Salty Believer Unscripted
Salty Believer Unscripted is a conversational podcast with Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker, two pastors talking through the Bible, theology, church life, and the Christian faith without the polish, hype, or ministry-industrial fog machine. Serious theology, pastoral conversation, and just enough salt to keep things honest.
Episodes
Key texts: Romans 11:17-32, Genesis 15:13-16, Acts 1:6-8, Revelation 21:1-4.
Unsponsored resource shout-out: Bible Talk podcast from 9Marks and Southern Seminary.
Topics discussed: modern Israel, Romans 11, partial hardening, the fullness of th...
Key texts: Romans 9:1-8, Romans 10:1-4, Romans 11:1-6, Romans 11:25-36.
Unsponsored resource shout-out: Three Views on Israel and the Church: Perspectives on Romans 9-11.
Key texts: Ephesians 2:11-22, Galatians 3:16-29, 1 John 2:22-23, 1 Peter 2:4-10.
Unsponsored resource shout-out: Reformed Sage.
Resources mentioned: Discontinuity to Continuity by Benjamin Merkle and Covenantal and Dispensational Theologies: Fou...
Key texts: Matthew 2:13-15, Hosea 11:1, Matthew 4:1-11, John 1:14, Luke 22:20, Luke 24:44-47.
Unsponsored resource shout-out: Biblical Theology by Nick Roark and Robert Cline, from 9Marks.
Topics discussed: Jesus as the true Israel, Jesus succee...
Key texts: Jeremiah 31:31-34, Ezekiel 36:22-28, Ezekiel 37:15-28, Psalm 117.
Unsponsored resource shout-out: Dig Deeper by Nigel Beynon and Andrew Sach.
Topics discussed: exile, covenant failure, prophetic restoration, the new covenant, the law ...
Key texts: Joshua 21:43-45, 2 Samuel 7, 2 Kings 17, 2 Kings 25, Luke 1:32-33.
Unsponsored resource shout-out: The Charles Simeon Trust.
Resources mentioned: Expository Preaching by David Helm and Listen Up! by Christopher Ash.
Key texts: Exodus 19:3-6, Deuteronomy 7:6-11, Psalm 20:7.
Unsponsored resource shout-out: In the Year of Our Lord by Sinclair Ferguson.
Topics discussed: Israel as God’s chosen people, deliverance before the law, covenant responsibility, holines...
Key texts: Genesis 12:1-3, Genesis 15, Genesis 17, Genesis 22:15-18.
Unsponsored resource shout-out: Daily Dose of Greek.
Resource mentioned: Three Views on Israel and the Church: Perspectives on Romans 9-11.
Resource mentioned: Piercing Heaven: Prayers of the Puritans, edited by Robert Elmer.
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In this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Max Dietz and Daniel the Intern join Bryan Catherman to discuss how youth ministry helps train up the next generation of pastors and ministers. Can ministry be more than fun programming for young people? What’s the role of children in discipleship? And what’s Max, a youth minister, doing to come alongside parents in their r...
How do you know who to disciple? How do you know when to stop discipling someone? How do you know when you’re making progress? When are we done? In this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman talk about how to access a disciple and the discipleship process. Copyright 2026. Find more information at SaltyBeliever.com.
How do we bring young people into the life of the Church? Kirk Galster, Josiah Walker, and Bryan Catherman discuss a challenging topic. Should the church include children in aspects of the worship gathering, such as collecting the offering, serving on the worship team, and leading in other ways? Should little kids become members? It's more than just including children ...
Learning to listen to sermons does’t just happen by showing up, and the next generation needs to learn how to listen to sermons. It’s by listening to sermons with the desire to grow and think critically, week by week, over many years, that people learn and grow. In this episode, Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker discuss the idea of preaching as discipleship and traini...
As we consider what's needed to train the next generation of Christians, Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker discuss one-on-one discipleship. Why is one-on-one discipleship important? How do we do one-on-one discipleship? What might be the pushback? Why don't we do it? They discuss these questions and share some tools they use for one-on-one discipleship. Find more video...
There seems to be a boost of young men becoming Christians and engaging with the local church. Is it true? With the significance of generational differences, how are the Boomers and Gen-X generation going to train the Millennials and Zoomers (Gen-Z and Gen-A) if there are more young men coming to church? In this Salty Believer Unscripted series, Bryan Catherman and Jos...
How can a church incorporate a creed, confession, or catechism in weekly gatherings and services? Should they? Before dealing with the primary question, we must define the terms. What is a creed? What is a confession? What’s the difference? What is a catechism? How can we use these things in our spiritual journey? How do they help us grow? How can they be used in weekl...
Bryan Catherman is taking a journey through John as a YouTube, simple, 5-minute daily Bible study. He and Josiah Walker discuss what’s behind it, why do it, and how it works on this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted. Find the Journey Through John on the SaltyBeliever.com Youtube channel. (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyBUHemqv16QgYd4FM9YJVku3t0JFfYKU&si=j1...
Daniel, the intern, has been serving behind the scenes of Salty Believer Unscripted. We’re not really sure what a podcast intern does, but Salty Believer Unscripted has had a long, wonderful line of interns. As we do our part to help raise up the next generation of ministers, we have an intern, and sometimes we challenge said intern to do things beyond their comfort zo...
This episode deals with change. For one, the podcast has added video and brought about change. Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker are talking about change. Change is constant in life, so it seems we would do well to learn how to deal with change, especially in church. Copyright 2026. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.
How do we form better spiritual habits? How do we stick to them? How do we achieve our Bible reading goals? What stops us? How do we say no to bad habits and yes to good habits? This is the conversation in this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted. For more information and resources, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.
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