Shades Midweek Shades Valley Community Church

This is part one of our Summer Shorts series. We will be covering all of the elements within our Sunday Morning service while JM is out on sabbatical!

JM's sabbatical starts on May 13th! We discuss this time of rest and refreshment with him and Ashley. We also take a trip to the Email Corridor and have one more quick Sports Break. Check out the EFCA blog written by our very own Jonathan Haefs about the creation of this podcast!
 
JM's Album Of The Week: Neil Diamond - Hot August Night
Bradford's Book Club: Reflections on the Psalms by C.S. Lewis

This week we interviewed SVCC member Zac Cook! 
 
JM's Album Of The Week: Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
Bradford's Book Club (Zac's Pick): Keep Your Love On: Connection, Communication & Boundaries by Danny Silk

Shades Cinema is back with special guest Grant Premo and we discuss the new Sci-Fi epic Dune: Part Two directed by Denis Villeneuve!
JM's Album Of The Week: Hans Zimmer - Dune: Part Two (OST)
Bradford's Book Club (Grant's Pick): Dune Chronicles by Frank Herbert

Dr. Robert Smith Jr. returns to Midweek for an in-person interview on preaching!
Robert Smith Jr. serves as professor of Christian preaching and holds the Charles T. Carter Baptist Chair of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School. An ordained Baptist minister, he served as pastor of the New Mission Missionary Baptist Church in Cincinnati, OH for twenty years. He earned his PhD while serving as a pastor. He is a contributing editor for a study of Christian ministry in the African American church, Preparing for Christian Ministry, and is co-editor of A Mighty Long Journey. He has written the book, Doctrine That Dances: Bringing Doctrinal Preaching and Teaching to Life (B&H Publishing Group, Nashville: 2008), which was selected as the winner of the 2008 Preaching Book of the Year Award by Preaching magazine and the 2009 Preaching Book of the Year Award by Christianity Today’s preaching.com. Smith has spoken at more than 135 universities, colleges, and seminaries in the United States, Great Britain, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean. He has taught congregations in several countries including Greece, Turkey, Rome, the Holy Land and Switzerland. At Beeson, Smith teaches Christian preaching and other electives in homiletics. He received Beeson Divinity School’s “Teacher of the Year Award” in 2005. He and his wife, Wanda Taylor-Smith, Ph.D., are the parents of four adult children (one in heaven). 
 
JM's Album Of The Week: Khruangbin - A LA SALA
Bradford's Book Club: God's Big Picture Bible Storybook: 140 Connecting Bible Stories of God's Faithful Promises by N.T. Wright
 

SVCC member Nate Rubin joins us this week for our ongoing "Meet A Member" series!
 
JM"s Album Of The Week: Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
Bradford's Book Club (JM's Pick): Rich Mullins: An Arrow Pointing To Heaven by James Bryan Smith