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Our guest is Paul Zach. Paul is the Director of Worship Arts at Redeemer Anglican Church in Richmond, Virginia.

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Our guest is Barnabas Piper. He’s the author of The Pastor’s Kid: Finding Your Own Faith and Identity, Help My Unbelief: Why Doubt Is Not the Enemy of Faith, and The Curious Christian: How Discovering Wonder Enriches Every Part of Life.

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2:30 – Who Barnabas Piper is, and what he does 9:15 – Assumptions that people make about pastor’s kids 14:15 – How pastor’s kids would be treated in an ideal world 16:25 – What led him to write a book titled “Help My Unbelief” 20:40 – What Jacob wrestling with God teaches us about life 24:55 – Why Christian curiosity is vital 30:00 – Why humility and curiosity are inextricably linked 32:00 – Favorite TV show as of late 33:00 – Favorite book as as of late 38:00 – Best hot chicken in Nashville (and where it came from) 39:40 – Where he would put a billboard, and what it would say

Links

• Justified
• The Get Down
• Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing
• Peg Leg Porker
• Stoney River Steakhouse
• Good Poems
• Prince’s Chicken
• Barnabas Piper’s Website

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Our guest is Kelley Nikondeha. She’s the author of Adopted: The Sacrament of Belonging in a Fractured World.

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1:30 – Who Kelley Nikondeha is 5:00 – What compelled her to write her book 7:30 – How to think about theology and adoption 11:10 – How to help adopted kids understand that they belong in their family 14:00 – What grasshopper pie is 16:30 – How to have the “you are adopted” conversation with your kids 19:30 – How to work through potential bitterness with the birth mom 30:00 – Challenges associated with raising children of a different ethnicity 35:30 – How to think about the financial costs associated with adoption 39:30 – Favorite TV Shows 40:20 – Favorite Recent Meal 41:30 – Nerdiest Thing She’s Into 44:30 – Where She’d Put A Billboard, And What It Would Say

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• The West Wing
• Game of Thrones
• Taco Flats
• Money and Possessions

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Our guest is Jemar Tisby. He’s the cofounder of the Reformed African American Network and the cohost of Pass the Mic.

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2:25 – Who Jemar Tisby is 5:00 – What he learned while doing Teach For America in the Mississippi Delta 7:35 – Why he decided to go from being a teacher to a seminary student 9:45 – Why he decided to get his PhD in History 12:35 – Why the confederate statues went up (and why they must come down) 14:20 – The history of white supremacy in American churches 17:30 – Recommended resources on the history of segregation in the American church 21:50 – Lessons he learned from being in a multi-ethnic church 26:10 – The best way for a church to respond after an event like Charlottesville 30:15 – Longer term steps to becoming multi-ethnic 35:40 – His issue with Malcom Gladwell’s podcast about Brown vs. Board 37:45 – Why it’s so important for teachers to invest in their students (and why we need more minority teachers) 40:50 – Three books by African American authors that everyone should read 43:15 – If he could put a billboard anywhere, where it would go and what it would say

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• Vice Charlottesville Documentary
• The Fierce Urgency of the Now
• The Image of God and the African American Experience
• After Charlottesville, will white pastors finally take racism seriously?
• Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
• Jude 3 Project
• Malcom Gladwell Podcast
• Jesus and the Disinherited
• The Coming Race War in America: A Wake Up Call
• Let Justice Roll Down

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Andy Crouch is the author of The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place, as well as Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power, and Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing.

N.D. Wilson is the author of Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God’s Spoken World, Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent, and a number of children’s books.

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Our guest today is Nancy Guthrie. She’s the author of, like, a million books. I won’t try to name them all, but you can find them here!

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2:10 – Why did God create Satan if He knew he would fall? 8:45 – Helpful ways to walk with people through pain and suffering (hint: show up and say something) 18:10 – How to avoid the extremes of “silent sufferer” and “over-sharer” 23:00 – Nancy’s Books!

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Our guest is Hannah Anderson. She’s the author of Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God’s Image, and her most recent book, Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul.

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1:05 – Who Hannah Anderson is / what she does

2:45 – How to avoid skunks / what to do if you get sprayed

6:40 – What her book Made for More is all about

9:45 – What one of her (not so) secret hopes for the book is…

11:30 – What you should do about educating your kids (Public? Private? Homeschool?)

13:40 – Why there isn’t a “right choice” when it comes to educating your kids

19:15 – What people are missing in the debate about the “Benedict Option”

24:04 – Why retreating from culture cannot work with evangelical theology

27:10 – Why you can’t call for limited government when your personal life is free of boundaries

31:10 – What she thinks the future holds for the political landscape

34:05 – Her take on Russell Moore and the SBC

37:55 – Why she wrote her new book — Humble Roots

43:30 – Which character she identifies with on Parks and Rec

44:15 – The nerdiest thing she’s into right now

46:10 – The best meal she’s had recently

47:40 – If she could put a billboard anywhere in the world, she would put it __________ and it would say ______________

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Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God’s Image The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul

Parks and Rec

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Scotty Smith grew up in North Carolina. He planted and pastored Christ Community Church in Franklin Tennessee for 26 years. He’s now the teacher in residence at West End Community Church. He also serves as adjunct faculty for a bunch of seminaries. He and his wife of 41 years, Darlene, continue to live in Franklin, close to their two adult children, Kristin and Scott, and their one grandchild, Finn. Scotty is the author of Everyday Prayers: 365 Days to a Gospel-Centered Faith and Every Season Prayers: Gospel-Centered Prayers for the Whole of Life, among other. He enjoys photography, fishing, cooking, and exercise. Bob Thune is a Christian, a husband, a father, and a pastor, in that order. He grew up in Omaha and founded the Coram Deo Church Community in the fall of 2005. He and his wife have four children who keep them honest and teach them much about God’s grace. He’s the author of The Gospel-Centered Life: Study Guide with Leader’s Notes, The Gospel-Centered Community: Study Guide with Leader’s Notes, and Gospel Eldership: Equipping a New Generation of Servant Leaders. In his spare time you can find him on the basketball court, in the coffee shop with a philosophy book in hand, at home hanging out with his wife and kids, or in the garage working with his hands.

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Park Renew Website

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A recognized leader in the multi-ethnic church movement, Dr. Mark DeYmaz planted the Mosaic Church of Central Arkansas in 2001, where he continues to serve as Directional Leader.

Mark has written five books on the subject of the multi-ethnic church including, Building a Healthy Multi-ethnic Church: Mandate, Commitments and Practices of a Diverse Congregation, which was chosen as a finalist for a Christianity Today Book of the Year Award.

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2:53 – His answer to the question, “If the kingdom of heaven isn’t segregated, why on earth is the church?”

5:32 – What multi-ethnic churches looked like in the New Testament

7:52 – How explosive growth can lead to internal focus with churches

10:28 – What “the Gospel of gentile inclusion” is, and why Paul preached it.

12:33 – Why Paul got jailed for preaching against racism

15:40 – The biggest obstacles he’s overcome whilst building and leading a multiethnic church

20:44 – What advice he’d give to a pastor of a large, homogenous church who desires to become multi-ethnic

25:04 – The difference between assimilation and accommodation

27:54 – “If a church isn’t intentionally seeking to be multi-ethnic, is that church acting unbiblically?”

34:58 – Why “It’s just too hard” isn’t a good excuse for failing to pursue multi-ethnicity

37:34 – Favorite recent book and TV Shows

38:42 – How to think about the upcoming election season

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Building a Healthy Multi-ethnic Church: Mandate, Commitments and Practices of a Diverse Congregation Leading a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church: Seven Common Challenges and How to Overcome Them (Leadership Network Innovation Series) Multiethnic Conversations: An Eight-Week Journey toward Unity in Your Church

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Mosaix Conference 2016

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