Joel and Tim crack open a vintage youth ministry games book from 1971, and use it to ask a harder question: is the “bait and switch” approach to youth ministry actually working against us? An episode on strategy, integrity, and what it really means to make much of Jesus with young people.

What was C.S. Lewis really doing in Narnia — and why does it still move people? Explore the “true myth” framework, what Aslan reveals about God’s character, and how great art carries the shape of the gospel without announcing it.

There’s a difference between formation and discipleship. You’re being formed by everything — Netflix, Spotify, the music through your earbuds. The question is whether what’s doing most of the forming is Christian.

But discipleship requires something else: life alongside life, doctrine and practice together, being known and knowing others. Podcasts can do the first. Only incarnate community can do the second.

Paul doesn’t ease into Galatians. No warm-up, just astonishment at a church deserting the gospel of grace, and a warning so sharp he says it twice. The Galatians series begins.

The Cove at a Sydney FC game are the custodians of the club's culture; the people who know the stories, hold the values and pass them on to every new generation. What does that look like in a church?

Delve into Soul Revival's Commitments culture, the three dangers of deep loyalty, and why holding loose to practice while holding firm to theology is the posture that keeps a church healthy through change.

If you drink of this well, you will thirst again. But if you drink of me, you will never go thirsty. Joel and Stu work through Francis Schaeffer's The God Who Is There — the ministry at L'Abri, the Trinity as the foundation of love, the Great Evangelical Disaster and what it takes for the church to be the thing of strength and beauty that Schaeffer hoped it would be.

The early missionary who wouldn't baptise Indigenous Australians until they'd learned to farm had syncretised the gospel with the Scottish Enlightenment's theory of civilisation, and couldn't see it.

The same dynamic runs through rock and roll, the Jesus movement, and every generation that canonises its own cultural expression of Christianity. Joel, Stu and Tim ask what it takes for the church to stay a movement.

Honour your father and mother, until Jesus says you need to hate your family to follow him. Brayden unpacks what honour actually means and why it goes so much deeper than obedience.

Alhana was on Chip Lunch five years ago. She had just started full-time at JB Hi-Fi, was doing kids ministry on Sunday mornings, and was finding her feet. A lot has happened since then, and most of it, she couldn't have planned.

The Sunday School started because the Church of England's parish infrastructure couldn't cope with the Industrial Revolution. Robert Raikes noticed the Oliver Twists running around the streets and invited them home. What followed spread to Australia within eight years.

Movements rising when institutions can't keep up — through Total Football, Mark Senter's 50-year cycles and the Youth Ministry Wars of the 90s.