Not Your Father's Faith
Join missionary and pastor, Jeff Winters, on a journey into a wider, deeper, and stronger understanding of modern faith. We all have morals, but where do yours come from? We all have a backstory, but what has left a lasting-impression with you? What’s the Bible for, and how can you use it correctly? Who is this God, and how do you get to know Him? Jeff, co-host and long-time radio personality Scott Alexander (Hazen) and guests challenge you ask better questions which can lead to surprising revelations about your faith. Dare to explore with us every episode of Not Your Father’s Faith dropping Tuesdays at 1pm.
Episodes
132 episodes
Episode 127: Meeting Austin & The Next Generation
What an exciting now year as we continue to get to know the members of our church family. And in this episode we welcome 26-year-old Austin Lewis to Not Your Father's Faith. Finally, some youth. Or as Fred Gwynne's character asked in My Cousin ...
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Episode 126: Michelle Gardiner From Back Row To Front Row
If you, like many others, grew up Catholic, you will relate to Michelle Gardiner's early challenges understanding God. She takes us from Hopewell to Clarion to Roland's to a life with 4 men/boys. Listen and get to know a woman that started in t...
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Episode 125: Where In The World Is Michelle
From Flint to Brussels to Minnesota to Florida to Africa. Try to keep up as Michelle Winters takes us around the world in her life's journey with the Lord including Jeff robbing the cradle.
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Episode 124: The Perk We Never Knew...Until Now
As we continue our quest to learn everyone's story in our faith community, we welcome Connie "Perk" Rostosky in to the NYFF studio to share her incredibly inspirational and revealing journey of family and faith.
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Episode 123: The Mountain Of A Man In The Second Row
Come to a service at Freedom Life Center or watch the live stream and you can't help but notice a larger than life man in the second row. Turns out Lonnell Becoate's heart is at the heart of an incredible story of hardship, inspiration and givi...
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Episode 122: When A Neuropsychologist And A Pastor Meet
Pastor Jeff and Scott pick the brain of our resident Neuropsychologist Jamie Petrick in a fascinating discussion about our heads and hearts and God.
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Episode 121: My Favorite Martin
If you've ever joined us for a service at Freedom Life Center you've heard Pastor Jeff poke fun at Marty Toth for representing the elder members of the congregation. Listen as we all get to know our favorite Martin.
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Episode 120: Identifying Your Spiritual Gifts
Listen as Pastor Jeff and Scott explore the spiritual gifts God has given us to serve him in church and in the community. And how is that someone else may be better at recognizing our gifts than we do.
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Episode 119: Book Review
Jeff, Scott and Dave recommend a book a piece for you starting with a book that could save your life.
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Episode 118: How To Vote As A Christian
With an election less than 3 weeks away, we thought we would kick around some issues and policies that might help guide you through the process of deciding who to vote for as a Christian.
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Episode 117: The Bible Was Not Written To Us
Who wrote the bible? Why were these scriptures written down? Who were they meant for? Do the various translations do justice, or not to the spirit of the word? Join Jeff, Scott and good friend Dave in this effort to answer some difficult and fa...
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Episode 116: Why Is God So Angry
We try to understand why God is a lawman in the Old Testament but sends us a loving Jesus, his human form, in the New Testament. How do we reconcile the stark differences between the old covenant and the new covenant.
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Episode 115: Regretfully Yours
Do you have any regrets? Is it healthy to think about regrets? Should regret be the first step in a process of repentance that leads to spiritual grow? Explore the subject of regrets with Pastor Jeff and Scott in this new episode.
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Episode 114: What Does A Christian Look Like Today
When you are out in the world, can you recognize the fellow Christians among us? If so, what does a Jesus follower look like? And what can we do to better represent our selves as a Christian? What does it take for someone in the world to look a...
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Episode 113: Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People
Following a couple episodes exploring the before/during/after journey Pastor Jeff took with his recent open heart surgery, this episode fails miserably at answering the age old question of why does a loving God allow us to suffer if he is all p...
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Episode 112: The Beat Of Jeff's Heart
Jeff presses the microphone against his chest to reveal that his newly repaired heart can play Iron Man by Black Sabbath. Tell me if you don't hear it.
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Episode 111: Jeff Had Some Work Done Under The Hood
How do you take your 89 year old aunt to her cardiologist appointment and YOU'RE the one that gets the open heart surgery? Jeff has some explaining to do in this latest episode.
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Episode 110: Google Search For Author Dave Stradling
Learning To Float author and friend of the podcast Dave Stradling joins us for an episode that was recorded in church that teaches us how to write a book and ultimately, through his latest book, to discover a life of purpose and joy.
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Episode 109: Happy Frother's Day
Following Father's Day weekend, Jeff and Scott reminisce about their dads and grade themselves as fathers.
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Episode 108: Welcome #63 For The Steelers
Listen to the unbelievable story of our friend Pete Rostosky's brush with death and his mantra, 'Way2BU". And Scott is schooled on how to say his name.
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Episode 107: Learning To Float
Our buddy from New York, Dave Stradling joins us as the prolific author releases another book, this one describing a very personal, often times painful journey of self doubt and eventual growth threw the help of a special letter writing relatio...
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Episode 106: Real Time With Jeff & Scott
Let's get caught up and count a few blessings. And do you need to be of a certain age to know what sup hose are?
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Episode 105: The Old Magician "Cut The Box In Half Trick"
We left the bottom half of Jeff dangling in the last episode. This two parter wraps up as Jeff & Michelle's and the boys journey from Africa back to the United States where Freedom Life Center was born.
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Episode 104: You Don't Look Like A Missionary
Thought you might enjoy a "let's get to know Jeff" episode. Our fearless podcast leader often refers to his life before he became a pastor, but listen to this episode to get a greater understanding of the background that shapes the perspective ...
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