The Living Youth Podcast

The news a couple of weeks ago about the terrible "crowd crush" tragedy in Seoul, South Korea, was heartrending. Several listeners asked us to comment on it, and it is the topic of this week's podcast.

Fresh from his star turn in this year's "Behind the Work" video about the preaching of the Gospel in Africa and our growing band of brothers and sisters there, Mr. Peter Nathan joins us in the podcast studio—a.k.a. Mr. Robinson's office. We hope you enjoy this interview, in which we get a bit of his personal background and how he became involved in the Work in Africa!

We're back after the Feast of Tabernacles and Last Great Day! We thought we'd be easy on ourselves and devote this episode to chatting about experiences and lessons from our Feast. We hope you enjoy the conversation!

Today we address a question from one of our young adult listeners. As the world turns increasingly twisted, there are growing pressures on Christians in the workforce to compromise their values. This listener asks us what choices a young person can make to help prepare for that and, perhaps, to reduce the risk. We take on the question, along with our special guest, Mr. Jonathan McNair, Director of...

The Feast of Trumpets, picturing the events preceding the return of Jesus Christ, is only days away. The days pictured by this festival are  extreme , and it's worth taking the time to think about why they need to be that way. So, let's talk about it.

The death of Queen Elizabeth II should prompt us to consider some very important things regardless of our nationality—including biblical connections that few understand. Her death symbolizes the end of an era in many ways and reminds us of just how different our current era truly is. We hope you enjoy the discussion.

Today on the podcast, we revisit the topic we recorded last time but didn't publish, so we wanted to tilt at it again: Why the Work of preaching the Gospel of God's Kingdom to the world matters . It is essential to living as a Christian, but it's easy to be distracted from that fundamental truth, especially in our youth. Yet embracing that truth and growing to understand how the Wor...

Mr. Mark Sandor continues as guest co-host and takes us on a cost-benefit analysis of sin. It's a lot more interesting than it sounds! Honest! And, in the end, it provides quite a meditation on faith, to boot. Join us!

In this week's podcast, with guest co-host Mr. Mark Sandor, we reflect on our unchurched youth and consider what we know now that we wish we'd known then. We hope you find it profitable!

On today's podcast, we discuss the pressures on boys and girls and on young men and young women to ignore the differences in the two sexes God created and to adopt a confusing, self-destructive worldview. Huge forces in society are seeking to rob from you the joys of embracing the gender God designed you to be. Don't let them do it!

As tired as they may have been having only recently returned, Mr. Gerald Weston and Mr. Jonathan McNair graciously sat down with us for an opportunity to process the 2022 Teen Camp and to talk about what they seek to accomplish with the program. We appreciated their insights and hope that you do, too!

God makes a very strong statement about divorce in Malachi 2:16—He hates it. And when God says something that strongly, it should get our attention. In this episode, we talk about some of the reasons God might feel that way—after all, learning to think like He does is what it's all about.

Who should we date? Who shouldn't we date? The Bible's guidelines aren't arbitrary. They are there to help us flourish in all the ways God wants us to flourish. In this episode, we ask and answer the question, why shouldn't we date "good people" in the world?

Believe it or not, this pair of verses is sometimes brought up as an example of a Bible contradiction. Of course, it is not that at all. Rather, if you allow them to do so, they have some real wisdom to impart, especially in this day and age of social media when the "Leave a comment" button seems oh so tempting...

After a Twitter scuffle on the topic of whether or not Numbers 5 means the Bible is pro-abortion, we thought it would make for a great topic to discuss. Arguments that twist scriptures in the service of social agendas come up all the time, and, frankly, Numbers 5 is a good example of a passage that can make folks who read it think, "What in the world?" But if we approach the Bible in the...

This topic was recommended by a young adult here in Charlotte, and we appreciate it! Our focus is on learning to think biblically, and even the Depp-Heard trial provides an opportunity to do that. We hope it's helpful.

We hear occasionally about Council of Elders meetings in the Living Church of God, and since one of us is on that Council, we thought it might be an interesting opportunity to sit down and chat about what the COE is really like. So we did. Hopefully this will inform your prayers a bit when word of a Council meeting is announced. (And your prayers are greatly appreciated!)

Steve's got a point. Tony's got a point. Both good guys have a point. If you realize that then the conclusion is clear: The world needs Jesus. Give us a listen to find out why.

On this second podcast recorded during Mark Sandor's visit, we spend time reflecting on the U.S. Constitution, our relationship to it as Christians in America, whether "getting back to the Constitution" is really sufficient to save the country, and viewing the freedoms we have through the lens of our responsibilities before God. We hope you enjoy it!

This was a fun Q&A episode featuring a question asked long ago at a teen camp Bible study and sadly ignored by one of us—giving us the opportunity repent! If scientists could create a cud-chewing pig, would it be clean to eat? It's a more interesting question than you might think!