Your Sunday Drive

Well, here it is... the last episode of the Your Sunday Drive podcast. What did we learn over five seasons? What were our hopes for the show and did it succeed? How have we changed? Listen to find out!We are SO thankful to everyone who's come along with us over the past five seasons. May God bless all of us as we embark on our journeys from here : ) And may they ever, always be journeys towards Him.Come along for Your Sunday Drive - quick conversation about current events, politics, pop culture and more, from the perspective of a couple of guys trying to follow Jesus.Hosts: Matt Hill and Nate Polzin. Presented by the Church in Drive of Saginaw, MI, as often as possible. Please visit churchindrive.com and facebook.com/thechurchindriveRequired attributions: Straight Through by Groove Bakery | https://groovebakery.com; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/; Source images via Google.

This is it folks: The second to last Your Sunday Drive episode ever!!What's it about? It's a surprise... But basically we talk a bit about everything. If you've cared up to this point, you'll definitely want to keep caring now. We hope you enjoy : )Come along for Your Sunday Drive - quick conversation about current events, politics, pop culture and more, from the perspective of a couple of guys trying to follow Jesus.Hosts: Matt Hill and Nate Polzin. Presented by the Church in Drive of Saginaw, MI, as often as possible. Please visit churchindrive.com and facebook.com/thechurchindriveRequired attributions: Straight Through by Groove Bakery | https://groovebakery.com; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/; Source images via Google.

After a horrific Hamas terrorist attack, Israel is at war. We talk about the current conflict, trying to give context for "both sides" and examining issues like: how progressives are responding in the US, the role of religion and apocalypticism, how this situation is different from others involving aggrieved people groups (civil rights movement, apartheid, etc.) and more.Andy Stanley is causing controversy once again after his Unconditional conference, which struck many as "too affirming" on LGBTQ issues. We discuss and go deep on the broader topic, how optics and truth relate re: the faith and evangelism, whether LGBTQ issues in the church could rightly be "don't ask, don't tell," how our own views have evolved, etc.We also do a bit of general pop culture riffing, involving Calvin & Hobbes, Metallica and the Detroit Lions : )(The podcast Matt was thinking of that discussed C.S. Lewis' take on metaphysical gender : castbox.fm/vb/601717763 . Discussion starts around 19: )Come along for Your Sunday Drive - quick conversation about current events, politics, pop culture and more, from the perspective of a couple of guys trying to follow Jesus.Hosts: Matt Hill and Nate Polzin. Presented by the Church in Drive of Saginaw, MI, as often as possible. Please visit churchindrive.com and facebook.com/thechurchindriveRequired attributions: Straight Through by Groove Bakery | https://groovebakery.com; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/; Source images via Google.

It's back-to-school time, but also back to politics time, as the 2024 presidential race heats up. Speaking of politics, have you heard "Rich Men North of Richmond?"Join us as we share our back-to-school musings, along with some early thoughts on campaign 2024 and the current state of politics in general. Then we go deep on the viral, culture-war-talking-point nexus that is Oliver Anthony's "Rich Men North of Richmond." We discuss positives, negatives, controversies, etc., and of course try to determine what the faith has to say about such a song.Come along for Your Sunday Drive - quick conversation about current events, politics, pop culture and more, from the perspective of a couple of guys trying to follow Jesus.Hosts: Matt Hill and Nate Polzin. Presented by the Church in Drive of Saginaw, MI, as often as possible. Please visit churchindrive.com and facebook.com/thechurchindriveRequired attributions: Straight Through by Groove Bakery | https://groovebakery.com; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/; Source images via Google.

Come along as we talk all things AI with a bonafide expert, Steven Krieg, who recently completed a Ph.D. in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning. We go deep on how AI relates to Christianity, asking questions about what it means to be human, positives and negatives of AI, what developments may come in the future, how Skynet is involved and more!Aside from bringing pop culture into our primary discussion quite a bit, we also spend a few minutes on some current faves, including The Chosen, Jack Ryan, Oppenheimer and The Legend of Zelda. (No chatbots were harmed in the recording of this episode. If any ask, Matt will take a McChicken, please).Come along for Your Sunday Drive - quick conversation about current events, politics, pop culture and more, from the perspective of a couple of guys trying to follow Jesus.Hosts: Matt Hill and Nate Polzin. Presented by the Church in Drive of Saginaw, MI, as often as possible. Please visit churchindrive.com and facebook.com/thechurchindriveRequired attributions: Straight Through by Groove Bakery | https://groovebakery.com; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/; Source images via Google.

In this special episode, we're joined by Jim Bailey, Principal of Hemmeter Elementary School in Saginaw Township, MI. Listen in for a wide ranging conversation about leadership, and building community and relationships, especially in an educational setting, and even during trying times.Stick around for a tight ten minutes on our current pop culture faves as well, including The Flash and TMNT! Come along for Your Sunday Drive - quick conversation about current events, politics, pop culture and more, from the perspective of a couple of guys trying to follow Jesus.Hosts: Matt Hill and Nate Polzin. Presented by the Church in Drive of Saginaw, MI, as often as possible. Please visit churchindrive.com and facebook.com/thechurchindriveRequired attributions: Straight Through by Groove Bakery | https://groovebakery.com; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/; Source images via Google.

Influential pastor and author Dr. Charles Stanley has passed away. His son, Andy Stanley, is an influential - and often controversial - figure in his own right. We reflect on Dr. Stanley’s life and discuss Andy Stanley, asking questions about nepotism and legacy, faith heroes and the related dangers, and more along the way. Then we share some current pop culture faves: The Super Mario Bros. Movie, The Lord of the Rings, Dungeons & Dragons, the Resident Evil 4 remake, HBO’s Succession, Netflix’s Beef, Stanley Kubrick. Ending with a rant involving the book of Romans, The Color Purple and loving pop culture (correctly). Come along for Your Sunday Drive - quick conversation about current events, politics, pop culture and more, from the perspective of a couple of guys trying to follow Jesus.Hosts: Matt Hill and Nate Polzin. Presented by the Church in Drive of Saginaw, MI, as often as possible. Please visit churchindrive.com and facebook.com/thechurchindriveRequired attributions: Straight Through by Groove Bakery | https://groovebakery.com; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/; Source images via Google.

A recent controversial article about sex gets pulled from The Gospel Coalition... Why is it that talking about this topic can be so difficult for the church? We take an in-depth look at the article "Sex Won’t Save You (But It Points to the One Who Will)" by Josh Butler, and then use it as a springboard to discuss touchy topics surrounding sex and a Christian view of sex in general.We also dig into some recent pop culture faves: Minecraft, Hogwarts Legacy and HBO's The Last of Us. Come along for Your Sunday Drive - quick conversation about current events, politics, pop culture and more, from the perspective of a couple of guys trying to follow Jesus.Hosts: Matt Hill and Nate Polzin. Presented by the Church in Drive of Saginaw, MI, as often as possible. Please visit churchindrive.com and facebook.com/thechurchindrive Required attributions: Straight Through by Groove Bakery | https://groovebakery.com; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/; Source images via Google.

Church attendance continues to decline, yet new research from Barna indicates that Americans are more spiritually open than ever. Huh?We team up with author, teacher and occasional preacher Kindra Silk Kreislers (kindrasilk.com) to discuss the data and dig deep into the vital question: Given this trend, how do we do evangelism?Come along for Your Sunday Drive - quick conversation about current events, politics, pop culture and more, from the perspective of a couple of guys trying to follow Jesus.Hosts: Matt Hill and Nate Polzin. Presented by the Church in Drive of Saginaw, MI, as often as possible. Please visit churchindrive.com and facebook.com/thechurchindrive Required attributions: Straight Through by Groove Bakery | https://groovebakery.com; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/; Source images via Google.

So it's 2023. What's new? Nothing, really. Well, except one thing. What is it? What's actually, really, truly new? Find out in this mindbogglingly exiting, fast-paced Season 5 opener.Topics covered include: McCarthy and the same-old political divisions; how Jesus offers a third way vis-a-vis divisions; how to not let the culture wars steal our joy (a la Trevin Wax) because we're "citizens of Heaven and fight Mordor with the joy of the Shire in our hearts" (a la Tolkien - happy bday, professor!); btw that's at least two French phrases used so far in this description (oui oui!); rewatching Mad Men and the providential, still-small-voice moment involving "The Door" where you can discover the actually, really, truly new thing (spoiler, it involves the gospel and Jesus and all that, as per usual w this podcast :) ); the new Avatar and how some movies really change things; probably other topics come up in there as well, but who's to say really? listen and find out I guess.Come along for Your Sunday Drive - quick conversation about current events, politics, pop culture and more, from the perspective of a couple of guys trying to follow Jesus.Hosts: Matt Hill and Nate Polzin. Presented by the Church in Drive of Saginaw, MI, as often as possible. Please visit churchindrive.com and facebook.com/thechurchindrive Required attributions: Straight Through by Groove Bakery | https://groovebakery.com; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/; Source images via Google.

Have you ever noticed the deep theological truths that often appear in popular Christmas song lyrics? We have! Have you ever wondered about the people and history behind these songs? We have!In our final episode of 2022, we take a deep(ish) dive into some familiar songs of the season. Plus we dig into related issues of sacred vs secular music, possible trends in worship music over the years, do some general Christmas-related chatting, etc.Thanks to any and everyone who's listened to an episode this year or any of our other FOUR YEARS of podcasting!! Merry Christmas and a blessed 2023 to you! Come along for Your Sunday Drive - quick conversation about current events, politics, pop culture and more, from the perspective of a couple of guys trying to follow Jesus.Hosts: Matt Hill and Nate Polzin. Presented by the Church in Drive of Saginaw, MI, as often as possible. Please visit churchindrive.com and facebook.com/thechurchindrive Required attributions: Straight Through by Groove Bakery | https://groovebakery.com; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/; Source images via Google.

Being thankful is nice, but doing something in response is better! In this fresh new Your Sunday Drive podcast episode, we reflect on items from the realms of current events, pop culture and our own lives. We discover plenty to be thankful for, but more importantly, we discuss actual ways to show thankfulness and respond. Come along for Your Sunday Drive - quick conversation about current events, politics, pop culture and more, from the perspective of a couple of guys trying to follow Jesus.Hosts: Matt Hill and Nate Polzin. Presented by the Church in Drive of Saginaw, MI, as often as possible. Please visit churchindrive.com and facebook.com/thechurchindrive Required attributions: Straight Through by Groove Bakery | https://groovebakery.com; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/; Source images via Google.

Amazon's The Rings of Power and HBO's House of the Dragon are two of the hottest shows out right now. In this episode, we dig deep into the authors, fantasy universes and worldviews behind The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones.How are these works similar and different? How do the new series fit into the larger universes? How are Tolkien's and Martin's sensibilities reflected in our current culture? Our politics? The church? And how do these fantasy worlds ultimately relate to the faith?Come along for Your Sunday Drive - quick conversation about current events, politics, pop culture and more, from the perspective of a couple of guys trying to follow Jesus.Hosts: Matt Hill and Nate Polzin. Presented by the Church in Drive of Saginaw, MI, as often as possible. Please visit churchindrive.com and facebook.com/thechurchindrive Required attributions: Straight Through by Groove Bakery | https://groovebakery.com; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/; Source images via Google.

Back to school time is always busy and full of new beginnings. In this new episode of the Your Sunday Drive podcast, we get together (for the first episode since June!) to catch up and have a catch-all conversation about all things related to this time of year. In the end, we reflect on how easy it is to be anxious at times like these... and how good it is to be able to cast our anxieties on God.Note: When we say catch all, we *mean* catch all :) Topics include: What's new at the Church in Drive, cancel culture, book bans, education in general, sharing back-to-school photos on Facebook, how we create community even when it's more challenging, how college kids are still kids, how there's a sweet-spot agewise for politicians, the Forward party, avoiding the ditches of extremes, Randal Rauser and *Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too,* grammar quibbles and the constructedness of language, the new football season and the Big 10 going "coast to coast" (like Space Ghost), *1177 B.C.,* *The Old Man,* *Better Call Saul,* *Nope,* *Everything Everywhere All at Once,* chilling and doing bird stuff, etc. etc. Come along for Your Sunday Drive - quick conversation about current events, politics, pop culture and more, from the perspective of a couple of guys trying to follow Jesus.Hosts: Matt Hill and Nate Polzin. Presented by the Church in Drive of Saginaw, MI, as often as possible. Please visit churchindrive.com and facebook.com/thechurchindrive Required attributions: Straight Through by Groove Bakery | https://groovebakery.com; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/; Source images via Google.

Abortion is no longer a constitutional right, as Roe vs. Wade is overturned in a historic supreme court decision. But now what? Especially for Christians, what should we be doing? How should we be reacting? (And *not* reacting?)We dig into the decision, the politics, the worldviews behind pro-life and pro-choice positions, how worldviews influence politics, the reactions people have been having so far to the decision, how to react in a more Jesus-like manner, and more. Come along for Your Sunday Drive - quick conversation about current events, politics, pop culture and more, from the perspective of a couple of guys trying to follow Jesus.Hosts: Matt Hill and Nate Polzin. Presented by the Church in Drive of Saginaw, MI, as often as possible. Please visit churchindrive.com and facebook.com/thechurchindrive Required attributions: Straight Through by Groove Bakery | https://groovebakery.com; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/; Source images via Google.

In a sad season of far too many mass shootings, we discuss details of the incidents, their complex causes, related political and cultural issues, possible solutions, and more. How may our overall crisis of meaning be leading to a crisis of gun violence? What role does the church play?Nostalgia rears its head yet again, as Top Gun: Maverick rules at the box office, while Stranger Things 4 and Obi Wan Kenobi take over streaming platforms. We talk about these stories, the positives and negatives of nostalgia, and why *now* might be such a fertile time for the familiar to find favor. (Sorry about all those Fs ... sometimes things just happen and you gotta go with it :) ) Come along for Your Sunday Drive - quick conversation about current events, politics, pop culture and more, from the perspective of a couple of guys trying to follow Jesus.Hosts: Matt Hill and Nate Polzin. Presented by the Church in Drive of Saginaw, MI, as often as possible. Please visit churchindrive.com and facebook.com/thechurchindrive Required attributions: Straight Through by Groove Bakery | https://groovebakery.com; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/; Source images via Google.

Have you ever wondered "Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid" ? We attempt to give an answer by looking at a popular Atlantic article with that title from cultural commentator Jonathan Haidt. Points of discussion include social media, its influence and some possible ways to curtail its negative effects.Sure... social media is a problem and has amplified our fragmentation, like languages at the Tower of Babel, but isn't there a deeper issue? Yes - what's currently being discussed as "The Meaning Crisis" by a growing number of voices, such as Jordan Peterson, Bret Weinstein, Jonathan Vervaeke, Paul Vander Klay, Johnathan Pageau, Tim DeRoche and others. We look at this current moment, try to unpack some of its causes and history, and ultimately contextualize it with the Christian faith.Popular (and excellent) show This Is Us reaches its final few episodes and Nate has thoughts. What does our current pop culture have to say about things like love and marriage? How should a Christian respond when non-Christian ideas about such topics are presented and even celebrated in our pop culture? Come along for Your Sunday Drive - quick conversation about current events, politics, pop culture and more, from the perspective of a couple of guys trying to follow Jesus.Hosts: Matt Hill and Nate Polzin. Presented by the Church in Drive of Saginaw, MI, as often as possible. Please visit churchindrive.com and facebook.com/thechurchindrive Required attributions: Straight Through by Groove Bakery | https://groovebakery.com; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/; Source images via Google.

With Russia's invasion of Ukraine, there is war in Europe. We discuss the current crisis, asking questions such as: How should Christians think about war and physical conflict in general? Is pacifism the right way? Is there ever a time to *not* "turn the other cheek?" What is it about such times that evokes powerful ideas about good and evil, heroes and villains? What deep truth lies behind these conflict-borne intuitions? We also take a moment for the pop cultural pulse, quickly covering The Batman, Elden Ring and In Search of a Kingdom. Come along for Your Sunday Drive - quick conversation about current events, politics, pop culture and more, from the perspective of a couple of guys trying to follow Jesus.Hosts: Matt Hill and Nate Polzin. Presented by the Church in Drive of Saginaw, MI, as often as possible. Please visit churchindrive.com and facebook.com/thechurchindrive Required attributions: Straight Through by Groove Bakery | https://groovebakery.com; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/; Source images via Google.

There's always so much in the news and current culture! How can a Christian develop a solid take on so many things? Does a Christian even need to always have a take? Why? What principles can guide us as we attempt to see and communicate things correctly from a Christian point of view?With wisdom on having a solid Christian take in place, we tackle a grab bag of current topics to put it into practice. Things that come up (in rando order): Joe Rogan, Whoopi Goldberg, Spotify, Wordle, The Oscars, The Superbowl, The Olympics, Pokemon GO, The Book of Boba Fett, God Reforms Hearts by Thaddeus Williams, the current Canadian trucker protests, mask mandates, abortion, free will and predestination (more later?), ice skating, small groups at CiD, Epic by John Eldredge.. plenty more unremembered items :)Come along for Your Sunday Drive - quick conversation about current events, politics, pop culture and more, from the perspective of a couple of guys trying to follow Jesus.Hosts: Matt Hill and Nate Polzin. Presented by the Church in Drive of Saginaw, MI, as often as possible. Please visit churchindrive.com and facebook.com/thechurchindrive Required attributions: Straight Through by Groove Bakery | https://groovebakery.com; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/; Source images via Google.

What happens when culturejacking by Christians goes wrong?In our Season 4 debut episode, we look at a controversial recent Babylon Bee interview with Elon Musk and an article about the passing of Bob Saget, and attempt to answer some perennially important questions: Where's the line between making the gospel relevant and staying faithful to it? Why is it sometimes difficult to talk about our faith in a vulnerable way? Ultimately, what can we do to help match the most important message the world has ever heard with the ears that still need to hear it?Relevant links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvGnw1sHh9M&t=1shttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/youngfogey/2022/01/marvelised-evangelism-how-the-babylon-bee-failed-elon-muskhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp12vna2mQ0&ab_channel=PaulVanderKlayhttps://notthebee.com/article/a-word-about-bob-saget-and-the-topic-we-try-to-ignoreCome along for Your Sunday Drive - quick conversation about current events, politics, pop culture and more, from the perspective of a couple of guys trying to follow Jesus.Hosts: Matt Hill and Nate Polzin. Presented by the Church in Drive of Saginaw, MI, as often as possible. Please visit churchindrive.com and facebook.com/thechurchindrive Required attributions: Straight Through by Groove Bakery | https://groovebakery.com; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/; Source images via Google; Some audio: Babylon Bee : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvGnw1sHh9M&ab_channel=TheBabylonBee