King & Culture

Seth and Luke discuss how God is not a polygamist — he only has one bride — but because of consumerism and insecurity, Christians are tempted not to functionally believe that.

The Third Commandment means more than not using God's name to swear. Seth and Luke explore how common and easy it is to take the Lord's name in vain. They talk about acting like God can be magically controlled, the "flags" we fly to show the world our identity, our tendency to use God to excuse what we just want to do, and more. 

"Salvation" is a word that seems like just a churchy, religious word — but we see the concept of salvation at work all around us. Luke and Seth explore this countercultural conviction around salvation, noting that the broader culture struggles with God's wrath while Christians often struggle with God's sovereignty. They talk about why God's sovereignty matters and get to the core thing we have to...

Luke and guest Matthew Braselton sit down to discuss the Countercultural Convictions series message on "Generosity." They talk about the tension between generosity and wise stewardship, how suffering provides opportunities for generosity, how to discern what to invest in, and the importance of being able to receive generosity. Watch or listen to the related sermon. Explore additional resources on...

In today's episode, Luke Simmons and Mark Andress dive deeper into our Countercultural Convictions series with the topic of The Vulnerable; What does The Bible say? How would we respond? And why is this topic countercultural? We will see you next week with another epsiode.

This week, we continue through our Countercultural Convictions series with the topic of Sex & Sexuality. As we say a lot around here at Redemption Gateway, "May this begin the conversation, not end it" and that is our heart with this series and this topic specifically. Here, Luke Simmons and Seth Troutt dive deeper into this topic of Sex & Sexuality, what our current cultural moment has to...

Luke and Seth continue to unpack the Countercultural Convictions series, talking about the second sermon in the series where Seth dives into the bible's claims on gender, the human body, where we stand on current cultural views on gender identity and sexuality. 

Luke and Seth go behind the scenes of the first sermon in the Countercultural Convictions series, talking about some of what didn’t make it into the sermon and tensions to manage when it comes to engaging culture.

WE'RE BACK! Today, we ask the question, "Does social media really bring us closer together?" As we look at our current cultural moment, social media is a dominant aspect in most of our daily lives. We want to observe and dissect the good, the bad, and what the Bible says about how we interact with each other Thank you so much for listening, we hope you enjoyed this episode.

This episode continues our dive into Seth Troutt's dissertation. We look at our evolving relationship with technology and how the Bible offers us a framework on how to deal with this relationship. We hope you enjoy this episode!

Seth and Luke discuss part one of Seth’s dissertation including issues like transhumanism, Queer Theory, and “Online Church.

In this episode, Seth Troutt and Luke Simmons discuss the topic of deconstruction; what it means for culture, how can we interact with deconstruction, and what the Bible says about the way we think through theology. We hope you enjoy this episode!

Continuing this mini-series on the sacraments, Seth Troutt and Luke Simmons dive into the topic of the Lord's Supper, the persecutions against the early Church, and the multi-faceted gem that is communion. We hope you enjoy this episode and share this with someone you believe will find value in it. See you next time. 

You might've read the title of the episode going, "There is no way this has anything to do with the bible." In this episode, however, we are looking at some key chapters in Leviticus that give us a foreshadow of our relationship with God now, furthering our understanding of baptism. We hope you enjoy this episode, we will see you next time. 

We explore the difference between contract and covenant and what The Bible says about our covenant relationship with God, the local church, and each other. 

How does God plan to handle the problems on earth? Luke Seth and Matthew discuss various ways of thinking about the ultimate fate of evil and social evil.

We kick off Season 2 of King and Culture by answering the question that usually comes with a multitude of answers: What is the world's biggest problem? In this episode, we give one answer to this question... just one. We hope you enjoy this episode!

In this episode of our mini-series on Evaluating Cultures, Luke and Seth discuss The Mark of the Beast: what The bible says, what The Bible doesn't say, and what areas of culture possess the "Mark of The Beast". This episode looks at our culture through the lens of the bible and the desire to evaluate what aspects of culture are pulling our attention away from Jesus. 

In this mini-series on Evaluating Cultures, we look at Genisis as a case study of a biblical example for evaluating cultures.  Shownotes: *DISCLAIMER* This website is a pro-LGBTQ site and does not support the overall mission statement of this organization. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the long history of same-sex relationships: https://gayety.co/the-truth-about-being-gay-in-ancien...

Seth Troutt and Luke Simmons start a new mini-series on "Evaluating Cultures". In this first episode, Seth talks through the root word "cult" and expands upon the mainstream definition, discusses the real-world effects that culture has on us, and what The Bible has to say about culture starting all the way from Genisis 1. 

In this episode, Luke Simmons and Seth Troutt dive deep into some of the schools to the thought behind what it means to know one's self, what does the world have to say about self-awareness, and what The Bible says about who we are and how God made us. 

Continuing this mini-series on Knowledge, we discuss knowledge of the world around us. This episode will cover a cultural view of the world around us, a biblical view of the world, and then go over some case-studies that exemplify those two views. 

Seth Troutt and Luke Simmons discuss The Knowledge of God. Where does knowledge come from? Why is knowledge important? And what are the different kinds of knowledge? These are some of the questions that will be discussed in this episode.