Tim interviewed Ken Fish, founder of Orbis Ministries, to discuss the supernatural aspects of the Christian faith focusing on the spiritual gifts often referred to as the “charismatic gifts of the Spirit.” Tim asks questions about Ken’s personal story, Ken’s view of the supernatural gifts, and the large amount of prophets claiming Trump will ultima…

This week Rob and Tim had the pleasure of having Jemar Tisby on the podcast. Jemar is the New York Times Bestselling author of The Color of Compromise and president of The Witness: A Black Christian Collective where he writes about race, religion, politics, and culture. He is also cohost of the Pass the Mic podcast. Jemar has also just released a n…

This week, we FINALLY had someone on our podcast that has a tie to the coffee industry! Tim interviewed Mitch Reaume, the Founder & CEO of “Fight For Something”. They discussed the idea of “Social Business” and how the mission of Mitch’s business is to see social business go from being a niche to a norm. At some point, business became more about pr…

This week Tim interviews Ben Cremer: native of Boise, ID, Lead Pastor at Euclid Avenue Church of the Nazarene, and co-founder of A Plain Account. Ben is a lover of history (world, American, and church) and the topics covered in this interview have a profound impact on the current events of our world and in our churches. The post Tim referenced at t…

This week Tim and Jordan get together to have a response to the insurrection at the US Capitol and the appearance of Jesus banners and Christian flags during the events. As always, we are mostly concerned with the Christian and Church culture and how we are reflecting Jesus to the world. So you can imagine our dismay when something like the events …

This week Tim and Jordan had John Mark McMillan on the show! He is probably best known for the famous song “How He Loves” but has had a career in music that includes many studio and live albums, countless tours, and a profound impact on music. We discuss the worship music industry, the meaning and understanding of songs, pain, suffering, and mental…

This week the whole CTJ Hosting Crew is back (Tim, Jordan, and Rob) for the final episode of 2020. We wanted to just reflect on this year and recap things we’ve seen, learned, experienced, and even failed at. Join us for a year end recap as we all wave goodbye to 2020. Please follow us: IG: https://www.instagram.com/ctjpodcast/ FB: https://www.face…

BethanyKids is a compassionate Christian mission transforming the lives of African children with surgical conditions and disabilities through pediatric surgery, rehabilitation, public education, spiritual ministry and training health professionals. This week, Tim interviewed Peter Lublink, the Executive Director of BethanyKids. Peter explained what…

This week Tim interviewed Dr. David Gushee and essentially covered two topics including American Evangelicalism and their entanglement with the Republican Party and LGBTQ affirmation and inclusion in the church. Rob and Jordan do join Tim after the interview to briefly discuss their thoughts of the interview. While we understand these are both topi…

This week we (Tim and Rob) had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Randy Richards, known as E. Randolph Richards as an author. Randy has authored and co-authored many books and articles but we concentrate on his two books “Misreading Scripture With Western Eyes” and “Misreading Scripture With Individualist Eyes” in this interview. We discuss how diffe…

This week Tim interviewed Chris Haw, a theology professor at the University of Scranton, speaker, and author of the books From Willow Creek to Sacred Heart (2012) and Jesus for President (2008)–and a forthcoming Monotheism, Intolerance, and the Path to Pluralistic Politics, with Cambridge University Press (2021). He discussed environmentalism, evan…

We have had a busy few weeks behind the scenes trying to get more content together. Tim and I had the opportunity to have Mike on – who manages the Instagram account Christians Who Curse Sometimes. We apologize for some of the audio issues we experienced early in the show but we seemed to get them sorted out during the interview. We had a great tim…

Well 2020 has been an interesting year to say the least, but at least it was an election year to calm things down a bit. In this episode, the whole gang is back on the podcast to discuss the 2020 presidential election, the political divide, Christianity in politics, and more. We do our best to have an open dialogue about all the crazy things going …

This week, Tim and Rob have a conversation surrounding Sean Feucht and his #letusworship movement. While we do discuss Sean and these protest worship services we use this example to talk about how our theology impacts how we live out the Christian faith. We talk about protesting, government restrictions, facemasks, and persecution. Let’s join the c…

We’ve made it to Episode 70, and this week we have our friend Olivia back on the podcast. Tim and Jordan have a conversation with Olivia regarding her experience with John Crist, the Christian comedian. This story leads into the bigger discussion of cancel culture, failure in church leadership, women in the church, and celebrity church culture. Thi…

This is episode #69 and this week we have on special guest Olivia Vinson to discuss the stigma of mental health in Christianity. Olivia presents us with some shocking statistics as we talk through the culture surrounding mental health in Christianity. While we are not experts in this field, we talk through some of the ways Christian culture has fai…

Continuing our series on Racism in the Church – we were so glad to have special guest Dorion Morgan this week. Dorion is a pastor at Restoration Station Christian Fellowship but is also a practicing lawyer so we had him on to discuss his perspective from both a pastor and a lawyer on the racism that is and has been plaguing the US. For most of the …

This week we are starting a series of podcasts dedicated to racism. Honestly, with the events of 2020, we have all been taking a serious look in the mirror and wondering, “how can I do better?” We all agreed that one way would be to start a series on the topic focusing on racism in the church. Where are we? How did we get here? Is there a path forw…

This episode is all about calling out Christianity as a breeding ground for conspiracy theories. Why are we so easily sucked into a mindset of current events that most would label as conspiracy or folklore? Are there legitimate theological reasons or are we just a bunch of whackos that have found each other? We discuss a lot of the current theories…

Here in Episode #64, we are a month into quarantine due to COVID-19, and again we were live on Facebook discussing “Church Essentials.” Considering the changes that have specifically happened to local churches due to the pandemic, we discuss what lessons we should be learning, what changes will continue after the pandemic ends, and how the church m…

Thanks for tuning in to episode #63, where we discuss one of Tim’s favorite topics… President Trump and the Evangelical Right. We first lay the groundwork on where we all fall on the political spectrum and then discuss the evangelical base’s support of President Trump. As Christians we are to hold one another accountable to live a life that is wort…

Episode #62 was another FB Live podcast where we tackled the Christian Response to COVID 19, the Corona Virus. We get into all aspects of this topic including the shift in church culture, who to believe, government distrust, how to appropriately react, what loving your neighbor looks like, and so much more. We are really thankful you are joining us…

This is episode #61, where we had a bit of a new experience. This episode was recorded near the beginning of the Corona Virus pandemic while we were all adjusting to the new normal. How did we decide to fill up some time? By trying something new and going live on Facebook. The topic started as a response to one of Tim’s FB posts about minimum wage …

Thank you to all our current listeners for joining us for our 60th episode – thank you to all our new listeners for joining us this week! This episode we touch on a variety of topics in the news recently including Kanye West converting to Christianity, Francis Chan’s announcement of moving to Asia, John MacArthur’s condemnation of women in leadersh…

This week, on episode #59, we touch on a topic that invades almost every episode of our podcast, the Gospel and Evangelism. The discussion starts as a result of the recent event sponsored by Focus on the Family “Bring your Bible to School Day”. We discuss what the gospel is and what are ways that we are called to preach it. The discussion continues…

In 1997, there was a book that went “viral” in the Christian circles by a young 21 year old single author named Joshua Harris. The book was “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” and brought purity, courtship, and dating to the forefront of many conversations. A lot has happened since 1997, not the least of which is Joshua Harris being one of a growing number o…

Here in Episode #57, we have a bit of a response discussion to a three part series of podcasts on the Cultish show called “Defecting From Bethel” with Lindsay Davis. After we listened to these episodes, we wanted to discuss some of the things said as well as some themes found throughout their discussion with Lindsay. While there is much more that c…

Here in Episode #56, we are closing the 3-part series on Biblical Interpretation. With last week’s episode featuring Dr. John Walton, we wanted to take the time to think through all the information we discussed before taking a final swing at the material. We discuss our own personal growth during this short series, truth, translations, studying, an…

This week, in episode #55, we are continuing a series on Biblical Interpretation and Understanding. On this episode, since we are not “experts,” we are joined by an expert, Dr. John Walton, who is currently a professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College. Our discussion includes the ancient near east, Genesis 1, Biblical literature genres, changes …

This week, in episode #54, we are starting a 3 part series on Biblical Interpretation and Understanding. Now, we realize that none of us are Biblical scholars but we feel that is exactly what our podcast highlights – ordinary people who are seeking to follow Jesus the best that we can everyday. This includes constantly studying the Bible to see how…

This week Tim and Jordan have Sharon on to discuss Christian Grieving. This is one of those topics that is part of the human experience that even the Lord Himself displayed at times (think of Jesus weeping at the tomb of Lazarus in John 11). Dealing with grief is different for everyone so we brought Sharon on to discuss her recent (and still curren…

This week we have a discussion with Pastor Carl Day, who works in the inner city of Philadelphia, PA and Glen Ridge, NJ for Culture Changing Christians Worship Center as well as the President and Founder of the outreach non-profit organization “Culture Changing Christians, Inc.” We had Pastor Carl on to discuss race, reaching those that society has…

We’ve hinted at this topic for a few episodes now and it’s finally here! This week we interview Dr. Leighton Flowers on his journey of leaving Calvinism. Dr. Flowers currently serves as the Director of Evangelism and Apologetics for Texas Baptists, an adjunct professor for Trinity Seminary, and host of Soteriology 101 podcast. Our intention of this…

Well, we reached episode #50! This week we don’t have a guest but we wanted to take the time to discuss the public prayer of Representative Stephanie Borowicz prior to the swearing in of Representative Movita Johnson-Harrell. Of course this prayer leads us into a broader discussion of the gospel and the appropriate means of communicating it as well…

This week we have guest Matt Taylor on to discuss Israel. Matt is currently in the military but also started a drone cinematography business and was part of the filming crew of a project called Covenant and Controversy. With Matt’s experience of being in the middle east for filming and seeing the current status of the conflict first hand we had him…

Welcome to Episode #48, where we have guest Erica Renaud on to join the conversation on an article that lays out several cliché and misleading phrases about marriage life (including Happy Wife, Happy Life). We use the article as a spring board for conversation about marriage, gender roles and distinctions, leadership, and the practicality of living…

We are about two weeks into the Lenten season this year so this week we have Paul Gutaker back on the show to discuss Lent. We wanted to talk about what it is, what is the purpose, what should we do, and the application personally and corporately in the church. As always, we find ourselves talking about a lot of the surrounding issues but discover …

We are going Catholic! Well, not really us… we have Russ Wills on to discuss his experience in going from the Protestant Evangelical side of Christianity to Catholicism (aka the Dark Side). We wanted to get his perspective on the “deal breakers” that most evangelicals are taught against Catholicism and see what we can learn. While we hadn’t the tim…

Sabbath for Christians?!? This week we cover the topic of Sabbath in the believer’s life. We try to answer the question, could the intention of Sabbath in the OT law have application to believers living today in a post Jesus age? We have a special guest, Paul Gutaker, on this episode to aid the discussion of developing a mindset that looks back to …

Here we are in Episode #44, about to get ourselves in trouble. We decided to take on some recent viral news, the Gillette ad. While our segway story left a bit to be desired our purpose in talking about this topic is start the discussion of where toxic masculinity comes from, dispel any rumor that the Bible is to blame, and encourage all of us to b…

We have recently been introduced to a theology called “The Divine Council” to explain God’s hosts of heavens that were created to rule on His behalf. We decided to have an introductory discussion on the concept of “God” in the Bible and the groundwork for the Divine Council worldview. We will say over and over that we are not biblical scholars but …

This is the second half of our discussion about Christians changing views throughout our lives. We continue the topic and talk about maturity in our faith and how maturity lends itself into growing past some views while becoming more firm in others. The challenge to each of us is to focus on the commands of scripture and how to apply them to every …

When we are new Christians, we develop absolutes as to what we think is 100% right and 100% wrong rather quickly. Without a doubt, some truths in the Bible are very clear and remain this way throughout life. What we discuss in this podcast are perhaps some of the “secondary truths” that as we mature, we learn more about grace and have an open mind …

This is the second episode of a two part series on doubt in the Christian’s life. In this episode we begin to dissect how to address doubt and fuel the growth that should come along with it! Have you ever struggled with doubt as a follower of Jesus and couldn’t understand why or how to even deal with it? Perhaps you have asked yourself “What happen…

Have you ever struggled with doubt as a follower of Jesus and couldn’t understand why or how to even deal with it? Perhaps you have asked yourself “What happens when a Christian doubts?” Let us be the first to say, you are not alone! We have struggled with everything from “Is there even a God, really” to “Is living a moral life really worth it?” An…

This is episode #38, and is the first time where we get so derailed from the Christian in the News segment that it overtakes the whole podcast. We discuss Christianity and the local church model and how history gives us some insight into current practices. We will look to turn this into a much deeper discussion in the future but we hope you enjoy t…

How has Social Media impacted the world? What about the individual? What about the Christian? What about the Church? These are the questions we will seek to answer on this series of podcasts about the Impact of Social Media. In Part 2 we wrap up talking about the impact of Social Media on Christians as individuals and spend most of the episode disc…

How has Social Media impacted the world? What about the individual? What about the Christian? What about the Church? These are the questions we will seek to answer on this series of podcasts about the Impact of Social Media. Part 1 will mainly focus on society as a whole down to the individual and then start to cross over to how it has impacted Chr…

One episode just wasn’t enough to cover the huge topic of Anxiety – if you didn’t catch the first episode check that out here (Episode 34). This episode, Jordan joins Tim and Rob to further the discussion about anxiety. We touch on Tim’s experiences and realizations after the last episode especially focusing in on spiritual mediocrity and how lazy …

This week is a special episode with Rob and Tim where Tim shares his personal experience over the last few months with anxiety. He felt it was important to share his story, lessons learned, and empathize with any listeners who struggle with anxiety. We talk through some of the stigmas, the insecurities, how social media influences it, and many othe…