The Monday Christian Podcast

Darryl Dash is author of How to Grow: Applying the Gospel to ALL of Life . He serves as pastor of Liberty Grace Church in Toronto. He is also cofounder of Gospel for Life, and director of Advance Church Planting Institute. He has a Doctor of Ministry degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and has over 25 years of ministry experience. Darryl is married to Charlene, and has two adult child...

Philip Brown serves as the Graduate Program Director and teaches NT Greek and Biblical Hebrew as well as English Bible, Theology, and Homiletics classes at God's Bible School and College in Cincinnati, OH (www.gbs.edu). Philip completed a BA in Ministerial Studies from Hobe Sound Bible College (1993), an MA in Bible (1995) and a PhD in Old Testament Interpretation (2002) from Bob Jones University....

Dr. Christopher Yuan taught the Bible at Moody Bible Institute for over ten years and his speaking ministry on faith and sexuality has reached five continents. He speaks at conferences, on college campuses, and in churches. He has co-authored with his mother their memoir,  Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son’s Journey to God, A Broken Mother’s Search for Hope  (over 100,000 copies sold and n...

Gary is the author of 20 books that together have sold over two million copies, have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and won numerous awards. His writings have established him as a thought-leader in the areas of marriage, parenting, and spiritual formation. His speaking ministry has led him to speak in 49 states and nine different countries, and on numerous national television an...

On this podcast, Dave and Ezra talk about the following points: Being married for 9 and 15 years Vacation Rest Spiritual Growth

Terry Looper is CEO and Founder of Texon LP, a Houston-based energy company that views its core values and employees as the keys to its mission of being the best service provider in its industry. Terry’s passion is to serve as a mentor to fellow business and nonprofit leaders. He has authored a book titled  Sacred Pace  which describes his faith journey and offers a biblical framework fo...

What does it look like to be be the church and why is this important? On this episode, Dave and Ezra share some thoughts on what the church is all about and why being engaged in the church is so important. They bring on Ezra's pastor (Brian Taylor) for ten minutes to share his perspective and then they interview Emily Jones who recently returned from the Sinjar district of Iraq where she served as...

Things We Talked About: Playoff Hockey Covid Cicadas Reflections on Christian Community “Ghosting” people Reconciling and confrontation in the body of Christ Growing in Christ as part of his body Things learned over the past 17 podcast episodes

John Arroyo is a retired Green Beret and US Army Captain (2018.) After serving as a Green Beret in the middle east, based out of Ft. Bragg, NC for fifteen years, he was transferred to Ft. Hood, Texas where he thought he would spend the remainder of his career in safety. But this was not to be and on April 2, 2014 John was shot in the throat at Fort Hood military base near Killeen, Texas by a...

Jami and her husband Brian served several years in Kenya, where God opened their hearts and minds to the Muslim world .  In addition to immersing herself in the local Somali community, Jami also supported those working in closed countries globally and authored stories of God’s redemptive love for Muslims. After returning to the United States, Jami connected with organizations on the forefront...

Dane was called to be the Senior Pastor at Naperville Presbyterian Church (southwest side) in 2020 after being part of the church for 13 years along with his family: his college sweetheart, Stacey, and their five kids, Zach, Nate, Jeremiah, Chloe, and Ben.  Dane is a graduate of Wheaton College (BA), Covenant Theological Seminary (MDiv, ThM), and Wheaton College Graduate School (PhD in New Te...

Dr. HB Charles is the Pastor-Teacher at the  Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church  of Jacksonville and Orange Park, Florida, where he has served since the fall of 2008. He is primarily responsible for preaching-teaching, vision casting, and leadership development – along with all the other tasks that go along with pastoral ministry. Prior to joining the Shiloh Church, he led the  Mt....

Jeff Christopherson is the Executive Director of Church Planting Canada, Co-Founder and Missiologist for Send Institute, a Multiplying Church Catalyst for CNBC, a weekly columnist at Christianity Today's Missio Mondays, a Co-Vocational Pastor for The Sanctuary, and author of his most recent book Venal Dogmata: A Parable of the Future Church . In this episode, Jeff shares some of his church plantin...

In this episode, Justin shares his journey of entering the Navy Seals, his struggle with PTSD, and the ways he is helping others. If you or a friend of yours is struggling with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, this conversation will offer you hope.  ***** Justin Kyle Sheffield was Born on October 30, 1979, in San Angelo, Texas. After high school, Justin followed his dream to become a Navy SEAL...

Tom Doyle fell in love with the Middle East on his first Bible tour of the Holy Land. In 1995 he became an official tour guide for the state of Israel and developed a passion for ministering to the Israeli people, Arabs and Jews alike. Tom and his wife, JoAnn, felt a call from God to full-time ministry there in 2001. In 2017 the Doyles launched Uncharted Ministries, which seeks to  Inspire th...

Dr. Jim Denison is a cultural apologist who helps people respond biblically and redemptively to the vital issues of our day. He is also the co-founder and Chief Vision Officer of the Denison Forum, a Dallas-based nonprofit that comments on current issues through a biblical lens. Every weekday morning, his Daily Article email newsletter reaches more than 240,000 readers, and The Daily Article podca...

Jen Pollock Michel is the award-winning author of Teach Us to Want, Keeping Place, and Surprised by Paradox. She holds a BA in French from Wheaton College and an MA in literature from Northwestern University. An American living in Toronto, Jen is a wife and mother of five. She is the lead editor for Imprint magazine, published by Grace Centre for the Arts, and host of the Englewood Review of Books...

Do you ever struggle to promote your business or brand? Maybe you find it hard to strike a balance between featuring your content or products while keeping your life anchored in God. Terry Whalin is certainly no stranger to marketing. As someone who has over 195k followers on Twitter and the author and editor of over sixty books, Terry understands the importance of promoting material. But in doing...

When Sheila Wray Gregoire, her daughter Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach, and epidemiologist Joanna Sawatsky surveyed more than 20,000 Christian women about their sex lives, marriages, and beliefs about sex and marriage, the To Love, Honor, and Vacuum bloggers never imagined what they’d uncover: that the most popular Christian resources and teachings on bettering sex and marriages were doing more harm...

Do you ever struggle with personal discouragement? What do you do during these seasons? How do you respond? In this episode, Dave and Ezra have a real conversation about this issue and Ezra shares a personal season of depression he went through and how he was able to discover the faithfulness of God in the midst of that time.  If you or someone you know is stuck in a valley of discouragement,...

Craig Denison is the CEO and author of First15 (https://www.first15.org/about-first15/), a daily devotional guiding over a million believers into a fresh experience with God’s presence every day. He writes, speaks, and he and his wife Rachel lead worship to help believers establish a more tangible, meaningful connection with God. You can check out his work by signing up to receive First15 every mo...

Author of the Worship Leader Handbook , worship leader Rod Ellis joins the podcast this week to share some of the key insights he has learned from his dozens of years in pastoral ministry. What makes this conversation so powerful is that it is so practical. Rod shares basic ways that everyday Christians can worship God in their homes, places of work, and church.  For more info on Rod, you can...

Rev. Dr. Tina Pitamber is the Senior Pastor of Solid Rock Community Church of the Nazarene . She feels called to encourage all people to have a deep and passionate relationship with Jesus Christ. Pastor Tina studied at the University of Toronto and obtained her Bachelors of Science Degree. She continued her studies further at Tyndale University College and Seminary and received her Masters of Divi...

It's easy to follow the latest Christian singers, preachers, or apologists and accept what they have to say as gospel truth. But what do we do when people like Ravi Zacharias fall into sin and act in ways that are so harmful to others? On this episode, Dave and Ezra get into how they respond to situations like this.  Helpful links: https://www.rzim.org/read/rzim-updates/board-statement https:...

Bekah Bowman is the author of Can't Steel My Joy: The Journey to Another Kind of Brave and an avid blogger on bekahbowman.com . In this episode, Bekah shares the journey her and Danny (her husband) took together after discovering their oldest child was diagnosed with batten - "The common name for a broad class of rare, fatal, inherited disorders of the nervous system also known as neuronal ceroid...