Salty Believer Unscripted

Join Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman as they discuss the disaster of pride in ministry. From time to time, pastors, professors, authors, and others get puffed up, even to the point of becoming a donkey. Josiah asked Bryan to interaction with the following Martin Luther quote: "If you are highly pleased when someone praises you in the presence of others; if you perhaps look for praise, and would...

Join Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman as they discuss disaster. Why does the world get so enthralled with disaster? We ask ourselves big questions when disasters happen, and we should, but do we ever take the time to think through the answers? Why are we so intrigued by disasters in the first place? What does the Bible say about disaster. They answer these questions and more in this episode. Copy...

In this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Pastors Shawn Dobbins and Mark Whitaker to talk about the role of the typical parishioner in mission work. How does a church create a heart for mission in the entire church rather than in just a small group of folks? Hebron Baptist Church is doing this well and Shawn and Mark share some of what they are doing with Bryan Catherman. Copyright 2023. For m...

In this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker talk about the ethics of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). This was a hot topic in recent history but Christians have moved on to the next hot topic. Is IFV a good thing, bad thing, or something in between? What about cloning? What happens to the unused embryos? Are Christians even talking about this anymore? Copyright 202...

In this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker interact with a quote from Ray Ortlund about the need and importance of church in hard times. Is church more important in hard times and less important in easy times? Are silly churches unimportant in difficult times? Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBelieve.com.

Join Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker as they discuss the entities of the Southern Baptist Convention. They entities are autonomous and serve or are served by SBC churches. How does this work? What role do the messengers play when it comes to the SBC entities? Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

Join Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker as they discuss LifeWay’s recent claim that everything produced at LifeWay falls within the Baptist Faith and Message and their recent text advertisement for a Pricilla Schier event. Does Schier’s teaching fall squarely in the BFM 2000 or is it more on the fringes, or is it completely outside the bounds? Does LifeWay understand the BFM 2000 differently than t...

In this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman discuss the landmines in the area of end times, and they are plentiful. What is the church? Local church? Is membership biblical? What are Elders and Deacons? Are Elders only male? Has Jesus already come back? What will happen when Jesus comes back? When is Jesus coming back? What is heaven like? What can we expect? Th...

In this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker discuss TULIP and Reformed theology. More specifically, aspect of soteriology, the order of salvation, and how these things impact our theological thinking. Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman discuss their thoughts on the 2023 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting. What did they think where the high points? What were the low points? The SBC sent 70 missionaries into the world. They also clarified who the Bible says is a Pastor. Why did Kevin Ezell dance around that second question? What about Rick Warren and Saddleback. And oh boy, the messengers...

On this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman discuss the controversial issues in the theology of Christ, atonement, and the resurrection. These are complicated matters and it’s helpful to know where the big challenges and difficult topics are found. Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

Join Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman as they discuss the landmines in the theology of sin and the theology of humanity. In this episode, they discuss total depravity, evil, and the purpose of man. Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit saltybeliever.com.

In this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman discuss the landmines in the theology of prayer, angels, demons, and Satan. Where are the debates? What are the commonly held wrong beliefs? Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

What are the landmines in the theology of creation? They are many! They have greatly divided churches. There are even entire ministries dedicated to the issues and landmines in the theology of creation. In this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, the guys discuss all the debates and challenges of the creation account, what the Bible says about it, and the disagreements within the Christian Churc...

In this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman come to realize they can’t cover Systematic Theology as it should be in a 20-minute podcast format. Therefore, they are making a course correction, adjusting now to look at the landmines and the stuff of controversy. Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

What happens when popular Pastors at churches built around their ministries are ready to retire? What if the church is built around a celebrity? Is this the end for the church? How does the next guy step into big shoes? Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

Join Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker as they discuss persuasion with Robert Kinney. Robert is the Director of Ministries with Charles Simeon Trust. He’s also an Anglican minister in Vienna, Austria. He joined us on Salty Believer Unscripted to discuss the necessity of persuasion in preaching. Why is argument and a structure with an argument necessary for any sermon? What are the strengths and we...

Join Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman as they discuss persuasion with Robert Kinney. Robert is the Director of Ministries with Charles Simeon Trust. He’s also an Anglican minister in Vienna, Austria. He joined us on Salty Believer Unscripted to discuss the necessity of persuasion in preaching. Why is argument and a structure with an argument necessary for any sermon? Copyright 2023. For more info...

In this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman discuss a listener’s question about the tension between our political arguments and the gospel. How do we keep the gospel first when the world around us is rallying political arguments in light of tragedy. The context comes on the heals of another school shooting. How should the Christian engage with his or her co-work...

Josiah Walker asked Bryan Catherman about what’s “off” with all these sponsored adds from churches inviting people to church? Is the reason for the local church for Jesus to fix our earthly problems or is there something more? We know about the prosperity gospel about health and wealth, what is the soft prosperity gospel? Is Jesus’ main purpose not about making me happy? Copyright 2023. For more i...

Jeremy Meeks joined Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker to talk about the Chicago Course, a program through the Charles Simeon Trust. What is the Chicago Course? Why enroll in the Chicago course? What if a person can’t pack up and live in Chicago for a year? Jeremy answers these questions and a host of others. Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

In this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Josiah Walker asks Bryan Catherman for a good preaching resource for guys who have preached a few sermons but are ready to start sharpening the peaching saw. He recommends Charles Simeon Trust ( https://simeontrust.org/) and explains how he’s finds it so beneficial to good preaching. Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

Join Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman as they discuss Bryan’s one (or maybe two) recommendations for guys who are called to preach and just getting started. What should he do? Is there a book or class? Where does a guy start? Josiah ask for Bryan’s top recommendation for a guy just getting started. Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

Join Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker as they discuss how to preach the Silent Years. This is a particularly difficult task because it is important but comes from the lack of a Text. Is it possible to preach this section of the biblical narrative? Should we preach it? And if so, how? Copyright 2023.