Every Square Inch Podcast

In the second episode on the beauty of Jesus, Robert argues that Jesus is not merely one beautiful thing among many, but the source, standard, and fulfillment of all beauty. From the beauty of the temple to the beauty of Christ’s life, resurrection, and sacrificial love on the cross, Robert shows how Jesus answers our deepest longing to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord. • • •MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF CAMPAIGNClick here to learn more about our Medical Debt Relief Campaign and to give to this cause.

Transcribed - Published: 25 May 2026

In the first of two episodes on the beauty of Jesus, Robert explores the significance of beauty as a transcendental. We tend to view beauty as something enjoyable to experience, but not necessary to our existence. But Robert explains that beauty is necessary to life and even points to the life we were made to live, which is offered in Jesus, who is the fullness of beauty in the flesh.• • •MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF CAMPAIGNClick here to learn more about our Medical Debt Relief Campaign and to give to this cause.

Transcribed - Published: 17 May 2026

In this episode, Robert argues that Jesus is ultimate truth manifested as observable truth. By his resurrection, Jesus meets the demands of both religious faith and enlightenment doubt. If Jesus is risen, then Jesus is true; and if Jesus is true, everything we want to be true is true. • • •MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF CAMPAIGNClick here to learn more about our Medical Debt Relief Campaign and to give to this cause.

Transcribed - Published: 7 April 2026

In this episode, Robert explores humanity’s search for truth, beauty, and goodness, and argues that these transcendent longings find their fulfillment in Jesus, the Logos made flesh.• • •MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF CAMPAIGNClick here to learn more about our Medical Debt Relief Campaign and to give to this cause.

Transcribed - Published: 17 March 2026

What if the real question isn’t whether you’ll consider Jesus—but how you’ll consider Him? In Part 2 of his “Reconsider Christianity” series, Robert argues that you can’t actually escape considering Christ. Even in a post-Christian moment, Jesus remains unavoidable. He challenges listeners to lay down the baggage of both Christian culture and post-Christian culture and to consider Jesus on His own terms—letting Christ define Christianity, not the other way around.• • •MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF CAMPAIGNClick here to learn more about our Medical Debt Relief Campaign and to give to this cause.

Transcribed - Published: 2 March 2026

What happens to faith in Christ when Christianity becomes a dominant influence of a particular culture? In the first episode of this new series, called “Reconsider Christianity,” Robert walks through what happened when Jesus came back to his hometown, and invites all of us to give fresh eyes to faith in Jesus without the baggage of cultural Christianity.• • •MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF CAMPAIGNClick here to learn more about our Medical Debt Relief Campaign and to give to this cause.

Transcribed - Published: 23 February 2026

For the final episode of 2025, Robert gives us an update on the medical debt campaign and invites us to participate in an exciting year-end giving challenge to eliminate the debt of Kentucky neighbors.Listen to the episode introducing our Medical Debt Relief Campaign on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.• • •MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF CAMPAIGNClick here to learn more about our Medical Debt Relief Campaign and to give to this cause.

Transcribed - Published: 19 December 2025

In the final episode of the series on manhood, Robert encourages men to redirect their self-improvement energy away from their own interests and towards the interests of others, and he closes the series with a few final words of reflection.• • •MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF CAMPAIGNClick here to learn more about our Medical Debt Relief Campaign and to give to this cause.

Transcribed - Published: 13 November 2025

After laying out the first remedy to toxic manhood (being resourced by Christ’s blessing), Robert shares his second and third components of redeemed masculinity: it’s formed it by Christ’s power, and defined by Christ’s humility.• • •MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF CAMPAIGNClick here to learn more about our Medical Debt Relief Campaign and to give to this cause.

Transcribed - Published: 3 November 2025

The “fragile male ego” is a common cultural trope, and there is truth to it. In this week’s episode, Robert shares the first of four remedies to toxic manhood: fighting insecurity with the blessing of our Heavenly Father.• • •MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF CAMPAIGNClick here to learn more about our Medical Debt Relief Campaign and to give to this cause.

Transcribed - Published: 8 October 2025

It’s common to hear about the failures of the Christian project throughout history, but in this episode, Robert takes a look at the ways the Christian ethic of masculinity has brought about positive, meaningful change to our world.• • •MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF CAMPAIGNClick here to learn more about our Medical Debt Relief Campaign and to give to this cause.

Transcribed - Published: 16 September 2025

A natural and good response to the atrocities of men laid out in the previous episode is to push back against those evils. But, in this episode, Robert explores how that pushback has gone too far and helped create an anti-masculine sentiment in our society.• • •MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF CAMPAIGNClick here to learn more about our Medical Debt Relief Campaign and to give to this cause.

Transcribed - Published: 1 September 2025

If God designed masculinity to be beautiful, where did it go wrong? Well, as you’ll see in this episode, it’s gone wrong many times over the course of history. But as Robert walks through this history of fallen masculinity, you’ll also see glimmers of redemption and hope through Christ and his Church.• • •MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF CAMPAIGNClick here to learn more about our Medical Debt Relief Campaign and to give to this cause.

Transcribed - Published: 18 August 2025

We’ve looked at the theoretical uniqueness of men in the Bible, but what about the theological design of masculinity? In this week’s episode, Robert unpacks several places in the Bible where God’s design for the role of men is laid out and why this design is so beautiful within the covenant of marriage.• • •MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF CAMPAIGNClick here to learn more about our Medical Debt Relief Campaign and to give to this cause.

Transcribed - Published: 21 July 2025

What makes a man a man? In this week’s episode, Robert defines Biblical masculinity through a theoretical lens by contrasting the difference between “real men” and “good men” as defined by our culture.• • •MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF CAMPAIGNClick here to learn more about our Medical Debt Relief Campaign and to give to this cause.

Transcribed - Published: 14 July 2025

In our last episode, Robert argued for a gender Venn diagram where the genders have attributes that are shared and attributes that are unique. This episode goes deeper into clarifying why his argument for uniqueness does not mean that their attributes are mutually exclusive.• • •MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF CAMPAIGNClick here to learn more about our Medical Debt Relief Campaign and to give to this cause.

Transcribed - Published: 7 July 2025

The beautiful mystery of gender is not only how we are different but also how we are all alike. In this week’s episode, Robert focuses on the overlapping piece of the gender Venn diagram and how God has made both genders gloriously similar.• • •MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF CAMPAIGNClick here to learn more about our Medical Debt Relief Campaign and to give to this cause.

Transcribed - Published: 1 July 2025

“Men, where have you gone?” This recent New York Times headline highlights the cultural moment that this podcast series seeks to speak into. As we begin this new series on masculinity, Robert shares some personal stories that shed light on how our culture views manhood and gives a quick peak into where this series will be going. • • •MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF CAMPAIGNClick here to learn more about our Medical Debt Relief Campaign and to give to this cause.

Transcribed - Published: 24 June 2025

In this special episode of Every Square Inch, Robert interviews two friends from the United Kingdom to discuss some recently published data about a revival of Christianity among the youth of their country. They discuss how they’ve seen these trends in their personal ministry and how they minister specifically to these young Christians. And finally, they discuss the role masculinity plays in these trends, which serves as a prelude to Robert’s upcoming series on Biblical Masculinity.Learn more about Andy Longwe and his church, London City Presbyterian Church, by visiting their website: https://lcpc.org.ukLearn more about Glen Scrivener and his SpeakLife ministry by visiting his website (https://speaklife.org.uk) or following him on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@SpeakLifeMedia). You also can find his “321” evangelistic course about Jesus on this website: https://321.speaklife.org.uk/course/321• • •MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF CAMPAIGNClick here to learn more about our Medical Debt Relief Campaign and to give to this cause.

Transcribed - Published: 9 June 2025

Robert shares his story of learning about the medical debt crisis in Kentucky, why he’s starting a campaign to solve it, and how it’s possible that the impact of small donations can be multiplied into $150 million of debt forgiveness.• • •MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF CAMPAIGN Click here to learn more about our Medical Debt Relief Campaign and to give to this cause.

Transcribed - Published: 30 May 2025

Doubt and uncertainty about your own faith is not uncommon in Christians, nor is it new. But in this episode, Robert unpacks the unique way that those in our modern culture struggle with assurance, and shares some ways to combat the lies we believe.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 24 February 2025

Sports betting is creating lots of new revenue in the state of Kentucky, but at what cost? In this week’s episode, Robert addresses the noble root lying underneath gambling addiction, and how to help redirect those affected by gambling addiction.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 17 January 2025

A common question Robert receives from Christians is about repenting from sin and how to do so in a genuine way. In this week’s episode, he looks to John Owen’s dense essay The Mortification of Sin and shares some practical ways to apply Owen’s essay and scripture to our lives.Give to Doug & Masha via MTWhttps://www.mtw.org/missionaries/details/doug-and-masha-shepherd

Transcribed - Published: 10 January 2025

The season of Christmas reminds us that God came to Earth through a virgin birth. But why did he choose to arrive as a newborn baby, when he could have skipped all those (seemingly) unnecessary years of growing up? In this week’s episode, Robert dives into the topic of incarnation and shares why we should rejoice at the thought of Jesus as a child, a baby, asleep on the hay.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 23 December 2024

This week’s question comes from a listener who feels discouraged about the lack of value placed on art and beauty in today’s Christian sub-culture. Robert argues, however, that beauty has never been more important to Christian evangelism.Learn more about Beauty Table and support their mission at beautytable.org• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 6 December 2024

After many, many listener questions over the past week, Robert uses this episode to share his thoughts about the election and why Trump won.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 15 November 2024

This week’s listener question is about alcohol and the role it should play in a Christian’s life, so Robert shares his thoughts about the Bible’s view of alcohol.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 1 November 2024

In Part 1, Robert shared his thoughts about the value of professional counseling for Christians. Now, in part 2, he moves from the “why” to the “how” of counseling.LINKS:“Honor Your (Unhealthy) Father and Mother” episode available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 17 October 2024

Robert shares his thoughts about the value of professional counseling for Christians.  • • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 20 September 2024

This week’s question is the one that Robert receives from parents all the time: where should I send my kids to school?• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 13 September 2024

To start this new series of answering listener questions, Robert answers the most common question he receives: “What do you do?”• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 30 August 2024

Now that we’ve used our heads to examine the many government gospels trying to draw us away from Jesus, let’s get practical. In this episode, Robert gives us one application for our heart and one for our hands.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 12 July 2024

Equality of outcome is a commendable thing to pursue, but what happens when a system of government is built around it? In this week’s episode, Robert applauds the heart of socialism but warns against the government gospel it can inevitably become.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 3 July 2024

Nationalism at its core believes that seeking the common good of a group is a better way of governing than the individualism which is central to liberalism. There are affirmations to this view in scripture, but as you’ll hear in this episode, there are also pitfalls to this government gospel that do not line up with the gospel of Jesus. • • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 18 June 2024

Does political conservatism have a definition, or is it just about being against change? In this week’s episode, Robert examines conservatism, both its hopeful promises and also its potential for idolatry. • • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 7 June 2024

This week Robert dives into the history of our current form of government and how our democracy finds its philosophical and theological roots in liberalism.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 31 May 2024

Last week, Robert set the table for this series from an ideological standpoint. This week, he lays out his goals for this series and preemptively addresses a few objections that some might have to the upcoming episodes.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 20 May 2024

Whether you consider yourself a political junkie, totally ignorant to Washington’s antics, or somewhere in between, the 2024 election discourse is demanding your attention. So before the election hype really starts to pick up, Robert hopes this series will ground Christians in a Biblical view of political engagement. In Part 1, Robert introduces us to the scholarship of David Koyzis and his work on political ideologies.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 26 April 2024

In the final episode of this series, Robert shares some practices that can be helpful for guiding your preteen and teenage children in the area of technology.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 8 March 2024

How do you help your children use technology well? In this episode, Robert focuses on some helpful practices for when your children are young (before they hit puberty, which will be the focus of the next episode). • • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 23 February 2024

Robert shares the third of four principles he recommends when making a plan for your children’s technology use.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 16 February 2024

It’s time to address the most common topic of all the feedback received about this technology series: parenting. In this episode, Robert shares the first two of four principles he recommends when making a plan for your children’s technology use.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 9 February 2024

This week Robert addresses a common question he’s received from listeners about the impact of artificial intelligence upon all of the themes he’s been addressing in this series. Is AI a totally new problem? Or is it a continuation of our existing cultural trends?• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 26 January 2024

In this week’s episode, Robert responds to a listener question about what pastors and churches can and should do in response to the shifting technological trends in our society. • • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 19 January 2024

Let’s say that you agree that, in addition to its incredible benefits, technology has had significant negative effects on us individually and on our culture as a whole. It would be natural to ask, “Then what should we do with technology?” In this week’s episode, Robert shares two practical applications to help us be salt and light in a technology-rich world.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 12 January 2024

Perhaps the most under-appreciated negative impact of the internet era is the effect that pornography has had upon our culture. This week’s podcast contains a frank conversation about how the wide availability and nearly infinite supply of porn has harmed our society, before reminding us that God’s kindness and mercy, especially as depicted in Advent, can cover a multitude of sins.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 20 December 2023

Many studies have looked at the effect that technology has had upon our brain’s ability to think, process, and focus. The results aren’t great. In this weeks episode, Robert shows us how important it is to recognize the Internet and its endless information stream for what it is, and encourages us to return to the wisdom found in God’s Word.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 12 December 2023

One massive part of our lives that has been altered by technology is community, from who we do (and don’t) have relationship with and how we communicate with them. In this week’s episode, Robert looks at the negative affects of technology upon our relationships and points us to the God who sets the example for how to relate to each other.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 1 December 2023

Virtually every aspect of our lives is influenced by technology. It is all-encompassing, and yet there is relatively little written about how to honor Christ through our devices. The aim of this series on technology is to help Christians redeem the technology in their lives, and this introductory episode starts off the series by diving deep into the Christian theology of technology.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 22 November 2023

Gandhi once said, “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Some of you may have had the same experience with Christians that he did. In this week’s episode, though, Robert asks us to consider the hypocrisy found within all worldviews, and shows us how Jesus (perhaps like you) holds self-righteous believers in contempt.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

Transcribed - Published: 20 October 2023