337. Bringing Life to Forgotten Churches: Interview with Bob Shanks
The Rob Skinner Podcast: Helping You Make This Life Count
Release Date: 09/15/2025
337. Bringing Life to Forgotten Churches: Interview with Bob Shanks
The Rob Skinner Podcast: Helping You Make This Life Count
How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast. If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here: I’m Rob Skinner and this is the Rob Skinner Podcast. Sometimes churches get forgotten, neglected or passed over. Bob Shanks has gone to one of those “forgotten” churches and brought new life to the church he leads in Savannah, Georgia. Bob was living on his own at fifteen, married at 20 with two kids already. Christ found him and his wife Tricia, turned their lives around and they have spent the last 30...
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336. Financially Independent at 40: Octave Lindly Talks About How to Achieve Financial Freedom
The Rob Skinner Podcast: Helping You Make This Life Count
How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast. If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here: Octave Lindly is a disciple living in San Diego, California. In this episode he shares how he became financially independent by the age of 40. He also shares about his spiritual journey, his marriage and divorce and how a person can become financially free in 10 years.
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335. How to Enjoy Peace of Mind
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How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast. If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here: Transcript of How to Enjoy Peace of Mind When Jesus was about to leave this world, he told his disciples, “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” (John 14:27) He knew that he was headed for the cross. He knew his disciples were going to experience trials, tough times and lots of trouble. ...
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334. How to Become a Loving Person
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How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast. If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here: Transcript for How to Become a Loving Person Pam and I just moved to Boston from Tucson, Arizona. We lived there for 13 years. We planted the church there and created so many memories. The last month we were there, we were busy packing up and saying goodbye to people. It’s hard to condense thirteen years into a few goodbyes. You know what was most important to Pam and me? Knowing that I...
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333. The Power of Right Now
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How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast. If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here: There are three things that we can start doing that will take our faith from theory to practice every single day. All we need to do is: 1. Encourage right now 2. Connect right now 3. Pray right now Find out how in this episode of the Rob Skinner Podcast! How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast. If you would like to help support my mission to multiply...
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332. The Best of RSP: Interview with Gordon Ferguson (Originally Released as Episode 172, August 2022)
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How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast. If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here: Join me today as I talk to Gordon Ferguson. Gordon has served as an Evangelist, Elder, Teacher and Author. He talks about: His journey to Christ The secret to his happy marriage with his wife, Theresa How he got connected with the discipling movement What went through his mind as he lay close to death from cancer What he’d do differently if he had his life to do over again What he sees as essential for future growth in our...
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331. The Best of RSP: Interview with Lynne Green, Seattle, Washington, USA (Episode 28)
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How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast. If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here: The Best of The Rob Skinner Podcast. This episode was originally released in August of 2020 as episode 28. Lynne Greene and her husband, Scott, planted a church in Hong Kong in 1987 that grew to 2,000 disciples in only ten years. They returned to the US to lead the church in Seattle, Washington. The Greens then decided to return to the mission field by moving to Berlin, Germany. That's where she found out...
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330. The Best of RSP, Mike Fontenot: A Life Dedicated to The Ministry. Originally Released as Episode 7.
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How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast. If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here: While on sabbatical I am releasing some of my most listened to episodes from my podcast. Mike Fontenot's is one of my most popular interviews. It was originally released as episode #7. Please enjoy! Who is Mike Fontenot? Mike Fontenot became a Christian in 1969. After graduating from Louisiana State University, he went to Fuller Seminary for his Master's Degree. He and his wife, Tess,...
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329. The Best of RSP: Pat Gempel, Pioneer of Women's Ministry
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How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast. If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here: In this episode, my wife Pam and I talk to Pat Gempel, a pioneer of women’s ministry and one of the "30 would-be disciples" who gathered in a living room in Boston and propelled the church to 60% annual growth for 10 straight years. She shares: How she came to Boston What it was like at the beginning of the Boston Movement How she found her daughter that she had put up for adoption 23 years earlier How she lost her husband, Bob Her...
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328. Jose Luis and Rosario Palacios: He Planted a Church as an Ex-Pat and Converted his Future Wife.
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How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast. If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here: Jose Luis Palacios was born in Spain, studied at the University of Idaho and played tennis there. He graduated and started working in corporate America. He was posted to Saltillo, Mexico, the "Detroit" of Mexico. There he met and reached out to his future wife, Rosario Padilla. He brought her to the nearest church 90 minutes away in Monterrey, Mexico. He began meeting with his small group on Wednesdays...
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I’m Rob Skinner and this is the Rob Skinner Podcast. Sometimes churches get forgotten, neglected or passed over. Bob Shanks has gone to one of those “forgotten” churches and brought new life to the church he leads in Savannah, Georgia. Bob was living on his own at fifteen, married at 20 with two kids already. Christ found him and his wife Tricia, turned their lives around and they have spent the last 30 years transforming churches. Find out who he is and what he’s doing to rekindle faith in this episode of the Rob Skinner Podcast!