Salty Believer Unscripted (audio)

Join Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman as they discuss the Charles Simeon Trust workshop. They are headed to a workshop on preaching Epistles, specifically 2 Timothy, and thought they’d podcast their experiences. In this episode, they share what they’re excited about and what’s making them nervous. In the coming episodes, they’ll chat with someone who’s already attended some workshops, and they’ll talk with Robert Kinney from Charles Simeon Trust. They’ll also try to record an episode or two on site. Copyright 2024. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

You invited someone to a Christmas or Easter service. Maybe they came; maybe they didn’t. Now what? What’s the next step after you’ve invited a friend or co-worker to church? That’s the topic of this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted. Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman discuss what might work well as a next step. There are many possibilities.

Join Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman as they look back at 2023 and look ahead to 2024. What’s coming on the Salty Believer Unscripted podcast? This is their 524th episode so they chat about some past episodes and things Bryan is doing to remember some of the greatest hits. Copyright 2024. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

In this Part 2 in a two part interview. Bryan Catherman interviewed Dr. Mark Bradley, the Director of the Northwest Campus of Gateway Seminary. They discuss ministry in the Pacific Northwest, seminary education, and Mark’s outlook for the future that graduating students are entering. They also talk about what he sees in students today. This is Part 2 of a 2-part interview. Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

In this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Bryan Catherman interviewed Dr. Mark Bradley, the Director of the Northwest Campus of Gateway Seminary. They discuss ministry in the Pacific Northwest, seminary education, and Mark’s outlook for the future that graduating students are entering. They also talk about what he sees in students today. This is Part 1 of a 2-part interview. Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

On this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker discuss ecumenical ministry. Should churches join with non-Christian ministries in the community? Should we lay down our differences and compromise the gospel of Jesus Christ for the sake of community? Everything is done in some way, but who decides which way, and is it really a two-way street? These the questions that lead the conversation and they answer these and more. Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

Now that Josiah Walker has finished seminary, he and Bryan Catherman discuss how a person can get sharp and stay sharp. What do pastors do? What can people with limited time do? How do trained people stay sharp? They answer these and other question in this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted. Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

Josiah Walker has graduated seminary with a Master’s Degree from Gateway Seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention. In this episode, Bryan Catherman ask Josiah what was the most valuable. They also talk about the experience. Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

In this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman discuss Kevin DeYoung’s critique of Doug Wilson’s No Quarter November. “What do you think of Doug Wilson?” is the question that opens DeYoung’s article. The article goes on to examine Wilson’s approach to ministry. This opened the conversation up for Bryan and Josiah to talk about how we might respond to questions about ministers we struggle with. Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

Join Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman as they finish up our series, “Stewards of the Bride.” In this episode, they seek to answer the question, “How do I find my place in a local church?” Given what an Elder is, and give what a Deacon is, what does it look like to serve the Bride of Christ in the local church? Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

In this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman talk about the role of women in the church. What about women elders? Women deacons (servants)? These are significant questions given the gender-enflamed aspects of culture bleeding into the Church lately. Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit saltybeliever.com.

Join Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman as they discuss the qualifications and task of the deacon. Are all servants deacons? Or could it be that there are many classes of servants, and of those classes, deacon is one position within the classes of servants in the church? How should we understand Phoebe as a servant or deacon? This opens up questions about servants, but also about women serving in the local church. These are the topics the guys are hitting on in this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

Join Salty Believer Unscripted as Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman discuss the role of the Pastor as a shepherd. The Pastor is a shepherd and there for, an Elder is a shepherd. What is that? What does it mean? What does it look like? That’s the conversation in this episode as the guys address the question, “What is a Pastor?” Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit saltybeliever.com.

On this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman discuss Elders and what an Elder should be, biblically. After identifying the two biblical offices, the next step is to dig into each of those offices. This is a continuing discussion in our series, “Stewards of the Bride.” Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

Before we can start with the questions What is role of women in the ministry?, Who is a pastor?, or What is deacon?, we need to ask, What is an office and how many are there in the local church? This is the foundational question for this episode Salty Believer Unscripted. Join Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman as they seek to unpack and answer the question, “What is an office with in the local church and how many are their?” How we answer this question will set the rest of our answers in motion. Avoiding this question causes the remainder of the questions to open up to more confusion. We’ve got to get this one right. Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

On this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Josiah Walker opened the episode with a frustrated question about why the Church is confused by the role of Pastor, women in ministry, offices in the Church, and why the Church seems so broken today. If not the Church as a whole, at least the Church in American seems broken. And if not the Church in American, certainly in the Southern Baptist Convention is confused. As questions about gender have impacted the Church, debates still rage even after 2,000 years of the Church age. Why is it all broken? What is a Pastor? Who is a Pastor? What is the role of women in the Church, ministry, and leadership? What is an Elder? What is a Deacon? What does the Bible say about all of it and why does tradition have so much influence in this area? Is it time for another reformation? These are the questions that undergird the larger question, “Who and what are the stewards of the Bride?” That’s the series we’re entering on Salt Believer Unscripted and this introduction episode set

On this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman discuss 7 warning for Christians as we engage in politics. They specifically looked as these warnings through the lens of specific examples with the recent Republican debate and the Donald Trump interview with Tucker Carlson. How should Christians engage in politics and to what extent? The seeds of this topic come from an article on Salty Believer Unscripted titled, “Seven Warnings For Christians During this Election Season.” Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

Join Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman as they discuss the disaster of pride in ministry. From time to time, pastors, professors, authors, and others get puffed up, even to the point of becoming a donkey. Josiah asked Bryan to interaction with the following Martin Luther quote: "If you are highly pleased when someone praises you in the presence of others; if you perhaps look for praise, and would sulk or quit what you are doing if you did not get it--if you are of that stripe, dear friend, then take yourself by the ears, and if you do this in the right way you will find a beautiful of big, long, shaggy donkey ears." Then they discussed the dangers and how to avoid them. Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

Join Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman as they discuss disaster. Why does the world get so enthralled with disaster? We ask ourselves big questions when disasters happen, and we should, but do we ever take the time to think through the answers? Why are we so intrigued by disasters in the first place? What does the Bible say about disaster. They answer these questions and more in this episode. Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

In this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Pastors Shawn Dobbins and Mark Whitaker to talk about the role of the typical parishioner in mission work. How does a church create a heart for mission in the entire church rather than in just a small group of folks? Hebron Baptist Church is doing this well and Shawn and Mark share some of what they are doing with Bryan Catherman. Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.