Coming Soon on the Pastor Talk
Pastors Clint and Michael offer a quick update on our summer plans for the podcast, including a teaser for some of the great series that we will kick off next Fall!
Discussion Guide
- What elements of the book of Exodus do you think will resonate most with listeners today, and why?
- How can the themes explored in Genesis and Exodus inform our understanding of faith in contemporary society?
- In what ways do you believe the recommended books from the upcoming series can impact personal spiritual growth?
- How does the study of the Westminster Catechism contribute to our understanding of what it means to be a Reformed Christian?
- What are some practical steps we can take to apply the lessons learned from the books discussed in the podcast to our daily lives?
- How does the podcast’s format facilitate deeper discussions about faith and theology among its listeners?
- What role do you think community plays in understanding and growing in faith, as highlighted by the discussions in the podcast?
- How can we effectively evaluate and incorporate user feedback into future podcast topics and formats?
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Hey, friends, wanted to give you an update on the Pastor Talk podcast as we finished
our trip through 1 and 2 Timothy,
and as we look forward as to what might be in the future,
wanted to keep you up to date on a couple of things that will be happening.
The Bible study that we do daily at 2 o’clock will be on hold for a while as we give everyone
a break through part of the rest of the summer,
then we’ll be coming back together in the late summer,
early fall for a series.
I think people will be excited about Michael,
those who went through Genesis with us,
many of them said they would like to just go straight on into Exodus.
The timing didn’t work out as well at the time,
so we’re going to give ourselves lots
of time by starting in that late summer,
early fall period, and we’re going to get through
the book of Exodus.
I think that will be a welcome news for a lot of people.
Yeah, so we’ll be back to the Old Testament.
Of course, Exodus is a long book,
so that gives us plenty of time as we jump into that
in the fall, and like Clint said,
we will certainly keep you up to date with that.
We’ll release some information here on YouTube and on the podcast as we get closer to that,
so you’ll know it’s coming up.
Then also want to make you aware of some of the stuff that is going to be happening still.
So in fact, today,
when this releases, we’re going to have released the first episode of
a series we’re going to be doing for the next five or six weeks,
in which we’re just
going to be combing through our libraries,
picking out some books that have been meaningful
to us, books that we think are readable for anyone.
You don’t need to have gone to seminary or be particularly widely read in the Christian
book genre, but the idea of things that we’ve read that have been helpful for our faith
that we think we would share with others.
If you want to tune into that,
we will be linking those so they’re easy to get your
hands on if one of those strikes your fancy.
We know lots of people like to read books in the summer,
and we thought if we could
contribute some books that have been meaningful for us,
maybe there might be one out there
that would be meaningful for you.
Yeah, I try to be a reader,
Michael, and I’m always very grateful when I discover a book
that I think makes a difference when I
read something and feel like it really lands in
my own life and my own experience.
As we get asked once in a while if we can recommend books,
this has been a fun chance
to look over the shelves and to pull out those things that
maybe haven’t read in a while,
but think about a lot and marked up a lot and paid a lot of attention to.
Be fun to share those with people,
and hopefully they might be helpful if those folks are looking
for something to read also.
Yeah, just want to look maybe slightly farther ahead.
We are going to start Exodus in the fall and then look forward to some stuff we’re working
on, a study of the Westminster Catechism,
which may or may not mean anything to you,
but we’re sort of thinking ahead as to having some more substantial theological conversation,
thinking about what it means to be Christian at the most basic level and how we can continue
to grow in that identity.
I’m excited for that,
though there’s going to be a lot that’s going to come really into
place and form up as we get closer to the fall.
So stay tuned for that.
The most immediate thing,
we’ll have this series on the books and then we’ll get back
in the fall for a much larger suite as we enter into all these other conversations.
Yeah, I don’t think there’s
really been anything more foundational to Presbyterians than the
Westminster Confession, the Westminster Catechisms,
and as we move into the fall,
it’ll be a good
chance to kind of keep with that education theme,
to look back at those from a historical
perspective and to dig into what it is that has formed really the framework of what it
means to be Reformed Christians,
Presbyterian Christians, and if you don’t have an experience
with the Westminster Confession, the Westminster Catechism,
I hope you’ll join us at least
initially because I think
though it will,
that could easily seem dry,
but there’s a lot there and I think you will have lots of opportunities to think through various things
regarding the faith through the lenses of our very wise ancestors.
I’m not going to sell you on it yet,
but I promise there’s a lot of good in having a
conversation about what it is that we believe.
So when we come out,
we’ll set up that series and we’ll share with you the many reasons why
you should be excited about it,
even if you’ve not heard of it before,
but needless to say,
we’re grateful for everyone who’s been part of the conversations this far.
This last year, getting through Genesis and then some of the pastoral letters together was really,
really great.
Thank you for those of you who have done that.
We look forward to continuing with some really exciting stuff here in the coming future.
We’ll keep you updated and when all those things are happening and we appreciate you sticking
with us through them and hope they’re helpful.
Thanks for listening.
our trip through 1 and 2 Timothy,
and as we look forward as to what might be in the future,
wanted to keep you up to date on a couple of things that will be happening.
The Bible study that we do daily at 2 o’clock will be on hold for a while as we give everyone
a break through part of the rest of the summer,
then we’ll be coming back together in the late summer,
early fall for a series.
I think people will be excited about Michael,
those who went through Genesis with us,
many of them said they would like to just go straight on into Exodus.
The timing didn’t work out as well at the time,
so we’re going to give ourselves lots
of time by starting in that late summer,
early fall period, and we’re going to get through
the book of Exodus.
I think that will be a welcome news for a lot of people.
Yeah, so we’ll be back to the Old Testament.
Of course, Exodus is a long book,
so that gives us plenty of time as we jump into that
in the fall, and like Clint said,
we will certainly keep you up to date with that.
We’ll release some information here on YouTube and on the podcast as we get closer to that,
so you’ll know it’s coming up.
Then also want to make you aware of some of the stuff that is going to be happening still.
So in fact, today,
when this releases, we’re going to have released the first episode of
a series we’re going to be doing for the next five or six weeks,
in which we’re just
going to be combing through our libraries,
picking out some books that have been meaningful
to us, books that we think are readable for anyone.
You don’t need to have gone to seminary or be particularly widely read in the Christian
book genre, but the idea of things that we’ve read that have been helpful for our faith
that we think we would share with others.
If you want to tune into that,
we will be linking those so they’re easy to get your
hands on if one of those strikes your fancy.
We know lots of people like to read books in the summer,
and we thought if we could
contribute some books that have been meaningful for us,
maybe there might be one out there
that would be meaningful for you.
Yeah, I try to be a reader,
Michael, and I’m always very grateful when I discover a book
that I think makes a difference when I
read something and feel like it really lands in
my own life and my own experience.
As we get asked once in a while if we can recommend books,
this has been a fun chance
to look over the shelves and to pull out those things that
maybe haven’t read in a while,
but think about a lot and marked up a lot and paid a lot of attention to.
Be fun to share those with people,
and hopefully they might be helpful if those folks are looking
for something to read also.
Yeah, just want to look maybe slightly farther ahead.
We are going to start Exodus in the fall and then look forward to some stuff we’re working
on, a study of the Westminster Catechism,
which may or may not mean anything to you,
but we’re sort of thinking ahead as to having some more substantial theological conversation,
thinking about what it means to be Christian at the most basic level and how we can continue
to grow in that identity.
I’m excited for that,
though there’s going to be a lot that’s going to come really into
place and form up as we get closer to the fall.
So stay tuned for that.
The most immediate thing,
we’ll have this series on the books and then we’ll get back
in the fall for a much larger suite as we enter into all these other conversations.
Yeah, I don’t think there’s
really been anything more foundational to Presbyterians than the
Westminster Confession, the Westminster Catechisms,
and as we move into the fall,
it’ll be a good
chance to kind of keep with that education theme,
to look back at those from a historical
perspective and to dig into what it is that has formed really the framework of what it
means to be Reformed Christians,
Presbyterian Christians, and if you don’t have an experience
with the Westminster Confession, the Westminster Catechism,
I hope you’ll join us at least
initially because I think
though it will,
that could easily seem dry,
but there’s a lot there and I think you will have lots of opportunities to think through various things
regarding the faith through the lenses of our very wise ancestors.
I’m not going to sell you on it yet,
but I promise there’s a lot of good in having a
conversation about what it is that we believe.
So when we come out,
we’ll set up that series and we’ll share with you the many reasons why
you should be excited about it,
even if you’ve not heard of it before,
but needless to say,
we’re grateful for everyone who’s been part of the conversations this far.
This last year, getting through Genesis and then some of the pastoral letters together was really,
really great.
Thank you for those of you who have done that.
We look forward to continuing with some really exciting stuff here in the coming future.
We’ll keep you updated and when all those things are happening and we appreciate you sticking
with us through them and hope they’re helpful.
Thanks for listening.
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