Gospel Rant
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Gospel Rant

Dr. Bill Senyard
Straight talk on all topics religious or secular. Interesting and relevant issues that matter. If you are easily offended, welcome.
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Just An Old Fashioned Love Song (Power2Change 7)
February 11, 2024 - 27 min
Christian, what are you really worth? It makes a real difference. In this show Dr. Bill shares of a major breakthrough in his life when he began to learn what he was really worth. Maybe this will help you in your difficult journey.Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.
100,000 Churches Closing???
February 6, 2024 - 29 min
SPECIAL and IMPORTANT GOSPEL RANT! Crazy right? Dr. Bill Senyard here with Gospel App Ministries, Good Enough Parent and the Gospel Rant Podcast. 40 million people have stopped going to church in the last 30 years.  In 2019, the year before COVID, far more protestant churches closed than opened in the US. The average congregation size is now less than half what it was in 2000. 1/3 of churchgoers are 65 or older. Summary, far fewer churches, even so, each still is suffering decreasing attendance, and is notably greying.  Per Christianity Today, church closures are predicted to snowball. By 2025, 100,000 North American churches could close their doors.  Someone called it the Great Dechurching. This is happening at the very same time that so many Americans are feeling increasingly anxious and lonely. New survey shows that one in three said they feel lonely at least once a week. Worse, one in 10 Americans say they feel lonely every day. But, they are not thinking that churches are the answer. Sad. What’s up?Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.
Partner, Let Me Upgrade You (Power2Change 6)
February 4, 2024 - 31 min
Beyonce said it. Partner, Let Me Upgrade You! What does the upgrade look like? What is you have been pursuing and living from a confusing notion of love? You may be very surprised to hear this, and encouraged. Love feedback, Bill@Gospel-App.com.Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.
Losing Your Teen to Social Media?
January 29, 2024 - 5 min
You are not alone! The battle is bigger than you might think from a neuroscientific perspective and far more dangerous long term. Check out this 5 min talk by Dr. Bill Senyard. You won't regret it. Then check the FREE on-line resource Good Enough Parent (goodenoughparent.online). Fifteen helpful faith based tips for frustrated parents of teens and tweens. Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.
Now, That's A Knife! (Power2Change 5)
January 28, 2024 - 24 min
This is the fifth episode of my new series on how to overcome spiritual malaise, fatigue, sluggishness and failure, power 2 change. P2C. Are you experiencing church fatigue? Christian fatigue? Left intuitional church altogether? Welcome. This might be just what you are looking for. Is this a new list of things to do so that your spiritual walk would finally just take off? Not at all. Your job as a disciple of Jesus has never been about how much you do or do not do. Listen and let this sink in. Discipleship is not about become more like Jesus—at least not directly. How are you going to do that anyway? What muscle group? That’s been your problem and why you fall short so often. No judgment. Instead, discipleship is about becoming more dependent upon Jesus and His Sprit. Those are two different things. Right? Is it beginning to make sense? Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.
Diseased Decision Making Complex (Power2Change 4)
January 21, 2024 - 33 min
Welcome to Gospel Rant.This is the fourth episode of our new series Power2Change (P2C). Do you really want to grow in Christ? Do you want to feel his love for you? Do you want to hear him say to you “Well done good and faithful servant.”  Here’s the thing, you can just keep on trying harder. But, how’s that gone for you? Or you can realize that there are parts of your own midbrain (your flesh) that is fighting your experience of your relationship with Jesus. Doesn’t that make sense? Curious? Check it out.  Bring it on. Let me know what you think. Bill@gospel-app.com. Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.
Free or Not-So-Free Will (Power2Change 3)
January 14, 2024 - 28 min
Welcome to Gospel Rant.This is the third episode of our new series Power2Change (P2C). I am about proclaiming God’s love for the unlovable, unloved and unlovely. It's a scale 0-10, you may be a 2 or an 8, but we are all on that scale this side of heaven. Want more? Welcome. It should make a difference. Is it helpful to be reminded that you are fighting a war against yourself? And that ‘self’ has a lot of very powerful brain chemicals—it is more powerful than your prefrontal cortex. If you have been shamed that your situation what it is because you don’t have the stuff, the faith, the will, you are the problem, this will be really good news. That is only partly true. Trying harder will fail—I promise you. Here’s a better way. Nothing magical, or tricky. It’s just the basic old fashion gospel. In fact, in this show we are going to explode the largely false notion we moderns have about free will. This will definitely get me some emails and trolling. Bring it on. Let me know what you think. Bill@gospel-app.com. Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.
Coach Nick Saban and the Book of Hebrews
January 13, 2024 - 29 min
A special one-off Gospel Rant podcast that compares and contrasts the coaching philosophy of newly retired Alabama football coach Nick Saban with the admonitions to the church by the author of the Book of Hebrews. We will, God-willing, start a Gospel Rant series on the Book of Hebrews in mid-March. Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.
The Enemy Is You (Power2Change 2)
January 7, 2024 - 37 min
Welcome to Gospel Rant and this second episode in the Power 2 Change Series. Who benefits from this show, this series? Do you feel that every time you try to do good, to move forward in your Christian walk it falls flat? Like Paul, what you want to do you just can’t seem to pull off? Relational mess ups. Bad choices. Emotional issues. Can’t forgive. Addictions killing you. Lack joy, peace, faith. You feel more anxious and lonely, you seem to argue more? This is Paul’s magnum opus on our ongoing struggles. Gal 5, the works of the flesh and the fruit of the Spirit. Nothing could be more on point. You are in the middle of a war. In fact, the war is in the middle of you. What you will hear and learn, you’ve probably never really heard before in relevant modern terms.  This series could be life-changing. You will not be able to fix the problems by yourself. You need Power2Change. If the Gospel can help addicts, hard core addicts, think what it could do to the rest. Great news. But we have to see the gospel differently.Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.
You Can't Stop It (Power2Change 1)
December 31, 2023 - 32 min
BRAND NEW SERIES!!!! Addicts (and we are all addicts if we were just a little bit honest), welcome to Gospel Rant and this new series Power 2 Change (P2C). This is a good place to start at the beginning of 2024. We are looking at Galatians 5 in a fresh new way. Who benefits from this show, this series? Do you feel that every time you try to do good, to move forward in your Christian walk it falls flat? Like Paul, what you want to do you just can’t seem to pull off? Relational mess ups. Bad choices. Emotional issues. Can’t forgive. Addictions killing you. Lack joy, peace, faith. You feel more anxious and lonely, you seem to argue more? This is Paul’s magnum opus on our ongoing struggles. Gal 5, the works of the flesh and the fruit of the Spirit. Nothing could be more on point. You are in the middle of a war. In fact, the war is in the middle of you. What you will hear and learn, you’ve probably never really heard before in relevant modern terms.  This series could be life-changing. You will not be able to fix the problems by yourself. You need Power2Change. If the Gospel can help addicts, hard core addicts, think what it could do to the rest. Great news. But we have to see the gospel differently.Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.
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Meet Your Host
Dr. Bill Senyard is a husband, father, pastor, church revitalization consultant, biblical scholar, author of over 14 books, and creator of three online gospel immersion journeys. His primary gift is asking good questions and not being always satisfied with the usual pat answers. The gospel is more powerful than we expect. It's time we start believing that. Want to go deeper? You are at the right place.
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