127: Round Table: Christmas in the Classroom
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Release Date: 12/08/2023
149: The Church in Northern India (with Sonam)
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Our guest this week shares from his personal experience with and research about the Indian church specifically, as well as the global Church as a whole. To learn more about the International Day for the Unreached, listen to . “The Church is influenced by society [...] and yet, we are also different because of the human-Divine meeting in the church. It is not just another human plane of belonging, but there is this coming together with the Divine in the church, which gives us another dimension of being.” “Ultimately, we are united through one Lord Jesus Christ [...] but we are also...
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148: 15 Tips for Ending the School Year
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As the end of the school year approaches, listen in for tips from some of our Season 4 guests! Linda Kardamis: Step back and consider what you want to accomplish before the end of the year. Christy Biscocho: End the year with a dance party! Jessica Moulding: Pay attention to student needs, stay focused on year-end goals, and give yourself grace. Savana Duke: Create space for all students to process upcoming transitions. Tami: Take time to enjoy your students, and write down everything you need to accomplish. Jacob Cavett: Plan well for the summer. Cesar Valdez: Spend time in the Word of God....
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147: Being Human in the Age of AI (with Thorsten Marbach)
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What are the potential benefits and dangers of Artificial Intelligence? How can we approach AI through a Biblical worldview? Perhaps you’ve been asking these questions, too. Thorsten Marbach shares helpful insight in navigating the world of AI as humans created in the image of God. “The further into the future we look, the more divergent the possible scenarios and predictions are.” “What does it actually understand? There’s a very clear answer to that, and the answer is nothing.” “We need to catch a wake-up; we can’t just let this thing slide. This stuff is developing very...
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146: Doing Life Together (with Brian Delamont)
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What does it look like to honor God and others while living in community? Brian Delamont returns to the podcast to share about the foundation of prayer, the path through problems, and the power of the Holy Spirit. “Doing life together will connect you with prayer, with problems, and with power.” Philippians 1:3-7, 9-11 “When we do life together, that’s when God gives us this wonderful, awkward, uncomfortable opportunity to grow, to take what I see is lacking in someone else’s life and to pray about it, to thank God every time I remember them, to pray that their love for God will...
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145: Compelled to Go - A Calling Story (with Jonathan)
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How has God gifted you to serve? Hear from a TeachBeyond member about his experience leaving Canada to teach English in Asia. “[Teaching] a wide range of things means a lot of really great opportunities to hang out with the kids and give them the best of what I know, best of what I have and share with them as best I can what it means to know God and be a part of what He’s doing in the world.” “The stakes are really high. We can’t really afford to not care about this. We’ve got to go! If there are people who haven’t heard, then people need to go.” “It’s not me that really...
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144: What’s Your Story? (with Tosca Nathan)
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What’s your story, and why does that matter? Long-time educator Tosca Nathan shares about the significance of knowing your story and connecting to God’s bigger story, especially as teachers. “Like any story, our life stories have a path, they have a trajectory, and it’s full of meaningful events, defining moments, key relationships, trials and disappointments, dreams and aspirations, passions and discoveries.” “How coherent your life story is and how coherently you can talk about your life story has been seen as a factor in well-being.” Coherence of time, thematic coherence, and...
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143: 5 Tips for Saying Goodbye (with Lindsay Nimmon)
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Do you have a big life transition looming ahead? Is someone you know planning to move away? Lindsay Nimmon provides a Biblical framework for saying goodbye well, then gets practical, walking through the RAFT acronym and five tips for applying these transition principles. “When you’re living overseas, you’re bound to say more goodbyes and experience more grief as a result of those goodbyes than any monocultural or non-mobile peer.” “People are eternal beings who are not meant for endings, so goodbyes hurt, but we hear God’s call to us as Christians to go into all the world and make...
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142: The Gospel at the Heart of Missions (with David Platt)
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Pastor and author David Platt joins us for this Good Friday episode, where we focus on the Gospel and its centrality to missions. What makes the Gospel the good news, and how can we be part of sharing it with others? Listen in for an inspiring story about Gospel impact on a community and be challenged to take up our cross and follow Jesus. “We are made for life in relationship with God.” “He rose from the grave, conquering sin and death, so that anybody anywhere in any nation, no matter who you are and what you’ve done, if you will repent and believe, turn from your sin and...
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141: Authenticity, Identity, and Belonging (with Brian Delamont)
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Brian Delamont returns to the podcast to explore the Merriam-Webster Dictionary word of the year – “authentic” – through a Biblical lens. Heather draws a connection to her word of the year from 2023, and Keane shares a profound quote from C.S. Lewis. by Raphael Haeuser by David Lomas “It’s crucial to ground identity in something proven and dependable, something that doesn’t shift.” Genesis 1:27 “Humans are inescapably, for all eternity, created in God’s image; it’s inherent in us. Therefore we long for the characteristics that can only be satisfied in Him.” Mark 8:35...
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140: Serving in Northern Kenya - A Calling Story (with Wangūi Maina)
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How does an Internet search lead to missions work? What is it like to provide literacy training amongst nomadic communities? Hear from Wangūi Maina about her experiences following the Lord to multiple different countries and what it’s like to serve now in Northern Kenya. “I felt the Lord say, ‘Forget all of the things you’re trying to figure out. Just trust Me and go.’” “Northern Kenya in 2024, still has the highest illiteracy rates in the whole of East Africa.” “One of the greatest impacts that I have seen is seeing children who were not interested in school because of the...
info_outlineTeachBeyond teachers Tami and Savana join Heather for a round table discussion about Christmas in the classroom. From book recommendations to classroom activities, this conversation is filled with enthusiastic laughter and the truth of the Gospel.
- “I love to really keep what I do in the classroom centered on the kids and allowing them to be a part of it.” - Savana
- “We’ve had some kids really ask such great questions after singing these songs and hearing these words.” - Savana
- “I always have to think about my students. What is going to be the most impactful for me to reach them on a spiritual level?” - Tami
- Book suggestions: The Tale of Three Trees by Angela Elwell Hunt, The Legend of the Candy Cane by Lori Walburg, They Followed the Star by A. E. Dingee, Song of the Stars by Sally Lloyd-Jones, Little Lamb from Bethlehem by Christine Stevens Mower, This Is the Stable by Cynthia Cotten, and Angel, Angel, What Do You See? By Cheri Pless Dittmer
- “What goals do we already have? How could those be accomplished in a way that is fun and meaningful in this season?” - Heather
- “That’s a big thing for me - making it as real to them as possible in different ways, while mixing in the fun stuff.” - Savana
- “For them to really see God through His Son and why He loved us enough to send Him to rescue us is a big deal.” - Tami
- “Jesus is the light of the world. When we put these lights on our Christmas tree every year, we can remember He is the light of the world.” - Tami
- “God’s Word transforms us [...] I get the privilege to see my students take that in.” - Tami
- 1 John 3:8
- “Christ came to expose the darkness. Baby Jesus raged war against sin and against our enemy to conquer him [...] We get to share the beauty of the season because our King has come!” - Tami
What’s changing our lives:
- Heather: Video chatting with nephews
- Savana: Processing how to handle emotions
- Tami: Driving in East Africa
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