This week’s listener question is about alcohol and the role it should play in a Christian’s life, so Robert shares his thoughts about the Bible’s view of alcohol. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.…

In Part 1, Robert shared his thoughts about the value of professional counseling for Christians. Now, in part 2, he moves from the “why” to the “how” of counseling. LINKS: “Honor Your (Unhealthy) Father and Mother” episode available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our con…

Robert shares his thoughts about the value of professional counseling for Christians. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.Par Every Square Inch Podcast

This week’s question is the one that Robert receives from parents all the time: where should I send my kids to school? • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.Par Every Square Inch Podcast

To start this new series of answering listener questions, Robert answers the most common question he receives: “What do you do?” • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.Par Every Square Inch Podcast

Now that we’ve used our heads to examine the many government gospels trying to draw us away from Jesus, let’s get practical. In this episode, Robert gives us one application for our heart and one for our hands. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by …

Equality of outcome is a commendable thing to pursue, but what happens when a system of government is built around it? In this week’s episode, Robert applauds the heart of socialism but warns against the government gospel it can inevitably become. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and…

Nationalism at its core believes that seeking the common good of a group is a better way of governing than the individualism which is central to liberalism. There are affirmations to this view in scripture, but as you’ll hear in this episode, there are also pitfalls to this government gospel that do not line up with the gospel of Jesus. • • • Want …

Does political conservatism have a definition, or is it just about being against change? In this week’s episode, Robert examines conservatism, both its hopeful promises and also its potential for idolatry. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donat…

This week Robert dives into the history of our current form of government and how our democracy finds its philosophical and theological roots in liberalism. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.…

Last week, Robert set the table for this series from an ideological standpoint. This week, he lays out his goals for this series and preemptively addresses a few objections that some might have to the upcoming episodes. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscri…

Whether you consider yourself a political junkie, totally ignorant to Washington’s antics, or somewhere in between, the 2024 election discourse is demanding your attention. So before the election hype really starts to pick up, Robert hopes this series will ground Christians in a Biblical view of political engagement. In Part 1, Robert introduces us…

In the final episode of this series, Robert shares some practices that can be helpful for guiding your preteen and teenage children in the area of technology. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.…

How do you help your children use technology well? In this episode, Robert focuses on some helpful practices for when your children are young (before they hit puberty, which will be the focus of the next episode). • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription …

Robert shares the third of four principles he recommends when making a plan for your children’s technology use. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.Par Every Square Inch Podcast

It’s time to address the most common topic of all the feedback received about this technology series: parenting. In this episode, Robert shares the first two of four principles he recommends when making a plan for your children’s technology use. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and a…

This week Robert addresses a common question he’s received from listeners about the impact of artificial intelligence upon all of the themes he’s been addressing in this series. Is AI a totally new problem? Or is it a continuation of our existing cultural trends? • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our con…

In this week’s episode, Robert responds to a listener question about what pastors and churches can and should do in response to the shifting technological trends in our society. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.…

Let’s say that you agree that, in addition to its incredible benefits, technology has had significant negative effects on us individually and on our culture as a whole. It would be natural to ask, “Then what should we do with technology?” In this week’s episode, Robert shares two practical applications to help us be salt and light in a technology-r…

Perhaps the most under-appreciated negative impact of the internet era is the effect that pornography has had upon our culture. This week’s podcast contains a frank conversation about how the wide availability and nearly infinite supply of porn has harmed our society, before reminding us that God’s kindness and mercy, especially as depicted in Adve…

Many studies have looked at the effect that technology has had upon our brain’s ability to think, process, and focus. The results aren’t great. In this weeks episode, Robert shows us how important it is to recognize the Internet and its endless information stream for what it is, and encourages us to return to the wisdom found in God’s Word. • • • W…

One massive part of our lives that has been altered by technology is community, from who we do (and don’t) have relationship with and how we communicate with them. In this week’s episode, Robert looks at the negative affects of technology upon our relationships and points us to the God who sets the example for how to relate to each other. • • • Wan…

Virtually every aspect of our lives is influenced by technology. It is all-encompassing, and yet there is relatively little written about how to honor Christ through our devices. The aim of this series on technology is to help Christians redeem the technology in their lives, and this introductory episode starts off the series by diving deep into th…

Gandhi once said, “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Some of you may have had the same experience with Christians that he did. In this week’s episode, though, Robert asks us to consider the hypocrisy found within all worldviews, and shows us how Jesus (perhaps like you) holds self-righteo…

Parents are the most influential relationships in a person’s life, and none of them model Christ perfectly. In this week’s episode, Robert asks everyone (and especially those who left the faith due to their parents’ failings) to take a fresh look at the God of the Bible, whose call to “honor your father and mother” may not mean what you think. • • …

The history of slavery and racism goes back for millennia in our species, and Christians have certainly participated in some of the worst examples of it. In this week’s episode, though, Robert highlights how Christians have also been fighting against slavery from the very beginning, starting with Jesus and his extremely counter-cultural views on th…

It’s not uncommon for someone living in today’s culture to be turned-off by apparent misogyny that seems to define the Christian religion. But what does the Bible actually have to say about the value of women? This week’s episode is all about the beauty and importance that Jesus ascribed to women. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentuc…

Time to get practical. Parts 1 and 2 focussed on the history of Christians in politics and showed us Jesus’s own political ethic. This week, Robert offers three practical ways that Christians can be faithfully engaged in politics without giving in to the idols of our culture. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help…

After tracing the history of Christianity’s attraction to political power, this week Robert turns to Jesus’ response to our attraction to political power. What did Jesus’ political ethic look like, and what did he have to say about the hot-button political topic of his day? • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help k…

When the intermingling of church and political parties becomes a major reason why people leave the church, how should churches respond? In part one of this two-part series, Robert traces the history of Christianity’s connection to western government, how we became so attracted to political power, and where Jesus sits in our political divide. • • • …

It‘s completely understandable why someone who has been abused by their religious leader would leave the church. In this week’s episode, Robert speaks to those who have left Christianity behind and shares a message of encouragement that he has shared with countless others affected by abuse. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Cli…

A common stumbling block for those who reject the Christian faith is the failure of those who call Christ their Savior to love their neighbor, especially when it comes to loving your LGBTQ+ neighbor. In this week’s episode, Robert looks to what Jesus called “the greatest commandment” to help us understand why and how we are to love our neighbors. •…

After setting the table for this discussion in the first two parts of this mini-series on the “defeater ethic” of sexuality, Robert concludes by taking a direct look at the sexual ethic of modern culture and critiquing it through several unique lenses to demonstrate how this ethic ultimately falls short. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for…

When discussing the issue of sexuality in today’s culture, there is another underlying issue at play: identity. In this week’s episode, Robert gives a brief history of how we got to a place where someone’s sexuality is tantamount to their personhood, and why this topic is so much more supercharged than other defeater ethics. • • • Want to support o…

Continuing in our series about the ethical barriers that keep people from embracing Jesus and the Christian faith, Robert turns to the topic of the Bible’s sexual ethic, seeking to answer the question, “How can a good God make demands about my sexuality and my identity?” • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep…

Our last episode focussed on the philosophy behind the morality of a God who could allow pain and suffering, but in Robert’s experience, people first arrive at this objection through personal circumstances rather than philosophical debate. In this episode, he takes a more “pastoral” approach to this topic in the hopes of showing doubters the goodne…

One of the most common barriers to the Christian faith is the idea that a God who loves us would let terrible things happen to us. How does the Christian reconcile what seems to be an irreconciable contradiction? In this episode, Robert focuses on the philosophy behind God’s morality and the kind of ideas that he would never communicate to someone …

Skeptics used to just doubt that hell existed. Today, skeptics question whether a good God would send people to hell. In this episode, Robert looks at the idea of God’s judgment and how Christians can show a skeptical world that God’s judgement is in fact good news. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our …

In the past, the reason for disbelieving Christianity was often due to underlying beliefs that were incompatible with the Bible. Today, these “defeater beliefs” have given way to something else: “defeater ethics.” In this episode, Robert explains what he means by defeater ethics and how Christians can share the gospel in spite of a culture that no …

After spending time in Nashville with his grieving friends, Robert contrasts the devastation of the school shooting at Covenant School with the hope of Easter Sunday. Rather than allowing our fallen world to lower our expectation of joy, the resurrection invites us to indulge in joyful hope.Par Every Square Inch Podcast

In part 1, we saw the “spheres” where God has given us influence, but it’s natural that some cynicism might still remain. How much change can we actually bring about? And even if we bring about change, will it actually last? Part 2 is all about helping us see past the cynicism to the potential we have to bring redemptive change our spheres, and the…

Now that we’ve established God’s redemptive plan for Kentucky, what does this plan mean for your seemingly ordinary life? In this episode, Robert helps us see that, no matter your vocation or stage of life, God has placed each of us in spheres of influence that we may not realize are there.Par Every Square Inch Podcast

Now that we’ve looked at the name, mission, and strategy of Christ for Kentucky, this week Robert turns to the theological vision that is the foundation of all that this organization hopes to achieve: the grand story of God’s redemption.Par Every Square Inch Podcast

When a university down the road is making headlines the world over for what many are calling a revival, what are we to think? Can we even call it a revival? On this week’s episode, Robert seeks to answer these questions by sharing his experience visiting Asbury and engaging with the school’s leadership.…

Is Christ for Kentucky about evangelism or is it about social justice? On this week’s episode, Robert looks at how the Gospel was shared in the Bible and how that impacts his strategy for this organization. Support Christ for Kentucky at christforky.org/givePar Every Square Inch Podcast

Christ for Kentucky seeks to be a resource for “public theology and strategy for the common good of the Commonwealth” but what does that look like in practice? In this episode, Robert goes into detail about each piece of that mission statement and explains how they represent three key components of societal change. Learn more about this new ministr…

In this episode, Robert shares the name of his new ministry, how he arrived at starting this new endeavor, and the meaning behind the name “Christ for Kentucky”. Visit Christ for Kentucky at christforky.org.Par Every Square Inch Podcast

In part two of this this two-part “Pastoral Reflections” series, Robert shares some thoughts for church members about the best ways to communicate with and encourage their pastor.Par Every Square Inch Podcast

In this two-part series, Robert shares some reflections about his past 16 years of pastoral ministry. In part 1, he shares some of the biggest mistakes he made as a pastor and how pastors can avoid them.Par Every Square Inch Podcast