Fire On Your Head

This week we were privileged to have Jeremy Mangerchine on the podcast to discuss his recent book The Longest Brigde Across Water: An Ordinary Man's Encounters with an Unordinary God.

We discussed:

Does He still speak to ordinary people like you and me?

Do you have to get up at 4 am to pray for hours in order to hear His voice?

Does God speak the same way to everybody?

Sit back and relax as you listen to this episode and when you're done, you'll feel like getting in God's presence! Get Jeremy's book here: Link: http://amzn.to/VIwO34

This week I was privileged to finally have Michael Dow on the show. He has spent his entire saved life in a few different types of ministires, one of which was a missional community called King's People in Charlotte, N.C. He now is apprenticing with Daniel Kolenda, of Christ For All Nations, doing massive crusade evangelism. We discuss Michael's thoughts regarding both ends of the spectrum when it comes to small tight knit community and seeing hundreds of thousands of people accept Christ in single meetings.

Make sure to get a copy of Michael's book, Free Indeed: Free To Live a Life of Obedience on Amazon or iTunes.

Also, here's the link to the sermons I mentioned in the discussion about Family on Mission together.

First, I share some updates about new editions in the Kingdom of God since having recorded today's show, and developments since last week's episode.

Then we get down to business and I continue some of my thoughts from last week about making disciples and seeing the Kingdom of God multiply in our local context here in Peru.

On top of the testimonies, I provide a framework for how we could see revival take place if each one of us were leading one person to Christ each year and discipling them, teaching them to do the same.

Links:

What Do I Mean By "Organic Church"?

Organic vs Organized

Discipleship = Slow burn Revival

5 Things The House Church Movement is Getting Right

5 Things The House Church Movement is Getting Wrong.

This week I share about some of the awesome ways God is bringing His Kingdom to Los Cedros, Peru, and exciting new opportunities we're making an impact on our neighbors.

Then in the last segment I share about the impact of the late Steve Hill on my life.

Enjoy!

Blog posts to check out that referenced in today's show:

Steve Hill's impact on my life (written shortly after hearing news of his passing)

Oikos Cedros: Praying with and For Our Neighbors

Praying For Revival in Los Cedros and Seeing God Move

This week we have Dr. Stephen Crosby joining us again as we discuss the hot button topic of grace. Is there a balance that people on both sides of this debate can agree on? Is a balance necessary?

We discuss fruit vs roots when it comes to personal holiness and whether grace preachers and their counterparts are really hearing each other fairly.

As usual, you don't want to miss this discussion!

Don't forget to enter our contest to win a $30 gift certificate from Amazon along with a free copy of Dr. Crosby's book, Praise, Worship, and the Presence of God: A Better Way to Worship.

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This week we are privileged to have on the podcast Zack Hunt, author of the popular blog, The American Jesus.

We discuss the origins and inspiration of The American Jesus, and how a blogger can walk the fine line of being poignant and being humorous. We also discuss the polarization that faith-based movies are causing in the Christian subculture and what should our reaction be to it.

Then in the final half of the show we discuss the mess surrounding what has happened with World Vision and its stance on same-sex marriage and reversing course after having 10,000 child sponsorships dropped when Christians cancelled their sponsorships after hearing of this news. It's a sticky situation, with no clear winners but Zack shares his insights after having participated in a conference call with the president of World Vision. We encourage you to listen to this discussion today which hopefully can be a bridge and not pour more gasoline on the fire.

Visit Zack's blog at http://theamericanjesus.net/.

This week we try something a little different. I want to thank those of you who donated and helped Lili and I pay our medical expenses with our new daughter Jemina Esther Bremner. 

I also give some quick updates on my newest book, 9 Lies People Believe About Speaking in Tongues. 

Get my new book in paperback or Kindle on Amazon here, in ePub format or audiobook at our online store.

Get the first three chapters on NoiseTrade.

This week we have Dr. Stephen Crosby back on the podcast to discuss loving our neighbors on a practical level. We've touched on this in past discussions, but spend a whole hour talking about a few benefits and challenges to meeting in house churches as opposed to 'institutional' church. We discuss what the house church movement gets wrong and what they get right.

We get talking about why some people who are not in cultures where their faith is persecuted would resort to house churches instead of meeting in "large buildings.

We also talk about the all-important role that love has in our impact we can have on our neighbors and culture around us.

Links:

5 Things The House Church Movement is Getting Right

5 Things The House Church Movement is Getting Wrong (both by Steve Bremner)

Check out BadChurchExperience.com

This weekend I got to be on Moody Radio's Up For Debate program with Julie Roys. Up For Debate describes itself as "a show that seeks to equip believers to discern these debatable matters by engaging biblically with people holding diverse opinions. Each week, host Julie Roys invites two guests onto the one-hour program to defend opposing views. She also encourages listeners to call in and add their comments and questions."

I had been contacted by the show's producer a few weeks ago regarding sharing the cons of house churches, after she read my blog post 5 Things The House Church Movement is Getting Wrong (which itself was a companion piece to the 5 Things The House Church Movement is Getting Right).

The written summary for this week's episode states:

"Ten years ago, fewer than two-thousand house churches existed in the United States. But now, according to Barna Research Group, there are about 30-thousand house churches in America! This Saturday on Up for Debate, Julie Roys explores the pros and cons of this burgeoning movement. Should Christians support and join house churches – or should they be wary of them? Listen and join the discussion this Saturday at 8 a.m. on Up for Debate!"

I was paired with Mark Willis, who along with his wife helped establish the Underground Church Network, a decentralized organic church network in and around Chicago. In the second half we were joined with Dr Kevin Zuber, who is a professor at the Moody Bible Institute."

I'm really grateful for the opportunity the folks at Up For Debate gave me by inviting me to participate in what turned to be more of a discussion than a debate.

This week we continue our discussion with Praying Medic, author of Divine Healing Made Simple for our second of two episodes.

This week we discuss his opinion of when different healing evangelists have been arrested for "practicing medicine without a license". What exactly does that mean, and are we inadvertently doing that ourselves when we minister divine healing to the sick or hurting?

Should Christians give anybody medical advice?

If a person who believes in divine healing or faith healing takes medication, is that a lack of faith and not "practicing what they preach" or is it a matter of being responsible?

Is there truly a relationship between our unforgiveness and not being healed?

These are the things we discuss this week while concluding our two-part discussion.

Check out Praying Medic's site here at www.prayingmedic.com

Get his book Divine Healing Made Simple - Kindle and Paperback at Amazon.com