
Church Matters
A podcast designed to help the church understand and apply a biblical worldview to all of life.
Episodes
52 episodes
Second Annual Conversational Potluck
It's becoming a yearly tradition that we have a conversational potluck around the years end. We each bring a couple "dishes" to talk about with no discussion or preamble beforehand.
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Season 1
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Episode 51
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1:19:30

Politics & the Gospel with Eric Teetsel
In this episode Gabe and Riley talk to political insider Eric Teetsel about the gospel's implications on politics and the nation of America. Find Eric on X https://x.com/EricTeetsel<...
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Season 1
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Episode 50
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1:06:37

Friend of Redeemer | Dmitriy Spatarel
In the past year Redeemer has been doing its best to foster closer relationships with other like minded gospel preaching churches in the area. While this may prove hard sometimes given the cultural climate here in the Northwest, these churches ...
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Season 1
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Episode 49
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57:32

Faithful Politics
Hey everyone. Today we are talking about Politics. I know you might be sick of hearing this by now, but we think it’s an important topic to consider. Our goal with this podcast is to help the church understand and apply a biblical worldview to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 48
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1:02:50

8 Pro-Choice Arguments
Today, we’re diving into a topic that’s sure to stir up some conversation—pro-life vs. pro-choice. It’s an issue often seen as political, but we want to remind you that it’s fundamentally a biblical one. For Christians in the Pacific Northwest,...
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Season 1
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Episode 47
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1:33:08

Q & A: Wisdom for All of Life
Today we answer your questions from our recent series "Wisdom for all of Life" exploring what it looks like to live with a biblical worldview and mission in the stages of singleness, marriage, family and old age.
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Season 1
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Episode 46
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2:01:59

Family Reformation with C.R. Wiley
Today, we’re excited to have pastor, author, illustrator and cultural commentator C.R. Wiley with us to discuss the topic of family reformation.In this episode, we’ll explore insights on the household as a reflection of the cosmic order ...
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Season 1
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Episode 45
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1:04:43

The Presence of God with Dr. Ryan Lister
Today Gabe and Riley talk about the Presence of God with Dr. Ryan Lister. The Presence of God: Its Place in the Storyline of Scripture and the Story o...
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Season 1
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Episode 44
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1:19:07

Marriage, Family and Singleness with Dr. Andreas Köstenberger
Dr. Köstenberger is a professor and theologian and has worked with the Midwestern Baptist Seminary and the Southeastern Baptist seminary. He has published a number of books and articles including "Bibilcal Theology, A Canonical, Thematic and Et...
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Season 1
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Episode 43
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1:24:24

Biblical Sexuality with Dr. Robert Gagnon
Dr. Robert Gagnon is a Professor, writer and scholar with special attention to issues of Biblical sexuality, homosexuality and transgenderism. In this episode Dr. Gagnon clearly lays out the biblical defense of the historic Christian sexual eth...
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Episode 42
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2:07:00

Am I Really Saved? | Assurance of Salvation
Gabe and Riley discuss a topic that comes up all the time in the life of the church and in pastoral ministry: Assurance of Salvation. How do we know that we really are saved? When doubt crops up in our lives, what do we cling to to remind ourse...
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Episode 41
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1:16:39

The Cultural Mandate
In this episode Gabe, Jerod and Riley discuss the Cultural Mandate from Genesis 1:26-28. If this mandate applies to us today, as we will argue that it does, how does that affect how we live? What is culture and how should we as Christians seeki...
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Episode 40
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1:19:29

Trinity Classical Christian Academy with Troy and Lauren Schneringer | Education, Part 3
Today we get to hear about the specific school and model Redeemer is partnering with in the Fall Trinity Classical Christian Academy. Troy and Lauren Schneringer are joining us to talk about the history of the school and what’s coming up for Re...
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Season 1
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Episode 39
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57:04

Why Classical Education? With Dr. Greg Forrest | Education, Part 2
In the first episode in this series we discussed why Redeemer is getting into education. In this episode we are joined by Dr. Greg Forrest, the Head of School at Summit classical Christian School to discuss why we have chosen the Classical Chri...
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Season 1
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Episode 38
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1:14:54

Why Run a School? | Education, Part 1
In the fall Redeemer is hosting Trinity Classical Christian Academy. We believe it's important to be involved in education. In this first of three in a series, we will discuss why Redeemer is running a school and why we think Education is an im...
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Season 1
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Episode 37
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45:31

Christian Nationalism
Gabe and Riley discuss Christian Nationalism. What is it? Should Christians be for it or against it? SHOW NOTES
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Season 1
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Episode 36
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1:41:40

A Gospel-Centered Church in Bellevue
You may have heard the term “Gospel-Centered” before. Although it has kind of fallen out of fashion we still describe ourselves as a Gospel centered church. Today we’ll talk about what gospel centrality means and how you can recognize it in our...
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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53:17

Growing Pains
How do we think about Church size? Are smaller churches always better? Are larger churches just machines for celebrity and platforms? Let's think about the size of the church and how it affects our ministry and fellowship. SHOW NOT...
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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1:01:37

What is the Gospel?
In this episode, Gabe and Riley talk about the Gospel. We often talk about the gospel, but we seldom go through the process of defining it and talking about what the Gospel is and what the gospel means. Today we will do just that, and we hope t...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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52:45

A Conversational Potluck
Today is a conversational potluck where we each bring an item or two and discuss them without preparatio, preamble or warning.SHOW NOTEShttps://www.desiringgod...
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Episode 32
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47:13

A Theology of Geography
Redeemer is located in the Pacific Northwest, an area that is notoriously secular in culture, life, and faith. How do we think about the area we live in and how does our identity as the church inform how we think about moving or staying in a pa...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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1:04:20

Student Ministry at Redeemer
Gabe and Riley are joined by Cameron and Robin to talk about Student Ministry at Redeemer. Hear about how Student Ministry is done at Redeemer and how we view the role of parents in the church partnering with the church to disciple the young pe...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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50:47

Can You Trust the Bible?
The topic of the reliability of scripture is one that many Christians do not feel qualified to argue, or simply take at its face value, or even concede some points on! In this episode, we make a case for the reliability of scripture historicall...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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