Jubilee Freedom & Shalom

In this episode Daniel and Nate discuss Nate's experience at the Tennessee Local Food Summit. Jeff Poppen aka "The Barefoot Gardener" started the local food summit  for local and organic growers to come together annually and share stories and resources to further the cause. Tennessee is loosing gardens, farms, and land under production at an alarming rate. It's heartbreaking to see developers wreck the creation ...

In this episode Daniel and Nate discuss the recent documentaries and docuseries: The Way Down, Class Action Park, The Vow, The Anarchists, Scientology and the Aftermath, The Dropout, Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed. Why do humans have such a deep longing for belonging? What will we endure and overlook to belong and fell like we are a part of something bigger than ourselves. What is a cult technically and are we are all in one by def...

In this episode Daniel and Nate discuss traveling to Iceland, the realizations that island life brings, the wonder of the water cycle, what are your wildest kingdom dreams, Wolf Hilbertz, mineral accretion, Biorock, Seacrete, Brendon Grimshaw buying an island and restoring it for endangered species, how to use sunlight and ocean water to grow natural concrete that will emerge from the water as a new island, and what you would do if...

In this episode Daniel and Nate wrap up their reflections on the story of Mars Hill. There are so many lessons to be taken away from the Mars Hill story and we hope that our discussions have helped you process this information along with us.  We hope that it helps us all reflect on what a truly godly leader looks like and our own obsession and attraction to celebrity, power, and pride. Power corrupts and and absolute power corrupts...

Episode 11: The Tempest

In this episode Daniel and Nate discuss the end of Mars Hill and how things started to unravel in the staff and in the congregation as a whole. How could something that was growing so fast and was so big come unraveled in just 12 months time? The cracks in the foundation caused by past misdeeds and mistreatments of people were starting to show and the weight of the large staff and mega church they b...

Episode 10 “Red Sky at Morning”

This is the 3rd act of the Mars Hill play. The “Resurgence” was the blog/website that Mars Hill ran and recruited big name pastors and christian authors to write articles for. Now that Mars Hill had defined and built the brand it was time to learn how to distribute the brand.

"Brand implies value. You’re as good as the person you’re standing beside." 

How has technology changed our ecclesiolog...

Episode 10 “Red Sky at Morning”

This is the 3rd act of the Mars Hill play. The “Resurgence” was the blog/website that Mars Hill ran and recruited big name pastors and christian authors to write articles for. Now that Mars Hill had defined and built the brand it was time to learn how to distribute the brand.

"Brand implies value. You’re as good as the person you’re standing beside." 

How has technology changed our ecclesiolog...

Episode 9 “The Bobby Knight Problem”

Pastor Ted Haggard from the Documentary "Jesus Camp" got caught doing meth with a male prostitute. 

Why pastors have sexual moral failings? Mark said it was because pastors' wives let themselves go and weren't willing to have open  and exciting sex with their husbands. 

Do the ends justify the means? Is it better to lose or to hold onto our morals and ethics? Bobby Knight normal...

Episode 8 "Demon Hunting"

Humans have a deep longing to believe in something. We are spiritual beings  “made a little lower than the angels” and we seek to put that longing somewhere, but sometimes we want to believe so bad that we choose to overlook red flags.

Enter Mark Driscoll saying, “I see things, people committing sins, people being abused, people being raped, I have visions, I had prophetic vision, God told me, the ...

“Nehemiah was beating up members of his church. What do we do with that? I’ll tell you what I’d like to do with that. I’d like to follow in his example. There’s a few guys right now, that if I wasn’t gonna end up on CNN, I would go old testament on ‘em. Even men in leadership of this church” -Mark Driscoll speaking to his church family and people laughing the whole time. 

After this sermon Mark called an impromptu meeting with two p...

In this episode Christianity Today interviews several of the people that worked with Mark in the mid 90's that helped him find his platform online and focus his brand. The internet brought new insights through data. You could see how many people listened to his podcasts and his YouTube channel. When Mark made aggressions those numbers went up so if the ends justify the means then making more aggressions in your sermons meant m...

"The Things We Do To Women"

Mark's Vision for Women: if women wanted to have a good life and raise happy and healthy children, she should not work outside the home and should raise her children personally while her husband went out and made a living for them both. Families should buy houses, grow deep roots, and have lots of kids if possible. If women were interested in working outside the home, the advice was to get ...

This episode is the 4th of a series where Nate and Daniel are reflecting on the recent popular podcast called "The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill" by Christianity Today. The podcast follows the story of a pastor named Mark Driscoll and it is a cautionary tale about church growth and how celebrity effects people, especially people in power. In order for this episode to be more meaningful, we recommend first listening to "...

This episode is the 3rd of a series where Nate and Daniel are reflecting on the recent popular podcast called "The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill" by Christianity Today. The podcast follows the story of a pastor named Mark Driscoll and is a cautionary tale about church growth and how celebrity effects people and especially people in power. In order for this episode to be more meaningful, we recommend first listening to "...

This episode is beginning of a series where Nate and Daniel are reflecting on the recent popular podcast called "The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill" by Christianity Today. The podcast follows the story of a pastor named Mark Driscoll and is a cautionary tale about church growth and how celebrity effects people and especially people in power. In order for this episode to be more meaningful, we recommend first listening to &quo...

Nate and Daniel are back with Season 2 of the podcast after taking a summer break. In this episode, they spend time reflecting on what they've learned in the past couple months, what they're watching and listening to, and what they're excited to discuss on the show. Welcome back to Season 2 of the Jubilee, Freedom, and Shalom podcast!

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This episode is beginning of a series where Nate and Daniel are reflecting on the recent popular podcast called "The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill" by Christianity Today. The podcast follows the story of a pastor named Mark Driscoll and is a cautionary tale about church growth and how celebrity effects people in power. In order for this episode to be more meaningful, we recommend first listening to "The Rise and Fall of...