For the final episode of this season on The DiscipleMakers Podcast, we talked with a special guest, Byron Borger, about what it practically means for us to live as though Jesus is Lord in all areas of life. We particularly focused on what this means for college students when it comes to their studies, majors , and future carriers.

We were blown away by Byron’s passion and excitement for this topic and walked away from our conversation with full hearts and minds. We hope you have a similar experience as you listen and soak up the wisdom he has to share. He paints a beautiful picture of what it looks like to not just be a Christian that studies a specific topic or has a specific carrier, but what it looks like to fully integrate and intertwine our fields of study with our faith in Jesus and use that as a launching pad to reverse the curse of the fall, build God’s kingdom, and share the Gospel.  

-- Resources from this episode: 

• Check out Byron's Bookstore "Hearts and Minds"
•  Books mentioned in the episode
  • The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life by Os Guinness
  • Learning for the Love of God: A Student's Guide To Academic Faithfulness by Donald Opitz & Derek Melleby
  • Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God by John Piper
  • Your Mind's Mission by Greg Jao
  
  

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On this episode of The DiscipleMakers Podcast, we talked with Zack Gugenheim about the connection between our souls and our bodies. 

Often Christians can tend to want to solve every problem or trial with a spiritual answer. But through our conversation, Zack helped us to see how the Bible actually calls us to view ourselves and others more holistically, as both body and soul working together. 

This can really help us as we seek to care well for others, and gives us some very practical applications for how we should steward our own bodies to become more effective in our ministry. Towards the end of the episode, we also talked about some particular implications of this topic related to the new semester and the continuing pandemic.  

-- Resources from this episode: 

• Help us meet students this fall!  
• (Book) Cross Talk: Where Life and Scripture Meet by Michael R. Emlet. 
• (Workbook) Living Free by Ben Bennett, Brett Butcher, and Dr. Ted Roberts. 

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On this episode of The DiscipleMakers Podcast, we talked with Mike Chartowhich about evil and suffering. 

We have a good God, who created the world as perfect, but as sin entered the world, so did evil and suffering. But where does evil come from? Why does God allow evil things to happen in the world? 

These are big questions that can oftentimes serve as obstacles in our evangelism or in our own wrestling with the realities of our world. The good news in that the Bible has answers. We walked through these questions during our conversation and even talked about how the Christian and biblical answers to these questions are more satisfying than any others you will find.  

-- Resources from this episode: 

• Help us meet students this fall!  
• Resources mentioned in the episode
  • The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller
  • 2015 DM Fall Conference on the Glory of God  
  
  
• General books on the topic of evil and suffering:
  • If God Is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil by Randy Alcorn
  • Walking with God through Pain and Suffering by Timothy Keller. 
  
  
• Christians who wrestled with the emotional problem of evil:
  • A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
  • When God weeps by Joni Eareckson Tada
  • Tortured for Christ by Richard Wurmbrand  
  
  
• A scholarly book on the topic of evil
  • The Many Faces of Evil: Theological Systems and the Problems of Evil by John S. Feinberg (focuses on the intellectual problem)  
  
  

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