
Pod Have Mercy
Hosted by John and Matt and John Stephens and Matt Russell · John Stephens/Matt Russell
4.8from 53 ratings
- 248
- Episodes
- 22
- Transcribed
- 53
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Pod Have Mercy
Tune in every week for a lively conversation with Chapelwood's Senior Pastor, John Stephens and Executive Pastor, Matt Russell as they "go deep" on how today's church has changed and what the church will look like in the future!
- Publisher
- John Stephens/Matt Russell
- Category
- religion & spirituality
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 20 Feb 2020
- Latest episode
- 16 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
22 of 248 episodes have a transcript.

16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 246: Faith, Politics, and Purpose

9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 245: Matt Rawle | Rethinking Church, Innovation, and the Courage to Fail

2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 244: A Conversation with Zach W. Lambert
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Episode 246: Faith, Politics, and Purpose
Published 16 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Bud break comes. Well, now what happens if a frost comes? It's a very sensitive, delicate part of the plant. You have to do everything you can to protect that new growth, the new thing. And then, you know, it grows into new plant, new green shoots, and then there's flowering and fluorescence, and then there's ripening, and then there's, you know, the fullness of ripening and harvest, and then you return back to dormancy. And so, like, the first idea of if you go through the vineyard in wintertime... it would look like everything is dead. It looks like out of a horror movie, you know, these gnarled trunks coming up out of the ground and these canes with no green, no nothing, maybe snow on the ground or bare ground. […]
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- Matt Rawle
- Zach W Lambert
- Magrey deVega
- Lovett H Weems
- Tom Berlin
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 42 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 11 ratings
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Who hosts Pod Have Mercy?
John and Matt and John Stephens and Matt Russell host the show. Published by John Stephens/Matt Russell.
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