What comes to mind when you think of heaven?

Whether you realize it or not, your view of what is yet to come is shaping the way you live right now.

This week on The Great Stories Podcast, David is joined by Matthew McCullough for a new series called Why Heaven Matters for Today — a conversation about how our future hope is meant to transform our present lives.

All over YouTube and TikTok, people are seen deconstructing their faith—questioning Scripture, redefining the Gospel, and reshaping Christianity to fit the culture. For many families, it’s not just online noise but a personal and painful reality.

This week on The Great Stories Podcast, David Wollen talks with filmmaker Brandon Kimber in an episode titled “Brandon Kimber on Progressive Christianity.” Drawing from his documentary American Gospel: Christ Crucified, Kimber explains what’s at stake in the deconstruction movement and why the Gospel of Christ crucified remains our hope.

Charles Spurgeon is remembered as one of history’s greatest preachers, so influential he was called the Prince of Preachers and more than 130 years after his death, his sermons still strengthen millions. Yet behind his powerful ministry was a man who knew deep sorrow. Spurgeon spoke openly about what he called “melancholy” or “the minister’s fainting fits”—what we would likely call depression today. This week on The Great Stories Podcast, David Wollen revisits an interview with Charles Morris and Zack Eswine in an episode titled “Zack Eswine and the Sorrow of the Prince of Preachers,” where Eswine reflects on Spurgeon’s suffering and the sustaining grace of Christ that met him there, reminding us that even the strongest voices in church history knew weakness, and found their hope in the Savior.