On today's episode Nate, Gene, and Logan chat with Amazon's Alexa about 5 Facts You Didn't Know About The Last Jedi, Logan discusses some worldview implications for The Last Jedi, the gents play a 2017 trivia game, and they count down their top 3 lists:

1. Top 3 Movies/TV of 2017
2. Top 3 ACL Posts of 2017
3. Top 3 Books of 2017

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On today's episode Nate chats with Dayton Hartman, pastor and author of Church History for Modern Ministry.

Some questions discussed on this episode:

1. How does today's church compare to the church in Acts?
2. What is real discipleship?
3. Why does preaching require apologetics?

We are giving away some free copies of Dayton's excellent book! For more on that, listen closely to this episode.

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On today's episode Nate chats with Dr. Michael Horton, host of The White Horse Inn and author of Rediscovering the Holy Spirit.

Some questions discussed on this episode:

1. How are we "shrinking" our understanding of the Holy Spirit?
2. Were the gift of tongues private prayer language or an objective foreign language?
3. Should we pray to the Holy Spirit?

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On today's episode Nate and Gene answer a listener question about pastor bonuses, Nate discusses the claim that taxing the rich is biblical in a Worldview Analysis segment, and the gents discuss 2 topics:

1. Does the Masterpiece Cakeshop Have a Strong Case?
2. What Does Discipleship Look Like?

Articles discussed on the show:

"The Republican Tax Bill Is Not Just Immoral. It Is An Act of Violence"

"Stop Misrepresenting Masterpiece Cakeshop"

"New Research on the State of Discipleship"

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On today's episode Nate chats with Brett Kunkle, Founder and CEO of Maven and the co-author of A Practical Guide to Culture.

Some questions discussed on this episode:

1. What is culture and how does it shape us?
2. What happens to us when we spend so much time on our devices?
3. How does the culture lie about gender identity and what should we do to counter that?

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