Is life hectic? Do you feel like you're running around with too much to do? When people ask you: "How are you?" Do you often respond: "Busy."?

In the world today, we are faced with all sorts of schedule challenges that busy up our lives. But, time management has always been a challenge. We see the same tendency of the ancient people of Israel to struggle with finding "rest" within their schedules.

This is why God invented the "Sabbath." What is the Sabbath? In this conversation, Pastor Kevin and Marcus Huff discuss the origin, meaning, and value of the Sabbath. And they invite the listener to consider engaging in it - in order to find "peace in schedules."

We hope you enjoy it!

Peace and finances. Those are two words that we don't often speak in the same sentence. For most of us, peace is something nice, easy, quiet, relaxing. Finances are stressful, frustrating, anxiety-inducing.

Did you know that the Bible speaks about money often? Even Jesus, speaks about money almost more than anything else. It's because money is part of almost every single decision we make. So, is money a peaceful thing in our lives?

In this conversation, the guys discuss the ways the hardships they've had with money and the way towards peace in their own lives.

We hope you enjoy it!

In this week's episode, Aaron and Kevin are discussing 1 John chapter 5 where John says that God's laws are not burdensome.

That is hard for us to imagine. We always imagine that laws will be a burden on us. So, what does it meant that God's laws are not burdensome?

It means that we will actually love God's laws and want to do them because we recognize that they're good for us and good for the world. But, this change of heart will not come of our own doing, it will only come through the transformation by the Holy Spirit.

As always, it's our goal that you'll hear something in this conversation and start another conversation with someone else.

We hope you enjoy it!

1 John 4:8 tells us, "God IS love." It is in his nature. It is in his character. He just IS love.

What does this say then about how we ought to love one another? It begins with the fact that we are God's "beloved." We are, literally, his loved ones. Because he first loved us, we have to love one another. Love is not a suggestion. Love is not an option. If you consider yourself to be someone who loves God, than you must love one another.

We hope that you'll take something you hear in this conversation and start another conversation with someone else.

We hope you enjoy it!

In this week's episode, the guys discuss what it means to be children of God. 1 John 3:1 says, "See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are."

This is a bold declarative statement. How are we children of God? Because God says so. God calls. God claims. God recreates us as His very own children. You are!

We hope you hear something in this conversation that motivates you to go and start another spiritual conversation with someone else.

We hope you enjoy it!

In this week's episode, Aaron and Kevin are discussing the Christian's place in the world. Every human knows that this world is broken and that our human existence is not perfect. But, what do we do about it? How do we interact with the world around us. As Christians, we believe that God has rescued us from the world in which we live. But, this is still the world in which we live.

This conversation is based in a sermon that was preached on 1 John 2:15-17.

It's our goal that you'll hear something in this conversation and start another conversation with someone else.

We hope you enjoy it!

We're back! It's been a 3 month hiatus for the podcast while Pastor Aaron was away on Sabbatical, but we're ready to rock in this new episode.

We'll discuss a little bit about the Sabbatical, but primarily we'll talk about God's love for us. We started a new sermon series called What is Love based on the epistle of 1 John.

We hope that you'll hear something in this conversation that will inspire you to start another spiritual conversation with someone else.

As always, we hope you enjoy it!

During Pastor Aaron's 3 month sabbatical, the Conversate podcast is taking a little rest as well. Listen to the guys explain the rationale behind this decision.

Thank you all for being loyal listeners and starting faith-filled conversations with those in your lives as well!