Gospel Driven Athlete

Join hosts Scott Willingham and Russ McCary as they dive into a discussion on the Bema Seat of Christ and answer the question of whether or not all Christians enter eternity on equal grounds based upon Christ’s works, or if they earn eternal rewards based upon their own individual works. 

If God is great does that mean he's not good enough to care about evil? Join hosts Scott Willingham and Russ McCary as they dive into the age old debate centered around the problem of evil.

Are we able to argue people to faith? Do we play any role in people coming to faith at all? Join hosts Scott Willingham and Kevin Johnson as they continue our series on The Parables of Christ and discuss the Parable of the Growing Seed and it’s implications for the roles that believers play in the salvation of others.   

We live in a time between the two comings of Christ. In this present time, known as “the already but not yet”, we experience God’s Kingdom as having come, but as not fully realized. Join hosts Scott Willingham and Kevin Johnson as they dive into this incredibly rich topic through a discussion on the Parable of the Weeds.

Does God value our external actions over our faith, or has He designed our faith to produce external actions? Which is more important; faith or faithfulness? Join hosts Scott Willingham and Russ McCary as they discuss The Parable of the Two Debtors and how that parable speaks to our positioning in relation to God. 

Join hosts Scott Willingham and Kevin Johnson as they dive into the parable of new wine and old wine skins and discuss how this parable is applicable to us today and what Kingdom realities Jesus was illustrating through it.

The parables are designed to point us to the redemptive work that is found in Christ alone. Join Scott Willingham and co-host Russ McCary as they dive into how "the parable of the sower” ultimately points to Jesus.

What do we learn about our future hope from the account of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead? Join host Scott Willingham and Russ McCary as they dive into the depths and implications of the Easter story.

What can we learn from the historical account of Christ’s physical and spiritual suffering on a Roman cross? Join host Scott Willingham and Russ McCary as they dive into a discussion on the first part of the Easter story- the day that Jesus died.

Hasn’t the church been responsible for much harm and evil in the world? Where do we fit into the God’s design for the church? Join host Scott Willingham and special guest Casey Cease as they dive into part 6 of a 6 part series on the “non-negotiables” of the Christian faith, with a discussion on the global and local Church, why they matter, and how God has designed them. 

Why is it important that we are able to distinguish between Law and Gospel? Join host Scott Willingham and Russ McCary (LIVE IN STUDIO!) as they discuss the importance of all Christians being able to tell the difference between the Law (command) and the Gospel (announcement) in part 2 of our 2 part Law/ Gospel Distinction series.

  Join host Scott Willingham and Russ McCary as they discuss the importance of all Christians being able to tell the difference between the Law and the Gospel. Proto-Evangelium is the big word bonus of the day!! 

Was Jesus actually God in the flesh as He claimed? Was He just a prophet? A rabbi? Or was He simply a moral teacher who served as a good example for us to follow? Join host Scott Willingham and guest Kevin Johnson as they dive into a discussion on the historical Jesus and address the claims that Jesus made about Himself, what He did to back up His claims, and how the people around Him responded to the things He said and did.

Join host Scott Willingham and Russ McCary as they dive into the mysterious, yet extremely critical doctrine of The Trinity and discuss the 3 distinct persons of The Trinity who are all equally God. Hypostatic union is the big word bonus of the day! 

Have you ever wondered what Jesus is currently “doing” or thought about why it matters that He ascended into heaven? Join host Scott Willingham and Kevin Johnson as they dive into the deep implications of the ascension of Jesus Christ to the right hand of the Father and discuss what this doctrine tells us about God and about ourselves.

Does God’s sovereignty mean that He is a cosmic puppet master, controlling every move we make? Or is God’s sovereignty more complex and exceedingly more rich than that? Join Scott Willingham and Russ McCary as they dive into part 3 of a 6 part series on the “non-negotiables” of the Christian faith, with a discussion on God’s Sovereign Plan in and Through Jesus’ Life, Death, and Resurrection and how that informs our worship of Him. 

Are we sinful because of our actions alone? Can we avoid sin completely by behaving extra “good?" What does it mean to be “born into sin?” Join Scott Willingham and Russ McCary as they dive into part 2 of a 6 part series on the “non-negotiables” of the Christian faith, with a discussion on the biblical account of the Fall of man.

Is the story of creation integral to our faith? What does the story of creation tell us about the attributes of God? Join Scott Willingham and Kevin Johnson as they dive into part 1 of a 6 part series on the “non-negotiables” of the Christian faith, with a discussion on the biblical account of creation. 

Join Scott Willingham and Kevin Johnson as they discuss the importance of correct theology, how that translates into knowing God rightly, and how that ultimately results in the correct praise of the historical/ biblical Jesus Christ. 

As long as we believe in Jesus, does it matter what we believe about Jesus? Join Scott Willingham and Russ McCary as they discuss the importance of knowing God rightly (as defined in the the Bible) the dangers of bad theology, and the prevalence of bad doctrine all around us today.