On the Journey

Ken Hensley and Matt Swaim begin a series looking at the life and thought of Martin Luther, and how his experiences shaped him to become the initiator of the Protestant Reformation. They begin by looking at Luther's early years, and how his family life and his time leading up to entering the monastery formed him to understand God, and were the seed of theological ideas that would take form later on and lead to a fracture in Christendom. For more episodes, visit chnetwork.org.

In this final episode of the series, Ken Hensley describes how he and his family found a home in the Catholic Church in the years after he stepped down as a Baptist pastor. In the moment, all Ken could see were the difficulties. The wonderful things God had had planned for him -- and for his ever-growing family -- could only be seen with the benefit of hindsight. For more episodes, visit chnetwork.org/onthejourney.

Matt Swaim continues to interview former Baptist pastor Ken Hensley about his path to the Catholic Church. Once Ken Hensley resigned his ministry as a Baptist pastor to become Catholic, he was met with all sorts of challenges, from finding a job where he could use his gifts, to figuring out his identity now that everything he'd worked for in his ministry career to that point was gone. He shares what that experience did to his sense of himself, and his relationship with God. For more episodes, visit chnetwork.org/onthejourney.

Matt Swaim continues to interview former Baptist pastor Ken Hensley about his path to the Catholic Church. Once Ken decided to become Catholic, there were a number of massive questions he had to answer in his personal life. What about his marriage? His children? What was he going to do to make money, now that he was no longer a Baptist pastor? Ken shares some of the ways he wrestled with these issues on his way into the Catholic Church. For more episodes, visit chnetwork.org/onthejourney.

Matt Swaim continues to interview former Baptist pastor Ken Hensley about his path to the Catholic Church. As Ken continued to pray and study, it became more and more apparent that Christ was calling him, a Baptist pastor, to enter the Catholic Church. Ken shares some of the most important realizations that led him to step down from ministry and enter the Catholic Church. For more episodes, visit chnetwork.org/onthejourney.

Matt Swaim continues to interview former Baptist pastor Ken Hensley about his path to the Catholic Church. Ken shares some of the questions that he began to mull over once he realized he'd never really spent any time thinking about the arguments for the Catholic Church. He talks about how he wrestled with the questions of justification, baptism, and the meaning of Church history, and how what he found kept steering him more and more toward Catholicism. For more episodes, visit chnetwork.org/onthejourney.

Matt Swaim continues to interview former Baptist pastor Ken Hensley about his path to the Catholic Church. After Ken found out his old friend Scott Hahn had become Catholic, it raised tons of questions for him, but one of the biggest was this: after having gone through years of studying theology in college and seminary, why had he never really encountered any of the serious arguments for or against the Catholic Church? For more episodes, visit chnetwork.org/onthejourney.

Matt Swaim continues to interview former Baptist pastor Ken Hensley about his path to the Catholic Church. Ken shares some of his experiences in seminary formation, and later, as a Baptist pastor. He looks back at the kind of things he was focusing his preaching and ministry on, and even his impressions of Catholicism at the time, based on his experience of monastic retreats. Ken also shares the conversation with a member of his congregation after church one Sunday night that would turn not just his ministry, but his whole life upside down. For more episodes, visit chnetwork.org/onthejourney.

Matt Swaim continues to interview former Baptist pastor Ken Hensley about his path to the Catholic Church. Having shared how he first became a Christian, Ken Hensley shares how he began to feel God's call to study Scripture and theology, and how that eventually led him to pastoring a Baptist congregation for several years. He also shares how while at Fuller Seminary, he struck up a friendship with a passionate Calvinist firebrand named Scott Hahn, who wouldn't show up in his life again for several years. For more episodes, visit chnetwork.org/onthejourney.

After exploring Matt's journey to the Catholic Church, Ken Hensley starts to share the beginnings of his own path toward Catholicism. Ken shares how his father became a Christian after his parents got divorced, how Ken himself came to believe in Jesus after years of trying to find fulfillment in music and other pursuits, and how he and his father were able to connect through their conversion experiences. For more episodes, visit chnetwork.org/onthejourney.