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Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week on the show, we're talking about grief and sorrow and lament before you turn off the episode. There's some beauty in this conversation, not because it's just lighthearted, but because God gives us some unique promises to stare these realities in the face well, to be with us in the midst of it, and we somehow have this ability as human beings to hold both hope and grief at the same time. Let's dive into the episode and see what there is to hear.

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, let me be honest, we get a little melancholy. We talk about the tensions of growing older and finding meaning and purpose in life, and how so much of life feels fleeting. You, you rise the ranks to the next step in life and it just feels empty, and then you rise and you get this new aspect of life and it feels empty. And what's up with that? And what do we do about it as human beings, and does God have anything to say about it? Let's tune in. Send in your questions at redcouchtheology.com.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, we dive into a topic that haunts the human condition, maybe more than almost anything else does. It works its way into systems, into relationships, and undoes them. It shatters our experience of the world around us. It prevents us from living lives that are full and beautiful and good. It's constantly lurking around every corner and threatens your human existence, and I'm not gonna tell you what it is, so you'll have to listen to the show. Let's dive right in. Send in your questions at redcouchtheology.com.

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, we're diving into the new series and talking about what shame does to the systems and structures in our lives. Shame is kind of like a virus. Affects everything in our world, our lives, our friends' lives, our businesses, and on and on. And I think Alex gives us some really interesting insight into how to combat that in this episode. Let's dive right in.

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, we have no beating around the bush. We dive right into the deep end of theology. We started talking about theology before the show even started. We talk about the resurrection, resurrected bodies. What's up with people who rise again when Jesus dies and walk around the city. all these kinds of questions we talked about. I don't know what else do we talk about, Alex? Lots of things. Some things. There's our introduction. Let's dive in.   Send in your questions at redcouchtheology.com.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, we covered a lot of ground because it's the last week of our Revelation series. And so we talked about Babylon, which Alice preached on, and how many cities and many nations sort of can embody this Babylon spirit. But we also summarized the book of Revelation and gave some tips and tricks on engaging this book for yourself in the future. Yeah, let's dive right in. Send in your questions at redcouchtheology.com.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, we're reflecting back on Alex's message on the mark of the beast. What a delightful topic, confusing and daunting in all sorts of different ways, but maybe not in the ways that you think. It's perhaps a little closer to home than you would like. Why don't you listen and find out why? Send in your questions at redcouchtheology.com.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. We are back in the studio; hopefully, the audio sounds better. No guarantees that the show's any better, but that's for you to decide. Today we're talking about the four horses of the apocalypse and what in the world do they have to do with us today? And we had a great question coming in from one of our listeners about spiritual warfare. Let's dive right in.

This week, we discussed Dragons in the Bible. We recorded this episode at a conference in Orlando, Florida. We hope you enjoy it! 

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this is the best podcast we've ever recorded. I don't know if that's true actually at all, but I really enjoyed it, and I recommend you take a listen. We talk a little bit about Sabbath and how this spiritual practice might be one of the most foundational spiritual practices. It precedes almost all of them, maybe even all of them. So Alex is gonna make his best case for that. Let's take a listen. Send in your questions at redcouchtheology.com.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, we have a guest on our show. He's becoming a regular. Sean Switzer brought the message this last week and he talked about hospitality, and I think he shared with us, if you were listening last week,, to the sermon, that hospitality is a little bit bigger than you might expect. It has this unique power to care for and nurture your soul and shape it in ways you might not expect. So we'll talk about that in this week's episode. Without any further ado, let's dive right in.   Send in your questions at redcouchtheology.com.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, we are talking about another spiritual practice in our In the Way of Jesus series: the practice of gratitude. This practice is a unique way of unearthing beauty and joy in the soul like no other practice may have. So, let's figure out how to leverage this practice to help our souls be awakened to joy.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, we are talking about another spiritual practice in our In the Way of Jesus series: the practice of gratitude. This practice is a unique way of unearthing beauty and joy in the soul like no other practice may have. So, let's figure out how to leverage this practice to help our souls be awakened to joy.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, we're continuing through our series, The Way of Jesus, and talking about solitude and silence. And we're, we're gonna make the best case we can possibly make that you should carve. Out some space amid the chaos of life, we get that it's not easy. You should make space for something like this because, in our generation, there might be no other spiritual practice that counteracts modern life's chaos than something like solitude and silence. So, without any further ado. Let's dive in.   Send in your questions at redcouchtheology.com.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we have a guest on the show, Peter Pearson, who's brought the message on Sunday about prayer. One of the reasons we asked him to do this is because he's been trying to grow as a prayer for many, many years, and the Lord has answered that prayer for him, and he's figured out some things that have helped him along that journey of becoming a person of prayer. And he shares some of that. So today's episodes a lot about the practicality of how we learn to become people of prayer, but then we also are gonna talk a little bit about the shame and the guilt that we often feel related to prayerlessness. How do we navigate that? We'll discuss that in this week's episode, so let's dive right in.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we're talking about serving in God's kingdom, which means we're gonna try and guilt you and shame you into doing more and more for the church. Or are we? Ironically, Alex's message led us down a more invitational way of thinking about serving on Sunday. And how our life with God actually fuels and motivates our service. So, let's dive in to hear a little bit more about that.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, Alex is back. It's been a while since we've had an episode with Alex here, and we are kicking off a new series. We're really excited because it's about the way of Jesus. And if you attend, You know that on our wall, we have this big statement that we are a church that wants to help people live in the way of Jesus with the heart of Jesus. This series is about the way of Jesus. So it unpacks for us really what our heartbeat is here at South. And so today, we'll dive into that without any further ado. Let's take a listen.

There's only so much we can cover in a Sunday morning gathering! Each week, you're invited to tune into our podcast, “Red Couch Theology – Sermon Conversations with Alex and Aaron.” We record our podcast live every Thursday at 11am. What can you expect? Pastors Alex, Aaron, and the occasional guest have a casual conversation, diving deeper into ideas related to last Sunday's teaching. Send in your questions at redcouchtheology.com.

There's only so much we can cover in a Sunday morning gathering! Each week, you're invited to tune into our podcast, “Red Couch Theology – Sermon Conversations with Alex and Aaron.” We record our podcast live every Thursday at 11am. What can you expect? Pastors Alex, Aaron, and the occasional guest have a casual conversation, diving deeper into ideas related to last Sunday's teaching.

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. We did not forget about you! Contrary to popular belief—based on the fact that we haven't published an episode in the last several weeks—we're back and excited to dive into the season of Advent. Today, we're talking about Alex's sermon, which presented the entire biblical story in one message. If you're curious why he approached it that way, we're going to discuss it. We'll also explore one of the questions you submitted a few weeks ago about the tension between rest, serving, giving, and balancing those aspects of life. Let's dive in!

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast this week. Alex and I talk about how bad we are at the thing we will be talking about. Should I tell you what we're talking about? No, you're gonna have to listen. Let's dive in.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast. On this episode, we talk about the election and we talk about the rapture. So if those are subjects you're interested in this episode is for you and if they aren't, well, have a wonderful day anyway, we will dive right in right now.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week, neither Alex nor I preached the sermon. But somehow, we still managed to talk for quite a while. How do we do that? Well, we talked about a fantastic question that one of you sent in, which guided the entire conversation. And actually, I think brought us some interesting discoveries about the nature of worship, the nature of repentance, the nature of fellowship and all of that. So, let's dive right in.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, we get to talk about one of the lightest subjects possibly known to man, which is the problem of evil, and I'm pretty sure we solved it, not quite; it's been a debate that's taken place probably since the foundation of the world, but we do our best to at least give you some different perspective of it. And so, let's dive right in. Why do bad things happen to good people? Is God good? Really? If bad things happen and all of those kinds of questions, let's dive in.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast. This week, we are talking about sleeping and waking and what our generation struggles with that sort of lulls us to sleep and doesn't allow us to engage life to the extent that God would have us. So, let's talk about that right now.

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, Alex is back, and we get to talk about the wonderful lighthearted passage to the church in Thyatira, where we hear about beds of suffering and all of that. So we're gonna dive into the weeds of this passage and figure out what's going on with Jezebel's beds of suffering and what sin is anyway; these are the kinds of questions we're gonna deal with today. Let's dive. Right.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week I have Jessica Rust as a guest on the show, and she helped guide me through a conversation about the church at Pergamum. And what did Jesus say to this particular church? We talk about sin and why it's important to talk about sin. And actually, we address some questions from you all this week. I'm not going to tell you much more than that. Let's dive right into the city where Satan lives.

Hello, hello, and welcome to another Red Couch Theology podcast episode. Hey, we have Dan Elliott on the show this week because he preached this last week's sermon. And he and I had such a blast. We actually just walked verse by verse through this little letter to the church in Smyrna in the Book of Revelation. And he gave me such amazing insight into this text. We talk about the city of Satan. We talk about what's up with these 10 days. We talk about all sorts of curiosities here. And I think I had a delightful time. Let's take a listen.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast. Hey, this week I invited a guest on our show because Alex is traveling and I didn't even give her any time to prep. I invited her this morning to join us on the show, and you'll just have to see how well she does. I'm not even gonna tell you who it is. You'll get that in just a moment here. But we talk about,, the letter to the church in Ephesus and I think we had a great conversation. You're gonna have to judge for yourself. Send in your questions at redcouchtheology.com.

Well, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we are diving in the deep end on our revelation series and hey, I'm proud of Alex. And I, because I feel like we actually covered a lot of ground in this episode. We dove right into the text itself. We talk about principles of interpretation. We talk about the weirdness of this particular genre, and then we dove into what we think this book is actually supposed to be pointing at for us. And so, without any further ado, that's all I'm gonna get you.

Hello. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast. This week we're talking about community. Again, we're actually concluding the community series. We have a guest on the show who actually brought the message to Sean Switzer. He's our student director and he shared with us about the sacrifices that are required in order to enter into community. But then he makes a case that it's not even a sacrifice at all. You're gonna have to tune in and listen to how he comes to that conclusion. 

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast. This week we're continuing in our community series and we talk a little bit about prophecy because Alex talked about the book of Ezekiel. And we talk a little bit about how to interpret prophecy. Why is it complicated and that sort of thing? But then we also talk about the beauty of this passage that invites us into becoming rivers of life. And what does that look like for South? Let's tune in.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week, we're talking about some of the nerdy things that Alex discovered in this passage of Exodus; well, it started in Exodus. It jumps to Genesis, and then it jumps even further back into the beginning. Genesis. It's all over the place, but it's so fascinating. And Alex shares a little bit about his lament from Sunday where he wished that he'd had some time to get to some more of the heartbeat behind the passage. I think he actually did a pretty good job, but you'll have to find out.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast. Hey, this week, we get to talk a little bit about one of my favorite subjects: the nature of scripture. And how do we know what hills to die on and all that sort of thing? And then is there something that should, should separate us in our unity in the church or are there things that we should just let go and all of that kind of complexity? That's what we're talking about this week on the show. And it fascinated me. I hope it fascinates you. Let's tune in.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast. Hey, this week we have a guest on our show because Kevin Butcher brought the message last Sunday, and let me tell you, Alex, myself, and Kevin were in the room. We were the three preachers for the series, and we sort of just went through almost the whole series and talked about the heart of the father and why we struggle with that, the love of God, and all these things. And,, I think it was pretty good. I'm a little biased. Why don't you listen and tell yourself what you think? It's helpful.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast. Hey, I invited a guest to host the show this week on the podcast, and I'm super excited. I won't even tell you who it is now because you'll get to meet him in just a moment. But he did a great job because he let me talk a lot. So, you're gonna have to listen to this. We're talking about the prodigal son story about the elder brother. And I think that if you've been following Jesus for a lot of years, you probably have some elder brother issues. It seems to be a tendency of anyone who's been at this Christian thing for a while. So we'll figure out how we recover from some of that struggle as elder brothers. We're diving right in.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week, we're starting a conversation about our newest series of the Prodigal Son story. And if you've heard this story much of your life, or if you've been around this story for much of your life, I'd encourage you to tune in because even Alex and I are discovering new things about this story and finding ways that it, it's messing with our heads. We get to talk a lot about that today. Personally, I think this may be an unashamed endorsement of this episode. I think it was excellent. At least I had fun. So, you're gonna have to listen to find out why.

Hello, hello and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast this week, Alex and I are back together and the podcast I think worked. So that's exciting. We talk about the end of the sermon on the Mount series which Alex brought us to the authority of Jesus and the way he spoke. And we also talked a little bit about politics. We talked about all sorts of exciting things. We addressed some questions that were posed by you all about miracles. And so, yeah, there are lots of things going on in this episode. Without any further ado, let's dive right in.

There's only so much we can cover in a Sunday morning gathering! Each week, you're invited to tune into our podcast, “Red Couch Theology – Sermon Conversations with Alex and Aaron.” We record our podcast live every Thursday at 11am. What can you expect? Pastors Alex, Aaron, and the occasional guest have a casual conversation, diving deeper into ideas related to last Sunday's teaching. Send in your questions at redcouchtheology.com.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast. Sometimes, on the show, I'm just completely surprised by where the conversation goes, and I start getting really convicted and learning stuff that I wish I didn't have to know. And all of those sorts of, this was one of those episodes. So, if you want to find out why you have to listen, I'm not telling you anything more. Let's tune in.

Hello, Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast. This week, we're diving back into the sermon on the Mount proper and I'm super excited because we're gonna review this really interesting passage that offers us some tension, some confusion, some curiosity. It says, don't judge, but also don't cast your pearls before pigs. What's up with that? Why do those sound so in conflict with each other? And we're going to answer all the questions you could possibly have about them. I'm not telling the truth, but you can listen to what we say about it. Let's dive in.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, we have our guest preacher from this past Sunday. Rob Karch is joining us remotely and will share more of what was on his heart from Sunday's message. And I think he was really sort of frustrated, he couldn't share more on Sunday, but today he shares a lot more about what are the actual implications of the Kingdom of God on us as a church and in us as a nation. It's pretty interesting. So, let's dive right in.

This episode features a lively discussion between Alex Walton & Andrea Jones about the challenges and joys of preaching, the significance of serving within a church community, and the spiritual growth that comes from embracing new roles and responsibilities.

There's only so much we can cover in a Sunday morning gathering! Each week, you're invited to tune into our podcast, “Red Couch Theology – Sermon Conversations with Alex and Aaron.” We record our podcast live every Thursday at 11am. What can you expect? Pastors Alex, Aaron, and the occasional guest have a casual conversation, diving deeper into ideas related to last Sunday's teaching.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast, where we forget to turn on the volume at the beginning. You can tune in to hear a little about some of the disillusionment we often feel around the gospel itself. Is this Christian life as good as we were promised when we signed up for it or what does Christianity actually have to offer us in a middle class western life that feels pretty comfortable along the way? Am I really as blessed as I was expecting? We're going to ask all these questions and wrestle with them. It's a good time. Let's tune in. Ok.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week, I did something very unkind, and I threw a new guest into one of the most complicated subjects in all of theological history, the problem of evil. But Lexi, one of our new staff members was willing to jump in and I told her about it just this morning. And so, hey, you're gonna have to listen in, see how she did just diving into one of the heaviest-hitting theological problems in history. So we're gonna deal with the problem of evil today and we have a guest, Lexi, thanks for joining us.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week, we are talking about some of the challenges we find in church leadership. Why is it that Christians are oftentimes the number one reason why people don't wanna be Christians? What's up with that? It's painful. Maybe you've been hurt by the church. We're gonna talk about some of those tensions and how we're not the best at evaluating what good leadership even looks like and how does this affect how we show up as Christians? So, without further ado, let's dive into these very convoluted questions right now.

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast. Hey, this week, we're continuing our series on Doubt. And Alex actually invited us to doubt our doubts to remember that. Yes. Even in the midst of our confusion and our doubts, it's ok to recognize that Christianity is a viable way of being human in the world. It's intellectually honest. There are very, very good reasons for believing it. So we're gonna talk about that, but we also spend a little bit of time on this episode talking about why is it that we chase certainty so much as human beings? So let's dive in.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast. This week, we're talking about our doubt series. In this episode, we talk about the challenge of feeling out but also the freedom that God gives us to cede our doubt as a guidepost on a journey toward him. So, let's dive in.

Hello, hello and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast this week, Alex is out of town, but we have a special guest on our show and I'm gonna let you find out who that is in just a moment, but we actually started to talk about doubt. The series we're about to start at South is a series on doubt. And we have a conversation today about the importance of allowing hard questions and doubt to take place within the church. So we'll talk about that on the show without any further ado. Let's dive right in.