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On CultureInteresting TimesTrey Herweck, pastor at Refuge Church in St. Charles, MO, joins me to talk about living in Interesting Times. We are using the most recent article from The Embassy as our jumping off point. Here is an excerpt:ViewAlthough it is often mislabeled as a Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times” is of English origin. It appears in British diplomatic circles during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While there is no equivalent Chinese saying, they (at least according to Wikipedia) do have this: “Better to be a dog in times of tra...2025-07-1940 min
On CultureThe Private and The Public - On CultureThis week’s On Culture is a conversation between Trey Herweck and me about privacy and our public selves and how they relate. It uses the latest piece from The Embassy as the jumping off point. Here is an excerpt … Even though it is something I feel called to, it is a strange thing, not ever being a professional writer, to send these things off to people I don’t know. And, perhaps because of that, I want these private thoughts to make an imprint out there, with you - and, in so doing, are they no longer...2025-06-2839 min
On CultureStruggling Imperfectly Forward - On CultureWe are back! It has been awhile since our last On Culture - but I’m going to work back to my old schedule, if I can, with some exceptions.Anyway - this episode features frequent collaborator Trey Herweck and is engaged with the last issue from The Embassy - Struggling Imperfectly Forward.Here is an excerpt:K asked a question during the conference, a question I answered, but one that we discussed individually off line, probably over dinner. There is a lot of killing in K’s country - killing that is unju...2025-05-2543 min
View from the Pulpit with Ben SmithEpisode 12: A Conversation with Trey HerweckShow Notes: “View from the Pulpit” Podcast, Episode 12, A Conversation with Trey HerweckEpisode Theme: Preaching and Church PlantingIn this episode of “View from the Pulpit,” host Ben Smith talks with Trey Herweck, Lead Pastor of Refuge Church, St. Charles, MO, about the unique pressures he felt as a young church planter and how God has developed his understanding of preaching.Key Highlights:Pressure to be a celebrity: Trey shares how the desire to pursue celebrity can be dangerous and how he has come to honor faithfulness over celebrity.The s...2025-05-121h 03
On CultureOn Culture - Belief, Doubt, Faith, MysteryTrey Herweck, pastor of Refuge Church here in St. Charles, and I talk about faith and doubt and certainty and mystery. As always, we riff on the latest edition of The Embassy - Certainty, Doubt, Faith, Mystery.Here is an excerpt:About that path to God - much of the New Testament interacts with this question - what is the way (or way back) to God? Almost the entirety of the book of Hebrews stresses the unique and irreplaceable role of Jesus as the only One who can bring us back to God...2024-10-0546 min
Karis Church SermonsPracticing Stillness | Psalm 130 | 06.23.2024 | Trey Herweck2024-06-2445 min
Renewal ChurchLove One Another Sunday, Jan 7, 2024Trey HerweckPhilippians 2:1-5 2024-01-0738 min
On CultureOn Culture: I Just Want to Be ForgivenI talk with Trey Herweck, pastor of Refuge Church in St. Charles about how difficult it can be to be forgiven.Based on the latest from The Embassy - theembassy.substack.comLink“I Want to be Forgiven. I Just Want to be Forgiven.” - Dave Barry, The New York TimesForgiveness - Psychology Today Get full access to The Embassy at theembassy.substack.com/subscribe2023-11-2535 min
On CultureOn Culture - How Things Don't ChangeThe main resource for this podcast is the dispatch from The Embassy - How Things Don't ChangeLinksRonald Heifetz: The nature of adaptive leadership (Thanks to Trey Herweck of Refuge Church in St. Charles, MO for directing me to Heifetz’s work.)Every political ad ever. Get full access to The Embassy at theembassy.substack.com/subscribe2022-11-0535 min