The Disciple Dilemma Podcast
We've been hacked! Western Christian discipleship has been infiltrated by an 1,800 year-old virus - a hacking that's eroding our ability to do what Christians are destined to do. Conversational podcasts with thought leaders of all types and stripes in business, the arts, the media, the academies, the churches - about the dilemma.
Episodes
146 episodes
Coaching Discipleship: National Championship Soccer Coach & Professor, Darin White on The Disciple Dilemma
Dr. Joe Debeljuh joins Dennis to interview Darin White: a Collegiate National Championship Soccer Coach and today, the Professor of Sports Analytics at Samford University. How does coaching inform us about discipleship?00:00 - 03:22 Int...
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Episode 108
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39:38
International discipling - Ireland; Zagreb, Washington DC - on The Disciple Dilemma
Pastor Oz Muwaniri, in Ireland, and Dr. Joe Debeljuh from Zagreb Croatia, join Dennis to talk about how challenges in international discipling is, actually, not so different from American discipling issues.00:00 - 01:54 Intro01:55 -...
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Episode 107
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37:40
Polarity - Partisanship & Disciples: Ministry Watch's Warren Cole Smith on The Disciple Dilemma
How should we then think? How ought a disciple grapple with the avalanches and tsunamis of opinions gushing forth ? Veteran journalist and the President of Ministry Watch - Warren Cole Smith joins us to parse the risks and rewards ...
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Episode 108
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1:15:18
Ice Cream, Fear and Discipleship? Blue Bell's CEO, Ricky Dickson on The Disciple Dilemma
How can you possibly combine fear and ice cream with discipleship? Ricky Dickson has a new book about that! "One Scoop at a Time" has just premiered and describes the adventures and challenges of disciples in everyday business life.00:0...
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Episode 107
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19:08
Culture Change and Discipleship: Trinity Presbyterian's Pastor Matt McCollum on The Disciple Dilemma
Matt McCollum, Princeton-educated "PK" (Pastor's Kid), Husband, Dad and the Senior Pastor of Trinity Presbyterian in Fairhope, Alabama joins Dennis & Raymond to talk about leadership and changing church culture.00:00 - 05:39 Introdu...
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Episode 106
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A Disciplemaking Culture: Justin Gravitt with The Navigators, on The Disciple Dilemma
Justin Gravitt, Ohio Area Director for Navigator Church Ministries joins Dennis & Raymond to talk about Justin's new book "The Foundation of a Disciple Making Culture"00:00 - 04:45 Chap 1: Introduction 04:46 - 09:59 Chap 2:...
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Episode 106
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49:18
Discipleship, Foreign Policy and McNugget Christianity?...Dr. Krish Kandiah on The Disciple Dilemma
Author, Professor, Ministry Entrepreneur, Children's Foster Philanthropist and Disciple - Dr. Krish Kandiah joins Dennis and @carmenfowlerlaberge6134 to talk about...
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Episode 106
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38:19
Discipleship for Traumatized People: Jeremy Stalneck of Mighty Oaks Foundation on The Disciple Dilemma
Former Marine Combat Officer and Iraq War Vet, Pastor, (+ PK) Jeremy Stalnecker, CEO of "Mighty Oaks Foundation" and host of the "March or Die" podcast talks about discipleship, trauma and our Mission!00:00 - 01:50 Chap 1: Opener01:...
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Episode 105
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51:24
"The Forge" - A discipleship movie! The Kendrick Brothers get this stuff! On The Disciple Dilemma
From the Team that brought you "Fireproof" and "The War Room"...The Kendrick Brothers have rendered a beautiful work on the crux of discipleship: A scoffer invited - to "come check this out" by a Christ follower. "The Forg...
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Episode 102
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32:49
The Lost Art of "Follow Me": Dennis is live at Reston Presbyterian Church, on The Disciple Dilemma
Dennis is live at Reston Presbyterian Church to talk about false gods, discipleship and the big mystery that changed a nation. How did so many false gods infest the Temple of Jerusalem? Why did a King ditch his father and grandfather's religion...
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Episode 104
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32:20
A Spiritual Body Builder - Dr. Barbara Brehon - Part One on The Disciple Dilemma
Killer apps? Spiritual Body Building? She loves Bonanza Westerns. She's a Pastor, Professor, Author, Podcaster and most of all, she is a very powerful disciplemaker. Dr. Barbara Brehon, the Founder of Favored By The Father Ministri...
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Episode 103
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24:14
Fear and Christian Cancel Culture: David French, Part 2 on The Disciple Dilemma
Has fear replaced God as the animating force of many Evangelicals in the West? How should a disciple make sense of the partisanship, paranoia and turmoil in our politics, society and increasingly, in our churches? And what if that anger ...
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Can a Real Estate Developer be a Disciple? David Atchison and "A Higher Call" | The Disciple Dilemma
Commercial Real Estate Executive David Atchison is a disciple on a Mission, an Author and Ministry Founder. You might even say he's on a Higher Call, which is the title of his book and ministry about disciples, in the workplace. 00...
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Episode 101
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30:53
Alycia Wood - Making Disciples: Transgender Pressures and Culture | on The Disciple Dilemma
Apologetics Inc speaker Alycia Wood talks about how disciples are to relate, care for and offer the reason for the hope Christ gave all of us. Alycia's work for and with parents is especially useful in the latter part of our podcast:00:...
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Episode 101
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29:47
Fear and Power: When Christianity Goes Cancel Culture, Part 1 - David French | The Disciple Dilemma
Disciple, Husband, Dad, New York times Columnist and Constitutional lawyer David French joins Dennis, Carmen LaBerge and Raymond Monroe to talk about the underlying fear and animosity crippling discipleship in churches.00:00 - 03:05 Int...
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Season 1
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Episode 101
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15:25
Nietzsche, MLK, Brooklyn...Discipleship Stuff Like That! | The Disciple Dilemma
Sheluyang "Yang" Peng is a fourth generation "PK" (Pastors' kid) living in Brooklyn. He's been published in top Christian and secular thought periodicals (Comment, Unherd, Tablet, American Affairs, Plough). Oh, and he's in Seminary, a Chinese c...
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Episode 100
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48:39
Crosspolitic - Dennis Talks Discipleship with "Choc Knox", "GMWrench" and "Pastor Toby"
Is discipleship a problem of defective knowledge? Poor preaching? Lazy Christians? Or have we been hacked? The Crosspolitic Gang talks to Dennis Allen from Moscow, Idaho.
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Season 1
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Episode 99
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32:16
False? White? Gospel? Reverend Jim Wallis talks discipleship. On The Disciple Dilemma
Author, Activist and the Executive Director of The Center for Faith & Justice, Reverend Jim Wallis, in his office at Georgetown University talks deeply about discipleship and our lives as servants of Christ.00:00 - 00:50 Chapter 1 :...
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Season 1
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Episode 98
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52:54
Disciples in the Marketplace - Doug Glenn on The Disciple Dilemma
The Publisher and Owner of "Heat Treat Today" Magazine, Doug Glenn, joins Raymond and Dennis to discuss the life of a disciple in the regular workforce. What's that like and how to do it?00:00 - 03:12: Introduction03:13 - 06:49: Peo...
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Season 1
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Episode 97
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23:38
International Discipleship Conference - The Bible Institute, Zagreb Croatia
Dennis presents impacts and the deconstruction of The Disciple Dilemma on Western Christianity's Seminaries and Universities at The Bible Institute of Zagreb's International Discipleship Conference, April, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 98
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17:10
Silence - Unity - Healing. Is That Discipleship?
Writer, Author and Poet Aryana Petrosky joins us to talk about how silence is a missing essential of disciples. And the path toward unity in Christ and healing the rifts goes right through that silence!00:00 - 02:44 Introduction02:4...
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Season 1
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Episode 96
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34:22
Life AFTER Ministry - What Pastors Wish Their Leaders Knew: Matt Davis on The Disciple Dilemma
Former Megachurch Pastor Matt Davis, now the President of Pastoral Transitions joins us to lay out the battles and challenges Pastors face every week - and how leadership ought to regard that!00:00 - 01:52 Chapter 1: Meet Matt Davis...
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Episode 95
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Discipleship "Succession" Dr. Doug Fagerstrom on The Disciple Dilemma
Dr. Doug Fagerstrom has been a CEO, a Seminary President, a Pastor, Author and now is the Senior Fellow for Discipleship at The CEO Forum. He's got some terrific insight into building "succession" and leadership around discipleship!00:0...
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Episode 94
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32:39
Max Perform Your Organization: Dr. Greg Campbell on The Disciple Dilemma
How can a disciple help max-perform an organization? Well, it begins with the disciple! Dr. Greg Campbell, formerly the #2 Law Enforcement Office for the United States talks about his new book: "Developing You, Eleven Transformative Practices o...
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Episode 93
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37:31
A Disciple to All Nationalities: Dr. Joe Debeljuh on The Disciple Dilemma
When Jesus told us to go make disciples to all nationalities, some people decided to live it out by getting up and going! Dr. Josip "Joe" Debeljuh joins us to talk about being a disciple who happens to have Missionary as his day job. Joe unders...
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Season 1
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Episode 92
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32:53