In this podcast, Brock and Connie explore some of the core elements of leadership, as Brock describes how he first encountered a series of leadership groups that changed an entire church. We’ll touch on the essence of leadership: empowering others — and we’ll talk about the value of humility, human limits, listening, and vulnerability.
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In this podcast, Brock and Connie explore some of the core elements of leadership, as Brock describes how he first encountered a series of leadership groups that changed an entire church. We’ll touch on the essence of leadership: empowering others — and we’ll talk about the value of humility, human limits, listening, and vulnerability.
In this podcast, Brock and Connie explore some of the core elements of leadership, as Brock describes how he first encountered a series of leadership groups that changed an entire church. We’ll touch on the essence of leadership: empowering others — and we’ll talk about the value of humility, human limits, listening, and vulnerability.
In this podcast, Brock and Connie explore the life of Teresa of Avila, a reformer and a contemplative. Even though she lived 500 years ago, her writings have mentored many people (including Brock) in how prayer can bring them closer to God.
When you open your Bible, we’d love to have you ask, “I wonder if there’s more than I’ve been getting from my normal reading.” Because there always is. In this podcast, Brock and Connie talk about some of the discoveries and questions that have been arising from the Biblical Studies course. The first is about application.
Sometimes we take the ancient view when we look at God's work in history. And sometimes we look at the Holy Spirit's activity in more recent events. In the 1960s and 70s in the U.S., God intervened to reach and rescue a generation. Today, we call them the Jesus People.
In this All Saints podcast, Connie and Brock talk with Brad Kilman, the worship pastor at Our Lord’s Community Church. Brad has been leading worship for more than 20 years, ever since he encountered God as a teenager. In the conversation together, we explore the risk and mystery of worship — and talk about what Brad would say to a roomful of young worship leaders.
In this podcast, we continue our conversation about the prophetic. As we talked about before, God’s communication is central to life with Him. But what is the actual process of hearing Him like? We’ll talk about what we can do to prepare ourselves to hear God and what it’s like to hear Him — and also how we can discern.
In this podcast, we talk about the spiritual gift of prophecy — the kind described in 1 Corinthians 14 where Christians “speak to other people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation” (verse 3). Wayne Grudem defined prophecy this way: “Telling something that God has spontaneously brought to mind.”
Prophecy is based on who God is: One who speaks and communicates, whose written word begins and ends with His speech. First and foremost, this is a call for us to cultivate friendship with God, to relate and listen to Him, and to saturate ourselves with His words in Scripture.
“The Philoka …what?” That’s what many people might say when they hear the word philokalia. It’s a Greek word that means “love of the beautiful or good.” The Philokalia is a collection of writings from within the Orthodox tradition written from the 4th to the 15th centuries by 35 different monastic authors. You could call these their “best of” spiritual classics. They instruct people on prayer and the life of Jesus — and are surprisingly applicable to our modern world.
Because the celebration of Pentecost is coming soon,* we wanted to take space to invite God to bring “Pentecost” into our lives. When we pay attention to special days like Pentecost, not only do we remind ourselves of what God has done in sending His Spirit, we remind ourselves that the Spirit’s coming on Pentecost is not merely history, it is a practical and present reality in our daily lives.
As we saw in our previous podcast, Christian spirituality is quite different from a vague, generic spirituality. When we talk about spirituality, we mean “life in the Holy Spirit.” In this All Saints conversation, we’re going to learn about spirituality from two people from our Christian heritage: Jeanne Guyon and John Cassian. Though from different countries and different eras, they both have something to teach us about a life lived with the Holy Spirit.
Spirituality can be a fuzzy word — it’s used in all manner of ways in our culture today. But when we talk about spirituality in All Saints, we’re going to the heart of the term: the practices and experience of Christian life with the Holy Spirit.
In this podcast, we continue talking about Church History, with the aid of thoughts from Justo Gonzales, author of The Story of Christianity.
It’s when we discover the past that, as Justo Gonzales says, we begin to recognize the lenses through which we see Scripture and Christianity. Even Christians who may feel they don’t have much to do with the past often learn that the modern movement they are in is a response or reaction to things of the past.
History is not only human history or church history — it’s the story of God Himself. If you’re going to study the work of God, you can’t avoid history, because God enters into human history, from start to finish.
“There is something healthily dangerous about reading the Bible.” That’s what we’re going to talk about in this All Saints conversation as we explore how we approach Scripture. Because our first All Saints course, beginning August 20, will be Biblical Studies, we want to talk about how we approach the Bible. We’ll deal with what Scripture is, what we can expect when we open the Bible, some pitfalls we can find ourselves in — and how an experience of God comes to us through His written Word.
The Bible isn’t merely a textbook to be studied or a useful life manual full of wise principles. Scripture is a sacrament — a conduit through which the presence of God comes to us, through which we encounter God. The point is not to read words and master them, but actually to encounter the one who gives us these Words. A life-giving way to encounter God in Scripture is to pray a phrase or passage back to Him, and in this episode we’ll show you what that sounds like.
In this podcast, we're continuing to talk about watchfulness — paying attention to our thoughts — and we have two practical ways we've used to turn our thoughts to God: Focusing on who God is, and arrow prayers drawn from scripture.
In this podcast, Brock and Connie explore some of the core elements of leadership, as Brock describes how he first encountered a series of leadership groups that changed an entire church. We’ll touch on the essence of leadership: empowering others — and we’ll talk about the value of humility, human limits, listening, and vulnerability.
