Shifting Culture

In this episode Julian Adams shares about the prophetic, hearing God's voice, speaking hope, joining God in His mission to make all things new, and our place and role in the Kingdom of God. 

Julian Adams is an author, pastor, and internationally recognized prophet. His mission is to help ordinary people discover God's preferred future for their lives. 

As a director of Julian C Adams Ministry, he resource people through creative media, events, and mentorship. 

He's also the author of Terra Nova : Fulfilling Your Call to Redeem the Earth and Make All Things New. His online course, Vox Dei, has helped hundreds of people confidently communicate God's heart, step out in greater accuracy in the prophetic.

Originally from Cape Town, South Africa, he now resides in Boston, Massachusetts, with his wife, Katia, and two busy children. Together, they lead The Table Boston Church, a community in the heart of the city.

Julian's Website:
julianadams.org

Julian's Recommendation:
The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning

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In this episode Fouad Masri shares insights and tips on sharing Jesus with Muslims from his years of experience. More Muslims have come to know and love Jesus in the past twenty years than the previous 1400 years combined. It's a great time to share the love of Jesus with Muslims.

Author and lecturer Fouad Masri was born and raised in the war zone of Beirut, Lebanon. As a third generation ordained pastor, he has a passion for sharing the love of Christ with Muslims and has been reaching out to Muslims.

In 1993, he founded Crescent Project to nurture transformational relationships between Christians and Muslims and to rally the Church to reach out to Muslims to share the Good News of Christ.

Since then, through his work, more than 321,000 Christians have been trained to sensitively and purposefully share their faith with Muslims through many training experiences, including Bridges One-Day and Sahara Challenge. He has served as a guest instructor at several universities and Christian ministries and has been featured in several media publications including Christianity Today, Newsweek, and Mission Network News. He has appeared on CBN, TBN, the Janet Parshall Show, and Prime Time America.

He is the producer and teacher in the DVD study, Bridges: Christians Connecting with Muslims. In Bridges, he further exposes Christians to the urgent need for a deeper understanding about Islam and Muslims.

Fouad has authored 11 books including Outreach Magazine’s 2015 Cross Cultural Resource of the Year Connecting with Muslims: A Guide to Communicating Effectively. He holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communication and a master’s degree in Islamic Studies. Fouad lives in Franklin, Tennessee, where he directs the ministry of Crescent Project.

Fouad's latest book:
Sharing Jesus with Muslims

Fouad's Recommendation:
Iran's Great Awakening: How God is Using a Muslim Convert to Spark Revival by Hormoz Shariat

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In this episode Lee Wood talks about what it takes to ignite and sustain a movement to Jesus, lessons learned through the mistakes he made, and sustained intimacy with Jesus. Go deep. God will take care of the breadth.

Lee Wood is the Founder and initial catalyst of 1Body Church, as well as a missionary and Apostolic leader with a world vision to launch disciple-multiplying movements until the whole world knows Jesus. He leads and mentors key leaders in launching small house churches to spread the Gospel, starting in the smallest expression in his home in Tampa and eventually across the whole world. This aligns with his philosophy of “dream big, work small”. Lee is married to Stacy, is the father of five and grandfather of five.

Lee's website:
1Body Church

Lee's Recommendations:
Journeys to Significance by Neil Cole
In the Way by Damien Gerke

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In this episode Andrew Arndt talks about the wisdom learned from his latest book Streams in the Wasteland: Finding Spiritual Renewal with the Desert Fathers and Mothers. We also have a great conversation around prayer, having everything you need with God, and the beauty of relationships.

Andrew Arndt is the Lead Pastor of New Life East (one of seven congregations of New Life Church in Colorado Springs), where he also hosts the Essential Church podcast, a weekly conversation designed to strengthen the thinking of church and ministry leaders. Prior to joining New Life’s team, he served as Lead Pastor of Bloom Church: a neo-monastic, charismatic, liturgical, justice-driven network of house churches in Denver. He received his MDiv from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, is working on his Doctor of Ministry at Western Theological Seminary, and has written for Missio Alliance, Patheos, The Other Journal, and Mere Orthodoxy. He lives in the Springs with his wife Mandi and their four kids.

Andrew's Books:
Streams in the Wasteland
All Flame

Andrew's Recommendations:
The Holy Longing by Ronald Rolheiser
Sacred Fire by Ronald Rolheiser

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In this episode Craig Greenfield shares his story living in the slums of Cambodia, raising indigenous leaders from the beginning, finding our way as missionaries, and how the five-fold applies in cross-cultural work.

Craig is the founder and director of Alongsiders International - a fast-growing movement mobilizing and equipping thousands of young Christians in 25 countries to walk alongside those who walk alone - orphans and vulnerable children in their own communities.

During more than 20 years living and ministering in slums and inner cities in Asia and North America, Craig has established a number of initiatives to care for vulnerable kids and orphans, as well as formed Christian communities for those marginalized by society.

He is the author of Urban Halo, and Subversive Jesus. His latest book is Subversive Mission: serving as outsiders in a world of need.

Craig's Book:
Subversive Mission

Craig's Recommendation:
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...And Why by Richard Nisbett

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In this episode David Fitch talks about the importance of the table - gathering, eating, ministering, and sharing together. We also talk about the presence and power of Jesus and being people of presence in any place we are at.

David Fitch is B. R. Lindner Chair of Evangelical Theology at Northern Seminary Chicago, IL. He is also the founding pastor of Life on the Vine Christian Community, a missional church in the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago. He coaches a network of church plants in the C&MA linked to Life on the Vine. He writes on the issues the local church must face in Mission including cultural engagement, leadership and theology and has lectured and presented on these topics at many seminaries, graduate schools, denominational gatherings and conferences.

David Fitch’s latest books are Faithful Presence and The Church of Us vs. Them

David's Podcast:
Theology on Mission

David's Recommendation:
See No Stranger by Valerie Kaur

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In this episode David Zahl talks about his latest book Low Anthropology and we have a discussion around grace, humility, forgiveness, self-centeredness, self righteousness, parenting, and more.

David Zahl is the founder and director of Mockingbird Ministries, editor-in-chief of the Mockingbird website (www.mbird.com), and co-host of The Mockingcast. He and his family live in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he also serves on the staff of Christ Episcopal Church, supervising their adult education and ministry to college students. Zahl is the author of Seculosity: How Career, Parenting, Technology, Food, Politics, and Romance Became Our New Religion and What To Do About It and coauthor of Law and Gospel: A Theology for Sinners (and Saints). His most recent book, Low Anthropology: The Unlikely Key to a Gracious View of Others (and Yourself) came out in Sept 2022 from Brazos Press. His writing has been featured in The Washington Post, Christianity Today, and The Guardian, among other venues.

David's Books:
Low Anthropology
Seculosity
Law and Gospel

David's Recommendation:
Faith, Hope, and Carnage by Nick Cave and Sean O'Hagan

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In this episode Simon & Ceri Harris share their story of creating change and shifting culture towards missional discipleship where every believer plays a part. They share deep insights from their wealth of experience.

Alongside nearly 30 years in local church leadership at Burlington Church, Ceri & Simon work with Catalyse Change and the 5Q collective, training and coaching leaders and churches to release missional disciples and tap into the latent potential that exists in the church through a rediscovery of the gift of APEST.

Ceri also works as an Executive Coach working in the marketplace, charity sector, alongside church leaders and church teams.  As the lead for Accessible Prophecy in the UK, she also coaches and trains churches in hearing God’s voice and building healthy prophetic cultures.

Simon & Ceri's Recommendations:
The Sound of Life's Unspeakable Beauty by Martin Schleske
Resilient by John Eldridge
Live No Lies by John Mark Comer
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In this episode Paul Hoffman talks about what it looks like to engage in reconciliation and unity efforts within the church in this divided world that we live in.

Paul has served as the lead pastor of Evangelical Friends Church of Newport, Rhode Island, since 2007. His life’s mission is “contending for reconciliation, unity, and revival.” He is a member of the Oversight Board for the Evangelical Friends Church–Eastern Region and active in the Evangelical Homiletics Society. Paul is a recognized scholar and leader in the area of racial reconciliation and participates in various prayer and unity movements in the United States and abroad. Paul has visited, lived in, studied in, or ministered in thirty-three countries on four continents. 

Paul is a graduate of Gordon College (BA, Biblical and Theological Studies, 2000) and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (MDiv, 2003). He earned his PhD in Practical Theology at the University of Manchester, UK, in 2017. His thesis examined Tim Keller’s urban missiology. Paul’s work has appeared in publications such as www.churchleaders.com, Influence Magazine, Preaching Magazine, and the Journal of the Evangelical Missiological Society. He is the author of Reconciling Places: How to Bridge the Chasms in Our Communities and co-author of Preaching to a Divided Nation: A Seven-Step Model for Promoting Reconciliation and Unity. 

Paul has been married to his lovely wife, Autumn, for more than twenty-three years and has two wonderful sons, Landon and Kelan. In his free time, Paul enjoys reading, traveling, hanging out with his family at the beach, harvesting sea glass, playing tennis, and watching English Premier League soccer.

Paul's latest book:
Preaching to a Divided Nation: A Seven-Step Model for Promoting Reconciliation and Unity

Paul's Recommendation:
Henri Nouwen

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In this episode Dr. George Yancey shares about his latest book Beyond Racial Division and gives a unifying vision of race relations that brings in collaborative conversations and mutual accountability.

Dr. George Yancey is a Professor of Institute for Studies of Religion and Sociology at Baylor University. He has published several research articles on the topics of institutional racial diversity, racial identity, atheists, cultural progressives, academic bias and anti-Christian hostility. His books include Beyond Racial Gridlock (InterVarsity Press) a Christian book which articulates a mutual obligations approach to racial issues, and, with Michael Emerson, Transcending Racial Barriers (Oxford University Press) an academic book that articulates a mutual obligations approach and Beyond Racial Division (InterVarsity Press) that examines the use of collaborative conversations to reduce racial tensions.

George Yancey's latest book:
Beyond Racial Division: A Unifying Alternative to Colorblindness and Antiracism

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