Listens for Insight - Hearing the Heartbeat of the Community: The Wisdom at the Edges
the Church Podcast
Focus: True insight often lies beyond the spotlight. Those who listen with humility and seek understanding from the margins become conduits of God’s wisdom because the Spirit speaks through unexpected voices. Proverbs 18:15
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Listens for Insight - Hearing the Heartbeat of the Community: The Echo in the Unknown
the Church Podcast
Focus: Listening well means paying attention to what others already sense but haven’t yet named. When we respect unfamiliar voices and unknown altars, we create space to speak the gospel with clarity, grace, and resonance. Acts 17:22-23
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Listens for Insight - Hearing the Heartbeat of the Community: The Pulse in the Place
the Church Podcast
Focus: To hear the heartbeat of our community, we must dwell with intention, planting ourselves not as outsiders looking in, but as participants living among. True listening happens not through observation alone, but through shared rhythms, rooted presence, and a posture of peace-seeking within the everyday realities of our neighbors. Jeremiah 29:4-7
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Listens for Insight - Hearing the Heartbeat of the Community: The Whisper at the Crossroads
the Church Podcast
Focus: Before we can hear the heartbeat of our neighbors, we must learn to recognize the still, small voice of God, especially when conflict, weariness, and isolation cloud our calling. In the quiet, God re-centers us, not just with comfort, but with renewed direction. 1 Kings 19:9-16
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Engages With Neighbors - Bridging Differences: Wearing Love
the Church Podcast
Focus: As we live reconciled with each other we’re called to live to the unity God made in us. We’re called to clothe ourselves with the fruit of the spirit, and above all to clothe ourselves with love, because love binds us all together in perfect harmony. Colossians 3:11-14
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Engages With Neighbors - Bridging Differences: Ambassadors of Reconciliation
the Church Podcast
Focus: As we experience reconciliation in Christ we are called to share the message with others. That God in Christ is no longer counting people’s sins against them. So He calls us to “Come back to God” and to share the invitation with everyone. As we walk the bridge we invite everyone to join us on the bridge and experience life reconnected to God and each other. 2 Corinthians 5:18-20
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Engages With Neighbors - Faith in Action: Serving Christ
the Church Podcast
Focus: If a son or daughter of a King needed something, many would jump to action at the chance to help, knowing that they were helping the King’s family. How fully do we believe that other people are brothers and sisters of Christ? Matthew 25:31-46
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Engages With Neighbors - Faith in Action: Putting Our Gifts To Work
the Church Podcast
Focus: Faith in action includes using our God-given gifts with confidence and purpose, that is, confidence in God and in His purpose for the gifts He has given us. All Glory to Him! 1 Peter 4:8-11
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Engages With Neighbors - Bridging Differences: United In Christ
the Church Podcast
Focus: As we seek to be part of bridging differences we first deal with the truth that Jesus destroyed the differences that were based on the law. In Him all believers are brothers and sisters, all are forgiven sinners, and all of us are at peace with God, and so also at peace with each other. So we first walk the bridge and experience life Christ gives us, without those divisions. Ephesians 2:14-18
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Dependent - Focus 2: Distraction of Wealth & Possessions
the Church Podcast
Focus: What treasures did the wealthy man forfeit when he turned away from Jesus with a heavy heart? What blessings do we forfeit when we prioritize our possessions over our relationship with Him? What burdens do we bear when we exalt the fleeting pleasures of this world above the eternal riches of Jesus' Kingdom? Matthew 19:16-26
info_outlineFocus: Mob mentality is strong. God’s promise is stronger. The pull to come up short in the face of the enemy is relentless. God’s will is stronger still. And, He is with us!
Numbers 13:17-14:9