Not Just Sunday: Christian Life, Following Jesus, & Daily Discipleship

We all experience the fear of failure. We worry about losing money, relationships, opportunities, respect, or simply discovering that we weren’t as capable as we thought we were. So we often build our lives around avoiding risk. But following Jesus gives us a different way to think about failure.

In this third episode of our series, You Can Do Hard Things, Keith and Patrick explore why Christians can take wise risks without being controlled by the fear of what might happen. Looking at Jesus’s parable of the talents, they unpack what it means to see ourselves as stewards rather than owners of everything God has given us, and why playing it safe isn’t always the same thing as being wise.

They also look at the risks Jesus himself took and how our security in Christ gives us the freedom to step out, trust God, and use what he’s given us, even when we don’t know how it will turn out.

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📚 Have you started reading for book club yet? You helped us choose East of Eden by John Steinbeck. Now it's time to get reading! You've got until November 17, so grab your copy here today!

And if you haven't already, be sure to check out our sister podcast, Ten Minute Bible Talks, where we're walking passage-by-passage through the Gospels.

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We all want to be liked. We want to fit in, avoid awkward conversations, and know that the people around us approve of us. But if we’re honest, that desire can keep us from following Jesus fully.

In this second episode of our series, You Can Do Hard Things, Keith and Patrick explore what the Bible calls the “fear of man” and why you can’t be both a people pleaser and a God pleaser. They talk about the everyday places we feel pressure to conform, from friendships and work to parenting, possessions, politics, sexuality, and even church.

They point out biblical examples to explore what it looks like to stand firm when everyone else is bending the knee, and why our courage ultimately comes not from grit, but from the grace of knowing we are eternally secure in Jesus.

🔔 Subscribe now so you don't miss an episode of this new series: You Can Do Hard Things.

📚 Have you started reading for book club yet? You helped us choose East of Eden by John Steinbeck. Now it's time to get reading! You've got until November 17, so grab your copy here today!

And if you haven't already, be sure to check out our sister podcast, Ten Minute Bible Talks, where we're walking passage-by-passage through the Gospels.

📫 Want Sunday's best for your Monday morning inbox? Subscribe to the NJS newsletter here.

👍 Follow us on social media for more content and connection with other Not Just Sunday Christians: FB, IG, X.

🫖 Click here to stay informed while remaining focused on Christ with The Pour Over. New episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

📣 If you believe in what we’re doing and want to help us get these conversations to more people, you can now partner with Not Just Sunday. Learn more here.

We used to do hard things. But somewhere along the way, something’s changed. We’ve been tamed. Our lives are filled with easy buttons. And deep down, we all know the truth: an easy, comfortable life is not a satisfying life. In our NEW series, You Can Do Hard Things, Keith and Patrick share the secret to making comfortable people tough, fearful people courageous, and undisciplined people disciplined: imitating Christ by the power of God’s grace.

In this kickoff episode, Keith and Patrick ask: Have we let comfort tame our faith? They explore what it looks like to count the cost of following Jesus, embrace the hard things God calls us to, and stop relying on our own willpower. Because doing hard things isn’t about our own grit, but his grace.

🔔 Subscribe now so you don't miss an episode of this new series: You Can Do Hard Things.

📚 Have you started reading for book club yet? You helped us choose East of Eden by John Steinbeck. Now it's time to get reading! You've got until November 17, so grab your copy here today!

And if you haven't already, be sure to check out our sister podcast, Ten Minute Bible Talks, where we're walking passage-by-passage through the Gospels.

📫 Want Sunday's best for your Monday morning inbox? Subscribe to the NJS newsletter here.

👍 Follow us on social media for more content and connection with other Not Just Sunday Christians: FB, IG, X.

🫖 Click here to stay informed while remaining focused on Christ with The Pour Over. New episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

📣 If you believe in what we’re doing and want to help us get these conversations to more people, you can now partner with Not Just Sunday. Learn more here.

We've spent this series learning how to read the Bible: understanding its big story, its genres, its historical context, and how to apply it to our lives. But eventually, reading the Bible brings us to one, heart-level question: Do I actually trust God enough to submit to what he says?

In this final episode of our Unlocking the Bible series, we talk about the tension that happens when God's Word presses against our preferences, our culture, and our understanding of what is right. Who gets the final say in your life: you or God? We'll explore the difference between treating the Bible like a menu and treating it like a prescription, and why surrender to God's Word isn't about tyranny, but about trusting that he truly has the words of life.

🔔 Subscribe now so you don't miss our next series, You Can Do Hard Things! 👀 We'll see you back here on September 29.

📚 Have you started reading for book club yet? You helped us choose East of Eden by John Steinbeck. Now it's time to get reading! You've got until November 17, so grab your copy here today!

And if you haven't already, be sure to check out our sister podcast, Ten Minute Bible Talks, where we're walking passage-by-passage through the Gospels.

📫 Want Sunday's best for your Monday morning inbox? Subscribe to the NJS newsletter here.

👍 Follow us on social media for more content and connection with other Not Just Sunday Christians: FB, IG, X.

🫖 Click here to stay informed while remaining focused on Christ with The Pour Over. New episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

What do you do when the Bible says something you don't understand, or something you really don't like? Sometimes our hardest questions aren't intellectual; they press against our culture, our experiences, or what we desperately want to be true. And when those questions aren't taken seriously, it's easy to start wondering whether we can trust God at all.

In this fourteenth episode of our Unlocking the Bible series, we talk about what to do when Scripture doesn't make sense, when it challenges your cultural assumptions, or when you simply don't like what it seems to be saying. From Job's questions to the Bible's difficult passages about violence, we'll explore how to name your questions, pray through them, dig into the evidence, and wrestle honestly without walking away from God.

📚 Have you started reading for book club yet? You helped us choose East of Eden by John Steinbeck. Now it's time to get reading! You've got until November 17, so grab your copy here today!

🔔 Subscribe now so you won't miss our current series, Unlocking the Bible. 👀

And if you haven't already, be sure to check out our sister podcast, Ten Minute Bible Talks, where we're walking passage-by-passage through the Gospels.

📫 Want Sunday's best for your Monday morning inbox? Subscribe to the NJS newsletter here.

👍 Follow us on social media for more content and connection with other Not Just Sunday Christians: FB, IG, X.

🫖 Click here to stay informed while remaining focused on Christ with The Pour Over. New episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.