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Ellyn Cornell is a missionary with Cru at Disney World in Orlando, Florida. I always like to check in with her on matters of disciple making. That is our high calling. All ministry and mission culminates in disciple making.

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Welcome to the Stoke it up! podcast. A podcast, encouraging you and your journey with God. 

I’m Alan Stoddard and in this episode I interview Pastor Mike Neglia. He is the pastor of ⁠Calvary Cork⁠, Ireland. He is also the leader of the ⁠Expositors Collective⁠, an initiative of the ⁠Calvary Global Network⁠.

In this interview, I talked to Mike about what he’s learned about podcasting and preaching. And how the Expositors Collective podcast interacts with the Expositors Collective weekend. If you have not experienced an EC weekend with us, pray about it. Keep your calendar open and come be a part. It is the best experience you can get for the price and content.

The Stoke It Up! podcast is on full swing to stoke up the New Year and beyond. We want to encourage you in your journey with God.

Season 4 Schedule

Nov. 21 - Mike Neglia

Nov. 28 - Ellen Kohler

Dec. 5 - Elijah Abraham

Dec 12 - Dan Crawford

Dec 19 - Lonnie Short

Dec 26 - Alan Stoddard

January 2 - Manolo

January 9 - Josh Black

Welcome to the Stoke it up! podcast everybody … a podcast, encouraging you in your journey with God. I’m Alan Stoddard and I am your host. We want to kindle afresh the gift of God that is in you.

Today I’m interviewing Scott Maze. We are talking about spiritual awakenings and revival possibilities.

His most recent degree was completed in 2006 with a focus on spiritual awakenings. Scott and Traci have been married for more than twenty-five years and have three children: Miles, Macaul, and Matthew.

He presently serves as the Lead Pastor of Cross Church in Fort Worth, Texas.

Welcome everybody to the Stoke It Up podcast! This is a podcast, “encouraging you on your journey with God.”

I’m Alan Stoddard, the creator and host of this podcast. Today I have Kirk Storseth on our conversation docket.  Kirk is the Director of communications a Chick-fil-A in Granbury, Texas, but the interesting thing is he’s also the worship pastor at Mambrino Baptist Church also here in Granbury.

I had the pleasure of working for Kirk in the past, and wanted to pick his brain about what the church can do to better serve and create a Chick-Fil-A culture of serving in the local church. 

Kirk is a graduate of Southwestern Seminary and Southern Seminary, where, at the latter school, he is working on a doctoral degree also.  

In this podcast, Kirk walks us through Chick-fil-A is positive influence culture and how it can transform a church staff and ministry team culture. 

He gives three things that can help us .

Share this podcast with anybody you can think of that needs to be encouraged in serving. Please leave us a review and Apple podcast that would be great. It helps us spread the gospel and it benefits the church and community. 

Elijah Abraham, Executive Director (www.livingoasis.org)

Elijah was born in the Middle East and grew up as a Muslim. He fled the Middle East as a teenager and lived in Europe for several years. Due to persecution in Europe and its spies, Elijah fled to the United States in mid-1980s

Subsequently, he obtained a degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. Since the Twin Towers and Pentagon terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, he has been educating his audiences in churches and civic groups on Islam and the Islamist threat.

Elijah believes that Islam in the U.S. has mutated into a Westernized religion that is aggressively and successfully converting Americans to its beliefs.

“ I am compelled by the Lord to expose Islam as a religion/ideology that embraces an antichrist spirit. As Christians, we must look at Islam as an aggressive ideology, but we must also look at the Muslims within Islam as our mission field.”

He is helping evangelical congregations participate in God’s work around the world by encouraging them to be proactive in missions. Elijah has trained missionaries from the International Mission Board of the SBC and other organizations. His experience has taken him around the world to train and implement missions on five continents. Elijah appeared on national radio (Janet Parshall’s America, Today’s Issues with AFR Radio, Paul Revere Radio, Live the Word with John Neider on KDKR Dallas, and Stand up for the Truth with Mike LeMay on Q90FM Green Bay).

Political party organizations, conservative PACS, Veterans’ groups, and American/international businesses are also seeking Elijah’s expertise and knowledge of the Islamic threat in the West. He has served two non-profit organizations over a period of seven years. He also served as a mission pastor at a local Baptist church for three years.

Welcome to the STOKE IT UP podcast everybody. A Podcast encouraging you and your journey with God. I believe God has a mission and purpose for your life. We want to partner with you in spreading the good news of Christ.

Pastor Robert White serves as the lead pastor of Freedom Church in Bedford, Texas. Check out Freedom Church at www.thisisfreedomdfw.com

In this episode, I especially pick Roberts head and heart about how he does sermon series planning. Especially topical series, and how he keeps series  expository in nature. 

If you at all have an interest in teaching and preaching the Bible, this interview with Robert will be helpful to you.

From traditional church pastor to contemporary church planter with Darryl Dash. Is this possible?

Welcome to the Stoke It Up! podcast. A podcast encouraging you in your journey with God.

Darryl Dash is the pastor of Liberty Grace Church in Toronto, Canada. Liberty Grace Church was planted in one of the toughest parts of Toronto, called, “Liberty Village.“ in this conversation. I talked to Darryl about his transition from a traditional church situation to church planting. The conversation is fascinating. It’s very encouraging and meant to encourage you as you think about living out the Great Commission in your life.

Darryl has written a couple of great books. One is “8 Habits for Growth: a simple guide to becoming more like Christ. The other book is, “How to Grow: applying the gospel to all of your life.“ Here is the link.

I encourage you to leave us a generous review in Apple podcasts. And let us know what you think of this content, and how it applies to your story. If there’s a way we can partner with you to see the

Great Commission fulfilled in your life, let us know.

Is it possible for a traditional churches to become life-giving Churches?

And what about those Independent Baptists? Are they not the ones where women wear dresses, men wear suits, and have a lot of rules at church? Whatever happened to those guys? 

In this week’s podcast I interview Pastor Lonnie Lehrman. Lonnie has been the pastor at Granbury Baptist Church in Granbury Texas for 21 years. He is a graduate of the Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri, we’re now he is the chairman of trustees.

Pastor Lonnie not only serves as the pastor at GBC but also leads E3 church planting network. The network has started to all churches in Texas in the surrounding area of the globe and desires to plant 100 churches.

Welcome to the STOKE IT UP podcast. A podcast, encouraging you in your journey with God. One of the things the Lord wants us all to do is to shine light into the darkness. And it’s something we want to do. Yet it can be a real challenge at times.
Do you struggle with evangelism? Does the word itself just cause you to cringe?
In this week's podcast I interview Pastor Tyler Jones. He is the pastor of Evangelism and Outreach at Stonewater Church in Granbury, Texas.
He’s a leader, who is actually doing Evangelism the streets. Listen in and discover some unique things about overcoming the fear of evangelism. Also, listening to realize there are some real ways to connect with people that are not as intimidating as we think.