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The official podcast network of Summit Church. Here you will find The Back40 Leadership Podcast, Sermon Audio, Leadership Night, and much more.

  1. 2d ago

    Romans - Week 21: Romans 12:9-21

    Pastor Mel preached Romans 12:9-21, the final movement of Romans chapter 12. After eleven chapters of doctrine, Paul turns to the practical shape of life in a divided church. His prescription for unity is genuine love — costly, sacrificial, and possible only by the power of the Holy Spirit. Mel walks the passage command by command: really love rather than pretend, and hate what is wrong; take delight in honoring one another; never be lazy but serve the Lord enthusiastically, confronting what he calls the church's "spiritual obesity" of endless consuming without spiritual exercise. We rejoice in hope, we're patient in trouble, and we keep praying. Christians should be ready to help and eager for hospitality, blessing those who persecute us. We rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep. We live in harmony, never taking revenge but leaving room for God's justice. We conquer evil with good.

    Romans - Week 21: Romans 12:9-21

  2. 5d ago

    Leadership Night - Lessons from Jack Welch

    Pastor Mel draws six leadership lessons from Jack Welch, the legendary CEO who grew General Electric many times over. Control your destiny, or someone else will. Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. Be candid, honest "to the last ten percent," because clarity is a kindness. Don't manage, lead (and know the difference). Change before you have to, the cautionary tales of Kodak, Blackberry, and Blockbuster. And if you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete. Q&A follows.

    Leadership Night - Lessons from Jack Welch

  3. 5d ago

    BACK40 E129 - Predicting A.I., Contagious Sin, Equally Yoked

    In this episode we start with artificial intelligence: how these systems are climbing from narrow tools toward something far more general. We talk about the "alignment problem", then we pivot to a hopeful call for writing true, useful material a means of influencing the future of thought. Next we talk about sin as something contagious: Paul's picture of a little yeast working through the whole batch of dough, how sin now spreads by ideas and crowds more than by geography, and the difference between a faith that is simply immature and one that was never really our own. We finish on marriage and the dangers of being unequally yoked. We discuss why it matters for a believer to marry a believer, why the warning is so hard to hear once two hearts are already joined, and why marriage was never meant to complete us, but to make us holy.

    BACK40 E129 - Predicting A.I., Contagious Sin, Equally Yoked

  4. Sep 6

    Romans - Week 20: Romans 12:3-8

    Pastor Eran Holt preached Romans 12:3-8, picking up one week after Pastor Mel's message on being transformed by the renewing of your mind. Eran's driving question was practical: if God has really transformed a person, what would you actually see? Paul answers by naming four ordinary places a changed life shows up — how you see yourself, how you see others, how you see your gift, and how you finally live. Eran spent the most time on the first: "sober judgment," which he defined as seeing yourself accurately, measured by the faith God gave you rather than the person next to you. Insecurity is not the opposite of pride but the same root wearing a different face, "both are obsessed with the need to impress other people," and "both are obsessed with me." From there he walked the body of Christ where "each member belongs to all the others," the gift that is grace "entrusted to me for somebody else," and the warning that the enemy lies about your gift because he cannot take it away.

    Romans - Week 20: Romans 12:3-8

  5. Aug 30

    Romans - Week 19: Romans 12:1-2

    Pastor Mel reaches the great pivot of Romans — the "therefore" of chapter 12, where Paul turns from eleven chapters of what God has done to how a changed people now live. In view of God's mercy, Paul pleads with us to offer our bodies as a living sacrifice. Mel grounds an acceptable sacrifice in the Old Testament pattern of the first and the best, then turns to verse 2: don't be conformed to this world but be transformed. That transformation comes by the renewal of the mind — the Spirit's work — which runs on repentance. The payoff: a renewed mind is how you discern God's good, pleasing, and perfect will.

    Romans - Week 19: Romans 12:1-2

  6. Aug 30

    Men's Event - Every Day Carry: Prayer

    Pastor Mel preaches a message on prayer. Prayer is not a religious task to complete, but an ongoing, open-ended conversation with God that needs no fancy words, no set hour, and no particular volume. Quoting Dietrich Bonhoeffer — "it matters little what form of prayer we adopt, or how many words we use; what matters is the faith which lays hold on God" — Mel reframes prayer for anyone who has ever felt awkward or inadequate at it. He then walks four benefits of prayer: silence, peace, presence and intimacy. From there he teaches how to pray by examining the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6 line by line, in plain language, closing with Leonard Ravenhill and Daniel Henderson and a challenge to pray out loud over the people we're called to protect. The refrain that carries the whole message: prayer doesn't change God — prayer changes us.

    Men's Event - Every Day Carry: Prayer

  7. Aug 28

    BACK40 E128 - Laws, Death, Lifespans

    Mel, Joel, and Michael discuss law, death, and the thousand-year lifespans in Genesis. They open on the law, and the why behind it: how much of our lawlessness comes from leaders who wag their fingers at sin without ever explaining why a sin actually corrodes the kind of world we want to live in? Working through a hard, heartbreaking case in the news, they trace how a culture full of "what about" arguments slowly loses its grip on right and wrong — and why some actions have to be answered regardless of how sympathetic the story behind them is. From there they turn to death, and how followers of Jesus see it so differently from the world. They talk about numbering our days, about grieving with hope rather than despair, about "to die is gain" held in tension with the work Christ has left us to do — and why Christians, of all people, should be able to look at death for what it is. They close in Genesis 5, with those lifespans that stretch toward a thousand years. For centuries critics called them impossible — but the more science learns about how aging actually works, the more room there is to stand back and marvel at the providence of God, and the harder it becomes to wave the passage away. A wide-ranging, honest conversation about the questions underneath the questions.

    BACK40 E128 - Laws, Death, Lifespans

  8. Aug 25

    Bible Study E13 - Genesis 5:1-32

    A full walk through Genesis 5, the genealogy that carries the "holy seed" from Adam to Noah across the 1,656 years before the Flood. We don't skip the list — it's where Scripture quietly keeps the promise of the protoevangelium, tracing the lineage that ends in Christ. Along the way: what Adam's creation teaches about the image of God and human humility, how a fallen nature passes from father to son, the mystery of Enoch (translated to heaven without dying), Methuselah's name as a prophecy of the Flood, the famous question of the long lifespans and the providence of God behind them, and the birth of Noah — whose name means "rest."

    Bible Study E13 - Genesis 5:1-32
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