This episode is a continuation of last week's "Cities of Refuge: Preparing for the Coming Economic Crisis" and features the Question and Answer segment of that call.

Yes. We live in a volatile world. Every day, a host of conflicting and contradictory voices and agendas are vying for our attention and loyalty. It’s easy to become overwhelmed and discouraged. What should we do? Who should we believe? How should we pray?

But in the midst of the strident demands and vitriolic attitudes that seem to have become the new normal, something else is emerging. Something new and ancient. Something that flies in the face of all the competing agendas and talking points of the world and its would-be rulers in every sector of society.

The Lord is awakening and igniting movements of people around the world that will shake lives and bring real revival, transforming individuals and nations. We are experiencing one of those moments in history that is pregnant with God's capacity to do tremendous things as He sets souls ablaze with an intensely practical heart cry for something fresh and powerful and radically other to break in on the scene of our day to day lives! “Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done. Here and now on earth exactly as it is in heaven.”

Season Two of Marketplace Kingdom premieres with a conversation on prayer and practical Kingdom vision. Our guests are Seal Sylvester Jammeh and Dirk Ailts.

Seal is Director of Youth for Christ in The Gambia in west Africa, founding pastor of Greater Works Ministries, and an influential leader in the Educational, Governmental, Medical, Business, and Religious sectors of his nation.

Dirk is a pastor, life and leadership coach, and executive director of International Steward, an organization that focuses on seeing churches and organizations around the world become self sustaining and thriving centers of the gospel's redeeming power.

Listen as they share their own stories about the good news of God’s Kingdom and power to transform lives and impact cultures now…right where we are!

Episode 12 is an in depth discussion of “The Emerging Seven Mountain Alliance”, a movement that crosses denominational barriers to bring the power of the Gospel into the streets, the marketplace, and the various structures and venues that shape individual lives and entire cultures. How can we as individuals make a real difference right where we are? Look around. We are all influencers.

Episode 11 features our guest Tim Cosby, founder and trainer with the Empowerment Coaching Network. Our conversation with Tim centers on “Full Spectrum Leadership”, an approach that recognizes and builds on the gifts, passions, talents and callings of each person. In Tim’s words, a coaching approach isn’t just another tool in the box. It brings an entirely different operating system to the task of leadership. It values, nurtures and releases people into their own place in God’s plan.

"If we read the New Testament carefully, we quickly discover that 'the church' is not the model for the Church. Jesus is the model for the Church!" With these words, our friend Tim Vink brings a precise focus to our discussion of what we should look like as we engage in our day to day lives in the world.

This episode revolves around four key questions:

1. What does "church" beyond the walls of the church look like?

2. What does a 7 Mountain/7 Sphere idea say for understanding how the church should be equipping and supporting people in the redemptive character of their perspective and Kingdom oriented engagement in their spheres of influence?

3. What do we need to do to incorporate this kind of Kingdom understanding and practice into our teaching and discipleship activities? Our prayer cover? Our life-as-mission?

4. What might it look like to plant and develop new churches with a Presence based, Spirit led, prayer saturated 7 Mountain orientation built into their DNA from the ground up?

Tim Vink is a gifted minister and teacher on prayer, healing, deliverance, and the present day ministry of the Holy Spirit. He is a hardcore lover of Jesus and an encourager with a passion for living and moving in the Presence of God. He's also the director of new church development for the Reformed Church in America. We’re excited to have him as part of this conversation on "A New Kind of Church."

Norman Christopher is our guest on this important episode. Norman is currently the Executive Director of Sustainability at Grand Valley State University, and an influential advisor to businesses, educators, innovators, and governmental leaders on the local, regional, state and national levels.

He is a gifted network builder and an accomplished servant leader. Anyone who meets him quickly discovers that he has a contagious passion for what he does. He is also a person whose deep Christian faith and practical biblical wisdom form and inform everything about him. He doesn’t hide his faith from those in his spheres of influence, but he doesn’t insist that they understand “Christianeze” either. Norman speaks practical truth in their language and leads with action. And value. And results. Join us for our conversation on “Leading With Wisdom and Servant Influence”.

"Love earns the right to speak truth."

This is the central theme that emerged during this special Q&A session in our series. This episode provides straight talk on practical issues. Real down to earth Kingdom in the streets stuff.

The bottom line? We carry the Presence of God in us and around us. Our presence is His presence…with skin on. We have the power of God to be a transforming influence wherever we are if we determine to live intentionally, rooted in scripture and guided by the Holy Spirit.

In Christ, we are redeemed and are even now being transformed for a purpose. His intention is to use us as he designed us, with our unique gifts, callings, and wiring. The DNA that he placed in us for our role in the world…right where we are…for such a time as this.

This week’s call and podcast features the story of a business that’s more than a business.

EC Group International is a global software solutions company whose business IS their mission. Not only do they see their team as a community and treat one another accordingly, they see themselves as having a responsibility to love and bless the broader community in tangible ongoing ways. This is not an afterthought, a bullet point in a mission statement, or even one of their key priorities. It is the underlying reality that forms and defines who they are and what they do.

Tom Sudyk, the founder and CEO of EC Group International is our guest on this episode. Our discussion touches on the challenges facing the Christian who wants to live intentionally in a global context, and building a business where Kingdom values are woven into the very fabric of the enterprise and how it touches lives.

God cares about our details…if we’re willing to listen!

Nehemiah had an immense task before him as he returned to Israel from the Persian capitol. He had received permission to rebuild the crumbling city, starting with the wall. He had the vision. He had the resources. What he didn’t have was a plan or a work force. People told him it would never happen. There were influential parties whose own agendas were threatened by Nehemiah’s project. Some of his critics even worked behind the scenes to sabotage him.

But God had other plans. Plans to bring hope and a future to a devastated people.

Modern experts are almost unanimous in their assessment of Nehemiah’s undertaking. Given the resources and technology of the time, it should have taken years to build that wall. But with the wisdom of God, it was done in fifty-two days.

"The Nehemiah Effect" is a book that looks at how the wisdom of God can be applied in our world to accomplish the seemingly impossible. The author of this Amazon best seller, Ted Kallman travels the world showing how cutting edge principles from 2500 years ago are revolutionizing the way businesses and organizations are operating right now! In this conversation, Ted shares about his own journey, and how businesses and boardrooms around the world are being strategically impacted by listening for the voice of God and applying His wisdom today!

Is it possible that our friends, our families, our jobs and our communities would be blessed and transformed by the involvement and insight of people who were actually listening and hearing from the God who created their world?

Does the God of the Universe actually have a specific design for individual human lives? Our lives? Our day to day details? How do we listen for His voice and direction as it pertains to our particular situations?

With these questions in mind, we’re releasing this Bonus episode, “Seeing and Hearing from God”, the keynote teaching from a Western Michigan regional prayer leaders’ conference involving participants from some twenty six churches and nineteen different denominations. This is a fast paced, entertaining and practical biblical presentation from DJ Swanger and it’s our gift to you. We hope you’re encouraged.