Podcasts Featured The Diversity of The Church as Blessing and Sanctification with David Bailey This is the first episode of the first episode of Season 4 - Election 2024: The Church and the Public Square.
Presence Weekly 9/16/2024, "The Paradox of Our Identity" Because we are elect exiles, we can live in our current cultural moment and every other moment as people who are valued, loved, and forgiven.
PastorsBriefing Featured Pastor's Briefing: The Eschatological Presidential Debate Christians are called to listen differently. We are called to evaluate the policy positions proposed by each candidate through the Biblical criteria of Christ’s eschatological initiative articulated in his statement, “Behold, I am Making All Things New.”
Presence Weekly 9/09/2024, "Maintaining Unity through Diversity" For Christians serving and leading in the public square, embracing the diversity of Christ’s body, and seeking to maintain the unity of the church will undoubtedly offer foretastes of the coming kingdom to all who witness this gospel-centered love.
Featured Presence Weekly 9/02/2024, "Character and Unity" By displaying character in our service and leadership of the local church and in our vocations (both are acts of worship), we promote the truth that equality of opportunity, flourishing, and justice are the full implications of the gospel.
Featured Presence Weekly 8/26/2024 - Maintaining Unity Through Service When we fracture and fight amongst ourselves, that disunity plays out in the public square. How can we expect unity in the public square when the church’s primary offering is factions and infighting?
Featured Presence Weekly 8/19/2024 - The Search for Significance But the gospel sets us free from that lie. Through the gospel, we can move from dependence on ourselves to dependence upon God. While our efforts and work are essential, they are only truly meaningful and worshipful as we are dependent on God. Psalm 127 calls us to see that reality.
PastorsBriefing Featured Pastor's Briefing: The Legality of Homelessness For some workers, that could mean reassignment, as regulations that agencies enforce could be drastically altered. For constituents, it could mean the loss or restoration of much-needed support.
Presence Weekly 8/12/2024 - Offering Forgiveness In the public square, offering forgiveness, even when it has not been asked for, relieves us from the burden of plotting our revenge or the demise of the one who hurt us.
Presence Weekly 8/05/2024 - Receiving Forgiveness The public square has a way of convincing us that the public is the only audience that matters, and the only forgiveness needed is from the public. But that is rarely the case.
PastorsBriefing Featured Pastor's Briefing: Loper-Bright and the Chevron Deference For some workers, that could mean reassignment, as regulations that agencies enforce could be drastically altered. For constituents, it could mean the loss or restoration of much-needed support.
Featured Presence Weekly 7/29/2024: The Process of Forgiveness (Part 1) When confronted with the reality of our transgression, some of us minimize, because we have a big view of ourselves and a low view of others. We do so by saying, “It’s not that big of a deal.”
Featured Presence Weekly 7/22/2024 - “Honoring the President” For Christians of either party, the one response of which we should be most cautious of is sinful and dishonoring rhetoric.
Featured Presence Weekly 7/15/2024 Much depends on our disposition. Lately, it seems like we are an angry nation. We are angry about certain policies. We are angry about the people who support certain policies. We are angry that people do not agree with us.
Featured Presence Weekly 7/08/2024 Whatever the case, when conflict exists, our joy is diminished—and not only our joy but also the joy of those around us. We were created by God to live in community, and yet, because of the fall, community life brings conflict.
Featured Presence Weekly 7/01/2024 While participating in Christ's mission of making all things new applies to all Christians, those working in Washington and the greater public square are uniquely positioned by God to seek the welfare of their neighbor.
PastorsBriefing Pastor's Briefing: The Presidential Debate Christians are called to listen differently. We are called to evaluate the policy positions proposed by each candidate through the Biblical criteria of Christ’s eschatological initiative articulated in his statement, “Behold, I am Making All Things New.”
Featured Presence Weekly 6/24/2024 The costs of pursuing the measures of success in the public square are high and often come with long-term interest payments. But there is another option - purchasing what you need from Christ.
Podcasts Featured "Claiming the Courageous Middle," with Dr. Shirley Mullen Greetings and welcome to another episode of the Faithful Presence Podcast! We are especially pleased to have our newest subscribers from last week's EPC General Assembly in Memphis!
Presence Weekly 6/17/2024 That is Christ’s assessment of the church. Imagine if this was the kind of information Communications Directors offered - accurate assessments of their employer.
Members only Podcasts Featured The Faithful Presence Podcast: Culture, Vocation, and Bioethics with Dr. Luke Bobo
PastorsBriefing Featured Pastor's Briefing The implications of underreporting maltreatment deaths of children include: less funding for detection training and intervention services, decreased public awareness of a serious problem, and continued maltreatment and deaths of thousands of children each year.
Presence Weekly 6/10/2024 Increasingly, The United States no longer holds Christian ideals as foundational or even beneficial. Christianity is no longer in a place of cultural ‘power.’ That can make many of us feel weak, and therefore insecure.
Members only Premium Podcasts Featured The Faithful Presence Podcast: "Questioning Faith," with Dr. Randy Newman
Featured Presence Weekly 6/03/2024 Today, we live in an age where we look to science and politicians to answer and remove so much of our uncertainty because removing uncertainty increases our feeling of security.