Is Jesus the True Israel?

Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker continue the series on Israel, the church, and God’s promises by asking how Jesus fits into Israel’s story. Looking at Matthew 2, Hosea 11, the Davidic kingdom, the temple, the new covenant, and Luke 24, they show that Jesus is not Plan B or an interruption in the story. He is the faithful Son, true King, true temple, and fulfillment of the promises God made throughout Scripture. Copyright 2026. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

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Did the Prophets Promise Israel More Than Land?

Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker continue the series on Israel, the church, and God’s promises by examining what the Old Testament prophets promised after the exile. Jeremiah and Ezekiel point beyond land, borders, and national recovery to something deeper: forgiveness, cleansing, a new covenant, new hearts, the Spirit, one people, and one Davidic King. The land mattered, but geography was never going to fix the human heart. Apparently, dirt still cannot regenerate sinners. Copyright 2026. SaltyBeliever.com.

Salty Believer Unscripted Did the Prophets Promise Israel More Than Land?

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Did Israel Receive the Promised Land or Lose It?

Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker continue the series on Israel, the church, and God’s promises by asking whether Israel received the promised land or lost it. Looking at Joshua 21, 2 Samuel 7, and the exile, they show that God really did keep his promises, that Israel really did break the covenant, and that the story still points beyond the land to the deeper need for a faithful king, changed hearts, forgiveness, and restoration. Copyright 2026. SaltyBeliever.com.

Salty Believer Unscripted Did Israel Received the Promised Land or Lose It?

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Israel at Sinai: Chosen for What?

Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker continue the series on Israel, the church, and God’s promises by looking at Israel at Sinai and asking, “Chosen for what?” In Exodus 19 and Deuteronomy 7, Israel is chosen by grace, delivered from slavery before receiving the law, and called to be God’s treasured possession, a holy nation, and a kingdom of priests. This episode slows down the “chosen people” language and asks what it actually means before everyone sprints toward land, politics, and prophecy charts like that has ever gone calmly. Copyright 2026. Find more resources and information at SaltyBeliever.com.

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More Than Land: God's Promise to Abraham

Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker continue the series on Israel, the church, and God’s promises by going back to Genesis and asking what God actually promised Abraham. Looking at Genesis 12, 15, 17, and 22, they discuss land, offspring, blessing, covenant, and why the nations are already in view from the beginning. Before jumping to modern Israel, prophecy, Romans, or Revelation, this episode lays the biblical foundation because apparently starting at the beginning is still allowed. Copyright 2026. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

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How to Think About Israel Without Losing Your Mind

In this opening episode of a new series on Israel, the church, and God’s promises, Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker begin sorting through the questions many Christians are asking about modern Israel, biblical Israel, prophecy, politics, and the people of God. Rather than jumping straight to headlines, end-times speculation, or easy slogans, they lay out the need to start with Scripture’s storyline and think carefully about how the Bible uses “Israel” across redemptive history. Copyright 2026.

Salty Believer Unscripted How Should Christians Think About Israel Without Losing Their Minds?

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Train Them Up: Youth Ministry

In this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Max Dietz and Daniel the Intern join Bryan Catherman to discuss how youth ministry helps train up the next generation of pastors and ministers. Can ministry be more than fun programming for young people? What’s the role of children in discipleship? And what’s Max, a youth minister, doing to come alongside parents in their responsibilities to disciple their children? Copyright 2026. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

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Train Them Up: Assessing

How do you know who to disciple? How do you know when to stop discipling someone? How do you know when you’re making progress? When are we done? In this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman talk about how to assess a disciple and the discipleship process. Copyright 2026. Find more information at SaltyBeliever.com.

Salty Believer Unscripted Accessing Disciples

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Including Children in the Life of the Church

How do we bring young people into the life of the Church? Kirk Galster, Josiah Walker, and Bryan Catherman discuss a challenging topic. Should the church include children in aspects of the worship gathering, such as collecting the offering, serving on the worship team, and leading in other ways? Should little kids become members? It's more than just including children in the worship service. This is about really bringing them in. How can children be included in the life of the Church, and how does this help train up the next generation? Copyright 2026. Find more information at SaltyBeliever.com.

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Train Them to Listen to Sermons

Learning to listen to sermons doesn’t just happen by showing up, and the next generation needs to learn how to listen to sermons. It’s by listening to sermons with the desire to grow and think critically, week by week, over many years, that people learn and grow. In this episode, Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker discuss the idea of preaching as discipleship and training. What is preaching? How does it do the training and discipleship work? Should the Gospel be there every week? What kind of preaching? They discuss these questions and many others. Copyright 2026.

In addition, this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted was unsponsored by 9Marks and therefore, shared an unsolicited, unpaid advertisement for the 9Marks podcast, “Bible Talk.” (Seriously, 9Marks didn’t pay us to talk about it and don’t even know we did it. We just like “Bible Talk.”)

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Train Them Up: One-On-One Discipleship

As we consider what's needed to train the next generation of Christians, Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker discuss one-on-one discipleship. Why is one-on-one discipleship important? How do we do one-on-one discipleship? What might be the pushback? Why don't we do it? They discuss these questions and share some tools they use for one-on-one discipleship. Find more videos and resources like this one, book recommendations, and more at SaltyBeliever.com. Copyright 2026.

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Train Them Up: An Introduction

There seems to be a boost of young men becoming Christians and engaging with the local church. Is it true? With the significance of generational differences, how are the Boomers and Gen-X generation going to train the Millennials and Zoomers (Gen-Z and Gen-A) if there are more young men coming to church? In this Salty Believer Unscripted series, Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker start a series about training up the next generations for ministries. Bryan also deals with an angry-mail email concern. And they've started an unsolicited, unsponsored advertisement that's fitting for an unscripted podcast. Learn more and find more resources at SaltyBeliever.com. Copyright 2026.

Salty Believer Unscripted Train Them Up: An Introduction

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Using Creeds, Confessions, and Catechisms in Services

How can a church incorporate a creed, confession, or catechism in weekly gatherings and services? Should they? Before dealing with the primary question, we must define the terms. What is a creed? What is a confession? What’s the difference? What is a catechism? How can we use these things in our spiritual journey? How do they help us grow? How can they be used in weekly worship services? Should they be used in this setting? If a Pastor wants to integrate these things, how does he get there? These are the questions found in the conversation of this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted. Find more information about creeds, confessions, and catechisms, as well as podcasts and other resources for ministry and the Christian journey, at SaltyBeliever.com. Copyright 2026.

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Journey Through John: A 5-Minute Bible Study

Bryan Catherman is taking a journey through John as a YouTube, simple, 5-minute daily Bible study. He and Josiah Walker discuss what’s behind it, why do it, and how it works on this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted. Find the Journey Through John on the SaltyBeliever.com Youtube channel. (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyBUHemqv16QgYd4FM9YJVku3t0JFfYKU&si=j1PaSMaJ_xVHS_X7) Copyright 2026. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

Salty Believer Unscripted Journey Through John: a 5-Minute Bible Study

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Intern Episode: Daniel Catherman

Daniel, the intern, has been serving behind the scenes of Salty Believer Unscripted. We’re not really sure what a podcast intern does, but Salty Believer Unscripted has had a long, wonderful line of interns. As we do our part to help raise up the next generation of ministers, we have an intern, and sometimes we challenge said intern to do things beyond their comfort zone. Therefore, this is a special intern episode. In this episode, Daniel the Intern tells us about his premium, Schuyler Bible, and his daily reading disciplines. Copyright 2026. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

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Dealing with Change

This episode deals with change. For one, the podcast has added video and brought about change. Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker are talking about change. Change is constant in life, so it seems we would do well to learn how to deal with change, especially in church. Copyright 2026. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

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Developing Good Spiritual Habits

How do we form better spiritual habits? How do we stick to them? How do we achieve our Bible reading goals? What stops us? How do we say no to bad habits and yes to good habits? This is the conversation in this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted. Copyright 2026. For more information and resources, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

Salty Believer Unscripted Developing Good Spiritual Habits

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What Devotionals are Helpful?

In this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker discuss using devotional books to grow closer to God. What books and resources do they like and find the most helpful? Maybe there’s something in what they do that might help you too? Copyright 2026.

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Daily Doctrine by Kevin DeYoung

In this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Bryan Catherman and Josiah Walker discuss their year going through Kevin DeYoung’s book, Daily Doctrine: A One-Year Guide to Systematic Theology (Crossway, 2024). After reading it, they review it. Would they recommend it to others? Their answer might surprise you. Why did they end up disappointed? Copyright 2025. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

Salty Believer Unscripted Daily Doctrine by Kevin DeYoung

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Social Media is Killing Community

Does social media help or hurt real, meaningful community? Yes. It was intended to help, but has it accomplished what we thought it would do? No. Has the effort to make money come at the cost of real community? Yes, a huge cost and Meta is King. Is it causing depression and anxiety? Of course. Have we lost the idea of what community really is, and now long for something we already had? That’s the real problem. Facebook stole it, and now they think they can sell it back to us. What is the cost? More than the world can afford. Doom scrolling is a thing. We need to talk about social media and the death of real community. That's the topic of this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted. Copyright 2025. Learn more at SaltyBeliever.com

Salty Believer Unscripted Social Media is Killing Community

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