Welcome to December! The season of Christmas songs, Christmas lights, Christmas parties, Christmas cookies, Christmas presents, and, of course, Christmas Eve. But the Beyond Sunday Team doesn’t want to take anything for granted, so this month we’re asking, “Is Christmas in the Bible?” The nativity scene? The wise men? The virgin birth? There is plenty about Christmas traditions that have strayed from the original story, so join us as we get back to the Bible and find what we really know about the first Christmas.

Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast and to share it with your friends, families, neighbors, and strangers!

Following Jesus presents all sorts of challenges and it can be helpful to have someone walk with you and provide guidance during difficult moments. In many Christian circles this is known as “accountability.” But what happens when accountability turns into surveillance? Or when love and support turn into guilt and shame? Join the Beyond Sunday Team as they think about the best and worst parts of how Christians do accountability.

Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast and to share it with your friends, families, neighbors, and strangers!

Have you ever felt like you were waiting on God? We discuss what God can teach us in those moments and how waiting can reveal our hearts and strengthen our faith.

Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast and to share it with your friends, families, neighbors, and strangers!

Young adults are expressing more feelings of loneliness than any other generation. In an age where we are constantly connected, what makes us feel so distant from one another? The Beyond Sunday Team is tackling this question and trying to understand how the Church can be a source of connection in an age of loneliness.

Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast and to share it with your friends, families, neighbors, and strangers!

In a follow up to Episode 265 (Who Runs the World?) the Beyond Sunday Team is taking a look at singles in the Church. How has the Church treated them in the past and how can we do better in the future?

Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast and to share it with your friends, families, neighbors, and strangers!

Breaking News: Beyond Sunday has been taken over! This week, join our all female hosting team, with guest host Kat Nazaroff. The team is taking on Proverbs 31 and changing the world all at the same time.

Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast and to share it with your friends, families, neighbors, and strangers!

In the 80s and 90s the Mega Church was on the rise and quickly became the center of Christian life for many in the United States. In recent years, however, these congregations are shrinking. Whether through Covid, tumultuous leadership transitions, or other causes, the Mega Churches that once ruled the Christian landscape are fewer and farther between than they used to be. As we witness this shift, what do we think is next for the Church? This week the Beyond Sunday Team is here to tackle this question and more.

Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast and to share it with your friends, families, neighbors, and strangers!

Every week people file into churches all around the world. Many of these people will be victims of “religious trauma,” that is trauma that occurs specifically through or because of ones religion Tragically, it is often the fault of congregations and congregational leaders that leads to the trauma. So, if the Church is the perpetrator, can it also be a place of healing? Join the Beyond Sunday team as we wrestle with that very questions.

Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast and to share it with your friends, families, neighbors, and strangers!

Looking around the world right now, it probably won’t surprise you that Americans are increasingly less likely to be willing to trust other people. What might surprise you, however, is that this unwillingness to trust increases the more someone attends religious services! Does God want us to distrust others? Or are we making a fatal flaw in how we view our neighbors? Join the Beyond Sunday team as they wrestle with these questions and much more.

It’s October and we’re back in the Bible! This month, Pastor David and Elise take a look at the Bible to see what it has to say about money, generosity, and how God calls us into new things.

Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast and to share it with your friends, families, neighbors, and strangers!

The “Woke Culture” has been getting so much attention lately that it even seems to be showing up in scripture. Pastors across the country are being told that using the words of Jesus in their sermons is “too woke” or “just doesn’t work anymore.” What are pastors, or the Church as a whole, supposed to do when the people in our pews don’t want to hear what Jesus has to say? The Beyond Sunday Team may not have all the answers, but we promise to have some fun while we wrestle with this challenging question.

Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast and to share it with your friends, families, neighbors, and strangers!

The “Woke Culture” has been getting so much attention lately that it even seems to be showing up in scripture. Pastors across the country are being told that using the words of Jesus in their sermons is “too woke” or “just doesn’t work anymore.” What are pastors, or the Church as a whole, supposed to do when the people in our pews don’t want to hear what Jesus has to say? The Beyond Sunday Team may not have all the answers, but we promise to have some fun while we wrestle with this challenging question.

Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast and to share it with your friends, families, neighbors, and strangers!

You know the feeling: your neighbor walks in your front door and you immediately feel that turning in your stomach. “Are they going to notice this ugly paint color? I can’t believe I haven’t replaced these floors yet. I hope they don’t notice that my cabinets are dated!” It’s easy to get wrapped up in what is wrong or missing from your house especially when channels like HGTV put picture perfect homes in front of us all the time. Sometimes, we get so wrapped up that we forget we are still called to share hospitality with others, To welcome them in. To share meals together. To experience God in our midst when others are with us. This week, Pastor David and Pastor Cassandra are tackling the question, “Is HGTV stopping us from welcoming others?”

Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast and to share it with your friends, families, neighbors, and strangers!

“You’ve just got to find a work/life balance.” It’s the advice that is catching fire throughout our culture and for many is another reminder that it must be something in themselves that isn’t right. This week, the Beyond Sunday team is challenging this narrative and instead looking to embrace the natural and created rhythms of our bodies, our lives, and our world.

Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast and to share it with your friends, families, neighbors, and strangers!

You don’t have to look that hard or that far to see that there is a crisis happening among men particularly in the United States. Young men are trying to figure out how to be healthy adults that contribute to society and are ending up lost. Sometimes they wind up in dark corners of the internet where misogyny and hate speech reign; others end up floating through life uncertain what their role is supposed to be.

In part 2 of our two part episode, the Beyond Sunday Team is looking for solutions. How can we find a way forward as people of faith and as a culture?

Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast and to share it with your friends, families, neighbors, and strangers!

You don’t have to look that hard or that far to see that there is a crisis happening among men particularly in the United States. Young men are trying to figure out how to be healthy adults that contribute to society and are ending up lost. Sometimes they wind up in dark corners of the internet where misogyny and hate speech reign; others end up floating through life uncertain what their role is supposed to be.

In part 1 of our two part episode, the Beyond Sunday Team is looking at the crisis. What happened to lead us here and what are the problems we are facing.

Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast and to share it with your friends, families, neighbors, and strangers!

We’re back in the Bible with more from our summer series: Is it in the Bible? On tap for this week’s episode: Purgatory, Dragons, and Guardian Angels. You’ve got questions and we’ve got…well, answers might be a little strong. We hope you enjoy!

Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast and to share it with your friends, families, neighbors, and strangers!

We all carry attitudes with us into the church. Sometimes we’re bubbly and excited and other days…well, we’re maybe not our best selves. But what happens when our attitude starts to harm our spiritual lives and even the spiritual life of our community? The Beyond Sunday Team is taking a close look at the effect cynicism has on our faith and our congregations.

Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast and to share it with your friends, families, neighbors, and strangers!

Conflict can be dangerous in Christiaan circles. Its too easy for us to look at theological issues as more important than people and throw in the towel in relationships when we cant see eye to eye. How can we disagree and still work towards mutual love and respect? The Beyond Sunday team (with guest host Pastor Cassandra) work though ways they’ve experienced conflict and can find ways to pursue reconciliation when we are hurt.

Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast and to share it with your friends, families, neighbors, and strangers!

We’ve all had that moment: We buy the new car and get our first payment only to find an extra $400 charge because we misread the fine print! It’s annoying with a car, but when it comes to faith there shouldn’t be any surprises. This week the Beyond Sunday Team is tackling some truths about Christianity that sometimes get buried by churches but that we think should be right up front.

Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast and to share it with your friends, families, neighbors, and strangers!