The Living Stone: Recent Episodes
Greystone Baptist Church
In this episode of The Living Stone podcast, pastors Anna Beth Cross and Chrissy Tatum Williamson continue our Lenten podcast series, Honest Questions.
This week, Anna Beth and Chrissy discuss the meaning of Holy Week, walking through the events of Jesus’s last week of ministry and life on earth, leading up to his death and resurrection. As the Lent season comes to a close and preparation for the Easter season begins, they also reflect on the meaning of this journey to the cross for our lives today.
In this episode of The Living Stone, Pastor Chrissy Tatum Williamson and special guest Chris George continue our podcast series for Lent, Honest Questions.
This week, Chrissy welcomes special guest, Rev. Dr. Chris George, Senior Pastor of Smoke Rise Baptist Church in Georgia to discuss the rules and laws found in the Bible. With so many rules (613 commandments in the Old Testament) and then the statement that Jesus makes about the greatest commandment in Matthew 22, many of us wonder what it means to take the Bible seriously in our modern world.
In this episode of The Living Stone, pastors Anna Beth Cross and Chrissy Tatum Williamson continue our podcast series for Lent, Honest Questions.
This week, Anna Beth and Chrissy discuss questions centered around how we connect with God, especially when God feels absent in our lives. How do we feel God’s presence in our lives? How do we hear God’s voice? After discussing these questions, they share spiritual practices and disciplines that may be helpful in leading us toward a deeper relationship and connection with God.
Recommended Books:
Celebration of Discipline by Richard B. Foster
Sacred Rhythms: Arranging our Lives for Spiritual Transformation by Ruth Haley Barton
In this episode of The Living Stone, pastors Anna Beth Cross and Chrissy Tatum Williamson continue our podcast series for Lent, Honest Questions.
This week, Anna Beth and Chrissy discuss several questions posed by members of Greystone. These questions were submitted during worship as a response to the question: What questions do you ask in the dark? Just as Nicodemus asked Jesus his own faith questions at night, often our deepest, most honest questions come in the dark of night and keep us awake. Listen to hear this discussion about these questions, not necessarily answers to them.
In this episode of The Living Stone, pastors Anna Beth Cross and Chrissy Tatum Williamson continue our podcast series for Lent, Honest Questions.
This week, Anna Beth and Chrissy ask two honest questions: Who is God? And who are we? These questions are expanded by asking: what is the nature of God and humanity in relationship with one another? Knowing this question is two-fold, this discussion breaks down some thoughts about both God and humanity based on scripture and theologies that have emerged throughout Christian history.
Theologians Referenced:
Systematic Theology: Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, John Calvin, John Wesley
Process Theology: Alfred North Whitehead, Charles Hartshorne, John Cobb, Eugene Peters, Catherine Keller, Marjorie Suhocki
Liberation Theology: James Cone, Miguel De La Torre (Latin American)
Womanist Theology: Eboni Marshall Turman
Feminist Theology: Elizabeth Johnson
In this episode of The Living Stone, pastors Anna Beth Cross and Chrissy Tatum Williamson begin a new series for Lent, Honest Questions. Over the next five weeks, they will discuss some of our honest questions of faith to go along with the Lenten theme of Seeking, from A Sanctified Art LLC.
This week, Anna Beth and Chrissy go back to the basics by asking a simple but challenging question, “What is the Bible?” Sharing their own journeys and relationships with the Bible, this discussion is filled with the history of how the Bible came to be and reframing how we can faithfully read and understand it now.
Original song “Living Stones” by Christian McIvor © 2020
In this episode of The Living Stone, Angela Williams Gorrell joins Pastor Anna Beth Cross and Pastor Chrissy Tatum Williamson for a conversation about her book The Gravity of Joy: A Story of Being Lost and Found and her work toward “a life worth living.” In addition to this book and project, the three discuss where God is in the midst of suffering, how grief and lament lead to joy, and what spiritual practices, both individual and communal, help to create spaces that cultivate joy.
Angela Williams Gorrell’s Bio:
Dr. Angela Williams Gorrell has held many roles as an author, professor, researcher, speaker, pastor, chaplain, consultant, and mentor. She has a PhD from Fuller Seminary, is ordained in the Mennonite church, and most recently taught at Baylor University’s Truett Seminary as an Assistant Professor of Practical Theology. Angela began researching joy as an Associate Research Scholar at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture at Yale University in 2016, which led to her most recent book, The Gravity of Joy: A Story of Being Lost and Found. She is also the author of Always On: Practicing Faith in a New Media Landscape.
A conversational sermon hosted by Chrissy Williamson with guest,Nell Green, CBF Advocate for the Global Missions Offering