Cultural Conversations

Each year, Tabernacle tackles tough topics during the Discipleship Hour to study and reflect upon the Christian response to difficult issues in our broken world.

Expand each section to find recordings and resources related to each conversation.

CONVERSATION ABOUT JESUS AND ISRAEL (2025)

Why is all this talk about Israel?

How should we as Christians define Israel and what is our responsibility to Israel?

Listen to the Recordings

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Jesus and Israel Week 4

Sep 07, 2025
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Jesus and Israel Week 3

Aug 31, 2025
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Jesus and Israel Week 2

Aug 24, 2025
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Jesus and Israel Week 1

Aug 17, 2025

CONVERSATION ABOUT CITIZENSHIP (2024)

Our nation is growing more divided. How do we as Christians navigate these trying times?


Whose side should we be on, if any? What are our responsibilities to our nation as Christians? Each week, we wrestle through these important questions.


The Gospel provides us with direction, comfort, and hope as we struggle to live as Christian citizens in a foreign land.

Listen to the Recordings

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Hope for the Nation Week 3

Oct 27, 2024
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Hope for the Nation Week 2

Oct 20, 2024
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Hope for the Nation Week 1

Oct 13, 2024

CONVERSATION ABOUT THE DIGITAL AGE (2024)

We are living in the digital age, in a time of many technological advancements. While it is a time full of innovation and excitement, it is also full of speculation and concern.


How are we to navigate this period of history as Christians?

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Digital Age Q&A

Apr 14, 2024
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Cryptocurrency

Apr 07, 2024
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History of Cryptocurrency

Mar 24, 2024
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Our Future with AI

Mar 17, 2024
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Use of Artificial Intelligence

Mar 10, 2024
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Technology | A Common Grace

Mar 03, 2024

Recommended Resources

The Age of AI

Jason Thacker

God, Technology, and the Christian Life

Tony Reinke

Raising Kids in a

Screen-Saturated World

Eliza Huie

CONVERSATION ABOUT ADDICTION (2023)

Addictions come in many forms. Worship is at the heart of addiction. When we fail to worship God alone, we are prone to worship ourselves and our desires. All of us can become addicts. 


People suffering through addiction feel helpless and hopeless. Does it have to be this way? No! 

Jesus is the Great Physician.  He can heal anyone of their addiction. Jesus came to set us free!

Listen to the Recordings

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Gospel and Addiction Week 4

Oct 08, 2023
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Gospel and Addiction Week 3

Oct 01, 2023
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Gospel and Addiction Week 2

Sep 17, 2023
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Gospel and Addiction Week 1

Sep 10, 2023

Recommended Resources

Addictions:

A Banquet in the Grave

Edward T. Welch

Changing for Good

David R. Dunham

Crossroads:

Step by Step Guide

Edward T. Welch

30 Days to Overcoming Addictive Behavior

Tony Evans

CONVERSATION ABOUT ABUSE (2022)

There has been a lot of news about how churches have mishandled cases of domestic abuse within their congregations. The church should be a sanctuary, a place of healing and support. Unfortunately, that is not always the case.


Abuse can happen anywhere, including the church.


How can we be better equipped to recognize and respond to abuse in a way that honors Jesus and reflects His love and compassion for the oppressed?

Listen to the Recordings

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Hope for Victims

Oct 23, 2022
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Recognizing and Responding to Abuse

Oct 16, 2022
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The Effects of Abuse

Oct 09, 2022
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What is Abuse?

Oct 02, 2022

CONVERSATION ABOUT POLITY & IDENTITY (2022)

Who are we? 

Where does our identity come from? 

How does our identity shape the way we live our lives? 

These are fundamental questions that affect every area of our lives. 

These are also questions that Jesus has a lot to say about.

Listen to the Recordings

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Polity & Identity Part 8

Feb 06, 2022
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Polity & Identity Part 7

Jan 30, 2022
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Polity & Identity Part 6

Jan 23, 2022
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Polity & Identity Part 5

Jan 09, 2022
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Polity & Identity Part 4

Dec 19, 2021
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Polity & Identity Part 3

Dec 12, 2021
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Polity & Identity Part 2

Dec 05, 2021
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Introduction to Polity & Identity

Nov 28, 2021

CONVERSATION ABOUT PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIANITY (2021)

Why are so many young people leaving the church of their youth? Has the church lost its way?


There is a new brand of Christianity, called Progressive Christianity, that is drawing more and more people away from the church. 


What does Progressive Christianity teach and promise? Why is it so attractive to so many in our culture? Should this be something our church embraces?

Listen to the Recordings

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Progressive Christianity Week 7

Mar 21, 2021
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Progressive Christianity Week 6

Mar 14, 2021
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Progressive Christianity Week 5

Mar 07, 2021
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Progressive Christianity Week 4

Feb 21, 2021
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Progressive Christianity Week 3

Jan 24, 2021
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Progressive Christianity Week 2

Jan 17, 2021
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Progressive Christianity Week 1

Jan 10, 2021

CONVERSATION ABOUT GENDER (2019)

How does Jesus want us to think and live regarding our gender? 


What does it mean to be created as a man or a woman in the image of God?

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Gender Q&A

Sep 15, 2019
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Transgender and the Image of God

Sep 08, 2019
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Men and Women Relating to Each Other

Sep 01, 2019
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Women Made in the Image of God

Aug 25, 2019
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Men Made in the Image of God

Aug 18, 2019
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Human Bodies and the Image of God

Aug 11, 2019
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People Made in the Image of the Trinity

Aug 04, 2019

CONVERSATION ABOUT RACISM (2018)

Consider our calling, our offense, our challenge, and our opportunity as a predominantly white church.

It is a worthy challenge to step out of our white bubble and grow deeper in the Gospel.

Listen to the Recordings

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Gospel and Racism Week 4

Sep 02, 2018
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Gospel and Racism Week 3

Aug 26, 2018
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Gospel and Racism Week 2

Aug 19, 2018
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Gospel and Racism Week 1

Aug 12, 2018

CONVERSATION ABOUT JESUS AND HOMOSEXUALITY (2015)

“Jesus and Homosexuality” is a deliberate title to this miniseries. 


At stake here is discipleship—what does it look like to follow Jesus? How can we glorify Jesus by what we think and say and do regarding the issue of homosexuality? 


Bringing Jesus into the discussion of homosexuality reminds us that this is not just a spiritual or religious issue. It keeps us honest. It keeps those who want to endorse homosexuality from wrapping it in a superficial spirituality of grace without truth and it keeps those who want to condemn homosexuality from using truth without grace as a justification for their anger and as a way to hide their fear.

Listen to the Recordings

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Hope for the Sexually Broken

Jul 26, 2015
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How Did Jesus Treat the Sexually Broken

Jul 19, 2015
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What Did Jesus Teach about Homosexuality

Jul 12, 2015

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