Pastor With No Answers Podcast

Craig Gross from XXX Church joins Joey Svendsen and his wife, Pricilla, to warn parents of some some current internet dangers and admonish households, including Joey and Pricilla's, that are operating on too loose of policies with how their teens and pre-teens spend time indulging in technology and devices. Great insight by the internet Jedi himself, Craig Gross. He's got a lot of resources, including a video study series for married couples that want to have better sex. Check them out here! http://www.bestsexlifenow.com/ https://x3watch.com/ https://www.xxxchurch.com/

On this episode, Pastor Joey tackles the phrase "Blessed and Highly Favored". He sounds pissed.

This week's discussion focuses on issues related to money. The conversation includes stewardship, generosity, tithing, saving, poverty, culture and the Church's role in offering biblical clarity. We are joined this week with Jack Hoey Sr.

And now its Hillary's turn. Who are some of the best presidents? How did Obama do? Reagan? And then the main course, Pastor Joey leads the discussion on Hillary Clinton, her honesty (or lack thereof), her charisma, her intelligence and her ability to lead. Is she a better candidate than Trump? Joining us this week is Jack Hoey Sr. and Robby, a politics aficionado.

Joey and Jared's dad stops in to reminisce on Joey and Jared's childhood and upbringing, focussing on Joey's depression, irrational thinking and other stories told in his new book "Fundamentalist." From Joey's hallucinations to Virgil's decade-long fear that he'd spend an eternity in hell for saying the phrase "Holy Ghost" as an expletive, the three discuss how and why their brains malfunctioned so much, much of it related to the lenses in which they viewed God and sin through. To see what Virgil is up to, search Virgil's Acrylic Paintings on Facebook. To check out Pastor Joey's new book, visit fundamentalistpastor.com

In this second part of a two part episode, Pastor Joey and his brother share their love for the hip hop art form and gain some insight and unique perspectives with some of the players currently in the rap game. This episode features Pigeon John and Derek Minor. The conversations address many topics including who the most influential rappers are, best current rappers, the history and evolution of rap music and the power of expression in art. For more info on Derek Minor, visit http://www.derekminor.com Follow Derek Minor on Twitter @thederekminor For more info on Pigeon John, visit http://www.pigeonjohn.com You can also follow Pigeon John on Twitter @dothepigeon Follow Propaganda on Twitter: @prophiphop Facebook: www.facebook.com/propaganda www.humblebeast.com/

In this first part of a two part episode, Pastor Joey and his brother share their love for the hip hop art form and gain some insight and unique perspectives with some of the players currently in the rap game. This episode features Jason Soto, aka Cookbook, and Jason Petty, aka Propaganda. The conversations addressed many topics including who the most influential rappers are, best current rappers, whether all the gangsta rappers are really gangsters and what white people should do when they come up on "the n word" when rapping to their favorite jam. Follow Cookbook on Twitter @cookbookthepr Follow Propaganda on Twitter: @prophiphop Facebook: www.facebook.com/propaganda http://www.humblebeast.com/

Preston Sprinkle joins us this week to discuss Perry Noble, megachurches, traditional Sunday service and how the Church can become more relevant in contemporary culture. For more information about Preston Sprinkle and more information on his books, including his newest, "Go: Returning Discipleship to the Front lines of Faith," visit his website: http://www.prestonsprinkle.com Preorder Joey's upcoming book release, "Fundamentalism," at www.fundamentalistpastor.com.

I caught up with an old friend after 16 years and he recounts his upbringing in the same church I grew up in. In youth group together, Matt was "on fire for Christ." After coming out of the closet at college, it didn't bid him well when returning home to our church that he once considered his loving family.

This week’s discussion includes PWNA regulars “Country Boy” Ryan and Pastor Chip Judd and begins with a continuation of an earlier discussion on God’s Sovereignty. From there, this episode explores the Book of Job in response to Pastor Judd’s tantalizing remark that Job’s story is simple.

It’s been doubted, attacked, and even devalued a good bit on our show so we bring Chris Date from Rethinking Hell Podcast to defend biblical inerrancy and explain why it’s so dag gum important. Joey gets ganged up on and we have a lot of fun. Check out Chris’ podcast at: http://rethinkinghell.com/

Jared and Joey catch up with Toby and get his thoughts on the Godless Hangup from last week and Joey starts a new segment to tackle three common phrases that Christians like to use. He’s a bit annoyed by these darn things, but hides it well. Do you say these things? Maybe you should rethink them. Maybe not. The music used for Joey’s new segment is from Oddisee’s “Odd Seasons” album and is called “Tell the Truth” (Mellow Music Group, 2011).

And we don’t get our chip/godless conversation after all. The plan was to have a discussion about God between our “in house” Pastor and counselor Chip Judd and one of our favorite atheists, Godless. Things go awry and the conversation ends before it begins. Chip, Jared and Joey end up discussing what in the hell happened to set Godless off like that before ending the episode with some tame topics including masturbation and how the church is doing with loving gays. Follow Godless on twitter @GodlessSpeaks and check out his “Metal Sucks” podcast here: http://www.metalsucks.net/category/podcast/

Having a depressed spouse, smoking weed for maximized worship, killing yourself as a shortcut to heaven, our listeners asked questions and Chip had answers. Chip Judd, a Pastor at Seacoast Church has a Masters Degree in counseling, 12,000 hours of experience, and apparently a call from God himself to counsel others like it’s going out of style. He also travels to different churches, helping to improve inter-staff relationships and acts as a consultant on church health and culture. http://www.seacoast.org/ https://twitter.com/chipjudd

Our buddies Propaganda (Humblebeast) and Derek Minor drop in to talk about the latest shootings, racism in general and where we go from here as a church, nation and as individuals. http://www.humblebeast.com/propaganda/ https://twitter.com/prophiphop http://www.derekminor.com/ songs in order as they appeared: "Hold Ya Head" by Notorious B.I.G. (Bad Boy Records, 2005) "Strong Will Continue" by Nas and Damian Marley (Universal Republic Records, 2010) "Free" by Derek Minor (Reflection Music Group, 2016)