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Jesus looks at a blind man and asks a question that still messes with us: “What do you want me to do for you?” We talk about why God asks questions when He already knows the answer, and how those questions expose what’s really going on under our prayer habits, our fear, and our faith.
We unpack why so many of us default to vague, safe prayers. Sometimes we’re trying to protect ourselve...
The Blue Chair Podcast is back with Pastor Jared and Charles Magyar! This month we discuss the Hard Questions series in September. Those questions got you thinking, tune in to hear our thoughts from the blue chairs.
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“Where are you?” isn’t a threat, and it isn’t God trying to catch you in something. It’s a question that stops us in our tracks, shines a light on our drift, and invites us back to the safest place we can be: close to Jesus. Ryan and Tim kick things off with some real life stories, then dive into our Mic'd Up series where God gets the mic and His questions do the heart work we usually a...
If you have ever wondered whether prayer actually matters, whether the Bible can be trusted, or whether the spiritual world is more than stories, this conversation is for you. Pastor Ryan wraps up the Hard Questions series by starting where many people get stuck: we do not lack evidence, we often feel overwhelmed by it. He makes a clear case for confidence in Scripture, then offers a simple invitation for skeptics a...
The questions people are afraid to ask in church are often the ones shaping their faith at home. Pastor Ryan sits down with a stack of listener submissions and answers them with Scripture, candor, and the kind of pastoral care that makes room for both conviction and compassion.
We start with grief and the loss of a spouse, pushing back on the pressure to “be over it” and holding tight to the promi...
If Jesus didn’t rise from the dead, then Christianity is not just wrong, it’s pointless. That’s the blunt question we sit with as we wrap up Signs And Glory, our long walk through the Gospel of John, and zoom in on the final movements: remain, finished, and risen.
We talk about why we rush past the cross and forget what “It Is Finished” actually cost. The resurrection is the stam...
Judas is in the room, close enough to share bread with Jesus, and yet he still walks out into the night. That single detail from John’s Gospel stops us in our tracks because it forces an uncomfortable question: how close can someone get to Jesus, to church, to Christian language, and still miss a surrendered heart?
Pastor Ryan and Pastor Tim pick up week 14 of Signs and Glory by taking a wide view of Jo...
This week, Pastor Tim and Pastor Ryan pivot into John 12 from our Signs and Glory series in the Gospel of John and center on three responses to Jesus. Mary models costly devotion, pouring out what she could have kept for herself and choosing worship that is unmistakably about Christ. The crowd cheers for a king, but their expectations reveal how easy it is to follow Jesus with an agenda, treating Him like a tool for...
Pastors Tim and Ryan slow down and sit with the Lazarus story, not just the miracle, but the ache around it. If Jesus knows He’s about to raise Lazarus, why does He weep so deeply? We talk through what might be happening in that moment: compassion for Mary and Martha, the weight of death, the pain of disappointment, and even the cost of calling Lazarus back only for him to face life and death again.
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Slogans can be comforting until real life presses on them. Pastor Ryan and Pastor Tim sit down after a full week of VBS to talk about a question almost every Christian has felt at some point: how can I have assurance of salvation without settling for “coffee cup theology”? We dig into why phrases like once saved always saved, faith over fear, and God will never give you more than you can handle often car...
Jesus didn’t pick a quiet moment to explain Himself. He stepped into the middle of the Feast of Tabernacles, surrounded by water rituals and blazing lampstands, and made claims that could not be misunderstood: come to Me for living water, I am the light of the world. That single move helps explain why John 7 feels so dangerous. Some people lean in and believe, while others decide He has to go.
We talk t...
This month on the Blue Chair Podcast Pastor Jared and Charles discuss the expository series Signs & Glory. Dave Gamble joins as we discuss what the book of John has left us chewing on the past seven weeks. Tune in to hear about the A Fresh Wind's Sermons from the perspective of the blue chairs.
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If you’ve ever felt disappointed with God, frustrated with church, or tempted to quietly slip out the side door, John 6 puts words to what’s happening under the surface. We talk about the “vending machine” version of faith where we show up, pay our dues, and expect Jesus to deliver the outcome we want. When life doesn’t cooperate, that transactional approach can turn into offense, burno...
Jesus walks up to a man who has been paralyzed for 38 years and asks a question that feels almost unfair: “Do you want to be made whole?” Pastor Ryan and Pastor Tim slow down in John 5 and let that line do its work, because it exposes more than a physical condition. It gets underneath our excuses, our coping habits, and the parts of us that want comfort without surrender.
We talk about the differe...
A father walks about twenty miles uphill with one thought in his head: my son is dying, and I have to get to Jesus. That’s where our conversation in John chapter 4 takes us, and it’s why this Sunday message fit Father’s Day so perfectly. We start earlier in the chapter with the woman at the well and the offer of living water, then zoom out to what Jesus is doing on purpose: breaking through hatred,...
Nicodemus shows up at night with real questions, a real reputation to protect, and a real cost to count and that single detail flips the way we think about faith. Some people meet Jesus in a moment. Others walk toward the Light slowly, carefully, and honestly. We sit with that tension and ask what it looks like to respect the journey instead of pressuring people into a quick decision that skips the work God is doing...
Nobody has ever been more visible and more lonely at the same time. We start with uncomfortable numbers about social media, filters, and the hidden fear underneath it all: so many of us are desperate to be known, yet terrified that if someone saw the real us, they would walk away. That is the ache behind the masks we wear at work, at home, and even at church.
Then we slow down at the end of John chapter 2, wh...
Isaac asks a question on a mountain that still hits like a punch: “Where is the lamb?” Pastor Ryan and Pastor Tim follow that question through the entire storyline of the Bible until it finally gets answered in John 1:29, when John the Baptist points at Jesus and says, “Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.” Not a vague symbol. Not a religious nickname. A claim that the w...
John 1:1-18 looks short on the page, but it’s heavy in the best way. Pastor Ryan and Pastor Tim sit down to unpack why John’s prologue is “theologically thick” and why reading Scripture on autopilot makes us miss what John is actually saying about Jesus.
We talk through seven core doctrines woven into these opening lines: the Trinity (“the Word was with God, and the Word was God&...
This month Pastor Jared and Charles speak with Ethan Smith about the You're Not the Boss of Me series. What does having control over your emotions but still feeling them look like? Tune in and see what we think!
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