Salty Believer Unscripted

Join Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman as they start a new series, exploring the book of Revelation. Why study this book? What are the typical approaches to this book? What are the pitfalls? In this series, they hope to journey through the book of Revelation in such a way that brings the comfort, joy, and blessing the book should bring. Copyright 2024. For more information, please visit SaltyBelie...

Join Josiah Walker, Bryan Catherman, and Robbie the Intern as they discuss and visit the Utah Christian Resource Center. The UCRC has a great deal of information about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (also known as the LDS or Mormon Church), but it’s so much more. There are artifacts, Bibles, a bookstore, and so much more. Copyright 2024. For more information, please visit SaltyBel...

In this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker discuss the possibility of Dr. Jeff Iorg becoming the SBC Executive Committee President. Can this save the SBC or is it just too late? Is Iorg the right man for the job? Is there still hope? Copyright 2024. More more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman share their concluding thoughts after attending a Charles Simeon Trust workshop in Southern California. If you’re thinking about attending, these thoughts might help you decide to go. If you’d like to bless your pastor, find a way to send him to a workshop. Copyright 2024. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

In this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Josiah Walker, Daniel Catherman, and Bryan Catherman are on-site in Southern California for the Charles Simeon Trust workshop. They share their observations of the leader’s training before the workshop. It was a very long day, but they were still able to sit down for a bit to discuss what they saw. Copyright 2024. For more information, please visit Sal...

Join Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman as they chat with Robert Kinney, the director of the Charles Simeon Trust . In this episode, they ask Robert more questions about the CST Workshops and many are the questions you were thinking to ask but they had little to do with what you need to know about attending a Workshop. Who are some of the heavy-hitters who have instructed at workshops? What’s the c...

Join Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman as they chat with Robert Kinney, the Director of Ministries at the Charles Simeon Trust. Robert joined the conversation to discuss what to expect at a CST Workshop. How do they work? Why attend one? What should first-time participants expect? He answers these questions and many more. Copyright 2024. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

Join Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman as they chat with Brett Ricley about the Charles Simeon Trust workshop. He’s attended two in the past, so the guys wanted to get his take. What will the workshop be like? What should we expect? How did it go for Brett? What would Brett change or improve if he could? Copyright 2024. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

Join Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman as they discuss the Charles Simeon Trust workshop. They are headed to a workshop on preaching Epistles, specifically 2 Timothy, and thought they’d podcast their experiences. In this episode, they share what they’re excited about and what’s making them nervous. In the coming episodes, they’ll chat with someone who’s already attended some workshops, and they’ll...

You invited someone to a Christmas or Easter service. Maybe they came; maybe they didn’t. Now what? What’s the next step after you’ve invited a friend or co-worker to church? That’s the topic of this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted. Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman discuss what might work well as a next step. There are many possibilities.

Join Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman as they look back at 2023 and look ahead to 2024. What’s coming on the Salty Believer Unscripted podcast? This is their 524th episode so they chat about some past episodes and things Bryan is doing to remember some of the greatest hits. Copyright 2024. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

In this Part 2 in a two part interview. Bryan Catherman interviewed Dr. Mark Bradley, the Director of the Northwest Campus of Gateway Seminary. They discuss ministry in the Pacific Northwest, seminary education, and Mark’s outlook for the future that graduating students are entering. They also talk about what he sees in students today. This is Part 2 of a 2-part interview. Copyright 2023. For more...

In this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Bryan Catherman interviewed Dr. Mark Bradley, the Director of the Northwest Campus of Gateway Seminary. They discuss ministry in the Pacific Northwest, seminary education, and Mark’s outlook for the future that graduating students are entering. They also talk about what he sees in students today. This is Part 1 of a 2-part interview. Copyright 2023. Fo...

On this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker discuss ecumenical ministry. Should churches join with non-Christian ministries in the community? Should we lay down our differences and compromise the gospel of Jesus Christ for the sake of community? Everything is done in some way, but who decides which way, and is it really a two-way street? These the questions that...

Now that Josiah Walker has finished seminary, he and Bryan Catherman discuss how a person can get sharp and stay sharp. What do pastors do? What can people with limited time do? How do trained people stay sharp? They answer these and other question in this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted. Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

Josiah Walker has graduated seminary with a Master’s Degree from Gateway Seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention. In this episode, Bryan Catherman ask Josiah what was the most valuable. They also talk about the experience. Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

In this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman discuss Kevin DeYoung’s critique of Doug Wilson’s No Quarter November. “What do you think of Doug Wilson?” is the question that opens DeYoung’s article. The article goes on to examine Wilson’s approach to ministry. This opened the conversation up for Bryan and Josiah to talk about how we might respond to questions abou...

Join Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman as they finish up our series, “Stewards of the Bride.” In this episode, they seek to answer the question, “How do I find my place in a local church?” Given what an Elder is, and give what a Deacon is, what does it look like to serve the Bride of Christ in the local church? Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

In this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman talk about the role of women in the church. What about women elders? Women deacons (servants)? These are significant questions given the gender-enflamed aspects of culture bleeding into the Church lately. Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit saltybeliever.com.

Join Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman as they discuss the qualifications and task of the deacon. Are all servants deacons? Or could it be that there are many classes of servants, and of those classes, deacon is one position within the classes of servants in the church? How should we understand Phoebe as a servant or deacon? This opens up questions about servants, but also about women serving in t...

Join Salty Believer Unscripted as Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman discuss the role of the Pastor as a shepherd. The Pastor is a shepherd and there for, an Elder is a shepherd. What is that? What does it mean? What does it look like? That’s the conversation in this episode as the guys address the question, “What is a Pastor?” Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit saltybeliever.com.

On this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman discuss Elders and what an Elder should be, biblically. After identifying the two biblical offices, the next step is to dig into each of those offices. This is a continuing discussion in our series, “Stewards of the Bride.” Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

Before we can start with the questions What is role of women in the ministry?, Who is a pastor?, or What is deacon?, we need to ask, What is an office and how many are there in the local church? This is the foundational question for this episode Salty Believer Unscripted. Join Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman as they seek to unpack and answer the question, “What is an office with in the local chu...

On this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Josiah Walker opened the episode with a frustrated question about why the Church is confused by the role of Pastor, women in ministry, offices in the Church, and why the Church seems so broken today. If not the Church as a whole, at least the Church in American seems broken. And if not the Church in American, certainly in the Southern Baptist Conventio...

On this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman discuss 7 warning for Christians as we engage in politics. They specifically looked as these warnings through the lens of specific examples with the recent Republican debate and the Donald Trump interview with Tucker Carlson. How should Christians engage in politics and to what extent? The seeds of this topic come from...