Tattoos & Jesus

Welcome back T&J family! This week we start out with Josh’s latest discovery; he can read. This leads to a discussion on the recent trilogy he read and how we would survive a future event. Marty overanalyzes his approach to survival and Josh dolphins around for a while. We then discuss the role of God in isolated cultures and what finding God might look like if we didn’t have knowledge of Him....

Welcome back T&J fam! We are happy to be back and exited to dive into a new episode. Josh starts off with the recent discovery that you can roast people with Chat GPT. Please try this feature out and let us know how it goes for you. Marty then shares some stores from childhood. Following all that nonsense, we revisit the idea of hell and the process of reconstructing our theology over the past...

Welcome back T&J family! This week we are having a throwback episode. The series we did on hell was well received and really helped us on our theology journey. Many of you are here because of this series while many more have started listening after we went through the topic of hell. Since life has been crazy for both of us, we thought we would republish this episode for those who have never he...

Welcome back T&J fam! On this week's episode we dive into a very sensitive elephant lamp controversy. Marty's co-worker broke his heart and we want to know what our listeners think about Marty's lamp, so go check it out on Facebook or TikTok and let us know what you think. Josh and Marty then discuss Ye's recent Nazi behaviors and how these somehow tie to the president. Then, Josh discusses th...

Welcome back T&J fam! We are excited about this week's episode and welcome our new listeners. Josh start us off by discussing mysteries. If you could know the answer to one mystery, what would you choose? Then, we dive into the idea of abandonment and times it seems God removes His protection from our life and the lives of people in the Bible. Why does he do this and how can our own experience...

Welcome back T&J fam! This week we have a fun show for everyone. Josh starts out by discussing his ability to impersonate the velociraptor. We then discuss Genesis 34 and how much it would have to pay to get circumcised as an adult. Although this leads us down a very unredeemable path, we somehow bring it back to the Charismatic movement. We look at its history, key figures, and criticisms. En...

Welcome back T&J fam! On today’s podcast, Josh and Marty take a deeper look into the psychological world by debating whether narcissism is healthier than learned helplessness. The two discuss environmental influences to determine self-worth and self-esteem. This leads them to tease out the concept of individuality in the realm of identity and self-belief. Or is everything we believe about ours...

Happy New Year and welcome back T&J fam! We hope everyone had a great holiday season and are ready for a great 2025. This week we get back in the swing of things with the first pod of the year. We dive into a conversation about preaching and the role of a pastor's message. Are we supposed to be encouraged, scarred, challenged, or inspired? Does the Bible even talk about preaching? We discuss t...

Welcome to the final episode of 2024! Today we have a special interview with our new friends Katie and Daniel. Following a less than ideal ministry experience, Katie and Daniel have been working to rebuild their faith and make sense of God. In this process, Katie launched a podcast (see below) to expose the toxic cultural patterns of their last ministry. Today, Katie and Daniel join the show to di...

Welcome back T&J family! We hope that you had a great Thanksgiving break and are ready for the end of the year wrap up. We get started by hearing about Marty's attempted hunting trip to Nebraska, which ended up being a 12 state site seeing adventure. Lucky for us, we also get to hear about how this reminds him of an embarrassing bathroom story from college. Josh tries to redeem the episode by...

Welcome back T&J family! We have a special episode for you this week. Aaron Simmons joins us for a wonderful conversation on philosophy, faith, and "becoming a Christian". Aaron is a Professor of Philosophy at Furman University, author, musician, mountain biker, and trout fishing extraordinaire! Raised in the Pentecostal faith by parents who were professors, Aaron learned to appreciate his fai...

Welcome back everyone for anything episode of T&J! This week we discuss the power of choice. How the ability for self-determination is a psychological principle as well as a core spiritual principle. As the episode progresses, Josh and Marty find some areas of theology to disagree on. Let us know what you think and enjoy!

Welcome back everyone for another episode of T&J! This week we discuss the idea of absolute truth and why we, as people and Christians, need to find certainty in the uncertain. We discuss whether absolute truth exists, the "why" of wanting to know the truth, and how fear plays a role in all of it. Ultimately, we land somewhere in the both/and, which is Marty's favorite place to live. By recogn...

Welcome back T&J fam! We have to warn you, this episode does mention suicide so listen with discretion. Nothing is discussed in detail but we want to be sensitive to all our listener's experiences. This week we discuss some of the unwanted outcomes of Reformed Theology. Specifically, so events that happened while Jonathan Edwards, a leader in the reformed movement, was pastor during the Great...

Welcome back everyone for another T&J! We managed to get through hurricane Helene last week and are back on the pod for a great discussion on God and His goodness. We start off the discussion with a coffee review that was provided by a local listener. And let us tell you, if you like good dark roast coffee, this brew if for you! Marty then discusses some recent healthy problems and how it has...

Welcome back T&J fam! This week hear about Josh's recent encounter with Thai food and how he used to scare his friends in a haunted building his family owned. Then we transition to a more serious spirit; the Holy Spirit. We acknowledge how creepy this theology must sound to non-Christians and then discuss the Spirit's role in this world. We wonder if the Holy Spirit might be feminine a...

Welcome back T&J fam! We are sorry for skipping a week, but are back with an episode we are excited to get to you. Today we get real about the process of spiritual growth and the questioning we’ve been going through. Josh opens up about feelings of rejection, which leads Marty to remember some experiences of his own. We then discuss how this has shaped us and our approach to spirituality. Hope...

Welcome back T&J fam! We are back and it is finally fantasy football time! Josh and Marty provide an update on their fantasy football teams that everyone likely does not care about. Then, they discuss AI and how this impacts our faith. They debate whether AI is good for Christianity and if it has a place in preparation and sermon writing. Marty may even make a confession about his own use of A...

Welcome back T&J family! You are in for a treat this week. Josh had an unfortunate experience with a slick shower recently and shares about the tragedy and subsequent injuries. We dive into the difficult topic of prayer to see how prayer even works. Does God answer requests, listen to us, provide miracles, or does it just hit the walls? The guys continue to work through their thoughts on prayers a...

Welcome back T&J fam to the first official day of PSL 2024! This week we dive into a listener request that falls in line with some of our recent discussions. The question is about prayer but also acknowledges the role of Calvinism and Arminianism is this discussion. We decide to tackle this over two episodes, starting with the age old debate between John Calvin vs John Wesley. We walk through...

Welcome back T&J fam! We really appreciate the ongoing listener engagement as we wrestle with difficult concepts found in the Bible. This week is a nice follow up to last week's episode on the Kingdom of God. We are now looking at the Gospel, which means "good news". What is the good news that Jesus preached and what is the good news for us today? How do we find the "both/an...

Welcome back T&J fam! Last week we had a throwback episode (sorry for the early T&J audio) and this week we have a throwback coffee review thanks to a listener in Costa Rica. Shoutout Micah. If you have listened for a while you know we did lots of coffee reviews in the past, so this was a fun flashback to an earlier time of T&J. After the review, we dive into a topic we have danced aro...

Welcome back T&J fam! As you have probably noticed, we have been more hit or miss this summer than we would like. This week is no different, but instead of leaving you hanging, we thought we would do a throwback episode in honor of the Olympics. This was our early on in our T&J journey and it is obvious! You get to hear one of our old coffee reviews and our discussion on sex and the Olympi...

Welcome back to another episode of T&J! This week we go a little off topic compared to where we have been recently. We start with a nice chat about disgusting foods, so get ready to hear Marty vomit into the microphone. Then, we take a hard pivot and answer a question posed to Marty recently: "Do all democrats go to hell?". After we acknowledge the absurdity of the statement, we dive into where th...

Welcome back everyone for another episode of T&J! This week we do a listener prompted podcast. We start with a listener question about what songs we would use to introduce someone to music. Then, we wrestle with a listener question about Jesus being both fully man and fully God. Did He realize He was God as a baby or is it something He realized with time and maturity? This long standing and ho...