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Red Couch Theology
by South Fellowship Church
We know there’s only so much we can cover in a Sunday morning gathering at South Fellowship, so we invite you to dive deeper with us through our podcast, Red Couch Theology – Sermon Conversations with Alex and Aaron. Recorded live every Thursday at 11am, Pastors Alex, Aaron, and occasional guests engage in casual, insightful conversations that unpack and explore the ideas from the previous Sunday’s teaching. If you want to go further into the texts and subjects we discuss in our Sunday gatherings, this podcast is for you! Submit your questions at redcouchtheology.com.
Episodes
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Is God Different in the Old Testament?
Is the God of the Old Testament really the same God we see in Jesus? This week, Pastors Alex and Aaron wrestle with some difficult passages in Scripture, exploring how God's compassion, grace, and judgment fit together and why Jesus is the clearest picture of God's character.They also tackle...
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Is There a Limit to Grace?
Is there a limit to grace? And if there’s always more grace, what keeps grace from becoming permission to do whatever we want? Alex and Aaron are joined by Nathan Holmes to continue the conversation around Ephesians 2:1–10, exploring “grace period, not grace plus,” the things we’re tempted to add...
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Knowing About God vs. Knowing God
What does it look like to move from knowing about God to truly experiencing him? This week, Alex and Aaron explore Paul's prayer in Ephesians 1 and the relationship between our minds, emotions, worship, and prayer. They share personal stories about encountering God's love, discuss why music and...
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The One Thing the World Can’t Take Away From You
What can we hold onto when so much in life can change, disappoint, or disappear? This week on Red Couch Theology, the conversation turns to grace, the gift we don’t earn and the one thing the world can’t take away from us. Together, we explore what it looks like to receive that grace for…
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Justice, Advocacy, and the Heart of God
There’s only so much we can cover in a Sunday morning gathering! Each week, you’re invited to tune into our podcast, “Red Couch Theology – Sermon Conversations with Alex and Aaron.” We record our podcast live every Thursday at 11am. What can you expect? Pastors Alex, Aaron, and the occasional…
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God Has Plans For Your Plans
There’s only so much we can cover in a Sunday morning gathering! Each week, you’re invited to tune into our podcast, “Red Couch Theology – Sermon Conversations with Alex and Aaron.” We record our podcast live every Thursday at 11am. What can you expect? Pastors Alex, Aaron, and the occasional…
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Iron Sharpens Iron: It's Harder Than It Sounds
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week I have Sean Switzer on the show because he preached a message on this famous proverb, as iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. But today we talk about how easy and how smoothly that phrase...
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"Train Up a Child" - Parenting Wisdom, Not a Formula
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we're talking about the complicated and emotionally charged topic of parenting. Train up a child on the way they should go and then when they grow old, they will not depart from it. Today we talk a…
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The Two Faces of Pride
Hello, hello and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we have Nathan Holmes on the show because he brought the message on Sunday about pride. And we talk about how pride might actually show up in some ways that we don't normally think about. Obviously, we…
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What does "A Gentle Answer" Really Mean?
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we have Dan Elliott on the show because he preached the message and talked about a gentle answer turning away wrath. What does that actually mean, gentle? Do you just talk quieter? And does it actually...
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"Fearing God" Might Not Mean What You Think
There’s only so much we can cover in a Sunday morning gathering! Each week, you’re invited to tune into our podcast, “Red Couch Theology – Sermon Conversations with Alex and Aaron.” We record our podcast live every Thursday at 11am. What can you expect? Pastors Alex, Aaron, and the occasional…
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What's it mean to Guard Your Heart?
There’s only so much we can cover in a Sunday morning gathering! Each week, you’re invited to tune into our podcast, “Red Couch Theology – Sermon Conversations with Alex and Aaron.” We record our podcast live every Thursday at 11am. What can you expect? Pastors Alex, Aaron, and the occasional…
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Trust in the Lord...but how?
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, we got to talk about our new series in Proverbs, which are oftentimes misinterpreted. And so we got to talk a little bit about the series as a whole, as well as our first proverb of the series, Proverbs 35...
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Behind the Sermon: Exiting the Wilderness
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we have Jessica Rust on the show with us because she brought the message on Sunday. And she was sort of assigned the task to talk about exiting the wilderness from our series, our series called The…
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The Benefits of Suffering? Romans 5 -Mini Episode
There’s only so much we can cover in a Sunday morning gathering! Each week, you’re invited to tune into our podcast, “Red Couch Theology – Sermon Conversations with Alex and Aaron.” We record our podcast live every Thursday at 11am. What can you expect? Pastors Alex, Aaron, and the occasional…
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What Does it Mean to Trust God, Anyway?
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we are talking a little bit about trust. What is God trying to teach us when he's trying to teach us how to trust him anyway? What is trust? And are there things we can do to grow in our trust for God?...
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Is God Mad at Me?
Hello, hello. Welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week I'm excited because Angela Dunn, one of our connection formation pastors, is hosting, and she's gonna be asking me some questions about last Sunday. Today, we talk about how to find joy in the midst of pain...
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The Invitation to Lament
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we are talking about lament. I have a guest today. It's Kevin Butcher. He brought the message on Sunday and he invites us to a journey of lament that is so powerful and he makes a case for us needing to...
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What's "Evangelical" Mean Anyway?
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we talked a lot about evangelism and why that word is sort of hard to stomach sometimes in certain church communities, and what is an evangelical, and wait, we also talked about demon possession, and is...
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The Courage to Stay Curious
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week we have Erin Young joining us on the show because she brought the message this past Sunday and we talk about serving and how sometimes the difficulty of serving is that the person that we're called to serve,...
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Relearning Hospitality
There’s only so much we can cover in a Sunday morning gathering! Each week, you’re invited to tune into our podcast, “Red Couch Theology – Sermon Conversations with Alex and Aaron.” We record our podcast live every Thursday at 11am. What can you expect? Pastors Alex, Aaron, and the occasional…
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When Life gets Loud, Listening gets Hard
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, we're talking about listening, and no, it's not completely silent for the entire episode because neither Alex nor I feel like we're experts in this topic, but we also spent some time talking and making a…
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When Loving Your Neighbor Feels Impossible
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we talked about Sunday's sermon where Alex kicked off our neighboring series and we talked about how difficult this actually can be to learn to love our neighbor as ourselves. What if our neighbor is…
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Alex Nerds Out about John 21
There’s only so much we can cover in a Sunday morning gathering! Each week, you’re invited to tune into our podcast, “Red Couch Theology – Sermon Conversations with Alex and Aaron.” We record our podcast live every Thursday at 11am. What can you expect? Pastors Alex, Aaron, and the occasional…
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Aaron Nerds Out about John 18
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, we're going into John chapter 18, and we're gonna get in the weeds because I promised you that we would when I preached John chapter 18. So Alex and I just wade our way through almost verse by verse and…
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The Church Jesus Wanted
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we are talking about John chapter 17, and Alex thinks this passage is one of the more important, pivotal moments in the book of John, where he starts to shift towards the rubber meeting the road, the...
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Have I Done Enough?
Well, hello. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology Podcast. This week on our show, we are actually exploring Alex's sermon from last week, where he talked about what parts of our lives, the branches of our lives, are supposed to stay. Does God invite us to maybe grow…
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Learning to Hear God in the Hard Seasons
Well, hello. Hello and welcome everyone to the Red Couch Theology Podcast. Hey, this week we have two different guests. We have Angela Dunn, who taught the Alpha class last night, and we have Sean Switzer, who brought the message on Sunday. And we're talking about two main topics that actually…
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The Voice of God and the Word of God
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, we cover sort of two major topics. One is sort of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit's relationship to prayer. And how do we know when God's speaking, and what that experience is like, and how do we know...
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If God is in Control, Why Pray?
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we are talking a little bit about prayer and the sovereignty of God. Does God cause bad things to happen directly and is he trying to get messages to us about our behavior or get through to us to change...
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Grace at the Table: Judas, Peter, and Salvation
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we talk about John chapter 13 and in there we talk about what's going on with Judas and Peter and these betrayers and deniers. We talk a little bit about, at the end of this episode, we talked about…
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Why did Jesus have to die? Couldn’t God just forgive us?
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we're doing some serious theology. We're talking about atonement, or maybe put more for some of you out there, if you're not sure what atonement is, it's how in the world does the cross and resurrection...
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Wrestling With Resurrection, Scripture, and Free Will
Hello and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, we have several questions submitted through our Alpha course, and one that actually touches on last week's Sunday sermon a little bit. We're gonna talk about Lazarus and what was going on with his soul or his…
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The Courage the Gospel Creates - bonus episode!
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week, we actually have 2 episodes. This is our bonus episode because I get to sit down with Sean Switzer and Diego, who brought our sermon last Sunday. And talk a little bit about his journey of faith, about...
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Is there more to life than this? And other Alpha questions
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week, we ask several questions. If you remember, we're tracking with the alpha class during this season of our show. And this week, we asked some questions about faith in life. The first one came from one of...
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Wrestling With the Text: A Guide Through John 9
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we're doing something a little bit different. This week, we're gonna go through John chapter 9, the passage Alex preached last Sunday. And I'm gonna talk to him about how in the world he studied this...
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Why is it so Hard for Christians to Believe in Grace?
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week, Alex and I talk about diving back into the book of John. We talk about what true freedom looks lik,e and we make an announcement about the kind of content and nature of this podcast going forward…
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Why God Invites Us Into His Work
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we have Dan Elliott on the show because he preached the message. We're gonna get answers to things like, what in the world is Battle Rattle? What is a crocus after all, and why in the world do we have…
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Deep Hope for a Weary Season (and book recommendations!)
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week, I'm having a conversation with Jessica Rust, who brought our message on Sunday, and we're talking about this deep abiding hope that expands far beyond the little hopes that we might have for this…
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What Gives Scripture Authority? & Advent Musings
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we covered a lot of ground because we had 2 weeks to cover it in our preaching cycle. First, we talked about scripture. What is scripture? Where does scripture's authority come from? And what about that...
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Can Deconstruction Grow Your Faith?
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week we have a guest because Sean Switzer brought the sermon, and we talked about some really fun topics like how do you know when deconstruction is actually dangerous for you, what bricks in our, our, the walls…
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Aaron and Alex Share Stories of when they felt like they Heard from God
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week, Alex and I just told some stories. Someone asked us what is it like or when have we experienced the presence of God in our lives? And so we share some stories about our lives and how God has shown up…
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Does Jesus Contradict Himself in the Gospels?
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we're diving into John chapter 5 and looking at all of the fascinating little nuggets there. And then we're also trying to understand why Jesus doesn't teach more explicitly in the Bible. Instead, he...
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Does God Make You Sick?
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week on our episode, we're talking about some miracles. We're talking about the strange statement that Jesus makes to a healed man, about, hey, if you keep sinning, worse stuff's gonna happen to you. And so...
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What Does ”Worshipping in Spirit and Truth” Mean?
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, we are talking about the passage where Jesus talks to a woman at the well. One, we give a summary of some really interesting interpretations of that passage. Second, we explore what Jesus means by saying we...
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How the Love of God Can Change How You Live
There’s only so much we can cover in a Sunday morning gathering! Each week, you’re invited to tune into our podcast, “Red Couch Theology – Sermon Conversations with Alex and Aaron.” We record our podcast live every Thursday at 11am. What can you expect? Pastors Alex, Aaron, and the occasional…
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Tragedies in our World & Charlie Kirk
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we dealt with some of the tragedies that we faced over the last several weeks as a nation. And as a state with school shootings and immigrants being murdered and Charlie Kirk and all of these sorts of...
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Answering Your Questions: Chronology in the Bible & Toxic Masculinity
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we actually predominantly deal with questions from you all. We had a question about the chronology of the book of John and the synoptic Gospels, and why they do things with chronology that don't make...
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Joy Where You Least Expect It
Well, hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. This week, we went short for you. Because it just felt appropriate to stop on the subject of joy that Alex was talking about, because Jesus seems to prioritize joy even in the midst of a situation that's so...
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The Way Jesus Sees You
Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Red Couch Theology podcast. Hey, this week we have a guest, and not so much of a guest, Angela Dunn, who's actually hosted the show in the past, joins us because she brought the message on Sunday, and she talks about not only her own journey…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
We know there’s only so much we can cover in a Sunday morning gathering at South Fellowship, so we invite you to dive deeper with us through our podcast, Red Couch Theology – Sermon Conversations with Alex and Aaron. Recorded live every Thursday at 11am, Pastors Alex, Aaron, and occasional guests engage in casual, insightful conversations that unpack and explore the ideas from the previous Sunday’s teaching. If you want to go further into the texts and subjects we discuss in our Sunday gatherings, this podcast is for you! Submit your questions at redcouchtheology.com.
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