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Remain: The Unremarkable, Remarkable Branch
A few years ago we spent a long weekend in a beautiful home on a vineyard. While visiting the Napa region of CA, we had the treat of being hosted by a master gardener. We ate beautiful food and drank amazing wine...
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Four Common Barriers to Leadership Effectiveness
A new year full of plenty of new opportunities. However, with opportunities also come some common obstacles that can get in the way of making real, productive progress. That’s where we are headed today on the...
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Looking Ahead – Navy SEAL Tactics for Creating New Year’s Intentions
A few months ago we were in Germany leading a conference for Navy Chaplains. And as I pondered and prayed about our time together a phrase came floating up from my memory banks: “Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.” I...
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Discernment-The Benefits of Looking Back
Alan and I take walks a few times a week. And most of the time we have these amazing conversations that lead to me saying, “We should have been recording this! This could have been a podcast!” We’ve never recorded a...
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Invitation: Jesus' Question That Changes Everything
A common approach to living the Christian life is to focus on our own faith, our own practices, our own faithfulness. The emphasis in the story of scripture always begins with God—God’s great faithfulness, God’s...
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Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest
Welcome to today's podcast on rest, a conversation with author and theologian, A.J. Swoboda. Our conversation stems around the idea of rest and how it is built into the very fabric of God's beautiful...
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Vulnerability & Identity: Experiencing Love as the Center
Have you ever felt embarrassed, humiliated or ashamed? That’s a silly question. We have all felt that way at one time or another. Today, we’re looking at the vulnerability that accompanies those dynamics and how Jesus...
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The Power of Mentored Community
In this episode we look at community and what it means to be mentored within the communities in which we engage, live, work, and play. How does the posture of that community impact our spiritual growth as a...
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Inhaling Grace: A 60-Day Unhurried Living Devotional
In this episode we look at grace. One of our mentors, Wayne Anderson, often reminded us that we are not only saved by grace, but we serve by grace, lead by grace, live by grace. In other words, the generous grace of...
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Leaders as Servants: "Be Chief" Interview with Rick Miller
Today we are visiting with Rick Miller, author of Be Chief: It's a Choice, Not a Title and discussing the difference between being in a POSITION of influence versus being a PERSON of influence.
We’re very aware that...
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Listening Prayer: Living in the Remembered Companionship of Christ
Are you hungry to hear from God? Do you long for a closer, more conversational relationship with him? Today we are talking about how Jesus offers a personal invitation to listen to his voice and live in a remembered...
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Practicing Presence: Moving From Resistant to Relaxed
Sometimes in the middle of an ordinary circumstance we can find ourselves at odds with what is occurring, even when there is nothing to be at odds with.
This podcast is about prayer and presence. Not prayers. But...
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