The Berean Project Podcast

The Context Checklist is a simple, practical tool designed to help you slow down and see Scripture more clearly.

Instead of relying on quick interpretations or isolated verses, it guides you to ask better questions—about the story, the audience, the culture, and the literary setting—so you can understand what’s actually being communicated before jumping to application.

Built from years of study, reflection, and wrestling with diffi...

This final conversation isn’t a conclusion as much as it is a pause.

Throughout this series, we’ve talked about culture not as something you install, enforce, or fix—but something you inhabit. We explored posture before instruction, trust before compliance, process before outcomes, and context before conclusions. Each episode pulled at a different thread, but all of them pointed to the same quiet truth: culture is formed over time ...

Most churches don’t choose their culture. They inherit it.

Over time, that inherited culture can feel spiritual—even when no one ever named it, questioned it, or chose it on purpose. In this episode, we slow down and talk about what it means to notice the culture that is already forming us.

Rather than offering a new framework or a set of steps, this conversation invites listeners to spend time observing—listening carefully to what...

The modern church is incredibly good at keeping itself running.

Week after week, the gears turn. Services happen. Scriptures are listed. Programs are maintained. Everything works—efficiently, faithfully, predictably.

But what if that efficiency is the problem?

In this episode, we explore how the church can slowly drift into becoming a machine—one that only needs power to keep spinning—while missing the deeper invitation of the stor...

The Story of Culture, Do you Trust the Story?

Another episode in building the understanding of how to create culture in a church.  This is a two campfire conversation episode that starts off with the question of the year that asks:

"Are you excited about your place in the churches future?"

This generates a deep discussion about unpacking what it really means to trust the story verses the obedience value that most people assign to t...

Most people say they’re waiting on God. But what if God is actually waiting on us?

In this episode of The Culture Series, we dive into Preparation—not as a checklist, but as a posture. Drawing inspiration from the story of Nehemiah’s watchmen, we explore what it means to live with spiritual readiness in a church culture that often drifts toward comfort and sameness.

Preparation is more than planning—it’s becoming the kind of person...

Have you ever met someone that works for a company or a corporation that loves where they work because of the companies culture?  We have all heard of some of those companies and the way they set themselves apart.  The real question is, why are churches not doing the same thing?  The answers may surprise you as we unwrap several stories and incorporate them into figuring out how to choose values.

If you choose integrity or authenti...

Supplemental Information on Prooftexting, a Fresh Approach, Episode 9

We had the opportunity to release a supplemental episode to help with the prooftexting problem in our churches today.  This is getting a lot of feedback and will most likely rise to the top of the pile of issues that need to be addressed in the future.  Instead of giving you a typical podcast with information, we have tried a new angle that I am very excited abou...

An Introduction to Context, A Two Campfire Conversation

So what is context?  In this episode we will begin to explore the basics of using context in the Bible.  As usual we are not using any scriptures to explain anything but taking a step back approach to understanding our shortcomings of scriptures through the way we were taught (myself included)  Be sure to start with episode 1 since each of those shorter episodes build on one a...

Manipulation, A Campfire Discussion

This one is a campfire discussion about how we can accidently manipulate the church.  Its not for the faint of heart and to be honest, not a very fun thing to think about.  However if you have listened to the first four episodes you will see a theme start to develop that makes you dismantle some narratives.  To be honest hard discussions are essentially good for you at the end of the day.  Find a...