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Lunch on The Way — 81 episodes

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Sacramental Knowledge and Ontology of Education with Sam Burrows

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How Metaphors Reveal a Sacramental World

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EXPOSING Shincheonji and the Rise of Cults in New Zealand with Lindy

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Why Risky & Difficult Discipleship IS Discipleship with Fiona Rush

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Māori Christianity vs Secular Society | Helping Christians Live in New Zealand with Malcolm Falloon

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Is your Church Distorting the Gospel? (Marshall McLuhan)

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Alexander Schmemann DESTROYS secularism with an Eastern Orthodox sacramentality of the world

8

How Churches Should Disciple Emerging (young) Adults in 2026 with Sam Bloore

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Why 2025 Changed the Podcast (Lunch on The Way)

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How "Seeker Sensitive" Churches are Rebuked by Lesslie Newbigin

11

How Jesus Radically Transforms Wisdom (should we still "fear the Lord"??)

12

How Christians can Re-enchant their World through Iain McGilchrist, with Jonathan Hoskin.

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What churches get wrong about business leadership and strategy with Louise Wernich

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The Unexpected Christian Origins of The Treaty of Waitangi with Sam Carpenter

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Solving Pentecostalism's PR Problem (you might change denominations) with Maja Whitaker

16

Sarah Penwarden | Why your experience of God & life matters, overcoming your past, embracing stories

17

How will AI shape Churches, Christians, and Society

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Rebroadcast | Pastoral Identity Crisis, Trends, and Insights with Dr. Karen Kemp

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BONUS Ep | The 4 Essential Elements to being FULLY Human, a conversation about a conversation

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Dan Sheed | Drift No More, Praying as Invitational Posture, Central Vineyard Church

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Sam Burrows | Why Christianity is growing, prophetic imagination, meaning is back

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The Tyranny of Metrics, How to Measure Spiritual Growth, We Focus on What We Measure

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Misunderstanding church & spiritual growth, you are a priest, people knowing you're Christian

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Andrew Root | Stabilising Discipleship and Churches, Prayer as Key Competency, Despair & Evangelism

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Rev. Frank Ritchie | People Want Irrelevant Churches, Rediscovering Tradition, Culture and Media

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Ministry and its Irresistible Call, People Matter More Than ... with Louise Wernich

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Visited a NEW Mormon Temple, Architecture is Theology, Reflecting on Mark Sayers Convo

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Mark Sayers | Future Predictions, The Worlds Changed, America's Chaos, Being a Pillar is Dangerous

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AJ Thomas | Is Preaching a Sacrament? Is Jesus Really in the Eucharist?

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Deconstructing Faith, Truth as Relationship, Trusting your Gut (whole over parts)

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CELEBRATING 50 EPs, Christmas Issues, Traditions Matter, Season 4 Expectations

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A fully alive human is the glory of God, is the church helping us be more/less human?

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT (Joey), What's the purpose of church? Critiquing the formation movement

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The Endlessly Toxic Pursuit of MORE! Adjusting Our Assumptions of Church, the Mission of God, the goal of growth, and more

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Clint Ussher | Current difficulties and opportunities for the church, Church planting in NZ, Overcoming "success" identity,

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Horrible Tensions in Ministry and Life ... or are they good?

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How to Hear God's Voice, Discerning Big Decisions, Problems with Being Certain

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A Complex Conversation on Power, Christian Leadership, and Jesus's Example of Power

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Critical Incidents & How to Think Theologically & Reflectively for Positive Change

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Will AI Make Us Dumb? Theology and What it Means to Be Human, Meaning in a Automated Future

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Sam Burrows | The Meta-crisis in Education, with our youth, and what can be done about it

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Metaphors are Reality-Shaping, our BEST Conversation Yet | Horrible, Good, and Intriguing Metaphors for Humans

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Dr Clare Knowles | Bible Translations that shouldn't be read, Bible Society NZ's work

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Frameworks for Evangelism, Habit Forming vs Spirit Forming, is Evangelism for Everyone?

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A "Dialogue" with Carey Nieuwhof, Church Shifts and Necessary Moves

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Problems with Business-Church, Believing yet Not Believing, the Existential Mirror We Can't See

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LIVE SHOW, Reinventing Church, Reforming for Authenticity, John Mark Comer again ...

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Professional Christians, Spiritual Comparison, Real Holiness, Entire Sanctification

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"Real Christianity," John Mark Comer's Critique of Church, and the New Martyrdom

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2024 Trends for the World, the Church, and You

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Answering the most Googled questions about Christianity

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What is spiritual and what is reality?

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The Competing Narratives You Feel Within, and Code Switching

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Stop Having Children to Fight Climate Change? WHAT??

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People Need Meaning, and our 1 Year Anniversary

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What Does a Hopeful Life Look Like?

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Hopeful Action in a Hopeless World, Praying that Leads to Mission, and much more ...

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Resuscitating Your Missionary Identity, Missional-Church Imagination

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Dr. Karen Kemp | Changes in Church, Pastoral, and Ministry Leadership for New Zealand and Beyond

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Dr. Maja Whitaker | Why Your Body Matters for Spiritual Formation

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Discovering Meaning in the Bible, Different Ways to Interpret the Bible

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Dr. Mark Keown | Evangelism in a Changing World

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Sam Burrows | Atheist Christians and a Cultural Shift

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Speaking in Tongues, Charismatic Experience, Normative Christianity?

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The Theological Implications of Everything

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Practices That Lead to Unbelief and Belief

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Re-enchanting a Secular Imagination

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Podcast UPDATE | Changes are Happening

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The Origin of Post-Modern Thinking and the Relativization of Truth and Objectification of POWER!

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Christian Imagination in a Post-COVID World

71

What does "Revival" Mean? Asbury Revival Inspired Conversation

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Graeme's Story | Charismatic Conversion and Asking too Many Questions

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Doubt that Leads to Death, Lingering Conversations, and 2023

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Dr. Roshan Allpress | Christian Institutions, Revival & Renewal in Society, Centuries of Faithfulness

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Jonathan's Story | Died and Met Jesus, Post-Modern Engagement, Friend of Jesus

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Joey's Story | How He Started Following Jesus and Became a Pastor, it's all about Calling

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Sam Burrows | The Spiritual Landscape of New Zealand and Sam's Story

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Secular Flourishing vs Christian Flourishing... it Gets Messy

79

Christian Formation and Liturgical Anthropology, What Does That Mean?

80

The Church in Aotearoa-New Zealand is in Flux, are you Paying Attention?

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