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Church Hurts And
by Dr. John Bash
Are you a person who witnessed hypocrisy in the church and decided it was time to move on? Church Hurts is for you. We saw some of the same things and are asking, “And?” Join us as we tackle issues from every walk of life, delve into the spiritual without apology and ask, “What’s the Church got to do with it?”
Episodes
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The Most Reluctant Convert with Max McLean
Who is your favorite famous personality, writer, actor, politician? Isn’t that an easy ice breaker for a small group discussion? I’m guessing your mind is already wondering to that person, thinking of favorite anecdotes you have about them on the tip of you tongue. But now imagine you have the...
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God, Golf, and Grace with Dr. Doug Rehberg
Producer: Church Hurts And is a listener-supported podcast. Please go to ChurchHurtsAnd.org and click on the DONATE button to become part of our support team. Do you need grace? Tired of feeling judged by Christians? Stay tuned as we look at God, Golf, and Grace with Dr. Doug Rehberg. I have seen...
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Improving Lives by Design with Architect Ron Thomas
Have you ever had something happen to you which has haunted you for your entire life? Playing in the woods was my favorite part of childhood in suburban Pittsburgh. As those years passed, the woods continued to provide new discoveries, new paths, new creatures, and invited adventures created by...
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Deep Pain with Dr.Mark Talbot
Ever faced pain? I mean real pain, deep pain, defining pain? Stay tuned as we look today at “Deep Pain with Dr. Mark Talbot” author of “When the Stars Disappear”. Church Hurts And is a listener-supported podcast. Go to ChurchHurtsAnd.org and click on the DONATE button to become part of our…
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Forgiving the Nightmare with Mark Sowersby
Church Hurts And is a listener-supported podcast. Go to ChurchHurtsAnd.org to click on the DONATE button and become part of our support team. Have you ever had something happen to you which has haunted you for your entire life? Forgiving the Nightmare with Mark Sowersby “I really don’t like Bob....
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Romantic Theology Today with Dr. Michael J. Christensen
If you benefit from this radio show/podcast and would like to support the ongoing efforts of this ministry, you can do so by visiting https://churchhurtsand.org. Donations are tax-deductible, needed, and appreciated more than you know. Have you ever heard of Romantic Theology? Sounds good…
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Reality, Jazz AND Faith with John Patitucci
If you are a jazz fan, you don’t want to miss this. If you aren’t, get ready to learn from an amazing man accomplished in a lot of ways. Today, bass virtuoso, John Patitucci. PREFACE: Reality, Jazz, AND Faith If you grew up in a church traditional at all, you will remember a worship component...
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Crazy Church Boards with William Larson, Esq.
If you’ve ever wanted to scream the classic Rodney King line, “Why can’t we all just get along?” it might have been in church. Today: Crazy Church Boards with Attorney William Larson. Did you take civics or political science when you went to school? Part of basic education is learning how people...
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Animals, Family AND Photos with Holly Youngblood Cannon
Are you an animal lover? Have a soft spot for the furry creatures of the forest or the brilliant feathered friends above? Today, Animals, Family,and Photos with Award-Winning Wild Life Photographer and Artist, Holly Cannon. Do you know the three basic distinctions which make up the foundation for...
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Death, Drugs, AND Church with Jeff & Shannon Bryant
Know what it is like to live with a smile masking pain and hurt so deep there aren’t enough drugs to cover it up? Today, Death, Drugs, AND Church with Jeff & Shannon Bryant. It is hard to imagine this today, but there was a time when the selection of a marriage partner began with the assumption…
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Brain Science AND Belief with Dr. Ken Baugh
Ever thought the devil made you do it? Why do you do what you do and how does faith fit into it? Don’t tell anybody, but I’ve gotten addicted to binge-watching a series on Netflix. No, really, don’t tell anyone because the language is way too graphic, and the sex on the screen won’t pass any…
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Man of Iron with Terry Kolb
In our opening, we mention having a “dash of recovery” thrown in. What is that? Recovery? Recovery from what? If you Google recovery, the first thing to come up will be how to recover a lost or corrupted Word document. That is something we hope we don’t have to do anytime soon. But we are looking...
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Bonhoeffer 1945 AND Today with D. Paul Thomas
Bonhoeffer 1945 and Today I don’t know about you, but I know life seems more complicated to me today than it was years ago. What used to be apparent black and white issues have turned into an insane amount of grays and purples and browns. It reminded me of third-grade art class when we were first...
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Heart of the Artist with Rory Noland
Christian Podcast | Heart of the Artist I was the ripe old age of 22, settled into a graduate school outside of Chicago, and attempting to adjust to the north again after a marvelous year working in Key Biscayne, Florida. My father had died the previous year from sorosis of the liver, leaving me…
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Inside a Princess with K.D. Holmberg
Inside a Princess. I am guessing you think your intuition is pretty good. You read people rather well. Trust your instincts. “Trust the Force, Luke.” At the core of the romantic ideal in America today is the scene of two unknowns who look across a crowded room, happen to catch the eyes of each...
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London Town, Slaves and Grace with Ben Virgo
PART 1. I was disappointed when my hostess in London informed me she had set up a tour for us to go on. I’m not a tour-going kind of tourist and I was sure no tour was going to show me to the kind of places I’d want to see. “But it is the Christian Heritage Tour” she explained, a bit hurt by my...
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Your Story Isn't Finished with Brian Mann
Virginia Woolf once said, “If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people.” Let me repeat that, “If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people.” That is rather scary if you think about it. Four years ago, I went through a...
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Extreme Truth with Dr. Richard Knodel
One of the pains of getting older comes in attempting to accept changes, even embrace changes, rather than staying stuck in old ways and acting precisely like the old people at whom you used to roll your eyes. By allowing myself to be stereotyped as an old curmudgeon in the introduction to this...
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The Odyssey of King David with Dr. Sam Mayhugh & D. Paul Thomas
Everything changes when one is introduced with the title of “Pastor” or “Reverend” or “Father” or “Preacher.” An individual self-consciousness seems to invade the social space, consistently altering the subject under discussion. People somehow seem obligated to qualify themselves, dropping a...
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Relationship Pain with Brian Holian
Relationship Pain. Ever been excommunicated? I mean, kicked out of a church kind of excommunicated? Sounds like we are talking about the Middle Ages, doesn’t it? Does that really happen anymore? I mean, there are churches for every species of thought under heaven. One church I visited had a...
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Finding My Parents with Tim Dyson
Radio Show Surprise Ending. When I was growing up, professional athletes were a little less “professional” than today. T.V. cameras and interviews after the game often included “Hi Mom!” and thanks to their parents for getting them to such a success point. Back then, I found it a bit annoying,...
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Fiction Meets Life with Michael Phillips
I grew up in a home where I was encouraged to read, perhaps not in the healthiest of manners, but encouraged to read nonetheless. My natural adversarial personality did not accept such prodding easily, my push-back coming in the form of, or preference to, physical activity. Give me a ball of any...
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Inside a Book Doctor with Dr. Steve Halliday
OC Talk Radio Show: If you are not a reader, you may be tempted to hang up, turn off, or otherwise ignore this show when you hear the title "Inside a Book Doctor." I encourage you not to because we will look at some things that may confirm suspicions you have about books, or at least I hope we...
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Creatively Faith with Hope Harrison
What are you good at doing? I mean really good. Did math come easy for you? What about sports? Do you enjoy adding up the numbers while someone else is going out there and doing the sales? Maybe cooking, or comforting those who are hurting, or motivating the discouraged. Perhaps you are a…
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Filling In the Ruts with Daren Young
Is your life going smoothly this week? Had a smooth beginning to the year? Would "smooth" describe the nature of your life? I'm just guessing here, but I suspect I haven't gotten a "yes" from you yet. Smooth is an expected ideal much more than a reality experienced with any frequency. Many years...
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Shoe Dog Decisions with David Corsi
In 1982 I was ordained in downtown Chicago. The service was a big deal. My favorite preacher, Steve Brown, whose God-like voice you hear on the intro to this show, came and preached. Lots of my friends were there, my little start-up church which is still alive and well today was hosting the...
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Making the Links with Wally Armstrong
If you don’t like golf, don’t hang up. I understand. And if you don’t like golf, and you find yourself continuing to find a way to get to the golf course, really don’t hang up! Today we will be talking about golf, but we are going to make links to real-life, which could be soul-changing for you....
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Sinner Saints Revealed with Ben Virgo
Sinful Saints Revealed. How is that for the title of our show today? It sounds like a bad headline from a trashy newspaper found in the check out line in a second rate grocery store. Sinful Saints Revealed. Really? Did you know that the word “saint” means many different things depending on who…
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Nightmare Before Christmas with Dave Stevens
Of all the tales of redemption one could tell at Christmastime, there is none for me quite like Charles Dickens’ novella written in 1843 entitled “A Christmas Carol”. Four spirits visit the classic character Ebenezer Scrooge in his fitful sleep, causing insight and discontent only to be resolved…
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Standing Stone Ministry with Jim & Debbie Hogan
Standing Stones. Ever thought much about these unusual large standing stones, which probably bring to mind the famous Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England? You probably haven't, and for a good reason. We don't know much about them. These sizeable ancient rock formations come with little explanation.…
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How to Christmas with Dr. Perry Downs
How to Christmas. If I asked you to tell me about how you do Christmas I bet you’d start telling me about family traditions, decorations, schedules for opening presents, typical attendance at Church services, and stuff like that. Right? Now you want to tell me about the lights you’ve put up in…
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Catholic, Celibate and Real with Msgr. Paul Dudziak
It was one of those moments in life recorded in my brain in full color and stereo sound even though there wasn’t much color, and there wasn’t much sound. It was November in rural Southern Maryland, where the grayness and chill of winter overtook Autumn’s charm. My candidating sermon had been…
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Children, Agony and Praise with Jana Alayra
Children change the matrix. Did you ever notice this? You are in an argument with your husband, and it is getting heated. He’s being stubborn, won’t get your point, and keeps saying the same things over and over. About to notch it up one more level on the intensity scale, you hear the…
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Liturgy, Crisis and Culture with the Very Reverend Father Chip Edgar
Looks don't matter. “It is what is on the inside that counts.” Most of us grew up hearing some version of this. In reality, I'm afraid this little ditty may not hold up so well, but at least it causes us to reflect. Dating sites without photos don't go very far. We want our partners to be deep…
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Practical, Political Correctness with Dr. Dan Lind
Are you tired? How about stressed? Do you find anxiety in your stomach these days, which is frustrating to diagnose and almost impossible to remove? Are you reaching for the Tums container more than usual? I didn’t need the Poll taken last week by the APA (American Psychiatric Association) to…
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Education, Learning and Growth with Dr. Perry Downs
Discipleship was the trend in Evangelical Christian circles when I was in school. Young converts or “committed Christians” were encouraged to talk a more mature Christian into “discipling” them. Many made it a formal process, going through books together or meeting at a particular time with a...
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Country, Christ, and Classics with Ben Virgo
When the virus called Corona hit Southern California’s shores, I was determined to practice the spiritual principles I have learned in recent years. Believing that God is in charge of every molecule under heaven, I had good reason not to get all stressed out. The equation added civil unrest and...
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Justice, Race and Relatives with Wm. Difenderfer, Esq.
Where do you go when you get in trouble? I mean real trouble. Since this is Church Hurts And you may be trying to outthink me and are guessing I am about to launch into the availability of the God of the Universe in prayer, but not today. Today I am asking this in a really tactile visceral way. I...
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Never Broken, Never with Zack Collie
Life just isn’t fair. There is not a parent alive, probably in any culture, who doesn’t have burned into their memory the way their child expressed this sentiment. It’s not fair. It’s just not fair. Most likely that scream or whine or tearful plea comes at the behest of oneself relative to…
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Change, Absolutes and Church with Richard Dahlstrom
I have always said the “C” word changes everything. Are you struggling with things in your life today? Money problems? Family issues? Health difficulties? Problems at work? Have you given those things the “C” word test? You know, cancer. How do your problems stand up next to the call from the...
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Clean, Sober and Wonderful with Kaitlyn Anne
165,148. That’s how many deaths from COVID-19 to date in the United States. Everything in life has changed as we live in fear and shock from this once in a lifetime pandemic. 67,367 that’s how many people died from drug overdoses in 2018. 70,237 was the number the year earlier. Wait. I’m talking...
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Politics, Politics and Church with Dr. Art Lindsley
Never in my lifetime has politics felt so contentious. I know as a preacher I am given to hyperbole, but not this time. This is an ugly, visceral, palpable, and vomit-producing level. It can even make family gatherings stressful, divide generations, and kill any notion of a wonderful community.…
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Sex, Church and Ministers with Ned Beadel
I was only 15 when I first thought about going into the ministry. In light of the fact that I hadn’t grown up in church, and my mind was filled with sex (isn’t that what 15 means?), it was a unique spiritual dynamic. Still, it was at that age I received what is considered a “call” in the church...
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Part 2 London Town, Slaves and Grace with Ben Virgo
Before we go, I’d just like to take a moment to say a word about perspective. Ben Virgo on the Christian Heritage Tour gave me a perspective of London I simply never would have had if I hadn’t gone on that tour. It wasn’t all new information to me, I knew some of it, but it sure was different...
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Clergy, Congregations and Me with Dr. Sam Hamstra
Losing My Religion. That was the title of a book written in 2009 with this subtitle: “How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America and Found Unexpected Peace”. It was a great read. It ended up being the atheist book of the year and certainly one of my favorites. It was well written, a…
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Two Things I Hate - Dr. Voddie Baucham
Sir Michael Caine, the famed two-time Academy Award-winning English actor once said: “There are only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.” Now that was a great comedic line and the Dutch are a fun and easy target, but I’m not kidding...
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White, English & Privileged-Julia Nand
I’ll never forget the first time I heard someone mention WASP and realized they weren’t talking about those bee-like creatures who sting and are really scary. I was quite young and when the acrostic was explained to me I realized I was still lost. I only understood what one of the four words…
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Messy, Confusing & Personal - Rich Hurst
Are you a good host or hostess? If you aren’t sure of that answer, let me tell you how you can figure it out. Do people like coming to your house? When you are hosting, is it a fun time had by all? Now let me tell you a secret. I have come to believe that there is a direct inverse proportion...
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Pick Your God II: India & Irvine- Dr. Francis Burgula
Part 2 with Francis. I don’t know many Indians. As an American, I want to say, “You know like Indian Indians, not like American Indians.” I can not imagine how ignorant that must sound to the people who make up 1.3 billion of the world’s population. If you need something to put that in…
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Pick Your God - Dr. Francis Burgula
What god do you believe in? Imagine that as the icebreaker question at a party or business roundtable. Quickly we would realize why the old adage came to be, “We can talk about anything but politics or religion.” Violate that rule and trouble is sure to brew. But isn’t it a legitimate question?...
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Are you a person who witnessed hypocrisy in the church and decided it was time to move on? Church Hurts is for you. We saw some of the same things and are asking, “And?” Join us as we tackle issues from every walk of life, delve into the spiritual without apology and ask, “What’s the Church got to do with it?”
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