Save My Darlings
I'm the lead pastor of Coast Bible Church in Orange County, CA. In this weekly podcast I talk about the stuff that I think is interesting or theologically pregnant or super complicated but didn’t quite make the weekly sermon. Check us out at coastbible.org!
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Stay in Your Lane (opens the original)
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Part of the secret of enjoying God is, according to Psalm 37, "staying in your lane." Here we parse a bit of controversial Hebrew and show how "farming faithfulness" is essential to being able to "relax and enjoy watching God be God." A very small bit of Hebrew with some HUGE consequences for how we live!
AI Needs You to be Right with God! (opens the original)
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Not sure if this is surprising or not, but one of the things I've learned from working with AI is how much our personal relationship with God, Scripture, and the church will impact our ability to use it safely. In this episode, I break down how AI can be amazingly helpful in our thinking and understanding and at the same time insanely dangerous if we are not deeply embedded in Bible, Grace, and Family.
Life's Not Fair!?! (opens the original)
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My dad used to tell me, "Life's not fair" whenever I complained about not getting what I wanted. Well, God does something similar to Moses in Numbers 20 and it is a doozy. Is God not fair? Is life not fair? What can or should we expect from God? Find out how the Bible thinks about fairness and why.
Living the Contradiction (opens the original)
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When God reveals his nature and character in Exodus 34, he seems to indicate that he is a living contradiction, or at least what appears to be a contradiction to us. He says he's faithful and forgiving to 1,000 generations BUT he doesn't let the guilty off the hook and their children and grandchildren experience the results of their wrongdoing. Which is it? In this episode, we answer, "Yes!" and show how we can imitate an incomprehensible God and "live the contradiction" like he does.
Evangelism a Better Way (opens the original)
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Are there people in your life you wish would come to faith? Do you have a hard time sharing the gospel? Israel's story in Exodus 18 shows the first "convert" to God's Way--and neither Moses nor any other Israelite has to lift a finger to make it happen! Maybe the Bible offers a new pattern for how to "get the word out" that you can try. It all begins with your "personal" relationship with Jesus and the team you have building it. Listen to this quick hit for more!
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