This Is Her Story

Welcome back! Shout out to my new friend, Pastor Kris Beckert! We recorded this several weeks ago and I am finally publishing it. Pastor Kris is a lead pastor in Pennsylvania and a trainer with Fresh Expressions. We talk about church planting, APEST, and giving people permission to try new things. 

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Welcome back, friends! Whoa, it's been awhile. Let's talk about church planting models and assessment centers. Check out the links below, especially Pastor Ellis Benton's podcast, The Nazarene Church Planting Podcast. 

The Nazarene Church Planting Podcast 

Dynamic Church Planting International (DCPI) 

Stadia Church Planting 

ACR Churches 

Fresh Expressions 

Fresh Expression Books 

A Church Called Tov: Forming a Goodness Culture that Resists Abuses of Power and Promotes Healing

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Welcome back, friends! In this episode, I share my recent vocational status change and other thoughts. Let's talk about why we need the Church. 

In this episode...

The Nazarene Church Planting Podcast

Fresh Expressions 

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Hey friends! Welcome back to the podcast. In this episode, I interview Pastor Tara Beth Leach. She is on staff at Christ Church in Oakbrook, Illinois. Tara Beth is also the author of three books; Emboldened, Radiant Church, and 40 Days on Being an Enneagram Six. We mostly discuss Radiant Church and making decisions as an enneagram six. However, we also share about pastoring while grieving. It is a great episode to share with a friend. We are now on Apple, Google, Stitcher, Spotify, and Amazon Music. 

Other stuff mentioned in the episode:

Suzanne Stabile 

Richard Rohr

Brene Brown's Dare to Lead

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So many good things in this episode! I could have made the title much longer. We talk about lifelong learning and submitting to the process. We also discuss the differences between Wesleyan-Holiness and American-Holiness, and why it matters. 

Here are some links to things mentioned in the podcast:

Models of Evangelism (Pope-Levison) 

Trevecca Nazarene Community Church 

InterVarsity Press 

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What I'm reading:

Binding the Strong Man (Ched Myers) 

Radiant Church (Leach) 

Please welcome my new friend, Pastor Aeysha Young to the podcast! She is a pastor at Kentwood Community Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We talk about small groups and creating community. She also shares about being a single pastor during a pandemic. It's a fun episode, but we had a little Zoom trouble. You know how that goes! It will still bless you. 

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Welcome back! In this episode, I discuss the new podcast, The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, and the book, The Infinite Game. Let's talk about how our finite game theory approach has set us up to create a culture that cultivates leaders like Mark Driscoll. Then let's do some soul searching and see how we might be the solution to the problem. 

Stuff mentioned in this episode:

The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill (podcast) 

Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership (Gary McIntosh) 

Darrin Patrick Removed from Acts 29 

Narcissism Vs. Narcissistic Personality Disorder (YouTube) 

Infinite Game Theory (Simon Sinek) 

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Please welcome Pastor Amber Kunkel to the podcast! She is an ordained minister in the Wesleyan Church and a military chaplain. Amber is also the Conference Director for the Wesleyan Holiness Women Clergy Conference. 

We talk about when you don't know what God is calling you to. We also talk about the third option that we usually never see coming. And we discuss seasons of wilderness. Hang in there a little longer. God has a third option you never saw coming! 

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Kadi Cole Find Your Leadership Voice and Developing Women Leaders 

Jo Saxton Ready to Rise 

Welcome back, friends! Are you ready for this? Pastor Christine Hung is the Director of Pastoral Development on the Nazarene Northern California District. Previously, she was the campus pastor of Trinity Church Rowland Heights (CA). We have a great conversation about lifelong learning as pastors. We also discuss the NOW Movement which is a grassroots movement pursuing justice issues. You can find it on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. 

Link to Paragraph 915

The podcast will be at the WHWC conference in March 2022. You can learn more at the conference website. Save $100 with early bird pricing and come visit me at the podcast booth! 

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Discrimination. The Church of the Nazarene reiterates its historic position of Christian compassion for people of all races. We believe that God is the Creator of all people, and that of one blood are all people created.

We believe that each individual, regardless of race, color, gender, or creed, should have equality before law, including the right to vote, equal access to educational opportunities, to all public facilities, and to the equal opportunity, according to one’s ability, to earn a living free from any job or economic discrimination.

We urge our churches everywhere to continue and strengthen programs of education to promote racial understanding and harmony. We also feel that the scriptural admonition of Hebrews 12:14 should guide the actions of our people. We urge that each member of the Church of the Nazarene humbly examine his or her personal attitudes and actions toward others, as a first step in achieving the Christian goal of full participation by all in the life of the church and the entire community.

We reemphasize our belief that holiness of heart and life is the basis for right living. We believe that Christian charity between racial groups or gender will come when the hearts of people have been changed by complete submission to Jesus Christ, and that the essence of true Christianity consists in loving God with one’s heart, soul, mind, and strength, and one’s neighbor as oneself.

Therefore, we renounce any form of racial and ethnic indifference, exclusion, subjugation, or oppression as a grave sin against God and our fellow human beings. We lament the legacy of every form of racism throughout the world, and we seek to confront that legacy through repentance, reconciliation, and biblical justice. We seek to repent of every behavior in which we have been overtly or covertly complicit with the sin of racism, both past and present; and in confession and lament we seek forgiveness and reconciliation.

Further, we acknowledge that there is no reconciliation apart from human struggle to stand against and to overcome all personal, institutional and structural prejudice responsible for racial and ethnic humiliation and oppression. We call upon Nazarenes everywhere to identify and seek to remove acts and structures of prejudice, to facilitate occasions for seeking forgiveness and reconciliation, and to take action toward empowering those who have been marginalized. (2017)

Welcome back, friends! In this episode, I interview my friend, Rev. Dan Bohi. We talk about the near-death experience that radically changed his life. I have included the links below mentioned in this episode.

The Lazy Genius Podcast 

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