# Lesslie Newbigin

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Making margin in your life for discipleship – a talk with Sarah Han

You want to follow Jesus. You want be faithful and even share your faith. But you’re just so… busy. And stretched. And tired. It just happened. As a result, your “margin” is non-existent. This podcast might be your helpful next step. The Pulse Podcast is about living abundantly whol…

#297 | The Story You Don’t Know You’re Living | Michael Goheen, Pt. 1

What if the gospel is bigger than we’ve imagined? In part two of my conversation with Michael Goheen, we wrestle with a vision of the gospel that is deeply personal but never merely private. Jesus saves sinners—absolutely. But the good news is bigger than individual salvation. In Christ, God’s king…

Luke 20:27-47; A Warning Concerning the Resurrection

Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost Rev Dr Justin McClendon How is it possible that the gospel should be credible, that people should come to believe that the power which has the last word in human affairs is represented by a man hanging on a cross? I am suggesting that the only answer, the only herm…

Why Is It So Hard to Make Disciples Today?

What is discipleship? Everyone is a disciple of something, and whatever we follow shapes what we believe about ourselves, other people, and the meaning of life. In the Season 8 opener, Dwight Zscheile, Alicia Granholm, and Terri Elton begin a season-long conversation on discipleship, convinced that…

N.T. Wright & Jesse Stone on Pentecostalism, Suffering, and Why Certainty Isn't Christian

What if Christian hope isn’t about escaping this world, but about seeing it made new? In this inaugural episode of Season 3, Rob Hoskins sits down with renowned New Testament scholar Dr. N.T. Wright and theologian Dr. Jesse Stone at Oxford to explore what the Holy Spirit is doing in the space betwe…

The Joy of the Gospel Inspires Us to Mission: A Conversation with Jukka Kääriäinen, Part 1

In this episode, David and Maurice pause their series on the 2025 clergy retreat presentations to talk with Dr. Jukka Kääriäinen, president of the North American Lutheran Seminary. Born on the mission field as a missionary kid, Jukka has spent his life in mission. He has planted churches, taught mi…

Church as an Apologetic | Part 1

In this talk from the 2026 EFCA Theology Preconference, Bob Thune explores how conversion involves more than a profession of faith — it requires a gradual transformation of how we see the world. Drawing on Lesslie Newbigin, he explains how cultural apologetics helps the local church expose cultural…

What Is the Church, Really?

We use the word “church” to describe a building, a Sunday service, a staff team, and a whole community of believers, but each of those meanings carry different expectations. In this episode, we slow down to ask what the church actually is and what changes when we understand ourselves as part of it.…

BOLD 2026 | Stanley John: From House to House: Pastoral Faithfulness as Missionary Encounter

What does a missionary encounter look like in a post-Christian place? Rev. Dr. Stanley John, lead pastor of Sound Hope, begins with Lesslie Newbigin. After four decades in India, Newbigin found England harder ground than anything he had met there. He spent his retirement pastoring a struggling 20-m…

Exvangelicals and Deconstruction: Still Watching the Road

Why are so many people leaving evangelical Christianity, and how can Bible-believing Christians respond with both truth and love? It’s seven minutes past eleven on a Tuesday night, and a father in Sydney’s west is sitting on the edge of his bed, reading a text from his twenty-four-year-old daughter…