Jet Fuel - Concord Conversations
Jet Fuel is a podcast from Concord Baptist Church designed to ignite your spiritual growth. Each episode dives deeper into the essential spiritual disciplines that fuel a vibrant, enduring faith. Whether you're just getting started or looking to grow stronger in your walk with Christ, Jet Fuel will equip and encourage you to live with purpose, passion, and power.
Episodes
26 episodes
Persistent Faith
We walk through Mark 7 as Jesus enters Gentile territory and meets a desperate mother whose faith refuses to quit. We wrestle with a hard line from Jesus, the kind of humility that keeps asking, and what it means to trust God before we see resu...
Stop Washing Hands And Start Cleaning Hearts
We talk through Mark 7 and the quiet danger of choosing outward religion over inward transformation, where traditions and rules can become a mask instead of a pathway to Jesus. We challenge ourselves to trade box checking for repentance, commun...
Storm-Proof Trust
We talk through Mark 6:45-56 and the whiplash between spiritual highs and sudden storms, including the hard truth that obedience can still put us in rough waters. We wrestle with fear, exhaustion, and forgetfulness, then land on practical ways ...
Jesus Turns An Interruption Into A Miracle
We talk through Mark 6 and watch Jesus meet exhausted disciples with an invitation to rest while also meeting an unexpected crowd with compassion. The feeding of the 5,000 becomes a mirror for our schedules, our scarcity mindset, and our trust ...
What If Faithfulness Matters More Than Comfort
We unpack Mark 6:14-29 through Herod’s guilty conscience and John the Baptist’s courage, and we face the ways truth keeps pressing on us long after compromise. We talk honestly about image, pressure, humility, and what real obedience looks like...
Proximity To Jesus Does Not Guarantee Faith
We talk through Mark 6 and the shock of Jesus being rejected in His hometown, even while He teaches with authority. We name how comfort, familiarity, and people pleasing can dull faith, then we learn how to stay dependent on God and keep moving...
Desperate Faith
A dad is racing the clock to save his daughter, and a woman who has suffered for twelve years is trying to disappear into a crowd. Mark 5 puts those two stories on the same road, and the tension is the point: faith gets tested when Jesus seems ...
When The Pigs Panic And Grace Wins
We laugh about childhood “truths” we believed, then turn to Mark 5 where Jesus steps into Gentile territory and meets a man everyone else has given up on. We talk about brokenness, spiritual reality, and why Jesus doesn’t just offer relief but ...
A Lamp That Refuses To Hide
We walk through Mark 4:21-34 and let Jesus’ parables confront how we live, how we listen, and how we measure growth. We talk honestly about fear, pride, distractions, and control, then land on practical ways to shine the light of Christ and tru...
The Soil Of Your Heart
We talk through Mark 4 and the Parable of the Sower, where the same gospel message lands very differently based on the condition of the heart. We get practical about hard hearts, shallow roots, and distracted lives, then end with a gut-check on...
Crowds Or Disciples
We talk through Mark 3 and ask what it really means to belong to Jesus when crowds are big but commitment is thin. We contrast curiosity with obedience, unpack why Jesus calls ordinary people, and end with the kind of family faith creates when ...
Fasting, Sabbath, And The Heart Of Faith
We trace the rising conflict in Mark 2–3 as Jesus challenges performative religion with a call to purpose, presence, and mercy. From fasting to Sabbath, we contrast rules that burden with rhythms that bring people to God and ask what needs to c...
Roof Openers And Heart Healers
We walk through Mark 2 and watch Jesus forgive before he heals, confront religious pride, and call Levi to follow. We share how community carries us to Jesus, why spiritual need comes first, and how to move toward people others avoid.• ...
When Faith Moves From Head To Heart
We trace Mark 1 from crowded synagogues to a quiet room, from spectacle to solitude, and from curiosity to costly compassion. Jesus heals by touch, prays before dawn, chooses mission over momentum, and restores a leper with a willing hand.<...
Kingdom At Hand
We trace Mark 1:14–28 with fresh eyes, moving from Jesus’ first proclamation to the calling of ordinary disciples and a showdown with an unclean spirit. Along the way, we talk immediate obedience, recognized authority, and how purpose shows up ...
Mark’s Fast Start: Gospel, Identity, Wilderness
A sky torn open, a voice of love, and a desert road—that’s how Mark begins, and we’re jumping in with both feet. We kick off a yearlong journey through the Gospel of Mark by unpacking its rocket-start thesis: the beginning of the good news abou...
Living Titus 3: Saved By Mercy, Proven By Fruit
We explore Titus 3 with a simple aim: let grace change our posture, our speech, and our public witness. From respecting authority to devoting ourselves to good works, we walk through how the gospel moves us from combat to compassion and from pe...
Titus 2 And The Beauty Of A Church That Disciples
We explore Titus 2 as a blueprint for a church that lives what it believes, linking sound doctrine with intergenerational discipleship and everyday mission. We share practical ways to start mentoring, highlight how integrity adorns the gospel, ...
The Art of True Worship: Worship in Spirit and Truth
Worship is not confined to Sunday morning music—it's a lifestyle of adoration that flows from recognizing God's worth and responding to who He is in every aspect of our lives.• Worship pastor Michael Johnson shares his musical journey f...
Spiritual Hunger: Prayer and Fasting to Fuel Your Faith
Prayer and fasting represent essential spiritual disciplines that transform our relationship with God, though many believers struggle with implementation, especially fasting. We explore how prayer should move from transactional requests to tran...
Beyond the Tithe: Understanding Biblical Generosity
Generosity might feel like an awkward topic, but Jesus talked about money in one out of every four teachings because our relationship with possessions reveals so much about our hearts.• Tithe literally means a tenth – the baseline stand...
Serving With Purpose
Serving in church isn't optional—it's transformative for your faith and the entire body of Christ. We explore how finding your unique role creates ownership, builds community, and leads to spiritual growth.• First serving experiences of...
Finding Your Place: The Power of Christian Community
Christian community is crucial for spiritual growth, yet only about 34% of Concord Church members participate in community groups despite our natural tendency to seek community in other areas of life.• Community provides essential suppo...
As You Go: Reimagining Discipleship Beyond Evangelism
The Great Commission commands us to make disciples, not just converts, and our understanding of this distinction changes everything about how we approach Christian life and ministry.• "Make disciples" is the command in the Great Commiss...
Bible Intake: Fueling Your Faith
In this conversation, hosts Pastor Clint and Student Director Myles explore the vital importance of Bible intake for spiritual growth and how to develop sustainable habits that work across different seasons of life.• The Bible is the fo...