The Uncommon Truth

Max is joined by his first Dutch guest in the new spotlight segment. Jos Van Huysse is on staff at The Father's House working with media creation, worship and Life Recovery Ministries. He shares about his skepticism upon visiting Oroville and why he felt drawn to return anyway. Now five years later, he has the privilege of helping others along the same path.

After Jos, Steve and Max talk about their shared love of baseball, in honor of the MLB trade deadline, before moving on to talk about their shared love of Jesus. Specifically, the conversation centers on what Jesus has to say about salvation.  When reading Jesus, it can be tempting to gloss over teachings that challenge our preconceived notions or even confuse us. Yet Steve faces them head on. Instead of bringing our theology to Jesus for Him to approve, we need to go to Jesus to inform our theology.

For the School of Transformation: www.transformationschool.org - www.instagram.com/sotoroville

To connect with Max: Send me an email at [email protected] with topics you would like to see covered or feedback about an episode.  

For more about The Father's House: www.changeoroville.org - www.facebook.com/fathers.house.oroville - TFHC Media on YouTube - www.instagram.com/the.fathers.house.oroville 

Steve Orsillo's books are available here on Amazon!

For Life Recovery Ministries: www.liferecoveryministry.com - www.instagram.com/lrmdiscipleship

In a new segment, Max welcomes School of Transformation teacher and alum Jessica Zeppi to talk about her experience in the school and her journey at The Father's House. She shares about meeting SOT director (and podcast guest) Geordie Mumby in Toronto and knowing there was something different about The Father's House. In the six years since, Jessica has gotten married, began helping with the school and has joined the church's pastoral staff.  

In the main part of the episode, Steve is back from a cruise he was actually paid to go on! He talks about sailing to Alaska and reminisces about the Apollo 11 moon landing which happened 50 years ago this past weekend. Continuing the theme of the uncomfortable sayings of Jesus, Steve and Max discuss what Jesus actually says about how the Kingdom of God will make its way to Earth. Sometimes we can become frustrated when the promised Kingdom doesn't seem to be getting any closer, both in our own lives and in the communities around us. Are we just supposed to be patient and wait, or do we have a role to play as individual believers in making it happen?

For the School of Transformation: www.transformationschool.org - www.instagram.com/sotoroville

To connect with Max: Send me an email at [email protected] with topics you would like to see covered or feedback about an episode.  

For more about The Father's House: www.changeoroville.org - www.facebook.com/fathers.house.oroville - TFHC Media on YouTube - www.instagram.com/the.fathers.house.oroville 

Steve Orsillo's books are available here on Amazon!

For Life Recovery Ministries: www.liferecoveryministry.com - www.instagram.com/lrmdiscipleship

Max is joined in studio by special guest Johnny Bowers. Johnny shares about how he found Jesus at The Father's House and the School of Transformation after years as the frontman for a heavy metal band. The discussion centers around the ways in which we often mischaracterize Jesus in the West. The commonplace view of Jesus is as a passive, inoffensive teacher who never crossed anyone. However, reading the New Testament shows a much different picture.

How does our view of Jesus effect how we live our lives? Do misconceptions surrounding Jesus harm our relationship with Him? Is Jesus just a nice guy you can choose to listen to or ignore? If He's more just the fluffy caricature our culture portrays Him as, we need to know. Johnny points out that a great way to get to know the real Jesus, and therefore God as well, is to read the gospels. 

To connect with Max: Send me an email [email protected] with topics you would like to see covered or questions about an episode.  

For more about The Father's House: www.changeoroville.org - www.facebook.com/fathers.house.oroville - TFHC Media on YouTube - www.instagram.com/the.fathers.house.oroville 

Steve Orsillo's books are available on Amazon!

For the School of Transformation: www.transformationschool.org - www.instagram.com/sotoroville

For Life Recovery Ministries: www.liferecoveryministry.com - www.instagram.com/lrmdiscipleship

In the final episode the series on discipleship, Max and Steve explore the cost of following Jesus. Many Christians have found themselves following Jesus without ever being warned of what that entails. Steve points out that the life of discipleship is not just for “super Christians”; discipleship is actually just regular Christianity.

To connect with Max: Send me an email [email protected] with topics you would like to see covered or questions about an episode.  

For more about The Father's House: www.changeoroville.org - www.facebook.com/fathers.house.oroville - TFHC Media on YouTube - www.instagram.com/the.fathers.house.oroville 

Steve Orsillo's books are available on Amazon!

For the School of Transformation: www.transformationschool.org - www.instagram.com/sotoroville

For Project 61 short term missions: www.project61.org - www.instagram.com/tfhcproject61

For Life Recovery Ministries: www.liferecoveryministry.com - www.instagram.com/lrmdiscipleship

Max and Steve look at the topic of discipleship from the perspective of those doing the discipling. One of the reasons Max and his family moved from Canada to The Father's House Church was because of the level of discipleship. From community living, accountability, mentorship and self sacrifice, both the methods and the results were extraordinary.  

What does it take to guide people into real relationship with Jesus and the life change that comes from that? What does it take as leaders to live lives that inspire people to follow? All this and more as Max seeks to learn from Steve's four decades of discipleship.

For more about The Father's House: www.changeoroville.org - www.facebook.com/fathers.house.oroville - TFHC Media on YouTube - www.instagram.com/the.fathers.house.oroville 

Steve Orsillo's books are available on Amazon!

For the School of Transformation: www.transformationschool.org - www.instagram.com/sotoroville

For Project 61 short term missions: www.project61.org - www.instagram.com/tfhcproject61

For Life Recovery Ministries: www.liferecoveryministry.com - www.instagram.com/lrmdiscipleship

Special guests Duncan & Kate Smith from Catch the Fire World in Raleigh, NC join Max in studio this week. Duncan and Kate Smith are revivalists who carry the fire of God's love and power all over the world. Originally from the UK, they are also Presidents of Catch The Fire World, a global network of revival churches, missions and ministries, birthed out of the Toronto Revival. They planted CTF Raleigh with their three beautiful daughters.

The Smiths share about their faith journey from the UK to Canada and eventually to North Carolina in the USA. As worldwide church leaders, they also share some perspective on the status of the Church as a whole: specifically what the North American Church can learn from believers in the rest of the world.  Finally, Duncan and Kate reflect on their visit to The Father’s House Church in Oroville and offer their impressions.  

To connect with Catch the Fire in Raleigh: ctfraleigh.com - Facebook - @catchthefireraleigh on Instagram - Twitter @ctfraleigh

CTF School of Revival: schoolofrevival.us - Facebook - @schoolofrevival on Instagram - Twitter @SoRevival

CTF Music's New Album Presence out now: catchthefiremusic.com - Facebook - YouTube - @catchthefiremusic on Instagram

Stay tuned to CTFRaleigh.com for more info on the Encounter Conference, Nov 7-9, 2019

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For more about The Father's House: www.changeoroville.org - www.facebook.com/fathers.house.oroville - TFHC Media on YouTube - www.instagram.com/the.fathers.house.oroville 

Steve Orsillo's books are available on Amazon!

For the School of Transformation: www.transformationschool.org - www.instagram.com/sotoroville

For Project 61 short term missions: www.project61.org - www.instagram.com/tfhcproject61

For Life Recovery Ministries: www.liferecoveryministry.com - www.instagram.com/lrmdiscipleship

Max and Steve continue the series on discipleship this week. If a disciple is an imitator of Jesus, or literally an identical twin, then how do we get there? Where do we even start? How do we do discipleship in real life?

Steve outlines several simple New Testament principles for becoming more and more like Jesus. Submission and surrender are not popular ideals in the West, yet scripture seems to indicate that they are necessary for discipleship. Even more uncommon is the idea that we are supposed to follow and imitate fellow humans who represent Christ well. 

For more about The Father's House: www.changeoroville.org - www.facebook.com/fathers.house.oroville - TFHC Media on YouTube - www.instagram.com/the.fathers.house.oroville 

Steve Orsillo's books are available on Amazon!

For the School of Transformation: www.transformationschool.org - www.instagram.com/sotoroville

For Project 61 short term missions: www.project61.org - www.instagram.com/tfhcproject61

For Life Recovery Ministries: www.liferecoveryministry.com - www.instagram.com/lrmdiscipleship

In his final moments on earth, Jesus commanded his followers to engage in the practice of making disciples. This command is what we like to call, “the great commission,” today, and most of us could even quote it verbatim. Yet a definition of terms is necessary to make sure our way of making disciples today matches with what Jesus had in mind. 

In this episode, the first in a multi-part series on discipleship, Max and Steve start with the basics: what is the definition of a disciple? Is a disciple just the title given to someone who has believed in Jesus?  Is there a difference between the life of a disciple and that of “normal Christians?” What characteristics do disciples demonstrate? Before we go about making disciples, we need to make sure we understand what Jesus meant by the word.

For more about The Father's House: www.changeoroville.org - www.facebook.com/fathers.house.oroville - TFHC Media on YouTube - www.instagram.com/the.fathers.house.oroville 

Steve Orsillo's books are available on Amazon!

For the School of Transformation: www.transformationschool.org - www.instagram.com/sotoroville

For Project 61 short term missions: www.project61.org - www.instagram.com/tfhcproject61

For Life Recovery Ministries: www.liferecoveryministry.com - www.instagram.com/lrmdiscipleship

When it comes to measuring success, whether in church, business or life in general, it is important to understand what constitutes success.  In today's Christianity in North America, the churches and ministries we consider successful are usually the ones with the largest followings.  In other words, our standard for what we deem successful is not that different from what our Western culture calls success.  

In this episode, Max and Steve talk about how consumerism and a worldly success model have impacted how we minister.  Is there more to the story of success than just attendance numbers, building size and giving statements?  What was Jesus' standard for determining success?  If believers are the product that we are producing, are we happy with the outcome?

For more about The Father's House: www.changeoroville.org - www.facebook.com/fathers.house.oroville - TFHC Media on YouTube - www.instagram.com/the.fathers.house.oroville 

Steve Orsillo's books are available on Amazon!

For the School of Transformation: www.transformationschool.org - www.instagram.com/sotoroville

For Project 61 short term missions: www.project61.org - www.instagram.com/tfhcproject61

For Life Recovery Ministries: www.liferecoveryministry.com - www.instagram.com/lrmdiscipleship

In the West, and in North America especially, our culture has elevated individual independence to new levels. When we look at that through our 21st Century, Western worldview that does not seem like anything to be concerned about.  However, how does that effect the way we as Christians represent Jesus to the rest of the world?  

Jesus calls Christians to be unified with Him, the Father, the Holy Spirit and each other.  Yet we find ourselves scattered, living outside of Christian community and depending on no one but ourselves. Max is joined again by Geordie Mumby to discuss the implications of such independence and to explore the Biblical alternative.  

For more about The Father's House: www.changeoroville.org - www.facebook.com/fathers.house.oroville - TFHC Media on YouTube - www.instagram.com/the.fathers.house.oroville 

Steve Orsillo's books are available on Amazon!

For the School of Transformation: www.transformationschool.org - www.instagram.com/sotoroville

For Project 61 short term missions: www.project61.org - www.instagram.com/tfhcproject61

For Life Recovery Ministries: www.liferecoveryministry.com - www.instagram.com/lrmdiscipleship