Through the Lens of Christ

On this week's episode, Pastor Adam and Steve Dauster discuss different aspects of Catholicism and how it differs from Evangelical Christianity. Specifically they focus on the difference in confession and repentance. What is the purpose and how should this look in our lives?

On this weeks episode, Pastor Adam and Steve Dauster give a Covid-19 Update. Listen in as they discuss how we love each other well during this time, how they view vaccinations, and what a Christlike response is. Join the conversation!

Join Pastor Adam and Steve Dauster as they sit down with Marc Revoredo this week. Marc has a history with Jehovah's Witnesses from his childhood. Pastor Adam and Steve interview Marc about his experience and how this impacted his now Christian faith. Resource: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin-taylor/the-11-beliefs-you-should-know-about-jehovahs-witnesses-when-they-knock-at-the-...

Pastor Adam and Steve Dauster discuss Christian Education this week. Join us as they discuss how they've chosen to educate their children, why Christian education is important, and more! What is a parents responsibility when it comes to a child's education? Does education stop after you graduate?

Join Pastor Adam and Steve Dauster as they discuss Expressive Individualism. What is this? Are we guilty of this? Do you find yourself placing your identity in yourself or in who Christ has designed you to be? Resources: The Rise & Triumph of the Modern Self: https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Triumph-Modern-Self-Individualism/dp/1433556332/ref =asc_df_1433556332/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=459724...

Join Pastor Adam and Steve Dauster as they dive into a discussion on the equality act. What does this mean? How will this effect our culture and our churches? How do we respond to something like this? Resources:Equality Act:  https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/5Al Mohler: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-briefing-albertmohler-com/id390278738?i=1000511260699Rod Dreher:...

Join Pastor Adam and Steve Dauster as they discuss the different faith families that fall into the "Christian" category. Is Christ at the center of your faith and beliefs? Are you questioning your faith family? Listen in on this conversation!

Join Pastor Adam and Steve Dauster as they share about their experience working in the corporate world. How did they bring Christ into the workplace? What do they wish they had done differently? Does Christ belong in the workplace?

Join Pastor Adam and Steve Dauster this week as they discuss relationships, the difficulty of building relationships in the midst of a pandemic, and the importance and responsibility that the church has to offer opportunities to build relationships! Resource: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/church-small-talk-important/

Join Pastor Adam and Steve today as they discuss how we can cause hurt when we help. What is our responsibility as believers to care for the community? Do we miss out on salvation needs when meeting physical needs? 

Join Pastor Adam and Steve as they discuss the sermon quote "Satan uses our sufferings to destroy our faith, while God uses our sufferings to strengthen our faith". Why do bad things happen to good people? How does this relate to every day life?

Join Pastor Adam and Steve Dauster as they discuss what it means to fear the Lord. Are we called to fear the Lord because he is a tyrannical dictator? Is this to keep us cowering in fear, or is this for our good? Join the conversation!

Join Pastor Adam and Steve Dauster as they discuss the allure of Christian pessimism and our natural bent towards pessimism. Why is it that our instinct is to focus on the negative and how do we refocus where our passions exist? Are we ensuring that our lives are truly bringing glory to God? Resource: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin-wax/the-allure-of-christian-pessimism/

Join Pastor Adam and Steve Dauster as they discuss the topic of Critical Race Theory. Does it exist? Is it good or bad? How do we respond to it and where are we headed? 

Join Pastor Adam and Steve Dauster as they discuss the importance of having difficult conversations and how we accomplish this. Conversation around difficult topics is important in life, especially the lives of believers. Take note on how we can have these conversations while expressing the love and grace of Christ! Resource: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevin-deyoung/come-let-us-reaso...

Join Pastor Adam and Steve Dauster as they wrap up our series on the spiritual disciplines. As we close, let's discuss service and how that should look in our lives. Do salvation and service go hand in hand? How do we identify the fruit of service? Join the conversation!

Join Pastor Adam and Steve Dauster as they begin the last two episodes on the spiritual disciplines. As we continue our intentional growth in this new year, how do we work in the spiritual disciplines? What does healthy submission look like? Who are we called to submit to and how do we do this?

Join Pastor Adam and Steve Dauster on this episode as we continue to speak to the value of privilege of spiritual disciplines. Todays topic is fasting. How does this partner with prayer which we talked about in our last episode? Why do we fast? How do we ensure that our motivation is right in our decision to fast?

Join Pastor Adam and Steve Dauster as they continue through out series on the different spiritual disciplines. Today we unpack the discipline of prayer. What is prayer? Why is it important? When, where, why, and how should we pray? All questions that will be talked through in this episode! 

Tune in today with Pastor Adam and Steve as they continue the discussion on Spiritual Disciplines! We always have access to the spirit, but we are not always filled with the spirit. We need to use meditation as a way of getting rid of the world and self and being filled with who Christ is.

Pastor Adam and Steve Dauster will be starting a series of episodes around different spiritual disciplines as we begin this new year. The spiritual disciplines are really about how do I embrace the gift and joy of Christ in my life now? How do we continue to build muscle memory in our spiritual life? What is the importance of practicing study of scripture?

Pastor Adam and Steve Dauster discuss an article today about how we correctly or incorrectly emulate Christ to the world. How do we self assess and ensure that we are accurately representing the gospel to a lost world? Resource: https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/why-do-they-hate-us?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copy

Join the conversation with Pastor Adam and Steve Dauster as they discuss the difference between persecution and discomfort. Pastor Adam spoke on James 1:2-4 on December 27th. This episode is a follow up conversation on that sermon.

Why is there a strong emotive response from the Christians in regards to the political party? Regardless of who the leader is, that does not change the gospel or who Christ is. We need to be seekers of truth and right now, we are seekers of subjective truth. If we identify with scripture first, then we have something to talk about, but our focus is elsewhere. Resources:https://frenchpress.thedispa...

We received this question this week: "How do I handle family who aren't believers but have kids? I want to give my niece and nephew bibles for Christmas."Pastor Adam and Steve Dauster discuss how we interact with family who are not believers. How do we make sure that we are not causing harm while having good intentions?