Radical Abundance

This message, taken from Romans 12, reminds us that we are called to create culture and transform our minds for the purposes God has created us for. 
Dan and Teresa Janzen serve as missionaries in South Sudan.
https://danandteresa.org

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Teresa Janzen is your host. She ignites a passion for abundant living through radical service. Teresa is an international speaker, author, and coach of speakers and writers. Her experience in leadership and global ministry drives her to share inspiring stories with wit and insight. Her candid and personable style is sure to capture the heart of any audience.

Have you ever felt the need to bite your tongue or grit your teeth? Today's interview explores ways to genuinely smile in the face of adversity and challenging circumstances. Sometimes, we just need to grin with grace! God blesses us with His grace, and it impacts our relationship with Him and with others.

Kathy Carlton Willis writes and speaks with a balance of funny and faith—whimsy and wisdom. Not many funny girls also have Bible degrees! She graduated with honors from Bible College, holding degrees in Bible and Church Education, and served for thirty years in full-time church ministry with her husband, Russ. She’s active as a book industry pro, while also staying involved in her local church and national speaking ministry.

Kathy’s website: https://kathycarltonwillis.com

Kathy’s tagline: God’s Grin Gal

Kathy works with women’s groups, civic groups and writers’ groups, inside and outside the church. She’s passionate about helping believers have “aha moments” with the daily application of Scripture. She coaches others to learn how to remove the training wheels and not just risk, but also take pleasure in the joy ride of a life trusting in God. Even with all the circumstances she’s faced, she gives a clear message that she possesses an expectant hope and contentment in the Lord. Something we can all experience.

Kathy addresses the issues that hold people back and shines the light on their path to freedom. She is a popular speaker for women’s events, civic groups, writers’ events and more. Kathy shines, whether she’s shining the light on God’s writers and speakers, or reflecting God’s light during her speaking opportunities.

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Teresa Janzen is your host. She ignites a passion for abundant living through radical service. Teresa is an international speaker, author, and coach of speakers and writers. Her experience in leadership and global ministry drives her to share inspiring stories with wit and insight. Her candid and personable style is sure to capture the heart of any audience.

Grace is not only foundational to the Christian faith, it’s radically transformational to a person’s life. Join Teresa Janzen as she interviews Nancy Kay Grace and together they discuss the impact of grace in our life. You will hear topics such as God’s saving grace, daily grace, abounding grace, and expanding grace.

 Guest Bio:

Nancy Kay Grace offers the hope of grace to those she meets. As a cancer survivor, she understands dealing with unexpected challenges. Because life is unedited—or not perfect—we need God’s grace. She is an engaging Bible teacher, speaker, and award-winning author of the devotional The Grace Impact. Nancy is married to her favorite pastor. She loves hugs from grandchildren, playing piano, and hiking.

Get the book: The Grace Impact

Nancy’s blog and GraceNotes newsletter signup are found at https://nancykaygrace.com.

 Follow her on FaceBook at https://www.facebook.com/authornancykaygrace

and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nancykaygrace/

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What is God's grace and why is it so difficult to understand? 

Grace is completely contrary to our human culture. We like things to be fair. God gives us grace without any regard to our behavior. To some, that may seem unfair. 

The theological definition of Grace is unmerited favor. It's being rewarded even when you don't deserve to be. Even more, it is reward without any regard for our behavior whatsoever. 

God gives us benefits in spite of and completely without regard to our behavior. If that weren't so, we would be earning salvation rather than receiving it--and that is contrary to salvation through faith. Sure we do good things - hopefully because of gratitude toward God for all he has done for us, but that is not why we receive the benefit of a relationship with God and eternal life. 

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Teresa Janzen is your host. She ignites a passion for abundant living through radical service. Teresa is an international speaker, author, and coach of speakers and writers. Her experience in leadership and global ministry drives her to share inspiring stories with wit and insight. Her candid and personable style is sure to capture the heart of any audience.

Grace is understood by Christians to be a spontaneous gift from God to people – "generous, free and totally unexpected and undeserved" – that takes the form of divine favor, love, clemency, and a share in the divine life of God. It is an attribute of God that is most manifest in the salvation of sinners. Grace is most often described as God's unmerited favor toward His people.

The Radical Abundance theme for January is God's Abundance of Grace.

We are starting off the series with a discussion indirectly related to grace-- the rights-based approach to development work and humanitarian aid. Before 1997, most UN development agencies pursued a ‘basic needs’ approach: They identified basic requirements of people and either supported initiatives to improve service delivery or advocated for their fulfillment.

A human rights-based approach seeks to reinforce the capacities of duty bearers (usually governments) to respect, protect and guarantee the rights of people. It aims to address development complexities holistically, taking into consideration the connections between individuals and the systems of power or influence. And it endeavors to create dynamics of accountability.

But there is a big challenge in actually implementing a rights-based approach to development. It begins with inconsistent definitions of rights and the lack of understanding of whose responsibility it is to provide goods and services to people in need. This often leads to entitlement, dependency, and continued poverty.

Dan and Teresa Janzen live and serve in South Sudan where God's grace intersects with mankind's needs.

https://danandteresa.org
https://radical-abundance.org

More resources:
Universal Declaration of Human Rights with Scipture Annotation
https://www.cartercenter.org/resources/pdfs/peace/human_rights/universal-declaration-human-rights-scriptually-annotated.pdf

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Teresa Janzen is your host. She ignites a passion for abundant living through radical service. Teresa is an international speaker, author, and coach of speakers and writers. Her experience in leadership and global ministry drives her to share inspiring stories with wit and insight. Her candid and personable style is sure to capture the heart of any audience.

Speaker and Author of Love's Bullet ~ A Wounded Victim in a Biker Gang War Transformed by God's Love, Maureen Hager passed away on December 7th 2021. 
This edition of Radical Abundance features past interviews with Maureen, whose wisdom and testimony live on.

Get the book, Love's Bullet: https://amzn.to/3GXvv6P

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Teresa Janzen is your host. She ignites a passion for abundant living through radical service. Teresa is an international speaker, author, and coach of speakers and writers. Her experience in leadership and global ministry drives her to share inspiring stories with wit and insight. Her candid and personable style is sure to capture the heart of any audience.

Merry Christmas from Radical Abundance.
Enjoy this reading of the Christmas Story from the Gospels of Luke and Matthew.

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About Teresa Janzen:
Teresa Janzen, M.Ed., empowers the weary, worried, and wounded to experience God’s radical abundance in work, life, and relationships. She is an international speaker, author, coach, and host of the Radical Abundance podcast. More than twenty years of experience in leadership and global ministry compels her to share inspiring stories with wit and insight. She extends an invitation to thoughtful dialogue on topics impacting the modern church. Teresa ministers primarily in North America and East Africa.

Teresa is a Board-Certified Christian Master Mental Health Coach (BCCMMHC) and member of the American Association of Christian Counselors. She is a train-the-trainer for trauma healing, an oral Bible study trainer, and an adjunct professor at Nile Theological College. Teresa and her husband, Dan, serve as missionaries with ACROSS in South Sudan.

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Teresa Janzen is your host. She ignites a passion for abundant living through radical service. Teresa is an international speaker, author, and coach of speakers and writers. Her experience in leadership and global ministry drives her to share inspiring stories with wit and insight. Her candid and personable style is sure to capture the heart of any audience.

We're talking about God's Radical Abundance of Hope as Teresa Janzen interviews author, speaker, and award-winning podcaster, Michelle Rayburn. Join the discussion as we look at how God repurposed our life into something useful to be treasured and shared. Telling our stories of being repurposed can provide hope to others.

Guest Bio:
Michelle Rayburn is a freelance writer and podcaster who appreciates how life’s difficulties can turn out to be opportunities learn and grow. She loves dark chocolate, iced coffee, and a breezy afternoon in the hammock with a good book. She’s the author of several Christian living books, including The Repurposed and Upcycled Life: When God Turns Trash to Treasure and Classic Marriage: Staying in Love as Your Odometer Climbs. She has also published articles and Bible studies in places such as Focus on the Family, Christian Communicator, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Today’s Christian Living, and ChristianBibleStudies.com.

Michelle has her MA in ministry leadership with a counseling emphasis. She has been married to her husband, Phil, for 30 years and they have successfully launched two sons into adulthood. With all that testosterone around, she has mastered the art of lighthearted sarcasm and dad jokes as a second language. But she’s delighted to have reinforcements on team estrogen with two daughters-in-love and a sweet little granddaughter!

Connect with Michelle at https://michellerayburn.com

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Teresa Janzen is your host. She ignites a passion for abundant living through radical service. Teresa is an international speaker, author, and coach of speakers and writers. Her experience in leadership and global ministry drives her to share inspiring stories with wit and insight. Her candid and personable style is sure to capture the heart of any audience.

If you struggle through the holidays or know someone who does, be sure to listen to today's interview with author, speaker, and unhackable coach, Faye Bryant. This is the season of hope, which is most valuable to those who sometimes feel a little hopeless. It all begins with knowing who we are in God's eyes. We are known, noticed, and adored - like the masterpiece He created us to be. Experience God's Radical Abundance of Hope in Your Life Today.

Guest Bio:
Faye Bryant is an author, coach, and speaker who helps individuals escape the lies of the enemy, live into God’s truth, and build a better life by first feeling, dealing, and healing their way through a stuck future or an abused past, toward a deeper path of purpose, and into the unhackable life of their chosen legacy.

Biography:

Faye is a true Florida native, though she now lives in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. Born and raised throughout the Sunshine State, she attended school in Ormond Beach and Kissimmee.

As a teen, Faye worked at the Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World. A dream job, such fun for a teenager! Other jobs she's held include clerk in a bulk mail room for a small college, teaching assistant at a Christian school, Avon Lady, Tupperware representative, retail sales, bookkeeper, postal carrier, data entry clerk, inventory control clerk/systems admin for a convenience store chain, ministry assistant, church communications director, and scopist. Not to mention daughter, wife, mom, stepmom, mother-in-law, and grandmother.

The author of several books, Faye's novel, Louise, Book 1 of The Grandma, Mom, and Me Saga, has received top ten recognition in a global awards competition.

A survivor of childhood trauma, abuse, and workplace harassment that led her to contemplate suicide, Faye has left victimhood behind. Through a process of forgiveness and mindful healing, she has found freedom from that past and now guides others to find that freedom for themselves.

Faye has distilled her journey into a process that has helped her and others to escape the shackles of their past and she now shares this with new audiences through her novels, speaking engagements, and impactful, transformative masterminds and coaching.

https://fayebryant.com

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Teresa Janzen is your host. She ignites a passion for abundant living through radical service. Teresa is an international speaker, author, and coach of speakers and writers. Her experience in leadership and global ministry drives her to share inspiring stories with wit and insight. Her candid and personable style is sure to capture the heart of any audience.

God has a Radical Abundance of Vision for you and me. How do we find it? Start by learning to be available in the small moments of life.

 Global leadership development coach, David Lutes, shares his experience working with some of the largest corporations in the world to help them find and execute their corporate vision. We’ll explore how God’s truths revealed in scripture are equally relevant and effective in business, the church, and the family.

Guest bio:
David Lutes is an American-British dual national and an ‘ordained’ minister/pastor (Church of the Province, South Africa/C of England UK, Vineyard Fellowship, South Africa) and recent ‘lay’ co-pastor in Dubai, former school chaplain, coach and manager in the US, South Africa and UK – and Christian – for over 50 years. He is a former semi-pro baseball player in South Africa in the early ‘70s, former adviser to NATO on military down-sizing and re-skilling of 100k officers and family members in the post-Soviet Union (5 countries) – as well as an adviser to several former Soviet governments and training institutes on leadership transformation. He is a former Global Program Director for MA-level development of leaders from 45 countries with the Christian Charity and Humanitarian Agency, World Vision International. He is now an Organizational Development, Talent Management and Training, Consultant, Master Trainer and Executive Coach and well-known conference speaker and more than 30 years international experience in 30+ countries at a senior strategic executive, middle management, and operational level with several global Fortune 100/250/500 companies. An author and conference presenter, He shares widely on business ethics and values combined with Biblical insights to help Christian leaders and managers professionally, effectively, and authentically honor and serve God in the workplace. David is the husband of Olena; father to Dara, Stuart, Olga and Michael.

 Presenter and Executive Coach

•  Presenter and Coach for ‘Know Yourself, Be Yourself, Become Your Calling’ – 2½-day retreat or public presentation for those seeking God’s direction in their lives and careers
• Presenter: ‘God’Stalking’ and ‘Word in Deed! So, What’s Your Story?’ – companion public motivational talks and workshops
• 'Shaloming Leadership’ – the calling and responsibility of managers and leaders to have ‘wholeness in work and life’ as their priority

Writer/Author 

• Contributing Author to ‘Your Dose of Motivation – Become Who You Are – Discover the Authentic You’ (Amazon)
• Author of ‘The Authentic Christian Manager’ – A Straight-from-the-Shoulder Daily Devotional for Christian Managers and Leaders Who Seek to Serve and Honor God in the Workplace –www.authenticchristianmanager.com
• Workshop – ‘Prayin’Stormin’ – Finding God’s Purpose and Direction for Crucial Business and Church Decisions

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Teresa Janzen is your host. She ignites a passion for abundant living through radical service. Teresa is an international speaker, author, and coach of speakers and writers. Her experience in leadership and global ministry drives her to share inspiring stories with wit and insight. Her candid and personable style is sure to capture the heart of any audience.