The Pastor's Office with Travis Carey

Sex, Shame & Scripture: What the World Teaches About Sex vs. What God Actually Says | Ep. 13

Pastor Travis and his wife Madison bring one of the most candid, biblically honest conversations about sex you'll find anywhere — and they're not tiptoeing around it. From hookup culture to the honeymoon suite, from purity culture wounds to what God actually designed sex to be — this episode covers it all.They even address Alex Cooper and Call Her Daddy — one of the most downloaded podcasts in the world built entirely around sexual freedom, one night stands, and living by your feelings. Travis and Maddi break down exactly what that narrative is selling to young women, why the fairy tale ending looks so convincing on the surface, and what the story always leaves out.The world says sex is freedom. There are no consequences. Sow your wild oats — you can always clean it up later. Purity is damaging.God's Word says something completely different.In this episode Travis and Maddie walk through the 4 seasons every marriage moves through — and what the Bible has to say about sex in each one:🔥 The Pursuit Season — How do you honor God physically while your hormones are raging? Why the lines you draw before the wedding show up inside the marriage. And the one question every dating couple should be asking themselves.🔥 The Passion Season — The honeymoon is green light. But what happens when shame, past trauma, comparison, or a history of promiscuity walks into the room with you? Travis and Maddie get personal.🔥 The Pressure Season — Kids. Careers. Exhaustion. The "touched out" feeling every young mom knows. Why the marriage bed is one of the first things to suffer when life gets full — and exactly how to protect it.🔥 The Persevering Season — Aging, hormonal shifts, physical changes and what it looks like for a husband to truly dwell with his wife with understanding decades into marriage.They also get into:— What pornography actually does to the brain — and to a marriage — long before anyone walks down the aisle— The purity culture conversation — where the church caused real damage, where it was right, and how to hold both— What Paul means in 1 Corinthians 7 about the marriage bed — and why withholding is more serious than most couples realize— The monogamy hormone — what science says actually bonds a husband and wife together over decades— Their own story — drug addiction, promiscuity, rebuilding, and making it to their wedding night by the grace of GodThis episode is for you if you're dating and trying to figure out where the lines are. If you walked into marriage carrying shame or trauma. If you're years into marriage and the intimacy has quietly faded. If you grew up in church and purity culture left more wounds than wisdom. If you're a parent trying to figure out how to have this conversation with your kids before the world does.

Islam in America: The Gospel vs. Sharia | The Pastor's Office Ep. 12

Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the United States — and most Americans don't know it. On this episode of The Pastor's Office, Pastor Travis sits down with Pastor Josh Lawrence, Senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel Eldoret and is the founder and president of Great Commission Ministries.Josh shares the story of going to roughly 100 mosques to share the gospel — and the hard-won lesson that changed everything. After his first ten or twelve conversations went nowhere, he realized he'd come armed for debate but had forgotten to actually preach the cross. What happened when he went back is a powerful picture of Romans 1.We also talk through:• The rise of Islam in America and what the 2020 census projections actually show• What Sharia law really means — and why it can't be called a "religion of peace"• The historical chapter of jihad that history textbooks tend to skip• The story of Nabeel Qureshi and "Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus"• Our reaction to recent clips from Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens on Islam• Why apologetics has its place — but the gospel is the only answer that works• A clear gospel presentation for anyone, Muslim, atheist, or seeker, who's listeningIf this episode encouraged you, please like, share, and subscribe so we can keep bringing the gospel to the social media square.

The Bible, the Border, and the State of Maine | The Pastor's Office Ep. 11 (w/ Guest Jon Fetherston)

$1 billion in fraud. A non-verbal child found at a mosque. Maine law enforcement told to "stand down" on Chinese organized crime. What is actually happening in the state of Maine — and what does the Bible say about it?In this episode, Pastor Travis sits down with investigative journalist Jon Fetherston of The Maine Wire — the only Maine news outlet embedded with ICE during Operation Catch of the Day — to unpack the immigration story most of the press won't touch.Together, they distinguish what the Bible actually says about the foreigner, the sojourner, and the nation — drawing the critical line between an immigrant and an invader. They walk through The Maine Wire's investigation into nearly $1 billion in MaineCare fraud, the mystery surrounding Lewiston's Bartlett Street mosque, the political career of Iman Osman, the moment Maine's mayor and a U.S. Senate candidate refused to comment on four shootings in a single day, and the Chinese triad marijuana operations quietly transforming rural Maine.Jon Fetherston is an investigative journalist with The Maine Wire, a longtime public servant and former housing commissioner, and a regular contributor on Fox News. He has spent decades helping immigrant and refugee communities — making his perspective on this conversation uniquely earned.📰 Read The Maine Wire's full reporting: https://www.themainewire.com🎙️ Subscribe for new episodes of The Pastor's Office every week

Charlie Kirk's Vision for TPUSA Faith | The Pastor's Office Ep. 9

On this episode of The Pastor's Office Podcast, Pastor Travis sits down with Chip Moore — National Director of Pastoral Relations at TPUSA Faith — for a conversation about revival, the legacy of Charlie Kirk, and what God is doing through the Make Heaven Crowded Tour as it heads to Portland, Maine.Chip shares the behind-the-scenes story of how the tour was born out of Charlie Kirk's memorial, the unforgettable moments from the first stops at Pastor Greg Laurie's church in Riverside and Pastor Jackson's church in Tennessee, and the personal memories of sitting across the table from Charlie just weeks before his death. From a young woman falling to her knees in a parking lot, to 600 baptisms in a city hall fountain, to Charlie's whispered prayer before every event — "Lord, here I am, use me" — this is a conversation about a movement that nobody saw coming.🔥 MAKE HEAVEN CROWDED TOUR — PORTLAND, MAINE📍 Portland Expo📅 Friday, May 15🕕 6:00 PMFree and open to the public. Bring a friend.

Rock Bottom Looks Different — Theo Von, Testimony & New Life | Pastor's Office Ep. 10

Rock bottom looks different for everyone. Theo Von recently opened his Bible on his podcast, read John 5, and admitted on camera: "I think I want a new story." Pastor Travis and his wife Maddie respond with their own — Maddie's heroin addiction and the gas station tract that found her days before she surrendered to Christ, and Travis's two nights strung out in a van in California before his twin brother brought him home to Maine. They speak honestly about church hurt, identity built around sin, and the listener whose rock bottom doesn't look like a needle or a jail cell — the successful and the comfortable whose emptiness is just as real. The invitation of John 5 is still open: do you want to be healed?