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Kenny Stroud's avatar

Thank you Ryan and Joey for your commitment towards this podcast. It brings me joy when I see a new upload from y’all. This podcast helps me keep my mind with pure thoughts throughout a work day.

I would say the only thing I would love to see from you both is just series on certain scriptures. This generation we live in longs for knowledge as do I. I enjoy subjects with scriptures that unpack into 30mins-1hour+ that could also be separated into parts. I enjoy more of the in-depth studies rather than the surface level. I have no certain topics either, I find any subject that is brought through scripture will be profitable.

I look forward to the future of this podcast and both of your endeavors with your local bodies in the church.

God bless

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Becky Little's avatar

I’m not surprised at all by the many listeners you all have. You both exude the truth with love very well. Christ is exalted and magnified at all costs with you two which is much appreciated and clearly displayed. I’m extremely happy to hear you both will be continuing.

TOPICS:

1. The importance of being fruitful and multiplying. Nowadays people think it’s a personal choice to have or not have kids. For some Christian’s I’ve talked with say yeah, I just don’t think I want them. No matter their age or health concerns. I know health reasons can be a issue or barrier and that’s different. Could you both have a discussion on the attitude of “ehh I just don’t feel like having kids ever” syndrome these days and what that looks like for a Christian? Maybe even segue into more chat about abortion and how wrong that is if they happen to get pregnant anyways.

3. Encouragement and discussion for people with infertility and or child loss. Encouragement for those whose doctors are not caring for them well and when doctors are wanting to not gender your children when born or very worldly doctors who distort parents views and doctors who have their own agenda for your child or your family. It’s hard to find doctors or many people these days who fall into biblical views of healthcare. Of course keep trying to find a better doctor but what about when you can’t or don’t. Infertility doesn’t stop. Child loss doesn’t stop. You can’t always wait until you find the right doctor to try to get pregnant and losing a child happens way to frequently to see if a doctor will care about you or the loss of your child. What can we say to our friends and family to encourage them and how can those who are going through that themselves be encouraged.

2. Parenting. How in the world do we navigate through this chaos the world is throwing at our children and the families. Talk about more specifics with our kids. What words or phrases can we instill in our children to love and encourage them to know the truth. Obviously scripture, but what do you both tell your kids specifically if you are guys are willing to share that.

Also, what can we do when your child is refusing to pray and not wanting to talk to Jesus or about Jesus. Them having a I don’t want to attitude. What can we say or do to help that?

Bringing your kids around friends or family that are not Christian’s. How to navigate that? It’s a war going over houses or even meeting up sometimes and protecting your child from the things family or friends say or do or what is in their house or around them. How can we as parents protect our children from these things while still loving on family and friends who are not Christian’s?

3. The church lacking zeal for worship. When praise and worship is going on and the room looks like it’s full of dead people or them in a zombie like state not at all engaging in worship to the Lord. Too busy concerned what songs is or not playing, constantly worried about this or that and people are missing out on time with the Lord because of anxieties and worry and judgement of the music or service or whatever else reasons. Instead of worshiping God, I see people worshiping their fears and anxiety or being super judgmental about how “real” churches are doing things.

4. A list of Christian books you all approve of and do not approve of. Some people don’t have all the time in the world to read all the books thrown at them or that is out there to discern if the book is good or not. In trusting your alls opinion on books, it would be nice to have a filter or buffer for picking books and not wasting time on books that are not worth the read and people who don’t have the time to figure out if the book is solid in biblical doctrine and theology. And of course books are not the Bible so we need to be cautious anyways and still have the discernment to tell if even the books on y’all’s list is good, but a narrower selection would be helpful.

5. Kind of like the topic above would be topics of Christian artists, authors, music. What is concerning and or not acceptable and or acceptable? Certain bands or groups or pastors or authors to stay away from or to go to for biblical truth. This falls in the discernment area as well of course, but maybe a discussion about this would be helpful to some who may be quite lost and to help me know what to say to those people who fall in this category.

Im sure more topics will arise in the future. I’m so glad for the topics you both have already discussed. You both are so appreciated and I’m thankful to have you all to listen to. I hope what I’ve said or asked makes sense and didn’t get distorted or misinterpreted.

Thank you Joey and Ryan.

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Laura J Davidson's avatar

Ryan and Joey, here are my comments for what they're worth 🤦‍♀️.

I like it when the two of you are presenting together so I'm glad you'll still be doing that monthly.

I'm particular about the topics because for the most part I feel like I learn from everything that is presented but I have particularly enjoyed it when you guys discuss the craziness that's gojng on in our society and how as believers among other disbelievers we handle this.

Aside from that, I'm glad I'm not the only listener 🤣🤣

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