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101 episodes
since Aug. 9, 2023
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The pizza ovens never arrived. The money was nearly gone. And a student coffeehouse had already promised pizza for its grand reopening. Bob Bakke had no idea how to fix it—until a request for baptism led him to an unexpected discovery in the woods. In this episode of Rooftop Perspectives, John Wha…

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What really happened behind the camera on The Chosen? Ruben Martinez was there for all seven seasons — appearing in 23 episodes, playing everyone from a Pharisee to a fisherman — and what he witnessed off-camera was just as extraordinary as anything that made it to the screen. In this conversation …
What if the church’s biggest problem isn’t culture, politics, or persecution — it’s that it simply has no plan? British evangelist Dennis Pethers has spent 12 years traveling more than 70 countries with Rooftop International, and the pattern he sees everywhere is the same: the church has become a l…
What does God say when everything falls apart? In this episode, John Whaley sits down with pastor and author Michael Brewer to talk about the one truth that changed his life: grace is the exception, not the rule. Michael watched his wife Susan fight a brain tumor, then cancer, through 13 rounds of …
Kyle Reno is the Senior Pastor of Crossgates Church in Brandon, Mississippi and co-host of The OneCry Podcast. He grew up outside the faith in rural Alabama and came to Christ at 19 as a broken college kid — kneeling at an altar he'd never heard of, and walking out free for the first time in his li…
Bill Elliff has spent decades studying revival. He's read everything. He was in the room when God moved spontaneously at his own church in 2011. And he stood in the balcony at Asbury as a broadcast that normally reaches 100,000 people a year went to 10 million — and felt God speak to his soul about…
What happens when a TV show brings 30 people back to church — in a single congregation? That's just one of the stories Demetrius Troy shares in this episode. Demetrius plays Lazarus in The Chosen, the most-watched Christian drama in history. But long before the cameras rolled, Demetrius was a cradl…
Austin Bradford is the producer of Rooftop Perspectives. In this conversation, John Whaley turns the mic around. Austin shares his full story: growing up in church, walking away at 22, hitting rock bottom while bartending, and being relentlessly pursued by a campus minister who wouldn't stop showin…
Cyril Rayan came to America in 1991 from Mumbai, India — chasing a master's degree in electrical engineering at Mississippi State University. He wasn't looking for Jesus. But a campus minister named Stephen Foster made it his mission to share the gospel with every foreign student he could find. Ove…
Frank Shelton spent 18 years as a staffer on Capitol Hill. He was ordained in 1998, preaching 110 times in 52 weeks while still holding a full-time government job. Then came the moment of decision — a US Capitol Police training course, a prayer, a ripped thigh muscle, 13 days in the hospital, and a…
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