The Foreign Saint's Podcast

Tough teaching this week on the cost for Joseph and Mary having baby Jesus. Our lives won't be easy as there will be a social cost to anyone who wants to be a Foreign Saint, a follower of Messiah. Additionally, learning from the magi how God deals with people who have no access to the scripture or organized Christianity. Hopefully this blesses you!

Story from Mexico that should embolden us to live hopefully and optimistically as foreigners for the kingdom here in this age! Learn what awaits all of us from our family of faith who suffers and see how the Lord is with them. Keep fighting the good fight and see what your God will do as you endeavor to build the kingdom.

Starting a verse-by-verse teaching through the gospel of Matthew to know Jesus better, confront myths about him, and to understand how Jesus is the literal and thematic subject and fulfilment of the entire bible. This will be a really fun ride. Hopefully you're blessed by it.

I am blessed to be able to have my long-time friend and brother in Christ, Sammy, on the podcast to talk about a church plant he is a part of in Charleston, South Carolina: Harbor City Church. We discuss church planting and he shares about God building his kingdom in that city. Later we talk on John 17 and what it means to know God. For those interested in a local church home visit Harbor City Chu...

The second in an on-going series called "Answering" where I take an entire podcast episode to answer questions and objections to the faith. Be warned, I also strike back with my own questions as well. This episode is for my buddy Zachary and any who has his same objection: that man tampered with the bible unknowingly through bias.

We have returned to the web! Starting a new ongoing series called Answering where I take one entire podcast episode to answer questions, objections, and concerns from Christians and or non-Christians, usually friends in my life who I have conversations with over different social media platforms. I hope to encourage my brothers and sisters in the faith to engage people in love online and in person...

Karai tells the story of God's love rejected by Sodom and Gomorrah. So often the story is only their homosexuality. I do my best to pull the curtain back a bit more on their other sins and show God's loving pursuit of them in Genesis. We ought to learn from their example that God's love is the option to take over predatory covetousness and perverse sexual pleasures. Also, an argument u...

Back to sitting at the feet of the persecuted church. Today we hear the story of a couple in rural Mexico that suffered kidnapping and beatings for their stand for Christ. Are we willing to be ostracized from our culture for the sake of the kingdom? Let God say to you what he will and encourage you in the work he's called you to. Enjoy!

A concept so irritating to the Pharisees that they instantly went into planning mode for how to kill Jesus over it. We forget this to our peril but Jesus littered the Gospels with this teaching. For what reasons do we neglect the justice and love of God? In a few words: greed, wickedness, covetousness. Christ's Kingdom works totally different. Listen in to see how! Enjoy!

The story of a man called by God to live and minister in a mosquito infested part of the world where the very air itself is poisonous. What can we as foreign saints in this world learn from this mans example? A simple lesson; our life is not our own. Karai and Meredith go right at the heart of what keeps many of us from progressing onward into maturity and usefulness in the Kingdom: covetousness....

Karai and Meredith here to talk about Christian maturity as the call of God on each of our lives. Using Job, King Lemuel's mom in the Proverbs, and Paul's letters we prove that God's intention for his people is excellence of moral character that embraces suffering for the sake of the Kingdom. A thunderous pulse check that is much needed in todays lukewarm and fearful Christian culture....

A short meditation on Hell followed up by my most in-depth Gospel presentation yet. Don't let the world lie to you and say that God's love prevents Hell's existence. The truth is quite foreign to this world but man is it so much better. Enjoy and be transformed!

A much needed encouragement in the area of loving our "enemies." It's a command of Christ that brings the teeth and power of the cross into this world in a way that the outside world does not even desire to replicate. Be challenged by the story of a pastor praying for a suicide bomber during service and baptizing him as well as a trip through Matthew and Luke's sermon on the moun...

The Duggars, family behind 21 Kids and Counting, have been the subject of controversy of late due in part to the teaching that the family held to. Karai and Meredith share thoughts on and around the topic of the show and the family. We use the Duggars and Bill Gothards teaching as a case study in two of the prominent dangers of hyper-conservative theology: 1) Believing any earthly might stands a c...

We meditate on the faith displayed by a bible smuggler in India and those who travel long distances to get them. We consider our part to play in the drama of salvation includes giving of what we have to lift struggling saints and I challenge all of us to consider financially supporting some foreign missionary work as responsibly as we're able. Above it all, I challenge us all to get real about...

Coveting is one of those sins that we hear rumor about at most in our day in America. It's quite possible to exist as a Christian for a long time and not hear clear teaching on the danger of coveting. This episode is not an exhaustive study by any means but I hope it turns the light on in all of us to take this sin as the lethal sleeper agent that it is. You want to be usedul in the Kingdom. S...

Building on the apostles teaching from last week we dive into the grace of fellowship. Acts 2 is exegeted to give us a full picture of the sacrificial love we should show to each other in Christ. Reflections on how we dropped the ball on community during COVID. In general, an encouragement to not abandon your family in the faith!

Karai and Meredith begin the first part of a series diving into the means of grace and why a robust Christian life cannot happen apart from these. This episode focuses on encouraging all to devote themselves to learning God's Word from a belief that God is good and that he does good in the world and especially to his people. The foremost good God does for his people being saving us by grace th...

We read the entirety of Dr. King's Letter From a Birmingham Jail to see the power and truth of the Christian worldview that Jesus gives His people. A powerful meditation on the call to action embedded in the Gospel and a look at the persecution Christians faced in the last century in America fighting for justice for the African American.

God provides through WIC and food stamps too and we talk about our experience on WIC and what God taught us in that while challenging the idea of the "welfare queen" that can so often hinder our Kingdom progress. We hope this episode is an encouragement to all to accept the provision of God in and through these government aid programs while also challenging us to take Jesus and Paul at their words...

From bad versions of the bible like the slave bible and we the people bibles to getting to know what the mark of the beast really is we show that lifting the values of your home nation over the values of the Kingdom of God is opposite how we as Christians are called to live. In an idolatrously political climate it can be an unpopular truth to remind ourselves of but if we're going to serve our Kin...

The first of The Foreign Saint's Podcast three episode debut! We share the Gospel, the scandalous grace of God toward all people in all times and reflect on how that contrasts with the earth-kingdom-centric mind. This episode should set the pace for discussions around all the ways the Gospel moves us away from the worlds ways and into the flourishing of the life and freedom of children of God. We...

We talk about our experiences as new parents half-way into our first year. As usual on the Foreign Saints podcast we do our best to be genuine about the difficulties but also the joy and fun that exists in parenting that our American culture doesn't acknowledge. We talk about the different ways motherhood and fatherhood call each of us to lay down our lives already and recognize the truth that eve...