Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week, I'm joined by Jessica Rust, one of our connection formation pastors, and she is gonna kind of guide the conversation because I was the one who actually brought the message on Sunday, and we're talking about community, and it gets super complicated. We're supposed to mean community; we can't thrive without it. And yet, community is sometimes the worst, so painful. And yet so beautiful when done correct...
Jun 19, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 156
Hello friends. Welcome to the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, we flipped seats. Aaron preached the sermon. I get to moderate the conversation, and it is a fun one. We'll be looking at the last two chapters of Revelation, answering all sorts of questions around what this eternal city is, and a bunch of rabbit trails that Aaron chose to follow. Enjoy.
Jun 05, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 155
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...
May 22, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 154
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 any...
May 15, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 153
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 ...
May 08, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 152
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.
May 01, 2025•51 min•Ep. 151
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...
Apr 24, 2025•57 min•Ep. 150
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....
Apr 14, 2025•55 min•Ep. 149
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.
Apr 03, 2025•59 min•Ep. 148
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.
Apr 01, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 147
This week, we discussed Dragons in the Bible. We recorded this episode at a conference in Orlando, Florida. We hope you enjoy it!
Mar 20, 2025•49 min•Ep. 146
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...
Feb 27, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 145
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 wee...
Feb 20, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 144
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.
Feb 13, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 143
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.
Feb 06, 2025•54 min•Ep. 142
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 ...
Jan 30, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 141
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...
Jan 23, 2025•57 min•Ep. 140
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.
Jan 16, 2025•47 min•Ep. 139
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 heartb...
Jan 13, 2025•46 min•Ep. 138
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.
Jan 06, 2025•43 min•Ep. 137
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.
Dec 19, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 136
Dec 12, 2024•47 sec•Ep. 135
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 f...
Dec 06, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 134
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.
Nov 14, 2024•57 min•Ep. 133
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.
Nov 07, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 132
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....
Oct 31, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 131
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 ...
Oct 24, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 130
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.
Oct 17, 2024•53 min•Ep. 129
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.
Oct 10, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 128
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.
Oct 03, 2024•47 min•Ep. 127
