Best Field Preachers Podcasts (2024)

Send us a Text Message. Segment One: Audrey Jackson reports from the Church of Christ in Nazareth, Israel (with Maurice Jadon and Sandro Jadon) The Christian Chronicle's Audrey Jackson reports in from Nazareth, Israel, where she is a guest of the Church of Christ there. Arab Israeli Christians of Palestinian heritage, Maurice Jadon and Sandro Jadon…

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A Proper Regard

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1 Corinthians 4

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Church is Changing: Episode 54 – Beth Estock 37:27

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In this episode of Church is Changing, Paul Nixon interviews co-host Beth Estock about a new ministry of her church: community dinners. Why would a church throw a community-wide dinner where there is absolutely no recruiting for church participation? Among the many reasons, it is making Joseph United Methodist Church in northeastern Oregon a legend…

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WHAT is your Preacher?

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God's Field; God's Building

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1 Corinthians 3:6-23

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Episode 71: How the American Revolution influenced the Church of Christ (Dr. Richard Hughes) 47:59

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Send us a Text Message. Over the last few hundred years, Christians in many different places and times moved to restore the New Testament church. The Church of Christ community emerged from one of those movements that started and spread on the American frontier in the years just after the founding of the United States. In this episode, we explore h…

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Wisdom for the Mature

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Preaching to What End?

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What Christ Becomes to Us

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Episode 70: What does it mean to be "pro-life" two years after Dobbs? 55:56

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Send us a Text Message. On the two-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, we explore what is happening now with abortion in the United States, in general, and the Church of Christ community in particular. Segment One: Tessa Cox, Charlotte Lozier Institute What overall effect has the Do…

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Church is Changing: Episode 53 - Claire McNulty Drewes 30:12

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In this episode, Paul Nixon interviews Rev. Claire McNulty Drewes of Longmont, Colorado on how her church rebounded so significantly after the pandemic, more than doubling in the last two years. Her analysis defies many old instincts and assumptions. In the conversation, Claire references the book "The Adept Church" by Doug Powe Jr.…

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Preeminent Person in the Church

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Silenced and Shamed by the Cross

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Introduction to Corinthians

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Episode 69: Tear down this highway! One congregation, two full-time preachers (one Black, one White); Miss Juneteenth USA runner up Madison Swain 47:23

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Send us a Text Message. Segment One: Dr. Warren Blakney, North Peoria Church of Christ, Tulsa, Oklahoma The North Peoria Church of Christ recently received a $1.6 million federal grant to study the removal of one mile of Interstate 244 through the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Senior minister Dr. Warren Blakney explains why this is the…

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Holy Aspirations (Father's Day)

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Episode 68: Calling for peace in Gaza, a foreign mission field in Florida, and voices from the future 51:26

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Send us a Text Message. Segment One: Calling for peace in Gaza (James Michael Crusoe, Arlington Road Church of Christ, Hopewell Virginia) Inspired by the "message of reconciliation" in Second Corinthians 5:18-20, 13 leaders from Church of Christ congregations in seven states and one South African province recently signed a letter calling for an imm…

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Would You Follow Jesus?

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Episode 67: Erik Tryggestad reports from on the street in Kyiv, Ukraine 35:06

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Send us a Text Message. Christian Chronicle CEO (and sometimes globetrotting field reporter) Erik Tryggestad calls in live (at recording time) from the street in suburban Kyiv. He reports on how the continuing war to repel Russia's invasion is testing the faith, hope, and love of the Church of Christ community in Ukraine and beyond. A test that the…

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Episode 66: Loving neighbors in "America's jihad capital." AI comes to church. Down Syndrome is their spiritual gift and superpower. 48:22

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Send us a Text Message. A few months ago, The Wall Street Journal called Dearborn, Michigan, "America's jihad capital," a characterization that the city's mayor called "inflammatory and untrue." The fact is that Dearborn (population 110,000) is America's only major city with a majority Muslim population. Parkside Church of Christ, a congregation th…

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Set Apart for Eternity (Parent/Child Dedication)

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Matthew 16:24-27

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To Know the Mysteries

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Matthew 13:1-23

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Episode 65: The Hattie Jo Collins Story 44:14

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Send us a Text Message. On March 3, 2020, an EF4 tornado struck Cookeville, Tennessee, in the middle of the night, taking the lives of 19 people. Among those who died was four-year old Hattie Jo Collins, the oldest daughter of Macy and Matt Collins. In this episode, Macy and Matt tell the story of what happened that night and in the "dark night of …

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Church is Changing: Episode 52 – Keren Rodriguez 37:05

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How did an aging suburban church in decline become a community hub of resilience and new life? Listen to this interview with Keren Rodriguez, pastor of Aloha United Methodist Church located less than 15 miles from downtown Portland, Oregon.Rodriguez is on the front line of providing housing for the houseless in the parking lot of the church called …

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Worthy of Honor

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Philippians 2:1-11

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Considerations for the Christian Soldier

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Reaching the Unreached

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Matthew 28:18-19

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What God Hates

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Episode 64: Dr. Brad East REALLY doesn't want to talk about Christian nationalism 50:26

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Send us a Text Message. Over the last few months (and years), "Christian nationalism" became a buzzword in both Christian and mainstream news media. A few years ago, barely anyone knew the term. Now it may be making its way into everyday conversations, if not the pews at local congregations. But is Christian nationalism even worth talking about? Dr…

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Church is Changing: Episode 51 – Wayner Dickert 26:52

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How did an Olympic paddler end up starting a worldwide ministry on the banks of the Nantahala River? Wayner Dickert worked for 30 years at the Nantahala Outdoor Center in North Carolina before asking his boss if he could start a little worship service on the bank of the river. Now 18 years later, Wayner will be retiring as the pastor of River of Li…

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Episode 63: Philip Yancey, author of 'What Went Wrong? Russia's Lost Opportunity and the Path to Ukraine' 38:38

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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, The Christian Chronicle's CEO, Erik Tryggestad, interviews popular Christian author Philip Yancey, who recently co-wrote with John A. Bernbaum What Went Wrong? Russia's Lost Opportunity and the Path to Ukraine. Yancey was one of the first Western Christians that leaders of the former Soviet Union invited in …

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Worthy

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When Do We Pray?

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Selected Text from Luke

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Episode 62: Christian nationalism, LGBTQ+ students at Christian schools, and deep inside the Vatican 59:00

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Send us a Text Message. After some time away from the studio (to finish and graduate from the Master of Religious Education in Missional Leadership program at Rochester Christian University), host BT Irwin returns with an episode chock full of information and insight on two timely topics (Christian nationalism and the mental health of LGBTQ+ studen…

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Church is Changing: Episode 50 – Dr. Andrea Smith 34:55

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In this episode, host Paul Nixon interviews Dr. Andrea Smith, planter pastor of West UMC in Lake Norman, North Carolina, a church that has morphed with nimbleness ever since it was planted. A focus of the conversation is related to a digital children's ministry that grew out of the pandemic and has continued to develop, as they seek to engage an ev…

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What's Driving You?

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The Day of the Lord Will Come

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Equipped and Aware

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Escape & Preservation - Conclusion

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Church is Changing: Episode 49 – Felicia Hopkins 30:05

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In this episode, Paul Nixon interviews Northwest Texas DS Felicia Hopkins on her experience through disaffiliation of 80 percent of her churches. Hopkins also discusses moving onto a season of planting and creativity in West Texas.By Church is Changing

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Episode 61: Christian attitudes on immigration, earthquake recovery in Turkey, and the national champion Freed-Hardeman men's basketball team 52:36

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Send us a Text Message. In this episode: Christian attitudes on immigration in the United States, how the church is helping its neighbors recover from the 2023 earthquakes in Turkey, and how the Freed-Hardeman University men's basketball team won the NAIA national championship..."the right way." Segment One: Christian attitudes on immigration in th…

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Escape & Preservation

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The Amazing Word

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Episode 60: All about The Christian Chronicle's all new look 53:00

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Send us a Text Message. The Christian Chronicle, Inc. is getting all-new branding and design across all of its media. In this episode, you'll hear from those who had a hand in the makeover as well as two senior journalism majors who make some predictions about how The Christian Chronicle may function and look in the future. Segment One: The Christi…

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Church is Changing: Episode 48 – Paul Nixon 34:51

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If you refuse to lead a dying church, this conversation is for you! Paul Nixon has recently revised his best-selling book "I Refuse to Lead a Dying Church" for the new cultural context in which we find ourselves.In this episode, he offers six choices that churches and church leaders need to make in order to thrive in our post-Covid world. They incl…

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