Engineering for Shalom with Ethan Brue, Derek Schuurman, and Steven VanderLeest (Podcast)

Last updated on: February 15, 2023 at 10:16 pm By Bob Robinson

The authors of A Christian Field Guide to Technology for Engineers and Designers (IVP Academic, 2022) share their insights. Listen to the podcast on your favorite app Episode Description For Christians who work in engineering and developing technology, it’s not always clear how their faith and work integrate. How can designing and using technology actually be a way of loving God and our neighbors? On this episode, we interview three veteran engineers to understand how that particular vocation can be... Read more

BONNIE KRISTIAN and Our Crisis of Knowing Truth (podcast)

Last updated on: January 19, 2023 at 5:31 pm By Bob Robinson

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Listen to the podcast on your favorite app Episode Description There is a crisis of knowledge that we are all experiencing. It seems that nobody trusts what anybody else is saying. In politics and in the media, on social networks, there has been an increasing inability to discern truth. What causes us to explore conspiracy theories? How can we know when someone is telling a half-truth for political ends? What is the way forward for Christians as we try to... Read more

New Year’s Resolutions – Go Small

Last updated on: January 3, 2023 at 11:06 am By Bob Robinson

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We are pressured to make grand New Year’s Resolutions. But does God want us to worry about accomplishing big things or does he want us to be faithful in small things? We don’t have one grand calling that God wants us to somehow discover (as if God has hidden from us that one thing that he wants us to do with our lives and we fail if we can’t figure it out). We only have the many callings laid out... Read more

Three Things You Don’t Have to Do to Be More Christian – with Dr. Phillip Cary

Last updated on: December 27, 2022 at 8:39 pm By Bob Robinson

Listen to the podcast on your favorite app Episode Description You’re not supposed to “let God take control” of your life and work. You’re not supposed to “hear God’s voice in your heart.” And, you’re not supposed to be guided by God’s Holy Spirit by inner feelings of peace, intuitions, or impressions. These are three things believers have recently come to believe as being essential to being Christian. But according to our guest Phillip Cary, they are not found in... Read more

Your Faith and Work Journey with Denise Lee Yohn

Last updated on: December 2, 2022 at 4:04 pm By Bob Robinson

Denise Lee Yohn is a keynote speaker, consultant, and writer on brand leadership. She has led seminars at such places as Facebook, Lexus, the NFL, and more. When she started her professional career, Denise also became a Christ-follower — and ever since then, she’s been passionate about reintegrating faith and work. She is the director of the Faith & Work Journey, a spiritual formation and professional development experience. She founded the Marketplace Ministry at Harbor Church in San Diego and... Read more

How Celebrity is Hurting the Church – with Katelyn Beaty

Last updated on: October 25, 2022 at 5:33 pm By Bob Robinson

Listen to the podcast on your favorite app Episode Description We live in a culture infatuated with celebrity, which has infiltrated the evangelical Christian church. We look to Christian celebrities and cultural strongmen for leadership and validation. And we have seen many celebrity pastors, ministry leaders, and cultural icons fall from their lofty celebrity platforms because they didn’t have the needed spiritual maturity or accountability. On this episode of the Reintegrate Podcast, we are honored to have award-winning journalist Katelyn... Read more

Is the Bible Relevant and Authoritative? With Dr. Michael Bird

Last updated on: October 5, 2022 at 2:51 pm By Bob Robinson

Listen to the podcast on your favorite app Episode Description In his latest book, Seven Things I Wish Christians Knew about the Bible (Zondervan, 2021), Dr. Michael F. Bird writes, “One of the biggest challenges for the church today is not the erosion of inerrancy among millennial Christians; more seriously, it is whether the Bible is in any sense authoritative at all.” It seems that if people are willing to accept that the Bible has something to say, it has... Read more

Spiritual Gifts – They are Not Just for Church!

Last updated on: August 29, 2022 at 1:22 pm By Bob Robinson

A third way to understand Spiritual Gifts. As a pastor, I have administered plenty of “Spiritual Gifts Tests” to my congregations. Now let’s be honest. The purpose of these tests is one thing: To figure out how people can best volunteer in church ministries. Of course, we believe that God’s people should be using their gifts for the benefit of his people. We quote Ephesians 4, where gifts equip the church for “building up the body of Christ” (Ephesians 4:12)... Read more

Our Creativity is a Key to our Spirituality – with Mako Fujimura

Last updated on: July 13, 2022 at 2:49 pm By Bob Robinson

Listen to the podcast on your favorite app Episode Description How is art an inroad to our experience of God? How does making things give us a more tangible knowledge of the love of God and the joy of being a human in God’s image? What role do imagination and creativity have in a full-orbed theology? Our guest has some profound thoughts on these things. We are deeply honored to have renowned artist Makoto Fujimura on this episode of... Read more

Christ is King over All Aspects of Life – with Jessica and Robert Joustra

Last updated on: June 21, 2022 at 11:54 am By Bob Robinson

Listen to the podcast on your favorite app Episode Description The Dutch theologian Abraham Kuyper famously said these words in a speech he gave when he opened a new university: “There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!” Jessica Joustra and Robert Joustra are the editors of a new book titled Calvinism for a Secular Age: A Twenty-First-Century Reading of Abraham... Read more