Spy novels, spy shows, spy movies, basically anything with spies involved is immediately cool. That truth proves itself again with Ryan Defrates: Secret Agent, a new animated show produced by American Family Studios.

Writer Kendra White and producer Robert Fernandez (of Cat in the Mill Studios) join Wesley and TJ in studio to talk about the new show.

Wesley and TJ (and even Jeremy) shared so much wisdom in the last episode they had to share it with someone. So they talked to Skyler Gleue, an 18-year-old contributor to Engage and soon-to-be-husband.

They discuss the purpose of marriage and Skyler shares some of the challenges he has been presented with for deciding to marry before his 20s.

Resources discusses in the podcast:

Defending Young Marriage (Part 1)

Defending Young Marriage (Part 2)

Sanctification of Marriage

Wesley and TJ have been married to their wives for a few years now. They reminisce about some of the best advice they received before their wedding day, and consider what they would tell their past selves if they had a time machine and could travel back to the day before their weddings.

For further reading:

Family Worship by Donald Whitney

Marriage as God Intended

Why Marriage Matters for Single Christians

Overcoming Common Obstacles in Early Marriage

For further listening:

Ep. 1 Sharing the Gospel in Marriage

Ep. 2 Applying the Gospel in Marriage

Ep. 34 Heart of Marriage Week

How we view the world and our responsibility to take care of it is a worldview issue. Wesley and TJ insult hippies and talk about how we as Christian can approach Earth Day in light of the truth of the gospel.

Also, TJ can't think of the word inconvenienced. Seriously, he spends a full five minutes trying to come up with it. It was a horrible experience for him.

For further reading:

God's Good Earth

The Christian Responsibility to Care for Creation

Happy Earth Day! Some people view Earth Day as a pagan day of worshiping the created (and it can be); while others view it is a day to celebrate God's creation (and it can be that too).

It is a matter of worldview. And to help Wesley and TJ sort through it all, Dr. Georgia Purdom with Answers in Genesis join the program.

Can Earth Day, climate change, and talk of polar bears be depoliticized? Somehow they manage to do it.

In this episode, Wesley and Jordan continue to discuss the uniqueness of Christ with guest Cecil Price, as well as how to celebrate Easter in a way that honors Christ.

In this episode, Wesley and Jordan are joined by pastor and author Cecil Price to discuss his book The Unique One: 18 Distinctives of Jesus Christ.

In this episode, TJ, Wesley, and Alex McFarland continue their discussion on how Christians can relate and witness to the growing number of non-religious in America.

In this episode, TJ and Wesley are joined by Alex McFarland to talk about the rise of the “nones” – those who identify as non-religious – and how Christians can be witness to these individuals.

In an episode that is supposed to discuss success, the podcast team experienced lots of setbacks. Wesley and Jordan are still out and our guest had to reschedule. But Jeremy and TJ took it all in stride and continued discussing the differences between the world's definition of success and God's definition.

Jeremy recently read Singing in the Fire by Faith Cooke, a great little book about Christians enduring setbacks, failures, and martyrdom. One such person was Alen Gardiner, a missionary whose life was filled with trial and misfortune. He and his team sailed to Tierra del Fuego, an archipelago off the southernmost tip of South America. When they landed, two small boats sunk. Resupply ships were delayed and then canceled. As his team died from hunger, cold, or scurvy, Gardiner never lost his faith in the Christ who sent him there.

Another story is Dr. William Leslie. He felt called to the Congo in the 1920s and spent 17 years evangelizing and telling people about Jesus. During his ministry he had only one convert. He came back to America and died nine years later. In 2010, about 80 years after he left the Congo, a group went back into the area. The group found a 1,000-seat cathedral and a network of smaller, connected churches. The group was able to trace this massive Christian movement to Dr. William Leslie who died believing himself to be a failure.

Remember that you are not called to success but only to faithfulness. The results are not up to you, they are up to God.

How do you define success? Don't use this episode as your standard for success. Wesley is out because he doesn't feel well; Jordan is out because of his newborn baby. But Jeremy and TJ give it their best shot.

Today's focus is how God defines success versus how the world defines it. The world looks to Bill Gates who was recently named the richest man in the world (or richest world in the man if you listen to TJ). He is a man who built a business from nothing to a global enterprise. He is the epitome of success and is using his wealth to accomplish some wonderful things.

But when we look for examples of success in Scripture, we can look to Noah, a man who did not convince anyone to join him on the boat; John the Baptist, who died speaking out against Herod but did not see him come to repentance; or Jesus who was betrayed by one of His closest friends.

Much like this episode, we must learn to do the preparation, put in the work, but trust God with the results. The next episodes we leave biblical examples and look to men and women who spent their lives working for the kingdom of God and would be considered failures by the world standard, but were definitely successful in God's view.

Wesley and TJ spent the previous episode listing some of their favorite apps, YouTube channels, and other resources for studying and understanding Scripture. In this episode, they focus on their favorite: Logos.

But they don't talk about it alone. Scott Lindsey, father to Autumn Lindsey who previously came on the show, is the Ministry Relations Director for Logos. Scott helps the guys discuss some of the benefits to using the Logos software while Wesley and Teddy talk about why it is their go-to resource.

If you want to try out Logos for free, click here and get started. You will not regret it, that is a guarantee from Wesley and Teddy both.

But if you don't really want to use the software, Logos has much more to offer. They have an online Bible, a physical magazine you can subscribe to, and much more. Be sure to look around the Logos website and see everything they have to offer.

A few weeks ago we talked some practical practices to building a biblical worldview. We received so many responses to that program we decided to make another show talking about resources we use on a regular basis to help us study Scripture. These are apps or computer programs we use on a regular basis. And none of us have a ton of money to spend so most of these resources are free.

Online video resources:

Liberty University classes online.

Dallas Theological Seminary "Study the Bible Like a Seminary Professor"

Downline Discipleship Ministry

Engage YouTube Channel

The Bible Project

C.S. Lewis Doodle

Look at the Book

Audio resources:

Christian Audio (free audio book every month)

Sermon Audio

Martin Lloyd-Jones Trust (Android and iOS app)

Online Resources:

Got Questions (Android and iOS app)

Google Calendar

Kindle app (Android and iOS app) (Here is a large list of free Christian ebooks)

Logos (If you want to hear why it is such an awesome program/app, listen to the next episode.)

There are some negative side effects of the social media culture we have created. But there are also some great positives to it. One of those positives is when someone creates a presentation of the truths of Scripture and it goes viral.

Wesley and Teddy talk to Autumn Lindsey who created a video in response to an article on Teen Vogue. The article made a joke out of abortion and Autumn decided the world needed to know just how wrong it was.

Her video (which can be seen here) has over 1,000,000 views without the help of click bait or sensationalism. It has gone viral because it is simple, it is true, and it is needed.

Autumn also talks with Wesley and Teddy about how Christians can use social media for good and how you can learn to get involved in the fight for life.

There are some legitimate negative consequences of living online. That is why some of our Engage team have had a live a life completely void of social media. But there are also some great and positive results of living an online life. We have access to old friends, new friends, resources, and ideas we would miss out on if we did not use social media at all.

Using social media we can gain exposure to ideas, arguments, and concepts completely foreign to our natural way of thinking, and that is a good thing. We may not agree with them, but it gives us an opportunity to engage with them and defend our faith, or defending ideas we see in Scripture.

Wesley and Teddy talk about some of the great to benefits to having a social media life, only one of which being that you can connect with us at Engage through our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram platforms, not to mention connecting with us personally through Wesley's Instagram, or Teddy's (though don't expect much from him, he isn't cool enough to use it often).

It is easy to fall into the trap of trusting a movie studio to entertain your kids and not challenge the worldview you are trying to teach them. Most of the time you sit down with your kids to watch a film and expect it to entertain, not indoctrinate. But too many studios are doing just that is often subtle ways.

Wesley and Teddy invite One Million Moms director Monica Cole into the studio to talk about the latest kerfuffle with Disney's latest live action film and how the modern entertainment industry is doing much more than trying to tell entertaining stories on a child's level.

What is the discerning parent to do? The trio discusses some of the great resources they use including Plugged In, the AFA Journal, Movie Guide, and IMDB. They also talk about some of the great films available at the AFA online store.

Look for the "bear necessities of life" while trying to "let it go" as you "whistle while you work." Kids' movies, including The Jungle Book, Frozen, and Snow White, have some great and memorable songs.

There is a balance to be sought between letting our kids watch movies they want to see and watching movies that don't drive us parents insane. Frozen may be good, but watching it for the 10th time this week is worse than getting a magical ice spike to the heart. (See what I did there?)

Wesley and Teddy talk about what they do to entertain their young children in a way that also engages them. Sometimes that means an animated film with a catchy tune, other times it means a historical documentary. In all things it means quality family time.

Your worldview, whether it is biblical or not, was not built overnight. It has taken every day of your life to develop your belief system. So building, or strengthening, a biblical worldview is going to take time as well.

But what practices can we put in place to build a biblical worldview? What daily habits can we incorporate into our lives that will help us see the world through a gospel lens? Jordan, Jeremy, and Teddy discuss how they are pursuing the development of their worldview and making them conform to the truths of Scripture.

You can't build a biblical worldview if you can't identify what a worldview is. Teddy and Jordan invite George Barna with American Culture and Faith Institute. The ACFI has recently released the largest study of its kind dealing with how American Adults see God, the Bible, and the world around them.

You can take a look at the survey here. But one finding of the study that struck the Engage podcast team was that the younger a person is, the less likely they are to have a biblical worldview. Why is that? What causes Millennials to have a statistically significant weaker biblical worldview than older Christians? Listen to hear George Barna's insights.

After just wrapping up a discussion on a new movie Pilgrim's Progress, Wesley and TJ pull in Jordan and Jeremy to discuss the importance of reading older books.

One reason we don't really like reading old books is because we don't know what old books are out there to read. But let's face it, when we pick up a book written 100 years ago or more they are difficult to read. Jeremy has a great help to that in A Christian's Guide to the Classics by Leland Ryken.

But the team doesn't just focus on why reading old books are hard, although they do spend some time discussing why they are, but they also dig deep into how we can find time to read, and just how countercultural the act of reading is.