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They Told Him to Stop Preaching Jesus. What He Wants Every Christian to Know
What if evangelism isn't nearly as intimidating as you've always thought?Jeremy Chong is a church planter in Chicago who has spent years taking the gospel to people on the streets of the city. Along the way, he's had many run ins with th...
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10 Principles for Engaging Cultural Issues
In this episode Pastor Raef provides ten principles for Christians who are looking to engage on the issues that matter with others. Christians often feel stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to speaking up on the issues of our da...
Holy Aggression & the Discipleship of Men
In this episode Pastor Raef discusses the call on a man's life to exert a "Holy Aggression." Men have been told to be "nice" and "passive" for too long. What this typically means is that men fade into the background and never learn to use their...
Responding to Women's Questions - Raef and Sara
In this episode, Pastor Raef and his wife Sara tackle Q&A that came in from Raef's annual Q&A Evening with the women of the Church. Men - don't tune out, as a lot of these questions you will find interesting as well! In this episode we ...
"If You Can Keep It" - America at 250
Happy 250th America! In this episode discuss the greatness of the American Experiment on freedom, and particularly look at the greatest modern threat to America, the loss of virtue and faith. We will evaluate an argument made in Os Guinness's b...