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Join the Pastors and staff of Saints Peter and Paul church, Houghton, MI, and various individuals for Conversate. Each week, we will sit down and have conversations that generally start from the sermon theme of the week. Join us as we model to you how you too can have Spiritual conversations with those you come in contact with. We hope you enjoy it!
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In this week's episode, Aaron and Kevin are talking about the wind. Why the wind? Well, because in many ways the wind is like the Holy Spirit. And as we round out our sermon series on the book of Acts, we are reflecting back on the activity of the Holy Spirit throughout Acts, but also in our own lives. Using the metaphor of the wind, we will unpack many different ways to see, experience, and share the Holy Spirit and the message of Jesus Christ with those around us. We hope you ...
At the end of the Book of Acts, the Apostle Paul is facing what seems like insurmountable obstacles. Between his arrest, shipwreck, and imprisonment in Rome, it certainly seems like this is the end of the road. Lock him up and throw away the key. And yet, that's not at all what happens. God works through these obstacles to bring about His Will so that His Word would be proclaimed before kings and emperors. What about the obstacles in your life? Do they feel insurmountable? Is it...
In this week's episode, Pastor Kevin sits down for a conversation with Maura Leinonen and Karyn Fay - leaders of a group called "Joyfully Following Jesus." JFJ - as the group is commonly called - is a 12 week program for women to connect with other women as they grow deeper in their faith and with one another. But, it's more than just a "program." As you'll hear in the conversation - it's really a space that affords women a chance to "get in on what God is doing" - in their lives and the live...
In this week's episode, Aaron and Kevin have a conversation about telling our stories. Maybe you've heard this called "giving your testimony" before, but we want to nuance this conversation for you. Because, we do believe that your story matters and you should not be afraid to share it. But, learning to do this well, so that you don't worry about having to have a major dramatic conversion event, or, you don't want all your hope to be on your story and sticking to it. Your story is one ...
In this week's conversation Aaron and Kevin are talking about what it looks like for a Christian to live a life that demans of an explanation. The life of the Christian ought to shine brightly in this world that is so often clouded in the darkness of sin. We love, sacrifice, are generous, forgive, etc. - or, at least that's what Christ has worked into us by his spirit. We hope that this conversation is inspiring to you and that you would be so filled with the Spirit of the living God t...
In this episode, Aaron and Kevin are back on the brown couch having a conversation about the beautiful thing that is the Christian Community. When it is at its best, the Christian Community is the place where we are connected to one another in the grace of Jesus Christ, united with one another, forgiving and loving like Christ. We hope that all of you have had the opportunity to experience the best side of the Christian Community. Yet, perhaps, our experience of the Christian Community...
In this episode, Aaron and Kevin are coming to you from the streets of New Orleans, LA outside of the convention center where 20,000 LCMS high school students are learning about "Enduring" based on Hebrews 12:1-2. In this conversation, the guys share some things about what's happening at this gathering, unpack this theme, and also share how the topic of endurance was lived out in the life of Paul throughout the book of Acts. We hope this conversation inspires you to start anothe...
In this week's episode, Aaron and Kevin are talking about when the Apostle Paul went to the Areopagus in Acts 17 and talked to people who were "very religious" and yet they didn't know Jesus. Paul walks them through a logical progression of understanding that some things they are looking for in an "unknown god" are fulfilled in the "known God" Jesus Christ. This is a helpful modeling for us who live in a skeptical age. There are many people we know who are looking for the things that G...
In this week's episode, Aaron and Kevin are discussing the great blessing of living life in the freedom of Jesus Christ! In the book of Acts, chapter 15, there is a major discussion that the early Christians have to figure out. Basically, what is necessary for salvation? They understood that the forgiveness of sins was solely based in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, yet for the formerly Jewish Christians, they struggled to give up all of the previous laws and customs that made the...
In this week's episode, Aaron and Kevin talk about mission trips in light of the first missionary journey that Paul and Barnabas took in Acts 13 & 14. Aaron and Kevin share some of the stories from mission trips that they have been on and how they've been impactful. But, the general direction of this conversation moves to the reality that if we consider ourselves Christians, then we are called to live life as everyday missionaries in all of the places and to all of the people God sends us...
In this conversation, Aaron has a conversation with his discipler, the Rev. Dr. David Kim who he has been meeting with for the last 9 years. Dr. Kim is the founder and lead pastor of Glocal Mission (glocalmission.org) based in Houston, TX and he is passionate about raising up multiplying generations of disciple-makers and evangelists. We hope you enjoy this conversation and that it inspires you to start another conversation about Jesus with someone else!
In this week's episode, Aaron is chatting with his dad, Bob, about fatherhood. They tell stories of childhood, fatherhood, etc. You'll get some behind the scenes looks at Aaron's life growing up, and the wonderful relationship between these two Christian men. We hope, as always, that you'll hear something in this conversation that will inspire you to start another conversation about Jesus with someone else. We hope you enjoy it!
In this week's episode, Aaron and Kevin discuss what it is like when people convert from a life apart from (or opposed to) Jesus, to living a life connected to Jesus. This conversation is inspired by one of the most significant conversions we have heard about and that is Saul turned into the Apostle Paul recorded for us in Acts 9. We hope this conversation inspires you to start another conversation with someone else about Jesus. We hope you enjoy it!
In this week's episode, Aaron and Kevin are discussing Acts 8 and how the gospel spreads throughout the world. It's fascinating to watch the story of Acts play out and now through a martyrdom and a great persecution the gospel spreads. When we go through difficult, unwanted, unexpected events in our lives, what is our attitude? Have you ever considered how God might work out His purpose through that event so that you may be a living witness to the people and places that event sends you?...
In this week's episode, Aaron and Kevin have a conversation about the reality of Christian persecution and martyrdom. To this day there are thousands of Christians who annually have their lives taken for simply believing in Jesus Christ. In addition to that, in 2024, 380 million Christians were constantly under persecution in such ways as threats, job loss, abduction, homes and churches destroyed, etc. We pray that you'll hear something in this conversation that will inspire you to star...
In this week's episode, Aaron and Kevin are talking about truth. In a cultural time, such as ours, that has essentially abandoned the idea of objective truth in exchange for truth that is determined by an individual's preferences or beliefs, it can be hard to know what really is true. Call us old fashioned, but as Biblical Christians, we hold to absolute truths. We believe that there are things that are true simply because they're true. In the context of this conversation, we believe t...
In this week's episode Aaron and Kevin are discussing the name Jesus. The Bible tells us that the name of Jesus is power, that it is salvation, and that there is no other name that is above his name. So, what does it look like for us to cling to the name of Jesus and speak it into reality in our own lives and the lives of others. There's a very practical question that the guys discuss which is, "How often do we actually speak, out loud, the name of Jesus?" We hope you find somet...
In this week's episode Pastor Kevin sits down with Elder and long time member: John Pemberton to talk about the Holy Spirit. In Acts 2 an incredible thing happened. God poured out His Holy Spirit on Jesus' disciples. This was a watershed moment in history. Before this time, the Holy Spirit was only given to a select few. After this moment, God would continue to pour it out onto the many. If you are a follower of Jesus. If you have repented and received His forgiveness. If you have been bapt...
In this week's episode Aaron and Kevin have a conversation about how the Book of Acts begins. Having just finished up a sermon series on Luke, we're turning the page into Luke's 2nd book of the Bible, "Acts." This is the story of what happened after Jesus' ascension into heaven. Therefore, we are still part of this ongoing story as well. In this conversation Aaron and Kevin talk about the ascension of Jesus as a key event in Jesus' (and the apostles') life, the work of the Holy Sp...
In this week's episode Aaron and Kevin sit down with Austin Krautheim. Austin is a farming father of four girls who loves his little hobby farm when he's not working as the facilities manager at Saints Peter and Paul. Oh, and he's got a rockin' beard. This conversation is a dive into the joys of living on this side of Easter. As always our goal is that you'll hear something in this conversation that will inspire you to go start another spiritual conversation with someone else.&n...
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