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Episode 241: Grassroots Theological Training — Brandon Seaver (Part 2)
“Don’t be afraid—if you feel like your church is not…teaching the Confessions and the Creeds…engage your pastors lovingly in that conversation…Be…
Sep 1
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Jason Ruis
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August 2025
Episode 240: Rootedness in an Unmoored Culture — Brandon Seaver (Part 1)
“We have an opportunity here that I haven’t seen The Banner embrace…Our youth, this next generation, is so hungry for truth, and we have an opportunity…
Aug 27
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Jason Ruis
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Episode 239: The Physical Church Matters — Brittany Clark (Part 2)
“We need to be dependent upon [Jesus Christ], and looking to him for our marching orders, and not any certain place or people.
Aug 18
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Jason Ruis
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Episode 238: On the Cusp of Something Really Special — Brittany Clark (Part 1)
“Other delegates that had been to pervious synods [commented throughout the week] about how it [was] such a different feeling this year than previous…
Aug 11
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Jason Ruis
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Episode 237: The Strategic Importance of High School Ministry
“Broader—denominationally, I think we need a couple of things moving into this rebuilding phase.
Aug 4
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Jason Ruis
July 2025
Episode 236: Called to Raise Up Future Church Leaders
"We challenge our kids to take AP psych and AP calc and all of these things.
Jul 29
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Jason Ruis
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Episode 235: Synod 2025 — Build Something Better Than Your Complaints — Stephen Terpstra (Part 2)
“Being a pastor [or] missionary is not always comfortable…but somewhere along the way we lost the sense that it’s worth it…Christ is worth it, and the…
Jul 21
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Jason Ruis
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Episode 234: Synod 2025 — Unashamedly Embracing Our Reformed Identity — Stephen Terpstra (Part 1)
“…The Boomers were in charge for a really long time—an outsized amount of time relative to generational change…Their idea of openness became more and…
Jul 16
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Jason Ruis
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Episode 233: Synod 2025 — The Problem of Theological Mediocrity — Chris Ganski (Part 2)
“My big worry…is we do not have qualified pastors coming into the denomination to lead churches…It is close to crisis…We need to inspire young folks to…
Jul 7
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Jason Ruis
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June 2025
Episode 232: Synod 2025 — Oneness and Holiness-The Tension of a Faithful Church — Chris Ganski (Part 1)
“We [had] the broad spectrum ideologically…or theologically…and people coming at things very differently, but I was really amazed at how well we are…
Jun 30
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Jason Ruis
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Episode 231: Synod 2025 — Slow, Steady, Faithful Reformation
“I’m choosing to leave encouraged…The ship is being steered rightly, but…the ship steers slowly.
Jun 28
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Jason Ruis
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Episode 230: Synod 2025 — The Trajectory of Reformation & Rebuilding
“Anybody who thinks we're going backwards is not seeing things accurately… We're maybe not going forwards as fast as you would like, but there's no way…
Jun 23
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Jason Ruis
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