https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cptwg-19d18c4 Your Activated Yes! What does it really mean to live in your activated yes with God—especially when you feel broken, stuck, or overwhelmed? In this episode Kim Hardy—author, speaker, coach, and host of the Live Bold podcast - shares how her “activated yes” was birthed not on a mountaintop, but in a challenging season... Continue Reading →
Perspectives
What a Divided World Needs is a United Church with Will Plitt
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4bdht-19c6bfa What a Divided World Needs is a United Church What if our scorecard is wrong? Executive Director of Christ Together, Will Plitt, challenges us to rethink the North American church’s “scorecard.” What if success is less about collecting people and programs—and more about mobilizing disciples and reaching the city? Will shares the great burden... Continue Reading →
Love without Borders with Marie Burrus
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gyxu7-19ba66e In this episode, we sit down with Marie Burrus, church consultant at the Union Baptist Association in Houston, TX. God's love has no borders and crosses every culture and nation. Marie shares how to love diaspora neighbors and cultivate cultural intelligence as we live with curiosity and humility. We even touch on navigating the... Continue Reading →
When Church Community Disappoints: Rethinking Connection Through the Lens of Jesus
We all long to be seen and to belong. Whether you’re new to a church or have been serving faithfully for years, the ache for deep, authentic relationships is instilled within us by our Creator. But many of us also carry a hidden disappointment. We thought church would be where we found our people, our... Continue Reading →
A Prayer for Movement Renewal
A Prayer for Movement Renewal (in the voice of Walter Brueggemann by Norm Dyck) God of every exodus and every pentecost,You who stir the waters and scatter the seeds, We confess that the old wineskins no longer hold structures, have stiffened strategies, have soured… But, You are steering. Your Spirit still moves, hovering over the chaos calling forth... Continue Reading →
Do Not Grow Weary
Your wholeness is given to you by the Redeemer. Your belovedness is not determined by man, but by the King. Your worthiness is not granted by any human. It is freely lavished upon you by the Creator of the universe who by His breath created the cosmos, while at the same time sees and knows... Continue Reading →
Our Kingdom Assignment
You are invited to listen in on a transformational conversation with a fellow Kingdom sojourner to celebrate his life and the treasures he freely gave.
Chasing after glory…
The desire to create and rule one's own kingdom is an ancient struggle of the heart. All the way back to our friends, Adam & Eve in Genesis... The temptation to want to be in control... wise... all-knowing... god-like... This temptation hisses in the garden and eventually rings in the ear of man. The consequent fall of man due... Continue Reading →
Women Missional Leaders
A female missional leader embodies a way of being that approaches the world, and her place in it, as a Kingdom ambassador for the cause of Christ. The Great Commission mandate is not gender specific; but rather, men and women are co-laborers and synergetic in community and mission. As men and women weave their giftedness... Continue Reading →
Living the Reality of Abiding
The Vinedresser will attend to the vine in order to cultivate an environment that will bear the most fruit. Pruning is a necessary part of care for the vine to thrive and flourish. When God, the Vinedresser, looks at your life He knows what you need to produce fruit. He knows what to prune and... Continue Reading →
An Abrahamic Coddiwomple
The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you..." So Abram went. [excerpt from Genesis 12:1-4] Abram, was called by God to go into a place unknown. So he went. These verses do not reveal any possible internal struggle that Abram/Abraham... Continue Reading →
Leading Begins by Following
Follow me. And I will make you fishers of men. Matthew 4:19 Simon Peter is called to follow Jesus in the midst of tangled nets, the taste of salty sweat on his tongue, fish slime, the snap of the sail, the cadenced pulse of the waves, and the customary burdens of the daily life of... Continue Reading →
Missional Mayhem 