For the Church Podcast

Updated: 30 Jul 2025 • 314 episodes
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Another resource for the Church from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri.For the Church Podcast with Jared C. Wilson. Another resource for the Church from Midwestern Seminary.For the Church Podcast with Jared C. Wilson. Another resource for the Church from Midwestern Seminary

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Does obeying the fifth commandment mean never bugging your unbelieving parents about their spiritual state? How might other passages of Scripture provide some guidance on evangelizing our lost mom or dad? It's common for Christians to think about winning prodigal children, but in this episode of hte FTC Podcast, Jared

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It's now come to be expected in evangelical headlines -- the fallen pastor. Whether by sexual immorality or greed or abusive patterns of leadership, ministers big and small, famous and relatively unknown, seem to be dropping like flies. How does it happen? And, perhaps more intriguingly, can they be restored? In this e

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16 Jul 2025 • EN

Episode 324: Grab Bag!

In the occasional Grab Bag! feature of the podcast, Jared and Ross come prepared with two surprise questions for the other. No prep, no warning -- just unfiltered, off-the-cuff responses to each other's curiosity.

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09 Jul 2025 • EN

Episode 323: Movie Swap!

Our debate over the quality of Christian movies is now notorious and a running gag on the podcast, but this is only the second time ever we've done an official "movie swap." Ross assigns Jared a Christian movie to watch. Jared assigns Ross a "Christian-"eque movie to watch. Then they sit and down and compare notes. On

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02 Jul 2025 • EN

Episode 322: Patriotism

An American and a Scotsman walk into a podcast studio . . . It's not just the start of an obscure joke; it's the start of this conversation about patriotism. Is it a sin? Is it biblical? How should Christians think through national patriotism in a way that still maintains their allegiance to God above all?

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25 Jun 2025 • EN

Episode 321: FTC Mailbag

It's another installment in the FTC Mailbag feature, where Jared and Ross answer listener-submitted questions. This week's topics include pastors keeping in contact with previous churches, preaching "balance," whether churches should lock their doors during services, the purpose of the trees in the garden of Eden, and

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