The RevCast

Jesus wakes up before everyone, slips off to a deserted place, and basically plays the world's first game of holy hide-and-seek. This week, the RevCast panel resets their space with Mark 1:35-39, the morning Jesus disappeared to pray and came back knowing exactly where to go next, instead of letting the crowd pick for him. Mike, Bri, and Paul get into why physically stepping out of the room ch...

This week on RevCast, special guest Pastor Brandan Robertson, author of  Queer and Christian , pulls up a chair to help us reset the table. Not the furniture, the one in Acts 2 where the early church ate together, shared everything, and somehow grew without a building, a budget, or a single ergonomically hostile pew. We get into who's at the table, who's missing, and why the most church-li...

Brand new series, brand new intro music (kind of sounds like the musical lovechild of The Haunted Mansion and Austin Powers). This week the pastors start  Reset , beginning with the part of the day nobody asked for: the morning. Most people wake up, grab their phones, and start doom-scrolling before their feet hit the floor. Psalm 5 is basically an ancient guy laying it all out before God at sunri...

Brand new series, brand new intro music (kind of sounds like the musical lovechild of The Haunted Mansion and Austin Powers). This week the pastors start  Reset , beginning with the part of the day nobody asked for: the morning. Most people wake up, grab their phones, and start doom-scrolling before their feet hit the floor. Psalm 5 is basically an ancient guy laying it all out before God at sunri...

Pastor Bree takes the wheel this week with a mixtape track she picked herself - Madonna's  Material Girl , Ecclesiastes 2, and a Pentecost that somehow ties it all together. The question on the table: are you owning your stuff, or is it owning you? New episode out now. Tell your friends. Tell your enemies. God loves them too.

Pastor Bree takes the wheel this week with a mixtape track she picked herself - Madonna's  Material Girl , Ecclesiastes 2, and a Pentecost that somehow ties it all together. The question on the table: are you owning your stuff, or is it owning you? New episode out now. Tell your friends. Tell your enemies. God loves them too.

This week on RevCast: Cyndi Lauper, the Woman at the Well, and a theology lesson nobody asked for but everybody needed. New episode out now. 🎙️

What do 40,000 exploding disco records, a White Sox forfeit, Cardinal Crabby Pants, and Ephesians 2 have in common? More than you'd think. This week the RevCast crew digs into Sister Sledge's  We Are Family   and discovers that the same cultural rage that blew a crater in center field in 1979 is still shaping how we treat each other today. Plus: Pastor Steve finally comes clean about somet...

What do 40,000 exploding disco records, a White Sox forfeit, Cardinal Crabby Pants, and Ephesians 2 have in common? More than you'd think. This week the RevCast crew digs into Sister Sledge's  We Are Family   and discovers that the same cultural rage that blew a crater in center field in 1979 is still shaping how we treat each other today. Plus: Pastor Steve finally comes clean about something, th...

This week on RevCast: Cyndi Lauper, the Woman at the Well, and a theology lesson nobody asked for but everybody needed. New episode out now. 🎙️ #RevCast #TrueColors #WomanAtTheWell

🎸  "Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road…"  🎸 This week on the RevCast, the Mixtape series continues with Green Day's "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" - which was always a breakup song, never a graduation song, and somehow ended up playing at every graduation anyway.  Pastors Mike, Bri, Paul, and Jeremy dig into Philippians 3:12-14 and ask the question:  how...

🎸  "Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road…"  🎸 This week on the RevCast, the Mixtape series continues with Green Day's "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" - which was always a breakup song, never a graduation song, and somehow ended up playing at every graduation anyway. Pastors Mike, Bri, Paul, and Jeremy dig into Philippians 3:12-14 and ask the question:  how...

This week on the RevCast, the Pastor's Mixtape series continues with Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror" paired with the story of Zacchaeus — the short, rich, and wildly unpopular tax collector who climbed a tree and got way more than a glimpse of Jesus. Pastors Mike, Jeremy, and Bri dig into what happens when the person nobody sees finally gets noticed. Along the way: camel kisses in Jericho, w...

This week on the RevCast, the Pastor's Mixtape series continues with Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror" paired with the story of Zacchaeus — the short, rich, and wildly unpopular tax collector who climbed a tree and got way more than a glimpse of Jesus. Pastors Mike, Jeremy, and Bri dig into what happens when the person nobody sees finally gets noticed. Along the way: camel kisses in Jericho, w...

This one starts with ice cream, questionable parenting decisions, and bathroom jokes. It ends with Romans 7, existential frustration, and the realization that even the Apostle Paul had no idea what he was doing half the time. If you’ve ever tried to be better and failed by dinner, this episode is for you.

It is Holy Week, so naturally the RevCast goes straight from dance moves to docetism. This episode wrestles with resurrection, mystery, Mary Magdalene, and why John’s Easter story gives you more to sit with than tidy answers. There is bad theology, spooky wind, folded grave clothes, and one big question, what do you do when you go to the tomb looking for answers but only find it full of more quest...

It is Holy Week, so naturally the RevCast goes straight from dance moves to docetism. This episode wrestles with resurrection, mystery, Mary Magdalene, and why John’s Easter story gives you more to sit with than tidy answers. There is bad theology, spooky wind, folded grave clothes, and one big question, what do you do when you go to the tomb looking for answers but only find it full of more quest...

At the cross, Jesus does more than speak his last words. He creates a new family. This episode explores John 19, Michigan Advocacy Day, and why belonging still sits at the center of faith.

At the cross, Jesus does more than speak his last words. He creates a new family. This episode explores John 19, Michigan Advocacy Day, and why belonging still sits at the center of faith.

This week on The RevCast, we focus on Luke 23. Jesus forgiveness in the midst of violence. A deathbed confession and still, grace is given. We talk about forgiveness that does not wait for repentance or apology. We look at what it means to live in real community when people bring conflict, history, and differences with them. If forgiveness sits at the center of the gospel, then it has to shape how...

Welcome to our first video podcast. This is just an experiment but we hope you enjoy the extra medium. This week on The RevCast, we focus on Luke 23. Jesus forgiveness in the midst of violence. A deathbed confession and still, grace is given. We talk about forgiveness that does not wait for repentance or apology. We look at what it means to live in real community when people bring conflict, histor...

Hi Friends, if you want to skip the banter and get right to the Bible stuff, jump ahead to about the 16-minute mark. A broken toilet seat, AI transcripts, and a five-second bleep delay. Just another day on RevCast. But beneath the chaos, the crew wrestles with one of the most unsettling questions in the Passion story: why did the crowd choose Barabbas over Jesus? And what does that choice say abou...

False witnesses. A midnight trial. And Jesus finally says the one thing everyone was waiting for. In Mark’s Passion story, silence suddenly turns into the boldest statement Jesus ever makes: “I am.” This week the RevCast crew wanders through bad courtroom procedure, the messianic secret, why Mark’s Gospel ends so awkwardly, and the uncomfortable question hanging over the church today: What if the...

Why are we talking Palm Sunday so early in Lent? Because the Passion story doesn’t wait politely for Holy Week, and neither do our expectations. In this episode, the crew dives into John 12:12-19 and the triumphal entry from a different angle. What were the crowds expecting when they shouted “Hosanna”? A conquering king? A political liberator? A priestly fixer? And what happens when the Messiah sh...

Pastors Mike, Bri, Paul, and Jeremy are all United Methodist Pastors serving in and around the Grand Rapids Area of Michigan. They gather each week to dig just a bit deeper into the scripture than they could on their own. Each member of the podcast brings their own perspective and together they try to find more depth in their communal understandings. This week the crew wrestles with Jesus’ most un...