Jonathan David & Melissa Helser Podcast

In this podcast episode, Jonathan Helser dialogues with Chris Miller, Jake Stevens & John David Gravitt (three leaders in our community) about living as wholehearted men in this day and age. This conversation centers around personal stories from each of the men about learning to press pause in the race of life, and reaching out with these simple yet challenging words: "I need help". 

**This month, applications are open for our 18 Inch Journey Phase One discipleship school! Applications are open until 2/1.** 

Our discipleship programs are centered around learning and receiving the rest and companionship that Jesus offers in everyday life. If you are interested in learning more or applying to one of our discipleship programs, go to http://18inchjourney.com!

If you know someone who would be interested in our school or retreats, please share this podcast with them!

You can also watch this podcast on the Cageless Birds YouTube channel.

This is the third episode in a brand new three-part series. 

Featuring Jonathan and Melissa with Chris Miller and Phyllis Unkefer, this conversation focuses on doing the hard work of growing and maturing in community, through practicing honesty with the Lord and with others, and finding balance in the rhythms of life.

**This month, applications are open for our 18 Inch Journey Phase One discipleship school and Becoming Wholehearted Men’s Retreat! Phase One Apps close 2/1, Men's Retreat Apps close 1/26, (or when our cap is reached).**

Our discipleship programs are centered around learning and receiving the rest and companionship that Jesus offers in everyday life. If you are interested in learning more or applying to one of our discipleship programs, go to http://18inchjourney.com!

If you know someone who would be interested in our school or retreats, please share this podcast with them!

You can also watch this podcast on the Cageless Birds YouTube channel HERE.

This is the second episode in a brand new three-part series. 

Featuring Jonathan and Melissa with Chris Miller and Phyllis Unkefer, this conversation centers around staying with God in the tension of life. They unpack why we teach creative rhythms in our discipleship schools and how discovering God in the ordinary is possible. He desires to offer us true rest in the valleys and mountains of life.

**This month, applications are open for our 18 Inch Journey Phase One discipleship school and Becoming Wholehearted Men’s Retreat! Note: Our Women’s Retreat application has closed.**

Our discipleship programs are centered around learning and receiving the rest and companionship that Jesus offers in everyday life. If you are interested in learning more or applying to one of our discipleship programs, go to http://18inchjourney.com!

If you know someone who would be interested in our school or retreats, please share this podcast with them!

You can also watch this podcast on the Cageless Birds YouTube channel HERE.

This is the first episode in a brand new three-part series.

Featuring Jonathan and Melissa with Chris Miller and Phyllis Unkefer, this conversation centers around what it means to do the work of tending to your heart, and embrace the posture of a lifelong learner.

***This month, applications are open for our Men’s Retreat, Women’s Retreat, and our 18 Inch Journey discipleship school! All of our discipleship programs are centered around doing the good work of building friendship with Jesus, mentoring and learning, and stewarding your inner life.***

If you are interested in learning more or applying to one of our discipleship programs, go to http://18inchjourney.com!

If you know someone who would be interested in our school or retreats, please share this podcast with them!

You can also watch this podcast on the Cageless Birds YouTube channel HERE.

In this podcast, Jonathan shares a message about the way that Mary, the mother of Jesus, courageously prayed and changed history. This prayer of Mary: “Let it be unto me according to your word” is a prayer we can say in just a breath—yet, it’s one of those prayers we could explore the rest of our lives. We never come to the end of discovering more of God. This message is from our Cageless Birds community night—our weekly gathering where we worship and fellowship together as a group of friends. 

To listen to the “Cageless Birds” worship set that happened before Jonathan shared go to:

https://youtu.be/YtX30Pzw0rs 

The book Jonathan read from, “Walking on Water” by Madeleine L'Engle is one of our favorite books on faith and creativity. We highly recommend it. 

Get it here: https://a.co/d/0FtVmOr 

This podcast episode features a recent conversation between Jonathan Helser and Kris Vallotton about fathering, discipleship, and pouring into the next generation.

To learn more about Kris and his ministry, go to www.krisvallotton.com, and make sure to check out his new book, "Uprising: The Epic Battle for the Most Fatherless Generation in History” https://theuprisingbook.com 

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Additional Resources by Kris Vallotton: https://shop.bethel.com/collections/kris-vallotton

For more information on our discipleship school and retreats, go to www.18inchjourney.com 

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“Our emotions are the language that our hearts speak. I believe that they are a gift from God that help us understand what is going on inside of us.”

In this episode, Jonathan teaches on The Head to Heart Journey. This teaching is from the first lesson of Engaging Sound—an online workshop by the Helsers and Cageless Birds on connecting with God through instrumental music. Jonathan will lead you in a prompt to make your own journey from your head to your heart. Jonathan and Melissa also dialogue about why they expanded and revised Cultivate Volume I: The Head to the Heart Journey, almost 10 years after its first print. With 17 new writings, the updated Volume I is full of the spiritual disciplines and stories that Jonathan and Melissa teach in their 18 Inch Journey school and live out daily in community. 

The Head to Heart Journey is a value that we’re invited to live out as children of God—to move from the facts we know about God in our heads into trusting and believing Him deeply in our hearts. To learn more about Cultivate and Engaging Sound, you can visit www.jonathanhelser.com, www.cagelessbirds.com, or engagingcultivate.com. 

“God has been writing our story, and it is a miracle that we’re in the room right now. One day when we get to heaven we’re going to read this story, and be absolutely astonished at how He's been writing it all along.”

In this episode, Jonathan shares stories from his life and Scripture that illustrate this truth, that Jesus is the most wonderful Author of our stories in the big, and all of the inbetween moments.

Click HERE to learn more about Hydrating Humanity, an organization that exists to provide clean water to those in need, and help improve the physical, financial and spiritual lives of those they reach.

www.jonathanhelser.com

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In celebration of the first installment of this release, we are continuing our series of album-focused episodes with Jonathan & Melissa Helser. The two of them sat down with Chris Miller of Cageless Birds to unpack the stories connected to the first tracks from the DAY ONE release. This episode features “We Make Space” and “Father of Jesus.”

Recorded in three days and releasing in three installments, this 14 track album is comprised of more than 2 hours of new music. DAY ONE is available everywhere now: https://BethelMusic.lnk.to/TLILIDayOne

For a video version of this episode, visit our Youtube page: https://youtu.be/SbawINBlJAI 

To learn more about Jonathan & Melissa and their ministry, go to http://jonathanhelser.com and http://cagelessbirds.com

DAY ONE of “The Land I’m Livin’ In” is now available everywhere you stream and download music!

In celebration of the first installment of this release, we are continuing our series of album-focused episodes with Jonathan & Melissa Helser. The two of them sat down with Chris Miller of Cageless Birds to unpack the stories connected to the first tracks from the DAY ONE release. This episode features "I Am Your Beloved" "Running Back Home (Spontaneous)" and "I Lose My Ability."

Recorded in three days and releasing in three installments, this 14 track album is comprised of more than 2 hours of new music. DAY ONE is available everywhere now: https://BethelMusic.lnk.to/TLILIDayOne 

For a video version of this episode, visit our Youtube page: https://youtu.be/Go6BOs3sDIE 

To learn more about Jonathan & Melissa and their ministry, go to jonathanhelser.com and cagelessbirds.com