The Righteous Brothers Podcast

**The Power Goes Out, but the Worship Goes On!**

What happens when the lights go out in the middle of Sunday worship? At Family Church in Van Alstyne, Texas, a surprise power outage turned into an unforgettable morning of acoustic worship, a sermon by flashlight, and a reminder that the church is about people, not technology.

In this episode of *The Righteous Brothers Podcast*, Mike Shaw and Pastor Jonathan Yates reflect on a m...

Mike Shaw and Pastor Jonathan Yates continue their conversation on relational evangelism, focusing this week on the importance of intercession.

After identifying the people God may be calling us to reach, the next step is to pray for them intentionally. Mike and Jonathan talk about what prayer really is, why listening matters as much as speaking, how prayer helps align our will with God’s, and why Christians should be praying...

Mike Shaw and Pastor Jonathan Yates continue Family Church’s This Is Us series with a conversation about relational evangelism—sharing your faith through genuine relationships rather than forced conversations.

Using the examples of Andrew and Philip in John 1, they explore how simply inviting someone to “come and see” can have a lasting impact. They also discuss identifying and praying for people in your lif...

What does it really mean to love your enemies?

Mike Shaw and Pastor Jonathan Yates unpack Jesus’ challenging words in Matthew 5:43–48, exploring bitterness, forgiveness, praying for people who oppose us, and what agape love looks like in everyday life. From difficult coworkers and political disagreements to road rage and personality clashes, they look at how Christians can turn Sunday’s truth into everyday righteo...

Mike Shaw and Pastor Jonathan Yates continue their conversation about what it means to show radical love for our neighbors, building on Jesus’ parable of the great banquet.

They look at the people who received the original invitation—and the excuses they made—as a warning about allowing even good things like work, family, sports, money, technology, or personal comfort to ...

What does it really mean to love your neighbor—and are we actually living it out? In Episode 4 of The Righteous Brothers Podcast, Mike Shaw and Pastor Jonathan Yates dig into the story of the Good Samaritan and the challenge of moving beyond simply knowing Scripture to putting it into practice. They talk about motives, forgiveness versus trust, serving others, breaking out of our comfortable “holy huddles,” and wh...

Mike Shaw and Pastor Jonathan Yates continue Family Church’s This Is Us series with the final installment of “Scripture Is Our Authority.” They talk about the importance of having both mentors and people we mentor, teaching children how to know and study Scripture, and how the Bible teaches us what is right, what is wrong, how to get right, and how to stay right.

The conv...

In this episode of The Righteous Brothers Podcast, hosts Mike Shaw and Pastor Jonathan Yates of Family Church explore part two of their "Scripture is Our Authority" series. Drawing from Luke 4, they examine Jesus's temptation in the wilderness and emphasize how memorizing God's word serves as the ultimate defense against temptation and out-of-context deception. The episode also details the biblical reasoning from Acts 2 behind obse...

Welcome to episode one of The Righteous Brothers Podcast — where we turn Sunday's truth into everyday righteousness.

Mike Shaw sits down with his pastor, Jonathan Yates of Family Church in Van Alstyne, Texas, to unpack the launch of the "This Is Us" sermon series and its fir...