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Preaching: Owen Beale

What if the clearest map for your calling looks a lot like a dashboard? We open Romans 12 and 1 Corinthians 12 and trace a living metaphor: you are designed like a car, uniquely engineered for a purpose, meant to move with the body of Christ on a shared road. Owen Beale joins us to connect Scripture to daily life with plain, memorable language—design, fuel, driver, maintenance, restoration, and motion—so you can trade comparison and control for clarity and courage.

We start with design: God doesn’t mass-produce people. Drawing on Romans 12, we unpack why different gifts aren’t problems to fix but instructions to follow. From leadership and teaching to service and mercy, each role keeps the church running. Then we check the tank. Prayer, Scripture, worship, and the Holy Spirit are the fuel that turns potential into power. If you feel stalled, it may not be a roadmap issue—it may be a refill issue.

From there, we hand over the keys. Proverbs 3 reframes surrender as wisdom, not weakness. Letting Jesus drive means delays can carry meaning, detours can spare damage, and destinations can stay steady even when the route changes. We talk real maintenance, too—repentance as routine care that scrapes off bitterness, unclogs pride, and keeps the heart responsive. And for those who feel too dented or too late, we lean into hope: the Manufacturer still restores. God rebuilds what shame says is totaled, repainting stories with mercy.

Finally, we put it in gear. James challenges us to move: purpose often clarifies in motion. Start small, serve somewhere, take the next right risk, and let God steer a moving life. Along the way, we honor the unseen parts of the body—those quiet alternators and brake pads whose faithfulness keeps the whole journey safe. Subscribe, share this with someone who needs a tune-up of hope, and leave a review telling us: What’s your next mile?

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A city was thriving, a lie took hold, and democracy was overturned. We gather to unpack Wilmington’s Lie and trace how a coordinated white supremacy campaign in 1898 used fear, newspapers, and even pulpits to justify a violent coup—then rewrote the story for generations. Our conversation moves from Reconstruction’s fragile hopes to Fusion-era politics, showing how Black civic participation and modest prosperity were framed as an existential threat to the racial order. We revisit Alex Manly’s editorial, the sensational headlines that followed, and the militias mobilized to remove duly elected leaders, all while national power looked away.

What emerges is a recognizable playbook. Manufactured panic sold as news. Morality weaponized from the pulpit. Voter intimidation dressed up as “law and order.” We name the throughlines to today’s disinformation wars, gerrymandering, and efforts to narrow access to the ballot. Along the way, we talk candidly about how history gets buried, how institutions preserve the winners’ version of events, and why recovering suppressed stories matters for civic health. We also challenge the misuse of scripture to sanctify domination, offering a counter-vision: treat voting as a sacred act and faith as a resource for human dignity, not a shield for power.

Yet this isn’t just a lament. We hold space for hope—especially in younger organizers who are learning, mobilizing, and refusing fatalism. If fear spreads fast, so can clarity. If coups calcify into memory, communities can still break the spell by telling the truth and defending the franchise. Join us as we connect the dots between 1898 and now, and commit to the everyday work that keeps democracy from becoming a museum piece.

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Preaching: Dylan Lewellyn

What if “so glad you made it” isn’t the finish line, but the starting bell? We open with Genesis 2 and Revelation 21, then move through a seminary walk, a well-timed lyric, and a fragile cat to uncover a deeper truth: our place in the garden is not ownership, it’s guardianship. Instead of lingering on survival, we pivot to responsibility—tilling and keeping, serving and guarding, receiving and returning.

We talk honestly about how “dominion” became a license for harm, and why the text actually points us toward devotion and restraint. The story of The Little Monk and his cat exposes how even the smallest life bears the weight of our choices. From oil-choked seas to throwaway habits, we name the wounds without despairing. Then we reach for practices that heal: consuming less, restoring habitats, honoring limits, and treating creatures as neighbors rather than resources. Along the way, we connect sacrament to soil—baptism’s waters to streams, bread and cup to fields and vines—so grace is no longer abstract but rooted in living systems.

Hope threads through every moment. Revelation’s promise that God makes all things new does not excuse waste; it energizes repair. We offer two invitations: delight in creation’s goodness and take up the daily duty of care. Learn your place’s names, mend what you can, and make choices that let others live. If only humans have sinned and yet all nature suffers, then our repentance must be ecological and communal.

Listen, reflect, and then act in your own watershed and neighborhood. If this conversation moves you, follow the show, share it with a friend who loves the outdoors, and leave a review with one commitment you’ll make to tend your corner of the garden.

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