Episodes

Thursday Sep 22, 2022
Episode 127 - Member-Led Ministry
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
This week Brad leads a discussion on our fourth cultural conviction here at SVCC: Member-Led Ministry. The long awaited Shades Midweek Taco Tour continues with our official second stop: Gordo's.
4:06 - JM's Album Of The Week: Peter Gabriel - Scratch My Back
7:46 - Bradford's Book Club: How To Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now by James K.A. Smith
16:26 - Shades Midweek Taco Tour Round 2: Gordo's
29:37 - Member-Led Ministry

Thursday Sep 15, 2022
Episode 126 - Mission Sunday, One New Birmingham, Midweek Taco Tour & More!
Thursday Sep 15, 2022
Thursday Sep 15, 2022
This week we cover various and sundry things that have been happening at SVCC in the last few weeks as well as looking forward to our new series on the book of Judges and the first stop of the Shades Midweek Taco Tour!
JM's Album Of The Week: Novo Amor - Antarctican Dream Machine
Bradford's Book Club: The Laura Lea Balanced Cookbook by Laura Lea

Thursday Sep 08, 2022
Episode 125 - SVCC Missions Team
Thursday Sep 08, 2022
Thursday Sep 08, 2022
This week's episode is all about missions! We interviewed members of our missions team - Shae Wall & Doug Abernathy. Visit our website shadesvalley.org for more information!
JM's Album Of The Week: William Shatner - William Shatner Has Been
Bradford's Book Club (Jonathan's Pick): Saints, Sufferers, and Sinners: Loving Others as God Loves Us by Michael R. Emlet

Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Episode 124 - How To Get Involved In A Church
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
This week we elaborate on a question we received from Avery Crump via email a few weeks ago about how to get involved in church.
JM's Album Of The Week: Ashley Wingo - Weedeater
Bradford's Book Club: Do You Believe?: 12 Historic Doctrines To Change Your Everyday Life by Paul David Tripp

Wednesday Aug 24, 2022
Wednesday Aug 24, 2022
This week we interviewed Mike Sloan from GRACE (Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment). Mike is the Director of Safeguarding Initiative at GRACE. For the last ten years, Mike has trained churches, schools, and other Christian ministries across the United States and abroad in abuse prevention and response best practices. Mike worked with GRACE board member Victor Vieth to develop the GRACE Seminary Curriculum, the first three-credit hour seminary course on child maltreatment, which was piloted at Biblical Seminary in 2017. Mike has served as a local pastor in congregations in Atlanta, Georgia, and Columbus, Ohio. Go to netgrace.org to find out more about GRACE.
JM's Album Of The Week: Colorvault - Faint
Bradford's Book Club: Praying the Bible by Donald S. Whitney

Thursday Aug 18, 2022
Episode 122 - The Email Corridor (Kenny McCanse, Alec Hersh & Tanisha Garnier)
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
We've been inundated with more emails so we took another trip down to the email corridor to read all of them and respond. We also finalized our guidelines and stipulations for the upcoming Shades Midweek Taco Tour.
JM's Album of the Week: EB Cole - On Earth (The Lord's Prayer)
Bradford's Book Club (Grant Premo's Pick): Everything Sad Is Untrue: (a true story) by Daniel Nayeri

Thursday Aug 11, 2022
Episode 121 - The Email Corridor (Matt Theus, Josh McClung & Avery Crump)
Thursday Aug 11, 2022
Thursday Aug 11, 2022
This week we camped out in the email corridor to read and answer your emails! We discussed the Shades Midweek Taco Tour, cults, social media and more!
To find out more about the McClungs returning to Poland go here: https://express.adobe.com/page/hOSKfIaj1d5L9/
JM's Album of the Week: The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium
Bradford's Book Club: Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention -- and How To Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari

Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
Episode 120 - Summer Recap
Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
Jonathan and John-Mark look back at Summer 2022, share some stories, and call some SVCC members to see what they were up to this past summer.
JM's Album Of The Week: Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
Bradford's Book Club: The Bruised Reed by Richard Sibbes

Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Episode 119 - The Five Myths Of Mental Health w/ Dr. Matthew A. LaPine
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
This week we interviewed Dr. Matthew LaPine about his book The Logic of the Body and the five myths of mental health. Matthew is the Christian Education Director at CityLight Omaha. He holds a PhD from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School under Kevin Vanhoozer. He writes on theology, emotion, and mental health.
Click here to find out more: matthewalapine.com
JM's Album of the Week: Dave Matthews Band - Busted Stuff
Bradford's Book Club: The Logic of the Body: Retrieving Theological Psychology

Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
Episode 118 - SVCC’s Greatest Hits Vol. 6
Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
This week we rewind to a sermon Jonathan Haefs preached on July 11, 2021 titled "The Kingdom Of God?".
JM's Album of the Week: Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
Bradford's Book Club: Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope by Esau McCaulley