Your Authentic Life

Incredible conversation with Doug Johnson on being Spiritual Fathers and the loving heart of God for His children.

Get Doug's book he co-wrote with Robert Muncy by clicking the link below

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Fathers-Imaging-Divine-Relationship/dp/B0C1J7CRT7/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1693523095&sr=8-1

Dr. David Ireland is founder and lead pastor of Christ Church, a 10,000-member multisite congregation in North Jersey representing over 70 nationalities. Former diversity consultant to the National Basketball Association, Dr. Ireland has led chapel services for the New York Giants, New York Jets, and at the U.S. Pentagon. Dr. Ireland is the author of over 25 books including Raising a Child Who Prays and One in Christ.

The Rev. Ireland holds graduate degrees in engineering, theology, organizational leadership, and social innovation having completed post-doctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Cambridge in England. He and his wife, Dr. Marlinda Ireland, have been married since 1984 and have two adult daughters and a son-in-law.

A trailer for season 3!

In this episode I got to chat with my dad on the theology of Calling and assignment and what that looks like in our everyday lives and how there can be abuse of it within the church and other organizations as well.

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Jackie McGriff is a creative entrepreneur who loves photography and film. In this dialogue, Jackie and I discuss Black representation in film and movies and her latest endeavor, the "Our Voices Project"

Find out more at www.ourvoicesproject.com

Martin Trench is Co-Author of "Victorious Eschatology", Author of "Eyes Wide Open" and his most recent book "Secrets of Spiritual Growth".

Martin is a Pastor, Teacher, and author. Well respected international teacher and church consultant. In this episode we talk about the "secrets" to spiritual growth by diving into 1 John 2.

visit Martins website for more information and buy his books anywhere books are sold.

www.martintrench.com

In this episode, I chat with my dear friend Ian Eppard about Sacraments and the presence of God in them!

In this episode I chat with Strahan Coleman about his latest book "Beholding, Deepening our Experience in God"

From the Commoners Communions website:

Strahan is a writer, award winning folk musician and spiritual director from Aotearoa, New Zealand. He founded Commoners Communion in 2017 to explore what it means to become a deeply prayerful people in our times. Since then, he has written three prayer books - Prayer Vol. 01, 02 & 03 that offer poetic prayers, contemplations and reflections that help the reader deepen their own communion with the God of their hearts. 
His work has been featured in the Bridgetown Daily Podcast, Ekstasis Magazine and his poem Never Alone from Prayer Vol. 01 was performed by Amanda Cook and the Cageless Birds during a live worship and prayer recording in 2020.
Strahan’s work helps people to grow a deep friendship with God, seeing prayer as far more than conscious mental dialogue but as way of existing with God in our every day ordinary lives. His prayers and poems are invitations toward an honest, rested and open life lived in the Spirit and his dialogue around how we can incorporate ancient prayer forms into our modern lives has helped give language to a generation longing for a deeper living experience of God.
His music has been described as psalmic, ‘[making] the tension between heaven and earth that much more palpable’. His music has featured Josh Garrels and John Mark McMillan and his debut album Posters won New Zealand’s Gospel Album of The Year Award as well as being named in The Gospel Coalition’s ‘Best Christian Albums of the 2010’s’.
Today he runs spiritual retreats that both teach and embody a more contemplative life, teaches Online Prayer Schools and publishes the Commoners Communion Podcast, a space to further explore the devotional works of his books and what a contemporary christian spirituality can look like in our times.
Strahan is finishing his study as a spiritual director through Spiritual Growth Ministries and is working on his first non-fiction book Beholding: Deepening Our Experience in God which tells his story of moving from a working relationship with God to a friendship and invites the reader to give up consumer christianity for a more beautiful and rich life of seeing and being seen by God.