In this special episode, Dr. Jeff Myers recounts details from his recent trip to Israel with a group of multifaith leaders amid the nation's war with Hamas. He explains why he was flummoxed by research that shows the rising generation knows Hamas is a terrorist group, but still sympathizes with its attack on Israel because of Palestinian grievances. He also speaks movingly of visiting the sights of bombings and burnings and seeing horrifying images or the murders of Israeli citizens and says he ...
Feb 27, 2024•43 min
What values did the founding fathers have in mind when helping to form our nation? How can we protect those values? David Rubin speaks with Dr. Jeff at the National Religious Broadcaster's event about the current political landscape in America. He identifies the dangers of radical ideologies to democratic states. David is the founder and president of Shiloh Israel Children's Fund (SICF) – dedicated to healing the trauma of child victims of terrorist attacks, as well as rebuilding the biblical he...
Feb 20, 2024•17 min
What is the importance of bodily autonomy when a woman is carrying a child? Is there hope and healing for women who have regrets about having an abortion? What does it mean that Colorado is now an 'abortion destination state'? Robyn Chambers talks with Dr. Jeff about the current landscape of the abortion debate and the hope and healing offered to women. Robyn is the vice president of Advocacy for Children at Focus on the Family and articulates what being an ambassador of Christ looks like when t...
Feb 13, 2024•43 min
How, as followers of Jesus, can we be in the culture but not of the culture? We know that our allegiance is to King Jesus, however, this does not mean we should ignore the culture around us. We are to live as sons and daughters of God's light (Ephesians 5:8) in a world filled with darkness. But how do we properly discern how and when to engage with cultural movies, stories, songs, or topics? Listen in as Dr. Jeff talks with Adam Holz from Focus on the Family's Plugged In. Adam is the director of...
Feb 06, 2024•51 min
Do you want to inform those around you about the value of a biblical worldview over and against counterfeit ideas? Then this is the episode for you! This special show features Dr. Jeff Myers, president of Summit Ministries, John Cooper, who is the lead singer of the band Skillet, and Lucas Miles, a best-selling author and pastor. This panel took place at the Turning Point USA Pastor's Summit event and addresses how churches, parents, and educators can help teach a biblical worldview. Listen to e...
Jan 30, 2024•32 min
Anxiety and depression are rampant in our culture today, particularly among the rising generation. But while life can be hard, it's critical not to think of things that are difficult as necessarily being bad. That's just some of the wisdom author and mommy blogger Abbie Halberstadt shares with Dr. Jeff Myers, unpacking the truths from her book, Hard Is Not the Same Thing as Bad. Halberstadt, a homeschooling mom to 11 children, including two sets of twins, explains the importance of not letting o...
Jan 23, 2024•46 min
Do you feel confused or undecided when hearing talk about AI, ChatGPT, and other technological advances? What is perhaps alarming to some is that these technologies are already here and being used widely. The question is how if at all, Christians should use these tools to advance the Kingdom of God. Chase Cappo of Bible Chat shares hisinsight on what this could look like Listen to every episode of the Dr. Jeff Show wherever you listen to podcasts. For more from Dr. Jeff on YouTube visit http://b...
Jan 16, 2024•48 min
Do you feel overwhelmed as a parent, teacher, or pastor of the rising generation? In our increasingly post-Christian culture, raising kids can be challenging, and equipping them with a biblical worldview can feel daunting. Listen in to the conversation between Dr. Jeff Myers and Ginger Hubbard as they discuss the importance of raising our children with God's truth. Ginger has written several books on parenting, hosts the Parenting with Ginger Hubbard Podcast, and is transparent and captivating a...
Jan 09, 2024•34 min
Are we prepared to speak to and connect with the rising generations about the good news of Jesus? If we want young Christians to contend for the faith that was entrusted to the Church, we must equip them in ways that resonate with them. Best-selling author and a Summit favorite, Dr. Sean McDowell, shares some insight and encouragement on what it looks like to winsomely share the transformational gospel. Listen to every episode of the Dr. Jeff Show wherever you listen to podcasts. For more from D...
Jan 03, 2024•33 min
God intends the humanity in each of us to be deeply experienced, lavishly enjoyed, and exuberantly celebrated. In fact this is what the gospel is all about. Yes, the gospel. Contrary to conventional thinking — inside and outside the church — following Jesus is not about denying our humanness but embracing it. Rather than acting more spiritual or being more religious, we're called and enabled to become more fully human… and alive . Listen in as Dr. Jeff Myers and Matt Heard talk about what it loo...
Dec 30, 2023•44 min
Are you confused and overwhelmed about the wars and conflicts in Palestine, Israel, and the Near East? Robert Nicholson is the President and Executive Director of The Philos Project and shares some needed context and history of the pivotal area. This is a land rich in biblical history and Christians would do well to have some awareness of what is happening in this significant region. Listen to every episode of the Dr. Jeff Show wherever you listen to podcasts. For more from Dr. Jeff on YouTube v...
Dec 19, 2023•1 hr 10 min
We all want to know what awaits us on the other side of death, but is there actual evidence for life after death? Lee Strobel, a former atheist and now bestselling author, talks about the case for Heaven in his latest research. Jesus, as the one who conquered death, offers life eternal to his followers. Strobel shares some of the evidence for this everlasting existence and what life will look like when we see God face to face. Listen to every episode of the Dr. Jeff Show wherever you listen to p...
Dec 12, 2023•51 min
Author Natasha Crain knows a biblical worldview is a rarity in the U.S. today—with just 6 percent of Americans possessing what qualifies as such a framework for living. She exhorts that remnant in her book Faithfully Different to boldly stand for what the Scriptures proclaim as truth. A good place to start, she says, is by combatting the four lies that feelings are the ultimate guide, happiness is the ultimate goal, judging is the ultimate sin and God is the ultimate guess. "We can't judge what'...
Dec 04, 2023•44 min
Theologian, analytic philosopher, apologist and author Paul Copan answers the questions about God's character that Christians often get from nonbelievers looking to paint God as violent, misogynistic and racist. The author of Is God a Vindictive Bully? explains in this wide-ranging conversation with Dr. Jeff Myers that to get the full insight into God's goodness requires us to read Scripture in the context of both its cultural time and its literary genres. "God is not wrathful in spite of love,"...
Nov 29, 2023•51 min
Christians and Christianity are treated almost universally unfairly in discussions of American history in secular universities, Dr. Mark David Hall explains in this discussion of his new book, Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land: How Christianity Has Advanced Freedom and Equality for All Americans . He discusses with Dr. Jeff Myers how since the mid 20th century secular leftists have largely read Christianity out of our nation's history—and when they have noted what they believe to be the i...
Nov 27, 2023•50 min
Growing up the 5th generation heir to Australia's largest media dynasty, Warwick Fairfax had his destiny decided for him. Or so he thought. At age 26 in the late '80s, fresh from Harvard Business School, he launched a takeover to bring the company fully back under family control again -- a bid that failed by 1990 and ended with the business founded by his great-great-grandfather going into receivership. From the ashes of what he calls that "crucible experience," though, was birthed a calling all...
Nov 14, 2023•38 min
This week's conversation between Dr. Jeff and Jewish Author Dov Lipman, a native of the U.S. who immigrated to Israel in 2004 and served in the Israeli parliament, was recorded months before the Hamas attack on Israel. But the fortitude and hope that guides Jews today with their country embroiled in war is evident in Lipman's perspective that despite 2,000 years of persecution, Jews remain ever certain they will prevail ... because they believe they are God's chosen people. Regardless of the cha...
Nov 07, 2023•28 min
Greg Koukl—a leader of clear-thinking Christianity—reveals in his latest book, Street Smarts , the fundamental flaws in common, current challenges to Christian beliefs and values and provides step-by-step strategies to question and reveal those shortcomings. Street Smarts offers model questions and sample dialogues to help guide believers in persuasive conversations about hot-button issues. Dr. Jeff and Greg unpack some of the advice and tactics in the book that are instrumental in today's cultu...
Oct 30, 2023•44 min
This special episode features Dr. Jeff Myers addressing the Western Conservative Summit about how Christians changed the course of history. They did it, he explains, by understanding truth to not be based on logical propositions or mathematical formulas, but by seeing it as a person: Jesus Christ. Noting how many in the rising generation question what's so Christian about being conservative, Myers discusses a pair of pivotal perspectives for an ordered and orderly society informed by a Jesus-cen...
Oct 24, 2023•18 min
In this episode we're sharing a talk Dr. Jeff gave at the Colson Center National Conference. The conference was an invitation to see God as he has made himself known and to encounter his mighty works. Jeff talks specifically about how Jesus' followers throughout history have helped to restore beauty to the world through music, art, architecture, poetry, and more. Listen to every episode of the Dr. Jeff Show wherever you listen to podcasts. For more from Dr. Jeff on YouTube visit http://bit.ly/3f...
Oct 16, 2023•27 min
Libby Emmons' love of artistic pursuits stretches back to childhood, when she and her friends acted out the scripts in their heads. She went on to study the arts, graduating from Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University and launching a career as a playwright and journalist. But she discovered quickly that identity politics and liberalism's stranglehold on the arts community stifled the credibility and impact of artists like her. She's now editor-in-chief of The Post Millennial, one of the ...
Oct 09, 2023•16 min
Do you find the topics like gender, sexuality, transgenderism, and identity to be overly complex, confusing, and even too political? Christopher Yuan talks about his newest project which addresses these issues and more, called The Holy Sexuality Project. It's twelve lessons with three videos per lesson, covering the most pressing issues related to sexuality and gender. Find out more about this content and what it means to be a follower of Jesus and image-bearer of God at: https://holysexuality.c...
Oct 03, 2023•45 min
In this episode Dr. Jeff Myers speaks with Dr. Andrew Newell. He is the Junior Research Fellow in Literature & Theology at Wycliffe Hall and the English Faculty at the University of Oxford. He has researched and taught on topics including theology, poetry, hymnology, museology, and more. Andrew is also the editor of The Buechner Review : an annual publication dedicated to the work of the American author, Frederick Buechner. Listen to every episode of the Dr. Jeff Show wherever you listen to ...
Sep 26, 2023•49 min
In this episode Dr. Jeff Myers speaks with Kevin Devries, who runs Grace Explorations, a ministry that helps other ministries reach more men through gospel centered storytelling. Their most recent project, The True Summit, is a 30-Minute Award-Winning Everest Documentary follows 14 men and mountaineer Kevin DeVries on a trek to Everest Base Camp after a cardiac arrest. It was theatrically premiered last fall and digitally distributed to men's ministry leaders this spring. Learn more at: www.grac...
Sep 19, 2023•52 min
In this episode Dr. Jeff Myers speaks with Ed Pearce at the National Religious Broadcasters. Ed has a long history of supporting entrepreneurial businesses in the city of Dallas as a corporate executive for two separate publicly traded computer software companies, as a partner in a Dallas based venture capital firm, and as an owner of a company providing information management solutions to Energy companies and companies in other vertical markets. He is active as a member of the executive team fo...
Sep 12, 2023•18 min
Today's guest is Arlene Pellicane. Arlene is the host of the Happy Home podcast and earned a BA from Biola University and a MA from Regent University. She has written several books, including Screen Kids: 5 Skills Every Child Needs in a Tech-Driven World . Listen to every episode of the Dr. Jeff Show wherever you listen to podcasts. For more from Dr. Jeff on YouTube visit http://bit.ly/3flbj2j For more resources from Summit Ministries visit their Resource Library at www.summit.org/resources/...
Sep 06, 2023•39 min
Today's guest is Scott Klusendorf, a champion for the pro-life movement and Summit speaker. Scott Klusendorf travels throughout the United States and Canada training pro-life advocates to persuasively defend their views in the public square. He contends that the pro-life message can compete in the marketplace of ideas if properly understood and properly articulated. Listen to every episode of the Dr. Jeff Show wherever you listen to podcasts. For more from Dr. Jeff on YouTube visit http://bit.ly...
Aug 29, 2023•40 min
Today's guest is Sean Dunn, the founder and president of Groundwire, a ministry which helps lead youth and young adults into a relationship with Jesus by leveraging current media channels to connect with them wherever they are. Sean talks about the importance of meeting the unevangelized where they are to share the good news of Jesus. Listen to every episode of the Dr. Jeff Show wherever you listen to podcasts. For more from Dr. Jeff on YouTube visit http://bit.ly/3flbj2j For more resources from...
Aug 22, 2023•42 min
Today's guest is Jonathan Brush, the President and CEO of Unbound, a homeschool graduate, and a homeschool dad of six. He worked for nine years as a Director of Admissions for a private, liberal arts college, and then spent over ten years working in non-traditional higher education. Jonathan loves Unbound and Unbound students and dreams every single day about new ways to connect them to each other. Jonathan and his family make their home in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Jonathan talks about...
Aug 15, 2023•49 min
Today's guest is Julie Ambler, who serves as Chairman of Board for Summit Ministries as well asChairman of Council of Educational Standards and Accountability. She has been the Head ofSchool at The Woodlands Christian Academy since 2006. Under her direction, Woodlands Christian is a national leader in Christ-centered college preparatory education, serving studentsin grades Pre-K4 through 12th grade. Julie talks about the centrality of a quality education and prioritizing our children's holistic ...
Aug 08, 2023•33 min
