Midweek Podcast | Jesus is The Gaines

This week we’re with pastor Allen Tipping to talk more about this week’s sermon.

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Columbia You’d Rather Be Here Local Spotlight:

• Spring Valley Country Club - 300 Spring Valley Rd, Columbia, SC 29223

Resources and Quote Mentioned:

• Mere Christianity by CS Lewis

• Philippians sermon series - Downtown | Two Notch | Lexington

"The cross of Christ is sometimes put in Scripture for the life which is the result of faith in Christ. What kind of life should that be? Well, first, a life of self-denial. No man who is the friend of the cross of Christ will give license to his passions, or indulgence to his appetites. If he does so, he proves that he is the enemy of the cross of Christ.”

-Charles Spurgeon

Audio engineering by Andrew Miles

Midweek Podcast | Faithfulness is Getting Back Up

This week we’re with pastor Ant Frederick to talk more about this week’s sermon.

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Columbia You’d Rather Be Here Local Spotlight:

• Sandwich Depot - 1211 Taylor St, Columbia, SC 29201

Resources Mentioned:

• Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering by Tim Keller

• Philippians sermon series - Downtown | Two Notch | Lexington

Audio engineering by Andrew Miles

Midweek Podcast | Friendships and Ministry Relationships

This week we’re with pastor Brandon Clements to talk more about this week’s sermon.

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Columbia You’d Rather Be Here Local Spotlight:

• Bodhi Thai Dining - 126 E Main St, Lexington, SC 29072

Resources Mentioned:

• Philippians sermon series - Downtown | Two Notch | Lexington

Audio engineering by Andrew Miles

Midweek Podcast | Ministry is Sacrifice

This week we’re joined by lead pastor of Citizens Church Tim Olson!

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Charlotte Local Spotlights:

• The Giddy Goat Coffee Roasters - 1217 The Plaza, Charlotte, NC 28205

• Cabo Fish Taco - 3201 N Davidson St., Charlotte, NC 28205

• Whitewater Center - 5000 Whitewater Center Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28214

• Optimist Hall - 1115 N Brevard St, Charlotte, NC 28206

• The Olde Mecklenburg Brewery - 4150 Yancey Road, Charlotte, NC 28217

• Sycamore Brewing - 2161 Hawkins St, Charlotte, NC

• Legion Brewing - 1906 Commonwealth Ave, Charlotte, NC 28205

Resources/Quotes Mentioned:

• A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson by Winn Collier

• Philippians sermon series - Downtown | Two Notch | Lexington

Audio engineering by Andrew Miles

Midweek Podcast | Good Theology, Bad Math

This week we’re with pastor Jon Ludovina to talk more about this week’s sermon.

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Columbia "You’d Rather Be Here” Local Spotlight:

• Black Rooster (201 Meeting St, West Columbia, SC, 29169)

Resources/Quotes Mentioned:

• Delighting in the Trinity by Michael Reeves

• Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem

• The Trinity by Augustine

• "St Patrick’s Bad Analogies" by Lutheran Satire

• “Christological Controversies in the Early Church” by The Gospel Coalition

• “Lower Still” by My Epic

• Philippians sermon series - Downtown | Two Notch | Lexington

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"Humility' is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of oneself."- T.S Eliot

"Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility." - Jonathan Edwards

"God created the world out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us." - Martin Luther

"Just as water seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds the creature empty, His glory and power flow in to exalt and bless." - Andrew Murray

"The only hope of decreasing self is an increasing Christ." - F.B. Meyer

Audio engineering by Andrew Miles

Midweek Podcast | “Are you going to follow your king?"

This week we’re with Pastor Ryan Rike as we discuss the sermon from Sunday.

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Columbia "You’d Rather Be Here” Local Spotlight:

• Drip on Main (1441 Main St, Columbia, SC 29201)

Resources Mentioned:

• Philippians sermon series - Downtown | Two Notch | Lexington

Audio engineering by Andrew Miles

Midweek Podcast | Tertullian, Ted Lasso, and the Gift of Suffering

We’re back this week to talk more about the sermon with…take a guess. We’ll wait.

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Columbia "You’d Rather Be Here” Local Spotlight:

• The Noma Flea/ Noma Warehouse (2222 Sumter St, Columbia, SC 29201)

  ---and a quick shoutout to Melrose Housewares!

Resources/Quotes Mentioned:

“The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church”

-Tertullian

• Philippians sermon series - Downtown | Two Notch | Lexington

Audio engineering by Andrew Miles

Midweek Podcast | “Someone has to go first"

We’re back this week to talk to Pastor Ant Frederick about this Sunday’s sermon.

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Columbia "You’d Rather Be Here” Local Spotlight:

• Ray’s Diner (3110 Two Notch Rd, Columbia, SC 29204)

Resources Mentioned:

“The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord.”
― George Mueller

Audio engineering by Andrew Miles

Midweek Podcast | New Series + What's Coming Up

We’re back this week to talk about our new sermon series. And guess who’s back? Back again?

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Columbia "You’d Rather Be Here” Local Spotlight:

• Savage Craft Ale Works

Resources Mentioned:

• Philippians sermon series - Downtown | Two Notch | Lexington

Audio engineering by Andrew Miles

Midweek Podcast | The Waters We're Swimming In

We’re back this week to talk about the sermon from this week.

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Columbia "You’d Rather Be Here” Local Spotlight:

• Blūm Coffee

Resources Mentioned:

• You Are Here sermon series (Downtown | Two Notch | Lexington)

• Kickoff Weekend 2019

Audio engineering by Andrew Miles

Midweek Podcast | Not the Way It's Supposed to Be

We’re back this week with Pastor Michael Bailey to talk more about this week’s sermon.

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Columbia "You’d Rather Be Here” Local Spotlight:

• Boca Grande

Resources Mentioned:

• Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin by Cornelius Plantinga

• Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ by Dallas Willard

Quotes Mentioned:

“Self-denial” must never be confused with self-rejection; nor is it to be thought of as a painful and strenuous act, perhaps repeated from time to time against great internal resistance. It is, rather, an overall, settled condition of life in the kingdom of God, better described as “death to self.” In this and in this alone lies the key to the soul’s restoration. Christian spiritual formation rests on this indispensable foundation of death to self and cannot proceed except insofar as that foundation is being firmly laid and sustained.

- Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart

Audio engineering by Andrew Miles

Midweek Podcast | Get Behind Thee, Satan!

We’re back this week with Pastor Brandon to talk more about this week’s sermon.

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Audio engineering by Andrew Miles

Columbia "You’d Rather Be Here” Local Spotlight:

• Al-Amir on Main

Resources Mentioned:

• People of the Lie by M Scott Peck, M.D.

• The Unseen Realm by Michael Heiser

• Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston

• "Spiritual Beings" video series by the Bible Project

Midweek Podcast | "Where there's fight, there's life."

This week we’re joined by Midweek-staple Pastor Michael Bailey from Midtown Lexington.

Columbia "You’d Rather Be Here” Local Spotlight:

• Publico

Resources Mentioned:

• The World, The Flesh, and The Devil sermon series resources - Downtown, Lexington, Two Notch

Quote Mentioned:

Almost 100 years ago, an Anglican bishop, J.C. Ryle wrote these words:

“Let me talk to you about true Christianity. There’s a vast quantity of religion current in the world that is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the real thing which was called Christianity 1800 years ago...There are thousands of men and women who go to chapels and churches every Sunday and call themselves Christians. Their names are in the baptismal register. They are reckoned Christians while they live. They are married with a Christian marriage service. They mean to be buried as Christians when they die. But you never see any ‘fight’ about their religion! Of spiritual strife, and exertion, and conflict, and self-denial, and watching, and warring they know literally nothing at all. ...The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict or fight. They eat, they drink, they dress, they work, they amuse themselves, they get money, they spend money, they go through a scanty round of formal religious services once or even twice a week, but the great spiritual warfare … its watchings and strugglings, its agonies and anxieties, its battles and contests … of all this they appear to know nothing at all.

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Midweek Podcast | Columbia. You'd Rather Be Here.

This week we’re with Pastor Allen to talk more about Sunday’s sermon. Plus, the campaign begins for Columbia’s newest slogan! #ColumbiaSC #YoudRatherBeHere

Local Spotlight of the Week

• Riverfront Park

Resources mentioned

• “I Am God” Sermon Series (Downtown, Lexington, Two Notch)

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Audio engineering by Andrew Miles

Midweek Podcast | Elohims and the Empty Religion of Instagram

We’re back this week with Pastor Michael to talk more about this week’s sermon.

Local Spotlight of the Week

• Weco Bottle and Biergarten

• Sorinex Exercise Equipment

Resources mentioned

• “Elohim” by The Bible Project

• The Unseen Realm by Michael Heiser

• “The Empty Religions of Instagram” by Leigh Stein in The New York Times

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Audio engineering by Andrew Miles

Midweek Podcast | The Love Stronger Than Death

We’re joined by pastor Michael Bailey from Midtown Lexington as we talk more about this week’s sermon.

Local Spotlight of the Week

• 5 Points Drip

• Navy Yard on Main

Resources mentioned

• “Where Harry Potter Characters Would Get Coffee in Columbia” by Soda City Podcast

• Mockingbird Ministries

• “Things Too Wonderful for Me: The Book of Job and the Love Stronger than Death” by Samuel Wells

• The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols

• Greater Than series resources

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Audio engineering by Andrew Miles

Midweek Podcast | Raising the Next Generation Together Part 2

We’re back this week with Pastor Jon Ludovina to talk more about this week’s sermon.

Local Spotlight of the Week

• Pho Viet

Resources mentioned

• Parenting Resources by Midtown Fellowship

• Sign up for our City-Wide Milestones Class

• Forgotten Ways: Reactivating Apostolic Movements by Alan Hirsch

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Audio engineering by Andrew Miles

Midweek Podcast | Raising the Next Generation Together

Our apologies for the audio quality this week.

We’re joined this week with Pastor Jon as we pull the curtain back and talk more about this week’s sermon.

Resources mentioned

• Loveland Coffee

• Parenting Resources by Midtown Fellowship

• Kickoff Weekend 2019 teaching content

• “Western Secular Liberalism” explainer video

• “Your Child is Your Neighbor” from The Gospel Coalition

• “This is Water” by David Foster Wallace

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Audio engineering by Andrew Miles

Midweek Podcast | How did we get here?

We’re back this week with Pastor Brandon Clements from Midtown Lexington as we talk more about this week’s sermon.

Resources mentioned

“This is How You Heal the Wound” by Tony Woodlief

The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

We’re in week 2 of Lent. For those fasting with us, we’ve got a resource to help.

Graphic referenced in today’s podcast.

Midweek Podcast | "This was my perception, can you help me?"

We’re back this week with Pastor Brandon from Midtown Lexington as we pull the curtain back and talk more about this week’s sermon.

Full quote referenced in the podcast:

“Historians will record that in the early decades of the twenty-first century we became an unforgiving society, a society of furies, a society in search of guilt and shame, a society of sanctimonies and “struggle sessions” American-style. They will admire our awakening to prejudice but lament the sometimes prejudicial ways in which we acted on our progressive realizations. In this respect America should become more Christian. (There, I said it.) For all our elaborate culture of self-knowledge, for all the hectoring articulateness of our identity vocabularies, we are still, each of us, our own blind spots. We should welcome every person we meet as a small blow against blindness.”

- “Steadying” by Leon Wieseltier in Liberties

Resource spotlight:

Our Ash Wednesday event is canceled but check out our resource on fasting for you and your LifeGroup to walk through - here.

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Audio engineering by Andrew Miles