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discipleship

Oct 13, 2026

127 - Chris Vacher on The Long Way To Lead: Why Healthy Leadership Can't Be Rushed

Chris Vacher joins The Sowers Podcast to talk about his new book, The Long Way to Lead, and the central image that shapes the whole book: a maple tree. A tree only grows outward in healthy ways when it's healthy on the inside first — and Chris believes leadership works the same way.

justice

Oct 6, 2026

126 - Apologetics Canada's Troy Lydiate on Race, Adoption, and Being a Faithful Witness

Troy Lydiate — Creative Director at Apologetics Canada, host of The AC Podcast, and recording artist under the name Scribe Music — joins the Sowers Podcast for a conversation that moves from personal testimony to cultural apologetics.

discipleship

Sep 22, 2026

#125 - How One Songwriter Turned the Bible Into Music: Joshua Leventhal on Tapiseri Volume 1

Joshua Leventhal returns to The Sowers to walk track-by-track through Tapiseri: Volume I — his ambitious concept record tracing Scripture from Genesis to the Wilderness. Josh and Matt dig into the theology, the craft, and the stories behind songs like "Blessed," "Cursed," "Vagabond," "Covenant," and "Tribes," exploring how melody, key changes, and lyric choices carry the weight of the biblical narrative.

discipleship

Sep 15, 2026

#124 - The Pastor Behind Kyla's Story: Grace, Truth, and Costly Love

BJ Chursinoff is the pastor of Gospel City Church in Port Coquitlam, where he has served in ministry for over a decade. Alongside his wife Jess, BJ walked closely with Kyla (formerly Brycen) through her journey out of gender transition and into full surrender to Jesus — a story shared in Kyla's own book and in episode 118 of this podcast.

discipleship

Sep 8, 2026

#123 - From Cybersecurity to Kaleo AI: Aidan Britnell on Building Tech for the Great Commission

What if your church could preach the gospel in 200 languages at once — with just a QR code? That's the question 24-year-old Aidan Britnell wanted to answer, which led to the creation and founding of Kaleo AI, a live translation app that takes a church service and delivers it in nearly 200 languages, in real time, straight to a phone.

prayer

Jul 14, 2026

#122 – From Church Growth to City Transformation: Jeremy Putz on Kingdom Collaboration in Edmonton

Discover how Jeremy Putz and Josh Thompson are helping unite churches across Edmonton for Kingdom collaboration and how every church can participate in city transformation through Reach Edmonton's movement.