Your Church Friends Podcast

It’s season 3, Villains of the Bible. Forty consecutive days, Goliath came out and challenged the Israelites to battle. Forty consecutive days, he called them out to have one, just one person, any person fight him in a winner take all. Forty consecutive days the fear grew deeper in the hearts of the Israelites. How did this giant put fear in everyone except for David? Your Church Friends have an intriguing conversation about that uncircumcised Philistine, Goliath.
 
Scriptural Reference: 
1 Samuel 17
 
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It’s season 3, Villains of the Bible. King Herod the Great, filled with rage, sent soldiers to kill all boys ages 2 and under in Bethlehem and the surrounding vicinity. His Son, King Herod the tetrarch, made a foolish promise and was forced to behead John the Baptist. Were these horrible actions all about who sits on the throne or the title of king? Your Church Friends have an intriguing conversation about the insecurities of these two kings.
 
Scriptural Reference: Matthew 2:1-16, Matthew 14:1-12, Luke 9:7-9 & Mark 6:14-29 
 
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It’s season 3, Villains of the Bible. Twelve months after his ominous dream, twelve months after Daniels’ warning, King Nebuchadnezzar found himself eating grass like an animal, his hair long, unmanaged and like feathers and his fingernails like claws. Why did it take this much for God to get the attention of this proud King? Your Church Friends have an intriguing conversation about how God had to humble the colossal King Nebuchadnezzar.
 
Scriptural Reference: Daniel 1-4
 
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It’s season 3, Villains of the Bible. Cain lured his brother, Abel, out to the field with anger burning in his heart. When the moment was right and opportunity presented itself, he attacked his brother and killed him. Was this just about a rejected sacrifice or something deeper? Your Church Friends have an intriguing conversation about how Cain’s anger led him the wrong way, the way of Cain.
 
Scriptural References: Genesis 4
 
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It’s season 3, Villains of the Bible. In Samson’s final moments he finds himself in the temple of Dagon, a god of his enemies, the Philistines. Samson reached out and put one hand on one pillar and his other hand on another, pushed with all his might and killed more than a thousand of the Philistines. Consequently, he also lost his life in the process. What led to this tragic end? Pastor Chris Brown from North Coast Church joins Your Church Friends, for an intriguing conversation about how Samson was the ideal idiot, confusing giftedness for Godliness.
 
Link to Pastor Chris Brown Thrive 2019 Message on Samson:
https://youtu.be/lb-C3bJl5zE
 
Scriptural Reference: Judges 13-16
 
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It’s season 3, Villains of the Bible. Judas is infamous for betraying Jesus with a kiss, but there is so much more to his story before that moment in his life. From being chosen by Jesus as one of the twelve disciples who followed Him for 3 years to agreeing to betray Jesus for 30 silver coins and everything between. Your Church Friends have an intriguing conversation about how Judas was so close, yet so far away from knowing Jesus.
 
Scriptural References: 
Mark 3:13-19, John 12:1-8, John 13:26-28, Matt 26:14-16 & 47-50, Acts 1:15-20 & Matt 27:1-13
 
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It's part 2 of the Q & A episode!!! Chris & Muireadhach do their best to provide biblical A's to the rest of the Q's sent to them by the Our Church Friends Audience. They're answering more tough questions like speaking in tongues Heavenly language or known language? Is Heaven real and will we recognize loved ones there? What's the deal with Denominations? Pre, mid or post Tribulation? Is Catholicism and Christianity the same? How do we Evangelize to the new generation full of technology and social media without seeming out of touch? How to deal with "bleh" seasons of faith?
 
Michael Heiser Lessons on the Tribulation
Part 1: https://youtu.be/wsjiuE7FGAk
Part 2: https://youtu.be/GCIed4bk0n8
Part 3: https://youtu.be/MVjZdxPZar4
Part 4: https://youtu.be/rzgWCg26PcA
 
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It’s the final episode of the Our Church Friends season and what better way to end it then with a Q & A episode!!! Chris & Muireadhach do their best to provide biblical A’s to the Q’s sent to them by the Our Church Friends Audience. They're answering tough ones like Did Dinosaurs exist? Should women be Pastors? Should a Christian get a tattoo? Is God absent from hell if he is Omnipresent? Can you be pro-abortion and be a true authentic Christian? Is God Sovereign or Salvation?  
 
Season 3 Coming out in August "Villains of the Bible"
 
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Chris & Muireadhach sit down with special guest and their Church Friend, Michael Baldacci and they discuss How Important is Hope for a Christian? It’s a great conversation that covers the following topics and more. How being thankful effects our hope, an analogy about a boat, the ocean and the anchor, the worlds definition of hope vs a Biblical view of hope, t-shirt ideas, some heresy talk, the hope found in the book of Revelation and the term even if.
 
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Chris & Muireadhach sit down with special guest and their Church Friend, Brian Moore, Pastor of Crosspointe Church and they discuss Compromise in the Christian life? It’s a great conversation that covers the following topics and more. How compromise with life is different from compromise in your spiritual life, how the term disciple changes how you view compromise, how you are going to give up something when you compromise, how chasing the 3 G’s, Gold, Glory & Girls affects you & how dangerous compromise really is.
 
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Chris & Muireadhach sit down with special guest and Church Friend Dewey Jackson and they talk about Celebrate Recovery Ministry. It’s a great conversation that covers What is Celebrate Recovery, who are those people, What is the difference between Celebrate Recovery and AA & NA, being able to share our addictions in church, what it means to have a hurt, habit or hang-up in your life and the role Celebrate Recovery plays at the local church.
 
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Chris & Muireadhach sit down with special guest and Church Friend Ebenezer Chinne and they discuss Trusting God? It’s a great conversation that covers topics having a cell phone without a case, how Job trusted God, how fasting helps us trust God, cheating in High School Spanish, an unexpected UFC fight prediction, a story about Hank the dog & how knowing God is the key to trusting God. Trust God Bro!!! 
 
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Chris sit down with special guest and Church Friend Desiree Plunkett and they talk about Why am I a Christian? It’s a great conversation that covers topics like why Christianity, what led them to Christianity, how our why’s in life can become the idols in our life, trying to eat to much Taco Bell and how that relates to being satisfied in Jesus and how being a follower of Jesus is the only thing that fills the void in our lives.   
 
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Chris & Muireadhach sit down with special guest, their Church Friend and Pastor, Ken Goodban and they discuss How Important is Fellowship. It’s a great conversation that covers how Your Church Friends started and how Ken brought us together, how connecting with others is vital to living, what the pandemic showed us about the need for connecting with others and how Muireadhach made us sad with a story.  
 
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Chris & Muireadhach sit down with special guest Ralph Ruiz and they discuss How Does God Talk to Us. It’s a conversation that started on an airplane and ended as a podcast episode that covers God using signs to talk to us, not all signs are from God, warnings from a dream that prevent a tragic event, how good a listener you are, the importance of highway signs and the distractions of billboards.
 
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Chris sit down with his Church Friend Matt Wilkerson and they discuss What is Worship. It’s a great conversation that covers is worship more than just music, the role our obedience to God plays in our worship, if Matt is a sloppy wet kiss guy or an unforeseen kiss guy and has the world influenced the way worship God.
 
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Chris & Muireadhach sit down with two very special Church Friends, their wives, Justine Archuleta & Delilah Currie and they discuss Popular Christian Catch Phrases. It’s a great conversation that covers some confessions about things our spouses say that get on our nerves, a scary plane ride, the terms doing life together, God bless you and Heaven gained another Angel and understanding that our words should hold value and shouldn’t be said without meaning or just become repetitive things we say because we say them.
 
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Chris & Muireadhach sit down with their Church Friend Pastor Zachariah and they discuss How to View Easter. It’s a great conversation that covers peeps, a quiz, Easter egg hunts, victory marches and what the focal point of Easter should be for the Christian.
 
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Why is the Sermon on the Mount So Important? As a husband, father and pastor how do you apply the Sermon on the Mount to your life? If you can make the Sermon on the Mount a hashtag what would it be? Chris sits down with special guest Mark Clark and they discuss these questions and more on this episode of Your Church Friends.
 
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What are somethings that Christians without a Jewish background miss from the Sermon on the Mount? Do Jesus’ five sermons in the book of Matthew correlate to the 5 books of the law? What is the Yud? Muireadhach sits down with special guest Brittany Tinney and they discuss these questions and more on this episode of Your Church Friends.
 
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