Each week we release two episodes covering a range of engaging, practical, and eclectic topics surrounding God's Word. Each episode features a pastor or leader in the church to share what they have been chewing on in God's Word. We hope each week you're encouraged, challenged, and empowered by the impact God's Word is having on us. Ultimately, we hope this helps you love God, love your neighbor, and make disciples.
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A bi-weekly pop culture podcast hosted by two brothers who grew up sharing a room, and more importantly a bunk bed for the better part of a decade. Tales From the Bunk Bed will look back on all the different kinds of pop culture they enjoyed during those times from movies, to videogames, classic TV shows, and so on. We will talk about why we loved these things then, and whether or not they hold up today, we hope you enjoy!
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Welcome to Christopher Mook, where amazing things happen.
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Goodbyes are hard. It has been a wonderful ride, this podcast, but all things must come to an end. Join us as we reminisce, remind, and recall the fun we had along the way. My hope to you, is that this podcast has helped you to behold Christ better, to grow in faithfulness to Him, and draw close to your brothers and sisters in Christ. Welcome, to t…
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Should we care about our social skills? As Christians, it can be easy to allow ourselves to become myopic in our view of what it means to be a Christian. Sometimes little things like how we interact with others, how we come across can have a big impact on our ability to represent Christ well. Jerell shares with us some insights into this important …
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The New Testament's use of the Old Testament
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Why do the New Testament authors talk about the Old Testament so much? Everybody who has read the New Testament has probably also read the Old Testament by way of reference, allusion, analogy, etc. However, how many of you have stopped to wonder why the OT is discusses so prevalently? Matt shares not only why we should care about understanding our …
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What is youth ministry? Some of us grew up in youth ministry and chances are we've all had a different experience. Nevertheless, we believe it to be an integral part of a young person's faith. Matt Gley shares with us the priorities and philosophies that form UFC's investment into our young people.Par Chris Moore + Matt Gley
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What are we supposed to do with Revelation? The book of Revelation is one of great debate, obsession, or avoidance depending on your preference. But, it is nonetheless an essential part of Scripture that God has provided us for our good. Jamie shares some of how she thinks through and processes the contents of Revelation.…
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Who gets to call the shots in the church? Everyone has an opinion or idea on the church. It could be the music, discipleship program, or color of the interior paint. But, who gets to make that decision and what authority does each person have. Sean shares different church modelsPar Chris Moore + Sean Duncan
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Why did God save us? You might have found yourself wondering just what is motivation God's redemption through history. It's a good question, and one could argue an essential question for the Christian. Sean brings Scripture to bear on on this issue.Par Chris Moore + Sean Duncan
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What does it mean to be finite? It is in our nature to be limited, but we also buck against it. How do we wrestle with that it means to be human? Lew shares insights into God's design for the finiteness of humanity and how we can be faithful when we are.Par Chris Moore + Lew Hines
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What is the culture you live in? We live in Eugene, which means that we are influenced by a variety of cultural characteristics. Even more, the people we live around and work with are further formed by what it means to live here. Jerell offers us some useful things to do to become more informed by what it means to live in Eugene and engage meaningf…
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Field Guide: Neighborhood Life
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How do you engage with your neighborhood? God has put each of us in a place and time with people around us. This mundane fact can sometimes go underappreciated. To help with that, Jerell offers us some activities that can help us connect with those who live closest to us.Par Chris Moore + Jerell Carper
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Field Guide: Spiritual Life
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How can we strive with, rather than against, what God is doing in our lives? It can be easy to reduce our spirituality to a Sunday gathering and maybe cracking open the Bible once a week. But, is this what God has in mind for our flourishing? Jerell shares some disciplines we can incorporate into our lives that can partner with the work of the Spir…
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How can we more show up with more intentionality on with our church? Sunday can be a mad dash, sometimes even getting to church feels like an overwhelming challenge. Jerell shares some intentional choices we can make to shift our perspective and be more engaged with our family in Christ.Par Chris Moore + Jerell Carper
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What disciplines can you have in your personal life? One of the great challenges in life is to become inoculated to the current we are in. Life is busy, stressful, hard. We entertain ourselves, try to survive, or work long hours. However, Jerell brings several disciplines that can help us create margin for what God is doing in our lives.…
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What do love and drawing lines have in common? If your answer was 2 John, then you'd be correct! John wrote a small letter with two urgent messages: love others and separate yourself from wolves. Jamie shares how we can integrate both of these important principles into our lives.Par Chris Moore + Jamie Harms
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How ought a Christian live? For anyone in Christ, we should be deeply interested in this question. Thankfully, we have a Bible that gives us all we need for godly living. Jamie shares from 1 John how the love of God forms our life with others.Par Chris Moore + Jamie Harms
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Does your work matter? It can often be tempting to view the mundane parts of our life as unsanctified work. We do it because we have to eat. However, Jerell shares how Christ's redemption also redeems the work we do now.Par Chris Moore + Jerell Carper
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Should we be worried about false teachers? Yes and no. Jamie shares how we can see the Truth in who God is and find comfort there, while also maintaining a sense of vigilance.Par Chris Moore + Jamie Harms
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What is your calling? The ideas of vocation and calling are ambiguous at best sometimes. It also doesn't help that our culture has it's opinion about the pursuit of careers and what success look like. Lew discusses how we can think through these topics in a biblical manner.Par Chris Moore + Lew Hines
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Do I really have to listen to them? There's something inside us that hates to obey others. We don't want to submit. We want to be our own masters. However, in Christ, we are no slaves to God. Likewise, we are to submit ourselves to others, even sometimes when we don't like it. Jamie shares how 1 Peter gives us a framework for submission.…
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What are you doing this summer? Typically, the summertime is a busy one (which season isn't?). But, is it busy with the right things? Jerell shares a summer initiative that will be launching this summer for the men of UFC. Don't miss out!Par Chris Moore + Sean Duncan
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How then should we live? As Christians, we quickly learn that our identify in Christ bristles against our conduct. But, nevertheless, our new identity must inform how we relate to one another. Jamie shares how key insights in James give us a framework to think through relationships and conduct.Par Chris Moore + Jamie Harms
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What challenges do a churches experience based on its size? No matter what size your church is, it's going to come with some strengths and some weaknesses. Jerell discusses the nature of the problem and how to overcome some of our unique challenges.Par Chris Moore + Jerell Carper
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What does simplicity have to do with the Christian life? Our lives are more than competent in inventing new complexity, incorporating deeper and more effective distractions, and causing us to losing our simple goal. Lew shares how simplicity is an effective and important part of the Christian life and how we can think through it for our own faithfu…
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What are you clinging to? We all have time in our life where the thing that gives us hope begins to shift away from Jesus towards our own strength, religiosity, or pragmatism. However, Jamie shares how three simple things can bring us back to a reliance on Jesus.Par Chris Moore + Jamie Harms
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Does God like you? Sometimes we can conclude that God loves us (committed) but not always believe that He likes us (affections). Jerell talks about this dichotomy and how it doesn't align with a biblical account of God's attitude towards His children.Par Chris Moore + Jerell Carper
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Three Reasons to Love the Church
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How do you feel about the church? We all have ideas about the church, but how often are we informed by Scripture? Sean shares three reasons why we should love the church.Par Chris Moore + Sean Duncan
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What does God do with our brokenness? Sometimes we don't feel like we have a few cracks, but that we're busted up into a million pieces. This can leave us feeling hopeless and discouraged. However, Jaime shares the central message of God's redemption from the ladies annual tea party.Par Chris Moore + Jamie Harms
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What are the gifts of the Spirit? Furthermore, what are they even for? Jamie shares from the current women's Bible study how spiritual gifts fit into the Body of Christ. If you've ever wondered about the gits, don't miss out on this episode.Par Chris Moore + Jamie Harms
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Dispensationalism and the End Times
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Ever wondered how the world ends? As Brett starts the second half of our sermon series looking at the end times, he thought it would be a good idea to explain some of the nuances at work. The topic of Revelation can conjure a lot of ideas and occasionally division among believers, but it need not be that way.…
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What does it mean to persevere? Every person who comes to Christ remains in the midst of challenges, temptations, and failures that threaten us. However, Sean shares how we can take heart from this biblical doctrine.Par Chris Moore + Sean Duncan
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Have you misunderstood the book of Jonah? If you're anything like us, we grew up with a specific idea of what's happening in the book of Jonah. However, Sean walks us through Jonah's prayer verse by verse to help us understand how God uses death to deliver His people.Par Chris Moore + Sean Duncan
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What responsibility does the Christian have to the orphan? Some issues seem too big to even approach, yet some of those same issues are clearly addressed in Scripture. Jerell discuss a new effort to care for the orphan with the assistance of Every Child in Eugene.Par Chris Moore + Jerell Carper
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Good Friday and Lamentation
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Is there room for our suffering? Sometimes we get the idea in our heads that the church and Christianity is about having it all together, or at least looking like we do. It's as if our context has no framework for suffering. Jamie shares how Good Friday responds to this illusion and how we can find great comfort in that.…
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Are you a person of the Book? As Christians we profess the Word of God as inspired, profitable, etc. However, how much of our lives or habits reflect that? Jamie shares how equipping others to truly value the Bible in word and deed, offers the transformation we desperately seek.Par Chris Moore + Jamie Harms
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Is the resurrection of Jesus just about His coming back to life? The resurrection is the centerpiece of the Christian faith. However, it's not a simple one dimensional facet. Rather, as Sean explains, there are myriad things occurring when Jesus is raised from the dead.Par Chris Moore + Sean Duncan
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God, the Brain, and Children
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What does our brain have to do with our children? Any parent can attest to how confusing, humbling, and embarrassing parenting can be sometime. However, Brianna shares that when we understand how God has designed us and we begin to see the fabric of human needs and relationships take form. As a parent, or anyone around kids, this is especially true…
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What would you do the day after Jesus died? The Men's Breakfast series on Holy Week is coming to a close. The final lesson can be found in the two women who were faced with the death of Jesus. Jerell helps us consider what we do in the face of suffering as this portion of the story concludes.Par Chris Moore + Jerell Carper
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How do you handle conflict? Maybe you don't! Maybe you dip and dodge your way to avoiding it. However, Lew shares that conflict can be a beneficial way in which depth of relationship is discovered.Par Chris Moore + Lew Hines
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Why was the curtain split? When we meditate on the crucifixion of Christ, which we should do often, do we consider why the curtain was split? Rich brings insight and application to this detail of our Savior's death that has massive implications for our daily lives.Par Chris Moore + RIch Carroll
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How do we make people feel welcome as a church? The Sunday morning hustle can leave some of our heads spinning. We've barely gotten kids dressed, the hair ties have been removed already and you can't find their other boot even though they definitely left with two boots. Jamie shares how the church can think through welcoming guests of UFC and makin…
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Who does Jesus invite to sit with Him? We all struggle with who we are comfortable with and who we are not. Who has sins that we tolerate and sins that we recoil from. But, what do the meals of Jesus tell us about His heart towards the outside? Jerell explains how Jesus' eating habits can inform our compassion.…
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What is authority? Authority is a topic that's enjoying the limelight in our society right now, though not always for the right reasons. Sean helps us understand what kids of authority exist and how Christians should think about its application.Par Chris Moore + Sean Duncan
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What do you expect from Jesus? How we approach Jesus has everything to do with what our expectations are. If Jesus doesn't come through on our expectations it has the potential to really rattle our faith. Connor discusses how what we want out of Christ should be examined and purified by God.Par Chris Moore + Connor Clark
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When God throws a party, we want to be invited. But, how do we get into the party? Sean breaks down the parable of the wedding feast to help us understand what it is that ensures our admittance.Par Chris Moore + Sean Duncan
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How does Jesus end His public ministry? Reconciliation of the human race was God's plan from the beginning. Not just with Himself, but also with each other. Chris Watkins unpacks the final teaching of Jesus as He bookends His own ministry.Par Chris Moore + Chris Watkins
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How do you think about the church body? Sometimes it's fun to get a peak behind the curtain of our roles here at the church. Jamie shares how her new position as Family Ministry Director is targeting specific ways to serve each of the existing ministries.Par Chris Moore + Jamie Harms
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Are we double-minded in our worship of God? Sometimes the things we find ourselves doing aren't cohesive to inviting others into encountering the Living God. Jerell examines Jesus' words as He cleanses the temple of the money changers and shops.Par Chris Moore + Jerell Carper
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Why do you eat bread? Well, probably because you're hungry and seeking satisfaction. Jamie discusses how Jesus uses bread to reach His listeners and offer satisfaction beyond the physical realm.Par Chris Moore + Jamie Harms
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What was with the palm leaves? Jesus' last days before His death a filled with significant moments that sometimes get overlooked. Jerell shares with us how understanding some of the historical context behind Jesus' arrival during Passover bring color and richness to the biblical event.Par Chris Moore + Jerell Carper
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When have I given enough? When we consider how relationships and our understanding of the Christian life intersect, sometimes it can be messy. Lew discusses how biblical boundaries create a framework for life that is both deeply compassionate as well as honoring our stewardship as God's creation.Par Chris Moore + Lew Hines
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