The Guy's Guide to Christian Living: Recent Episodes
Cullen Wainwright and Trevor Gentry
This is a podcast dedicated to Christian men trying to figure out their way through life. We discuss many topics ranging from men-specific (what biblical fatherhood looks like) to general issues regarding Christianity (do we follow the old testament laws or not?) If there is one thing that we want to get across, it's that we are all in this together. Come figure out this weird thing called life with us. It'll sure be a journey. Let's do this.
Welcome to The Guy's Guide to Christian Living! In this episode, we discuss our favorite childhood Christmas memories, we discuss what life would've been like for Mary as she got pregnant, and we close out with some of the strangest Christmas traditions around the world.
Thank you all so much for listening. We love y'all!
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Welcome to The Guy's Guide to Christian Living! On this episode Cullen and Trevor discuss an article that was written in opposition to Christians who celebrate on Halloween, if it's too early to start celebrating Christmas, and how Christians should act in the workplace!
Thank you all so much for listening. We love y'all!
The NT verse I brought up about meat sacrificed to idols is in 1 Corinthians 8.
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Article Against Halloween: https://incmedia.org/christians-dont-celebrate-halloween/
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Woot! We have returned! Thank you all SO much for your patience during the past 10 or so weeks. We have missed making these episodes for you all, but a lot was going on and so we needed to put the show on hiatus for a little while.
This episode is all about faith, politics, and the intermingling of the two. How are you supposed to juggle your faith with your political beliefs? This may come as a surprise (or not), but the answer to that question is quite a bit more complicated and nuanced than what you or I may think upon first glance. There is a lot of grey area when it comes to politics, especially in the United States. We hope you enjoy the episode!
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Welcome to The Guy's Guide to Christian Living! On this episode, Cullen and Trevor discuss why it seems like God in the Old Testament is so different than Jesus in the New Testament. Is there some validity to this concern, or is it simply a misunderstanding?
Stay tuned to find out.
Also, for the final few minutes, Cullen and Trevor challenge each other to some Bible trivia. If y'all want some more of that please let us know as it was a great time.
Mepper.
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Welcome to The Guy's Guide to Christian Living! On this episode Trevor and Cullen close out the first ever project on TGG: The Body of Christ. This has been such a blast for us to make, and we cannot wait to make another!
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https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/11586/when-did-the-one-way-monologue-sermon-first-become-a-normal-feature-of-church-as
https://www.britannica.com/event/East-West-Schism-1054
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/martin-luther-excommunicated#:~:text=In%20January%201521%2C%20Pope%20Leo,an%20outlaw%20and%20a%20heretic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnq_kiQicnE&t=834s
https://www.britannica.com/topic/mystical-body-of-Christ
https://www.allaboutgod.com/body-of-christ.htm
Welcome to The Guy's Guide to Christian Living! This is part 2 of our first ever Project on TGG, and on it we will discuss what Mystical Body of Christ is, what it means for believers, and how it affects us!
Part 3 of this project will release next and will be way more discussion-based where we discuss how to apply all that we've learned over the first 2 parts.
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https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/11586/when-did-the-one-way-monologue-sermon-first-become-a-normal-feature-of-church-as
https://www.britannica.com/event/East-West-Schism-1054
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/martin-luther-excommunicated#:~:text=In%20January%201521%2C%20Pope%20Leo,an%20outlaw%20and%20a%20heretic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnq_kiQicnE&t=834s
https://www.britannica.com/topic/mystical-body-of-Christ
https://www.allaboutgod.com/body-of-christ.htm
Welcome to The Guy's Guide to Christian Living! This is part 1 of our first ever Project on TGG, and on it we will discuss what the word "church" actually means and also briefly go over the history of the global church.
Part 2 of this project will release next and will cover the Mystical Body of Christ, what that even is, and what it means for believers all around the world.
HUGE shout out to Allen Parr on The Beat YouTube channel. His work greatly helped us piece together our church history timeline. Go check out his videos!
His church history video, along with our other sources, are listed below.
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https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/11586/when-did-the-one-way-monologue-sermon-first-become-a-normal-feature-of-church-as
https://www.britannica.com/event/East-West-Schism-1054
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/martin-luther-excommunicated#:~:text=In%20January%201521%2C%20Pope%20Leo,an%20outlaw%20and%20a%20heretic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnq_kiQicnE&t=834s
https://www.britannica.com/topic/mystical-body-of-Christ
Hey everyone! There is no regular episode this week as Trevor and I prepare to launch into the first TGG project. This first project is going to heavily cover church history and how that relates to the Mystical Body of Christ, and we could not be more excited!
Thank y'all for being patient with us this week. It will be worth it!
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Welcome to The Guy's Guide to Christian Living! In this episode Cullen and Trevor discuss singleness, online dating, and much more! If you feel we deserve a rating and/or a written review please, please, give it! We love to get feedback on the show so that way we can make it as good as it can possibly be.
As I state in the introduction, we had several technical difficulties occur when recording this episode. Because of that, it look extra work just to get it into an up-loadable state and still isn't at the highest level of quality we strive for here at TGG. We promise that we will work on these issues and fix them ASAP.
Thank you so much for listening!
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Welcome to The Guy's Guide to Christian Living! On this episode Cullen and Trevor discuss what they think are the best ways to read the Bible both for newcomers and veteran Bible readers. This conversation includes where to begin, what translation to use (ex. ESV v. NASB), who study bibles are for, and more!
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Welcome to The Guy's Guide to Christian Living! This episode is the continuation of our Biblical Fatherhood talk. We had an absolute blast discussing all the different facets of being a father and what it takes to show Christ to your children. We hope you enjoy listening to this episode as much as we did making it! Let's do this.
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Welcome to The Guy's Guide to Christian Living! On this episode, we welcome special guest Travis Bailey to talk about Biblical Fatherhood! Travis is the college pastor at The Way at Indiana Avenue Baptist Church in Lubbock, TX (and is also Trevor's boss).
On this episode, Cullen, Trevor, and Travis discuss how to know when you are ready to have a kid, how to portray Jesus to your children (even if they aren't old enough to know Jesus), and a lot more!
If you feel we deserve a rating, please give it! We love to get feedback on our work so that we can make it the best that it can be.
Enjoy the episode!
Scripture to Meditate over:
Ephesians 6
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Welcome to The Guy's Guide to Christian Living! For this episode, we are excited to have our very first guest, Feji Inikori. We discuss the current racial climate in the United States, what are the steps to take towards solutions for these social issues, and what the church's role in this needs to be.
We understand that this is a very sensitive topic, so we took our time to make sure we did it as much justice as we can. If there is anything that you feel we missed or could do better, please let us know. We appreciate Feji taking time out of his very busy schedule to have this conversation with us. We learned a lot from this conversation, and hope that you do as well.
We love each and every one of you. Every human being is fearfully and wonderfully made in God's image. We cannot lose sight of that.
-Cullen Wainwright and Trevor Gentry
Scripture to meditate over:
1 John 4:20-21
Revelation 7:9-12
Luke 10:25-37
John 4 (woman at the well)
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Resources: Your own confidence, and a quick prayer. Go get 'em, Chief!
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Welcome to Secular Saturday in The Guy's Guide to Christian Living! During this episode Trevor and Cullen discuss their favorite video games and what TV Trevor should upgrade to. Enjoy! If you feel we deserve a rating, whatever it is, please give it! Along with that, if you would give us a written review with your feedback, we would love to be able to implement it ASAP!
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Welcome to The Guy's Guide to Christian Living! During this episode Cullen and Trevor continue their conversation about dating and romantic relationships and go over questions like "How do I keep God at the center of my relationship?" and "How do I know if this relationship needs to end?". We upload regular episodes every Friday, and then bonus episodes every other Saturday.
Questions to consider:
- At what point do you verbalize whether you’re officially boyfriend and girlfriend?
- Once that happens, how do you keep the girl?
- What is a good amount of dating? Should the couple go on a date at least once a week (more than just hanging out)?
- People often say that God needs to be at the center of every Christian relationship. But, what does that look like? How can you tell if He is or isn’t at the center for you? If you determine that your relationship isn’t on the right track, how can you work to get it back?
- Inter-denominational dating. Go or no go?
- How to deal with trouble in the relationship. Ex. arguments, don’t like their family as much as you’d hoped, somebody lied to the other person.
- How much is too much? When is it time to break up?
- Do you stay with somebody who cheated on you (not married)?
- Is it okay for a proposal to be a total surprise (never talked about in the relationship)?
Scripture to meditate over:
2 Corinthians 6: 14-16
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Welcome to The Guy's Guide to Christian Living! In this episode Cullen and Trevor discuss dating. What is it for? And, how should a guy ask a girl out? We had a lot of fun recording this episode, and we hope you have even more fun listening to it! If you feel that we deserve a rating/written review, either positive or negative, feel free to share it! We love getting all sorts of feedback on the show as it helps us get better every week.
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Welcome to The Guy's Guide to Christian Living! During this episode, Trevor and Cullen deliver a crash course on prayer. What is prayer, and how should it be used? If you feel that we deserve a rating/written review, whatever it is, please give it! We love to hear feedback and get tips on how to improve the show.
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Show Notes:
- First, what is prayer?
- Let’s make a definition that we can stick to.
- What can prayer do? Why is it necessary?
- Is prayer mostly a tool, like a telephone line straight to God?
- If God already knows what I am praying for, why do I even need to pray?
- Do I need to be in a special moment with God, or can I just prayer anywhere anytime?
- Is there any sort of real process that I need to go through?
- Kneeling vs not kneeling
- Praying inside my head vs. saying it out loud
- How do we address the creator of the Universe, God? More casual or very formal?
- What is ok to pray about?
- Do I need to pray every day?
- Should I expect an answer?
- I’ve seen it be joked about before that sometimes a person may pray with a specific request in mind, let’s say the healing of a person. But, then, then feel bad that they are only praying for that one person, and so the prayer slowly begins to open up until you are just praying for the healing of the entire world.
- What/who do we need to be praying for? Are we being selfish if we pray for only one thing?
- Sometimes, when I pray, it can be very emotional and I can feel God’s presence with me. Sometimes, it feels as if i'm just saying things into the ether of the universe, and it’s going nowhere. What can I do if I feel like God isn’t giving me an answer?
- How can I even know if he IS giving me an answer?
- I know many people who keep a tradition of repeating the Lord’s prayer often. Catholics do it every Sunday at mass. Is this something that should be important to us, or should it just be something that we keep in the back of our minds when it comes to a prayer template?
- Can you pray to somebody that isn’t God?
- Many protestants think that it’s heretical for Catholics to “pray” to the Saints. But, Catholics would say that the protestants just have the wrong idea of what is actually happening there (I don’t want to spoil the exact reason until the recording).
- Mark 11:24 seems to say that we will get whatever we pray for. But, I pray for things all the time that I don’t get. What gives? What could Jesus really be saying here that maybe doesn’t come across right in translation?
Resources:
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Welcome to Secular Saturday in The Guy's Guide to Christian Living! During this episode Trevor and Cullen discuss college athletes being paid, the Hubble Telescope, aliens, and some of our favorite movies.
TGG will be back to normal next week. We promise!
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Welcome to The Guy's Guide to Christian Living! This episode Trevor and Cullen talk about the Old Testament Law. What is the Law? How are Christians supposed to relate to it?
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Resources:
Covenant Theology Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant_theology
Dispensational Theology Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispensationalism
Scriptures to read and meditate over:
- Matthew 5:17-18
- Acts 10:11-16
- 1 Corinthians 9:20-21
- Various laws
- Psalm 15
- Matthew 22: 34-40
- Romans 10:4
- Isaiah 6:1-7
Show Notes:
- First, let’s dive into what the Law is and the purposes it served and give some background info for where this conversation is going to go.
- God has rescued the Israelites from Egypt during the Exodus. Now, He is preparing to start a new nation with them in the promised land, but they haven’t arrived there yet.
- Starting with the 10 Commandments, God gives Israel 613 Laws to follow. Why?
- If any of the Israleites were to break any of the Laws, there was a sacrificial system also described in the Torah to make the people right with God again. Why do sins need to be atoned for? Why doesn’t God just forgive wrongdoings simply because he can?
- Isaiah sins seemed to be forgiven without a sacrifice needed. And later, Jesus is seen forgiving sins all around Israel! Was the sacrificial system ever truly necessary?
- Christ says that he did not come to abolish the Law, but to fulfill it. But, in Acts it very much seems like the Law is made irrelevant, especially when it comes to eating kosher.
- This just seems like a massive departure from what we spend so much time reading about in the OT. God spent so much time giving the 613 Laws to the Israelites and enforcing them, why just seemingly throw them away, even though that's what he claims he isn’t doing?
- What is really going on when he makes all the unclean animals clean in Acts 10?
- Why not just say “follow the Law to the best of your ability, but since Jesus has paid for your sins, you are forever forgiven and there is no need for animal sacrifices anymore”?
- The water seems muddied a bit now.
- What is really going on when he makes all the unclean animals clean in Acts 10?
- If fulfilling the Law means that we aren’t under it anymore, then isn’t that the same as abolishing it? Why did Jesus draw a distinction there?
- Are we sinning if we break the OT Laws? Sometimes? How can we know?
- I’ve heard it said that since Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice, that that is the reason the Law has been made irrelevant.
- But, if breaking an OT Law is a sin, and we are willingly breaking the OT Law because Christ has paid for our mess ups. So, if that is the case, then does that mean we are doing exactly what we are warned to not do in Romans 6, which is to go on sinning simply because the price has been paid?
- This just seems like a massive departure from what we spend so much time reading about in the OT. God spent so much time giving the 613 Laws to the Israelites and enforcing them, why just seemingly throw them away, even though that's what he claims he isn’t doing?
- God has rescued the Israelites from Egypt during the Exodus. Now, He is preparing to start a new nation with them in the promised land, but they haven’t arrived there yet.
- How are we to treat the OT Laws? Do we just treat them as moral examples of a good way to live in that historical and cultural context? Or, do we need to take them more seriously than that? What role do they need to be playing in our lives, if any? Can we summarize our relationship to the Laws like this: Jesus fulfilled the Law. So, that means we are no longer bound to any specific Law, but rather need to take the morality behind them and instead apply that to our lives? Like loving/worshipping God, taking care of the poor and needy, etc.?
Welcome to The Guy's Guide to Christian Living! This Secular Saturday episode is Trevor and I discussing Tiger King, where Mount Sinai might be, and the nerdiest things that either of us have ever done. Enjoy!
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Welcome to The Guy's Guide to Christian Living! On this episode Cullen and Trevor have thought-provoking conversations on gender roles in the family as well as the church, some choices a father has to make, and they also discuss the topics brought up in Episode 2!
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Passages to read and meditate over:
Galatians 3
Ephesians 5
1 Timothy 2
Show Script:
- Does the Bible support the idea of gendered roles, family and otherwise?
- Is it a good or bad thing to have roles that you are obligated to fill simply because of who you are? I didn’t get to choose whether I was born a boy or girl, it just happened. So, why should I conform to these restrictions?
- Cullen will present some articles written by people who believe gender roles do more harm than good to a society. How can we respond to this, or is it simply a case of “you live how you choose and I’ll just follow the Bible?
- There are several Bible verses that might be good to read on how each member of a family should act, and what their specific “roles” might entail.
- There are verses that say things like “In Christ there is no male or female, we are all one”. Does this go against gendered roles?
- If all people are equal, then do these roles make a husband and wife inherently unequal?
- What gender roles might be good for us to follow and what ones might we ignore?
- Men as church leaders.
- Does a female pastor mean that that church is going against what the Bible preaches?
- What kind of person is called to be a leader in the church? Is it only strong-willed manly men who can withstand any trouble?
- If not, then let’s break down the different types of church leaders.
- If a man puts his family first, does that mean that he is neglecting others who may be hurting in the world?
- If men are called to both care for their families and also the world around us, how can we strike a healthy balance between these?
- Ex. Trevor, your daughter has been wanting a bicycle for a long time, and so you go to the store and spend $150 on a new bike for her birthday, did you just neglect a homeless person who could've used that money?
- Likewise, you spent an extra hour at work because there was a college student struggling with their faith and they've been wanting to talk to you, but that means that you and your wife don't get to watch the show you've been wanting to, and spending that time together. Are you in the wrong there?
- If men are called to both care for their families and also the world around us, how can we strike a healthy balance between these?
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Welcome to The Guy's Guide to Christian Living! This episode is a solo episode by Cullen breaking down what Jesus' Great Commission in Matthew 28 means for us today!
No big show notes for this episode like our first one, as any show notes here would pretty much only be the script for the episode. However, some passages to read and meditate over are:
Matthew 28
2 Timothy 4
Galatians 5
Isaiah 52
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This is our secondary show Secular Saturday where we just throw the script away and discuss just about anything!
This episode, we talk about the current pandemic, online church, politics, and the media's affect on people. Hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we did making it.
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Welcome to The Guy's Guide to Christian Living! This episode we discuss different facets of what Biblical Manhood/Masculinity is, and how that affects how men are supposed to carry themselves throughout day-to-day life.
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TGG Episode 1 Show Notes
- Start off the episode’s introduction by reading 1 Corinthians 16:13. And posing some questions for the listeners to think about while listening. “What does it mean to ‘act like a man’” and “From the Bible’s perspective, what does it mean to be a man?”
- Remember that when reading a verse like this to start, it doesn’t matter if I am reading out of context. Because, the context of the verse is something we can discuss when going over that verse and/or others like it.
- Once intro is finished, Cullen will ask something like “What is masculinity and does the Bible present a portrait of the ideal manly man?
- Does the Bible conflict with your view of manliness?
- Some things to maybe think about: there are a lot of different men who play big roles throughout the story of the Bible. Some were great because they humbled themselves (Jesus), others were great because they were mighty warriors who slayed their enemies to protect Israel (King David). Why does the Bible seem to give praise to both types? Who are we supposed to become
- o What about men who have a sort of identity crisis because they read these biblical stories, yet they are very different from those guys? More feminine (not an insult) guys, for example.
- Does the Bible support the idea of gendered roles, family and otherwise?
- Is it a good or bad thing to have roles that you are obligated to fill simply because of who you are? I didn’t get to choose whether I was born a boy or girl, it just happened. So, why should I conform to these restrictions?
- There are many articles written by people who believe gender roles do more harm than good to a society. How can we respond to this, or is it simply a case of “you live how you choose and I’ll just follow the Bible?
- There are several Bible verses that might be good to read on how each member of a family should act, and what their specific “roles” might entail.
- There are verses that say things like “In Christ there is no male or female, we are all one”.
- Does this go against gendered roles.
- If all people are equal, then do these roles make a husband and wife inherently unequal?
- Do fathers have to be the providers of the family? What if they are stay-at-home?
- I find that men often joke that it’s their wives that “wear the pants” and are in charge of the household. Is that the wrong way to be thinking about family life? Having this discussion feels so archaic compared to our modern culture. It feels so ancient and out-of-touch.
- Saying “the man is the head of the household” almost feels.. Wrong.
- Scriptures to read and meditate on:
- 1 Corinthians 16
- Ephesians 5
- 1 Timothy 2-3
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