TGC Podcast

Learn seven tips for becoming 'evangelism ready' and effectively sharing the significance of the gospel. Understand the importance of cultural context and genuine connections when communicating God's love. Overcome fear in evangelism through reliance on prayer and the Lord's strength. Emphasize the importance of starting to speak about one's faith and trusting the Lord with the results.

The podcast explores the decline in mental and spiritual health among Gen Z, highlighting the influence of safetyism and fragility. It discusses the challenges faced by young Christians in college and the importance of embracing the realistic yet hopeful narrative of the gospel. The speaker emphasizes finding strength and resilience in Jesus despite the hardships Christians often encounter.

Trevin Wax, general editor of The Gospel Project and author of the book, Rethink Your Self, discusses the common assumption of looking inward to create and define oneself. He explores the challenges of conflicting desires, loneliness, and the importance of community. Jesus provides an alternative with a 'look up' approach, surrendering to a higher authority and finding freedom in self-sacrifice. The podcast explores the transformative impact of Jesus' death and resurrection on our perspective, relationships, and desires.

Exploring the transcendence in music and its relation to secularization. The connection between music and belief in God, examining the perspectives of naturalism and theism. The significance of music in creating the world and the contrasting perspectives on music between a naturalistic and theistic worldview.

Jeremy Treat, pastor at Reality LA in Los Angeles, discusses how our longing for God reappears in different forms in a secular society. Exploring topics like sports, politics, witchcraft, wellness, and mindfulness apps, Treat shows how people seek power, purity, and peace. However, he emphasizes that our deepest longings can ultimately be found in Jesus Christ.

Michael Horton explains why there is no such thing, in the new covenant, as a “Christian nation” apart from the worldwide body of Christ. “The problem with Christian nationalism is not that some Christians are taking a biblical idea too seriously,” says Horton, professor of systematic theology and apologetics at Westminster Seminary California, “but that they are confusing America with Israel under the old covenant. From a biblical perspective, it’s actually heretical. It confuses the law with the gospel.”

Irwyn Ince—pastor and author of The Beautiful Community: Unity, Diversity, and the Church at Its Best—explains why beauty compels us to pursue justice. The harmony and goodness of beauty reflect God’s creation as it was meant to be. Redeemed by Christ’s death and resurrection, his followers should pursue justice because it foreshadows the coming perfection of beauty in the new creation.Check out Irwyn Ince’s book, The Beautiful Community (InterVarsity Press, 2020).

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra discusses how Christians can find peace in an anxious world by thinking big and thinking small. They explore the decline of belief in America and the anxiety it causes, as well as strategies to find peace. Rachelle Starr's mission to help girls in the sex industry is also highlighted. They emphasize the importance of finding God's work and trusting His promises.

Pastor and apologist, Sam Allberry, addresses the reasons Christian pastors have become less trustworthy in society, and how they might become trusted again. Pastors need to appreciate why trust has been lost, Allberry says, and they should prioritize compassion, honesty, pointing people to Jesus, and striving to become more like Jesus themselves. The more like Jesus pastors are, the more trustworthy they'll become.

Justin Giboney—co-founder and president of the AND Campaign—addresses the self-serving lies conservative and progressives tell themselves about issues like justice, identity politics, and critical race theory. Many of us would prefer to be lied to rather than confronted with a truth that complicates our preferred narrative. Yet if we are going to address the race issue faithfully, Giboney argues, “We must not only confront the lies that offend us, but also the lies that serve us.”