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Each week, Ralph Martin, President of Renewal Ministries, co-host Peter Herbeck, and their guests, lead viewers on an exploration of important and inspiring topics surrounding faith, and life in the Catholic Church.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Guest conversations make Catholic discipleship concrete through family formation, shared prayer, and everyday evangelization.
Renewal Ministries: "The Choices We Face" treats Catholic belief as a series of consequential decisions. Ralph Martin and Peter Herbeck move between direct teaching and guest conversation, connecting doctrine with family life, repentance, salvation, and public witness.
Church holidays meet the family calendar, and suddenly your routines have eternal stakes.
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A faith-shaped discussion of motherhood, cultural pressure, and the mentors who help women grow.
The episode looks at marriage, motherhood, work, childrearing, and the question of how to live under God's word amid cultural pressure. It begins with a firm warning about confusion in the surrounding culture, then moves into Noelle Mearing's story of learning motherhood by…
A practical Catholic conversation on evangelization as shared, persistent witness.
The Choices We Face frames evangelization as a public and personal choice, rooted in knowing, believing, and following God's word. Peter Herbeck's conversation with Ikenna Njoku gives that theme a grounded shape as Njoku reflects on door-to-door outreach, an encounter with a…
A direct meditation on judgment, mercy, and the choices that shape Christian discipleship.
Judgment is framed as a doctrine that bears directly on ordinary choices and daily responsibility. The host begins with a clash between the gospel and the anti-gospel, then brings in Peter Herbeck, author of Does God Judge?, for a plainspoken discussion of biblical warnings…
A grounded family conversation links marriage, parenting, and daily choices to Christian mission.
Renewal Ministries: The Choices We Face begins with cultural conflict, then brings the question closer to home: the daily choices that form a Christian life in marriage, parenting, work, time, talent, and treasure.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Peter Herbeck and Ikenna Njoku discuss "The Choices We Face" through daily prayer, evangelism, and the question of whether people will "have life and have it to the full." Ikenna, a Nigerian Catholic and PhD student in neuroscience at the University of Michigan, explains how his parents raised four children with morning worship, clapping, and shared prayer.
Noelle Mearing links the "Theology of Home" to a cultural pushback against movies, TV, magazines, and women’s lifestyle media.
Peter Herbeck hosts Albert Fada, a father of eight and former automotive executive now working with Acts 29 Mobilizing for Mission.
Ralph Martin and Peter Herbeck discuss the biblical and Catholic teaching on God's judgment, prompted by Herbeck's booklet 'Does God Judge?'.
Ralph Martin discusses the cultural conflict between gospel and anti-gospel, urging listeners to choose God's Word for a full life.
Peter Herbeck interviews Molly McCormick about her faith journey and the Be Love Revolution ministry for young women, emphasizing the need to choose God's Word amid cultural conflict.
A Catholic talk show discussing the importance of choosing faith and facing the final judgment.
Ralph Martin and Peter Herbeck discuss the cultural conflict between the gospel and anti-gospel, urging listeners to make faithful choices.