Welcome to the #BeMakeXSend podcast. My name is Matthew Perry, Lead Pastor at Arapahoe Road Baptist Church in Centennial, CO. Today, we sit and talk with Mat and Amy Kountz. Mat and Amy are currently serving in Cuenca Ecuador through Reaching and Teaching Ministries, with their children - William, Lina, Jude, and Oliver. Mat completed an MA in Missiology at Southern Seminary and an MA in Church Planting at Southeastern Seminary and is doing Doctoral Studies at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Missions and Theology. The Kountzes intend to train and mobilize Ecuadorian pastors an ..read more

On this very first episode, we interview former ARBC staff member and current missionary to Ireland via World Venture, Scott Morter. We will talk about discipleship, missions, and various other matters toward the end. Thanks for tuning in! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bareforests/support ..read more

HD can mean "high definition," but for Christians it means this. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bareforests/support ..read more

We have an Advent Devotional--supplies are limited.  We had mid-term elections to sort through.  We also are called to know the Word but also something else! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bareforests/support ..read more

There's a reason behind the name.  Subscribe: http://bareforests.substack.com Podcast: http://anchor.fm/bareforests   Oh, and subscribe to our YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/bareforests. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bareforests/support ..read more

I had a conversation with a member of our church who was most distressed with a verse from 1 John 3:8-9. She read it from the King James Version of the Bible, which (on the surface) reads differently from more modern translations. While this difference is easily explained, it leads to further conversations about how we as evangelicals often misunderstand and even misinform about the nature of the Christian life. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bareforests/support ..read more

Christians must ready themselves to lose their personal rights as Kingdom people while being ready to stick up for others! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bareforests/support ..read more

Better to deprive yourself from lustful intent than to destine oneself for hell. In the previous paragraph, Jesus warned His listeners to avoid selfish anger in one’s heart that could lead to harming another imagebearer because this affects not only love of neighbor but also one’s worship of God. The solution was to reconcile oneself with the one with whom they are angry, even if that meant pausing one worship to do so. In this paragraph, Jesus warned His listeners to avoid selfish lust in one’s heart that could lead to objectifying another imagebearer because this demonstrates not only a fals ..read more

The Scriptures tell us God's design not only for marriage, but also for divorce and remarriage.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bareforests/support ..read more

Here is a study from the Sermon on the Mount that we do on Wednesday nights. This study is from Matthew 5:21-26: "Settle Matters Quickly." --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bareforests/support ..read more