There is a season in your life when your spiritual family becomes your local family. When your biological family is not your primary spiritual influence, support, challenge or community, you will need to surround yourself with a spiritual family. In this episode of the podcast, we discuss the importance of a spiritual family and share practical tools to help develop a spiritual family.

Conflict exists in all relationships. We cannot avoid it but we can weaken the power of it's impact. The greatest way to decrease the power of conflict in any relationship is to have clear communication. In this podcast, Pastor Christian shares practical communication tools to help navigate the conflict within our relationships, including those that are dysfunctional.

In this special episode of the Activate Podcast, we have a conversation with Danielle Newsome. Danielle discusses how to have a postitive influence in the lives of our own families and in the lives of others. She discusses the importance of reading God's word and prayer so that we can spiritually influence others.

In the podcast this week, we will continue conversations around our series entitled My Dysfunctional Family: Learning to love difficult people. We will learn that the majority of the dysfunction we experience in our family is due to a misunderstanding of our current roles. If we can understand, communicate, and manage our family roles in a way that shows our heart, we can begin to disassemble the dysfunction.

Do you have difficult people in your life? In this episode of the Activate Podcast, we begin a new series entitled, My Dysfunctional Family: Learning To Love Difficult People. In this podcast we will take a closer look at Joseph and discover how he learned to love difficult people and deal with the dysfunction of the relationships of his life. Pastor Christian discusses practical ways we can mourn past hurt so that we can heal and how we can forgive so that we can move forward.

If we are going to walk towards God and with God we may need to change our attitude. In this podcast, Pastor Christian talks about how a change in attitude can allow you to experience greater peace and battle entitlement.

This week, we continue our discussion in our series, Finding Your Way Back To God. Pastor Christian will discuss what it means to live on earth like we will in heaven by practicing spiritual math. Sometimes we need to subtract things from our life and sometimes we need to add things to our life. We will be challenged to take off our earthly nature and put on a spiritual nature. When we begin to put on a spiritual nature, we will begin to look more like Jesus.

This week, we launch a new series entitled, Finding Your Way Back To God. Rooted in Paul’s letter to the Colossians, this series will help you get back on course by focusing on the person of Jesus. Today, Pastor Christian will challenge us to become more aware of the presence of Jesus in all areas of our life.

Easter Sunday represents more than candy, Easter Eggs, new clothes and family brunch. The meaning behind Easter has the ability to change lives. Today, Pastor Christian will discuss the incredible promise and potential that Easter holds for each of us. We will also discuss the open and empty tomb of Jesus and what that means for our lives.

In the podcast this week, we continue our discussion on The Lamb: Making Sense of Easter. We will learn that Jesus is the one who allows us to live in a relationship with God. Through the Old Covenant Fellowship Offering described in Leviticus, we will discover that God invites us and desires that we spend T.I.M.E with Him on a daily basis. Pastor Christian also shares his routine and rhythm of spending time with God and practicing His presence.