The truncated gospel versus the holistic gospel, Part 1. Many pastors, including myself, were trained in seminary that we had to “preach the gospel.” What was it we were to preach? That Jesus Christ died on the cross to save you from sin and give you the hope of heaven. We were taught that this is the simple gospel, the “good news” for each individual. No matter whatever else we preached, we had to boil it all back down to... Read more
Matthew Soerens and his co-authors say that by learning from the global church and marginalized voices, we can return to our roots of being kingdom-focused – loving our neighbor and giving of ourselves in missional service to the world. Scroll down to read the episode description. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app: Episode Description Does the American evangelical church need a wake-up call? Have we become unaware of our blind spots? Our guest on this episode is Matthew Soerens.... Read more
Are feelings just the caboose? I became a Christian in the late 1980s. At a very early stage of my faith, I was trained in doing evangelism with the “Four Spiritual Laws” from Campus Crusade. To this day, Cru is using this tool to great effect in reaching people for Jesus. The little yellow booklet that I was so familiar with had a page in the back that had a train illustration. After someone had received Jesus by faith, there... Read more
The authors of A Christian Field Guide to Technology for Engineers and Designers (IVP Academic, 2022) share their insights. Listen to the podcast on your favorite app Episode Description For Christians who work in engineering and developing technology, it’s not always clear how their faith and work integrate. How can designing and using technology actually be a way of loving God and our neighbors? On this episode, we interview three veteran engineers to understand how that particular vocation can be... Read more
Listen to the podcast on your favorite app Episode Description There is a crisis of knowledge that we are all experiencing. It seems that nobody trusts what anybody else is saying. In politics and in the media, on social networks, there has been an increasing inability to discern truth. What causes us to explore conspiracy theories? How can we know when someone is telling a half-truth for political ends? What is the way forward for Christians as we try to... Read more
We are pressured to make grand New Year’s Resolutions. But does God want us to worry about accomplishing big things or does he want us to be faithful in small things? We don’t have one grand calling that God wants us to somehow discover (as if God has hidden from us that one thing that he wants us to do with our lives and we fail if we can’t figure it out). We only have the many callings laid out... Read more
Listen to the podcast on your favorite app Episode Description You’re not supposed to “let God take control” of your life and work. You’re not supposed to “hear God’s voice in your heart.” And, you’re not supposed to be guided by God’s Holy Spirit by inner feelings of peace, intuitions, or impressions. These are three things believers have recently come to believe as being essential to being Christian. But according to our guest Phillip Cary, they are not found in... Read more
Denise Lee Yohn is a keynote speaker, consultant, and writer on brand leadership. She has led seminars at such places as Facebook, Lexus, the NFL, and more. When she started her professional career, Denise also became a Christ-follower — and ever since then, she’s been passionate about reintegrating faith and work. She is the director of the Faith & Work Journey, a spiritual formation and professional development experience. She founded the Marketplace Ministry at Harbor Church in San Diego and... Read more
Listen to the podcast on your favorite app Episode Description We live in a culture infatuated with celebrity, which has infiltrated the evangelical Christian church. We look to Christian celebrities and cultural strongmen for leadership and validation. And we have seen many celebrity pastors, ministry leaders, and cultural icons fall from their lofty celebrity platforms because they didn’t have the needed spiritual maturity or accountability. On this episode of the Reintegrate Podcast, we are honored to have award-winning journalist Katelyn... Read more
Listen to the podcast on your favorite app Episode Description In his latest book, Seven Things I Wish Christians Knew about the Bible (Zondervan, 2021), Dr. Michael F. Bird writes, “One of the biggest challenges for the church today is not the erosion of inerrancy among millennial Christians; more seriously, it is whether the Bible is in any sense authoritative at all.” It seems that if people are willing to accept that the Bible has something to say, it has... Read more
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