Faith In Action

November, 28th 2025 Christmas Season Stress! Dr Babler helps us find a cure.

Show notes:
This week Matthew and Shawn talk with Dr John Babler about the stress and family issues during the holidays. You can use the Bible as a resource for anything, even managing seasonal Christmas drama. 
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November 21, 2025 It is time to get political in the church w/pastor Marc Minter

This week, Pastor Marc Minter joins Faith in Action to talk about "separation of church and state" and how our Baptist teachings on this are not in line with the Bible. It is time to change the BF&M2k to eliminate the pluralistic provisions.
 
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November 14, 2025 The 7 Step plan to fix the PCA. Pt2 w/@nsxanders

Show notes:
Last week, Matthew and Shawn talked with Pastor Nate Xanders about the recent report on female leaders in the PCA. Today, they talk about the 7 steps to fix the PCA.
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November 7, 2025 Pastor Nate Xanders respects women more than the PCA does

Show notes:
This week, Matthew and Shawn talk with Pastor Nate Xanders about the recent report on female leaders in the PCA. The report found numerous churches in the PCA are putting women into positions and with titles that are very clearly contrary to the traditional PCA standards.
 
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October 24, 2025 You Must Get Wisdom and Pastor David Schrock Can Help

This week, Matthew and Shawn talk with Pastor and author David Schrock. He talks about his latest book, “The Business of Is-ness” and the problem of wisdom, or the lack of it, facing the American church today.
 
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October 17th, 2025 Churches Love Pagans More Than Members w/ Daniel Keene

This week, Matthew and Shawn talk with Daniel Keene about how the Trails Church threw his family out for the ridiculous “sin” of not wanting America to look like a heathen nation. We have seen many church discipline cases that were really just abuse of church members — but this one really takes the cake.
 
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October 10th, 2025 Evil thrives because cowardly churches avoid politics W/ Timon Cline

"The longer you don't enforce existing laws, the more the authority of law itself is degraded, and people will cease to take it seriously." - Timon Cline
This week, Matthew and Shawn talk with Timon Cline of American Reformer. They discuss the dramatic federal agency actions that President Trump has taken to clean up the crime and violence in the Memphis area.
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October 3, 2025 Fallout from the SBC's gaslighting w/ William Wolfe

This week, Matthew and Shawn talk with William Wolfe of the Center for Baptist Leadership. They discuss the dramatic gaslighting that SBC leadership used to bully its members and the swift national fallout we have seen from that.Read the article: https://centerforbaptistleadership.org/
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