Conversate
Join the Pastors and staff of Saints Peter and Paul church, Houghton, MI, and various individuals for Conversate. Each week, we will sit down and have conversations that generally start from the sermon theme of the week. Join us as we model to you how you too can have Spiritual conversations with those you come in contact with. We hope you enjoy it!
Episodes
263 episodes
Episode #265: A Conversation about Zion
In the Psalms (and in various parts of the Old Testament) - we hear some uncommon words. Whether they are terms regarding rituals that the people of Israel engaged in or terms like "Zion" - which seem to be geographic regions of some importance...
Episode #264: A Conversation about Thanking God for the Simple Things in Life
In this week's episode Aaron and Kevin have a conversation about thanking God for all of the simple things in life. This conversation is centered around Psalm 118 that begins and ends with the words "Oh give thanks to the LORD for he is good fo...
Episode #263: A Conversation about Seeking Justice
In this week's episode, Aaron and Kevin have a conversation about what it looks like to seek justice. There is, built into all of us a desire for the wrongs in the world to be righted, and for the evil to be stopped. The question becomes, is it...
Episode #262: A Conversation about Lament
In this week's episode, Aaron and Kevin have a conversation about lament. Lament is an ancient, Biblical form of prayer where one cries out to God to speak honestly with him. It's not mere complaint, but lament does have elements of complaint. ...
Episode #261: A Conversation about New Atheism and Conversion to Christianity (w/ Bailey Symington)
In this week's episode, Aaron sits down with Bailey Symington to discuss his journey of growing up in a Christian church, de-converting to become a proponent of new atheism, and then his journey back into Christianity and his eventual baptism a...
Episode #260: A Conversation about Meditating on God's Law
Have you ever heard people talk about meditation? We wonder what sort of picture you have of that. Meditation is often seen as an individual endeavor where you sit quietly and think about things. In Psalm 1, we are encouraged to meditate on the...
Episode #259: A Conversation about the Trinity
In this week's episode, Aaron and Kevin have a conversation about the Trinity. Very likely, you've heard this word before in its associate with the God that's worshipped by Christians. But, where did the title come from? If it's not in the Bibl...
Episode #258: A Conversation about Pentecost
In this week's episode, Aaron and Kevin have a conversation about the Day of Pentecost. This is one of the celebrations that happens annually in the church calendar, but what's so significant about it? In this conversation, the guy...
Episode #257: A Conversation about Spiritual Warfare
In this week's episode, Aaron and Kevin have a conversation about 1 Peter 5. In the concluding words of 1 Peter, Peter reminds us that "the devil prowls around like a roaring lion" and also, "resist the devil." So, how much power d...
Episode #256: A Conversation about Holy Living
In this week's episode Kevin sits down with Elder and long time member of Saints Peter & Paul: John Pemberton. The focus of their conversation centers around the "flood of debauchery" that Peter speaks of in 1 Peter 4, and how we're all "sw...
Episode #255: A Conversation about Suffering
In this week's episode Aaron and Kevin have a conversation about suffering for righteousness' sake. What are we to do as Christian people when suffering comes to us on account of our faith in Jesus? Are we to fight back? Do nothing? Or, somethi...
Episode #254: A Conversation about The Cornerstone
In this week's episode Aaron and Kevin have a conversation about Jesus Christ as the cornerstone. This conversation has its roots in 1 Peter 2 where Peter quotes one of the most quoted Psalms (118:22). 1 Peter 2 has a lot of differ...
Episode #253: A Conversation about Hopefully
Last week, we had a conversation about hope, and now this week Aaron and Kevin discuss hopefully. It's a word that gets tossed around in our English language often without even thinking about what we mean. In this conversation, the...
Episode #252: A Conversation about Hope
In this week's episode, Marcus Huff joins Pastor Kevin as they discuss hope.Ellis "Red" Redding once said: "Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane." And yet, as Dr. Frankl - the author of "Man's Search for Meaning" - dis...
Episode #251: A Conversation about Holy Week
In this week's episode Aaron and Kevin discuss the different events that occur in the final week of Jesus' life that we now call Holy Week. If you're not familiar with Holy Week, this will certainly bee a blessing for you as the gu...
Episode #250: A Conversation about Pruning
It's our 250 episode! Thanks for sticking with us on this journey of having conversations about Jesus. In every episode, we've been trying to model Christian conversation and it's our goal that you'll start another conversation about Jesus with...
Episode #249: A Conversation about Suffering
In this week's episode, Aaron and Kevin have a conversation about suffering in light of Jesus' authority to overcome death itself as we see in John 11 with the raising of Lazarus. In that situation, both of Lazarus' sisters, Mary a...
Episode #248: A Conversation about Faith and Good Works
In this week's episode, Aaron and Kevin have a conversation about faith and good works and the role that both of them play in the Christian life. The guys discuss this in light of John 8 where Jesus is having a conversation with Jew...
Episode #247: A Conversation about Looking to Jesus
In this week's episode, Aaron and Kevin discuss what it means to look to Jesus. In our lives, in this world, we're so quick to say things like, "If I just had _____" then life would be so much better. But, Jesus invites us to look ...
Episode #246: A Conversation with Marcus Huff
In this week's episode Aaron and Marcus sit down for a conversation that revolves around John chapter 1. They get into a discussion about how and why John begins his Gospel the way that he does. He looks back to the very beginning in order to h...
Episode #245: A Conversation about Truly Living
In a world that is full of death and decay, what can it look like to truly live, fully alive in Christ?We hear the words "from dust you are and to dust you shall return" (Gen. 3:19), but those words don't just apply to a future state. W...
Episode #244: A Conversation about Trees
In this week's episode, Pastor Kevin sits down with Shane Kleiman, a member of SSPP who first attended while a student at Michigan Tech and oversees the Media Booth.While at Tech, Shane earned two Master's degrees - one in Forestry and ...
Episode #243: A Conversation about Purpose
In this week's episode, Aaron and Kevin have a conversation about our God given purpose, and how even that has been broken because of our fall into sin. Because we are separated from our purpose, we end up stepping out of line, we ...
Episode #242: A Conversation about Being Separated from God
In this week’s episode, Aaron and Kevin have a conversation about the effects of being separated from God. When sin enters the world, it puts humanity in an oppositional position to God. Yet, God still continues to come searching after Adam and...