Weekday Worship
By Generations Norcross
Weekday WorshipAug 18, 2021
Spiritual Practice #10 - Sabbath
A conversation about the good gift from God of ongoing renewal through a rhythm of worship and rest; a good gift we serially neglect, and desperately need to reclaim in our demanding world and age of incessant busyness.
A Story-er on Story-ing
A conversation with our very own Tom Ferguson on the use of storying in the global missions context.
Spiritual Pratice #9 - Storying
A conversation about Spring Break, Easter, confessions of fast food guilty pleasures and answering the question everyone is asking... what on earth is storying?
Celebrating St. Patrick's Life instead of St. Patrick's Day
A conversation about a spinoff podcast and St. Patrick of Ireland.
Spiritual Practice #8 - Meditation
A conversation about meditation that is distinctly Christian, and the importance of filling our minds with and focusing our hearts on God and the truth as He's revealed in Scripture.
Weekend Worship
We are coming to you from Colombia with a quick update on some of what we've been up to the last several days with our church partners.
Thinking Biblically About Abortion part 2
This is part 2 of a conversation on abortion. We welcome Betsy Rowell onto the podcast with Scottie and James to sort out the complicated and sometimes confusing landscape of the Pro-Life movement, in the hopes of simplifying and bringing clarity to how we should think through this issue in a consistently and distinctively Christian way.
- Betsy's First Appearance on Weekday Worship in 2020 - Reflections from a Better Half
- Bradley Pierce interview on incrementalism vs. abolition
Spiritual Practice #7 - Confessing
A conversation about the importance of confessing as a connective practice in Christian community. We explore what confession is and what it is not; how it is nurtured in constructive ways or distorted in destructive ways; and how we all contribute to a climate that is friends and hospitable to confession.
Thinking Biblically About Abortion
This is part 1 of 2 in a conversation on abortion. Because this is such a charged issue that's influenced by so many different voices and perspectives with so many competing agendas, it usually generates more heat than light. We do not take for granted that our congregation has a uniform view on this matter, so it's genuinely our hope to have a conversation that brings more light than heat. For us, that means we have to do our best to lay aside all of our speculations to start with God's revelation; to step back from what everyone else says to examine what God says.
Spiritual Practice #6 - Fasting
A conversation about Caleb's new look, a beverage of choice, and a too-often neglected practice that is a gift from God to us, for our fellowship with Him.
Fast and not so Furious - A previous episode on Fasting walking through Isaiah 58
Needed Help from a Partner in the Gospel
A conversation with one of our global mission partners, Michael Cody, helping us to think through evangelism, at both a spiritual and practical level.
Get to know Michael and Maegan Cody on previous episodes of Weekday Worship clicking on the links below:
From North Alabama to South Africa part 1 - an interview with Michael Cody
From North Alabama to South Africa part 2 - an interview with Maegan Cody
An Advent Episode
A conversation about Advent with Caleb very much in the Christmas Spirit, thanks to Kuyper's sleeping and Bonhoeffer's writing.
Reflecting on 2023
A conversation reflecting on stories that have given shape to the Christian community this year, the things that have given shape to us personally this year, and whether or not Caleb is a whiner.
Spiritual Practice #5 - Scripture
A conversation about our Spiritual Practice for December. Paul Thompson is back on the show to offer wisdom and insight from 64 years of meaningful engagement with Scripture, to help us consider why we should give ourselves more than ever to this practice and to explore practical ways of doing so.
How To Die Well
A Conversation with a very special guest, exploring how to think Christianly about dying, engaging eternity with our imaginations, and other light hearted topics.
Making Sense of How and Why we Behold Christ
A conversation about the mean streets of Gwinnett County, local elections, and wrestling with the usefulness of beholding glory.
Spiritual Practice #4 - Hospitality
A conversation touching on reformation day, the importance of front porches, and how to respond to dramatic developments and dire circumstances in a distinctively Christian way.
Becoming What We Worship
A conversation about bad grammar, making up words, and identifying and contending with idolatry.
Big God Theology
A conversation interacting with our current sermon series, exploring how we have each come into contact with and discovery of the God of the Bible.
A Filtered Life
A conversation with Joey Greer about vocation, entrepreneurship and seeking first the Kingdom as an operating paradigm.
Spiritual Practice #3 - Eating
A conversation around a biblical theology of food and the spiritual significance surrounding everyday meals and table fellowship.
Mother Nature
A conversation where we banter about our banter; clarify Caleb's need to be footnoted; and interact with a recently released video from Apple about their corporate progress to reach a net zero carbon footprint, as promised, by 2030.
Spiritual Practice #2 - Prayer
A conversation about our Spiritual Practice for September, creating a position for a Pastor of Pickleball, plus, there may be a Chance the Rapper impression that makes it into this weeks episode.
The Single Greatest Episode... Ever.
We are joined by a very special guest today for a conversation touching on 90's alt-rock one-hit wonders, mediocre rom-coms and an enlarged vision for singleness worthy of ultimate reality... there is some questionable sound engineering but you will not be Dish-appointed.
Spiritual Practice #1 (part 3) - Personal Worship
A conversation about nurturing worship in the flow of our everyday lives, both personally and within our families. Plus, an evaluation of the new Chick-fil-a sandwich with spicy pimento cheese and the deep spirituality of keepy-uppy with your kids (yes, that game with the balloons you dummies).
Spiritual Practice #1 (part 2) - Corporate Worship
A conversation exploring the essentialness of corporate worship to spiritual formation, and how our rhythm of gathering, as well as the specific movements and moments of our gathering, are intended to shape us.
Spiritual Practice #1 (part 1) - Worship
A conversation introducing our first spiritual practice, exploring how our culture forms us, American Christians and the American Church, as worshippers.
Spiritual Formation
This episode is part 2 in a series of discussions introducing the idea of Spiritual Practices, a new layer of our discipleship and discipling environments at Generations.
This conversations focuses on the larger category of spiritual formation but also includes some new insight into why Generations is growing and discussion about this week's pastoral email imposter scandal.
Cultural Formation
The long rumored return is upon us... we're coming out of retirement and relaunching the Weekday Worship Podcast after a long hiatus. This weeks episode takes us into the deep places of bobblehead dolls, shopping malls, the Instant Pot and the way our culture shapes us.
Fellow Workers for the Kingdom
An interview with the Kambous, our partners in the gospel in West Africa, and their story, their lives, their ministry. This is an important listen for anyone who considers Generations their church family so that we might be prayerful and take collective responsibility for the work we're linked to in Burkina Faso.
Western Montana to West Africa... and back.
A conversation with Aaron and Kristi Wheaton about their adventure of faith and following Jesus from Montana, to Generations here in Norcross, to Burkina Faso, and back to Montana.
Faster and Furious-er
This is a rerun episode from last year. As a community, Generations is about to start a church-wide week of fasting and prayer on January 15. This is a conversation we had last year before another week of fasting and prayer, to help us think through how and we engage with such a practice.
The Faith Once For All Delivered to the Saints
A conversation about Thanksgiving traditions, and we revisit from last week, a letter from a 2nd-century follower of Jesus to his un-believing friend, considering early Christian evangelistic content and the reliability of our own theology.
A Letter from Your Brother
A conversation flowing from a 2nd-century disciple of Jesus, regarding the distinctive life of Christians at that time in the Roman Empire, and what we can learn from them.
Beef: It's What's for Dinner
A conversation about a recent petty beef Caleb had with James, an ancient personal beef Abraham had with God, and an old theological beef Paul had with first century Judaizers... we're sorting it all out in one episode.
221 Baker Street
A conversation about one of most mysterious figures in the Biblical text along with some other mysterious references.
Plenty of God
A conversation about Caleb's favorite Dr. Seuss book, a gift he received that keeps on giving, and contrasting a life of fear with a life of faith from Genesis 13.
The Prequel to the Prequel
Finally, after lengthy and sometimes tenuous contract negotiations, the boys are back in the podcasting saddle. We touch on a few of Caleb's life changes and have a conversation about the background and background to the background of the series we are preaching through at Generations on the life of Jacob called, The Story of our Lives.
The Preseason
Getting ready for the start of a new weekday worship season, but not quite there yet, this is a conversation covering a wide range of topics related to the new ministry year launching at Generations. Adam Barker and James Rowell do a lot of name dropping as they discuss discipleship in the context of Next Gen, Community Groups and Cohorts.
A Man You Didn't Know You Want to Know About - part 2
The second half of our conversation about Cyprian, which includes a range of other spin-off topics much to Caleb's chagrin.
A Man You Didn't Know You Want to Know About - part 1
A conversation introducing a 3rd-Century North African Bishop with, as always, some surprising rabbit trails.
Theologian, Pastor and Covert Operative: Introducing Caleb's First Ministry Hero
A conversation about one of the most intriguing, celebrated and written about Christian figures of the 20th Century.
Perpetua
A conversation about a mighty woman of God who most of us have never heard of.
The Exhausted Majority
A conversation interacting with a recently published article on the destabilizing of democracy and the open door for the church.
Why the Last 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid by Jonathan Haidt
Get to Know Your Elders part 2
Generations installed two new elders this past Sunday and we wanted to let them share more about their stories so you get know these men who are charged with shepherding this local church.
Part 2 is a conversation with Zac Gilcrease.
Get to Know Your Elders part 1
Generations installed two new elders this past Sunday and we wanted to let them share more about their stories so you get know these men who are charged with shepherding this local church.
Part 1 is a conversation with Caleb Hawkins.
A Missionary Rom Com
A conversation with one of our mission partners, Joel Ballew, about how he knew he could play college basketball, why his daughters are all named after U.S. Presidents, and his unlikely journey from being a successful business man and entrepreneur turned missionary in Colombia - plus a surprising reveal about a preferred genre of movies for both James and Joel.
The Reasonableness of Believing the Resurrection
A conversation about the most important event in history and whether we're crazy to believe in the Death and Resurrection of Jesus.
How Should We Think About Tithing?
A conversation about trauma from Caleb's high school years that was triggered by last week's episode; his dramatic experience at local restaurant; and sorting through a biblical concept that is often handled sloppily and irresponsibly.
An Interview to Imagine
A conversation with special guest Andrew Hixson, a long time member of Generations and Norcross City Council, touching on workouts with Caleb, eating out with James, and the special beauty of being embedded within a local church and local community that share their location.