It’s season 3, Villains of the Bible. On the ground, disoriented, confused, and now blind he hears “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” It was the question that change the entire course of his life. That changed the direction he was headed. How did the man who was going door to door dragging followers of Jesus out of their homes end up the man of love and grace? Missionary Elmo Compton joins Your Church Friends for an intriguing conversation about Saul/Paul the man who was kicking against G...
Jan 10, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Ep 54•Transcript available on Metacast It’s season 3, Villains of the Bible. There’s no manger, there’s no shepherds and there’s no wise men in this story. Instead, there’s a dragon looking to devour the women’s child. Yes, it’s still the story of the birth of Jesus, but the spiritual battle told by the Apostle John from Revelation chapter 12. Your Church Friends have an intriguing conversation about The Dragon and the Christmas story you haven’t heard. Scriptural Reference: Revelation 12 Help Support The Word for Word Bible Comic: h...
Dec 13, 2021•59 min•Ep 53•Transcript available on Metacast It’s season 3, Villains of the Bible. It was obedience that was the issue. God told King Saul to destroy what he found, and he decided to save the best. Yes, he was going to use the best to make a sacrifice to God, but that wasn’t what God had instructed him to do. It was jealousy that was the issue. If ever the people praised someone else more than they praised King Saul, his solution was to kill him. Your Church Friends have an intriguing conversation about the tragic tale of Israel’s first ki...
Dec 06, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep 52•Transcript available on Metacast It’s season 3, Villains of the Bible. Who is this God? I don’t even know Him. These were the first words recorded by Pharaoh in the Bible, but by the time the ten plagues were over Pharaoh knew who God was. By the time the ten plagues were over it was his hard heart towards God that cost him his life. Your Church Friends have an intriguing conversation about how Pharaoh lost it all because he refused to soften his heart to God. Scriptural Reference: Exodus 5-14 God Versus the gods of Egypt: http...
Nov 29, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep 51•Transcript available on Metacast It’s season 3, Villains of the Bible. It was Ananias & Sapphira’s money to begin with, so why would they lie about how much they were going to give? Simon the Sorcerer was baptized and following the disciples, what made him think he could simply buy the power of God? All three of them wanted the image of Christianity without the reality of being a Christians. Why was it so important to God to remove this hypocrisy from the early church? Your Church Friends have an intriguing conversation about t...
Nov 15, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep 50•Transcript available on Metacast It's season 3, Villains of the Bible. Who told you that you were naked? What a heart-breaking question for God to have to ask Adam and Eve. The real question was, who told you that you weren’t enough the way you were. Obviously, God knew that it was that serpent of old who had come in and corrupted His creation, but the question had to be asked and punishment had to laid out. Pastor Doug Jones is back with Your Church Friends as they continue their intriguing conversation about how the serpent t...
Nov 08, 2021•52 min•Ep 49•Transcript available on Metacast It’s season 3, Villains of the Bible. He slithered in, that Serpent of old, and prayed upon Eve’s innocence. With a simple question, he created doubt. With a simple question, he began his attack on God’s creation. Why would the Serpent want us to question God’s character and authority? Pastor Doug Jones from Saddleback Church joins Your Church Friends for an intriguing conversation about how The Serpent crept into the garden to with his lies and deception. Scriptural Reference: Genesis 3:1-6 Vis...
Nov 01, 2021•51 min•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast It’s season 3, Villains of the Bible. Forty consecutive days, Goliath came out and challenged the Israelites to battle. Forty consecutive days, he called them out to have one, just one person, any person fight him in a winner take all. Forty consecutive days the fear grew deeper in the hearts of the Israelites. How did this giant put fear in everyone except for David? Your Church Friends have an intriguing conversation about that uncircumcised Philistine, Goliath. Scriptural Reference: 1 Samuel ...
Oct 25, 2021•59 min•Ep 47•Transcript available on Metacast It’s season 3, Villains of the Bible. King Herod the Great, filled with rage, sent soldiers to kill all boys ages 2 and under in Bethlehem and the surrounding vicinity. His Son, King Herod the tetrarch, made a foolish promise and was forced to behead John the Baptist. Were these horrible actions all about who sits on the throne or the title of king? Your Church Friends have an intriguing conversation about the insecurities of these two kings. Scriptural Reference: Matthew 2:1-16, Matthew 14:1-12...
Oct 18, 2021•57 min•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast It’s season 3, Villains of the Bible. Twelve months after his ominous dream, twelve months after Daniels’ warning, King Nebuchadnezzar found himself eating grass like an animal, his hair long, unmanaged and like feathers and his fingernails like claws. Why did it take this much for God to get the attention of this proud King? Your Church Friends have an intriguing conversation about how God had to humble the colossal King Nebuchadnezzar. Scriptural Reference: Daniel 1-4 Support The Word for Word...
Oct 12, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep 45•Transcript available on Metacast It’s season 3, Villains of the Bible. Cain lured his brother, Abel, out to the field with anger burning in his heart. When the moment was right and opportunity presented itself, he attacked his brother and killed him. Was this just about a rejected sacrifice or something deeper? Your Church Friends have an intriguing conversation about how Cain’s anger led him the wrong way, the way of Cain. Scriptural References: Genesis 4 Link to Donate to Camp Agape: https://campagapecalifornia.com/donate/?v=...
Oct 04, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep 44•Transcript available on Metacast It’s season 3, Villains of the Bible. In Samson’s final moments he finds himself in the temple of Dagon, a god of his enemies, the Philistines. Samson reached out and put one hand on one pillar and his other hand on another, pushed with all his might and killed more than a thousand of the Philistines. Consequently, he also lost his life in the process. What led to this tragic end? Pastor Chris Brown from North Coast Church joins Your Church Friends, for an intriguing conversation about how Samso...
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep 43•Transcript available on Metacast It’s season 3, Villains of the Bible. Judas is infamous for betraying Jesus with a kiss, but there is so much more to his story before that moment in his life. From being chosen by Jesus as one of the twelve disciples who followed Him for 3 years to agreeing to betray Jesus for 30 silver coins and everything between. Your Church Friends have an intriguing conversation about how Judas was so close, yet so far away from knowing Jesus. Scriptural References: Mark 3:13-19, John 12:1-8, John 13:26-28...
Sep 20, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep 42•Transcript available on Metacast It's part 2 of the Q & A episode!!! Chris & Muireadhach do their best to provide biblical A's to the rest of the Q's sent to them by the Our Church Friends Audience. They're answering more tough questions like speaking in tongues Heavenly language or known language? Is Heaven real and will we recognize loved ones there? What's the deal with Denominations? Pre, mid or post Tribulation? Is Catholicism and Christianity the same? How do we Evangelize to the new generation full of technology and soci...
Sep 13, 2021•2 hr 33 min•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast It’s the final episode of the Our Church Friends season and what better way to end it then with a Q & A episode!!! Chris & Muireadhach do their best to provide biblical A’s to the Q’s sent to them by the Our Church Friends Audience. They're answering tough ones like Did Dinosaurs exist? Should women be Pastors? Should a Christian get a tattoo? Is God absent from hell if he is Omnipresent? Can you be pro-abortion and be a true authentic Christian? Is God Sovereign or Salvation? Season 3 Coming ou...
Jun 29, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep 40•Transcript available on Metacast Chris & Muireadhach sit down with special guest and their Church Friend, Michael Baldacci and they discuss How Important is Hope for a Christian? It’s a great conversation that covers the following topics and more. How being thankful effects our hope, an analogy about a boat, the ocean and the anchor, the worlds definition of hope vs a Biblical view of hope, t-shirt ideas, some heresy talk, the hope found in the book of Revelation and the term even if. Your Church Friends Website: https://yourch...
Jun 15, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep 38•Transcript available on Metacast Chris & Muireadhach sit down with special guest and their Church Friend, Brian Moore, Pastor of Crosspointe Church and they discuss Compromise in the Christian life? It’s a great conversation that covers the following topics and more. How compromise with life is different from compromise in your spiritual life, how the term disciple changes how you view compromise, how you are going to give up something when you compromise, how chasing the 3 G’s, Gold, Glory & Girls affects you & how dangerous c...
Jun 08, 2021•49 min•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast Chris & Muireadhach sit down with special guest and Church Friend Dewey Jackson and they talk about Celebrate Recovery Ministry. It’s a great conversation that covers What is Celebrate Recovery, who are those people, What is the difference between Celebrate Recovery and AA & NA, being able to share our addictions in church, what it means to have a hurt, habit or hang-up in your life and the role Celebrate Recovery plays at the local church. Visit our Website: https://yourchurchfriends.rocks/ Che...
Jun 01, 2021•48 min•Ep 36•Transcript available on Metacast Chris & Muireadhach sit down with special guest and Church Friend Ebenezer Chinne and they discuss Trusting God? It’s a great conversation that covers topics having a cell phone without a case, how Job trusted God, how fasting helps us trust God, cheating in High School Spanish, an unexpected UFC fight prediction, a story about Hank the dog & how knowing God is the key to trusting God. Trust God Bro!!! Visit our Website: https://yourchurchfriends.rocks/...
May 25, 2021•54 min•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast Chris sit down with special guest and Church Friend Desiree Plunkett and they talk about Why am I a Christian? It’s a great conversation that covers topics like why Christianity, what led them to Christianity, how our why’s in life can become the idols in our life, trying to eat to much Taco Bell and how that relates to being satisfied in Jesus and how being a follower of Jesus is the only thing that fills the void in our lives. Visit our Website: http://yourchurchfriends.rocks/...
May 18, 2021•56 min•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast Chris & Muireadhach sit down with special guest, their Church Friend and Pastor, Ken Goodban and they discuss How Important is Fellowship. It’s a great conversation that covers how Your Church Friends started and how Ken brought us together, how connecting with others is vital to living, what the pandemic showed us about the need for connecting with others and how Muireadhach made us sad with a story. Visit our Website: http://yourchurchfriends.rocks/...
May 11, 2021•50 min•Ep 33•Transcript available on Metacast Chris & Muireadhach sit down with special guest Ralph Ruiz and they discuss How Does God Talk to Us. It’s a conversation that started on an airplane and ended as a podcast episode that covers God using signs to talk to us, not all signs are from God, warnings from a dream that prevent a tragic event, how good a listener you are, the importance of highway signs and the distractions of billboards. Visit our Website: http://yourchurchfriends.rocks/...
Apr 27, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep 31•Transcript available on Metacast Chris sit down with his Church Friend Matt Wilkerson and they discuss What is Worship. It’s a great conversation that covers is worship more than just music, the role our obedience to God plays in our worship, if Matt is a sloppy wet kiss guy or an unforeseen kiss guy and has the world influenced the way worship God. Visit our Website: http://yourchurchfriends.rocks/
Apr 20, 2021•34 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast Chris & Muireadhach sit down with two very special Church Friends, their wives, Justine Archuleta & Delilah Currie and they discuss Popular Christian Catch Phrases. It’s a great conversation that covers some confessions about things our spouses say that get on our nerves, a scary plane ride, the terms doing life together, God bless you and Heaven gained another Angel and understanding that our words should hold value and shouldn’t be said without meaning or just become repetitive things we say b...
Apr 13, 2021•46 min•Ep 29•Transcript available on Metacast Chris & Muireadhach sit down with their Church Friend Pastor Zachariah and they discuss How to View Easter. It’s a great conversation that covers peeps, a quiz, Easter egg hunts, victory marches and what the focal point of Easter should be for the Christian. Visit our Website: http://yourchurchfriends.rocks/
Apr 06, 2021•53 min•Ep 28•Transcript available on Metacast Why is the Sermon on the Mount So Important? As a husband, father and pastor how do you apply the Sermon on the Mount to your life? If you can make the Sermon on the Mount a hashtag what would it be? Chris sits down with special guest Mark Clark and they discuss these questions and more on this episode of Your Church Friends. Visit our Website: http://yourchurchfriends.rocks/ Buy The Problem of Jesus: https://www.amazon.com/Problem-Jesus-Answering-Skeptics-Challenges/dp/0310108306 Buy The Proble...
Feb 16, 2021•41 min•Ep 27•Transcript available on Metacast What are somethings that Christians without a Jewish background miss from the Sermon on the Mount? Do Jesus’ five sermons in the book of Matthew correlate to the 5 books of the law? What is the Yud? Muireadhach sits down with special guest Brittany Tinney and they discuss these questions and more on this episode of Your Church Friends. Visit our Website: http://yourchurchfriends.rocks/
Feb 02, 2021•58 min•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast What are the foundations every Christian needs to grow their faith? Why is it important to make sure your faith is built on firm foundations? Can we lay a foundation but not build anything? What role does trusting God play in our foundation as a Christian? Chris sits down with special guest Robert Eredia and they discuss these questions and more on this episode of Your Church Friends. Visit our Website: http://yourchurchfriends.rocks/...
Jan 26, 2021•44 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast How important is it to not just hear the Word of God but put it into practice in our lives? Why should we build our lives on the rock instead of on the sand? What is the proper way to respond to God’s Word? Chris & Muireadhach tackle these questions and more on this episode of Your Church Friends! Visit our Website: http://yourchurchfriends.rocks/
Jan 19, 2021•44 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast What is the Prosperity Gospel? Why is it important for a Christian to know the truth? What position should Christians take against False Teacher? Robert Eredia III is back and sits down with Chris as they discuss these questions and more on this episode of Your Church Friends. Visit our website: http://yourchurchfriends.rocks/
Jan 12, 2021•47 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast 
