Thinking Out Loud with Walt McFadden
104 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago -Walt McFadden, Pastor of Cityview Church in Minneapolis, is a no-nonsense kind of guy who takes no prisoners when it comes to the Truth. Pastor Walt likes to ‘Think Out Loud’ about the Bible and how it can impact a community through the proper application of Spiritual Principles. You will find an honest response to some of the most difficult questions facing Christians today.
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Ordination
October 29, 2021 19:38 - 24 minutes - 11 MBPastor Walt asks what qualifies you for ministry? He explains what the ordination of leadership in the church means. He tells us that leaders in the church must be the right kind of leader. One who is humble, and acknowledges that even their accomplishments are by God’s grace. Honest humility means you don’t placate, you confront issues head-on. You are meek, but meekness means peace through strength. You are peaceful, but at the same time you have strength to confront the issues that need t...
Servanthood
October 29, 2021 18:48 - 23 minutes - 10.8 MBIn this Thinking Out Loud episode, Pastor Walt McFadden tells us what servanthood really is and why we are called to be servants. In our society, servanthood is counter-cultural. So, how should church leaders address this issue? Pastor Walt says directly and bluntly. Servanthood is what the church is all about, and servanthood should be expected and honored. We should ask God to make us His servants. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church
Respect
October 29, 2021 13:00 - 24 minutes - 11.2 MBIn this Thinking Out Loud episode, Brandon Porter talks about respect. Respect for your elders. Respect for older people. Brandon is a young man who didn’t want to be a pastor, but he answered the call. Brandon shares that we can learn and gain knowledge from older people. Brandon tells us that you can know something and not believe it and your behavior won’t change, but when you know something and believe it you have to act in accordance with your belief. Listen in as Brandon shares what it...
Flee, Endure, and Fight
October 01, 2021 14:16 - 23 minutes - 10.9 MBIn this Thinking Out Loud episode, Riley Carpenter talks about fleeing the things that are evil, enduring in the things that matter, and fighting for the things that will last. Listen in as Riley shares on how we are to flee evil things, how we are to endure for the things that matter, and how we are to fight for the things that last. You'll be surprised on the hows and the whys Christians are to flee, endure, and fight! Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church
Reputation
September 24, 2021 13:00 - 28 minutes - 13.1 MBPastor Walt thinks out loud about the reputation of leaders in the church. Reputation is about being upright and good, and leadership in the church is based on the leader’s reputation. But what about the leader who is on the wrong side of an issue? How do they preserve and maintain their reputation? How do they save face coming out of the wrong side of an issue? Pastor Walt explains that such a leader needs to humble themselves and ask for forgiveness. They need to pray for humility and ask ...
Leadership
September 17, 2021 14:00 - 24 minutes - 11.3 MBPastor Walt thinks out loud about Leadership in the church. Often, pastors are asked how they are going to grow the church … that’s the wrong question, that’s not the Kingdom plan. Christ gave us apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, and evangelists to equip the saints for the working of the ministry and the building up of the church. We are all in the process of building … the plan is quality not quantity. When we deviate from evangelism and discipleship, we need to investigate the unhealt...
Sexuality
September 17, 2021 13:00 - 19 minutes - 8.97 MBIn this Thinking Out Loud episode, Pastor Walt thinks out loud about a topic many Christians feel is taboo. But, Pastor Walt helps us understand that sexuality in a marriage is based on truth, trust, intimacy, and romance. He helps us understand that in order to have healthy sexuality in our marriage, we are to start with truth, truthy, intimacy, and romance. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church
Male vs Female
September 03, 2021 13:00 - 26 minutes - 12.3 MBSome say there aren’t any differences between men and women. Some say there are. In this Thinking Out Loud episode, Pastor Walt tells us there are! He tells us the issues that men have and the issues that women have … and the differences between their issues. He tells us that both should love and respect each other. You’ll be surprised at how men want to be loved and respected and at how women want to be loved and respected. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church
Abusive Men
August 27, 2021 13:00 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBPastor Walt thinks out loud and talks about abusive men. He shares with us that there is no Scripture that allows for the abuse of men over women. Christian men should never be abusive. He tells us that men should pray with their hands lifted … this is a posture of openness and humility. Anger and quarrelsomeness are traits of abusive men, and the Christian man who holds these traits needs to seek God’s guidance and ask for help to overcome these traits. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Chur...
Mission
August 21, 2021 15:34 - 23 minutes - 10.7 MBWhat is the mission of the church? The mission of the church needs to be clear. In this Thinking Out Loud episode, Pastor Walt explains that the mission of the church is to deliver people out of the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom of light. People are in captivity to Satan and he rules and reigns over them. We are Representatives of the Kingdom of God. We are Ambassadors of God going into a foreign country ruled by Satan. Our mission is to tell the Good News so people can walk in fr...
Identity
August 21, 2021 15:31 - 25 minutes - 11.9 MBIn this Thinking Out Loud episode, Pastor Walt explains that the church has lost its identity. We’re lacking in faith and lacking in courage. We’re not proactive, we’re reactive. We react to the culture. The culture expects us to react and so rather than pray about it, we just react. So, what’s the identity of a disciple? Listen in as Pastor Walt helps us understand what the identity of a disciple is. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church
Carrying Out the Ministry
August 21, 2021 15:28 - 19 minutes - 9.1 MBDon't let anyone look down on you because you are young but set an example for the believers, in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity. ~1 Timothy 4:12 Kenneth Granados, who has been a guest speaker at Cityview Church, is a young man who is going forth changing our nation, our world, and our church. Kenneth shares with us that older saints have the wisdom and experience of the ministry and how to carry out the ministry. While younger saints are full of passion and they have t...
Intercession
August 21, 2021 15:25 - 21 minutes - 9.97 MBIntercession. What’s that? Pastor Walt thinks out loud and helps us understand that interceding in prayer is a lost art. We seldom pray together as a congregation. So, how do we pray? The Word teaches us how to pray. We pray according to what Scriptures tell us. The Word tells us to be vocal, to stand up, and to speak our voice out loud to the Lord. Praying together as a powerful group invokes the Holy Spirit and involves taking hold of God’s will and refusing to let go until His will comes ...
Fighting for Faith
August 21, 2021 15:22 - 23 minutes - 10.7 MBThere is treason in the church … church people are fighting for the causes of the enemy. Does fighting seem right with the Christian mentality? In this episode, Pastor Walt thinks out loud on Fighting for Faith. Scripture is full of stories of fighting. We are in a war … a war of ideas and a war of truth. It’s not a physical fight … it’s a spiritual fight. We are in a spiritual fight between good and evil. We’re not taking people captive … we’re taking ideas against Christian values captive....
Trustworthy
August 21, 2021 15:19 - 24 minutes - 11.4 MBIn this episode, Pastor Walt thinks out loud about trustworthy leadership. Trustworthy means deserving of trust or confidence, dependable, and reliable. The leadership in the church must be trustworthy. Trusted that they will focus on bringing order to the church. Some people want answers to the controversial issues of the day, and that’s all well and good, however, we must be able to trust our leadership that they will bring us back to the Gospel. We must be able to trust our leadership tha...
Myths
August 21, 2021 15:16 - 23 minutes - 10.7 MBSo, what’s a myth? It’s a widely held but false belief or idea, an invented story, idea, or concept, an unproved or false collective belief that is used to justify a social institution. Pastor Walt thinks out loud on pastors who preach speculation as if it were truth. Some young pastors react to the social issues of the day, and their response is not always the right response. They try and placate the people … to sooth and appease. Pastors are not in the pulpit to sooth and appease … they ar...
My Child
August 21, 2021 15:14 - 21 minutes - 9.94 MBPastor Walt talks about the Apostle Paul having many disciples, but he only calls Timothy and Titus, my child. So, what did the Apostle Paul see in Timothy and Titus? He saw faithfulness, character, love for the Lord, and the capability to carry the torch to the next generation. The church has faltered in this area … we haven’t done a proper job in preparing for the future. We have only entertained our young people and not trained them to carry the torch. We need to give them depth, and chal...
Grace
August 21, 2021 15:11 - 22 minutes - 10.5 MBIn this Thinking Out Loud episode, Pastor Walt shares about grace. The Apostle Paul offered grace and peace to all the churches. Most people don’t understand what grace really is. We are freely given grace by God, and we are to freely give grace to others. A lot of Christians are not forgiving people, not accepting people, and there’s always an enemy out there. But we are to grow in the knowledge and grace of Jesus. We are to practice what we preach. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church
Spiritual Gifts
August 21, 2021 15:09 - 22 minutes - 10.3 MBPastor Walt thinks out loud about the spiritual gifts. There are those who believe the spiritual gifts ceased with the Apostles, but we believe that the gifts of the Holy Spirit continue to this day. The Bible teaches about the gifts of the Holy Spirit and about the operation of the gifts. Each believer has been given a gift or gifts from the Holy Spirit, and we are to pursue our spiritual gifts. The gifts are an outward demonstration of the work of the Holy Spirit. Visit Walt McFadden at C...
Investing in Our Youth
August 21, 2021 15:06 - 22 minutes - 10.5 MBIn this episode, Pastor Walt thinks out loud on the topic of investing in our youth. There is a transfer of power and authority from one generation to the next generation in the church. The church needs to invest in its youth so they are equipped to take over and spread the Gospel. Pastors need to mentor young people to become leaders in the church. The absence of an effective spiritual leader means that young men and young women don’t learn how to be Godly men and Godly women. Investing in ...
Culture
August 21, 2021 15:04 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBPastor Walt thinks out loud on the topic of culture and politics. Some Christians hold their loyalties to government … not to God. The church should be separate from politics, but now there is such a mingling together of church and state that we can’t seem to bring the Gospel outside of our political ideologies. The church is caving to the social pressure to conform to the ideologies or the current generation, and the church needs to open its eyes to the danger of doing this. Our job is to ...
What’s Going on Now?
August 21, 2021 14:38 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBPastor Walt thinks out loud and asks what’s going on now? The world has changed and is changing right in front of our eyes. Every time period has its changes, but with technology and social media something is different now. The stage is being set for the possible return of Our Lord in our lifetime. God will use nations to set the stage, and God is using America to set the stage. Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church
The Lost Art of Shepherding
August 21, 2021 14:36 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBIn this episode, Pastor Walt thinks out loud on the lost art of shepherding a congregation. What does shepherding a congregation really mean? We usually think of the leader of the church as being the shepherd, but we’re going to see more shepherds … not just one. God is taking things back to the grass roots, back to the common, ordinary folks in the church. The shepherd is with the sheep, but some pastors want to be away from the sheep, protected from the sheep. So, who is actually shepher...
Cultural Perspective
August 21, 2021 14:33 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBPastor Walt thinks out loud and talks about the cultural perspective. Culture see the church as an organization that is out of touch with the reality of the 21st Century. There are elements in our society that are eradicating the church’s history and even trying to eradicate the church itself. So, why is God allowing this? We reap what we sow, and judgement is on our nation. The idols of Americans … politics, sports, and Hollywood negatively affect the culture. The church is ineffective in s...
No Compromise
August 21, 2021 14:29 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBPastor Walt tells the story of a fast-food chain that was put under pressure by the gay community … they caved and compromised and bowed to their demands. Compromise is an enemy of the church and Christian values. Lot asked for the Plains … Abraham asked for the Mountains. Stick with the Mountains and you’ll do well. The Plains is a trap that starts with simple, little compromises and evolves into stripping you of Christian values. The church has to take a stand against the demands of societ...
Healing
August 21, 2021 14:26 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBIn this episode, Pastor Walt thinks out loud on healing. The topic of healing is often missing in our churches today. Jesus healed people in the Bible, and He still heals people today … right now. Jesus wants to heal His people. Jesus wants to heal the unbelievers as a demonstration that He is real and He exits. Jesus said you have not because you ask not. By His stripes we are healed. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church
Suffering
August 21, 2021 14:24 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBPastor Walt thinks out loud and tells us that suffering is part of life … physical suffering, emotional suffering, spiritual suffering. Suffering is suffering, pain is pain … it’s relative to the person experiencing the suffering. In the middle of the suffering, you can run from God or you can embrace Him. There are times when God will put on you more than you can handle … this is to teach you to trust Him and know that He will give you peace. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church
The Kingdom of God, Obedience
August 21, 2021 14:21 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBIn this final installment of The Kingdom of God Series, Pastor Walt thinks out loud on obedience. Most Christians don’t understand what it means to be obedient to God. Jesus told us to love one another, to follow His teachings, and to obey His commandments. If we love Him, we will obey Him. At the root of our obedience, is our love for Jesus and our desire to follow Him. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church
The Kingdom of God, Pluralism
August 21, 2021 14:19 - 24 minutes - 22.2 MBIn this fourth installment of The Kingdom of God Series, Pastor Walt thinks out loud on pluralism. So, what’s pluralism? Pluralism is a political philosophy that embraces social and political inclusiveness, a belief that there should be diverse and competing centers of power in society. So, how does this fit into the Kingdom of God? The Kingdom of God is the center of power. There should be no other competing powers in our life than the Kingdom of God. We live in a pluralistic society … and ...
The Kingdom of God, Pragmatism
August 21, 2021 14:16 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBIn this third installment of The Kingdom of God Series, Pastor Walt thinks out loud on pragmatism. What does pragmatism have to do with the Kingdom of God? Pragmatism means that I have my own belief system and as long as it works for me it’s practical for me, and that makes it right for me. Nobody has the right to tell me otherwise. This brings chaos to the culture, and it’s creeping into the church. We would not have gay marriage or gender reorientation if it wasn’t for pragmatism. I’m gay ...
The Kingdom of God, Dispelling Darkness
August 21, 2021 14:14 - 24 minutes - 22 MBIn this second installment of The Kingdom of God Series, Pastor Walt thinks out loud on how The Kingdom of God dispels darkness. The rule and reign of God is everywhere. God established the earth as a reflection of His glory. But we live in a fallen state. We have sickness, disease, and poverty … these are evidence that we live in a fallen state. Jesus went against the Pharisees who taught that those who were rich and successful were blessed by God, and those who were sick and poor were curs...
The Kingdom of God, The Kingdom
August 21, 2021 14:11 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MBIn this first installment of The Kingdom of God Series, Pastor Walt thinks out loud on The Kingdom. The Kingdom of God is where ever the rule and reign of God is. Our relationship with God is always our first priority … Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God. Jesus taught us to proclaim The Kingdom of God is at hand. Today, our emphasis is about the church, but if we’re going to carry out the mission of Jesus, our emphasis needs to be about building The Kingdom of God. Visit Walt McFadden at City...
Excommunication
August 21, 2021 14:09 - 25 minutes - 23 MBExcommunication is expulsion from the church. Pastor Walt tells us the story of a church who believes that they do not perform same-sex marriages. This church allowed some actively gay people who were in same-sex marriages to join the church. There were women who met in the church and a staff member performed the marriage ceremony. Although the pastor didn’t perform the marriage ceremony, he condoned the lifestyle … and was excommunicated. Pastor Walt explains that the church has rules and r...
Why Do You Trust False Prophets?
August 21, 2021 13:55 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBIs this Thinking Out Loud episode, Pastor Walt asks is the church today inundated with false prophets? Yes, we have false prophets everywhere. Televangelists on television preaching the prosperity gospel. Social Media moguls shooting off at the mouth with whatever comes into their mind. Then we have the far-left wing of the church who says that anything and everything goes. Listen is as Pastor Walt helps us understand how we can discern who is a false prophet. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityvie...
Fear
August 21, 2021 13:51 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBPastor Walt thinks out loud on the topic of fear. Why are we so scared? We are scared of everything! The Bible says a lot about fear … fear is mentioned 365 times in the Bible. But, the church is acting out of fear. The church is afraid of danger, and wants safety and security. Did Jesus tell us to seek safety and security? No. He told us to seek truth. Some pastors don’t talk about fear because they don’t want to upset the flock … but pastors are to teach the truth. Visit Walt McFadden at...
Obedience
August 21, 2021 13:49 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBPastor Walt thinks out loud and asks why are you so naughty? It’s very difficult to be obedient and obedience is hard. The greatest sin of all is acting independently of God … that’s what disobedience is. The idea of following old, antiquated laws is out of touch in today’s world. So, we disobey God and His laws. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church
God and Money
August 21, 2021 13:47 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBAmerica is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and Americans are wealthier than 99% of the world. So, why are Americans so bad with money? Pastor Walt thinks out loud and asks we have all this wealth, but what are we doing with it? What’s happening with all our giving? Some prosperity gospel preachers live in opulent homes and some even have private jets. Is this what Jesus meant when He said it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich person to ente...
The Hard Questions
August 21, 2021 13:44 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBWhose idea was gay marriage? Whose idea was abortion? These are hard questions that we rarely hear in the church. Pastor Walt thinks out loud and asks who came up with these ideas? Who is the source of these ideas? God? Satan? Pastor Walt helps us understand that most pastors don’t talk about these controversial issues, and what we do and what we don’t do affects how society views the church. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church
The UnChurched
August 21, 2021 13:41 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBSo, what is the unchurched? Very simply … people who don’t go to church. We have failed in the goal to get the unchurched into the church. Why? Because the idea wasn’t to fulfil the mission of Jesus … the goal was just to get people outside of the church to come inside the church. Pastor Walt thinks out loud and tells us the good changes and the not so good changes the church has done to get the unchurched into church. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church
Consumerism
August 21, 2021 13:39 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBWhat is consumerism in the church? Pastor Walt thinks out loud and tells us that the church is stuck in consumerism. We don’t know how to get out of it, and we don’t know how to talk about it. The bigger a church gets, the bigger its ministries need to get. The church is catering to people rather than getting people to serve. That’s the problem with the church and consumerism. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church
False Teachers
August 21, 2021 13:36 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBFalse teachers look and sound like Biblical teachers. So, how do we discern who is a true teacher and who is a false teacher? We have to look at the fruit of the teacher. Are they building an empire? Are they building their personal resources? Pastor Walt tells us that’s not the role of the shepherd … the shepherd is there to serve the sheep. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church
Cessationism Part Two
August 21, 2021 13:34 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MBPastor Walt continues thinking out loud about Cessationism. The gifts of the Holy Spirt are instrumental to the church maintaining God’s presence. So, why do some people believe the gifts have ceased? They’ve been duped … the enemy has fooled them. God laid out the master plan of grace and how to serve one another. The gifts mean we operate in the power of the Holy Spirt and not our own power Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church
Cessationism Part One
August 21, 2021 13:20 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBCessationism is an awkward word that defines the belief that the New Testament’s miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit ceased with the Apostolic Age. Pastor Walt thinks out loud and discusses that those miraculous gifts are for today, and that He is still speaking to the Church today and operates in those supernatural gifts from the Holy Spirit. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church
Divine Mystery Part Two
August 21, 2021 13:18 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBPastor Walt continues thinking out loud about Divine Mystery. We live in a world where many things cannot be explained, and when we encounter things that cannot be explained we call them a mystery. Mysteries are just that … mysteries. So, why doesn’t God just make everything clear to us? Humans don’t have the capacity to fully understand the nature of God. God did this intentionally … so that we have all of eternity to explore the nature of God. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church
Divine Mystery Part One
August 21, 2021 13:15 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBDivine Mystery is something that faith deals with all the time. Pastor Walt helps us understand that He has made everything beautiful in its time, also He has put eternity into our heart, but we cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. So, God has put it in our hearts to think about eternity and God Himself, but we can’t know all the mysteries of God. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church
Politics
August 21, 2021 13:12 - 27 minutes - 25 MBSome parents taught their children not to talk about two things … religion and politics. Well, in this episode Pastor Walt talks about both. So, how should Christians handle the discussion of politics? We need to do it in a civil manner, with a balanced and Biblical view. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church
Manhood Part Three
August 21, 2021 13:09 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBIn this final installment on the topic of manhood, Pastor Walt speaks boldly and unfiltered. He discusses what toxic masculinity is and how it’s evolved in our culture. Men need to be able to say out loud that they are a man, and this gives them confidence to actually be a man. Every man (and woman) can learn something from listening to this series! Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church
Manhood Part Two
August 21, 2021 13:07 - 26 minutes - 24 MBIn this second installment, Pastor Walt shares that we are in the middle of a war on masculinity and that something ominous is happening to men. He shares what drives him to discuss this issue and his own personal experiences. He explains how and where in the Bible men can learn how to be a man. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church
Manhood Part One
August 21, 2021 13:04 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBIn this three-part series, Pastor Walt thinks out loud on the topic of manhood. This generation is losing the concept of what it means to be a man. Men are being stripped of their God given role to teach their sons how to be a man. Men need to know how to be a man, and the Bible teaches men how to be men. Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church
The Da Vinci Code
August 21, 2021 13:02 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBPastor Walt thinks out loud on the topic of the search for the real Jesus. Some so-called scholars say that the Bible isn’t an actual reflection of Jesus, and the disciple’s teachings of Jesus is an embellished view. So, is the Gospel account of Jesus accurate? Well, listen in and find out! Visit Walt McFadden at Cityview Church