Maybe God Podcast, Houston, TX (2025)

03/05/2025

New podcast episode out now!

What happens when you start questioning the teachings of your church you’ve grown up with? In this conversation, we sit down with to discuss dangerous doctrines to be wary of in the Church, including prosperity gospel, speaking in tongues, words of faith, and the powerful influence of charismatic leaders. Allen shares his own journey of wrestling with these teachings and the fear that comes with challenging them.

This is a conversation you won’t want to miss, click the link in our bio to be one of the first to tune in!

11/28/2024

This Thanksgiving, we’re thanking God for the recent Houston s*x trafficking sting…
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“We gathered 200 law enforcement officers. The operation took place at a specific time and it had to be simultaneous, because these bars are all over north Houston. So we had to get 200 heavily armed law enforcement agents and officers all throughout Houston to hit precisely at the same time. And this is where the God thing comes in.

It’s remarkable to me. The precision that had to happen and the danger of the operation… not just danger to our officers and agents, but danger to the girls. Collateral damage. Gunfire shootouts, you know, you have 200 heavily armed individuals going into nine different bars where there’s also heavily armed individuals. All of the bars have a communication network, so if we hit one early, well.

So we met all of the officers and I spoke to everybody. I asked the police chaplain to pray over everyone and for God to be with this mission. And I said, ‘I’m not trying to preach, I’m not trying to evangelize, but I’m a man of faith and I believe we are bringing the cup of God’s wrath down on these people today.’ And I said, ‘One day you guys will be judged for what you’ve done and you’re participating in a historic mission.’ 84 girls were freed that day.

Here’s the other thing about the prayer — there were armed guys on the inside of the bars and they handed their weapons over without any resistance. Not a shot was fired in any of the locations. What are the chances of that? It doesn’t happen.”

Catch the full firsthand account of sting mastermind Kevin Lilly on Maybe God’s YouTube channel!

11/07/2024

“I had this idea growing up that all the young people I saw in church were forced to go every Sunday. So meeting Gary was revolutionary for me. The way he loved people was different, but he still looked like the average dude on the South Side of Chicago. I’d never seen anything like that. I’d never seen anybody in the urban context who loved Jesus and loved people who still looked like they might go in your pockets and take some stuff, you know what I’m saying? I think that God in His sovereignty knew that I needed that type of representation. I trusted Gary immediately.

I tried to mimic his life for a while. I stopped smoking w**d. I stopped fornicating with women. I was a mini Gary in a lot of ways, but it wasn’t until Gary failed that I became a Christian. Basically, we were at a bank drive-through when a girl flirted with him. And for the first time, I saw Gary, my mentor, flirt back. He ended the conversation abruptly, drove off, and then about 10 minutes later, pulled the car off the road and apologized to me. He was like, ‘I wasn’t being a good example to you. My thoughts were lustful, and what makes me even more convicted is that you were in the car. Can you pray with me?’ I was like wow...the things that he had said weren’t overtly sinful. But he explained to me that the problem was his heart.

When he started to pray, all these thoughts raced in my mind. I was like, yo, I don’t love God like this. I’m not a Christian. It’s like God spoke to me and said, ‘This is what it means to love me.’ I went home, repented in my room, and gave my life to the Lord that day.

You know, there’s a story in the scriptures where Jesus is walking past the river and John the Baptist and his disciples begin to follow Him. They say, ‘Rabbi, where are you staying?’ They weren’t asking because they wanted to see His house. They were saying, ‘Jesus, we want to see how you live.’ And we should do the same: find somebody younger in the faith and invite them into our lives, so that they might be changed.”

Head to our YouTube channel to catch this phenomenal conversation between Maybe God guest host .brierley’s and beloved apologist and author . 📺

10/28/2024

“I sat in a PhD program for five years where white people were negatively talked about. So I know that feeling of ‘Well, you can’t just condemn all white people for this.’ But I will say this: my white skin doesn’t make me inherently evil, but my white skin does immediately align me with a history and a group category that has done a bunch of evil in the name of race. So I want to be careful that I don’t dismiss that too easily.

So let’s just explore that. Is there something that I need to repent of? Is there an attitude or something that’s latently still living inside of me that I need the Spirit of God to excise out of me? These are important questions for someone who’s trying to live by the Spirit in a culture that has been hyper-racialized. It’s been hyper-racialized — meaning that I can’t just cling to my own innocence in the midst of that.

Even though the extreme ways in which race is talked about is wrong, we won’t do the important work if we just right away dismiss it. We have to explore it. And I’ll say that most people I’m around won’t explore it. Most Christian people won’t explore it. And that’s a problem.”

As part of our series on critical race theory, host and scholar Ed Usynski examined the church’s blind spots around race and casted a vision for a more culturally competent and compassionate future. Watch the full conversation on YouTube, or listen wherever you get your podcasts!

10/25/2024

“I can understand people wanting to ‘agree to disagree’ about homos*xuality, but there are two substantial problems with that. One is that Jesus himself and the New Testament authors seem to take s*xual sin exceedingly seriously.

People sometimes think that Jesus kind of loosened up the Old Testament law when it came to all sorts of things, including s*xual sin. But actually, Jesus tightens it up. In a famous scene in the Sermon on the Mount, he says, ‘You’ve heard that it was said, do not commit adultery. I say to you, anyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery in his heart.’ And then he goes on to say, ‘If your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. Because it’s better to enter the kingdom of God without an eye than it is to keep your eyes and to be thrown into hell.’ I mean , it couldn’t be more serious. So I think it’s really important for us to then answer the question: what is and is not s*xual sin?

Now, the reason why I don’t think we can set these questions aside and just ‘focus on the gospel’ is that Christian marriage is actually about the gospel. In the Old Testament, the prophets compare God to a loving, faithful husband and they compare Israel to his unfaithful wife who is cheating on Him with these other idols. And it seems like this marriage between God and His people is in crisis. But time and again, God forgives and draws His people back, only for them to cheat on him again.

And then we see Jesus step onto the stage of human history. And one of the strange claims that he makes is that he is the bridegroom, which is a very odd thing for a man to say. He never got married in his life on earth. So you’re thinking, what is this about? Well, it’s one of the ways Jesus steps into the shoes of the creator God of the Old Testament. He’s saying, ‘I’m the groom, I’m the husband, and I’ve come to claim God’s people for myself.’”

’s conversation with scholar and author goes far beyond the standard LGBT debate, instead focusing on the eternal, gospel-centered purpose of God’s good design. Watch it in full on our YouTube channel!

10/23/2024

“Billy Graham built this institution around him that was intended to prevent certain very common, very basic human flaws. He took that very seriously in ways that not a lot of our institutions do.

You’ve seen this surge of non-denominational churches over the years. And you’ve also seen this push from the church growth movement to strip the denominations of their authority so that the churches can move faster, so that charismatic leaders can quickly move up the chain and have more power. And with the surge in church scandals, I think this is a great moment to go, hey, what did that get us?

Ultimately, it comes down to the question of ends. How are we measuring our success? If success is simply about numbers, if success is simply about the growth of the movement, the sense of excitement, and charisma, then I think we’ve really got to question what we’re doing. Like, how are we preparing people for their encounters with death? How are we preparing the institutions for our own deaths? What’s gonna be here in 30, 40, and 50 years when we’re all returned to ashes?”

Watch Maybe God guest host .brierley’s conversation with podcast host and author on our main YouTube channel, or wherever you get your podcasts!

07/05/2024

“My parents were ideological atheists, as opposed to atheists who just say, ‘I don’t have enough evidence to believe in God.’ No, my parents were ideologically convinced, mostly through Marxism. They were members of the American Communist Party and were committed to the idea that religion is evil. In their minds, Christianity was a tool of oppression by the ruling classes, which is standard Marxist ideology.

I did feel there was something missing in my life, but at the time, I was able to build that gap with science. I began studying science in college and then in graduate school, I went to biochemistry and got my PhD in that. I found that very fulfilling, but the problem was that I ran into conflicts with my worldview. The science that I knew was very materialistic. The idea was that everything is easily explained by a group of equations and there are no mysteries…that there are things we don’t yet know, but we’ll eventually solve them. But when I learned quantum mechanics, and things like the uncertainty principle, I realized that there are things we CAN’T know.

When I started studying how proteins are made, I felt chills going up and down my spine, literally. I just thought, this is unbelievable! How do we have such an incredibly complicated, beautiful system in every cell of our body? I thought it was probably evolution, but still, it raised questions in me. How can we answer all these questions that are coming up from science itself? That did not immediately lead me to believing in God, but it did break down this certainty that science is the answer to everything.”

As a respected research biochemist, Sy Garte was loud and proud about his anti-theistic worldview, until the day that his journey to answer his own pressing questions transformed him into a fully committed Christian. Now, Sy is determined to show others the truth: modern science does NOT contradict Christianity in the slightest – in fact, it supports it. Listen to Sy’s conversation with Maybe God guest host on any podcast platform – OR set an alert to watch it on YouTube TOMORROW, after 9am CST!

07/02/2024

“I was 11 years old when I started feeling lower back pain while playing sports. After a year of going to over a dozen specialty clinics, I was finally diagnosed with an incurable and progressive disease called lymphedema, meaning I have a compromised lymphatic system. When you sprain your ankle and your ankle swells up, that’s an accumulation of lymphatic fluid. This fluid is directly correlated to your immune system. For me, lymphedema has mostly presented in my right leg, so it’s like having a swollen leg that never goes away and is always painful…every single day.

In 2016, I was at rock bottom. I felt alone, and the pain was so severe that I just wanted it to end all together. Desperate for answers, I finally arrived at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where they determined that a knee replacement would be the best first step. Two weeks after that knee replacement, I developed a life threatening blood clot that was by far the worst pain of my life. But it was at that moment that I had one of the most beautiful experiences of my life – I saw the face of Jesus.

He told me that everything was going to be okay and that when I am weak, he is strong. On that same day that I thought I was going to die, I reignited my relationship with Jesus. In the years before, I had blamed God for my health and my failed relationships. But when you experience the Holy Spirit giving you relief of not only physical pain, but spiritual pain, you realize that that’s who you should be living for.

About a year after my total knee replacement, I could barely bend my right leg. It was clear that there was something wrong with the hardware. So in my mind, I could go the revision route, which would be three additional surgeries that would not necessarily resolve the issue, or I could do something a bit more radical: elective amputation.”

Our new documentary following ’s elective amputation is a POWERFUL testament to what God can do with our pain. You’ll witness Cam’s pre-surgery thought process, healing journey, and even a few of his reflections 👀 Watch it at any time on our main YouTube channel!

06/09/2024

“By the end of my college experience, I was burnt out on alcohol. I was really burnt out on that. I didn't necessarily have any moral boundaries or limitations… I was just more or less open to anything. So when my friend said he had psilocybin mushrooms, I thought, well, why not? And after that first psilocybin experience, I certainly wanted more.

Six months to a year after that first psilocybin trip, I had my first L*D trip. And that was actually not a fun experience at all. It was devastating in many ways. It was…gosh, how can I describe it? It was existentially and spiritually shattering. I remember thinking, ‘I don't know if I'll ever do that again.’ And then it was two weeks later that I was starting to call around and look for L*D.

I got to the point where I was doing it by myself at least once, if not twice a week. I became increasingly disconnected with reality and the world around me. When I look back on my writings from that time, which are strange to read, [I see that] I was being spurred on by something. Looking back now, I think it was a spirit or a demon.

On the one hand, I see the winding path that God took me through. Psychedelics were the first step on my journey from becoming a crusty atheist at the age of 21 to being open to the idea of the transcendent realm, to the idea of spirituality. The irony was that I became open to anything except for Christianity. But I look at that now through the lens of Romans 8:28: ‘And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.’”

How did artist Ashley Lande eventually find her way to faith in Christ? Catch her full interview with Maybe God guest host Justin Brierley on our YouTube channel, or listen in on your favorite podcast platform!

04/28/2024

As you'll hear on our latest episode (featuring guest host
Justin Brierley), the very illness that aimed to end
Tammy M. Peterson's life led to a surprising new faith in God. So, what catalyzed this conversion? And is Jordan next? Catch the full interview on YouTube!

03/12/2024

’s appearance at Sunday SVC at SXSW was a hit! This past Saturday, members of our crew and cast joined other justice-minded creatives for a thoughtful conversation on the purpose and future of our cinematic work. Included on the panel were a number of filmmakers, including and director Alejandro Gómez Monteverde. What a treat! 🎬🍿

03/07/2024

BIG NEWS: The team is headed to South by Southwest () to join ’s “Film: Justice in Motion” panel. The panel will be held this Saturday (3/9) at 5pm CST. We are SO honored to be featured and it could only get better if we were joined by some of you! So if you’re within driving distance, scratch your weekend plans and join us for this FREE event — find all details at the link in our bio 🎬📽️

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