Around the King's Table

From Missions Week (2024), our panelists discuss church membership and its application to missions and a culture of missions.

Pastors Brian and George tackle the second affirmation in The Mount Church's member covenant.

Pastors Brian and George continue to look at the first chapter of John's Revelation.

A month of Tabor Bchool addressing missiology, mission, missions? Yes, sir! Pastors Brian and George walk through some highlights and near misses during the first half of our summer wading into the depths.

Pastors Brian and George kick off a new series, advancing through the Church Covenant we use here at The Mount. In this episode, we discuss the rationale behind church covenants, and dig deeply into the first paragraph of our own.

Pastors Brian and George kick off a new series here walking through the book of Revelation!

Pastors Brian and George respond to a question asked during 'Tabor School' recently. As Brian walked the body through the entire Old Testament and moved into the new, the question surfaced, "How do we develop the knack for seeing the Old Testament in the New?" We don't want to chase windmills, right? We want to read well and understand what the authors intended. So how do we go about the task? Listen in as we talk intertextuality and growing in our ability to listen well to God's Word to us.

Pastors Brian and George finish this first "Look at the Book" series, which looked at the first epistle to Timothy.

Pastors Brian and George sit down for one more conversation with pastors Daniel Pelichowski and Peter Phillips to talk about pastoral ministry, encouragement and joy.

Pastors Brian and George sit down with the group at Coram Deo to discuss there takeaways from the day. As Pastor Brian mentions, it is a bit "more random", but nevertheless a profitable conversation.

Pastors Brian and George have a late-night session with Jonathan Rollins, Daniel Pelichowski, and Peter Phillips, following the first "day" of Coram Deo 2024. A great conversation with a couple of great brothers as we embark on a short week of pastoral encouragement and challenge.

Pastors Brian and George continue in First Timothy.

Pastors Brian and George reflect on how far we have progressed in our first "course" in our new discipleship series. We have been steadily progressing through the Old Testament as we lay out a biblical theology. Great teaching, great questions. And now we get to talk about what may have been missed, other themes worth considering, etc.

Pastors George and Brain continue to read through the first letter from Paul to Timothy.

Pastors Brian and George take up questions stemming from a recent sermon preached by George.

Pastors George and Brian look at Acts as a lens for approaching the new year in community.

Pastors Brian and George look at the body and express our thanks to God and gratitude for the many ways the members of The Mount Church love, care for, serve one another.

Pastors Brian and George finish First Timothy chapter 5, addressing the relationship between elders, Timothy, and the church.

On our "Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth" thread, we got the question:

This is something a nonbeliever brought up to me probably over a year ago, but it’s still been on my mind. We believe in one God and are commanded to only worship Him. How then can we explain the Trinity? (Any verses or thoughts would help)

Pastors Brian and George dig into this question and what it means to do theology and evangelism.

Pastors George and Brian continue to work through Paul's instructions to Timothy and the church regarding widow care.

Pastors Brian and George process 1 Timothy 5:1-8 with the help of former resident and current deacon, Jonathan Rollins.

Pastors Brian and George have a conversation on the spiritual discipline, the act of worship, known as giving or stewardship.

Pastors Brian and George join with Jeremy Merck (FBC, Norris) and David Lyles (Connection Fellowship, Powdersville) for our Missions Week panel to talk about the relationship between the Great Commission (Matthew 28:16-20) and the local church. A longer conversation, but a profitable one.

In light of our time so far in First Timothy, pastors Brian and George focus on men in the church.

Brian and George mark the fiftieth episode of Around The King's Table by finishing up chapter four of First Timothy.

Pastors George and Brian continue through the letter of 1 Timothy.

Pastors Brian and George take up conversation on another spiritual discipline - prayer.

Pastors George and Brian jump back in after a long summer break to discuss the opening verses of First Timothy 4 and godliness.

Pastors Brian and George finish working through 1 Timothy 3.

Pastors Brian and George discuss the benefits and challenges of meditating on Scripture.

Pastors Brian and George sit down with Meaghan Jenkins, the "deaconess of coziness", for this first episode in a series on spiritual disciplines.

Pastors George and Brian, along with deacon and resident Jonathan Rollins, continue discussing 1 Timothy 3 as Paul addresses the church office of deacon.

Pastors Brian and George sit down with deacon and resident Jonathan Rollins to discuss 1 Timothy 3. One of our longer episodes, but I think well worth the time spent.

Pastors George and Brian continue to walk through 1 Timothy 2.

Continuing in the series Look at the Book, Pastors Brian and George turn to 1 Timothy 2 as Paul urges Timothy on towards the long-term health of the church and gospel proclamation.

In this episode, pastors Brian and George begin a new series, Look at the Book. Over the course of the year (or however long it takes), we will be going over the pastoral epistles (1, 2 Timothy and Titus). Subscribe, listen in, as we dig in to God's word so that we "may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth" (1 Timothy 3:15).

Pastors Brian and George discuss the purity of the church, capitalizing on one of George's recent homework assignments. This episode walks through the characteristics of the church as described in Gregg Allison's Sojourners and Strangers: The Doctrine of the Church, focusing on how a church can be more or less pure in each of those characteristics.

Pastors Brian and George sit down to talk church discipline, the whats, whys and hows, for the good of the church and the glory of God.

With us today to talk about college, college life, and the local church we have a bunch of students!

Some special guests talk with Brian and George about how Christ works through faithful churches over time to grow sound, sweet, and sturdy Christians.

Pastors George and Brian sit down with Dave Hare to discuss translation and ministry in advance of Missions Week at The Mount.

Missions Week at The Mount is just one week away. Pastors Brian and George discuss why Missions Week is so important and what we hope to see accomplished through it.

George and Brian sit down with Michael Shafran, and two of the Mount's residents, Jonathan Rollins and Zach Connelly to discuss the preaching as "love in hard places."

George and Brian sit down with Michael Shafran, and two of the Mount's residents, Jonathan Rollins and Zach Connelly to discuss the preaching as "love in hard places."

Pastors George and Brian sit down with Jonathan and Janet Rollins to look back at our progress in the Gospel of John, in preparation for jumping back into the book in the fall.

Pastors Brian and George discuss discipliship when disability is within the mix

Pastors Brian, George and guest resident Zach Connelly talk all things T4G (Together For The Gospel).

A conversation on the thrills, difficulties, and grace required in parenting and discipling those who are parenting.

Pastors Brian and George discuss discipling and counseling in the context of depression and anxiety. It's an important topic to grapple affecting the church's spiritual health today.

Pastors George and Brian discuss discipleship - what it is, what motivates it, and what it motivates. This is the second part of the discussion.

Pastors George and Brian discuss discipleship - what it is, what motivates it, and what it motivates. This is the first of a two part discussion.

Pastors Brian and George discuss what it means to be made new in Christ. We hope you are encouraged and challenged to follow Christ more closely, and to live in deeper fellowship with his body.

Pastors Brian and George (just off sabbatical) talk about plagiarism, a subject all too relevant in our day and age.

Pastors Brian and George sit down with Meaghan Jenkins for a review of Esther, following completion of The Mount's series through the Old Testament book, before a brief look ahead at the coming series on John.

Pastors Brian and George talk prayer objectives from this summer, and God's faithfulness to his people.

Pastors Brian and George answer your questions.

Pastors Brian and George answer your questions.

Pastors Brian and George sit down with John and Jan Sherard to discuss the church and God's faithfulness to it.

Pastors George and Brian talk about the discipline of reading good books - including Scripture - and their summer reading plans.

A discussion of some prayers for the church as we head into the summer and consider all God is doing at The Mount

Pastors George and Brian discuss the use of PREPARE as a tool for getting ready for our time together on Sundays.

Pastors Brian and George discuss 1 Peter 3:8. We cover everything from the cross of Christ to discipleship, the good life, and what it really looks like to honor Jesus as part of a local assembly of believers, all starting with this one verse.

Pastors Brian and George discuss our current progress in 1 Peter as a church, how it has impacted the body, notable passages, and themes that stand out or drew out attention.

Pastors Brian and George sit down to talk about meaningful membership in the local body of Christ. An encouraging conversation that takes the reality of our union with Christ and the empowering presence of the Spirit and envisions what it means to be committed disciples of Jesus in the here and now.

Pastors Brian and George have conversation on evangelism with Corey and Meaghan Jenkins.

Pastors Brian and George discuss the importance of getting the gospel right, and the content of the gospel.

Pastors George and Brian have a short discussion on the whats and whys of this new podcast.