Real Bible Rob for Teens - Inclusive and Affirming Christianity Minister Rob Christ Podcast
Teens form their own faith as they grow. Engaging with the Bible is often confusing and frightening. This podcast helps young people approach the Bible with fascination and humor, allowing them to question and grow in faith. Harmful teaching is challenged, and young people are encouraged to move to an inclusive and affirming faith.
Episodes
10 episodes
Listen to your heart and your mind: Proverbs 3:5 and Jeremiah 17:9
Can you trust your heart? Can you trust your mind? It's really important to know what this means. Sometimes you will hear Christians trying to convince you that your heart and your mind can't be trusted. They will use these two verses in a bad ...
Unforgivable Sin: Is it real? Should you fear it?
In this serious episode, I tell you about the most heartbreaking messages I receive from young people when ask me if they have committed the unforgivable sin. They worry they are doomed to hell because of blasphemy. I always wonder if it was a ...
Doubting Thomas was smart and careful, John 20:19-31
Thomas was one of the most impressive apostles for a number of reasons. Sometimes people feel bad about him because he told Jesus that needed to put his hands on Jesus’s wounds to believe Jesus had risen. But Thomas shows up 3 times in the Gosp...
Daniel and His Dreams
Daniel is such a fun book. It has the men with funny names thrown into the fiery furnace. They are saved without even the slightest burn and with angels appearing in the fire with them. It has Daniel thrown into the Lion's Den by the King in a ...
Moses and the 10 Commandments Do Over
Moses lost his temper and broke the first set of tablets. So God told him to do it all over again. The first set of tablets was made and written by God. The second set was made and written by Moses at God's direction. Why do it again? It is suc...
Is the story of Jesus as a Boy true? Luke 2:41-52
There is only one story about Jesus as a boy in the whole Bible. It is very interesting. It tells us a lot about how we know what parts of the Bible are real and what parts are just stories. In this episode, I tell you all the background of Jes...
Ruth cares for Naomi: Love the foreigner
Ruth is an amazing character in the Bible. She is an strong woman. She is loyal and she is full of love for her mother in law, Naomi. Many people are amazed that we have this story about a woman, because we think Bible times were only about men...
The Crazy Trip of Revelation: End Times or Today?
Revelation is the craziest book of the Bible. Many people fear it. Some people hate it. It’s much better to understand it and enjoy the crazy ride. In this episode, I show a way to enjoy it without the fear of the hate. It’s all about how to us...
Jonah: Not only a big fish, but loving your enemies
In this episode, we explore one of the weirdest and most fun books in the Old Testament. Most kids are told about how Jonah was swallowed by a big fish for three days and then vomited back on the beach. That is a fun image, but it is not what t...
Why bother reading the Bible? Reading it with fascination and humor
Sometime in your life, you give up on just believing what your parents told you. You discover God or not for yourself. Usually in your teens, you start taking it seriously. Some teens really want to get involved in faith and other don't. I star...