THE LINK: Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote

Welcome to THE LINK: Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote! Every month, Dr. Bacote will introduce listeners to ways they can build connections between faith and life in their ministries and personal lives. This month, Dr. Bacote notes the complications with the term "evangelical" while continuing to suggest the usefulness of the label. Romans 12:2 and Philippians 2:12 are text...

Welcome to THE LINK: Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote! Every month, Dr. Bacote will introduce listeners to ways they can build connections between faith and life in their ministries and personal lives. This month Dr. Bacote discusses how the word "evangelical" has been in considerable distress in the last decade and many find it no longer useful. He proposes an alternative...

Welcome to THE LINK: Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote! Every month, Dr. Bacote will introduce listeners to ways they can build connections between faith and life in their ministries and personal lives. This month Dr. Bacote discusses how sometimes Christians are told not to be angry, but this is not what we find in Scripture. In our engagement with all of life, we will encounter som...

Welcome to THE LINK: Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote! Every month, Dr. Bacote will introduce listeners to ways they can build connections between faith and life in their ministries and personal lives. This month Dr. Bacote shares an insight that came to him about the intersection of our path of sanctification and our efforts to live well together. Sometimes, when we have a great vi...

Welcome to THE LINK: Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote! Every month, Dr. Bacote will introduce listeners to ways they can build connections between faith and life in their ministries and personal lives. This month's episode is a tribute to Dr. Bacote's friend and colleague Dr. Daniel Treier, who passed away the Monday before Christmas. He was a great support to Dr. Bacote and...

Welcome to THE LINK: Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote! Every month, Dr. Bacote will introduce listeners to ways they can build connections between faith and life in their ministries and personal lives. This month, Dr. Bacote discusses how we can be committed to God without feeling pressure to commit to advocating for the latest cause, suggesting at least one way forward. There are m...

Welcome to THE LINK: Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote! Every month, Dr. Bacote will introduce listeners to ways they can build connections between faith and life in their ministries and personal lives. This month, Dr. Bacote talks about how we always have to think about the truth of various ways we see resistance to change in the world. Until Jesus returns, no matter how much improv...

Welcome to THE LINK: Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote! Every month, Dr. Bacote will introduce listeners to ways they can build connections between faith and life in their ministries and personal lives. This month, Dr. Bacote talks about how the recent death Charlie Kirk (and similar tragedies) presents us with an opportunity to look at how and why we respond to these events. How do...

Welcome to THE LINK: Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote! Every month, Dr. Bacote will introduce listeners to ways they can build connections between faith and life in their ministries and personal lives. This month, Dr. Bacote talks about how life inevitably disappoints and even brings devastation at times. Cynicism is a common temptation when the world goes wrong for us. Dr. Bacote p...

Welcome to THE LINK: Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote! Every month, Dr. Bacote will introduce listeners to ways they can build connections between faith and life in their ministries and personal lives. This month, Dr. Bacote talks about how July 4th presents an opportunity to reflect on what we do in the face of challenges wherever we are. At some point, even when "our side" is most...

Welcome to THE LINK: Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote! Every month, Dr. Bacote will introduce listeners to ways they can build connections between faith and life in their ministries and personal lives. This month, Dr. Bacote invites us to consider our disposition before God when we are thinking about, asking, or hoping for the world to change. Acts 1:4-8 helps us to look at this. Th...

Welcome to THE LINK: Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote! Every month, Dr. Bacote will introduce listeners to ways they can build connections between faith and life in their ministries and personal lives. This month, Dr. Bacote asks a simple question: who or what is the ultimate authority for the way we conduct our lives in God's world? Using part of the statement about the Bible f...

Welcome to THE LINK - Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote! Every month, Dr. Bacote will introduce listeners to ways they can build connections between faith and life in their ministries and personal lives. This month, Dr. Bacote briefly tells the story of making a documentary about Black evangelicals. This documentary is one part of the big story of God's church. In the Nicene Cree...

Welcome to THE LINK - Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote! Every month, Dr. Bacote will introduce listeners to ways they can build connections between faith and life in their ministries and personal lives. This month, Dr. Bacote invites us to think about the following questions: How do we respond to changing political winds? On the other side of the most recent presidential inauguratio...

Welcome to THE LINK - Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote! Every month, Dr. Bacote will introduce listeners to ways they can build connections between faith and life in their ministries and personal lives. This month's podcast is very brief, offering a word of encouragement from Titus 2:11-14. As we enter the New Year, our great hope gives us reason to pause and make a resolution some...

Welcome to THE LINK - Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote! Every month, Dr. Bacote will introduce listeners to ways they can build connections between faith and life in their ministries and personal lives. This month, Dr. Bacote invites us to learn from Mary, the mother of Jesus. Luke 1:32-33, 38 provides the specific focus on the truth about the everlasting kingdom of the Messiah and...

Welcome to THE LINK - Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote! Every month, Dr. Bacote will introduce listeners to ways they can build connections between faith and life in their ministries and personal lives. This month, Dr. Bacote reflects on how elections present opportunities for us to think about why we have our political priorities and how our beliefs truly operate. The Nicene Creed...

Welcome to THE LINK - Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote! Every month, Dr. Bacote will introduce listeners to ways they can build connections between faith and life in their ministries and personal lives. This month, Dr. Bacote continues his reflections on his summer travels. A story he heard about planting trees in the mountains of South Korea serves as an example of how we can have...

Welcome to THE LINK - Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote! Every month, Dr. Bacote will introduce listeners to ways they can build connections between faith and life in their ministries and personal lives. This month, Dr. Bacote reflects on travel to South Korea and Guatemala and begins considering how it expands perspective on faith and expectations for our life. God's promise to...

Welcome to THE LINK - Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote! Every month, Dr. Bacote will introduce listeners to ways they can build connections between faith and life in their ministries and personal lives. This month, the podcast is brief, but Dr. Bacote considers how the sufferings of Jesus provide a surprising path of growth for us as we contend with uncertainties and distress in the...

Welcome to THE LINK - Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote! Every month, Dr. Bacote will introduce listeners to ways they can build connections between faith and life in their ministries and personal lives. This month, Dr. Bacote offers a few reflections on Christians and deconstruction through the lens of these words from the New City Catechism: "Sanctification means our gradual,...

Welcome to THE LINK - Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote! Every month, Dr. Bacote will introduce listeners to ways they can build connections between faith and life in their ministries and personal lives. This month, Dr. Bacote reflects on suffering and connects it to the suffering of Jesus and the book of 1 Peter. In the Nicene Creed we see the words "he was crucified under Pont...

Welcome to THE LINK - Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote! Every month, Dr. Bacote will introduce listeners to ways they can build connections between faith and life in their ministries and personal lives. This month, Dr. Bacote discusses how there are lots of great causes and important ministries, but no one can do all of them. Our gifts and the help of our community can help us disce...

Welcome to THE LINK - Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote! Every month, Dr. Bacote will introduce listeners to ways they can build connections between faith and life in their ministries and personal lives. This month, Dr. Bacote considers how Easter includes good news for our bodies. These words from John 20:27 are among the texts he considers to help make this point: "Then he sai...

Welcome to THE LINK - Bridging Faith and Life with Dr. Vincent Bacote! Every month, Dr. Bacote will introduce listeners to ways they can build connections between faith and life in their ministries and personal lives. This month, Dr. Bacote looks back at his first job and considers how a healthy curiosity about others can be a gateway to prayer and witness. He connects this to the following statem...