The Disruptive Disciple with Pastor Brandon | A Podcast for the Unpoliticized Church

Are we still sweating over an old system… while missing the One who fulfilled it? It's less about rule-keeping. And more about following Jesus. Sin still matters—but not as a scoreboard. It matters because it shapes our relationship with Him. and the life He’s calling us into.

We’ve turned abortion into the ace card of Christian conversations—the one issue that shuts everything else down. But what happens when “pro-life” stops at birth? In this episode, we wrestle with the tension between conviction and consistency, exposing how a single-issue faith can excuse everything else—and what it looks like to actually see life the way Jesus does.

Palm Sunday wasn’t just a celebration—it was a misunderstanding. The crowd welcomed Jesus like a king… but not the kind of King He actually was. Within days, that same energy would turn into rejection. Why? Because Jesus didn’t fit their expectations. In this episode, we unpack the deeper meaning of Palm Sunday, the symbolism behind the palms, and what it reveals about our tendency to reshape Jesu...

“Love the sinner, hate the sin.” It sounds spiritual. Balanced. Mature. It’s also not in the Bible. In this episode, Brandon and Shay pull apart one of Christianity’s favorite slogans and ask a hard question: when we say we “ hate the sin, ” why does it so often feel like we’re hating the person? From Saint Augustine to Sir Mix-A-Lot (yes, really), this conversation moves from church history to cu...

In Episode 1, Brandon and Shay introduce the heartbeat behind the show: making Christianity about Jesus again — not politics, not culture wars, not religious performance. From Baptist upbringing and ’80s music tension to ministry burnout, church-machine fatigue, and the unexpected rise of a wildly diverse online community, this episode sets the tone. Expect humor, honesty, and conversations that r...