PODCASTS

PODCASTS

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  • CNLP 836 | The Strengths, Weaknesses and Moral Failures of the Mega-Church Movement: Jimmy Mellado on Healthy Growth, Scale, and Lessons from an Olympian
    Jimmy Mellado unpacks what the church growth movement got right and wrong from the 90s through 2010s, why concentrated power without governance breaks leaders, the ingredients that go into moral failure, and what scale costs a pastor. Plus, he shares lessons from his time as an Olympian. This one’s for leaders who’ve mistaken growth for...
    1 hr 41 min
  • Knowing Our Weaknesses, Finding God’s Strength
    Trisha Davis explains how her tendency to be a rule-follower, and her husband’s tendency to be a rule-breaker, set them up for disaster when their marriage was tested. Get “One Choice Away from Change” free with your gift. Find Hope for Your Hurting Marriage — This 6-part video series was created specifically for couples in...
    28 min
  • Blessed Self-Forgetfulness
    To talk about humility means we’re getting into a very culturally interesting subject, which is self-esteem. Traditional cultures have believed that having too high a view of yourself is the real root cause for most of the evil in the world. But in modern Western culture, particularly in the United States, we have an utterly...
    44 min
  • James Brown: Faith, Family, and Purpose (Part 2 of 2)
    James Brown, CBS host of The NFL Today, shares his personal faith journey, family story, and transformation through Jesus Christ. Brown reflects on the powerful influence of his mother’s faith and discipline, his early struggles after being cut from professional basketball, and the moment in his mid-20s when he turned to God and began a...
    28 min
  • When You Finally See Jesus | Francis Chan
    There’s a difference between knowing things about Jesus and truly seeing Him for who He is. In this message, Francis reflects on the beauty and supremacy of Christ described in Colossians 1 – the One who created all things, holds all things together, and gave His life to reconcile us to God. He reminds us...
    41 min
  • CNLP 835 | How to Trust God When You Don’t Understand: John Ortberg, Ann Voskamp, and Toni Nieuwhof on Wanting to Give Up and What They Would Believe If They Weren’t Christians
    John Ortberg, Ann Voskamp, and Toni Nieuwhof get personal about the questions faith doesn’t answer easily: what they’d believe if they weren’t Christians, why suffering isolates us, wanting to quit, and what Dallas Willard told John about painful seasons. Plus, all proceeds from HonestToGodBook.com go to empowering youth education in developing nations through Convoy of...
    1 hr 46 min
  • James Brown: Faith, Family, and Purpose (Part 1 of 2)
    James Brown, CBS host of The NFL Today, shares his personal faith journey, family story, and transformation through Jesus Christ. Brown reflects on the powerful influence of his mother’s faith and discipline, his early struggles after being cut from professional basketball, and the moment in his mid-20s when he turned to God and began a...
    28 min
  • The Wreckage of a Wrong Scorecard
    Pre-Order Pete Scazzero's forthcoming book, Emotionally Healthy Success, at http://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/success and get a free chapter. When I finished the first chapter of this book, I was ready to move on to the hopeful part. My editor sent it back with a hard word: “Pete, you can't get to the cure until you've told the truth...
    29 min