The Zeitcast with Jonathan Martin

We couldn’t think of anybody better to help us break down all the news surrounding COVID-19 than Mike McHargue, aka Science Mike. He helps us process the news we are hearing intellectually and emotionally, sorting through what we have heard from the administration this week, and giving those of us who are people of faith resources to reflect on what our moral imperative is to respond to what is happening in the world. Part 1 of 2. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sonofapreacherman/ Visit Jonathan's Website: http://www.jonathanmartinwords.com/ Watch The Zeitcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdHzTuNKhTK-AZjfmkxQiww Please rate, review, share, and subscribe! Edited and produced by Reese Black

Can you trust yourself? Can you trust your deepest desires? On today’s Zeitcast, we talk with Glennon Doyle about her new book, “Untamed”. She is the author of the #1 NY Times bestseller “Love Warrior”, as well as the NY Times bestseller "Carry On, Warrior”. An activist, speaker, and thought leader, she is also the founder and president of Together Rising, an all-women led nonprofit organization that has revolutionized grassroots philanthropy—raising over $20 million for women, families, and children in crisis, with a most frequent donation of $25. Glennon was named among the Oprah Winfrey Network’s inaugural group as one of one hundred “awakened leaders who are using their voices and talent to elevate humanity.” She lives in Florida with her wife and three children. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sonofapreacherman/ Visit Jonathan's Website: http://www.jonathanmartinwords.com/ Watch The Zeitcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdHzTuNKhTK-AZjfmkxQiww Please rate, review, share, and subscribe! Edited and produced by Reese Black

With the world as we have known it shutting down, as in any time of pain, disorientation, conflict, trauma…we veer back toward bad ideas about God and how the universe works. As they asked Jesus, “Who sinned, this man or his parents?” The truth is, what is happening now is an invitation to abandon all such toxic ideas about God and the world God created, and to step into a different way of seeing. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sonofapreacherman/ Visit Jonathan's Website: http://www.jonathanmartinwords.com/ Watch The Zeitcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdHzTuNKhTK-AZjfmkxQiww Please rate, review, share, and subscribe! Edited and produced by Reese Black

The conversation between Jesus and the woman at the well is the longest recorded conversation between him and anyone in the New Testament. Her whole story is, “I met a man who told me everything I had ever done.” And yet—this was good news! In a time when so many folks feel cut off, isolated, unknown…I hope the fact that you are fully seen and fully known could seem like good news to you, too. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sonofapreacherman/ Visit Jonathan's Website: http://www.jonathanmartinwords.com/ Watch The Zeitcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdHzTuNKhTK-AZjfmkxQiww Please rate, review, share, and subscribe! Edited and produced by Reese Black

Hell, judgement, inclusion…these are some of the thorniest issues in Christian tradition, and we couldn’t think of a better guide than Brad Jersak. In this episode, Brad explains why he’s hopeful that God will reconcile all people, but does not identify as a universalist, what’s wrong with the doctrine of eternal conscious torment, and much, much, more! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sonofapreacherman/ Visit Jonathan's Website: http://www.jonathanmartinwords.com/ Watch The Zeitcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdHzTuNKhTK-AZjfmkxQiww Please rate, review, share, and subscribe! Edited and produced by Reese Black

On today’s episode, Jonathan talks all about COVID-19. There are all these wonderful Scriptures telling us not to be afraid, but does that mean we are being unfaithful if we are in a time like this? What is responding out of “fear” vs. responding in “faith?” Plus, straight talk on the idea that the Coronavirus is a media hoax, and Jonathan shares frustration that vulnerable people connected to our own community have no access to testing. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sonofapreacherman/ Visit Jonathan's Website: http://www.jonathanmartinwords.com/ Watch The Zeitcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdHzTuNKhTK-AZjfmkxQiww Please rate, review, share, and subscribe! Edited and produced by Reese Black

Why did Jesus have to die? What do we make of a word like “atonement,” or of the prophet Isaiah’s phrase, “stricken by God?” Is the notion that Jesus died as a substitute to take on his Abba’s wrath for us really the most faithful way to speak about the cross? We explore all these questions and more in what also turned out to be a deeply prayerful, immersive experience of the love of God led by our friend Dr. Brad Jersak. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sonofapreacherman/ Visit Jonathan's Website: http://www.jonathanmartinwords.com/ Watch The Zeitcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdHzTuNKhTK-AZjfmkxQiww Please rate, review, share, and subscribe! Edited and produced by Reese Black

You may feel like you are in a wilderness of your own choosing, or that some evil force has coerced you there. But it is in fact the Spirit that draws us out into the wilderness, over and over again. We never graduate from it. We never escape it. When we get here, we are always confronted with the same temptations: to resolve the tension prematurely, “take the Bible literally” (turning timeless truth into trivial bumper stickers), or sell our soul for influence. But there aren’t just devils waiting for us in the wilderness—there are angels waiting to minister to us, too.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sonofapreacherman/ Visit Jonathan's Website: http://www.jonathanmartinwords.com/ Watch The Zeitcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdHzTuNKhTK-AZjfmkxQiww Please rate, review, share, and subscribe!Edited and produced by Reese Black

In this special edition of the Zeitcast, Malika Cox and Jordan Jackson join us to present a unique presentation of the story of God, the story of the garden—your story, all of our stories. There is a choice we all must make between two trees, one of toxic religion, and one of freedom. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sonofapreacherman/ Visit Jonathan's Website: http://www.jonathanmartinwords.com/ Watch The Zeitcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdHzTuNKhTK-AZjfmkxQiww Please rate, review, share, and subscribe! Edited and produced by Reese Black

We spend much of our lives in relative darkness. But then there are these moments of illumination, where we are really able to see—where the world lights up. And when we catch a glimpse of who God is, we are able to see who we truly are and are called to be. Today’s Zeitcast is about those moments of transfiguration, where we see something of Jesus, God’s beloved, who comes to reveal our own belovedness to us. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sonofapreacherman/ Visit Jonathan's Website: http://www.jonathanmartinwords.com/ Watch The Zeitcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdHzTuNKhTK-AZjfmkxQiww Please rate, review, share, and subscribe! Edited and produced by Reese Black