Change the Conversation
Change the Conversation is a conversational-style podcast with members of the APM team and guests. Some episodes will be topical, some will be based on passages of scripture, and some will be interview-style. So pull up a chair and join us for some real, practical, and purposeful conversation. We pray that each episode is life-giving to every listener and that they inspire you of the power that can be had when our conversations are purposeful.
Episodes
48 episodes
Who are we?
In today’s conversation, we’re going to do something a little bit different. We’ll get back to our Thru the Bible series in a few episodes, but today we’re going tell our story. We are so excited because our whole exec...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 48
•
58:31
Thru the Bible: David Part 8 (David: A Lineage that Lives On)
In today’s conversation, we’re going to wrap up the story of David, but we’ll go backwards before we move forward in order to understand the desire David had to build the temple—a desire which he did not get to fulfill, or see
•
39:22
Thru the Bible: David Part 7 (David and Bathsheba)
In today’s conversation, we’re going to take a bit of a sharp turn, as we fast-forward to a rather unexpected story in the life of David—the story of David and Bathsheba. We’ll face the reality that if we’re not careful, comfortability can b...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 46
•
1:03:09
Thru the Bible: David Part 6 (A Heart of Honor and an Ascent to the Throne)
In today’s conversation, we’re going to watch David wait patiently for God to be the one to elevate him, and we’ll be inspired by David’s determination not to take the throne by his own means, but to wait on God to move him into position His...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 45
•
1:07:37
Thru the Bible: David Part 5 (A Man in Hiding and a Heart After God)
In today’s conversation, we’re going to follow David into his time of hiding and see how he maintained his purity of heart—and strength of mind—during this time in his life. We’re going to take a deep dive into the heart of David, as we comp...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 44
•
1:00:45
Thru the bible: David Part 4 (Divine Friendship and a Crazed King)
In today’s conversation, we’re going to follow David through the events which took him from the battlefield and the palace to the wilderness and the cave—from being the man favored by King Saul to being the man ...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 43
•
1:10:59
Thru the Bible: David Part 3 (David and Goliath - Defeating the Giant)
In today’s conversation, we’re going to pick up where we left off in our last episode in the middle of the famous story of David and Goliath. Last time we recognized the divine timing of our sovereign God, and we talked about the multiple po...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 42
•
1:09:59
Thru the Bible: David Part 2 (David and Goliath)
In today’s conversation, we’re going to bring a grown-up perspective to one of the most well-known stories of the entire Bible—David and Goliath. We’ll marvel, once again, at how it’s the hand of God that gets us to our destiny, and we’ll be...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 41
•
53:47
Thru the Bible: David Part 1 (Seen and Chosen)
In today’s conversation, we’ll be arriving at the backstory of the second king of Israel, David—one of the greatest heroes of the Old Testament, the man who God Himself referred to as “a man after my own heart,” the man whose lineage eventua...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 40
•
1:18:13
Thru the Bible: The Rise and Fall of King Saul
In today’s conversation, we’ll set out on the roller coaster ride that is the life of King Saul, and we’ll wonder at yet another story of what could have been. We’ll see the growing pride in Saul’s heart emerge through his actions—and eventu...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 39
•
53:47
Thru the Bible: The Monarchy Begins in Israel
In today’s conversation, we’ll see the nation of Israel—the nation over whom God has ruled as a faithful King for centuries—reject God and demand an earthly king, all out of a desire to be like everyone else. We’ll watch the sovereignty of G...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 38
•
54:35
Thru the Bible: Hannah & Samuel (The Birth of a New Era)
In today’s conversation, we’ll be making our way out of the Judges Era of the Bible and into the Kingdom Era with the birth story of a great man of God, Samuel, and his amazing mother, Hannah. We’ll see how the choices we make when we face a...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 37
•
55:26
Thru the Bible: Ruth (A Story of Redemption)
In today’s conversation, we’ll close the pages of a difficult chapter in Israel’s history with a deep dive into the refreshing oasis of the book of Ruth—a story which serves as a beautiful bridge between the era of the judges and the era of ...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 34
•
1:04:04
Thru the Bible: The Judges (Samson)
In today’s conversation we’re going to conclude our short walk through the book of Judges with the outlandish story of the final and probably most well-known judge—Samson. For the sake of our conversation, we’re going to break Samson’s story...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 33
•
1:09:23
Thru the Bible: The Judges (Gideon)
In today’s conversation we’ll journey further into the Judges era of the Bible, as the people of Israel begin the cycle which they perpetuate throughout the entirety of the Old Testament—disobedience & idolatry, punishment & oppressi...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 32
•
1:00:03
Thru the Bible: From Joshua to Judges—What Happened?
In today’s conversation we will culminate our study of Joshua and the Conquest era of the Bible as Joshua and the people of Israel divide the land into the boundaries God had set forth for them, and we’ll discuss the necessary—although somet...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 31
•
1:10:06
Thru the Bible: Joshua Part 3 (The Jordan River and the Fall of Jericho)
In today’s conversation we’ll be back in the Conquest era of the Bible as Joshua and the Israelites take their first steps into the promised land. We’ll see that there were two giant obstacles—a raging river and an impenetrable wall—between ...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 30
•
1:09:04
Thru the Bible: Joshua Part 2 (The Question of Conquest & the Scarlet Cord)
In today’s conversation we’re going to walk head-on into a question which plagues many modern Bible readers—the ethicality of the conquest of Canaan. Yes, we’re going to go there, and we’re going to discuss why God would not only condone, bu...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 29
•
56:38
Thru the Bible: Joshua Part 1 (Joshua Takes the Lead)
We are so excited to be back for our next season of Change the Conversation after taking a break for the holidays. Today we are picking back up where we left off last year in our Thru the Bible series as we begin our j...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 28
•
1:04:03
Thru the Bible: Moses Part 10 (Failure to Take the Land)
In today’s conversation, the LAST of this season until we return in the new year, we’ll conclude our study of the Exodus Era of the Bible with our final look at this generation of Israelites as they stand at the edge of the promised land. We...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 27
•
58:25
Thru the Bible: Moses Part 9 (A Stiff-Necked People)
In today’s conversation, we’ll begin wrapping up our study of the Exodus Era of the Bible with the infamous story of the golden calf as we rejoin the Israelites at the foot of Mount Sinai. We’ll continue to discover why biblical authors, for...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 26
•
57:11
Thru the Bible: Moses Part 8 (The Ten Commandments Continued)
Today’s episode is a continuation of our last one, where we are taking a magnifying glass to the Ten Commandments in order to demystify and clarify them for the eyes of our modern understanding. Last time we got through #7, so today we are p...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 25
•
59:46
Thru the Bible: Moses Part 7 (The Ten Commandments Continued)
Today’s episode is a continuation of our last one, where we are taking a magnifying glass to the Ten Commandments in order to demystify and clarify them for the eyes of our modern understanding. Last time we got through the first four, so to...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 24
•
1:10:47