Moving Through

The bounty of the harvest is a blessing indeed. Fall is a season known for harvest and loss as it brings in a Fresh Start. There are things to be loosened and removed as we prepare ourselves for a fresh start in making a difference in our lives and in the lives of others.  

In our last podcast, we continued with the Summer 2023 overarching theme of “Soul Care” with the thought that we have been given “A New Season, Make a Difference.” Today’s Podcast we want to continue with this focus, titled: “New Start, New Harvest.”

As we journey through the pathway of our lives, the life of faith can be characterized by a series of stages that will lead us progressively toward healthy spiritual living, and engaging others well. 

What really makes a difference in our lives is to know our identity in Christ and be willing to allow God to use us in this new season with a “Fresh Start and “Fresh Fuel” for His will and purpose in these times.

We must “release and relinquish” those things that hinder us from stepping into “the new” that God is calling us to.  This is done with our hands and our hearts open to be used by God as His vessels.

Elder Dominic Scerbo from Calvary Church in Trumbull who serves as a volunteer Ally in our I CARE OUTREACH Training Center will join me in this conversation.

Caring for His harvest matters!

In Him,
Pastor Robert M. Turner

Happy Autumn! Fall 2023 is here and it transitions us to make necessary changes to our everyday patterns of life.  

I’m learning more about how seasons bring transitions that can lead to transformation. Many of us would prefer the summer to keep going, but Ecclesiastes 3:11 says, “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens”.

We are extending our Moving Through Podcast series on the topic of “Soul Care.” Our 34th Podcast will hopefully inspire all of us as we have been given “A New Season, Make A Difference”. God has ordained a new season for us to not only care for our souls but for us to reach out to others with His love, care, and compassion.  

Joshua Turner, I Care Outreach volunteer, will join me in conversation regarding Soul Care and the difference in his life while impacting others’ lives. The caring of our souls should ignite our passion to strengthen others as they are moving through their journey. 

A soul generated by God’s love is enough to make a great difference in someone’s life. 

Caring for souls matters!

In Him,

Pastor Robert M. Turner

The summer is almost ending, and we are completing our series on “Soul Care.” Together we examined the impact of Soul Care for our everyday life practices as it relates to our relationship with God, ourselves, and others. 

In this 33rd podcast, we are focusing on “Caring for Wounded Souls”. Many souls are wounded. Walking wounded. Living wounded. Working wounded. Worshiping wounded. And reading God’s word wounded.

Many people in our families and community are experiencing trauma-generated strongholds asking, “How to move through their life?”

The Lord wants you and I to live, with our mind and heart, centered on Him and His will, with our souls fully connected with His Spirit, to live as true followers of the way Jesus Christ demonstrated and taught. 

Again, with me is Joe Murray from Recover All Ministry who will also share perspectives on how “Caring for Wounded Souls” relates to our “Identity and Destiny” Summer “Workshop.   I Care Outreach is so grateful for this God-given opportunity!

Carrying for our soul matters!

In His Care,

Pastor Robert M. Turner

July summer heat is here, and we are continuing our summer podcast focus of “Soul Care.”

We have been examining the impact of Soul Care for our everyday life practices as it relates to our relationship with God, ourselves, and others. In this podcast we are focusing on “Soul Care and Life Tensions”.

We are all experiencing the rise of tensions, anxieties, outbursts, and troubles of all kinds. The English Word “tension” comes from the Latin Word “to stretch”.

Despite what’s going on we are called to “navigate in culture” with the tensions of “living in Christ’.

Again, with me is Joe Murray from Recover All Ministry who will share how “Soul Care and Life Tensions” relates to our “Identity and Destiny.” I Care Outreach is currently hosting a six-week “Workshop on Identity and Destiny.’ The workshop has begun, and we have 23 attendees!

Summer is here and it brings a new Season to refresh and move through in our spiritual journey of moving through life with Soul Care.

In our last episode, we began to examine the impact of Soul Care on our everyday life and day-to-day practices.  In this third podcast on Soul Care, we want to examine the impact of the call of being a life-giving image bearer, living, centered, empowered, led by the Spirit of God in Christ.

Becoming more like Christ is a steady progression of growth over a lifetime, a continual freedom of transformation of our souls. It does not happen in one great transformation.

Also, we interviewed Joe Murray from Recover All Ministry who shares about his ministry’s upcoming six-week Wednesday evening Workshop on Identity and Destiny which will be held July 19th through August 26th in our I Care Outreach Training Center. We invite you to attend. Registration info is posted on our website at www.icareoutreach.net

The warmth of a new Season has already begun! The freshness of Summer brings excitement, anticipation, new opportunities and expectations for ourselves and others. 

In our last episode on “Soul Care”, we shared it is time to reset, refresh, and remain focused on the essentials.  That is, to be on guard for the well-being of our hearts and souls so we can help ourselves and others live well.  

In this second part, we are examining the impact of Soul Care on our everyday life, our day-to-day practices. This spiritual journey that Christ has called us to is “to be present with Him” in our moving through.

We all need true healthy spiritual and emotional capital in our moving through with God to serve others. I Care Outreach is filled with joy knowing that the Lord desires for us to really care and have compassion for others. Thus our soul care really matters!

In His Care,

Pastor Robert M. Turner

The freshness of Spring 2023 gives us the opportunity to reset and refresh the well-being of our souls!  As we celebrate the Resurrection of Christ it inaugurates a type of “start-over,”—it marks the beginning of a new order of life!   

“Out of the heart flows the Springs of life.” Soul care is so important because out of the heart comes the good noble things of life in Christ Jesus. We must be on guard for the well-being of our hearts and souls so we can help others live well.  

I Care Outreach is filled with joy knowing that the Lord desires to heal and restore souls with His love, compassion, and care. It is His Compassion that directs us, and His Care that motivates us to actively consider the well-being of others!

In His Care,

Pastor Robert M. Turner

Spring is here! Ready for a fresh start to be strengthened with His power and faith in our inner being as we move through this new season? 

I Care Outreach is filled with gratitude and faith for what God has already done! The freshness of spring showers heightens our joy and excitement as we anticipate what God is about to do through this ministry as His people work together, coming alongside lives that are being healed and restored.

Like a rushing wind,

Pastor Robert M. Turner

We have posted our 27th episode of the “Moving Through” Podcast titled: “Because of Who God Is.”

Spring is almost here! And it’s only through the “Grace of God” we can begin a new season in our lives.  May we all be eager to embrace this fresh new season coming upon us with a God-given perspective of blessing and serving others. 

Through the power of the Holy Spirit, our eyes can be opened to see the empowering love of God in creation and recognize that we are all called to serve others with our God-sized capacities. Grace, taking root in us, can change the way we see everything.  

Because of Who God Is, we must be aware that His love moves in us, and He wants to move through us as sustaining life-givers with His compassion and care.  

In His Grace,

Pastor Robert M. Turner

We have posted our 26th episode of “Moving Through” Podcast titled: “Wisdom + Strength = Joyful Life-Givers”

This New Year, we have so much to look forward to, but we need the wisdom and strength of the Lord, with our eyes and ears adjusted to His work in His creation.   

The Lord wants us to come closer to Him. God’s wisdom is calling us to reach beyond ourselves, beyond our intellect and interests that seizes upon our impulses so we can channel into paths of healing in the lives of others.  

So together, let’s bring wisdom and strength to the world through the restorative work of Christ Jesus.

Joyful,

Pastor Robert M. Turner