Deeper

Our society is one that is increasingly more individualistic and isolated, and lonliness is rampant in our society. How are we as believers supposed to combat that trend? 

We have hope that there will be a total renewal of our decaying world. But what does renewal look like, and how can we cling to that hope before it comes to be? 

While our modern society imagines the dead coming back to life as a very brutal, violent affair - which we see throughout our media in the Zombie context - our faith views the resurrection of the body to be entirely different. Our new lives are supposed to be life-giving, rather than life-taking. What does that mean for our advocacy or the people we dislike? 

We all are made to serve our community. From our local church to all of those made in the image of God, we've got a calling to be active and engaged in acts of service. But what if we aren't gifted to serve in the areas that we see immediately around us? Is there any difference between serving financally or with our time? And when do we say "no" to service? 

Because of Easter, and Christ's ressurection specifically, we are living in a new reality that totally upends the old ways of interacting with God, our neighbors and even ourselves. How do we live wisely in this new reality? 

As leaders, we are supposed to emulate Jesus' form of leadership- one that embraces peace, gentle subversion and service as a model instead of the Alexandrian domineering, powerful, iron-fist model. However, the latter seems to be the only type of leadership we see around us, especially in the public sphere. How do we navigate our call to humility when that's not the way society does things? 

While we work to prepare our spiritual gardens, we often fall into the pitfall of assuming things have to be fully done ourselves- or, on the other side, that we don't have to do anything and our spiritual gardens will grow just using "Fairy Dust". How do we build a helathy dependence on the Lord while also putting in a healthy amount of effort on our own? 

God set some pretty clear boundaries for us in scripture. What do we do when we can't agree on what those are?

After closing up our series on prayer, we move into the season of Lent. Fasting is a common practice during this time, but not one we are often familiar with. How do we fast well? How do we remain accountable without "going public"? And how do we know what we should fast from? 

We've talked a lot about WHY we pray. But when the rubber meets the road, practicing prayer is really important. How does practicing prayer resemble working out at a gym? And what can we do to de-center ourselves in prayer? Dan and Austin discuss this and more in this week's podcast.