Pastoral teaching for ordinary discipleship.
Knowing God With Heart and Mind is a pastoral teaching show rooted in Bible readings, church seasons, and everyday spiritual formation. Its episodes move from pew-Bible passages and sermon reflections into questions of humility, prayer, wisdom, mission, and the reign of Christ.
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Knowing God With Heart and Mind is a pastoral Christian teaching show built around scripture, sermon reflection, and the slow work of discipleship. It sounds close to a church room. Bible passages are read aloud, page numbers are given, and the teaching often begins with the assumption that ordinary people have gathered to listen, pray, and be corrected by the Word. The show’s strongest episodes turn daily life into spiritual diagnosis. A sandcastle becomes a warning about building on the wisdom of the world. A clothing rack becomes a picture of how culture hands people their assumptions before they notice. A Palm Sunday crowd becomes a study in expectation, disappointment, and rage. Short moments of humor soften the gravity, but the center remains serious. Recent series spend time with the Holy Spirit through Tyler Staton’s The Familiar Stranger, with the desert mothers and fathers through 24-7 Prayer and Lectio 365, and with the kingdom of God through Frank Viola’s Insurgents. The teaching favors lived obedience over religious performance. It asks what prayer changes, what humility costs, and what it means to follow Christ when mission is described as overflow rather than pressure. Some entries are direct sermons. Others are Echo conversations, where Pastor Dan Sinkhorn and church voices reflect on messages, ministry, and the shape of Christian life in the present world. The show is not trying to sound detached. It is local, confessional, and sometimes meandering in a recognizably pastoral way. That looseness is part of its appeal. The episodes make room for allergies, book recommendations, maternity leave, church programs, and small self-deprecating jokes before returning to scripture. Listeners looking for sleek apologetics may find it too congregational. Listeners looking for warm, Bible-saturated teaching with practical analogies and a steady concern for formation will know where they are.
Made for: This show is for Christians who want scripture-centered teaching connected to prayer, humility, mission, and everyday obedience. It especially suits listeners comfortable with sermon audio and church-based conversation.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the blend of local-church plainness and sustained biblical reflection. Rather than packaging doctrine as a lecture, it lets sermons, companion discussions, analogies, and prayers accumulate into a practical theology of daily life.
Our fundamental goal is ”knowing God.” The essential assumption is that the Bible is God’s message to humanity so that God will be known and loved by God’s Creation. The Bible is sufficient in and of itself, so that thoughtful study of it will lead to ever-increasing intimacy with God. Each week we’ll endeavor to engage Scripture and tradition and to bring them into our present reality. Since I am a working pastor I will use the same sources for this podcast that inform my weekly preaching and teaching duties. These days I am drawing upon the Revised Common Lectionary. This examination of the Word will be based on all but one of the scheduled readings from the RCL, since a podcast of my week…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Pastoral conversations and sermons turn scripture, prayer, and church practice into concrete questions of leadership, commitment, freedom, and generosity.
Knowing God With Heart and Mind moves between Pastor Dan Sinkhorn's pulpit teaching and his conversations with Adrienne Tarullo. Scripture remains close at hand as they connect Christian discipleship to leadership anxiety, congregational commitment, mission, prayer, generosity,…
Pastor Dan's Goodwill wardrobe might make you ask who chose your values.
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A sandcastle, reduced noise, and St. Patrick's prayer shape a practical meditation on biblical wisdom.
Christian wisdom is given a practical shape in this PlayNext review of a message linking the desert mothers and fathers, a Lenten wilderness season, and Jesus' teaching in Matthew 7.
Kingdom work is framed here as calm, faithful overflow rather than panic.
The piece presents kingdom advancement as overflow rather than pressure, grounding that view in Matthew 28:18 and the claim that Jesus has been given all authority in heaven and on earth.
Matthew 6, everyday shopping, and a prayer for shared bread press toward generosity.
Knowing God With Heart and Mind turns Matthew 6 into a practical meditation, drawing on Lectio 365 and the 24-7 prayer movement before moving through treasure, the eye as the lamp of the body, and the warning about storing up riches.
Surrender, anxiety, and the hard freedom of leading without chasing approval.
Episode 43, The Freedom of Living Under a King, keeps its focus on the idea that real freedom comes through surrender to Christ, with Pastor Dan Sinkhorn and Adrienne Tarullo holding that thread clearly from start to finish.
A Marine testimony that moves from Manila to Shiloh and ends at the Lord's table.
Tim Bolton's story lands because it stays with concrete moments the source already gives: a Marine Corps crisis, months in Manila with Pastor Aquino, hymnals carried to strangers, cell groups spreading through Manila, six pastors laying hands on him, and a cleanup at Shiloh.
A measured sermon turns 1 Thessalonians 5 into a practical call for whole-life transformation.
Awakening to Christlikeness frames spiritual alertness as the beginning of steady formation. Moving through 1 Thessalonians 5, it draws on the thief in the night, children of light, and the breastplate of faith and love to describe maturity as something whole-life rather than…
A new-year sermon presents covenant as a promise tested by suffering, distraction, and ordinary demands.
Commitment Sunday frames covenant as something lived rather than merely affirmed, especially when life refuses to explain itself. Beginning with Joshua 24 on the banks of the Jordan River, the message carries that scene into the first Sunday of the new year, where the Wesley…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
This episode introduces a new worship series based on Frank Viola's book 'Insurgence', highlighting the speaker's personal spiritual connection with the author and his teachings.
This episode explores the unseen spiritual realm through a Bible study of Genesis chapters 6 and 11, challenging listeners to move beyond a surface-level understanding of Christianity.
This episode explores the concept of holy serendipity through a reading and interpretation of Isaiah 55, emphasizing God's higher ways and the invitation to seek Him for spiritual fulfillment.
This episode discusses the teachings of the desert fathers and mothers on humility during Lent, connecting it to a global prayer movement and a reading from Philippians chapter 2.
This episode explores the theological concept of God's otherness through a reading and analysis of Hebrews 9:11-14, connecting it to the Easter season and the unseen realm.
A pastor leads a Commitment Sunday service focused on renewing covenants with God and the church.
This episode explores the concept of scriptural holiness as Christ-likeness, arguing it's about emulating Jesus rather than avoiding vices.
In Knowing God With Heart and Mind's “When God is Silent,” Job 9 frames the fear of approaching an all-powerful God.
The sermon on Job chapter 3 opens by observing that people greet each other with 'How are you doing?' but often hide real sorrow, fearing it signals weakness or lack of faith.
This episode introduces a six-week series exploring the Holy Spirit as a familiar stranger, using Tyler Staton's book 'The Familiar Stranger' as a guide during the Eastertide season leading to Pentecost.
This episode features a reading from Matthew chapter 21 about Jesus' entry into Jerusalem on a donkey, fulfilling prophecy and being hailed as king by the crowds.
This episode analyzes a Palm Sunday sermon from 2026 to explore the psychological mechanisms behind how crowds can rapidly shift from adoration to violent rejection, using cognitive dissonance and historical context as frameworks.
This episode introduces a Lenten series on the teachings of desert fathers and mothers, focusing on humility and connecting with a global prayer movement.
Pastor Dan Sinkhorn concludes a series on Frank Viola's book 'Insurgents', focusing on the gospel of the kingdom and Jesus Christ as king now.
Knowing God With Heart and Mind's "Wisdom in the Desert: The Foolish Way of Wisdom" argues that students can know the perfect body and still miss the perfect soul.
Pastor Dan Sinkhorn and Adrian Tarullo center kingdom advancement on overflow from lives aligned with Christ.
The episode opens with Lectio 365 and the 24-7 prayer movement.
Pastor Dan Sinkhorn and Adrienne Tarullo open by asking how surrender to Christ can actually lead to freedom.
The episode opens with the host introducing Tim Bolton.