The Discovery Class

In this episode, pastors Keith Simon and Patrick Miller tackle the complexities of church membership. While many struggle with the church’s imperfections, we must remember that the church isn’t our idea: it was Jesus’s. Warts and all. Jesus established, loves, and died for this community. Exploring biblical metaphors like the family of God and the body of Christ, they redefine membership as a sacr...

In this episode, Keith and Patrick tackle one of life’s biggest questions: is God sovereign over everything? They explore the three pillars of God’s character—His absolute power, infinite wisdom, and perfect love. From ruling over nations to the smallest details of our individual lives, they discuss how God’s plan is comprehensive and unwavering. The episode addresses difficult topics like human r...

In this episode of The Discovery Class podcast, pastor Dave Cover asks how far God’s redemptive work in Christ reaches into the ordinary stuff of this world—work, art, science, business, technology, and the care of creation. Pushing back on the popular “Christian” notion that only faith, family, and friends ultimately matter, he returns to Genesis 1 to show that human beings were created to bear G...

In this episode, pastors Keith Simon and Patrick Miller discuss the difference between Christians who ask “What’s the bare minimum I need to do be saved” and Christians who ask "How can I follow Jesus every day?” Jesus calls us to follow him as citizens of his kingdom. He’s not a cheap ticket to heaven. By examining Jesus’s ethical teachings in the Sermon on the Mount, they show how he targets the...

In this episode of The Discovery Class podcast, pastor Dave Cover unpacks the belief he says shapes everything else in our lives: How we view the Bible. Beginning with C.S. Lewis’s observation that almost everything we believe rests on the testimony of an authority we trust, he makes the case that the New Testament is a credible, eyewitness account of Jesus—written by apostles who carefully preser...

In this episode of The Discovery Class podcast, pastors Keith Simon and Patrick Miller explore a foundational question: What is the gospel? By tracing the biblical narrative from the Old Testament to the Roman world to the modern world, they explain how Jesus fulfills God’s promise to send a saving king. After this they explore the proper response to this good news: not mere belief, but total alle...