our theme will be "Book Club" and we will read and discuss 7 total books every other week during the summer months. We would love for you to purchase any or all of the books and read along with us in preparation for our discussion on that particular book. On Part 2 of today's episode, we continue our conversation on "Get Your Life Ba...

Join Pastors Sam and Caleb as we continue Season 7 of The Table. Our theme will be "Book Club" and we will read and discuss 7 total books every other week during the summer months. We would love for you to purchase any or all of the books and read along with us in preparation for our discussion on that particular book. On Part 1 of today's episode, we begin our conversation on "A Tale of Three Kin...

Join Pastors Sam and Caleb as we continue Season 7 of The Table. Our theme will be "Book Club" and we will read and discuss 7 total books every other week during the summer months. We would love for you to purchase any or all of the books and read along with us in preparation for our discussion on that particular book. On Part 2 of today's episode, we continue our conversation on "A Tale of Three...

Join Pastors Sam and Caleb as we continue Season 7 of The Table. Our theme will be "Book Club" and we will read and discuss 7 total books every other week during the summer months. We would love for you to purchase any or all of the books and read along with us in preparation for our discussion on that particular book. On Part 1 of today's episode, we begin our conversation on "Crossing Wires: Mak...

Join Pastors Sam and Caleb as we continue Season 7 of The Table. Our theme will be "Book Club" and we will read and discuss 7 total books every other week during the summer months. We would love for you to purchase any or all of the books and read along with us in preparation for our discussion on that particular book. On Part 2 of today's episode, we continue our conversation on "Crossing Wires:...

Join Pastors Sam and Caleb as we continue Season 7 of The Table. Our theme will be "Book Club" and we will read and discuss 7 total books every other week during the summer months. We would love for you to purchase any or all of the books and read along with us in preparation for our discussion on that particular book. On Part 1 of today's episode, we begin our conversation on "The Gospel Comes Wi...

Join Pastors Sam and Caleb as we continue Season 7 of The Table. Our theme will be "Book Club" and we will read and discuss 7 total books every other week during the summer months. We would love for you to purchase any or all of the books and read along with us in preparation for our discussion on that particular book. On Part 2 of today's episode, we continue our conversation on "The Gospel Comes...

Pastor Caleb provides a schedule update and shares a new resource on our Redeemer Connects mobile app, called Centering Prayer. If you don't want to download our app, you can see the centering prayers here: https://subsplash.com/redeemerlutheranchurch-c/media/li/+hk8yt9x We'll be back to our Book Club talks on July 8!