The UnSunday Show
The UnSunday Show asks honest questions about the origin and validity of institutional church rules, traditions, and practices. These religious rules and practices lead us away from the simplicity of the gospel and into an exhausting performance-based experience that is designed to perpetuate itself by placing ever increasing demands on its people and are of no value in Christ. If you're exhausted from trying to keep all the religious rules that have been placed on you, listen in to these conversations as we rediscover the freedom we've been given, apart from religion and empty religious obligation.
Episodes
97 episodes
Covenant Confusion: A Conversation With Mike Kapler (97)
This episode of the UnSunday Show is a conversation from the 2018 archives of The Grace Cafe podcast that Mike had with Mike Kapler of the Growing in Grace podcast. It centers around the content of Mike Kapler's book, Clash Of The Covenants: Es...
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Episode 97
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1:04:27
Mike's Health Update (96)
I recorded this conversation with my wife on The Grace Cafe podcast but am posting it here as well. It's a short health update from yours truly. Push play and give it a listen and thank you for following my podcasts!I was recently invit...
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Episode 96
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11:34
Declaration of Conformity: Formal Church Membership’s Hidden Agenda (95)
I was installing a couple of lights in my garage and when I opened one of the boxes, a paper fell out with the heading at the top that read:FCC's Supplier's Declaration of ConformitySo naturally, my mind went to formal church me...
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Episode 95
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19:04
The Debilitating Delusion of Institutional Religion, With Trent Antle (94)
I asked Trent Antle to join me on this episode of the UnSunday Show because I wanted to hear more his story and I wanted others to have that same opportunity. After 20 years as a pastor in the institutional church setting, Trent began to see th...
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Episode 94
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59:48
Why Is The Church So Captivated by the Law and the 10 Commandments? (93)
Why is the modern church so captivated by the 10 Commandments when the New Covenant scriptures tell us plainly that the Law has been fulfilled and abolished? One reason is the theological systems we subscribe to that have the Law and the 10 Com...
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Episode 93
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17:44
Old Covenant Imperatives Don't Belong in the New Covenant (92)
This episode is the audio I pulled from a video I just did. I came across a post in one of my social media feeds where a church had posted Joshua 1:8 as a memory verse for its people to memorize this week. The passage reads,"Do not let ...
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Episode 92
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7:40
The False Doctrine of Top-Down Authority and Honorific Titles (91)
Welcome to episode 91 of The UnSunday Show. In this episode I take a hard look at top-down authority and the use of honorific titles in the body of Christ. These things are not neutral and in fact, they do harm to the body of Christ by choosing...
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Episode 91
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29:46
Welcome to the Real World (90)
In this episode of the UnSunday Show, I ramble on about some important things that have been on my mind recently concerning institutional church and its inability to reflect the heart of Jesus and his kingdom in the world.
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Episode 90
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25:24
My Interview on The Grace At Last Podcast (89)
This is a short announcement to let you know I was interviewed on the Grace at Last podcast and that episode is out! I had a great conversation there with Corinne Kinstler, host of the Grace at Last podcast as we talked about church, the New Co...
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Episode 89
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0:43
What Does "Study to Show Yourself Approved" Mean? (88)
Welcome to episode 88 of The UnSunday Show. Today we're going to talk about 2 Timothy 2:15. This is another verse in a long list of verses that has been taken out of context and weaponized by institutional religion to mean something that it was...
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Episode 88
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12:05
Is Sanctification Progressive? (87)
Welcome to episode 87 of The UnSunday Show! What is sanctification? Is my sanctification progressive and ongoing, or is it already complete? Much of organized religion would have us believe that our sanctification isn't guaranteed and ...
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Episode 87
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17:52
My Grace-Centered Conversation with Corinne Kinstler (86)
In this episode of the UnSunday Show, I share with you the recent conversation I had with Corinne Kinstler. Our paths crossed several month ago as Corinne was exploring the possibility of starting a new grace-centered podcast that would reflect...
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Episode 86
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46:15
Morning Coffee: Pastors and Elders (85)
I'm way overdue for another morning coffee session with you so I thought I would remedy that with this episode. So let's talk about pastors and elders as I give you an update on where my thinking on this topic is going. This episode is also ava...
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Episode 85
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26:20
How Sermon Centrality Hinders The Body of Christ (84)
In this episode of the UnSunday Show I want to talk about sermons and sermonizing. If the body of Christ is a kingdom of priests (and it is) where everyone who wants to, can actively participate, sermon centrality is certainly one of the bigges...
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Episode 84
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13:47
What Happens When We Don't Read The Bible In Light of The New Covenant? (83)
When we read our Bibles without regard to whether the passage we're reading resides in the Old Covenant or the New Covenant, we're mis-reading it. It's common today to give little or no consideration to a New Covenant/Old Covenant context and b...
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Episode 83
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19:58
Our Jesus Revolution (82)
The recently released movie, The Jesus Revolution, brought back many memories for us of the early days of our lives as Jesus People because we were both there to experience some of it. Mike came to Jesus in January of 1973 in the Calva...
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Episode 82
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29:34
How Has Pastor-Centrality Crippled the Body of Christ? (81)
What has centuries of pastor-centered practices done to the body of Christ? Why is the institutional church so pastor-centered? How has pastor-centrality contributed to the crippling of the body of Christ? Do pastor-centered practices enhance o...
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Episode 81
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14:48
Modern-Day Judaizers, Law/Gospel, and How to Fall From Grace (80)
the Judaizers in Paul's day insisted that the Old Covenant law of Moses had to be obeyed in addition to faith in Jesus. They mixed law with gospel. Unfortunately, there are modern-day Judaizers who do the same thing to varying degrees with the ...
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Episode 80
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16:05
What is Spiritual Growth? (79)
What is spiritual growth? What does that term mean? More often than not, it's a term that gets weaponized to force conformity to a preset standard of rules or activities. But is there such a thing as spiritual growth in the New Covenant scriptu...
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Episode 79
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9:29
Religion and Rest Are Incompatible (78)
Religion diminishes who we are in Jesus by adding layers of obligations on top of the finished work of Jesus on the cross and in his resurrection. There is no rest in religion but in Jesus, rest is part of our new identity. Much like oil and wa...
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Episode 78
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15:29
Five Regrets of a Former Pastor's Wife (77)
My wife Susan joins me in this episode to talk about five regrets of a former pastor's wife. These speak to the damage done as a direct result of having spent years in institutional church leadership. Grab your favorite beverage, pull up a chai...
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Episode 77
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34:39
The UnSunday Show Website Makeover (76)
The UnSunday Show podcast website has received a major makeover and there are new features and tools there now that make it easier for us to communicate. Among the new tools, there's now a voice mail feature that enables you leave me a voice me...
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Episode 76
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7:06
A Militarized Faith (75)
This episode sprang from a conversation Susan and I had about the impact Christian nationalism has had on the body of Christ throughout its history. The use of military jargon within institutional religion has given us a military-style pecking ...
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Episode 75
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24:38
Justification by Faith or Works: Did James and Paul Disagree? (74)
James: "You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone." (James 2:24)Paul: "For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law." (Romans 3:28)Mik...
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Episode 74
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1:02:30
Announcement: The UnSunday Blog (73)
I lost all my drive and passion to write following my crash and burn in 2009. As a pastor who spent years in performance-based Christianity, I hit a wall of performance in 2009 and I went from full-on to full-stop overnight. Relationships were ...
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Episode 73
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