TOPIC INDEXMinistry of the Church (19)

  1. Idolatry of Growth with Bob Hiller

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    11/24/23
    5 mins
    By Katie Koplin Gretchen Ronnevik Bob Hiller
    Gretchen and Katie have a conversation with Rev. Bob Hiller about prosperity gospel, and how it sneaks into churches in a way that we start targeting the healthy people, the young families, and those who have something to offer the church.

  2. New Testament Church: Prescriptive or Descriptive?

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    08/11/23
    4 mins
    By Katie Koplin Gretchen Ronnevik
    This episode Gretchen Ronnevik and Katie Koplin discuss Acts 2, where we read about the early church, and how it grew.

  3. The Spirit Never Stops Testifying to Christ: 1 John 5:5-12

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    10/28/22
    13 mins
    By Gretchen Ronnevik
    Through water, blood, and word, the Spirit never stops pointing us to Christ, and even more, giving us Christ.

  4. Listener Q and A

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    08/25/22
    2 mins
    By Katie Koplin Gretchen Ronnevik
    For our 101st episode, we are answering more listener questions, since we received so many.

  5. Sharing the Gospel with Teens

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    06/23/22
    3 mins
    By Katie Koplin Sarah Crowder Gretchen Ronnevik
    We have special guest Sarah Crowder to talk with us about interacting with the teens in our lives--whether our own, in our churches, or neighborhoods--in a way that helps them understand the gospel.

  6. Strategy and Theology

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    02/08/22
    2 mins
    By Katie Koplin Gretchen Ronnevik
    In this episode, Gretchen and Katie discuss their recent interview with Aimee Byrd, and talk about how some of the issue is the "growth mindset" that can sometimes get us targeting certain demographics in order to get your church to grow.

  7. Proclamation, Practicality, and Personalization

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    12/16/21
    1 min
    By Katie Koplin Gretchen Ronnevik
    We are excited to have one of Gretchen's pastors, Rev. Dale Hexum, on this episode to talk more about sermons. We ask him about the preaching philosophy he works within, and what to look for in a sermon.

  8. Pedestals, Personalities, and Nostalgia

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    12/10/21
    2 mins
    By Katie Koplin Gretchen Ronnevik
    We kept Rev. Tim Koch on for one more episode, as we expand the conversation from "what makes a sermon" from last week, to some of the struggles with both pastors and parishioners.

  9. The Sermon as Food

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    12/03/21
    1 min
    By Katie Koplin Gretchen Ronnevik
    In a world where sermons can be downloaded from any church at the touch of a button, it's easy to follow "celebrity pastors" pastors who are outside your denomination, pastors who don't even know you.

  10. The Purpose of the Church

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    10/06/21
    1 min
    By Katie Koplin Gretchen Ronnevik
    In a culture that talks about making everything bigger, better, stronger, and more streamlined, it's easy for the church to get sucked into that discussion. As we think about that discussion, we wanted to give a down home look at what is the purpose or function of the church?

  11. Water and the Word: Baptism

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    07/08/21
    1 min
    By Katie Koplin Gretchen Ronnevik
    In this episode, Gretchen and Katie tackle a question from a listener about baptism. What do we believe? What does it mean? What does it do?

  12. Discontent with the Church

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    06/12/21
    1 min
    By Katie Koplin Gretchen Ronnevik
    We are answering some more listener questions this week, and both questions we answer today revolve around discontent with the church.
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