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The Awkward Pastor(Ep. #16) Angels Don't Smoke: Hollywood vs. HeavenThis is a installment in a periodical series called 90's Movies That Made God Cringe.Hollywood cast John Travolta as a chain-smoking, beer-drinking archangel… so we brought that hot mess to the podcast, opened the Scriptures, and asked, “Okay, but what are real angels actually like?” Spoiler: they’re not divorced mall Santas in trench coats — they’re holy, terrifying, battle-tested servants of God who don’t quote The Beatles between smoke breaks.
2026-01-281h 13
The Awkward Pastor(Ep. #15) Why Do I Feel So GuiltyDo you ever ask: “Why do I still feel guilty as a Christian?” or “If God forgives me, why can’t I forgive myself?” In this Season 2 launch of The Awkward Pastor, Brandon and Tim tackle Christian guilt, shame, and regret through biblical truth, humor, and real talk.They answer common questions believers search for online, like:What is the conscience and how does it work biblically?Can a Christian be forgiven but still feel guilty?What’s the difference between guilt and shame?How do I overcome guilt, shame, and regret through the Holy Spi...
2026-01-141h 30
The Awkward PastorSeason 2 TrailerWhen the Lord returns, will He find folks who are operating in real faith?
2025-12-3002 min
The Awkward Pastor(Ep. 14 - Season 1 Finale) How to Lead Like Jesus...In A World That Acts Like HellWhat does real leadership look like when faith isn’t a slogan and mistakes cost lives?In this episode of The Awkward Pastor, Brandon and Tim sit down with two men who shaped Brandon’s life long before he ever held a microphone. Major Matthew Swanson, Brandon’s former Platoon Leader, and Platoon Sergeant Harvey Blow, his Platoon Sergeant, led a route clearance team in Iraq in 2007—driving straight into danger so others wouldn’t have to.This isn’t polished leadership theory. It’s faith and real life under pressure. You’ll hear how brotherhood is f...
2025-12-022h 05
The Awkward Pastor(Ep. #13) Bombhunters Anonymous: Confessions of a Route Clearance PatrolA Veterans Day Special TRIGGER WARNING: The content therein discusses real war trauma, has sounds from an actual firefight, and may be disturbing for some.You don’t look for God the same way when you’re driving five miles an hour through Baghdad, scanning for bombs that could erase you in a blink. You don’t pray politely when a sniper round passes close enough to heat your skin. And you don’t talk about faith as theory when the next corner might be your last.This episode of The Awkward Pastor is a raw...
2025-11-122h 28
The Awkward Pastor(Ep. #12) The Devil Was A Worship LeaderWhat if the music in your headphones isn’t just background noise—but formation? What if the songs you repeat are shaping your loves, discipling your emotions, and quietly training your soul long before a sermon ever does?In this episode of The Awkward Pastor, Brandon and Tim step into a conversation most Christians sense but rarely name: music isn’t neutral. It moves us. Forms us. Opens us. Sometimes heals us. Sometimes hardens us. And sometimes—without us noticing—it bends us inward instead of upward.Joined by worship artist, songwriter, and pastor Morgan George, th...
2025-10-291h 44
The Awkward Pastor(Ep. #11) 15 Signs You're Probably A Church Drama QueenIf you’ve ever left church thinking, “Was that sermon about me?”… or watched church gossip turn a sanctuary into a comment section—this episode is for you. Not to shame you, but to help you tell the difference between real church hurt and manufactured church drama—because both can quietly destroy your joy, your relationships, and your witness.Welcome to The Awkward Pastor, a bold Christian podcast where we talk about faith and real life without the plastic grin. In this episode, we confront a hard truth: sometimes what we call “church hurt” really is toxic church culture—a...
2025-10-151h 11
The Awkward Pastor(Ep. #10) Live Q and A with Undercover Matt From Ep. #9Ever feel like you’re holding it together in church… but one honest moment away from unraveling? If you’ve been to the edge—and God pulled you back—this one’s for you.This episode is a LIVE Q&A follow-up with Undercover Matt—the undercover police officer featured in Episode 9, one of our heaviest conversations yet. It isn’t polished. It isn’t scripted. It’s real people, real questions, real laughter—and real weight.We start with Appalachian awkward confessions (because sometimes humor is how you survive), but the conversation quickly moves deeper: what happens w...
2025-09-241h 01
The Awkward Pastor(Ep. #9) The Shot He'll Never ForgetWARNING: This episode discusses disturbing and sensitive concepts.What happens when faith is tested in real time—when grace collides with gunfire and survival leaves scars that don’t fade?In this episode of The Awkward Pastor, Brandon and Tim sit down with Matt, a retired Kentucky State Trooper and follower of Christ, who faced a moment every believer hopes they’ll never encounter: kill or be killed. This isn’t a crime story meant to shock—it’s an honest conversation about trauma, courage, marriage under pressure, and holding onto faith when darkness shows up uninvited...
2025-09-101h 47
The Awkward PastorThe Shots He'll Never Forget TrailerA retired Kentucky State Trooper shares his story of a shootout, faith, and God's work in the midst of the chaos.
2025-09-0601 min
The Awkward Pastor(Ep. #8) Are We All God's Children?“We’re all God’s children.”It sounds comforting. It sounds inclusive. It sounds like something you’d print on a mug or post after church.But what if it isn’t true?In this episode of The Awkward Pastor, Brandon tackles one of the most popular—and most misunderstood—beliefs in modern Christianity. With clarity, compassion, and bold biblical honesty, he draws a crucial distinction the church often avoids: being made by God is not the same as belonging to God.This conversation isn’t meant to exclude—it’s meant to invite. Becau...
2025-09-0209 min
The Awkward Pastor(Ep. #7) Church Hurt: Legit or Bruised Ego? Part 1What if the thing you call “church hurt” isn’t what you think it is?What if some wounds came from real sin—and others from pride that never got challenged?In this episode of The Awkward Pastor, Brandon and Tim step into one of the most emotionally charged conversations in modern Christianity: church hurt vs. bruised ego. With honesty, humor, and pastoral clarity, they wrestle with the difference between legitimate spiritual harm and discomfort caused by loving correction, accountability, or unmet expectations.This isn’t a drive-by defense of church culture—and it’s not a hit pi...
2025-08-2655 min
The Awkward Pastor(Ep. #6) No Lights, No Camera, Just Action, Part 2Somewhere along the way, a lot of us learned how to sound like Christians… without actually loving like Christ. We can quote verses, post sunsets with a scripture, and say “praying for you”… while a real person bleeds out ten feet away in silence.This episode of The Awkward Pastor is a Part 2 rope-drop into that hard question again: Do we love people—or do we love being seen loving people? Because there’s a kind of “goodness” that needs a camera, an audience, and applause. And there’s another kind—quiet, costly, inconvenient—that looks an awful lot like Jesus.
2025-08-121h 22
The Awkward Pastor(Ep. #5) No Lights, No Camera, Just Action, Part 1Some of you are tired—not because you’ve done too much, but because you’ve been disappointed too many times. You’ve heard “love you, brother” in church… then felt invisible when life got heavy. And if we’re honest, we’ve all been on both sides of that.In this episode of The Awkward Pastor (“Talk Is Cheap”), we chase one uncomfortable question: Do we love people—or do we love people seeing us love people? Because there’s a version of Christianity that talks big, posts often, and still won’t lift a finger unless there’s an audience.
2025-07-2942 min
The Awkward Pastor(Ep. #4) Serial Killers Who Professed Christ, Part 2If you’ve ever heard a story so dark you thought, “God can’t reach that,” this episode is going to confront you—in the most necessary way.In this episode of The Awkward Pastor, we wrestle with one of the most uncomfortable questions in faith and real life: Can the grace of Jesus Christ truly redeem someone like David Berkowitz—the “Son of Sam”? Not as shock value, and not as a theological stunt, but as a gut-check for authentic Christianity. Because the real scandal of grace isn’t that God forgives respectable sinners—it’s that He forgives the k...
2025-07-151h 15
The Awkward Pastor(Ep. #3) Serial Killers Who Professed Christ, Part 1Imagine stepping into heaven… and the first face you recognize isn’t a loved one, but Jeffrey Dahmer. What does your theology do with that?Episode 3 of The Awkward Pastor—a bold Christian podcast where faith and real life collide—wrestles with a question most people don’t want to touch: Can God really save the worst of us? And if He can… what does that reveal about our understanding of grace?Brandon and Tim sit down with investigator Eric Smith, a veteran of nearly 20 years in criminal justice, to explore j...
2025-07-0241 min
The Awkward Pastor(Ep. #2) Real Stories of the Fallout of GossipTired of fake smiles and backhanded “bless your hearts”? Ever notice how “I’m just concerned” sometimes sounds a lot like, “I’m about to light your reputation on fire”? This episode of The Awkward Pastor—a bold Christian podcast rooted in faith and real life—goes straight at church gossip and the quiet damage it leaves behind.With humor sharp enough to wake you up and compassion deep enough to sit with you, we expose how gossip spreads faster than revival, isolates people in plain sight, and turns churches into places of whispers instead of healing. This isn’t about jui...
2025-06-2535 min
The Awkward Pastor(Ep. #1) Shut Your Mouth, Guy!What is so urgent that as soon as Sister Betty leaves the sanctuary… she heads straight to the phone? And why does Brother Todd somehow know more about your life than you do?In this very first episode of The Awkward Pastor, Brandon and Tim go after one of the most tolerated sins in church culture—and call it what the Bible calls it: devilish. Gossip isn’t harmless chatter. It’s verbal arson. It burns trust, fractures friendships, divides churches, and grieves the Holy Spirit… all while everyone laughs and calls it “fellowship.”
2025-06-1839 min