P.S. Post Sermon Podcast

Your foot is on the gas, but your wheels are just spinning. That’s what being stuck feels like, and the scary part is that it rarely announces itself. Barrett Bingham sits down with Wes to follow up on the first sermon in the Unstuck series from Philippians 1. How do you know you’ve stopped growing? Is busy the same as growing? And if you’ve told people for years that you “really struggle” with the same sin, are you actually fighting it? The conversation also takes on a harder claim from Paul’s letter: that the trials we’d pay anything to avoid might be the very thing God uses to make us whole. Wes admits he’s preaching some of this to himself. This conversation follows up on Wes’s sermon “Unstuck in Complacency (Philippians 1:3-11).” Listen to the full message here.

Jesus calls a desperate mother’s people dogs. Read that again slowly. A woman begs him to heal her demon-possessed daughter, and he answers with silence, then a refusal, then a line about bread and the dogs. Some readers have called it racist. Others skip the passage altogether. So what is Jesus actually doing? And why does the Canaanite woman keep coming back?Matt Mead preached "The Master’s Table" on Sunday, and he and Wes wrestle with the hard parts of Matthew 15:21-28. They take a listener’s question about demon possession and illness, ask why this story gets skipped so often, and wonder about how persistent we should be in prayer.Jesus only praises two people for "great faith," and both are Gentiles. What does that say about who we assume has it?This conversation follows up on Matt's sermon “The Master’s Table (Matthew 15:21-28).” Listen to the full message here.

Why does church culture often prize efficiency and productivity over devotion that costs something? Is lifting holy hands too much, or is folding them just a habit we mistook for Scripture? A woman broke a jar of nard worth a year’s wages over Jesus’ head in Mark 14, and the dinner guests called it waste. Wes and Barrett talk about perfume, Simon the leper’s house, a bottle of Brut cologne in a middle school bedroom, and the difference between judging others and assuming we’re being judged. The question they leave open: what are we still holding back?This conversation follows up on Wes’s sermon “Unafraid to Pour Everything Out For Jesus (Mark 14:3-9).” Listen to the full message here.

What do you do when the law has a gap and your family’s name is about to vanish? Five sisters in Numbers 27 stood before Moses and asked for the land their father had no son to inherit. Matt and Wes start there, fresh off Wes’s trip to Romania, then land on harder questions. How do you speak up without burning things down? Is boldness the same as rebellion? And what happens when God hears your case and doesn’t agree? Along the way they wade into the rabbis’ wild guesses about these women’s ages, and wonder why most of us can’t name them. The daughters of Zelophehad never made it into most children’s Bible storybooks, and that might say something about whose stories we’ve been telling.This conversation follows up on Wes’s sermon “The Fearless Daughters of Zelophehad (Numbers 27:2-7).” Listen to the full message here.

Lazarus is dead, and Jesus is furious. Not at Mary. Not at Martha. At death itself. Barrett and Wes dig into the anger Jesus felt at that tomb, the grief that doesn't need an apology, and why no one should hate death as much, or fear it as little, as Christians. They also talk about the moving response of a sister who has been praying about her cancer diagnosis. Plus listener questions on being honest with God without being disrespectful, and why Jesus telling Martha "believe and you will see" might be harder to live than it sounds.This conversation follows up on Wes's sermon "Come and See the Pain and Disappointment." Listen to the full message here.