In "The Art of Holiness," we explore practical holiness, supernatural ministry, and intergenerational encouragement. We talk with practitioners who are innovating in these areas, and often Carolyn will invite a next-generation co-host to join her for the learning.
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The Wake-Up Call is a daily encouragement to shake off the slumber of our busy lives and turn our eyes toward Jesus. Each morning our community gathers around a Scripture, a reflection, a prayer, and a few short questions, inviting us to reorient our lives around the love of Jesus that transforms our hearts, homes, churches, and cities. seedbed.com/wakeupcall
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On Mental Illness, Demonology, and the Unstoppable Love of Jesus
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24:20When they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.By Seedbed
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Three Ways of Reading the Bible. Which One Are You?
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22:10Jesus was all about the holiness of love for people as the power and purpose of God—recovering the glory of God.By Seedbed
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We loved this conversation with Dee Baty. Dee was a charter member of the Wesleyan Coveanant Association Global Council, where she served on both the Accountable Discipleship Task Force and the Sexuality Task Force. Her call is to equip the church to live into sexual holiness. She authors the weekly Resources4Redemption newsletter (available on Sub…
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Bringing the Golden Rule Back to the Gold Standard
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22:16So how do you want to be treated?By Seedbed
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Thank you for being ever ready to pull back up to the shoreline of our lives and let us get on board.By Seedbed
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This is the whole point of Jesus: to show us what it looks like when the Holy Spirit has complete domain in a humble human being.By Seedbed
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The Word of God only comes to sons and daughters and we are—every single one of us—long before and well after we are ever anything else—a beloved son or a blessed daughter.By Seedbed
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How God Gets Us Where He Wants Us . . . (and a special session with Chris Tomlin)
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24:03Caesar was playing checkers; God was playing chess.By Seedbed
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The Greatest Consecration of Faith in the Bible
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19:18Faith is having the audacity to risk everything on what you know to be the truth—the Word of God.By Seedbed
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This is where God meets us. He meets us on the day after our faith dies.By Seedbed
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David Wilkinson is a Christian theologian and Methodist minister who has earned a Ph.D. in astrophysics and another in systematic theology. His expertise as a scientist is in star formation and galaxy evolution. As a theologian he works to build bridges between science and Christianity. He leads the "Equipping Christian Leadership in an Age of Scie…
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Are You Defensive? Or Do You Just Need to Be Right?
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22:48We mostly entrust ourselves to ourselves, and that's our biggest problem.By Seedbed
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The celebration of the Lord's Supper is not about approaching with the right thoughts and feelings. It's all about embracing Jesus himself.By Seedbed
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What Word Does Jesus Say to You and Everyone?
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23:13To be attentive is to live completely, wholeheartedly, and joyfully alive to the Father, abiding in the life of Jesus through the gift of the Holy Spirit.By Seedbed
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On More Faith in our Politics and Less Politics in our Faith
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22:28Only the true and living God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is worthy of our worship.By Seedbed
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Where's the Beef? . . . I Mean, the Fruit?
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21:52Is my life bearing fruit or is it mostly a lot of leaves?By Seedbed
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The law is meant to train us to love in such a way that the law is no longer needed because it has become written on our hearts.By Seedbed
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Why the Movement Is Bigger Than the Miracle. Because the Movement Is the Miracle.
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20:03But more than help for our particular situations, we need the reign and rule of the God of heaven and earth to be completely reinstated everywhere.By Seedbed
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Utterly Overwhelmed with Amazement and Astonishment at Jesus
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18:57Lead us deeper into the overwhelming astonishment of an ever-deepening awakening to the person of Jesus.By Seedbed
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The kingdom of God is not about the efficiency of labor but the extravagance of holy love.By Seedbed
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The Five Words of Jesus That Change Everything
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24:55Don’t be afraid; only believe.By Seedbed
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The kingdom is not meant to be hidden but revealed, yet it takes a certain kind of seeing to perceive it.By Seedbed
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And while Jesus will always go where he is needed, I think it is safe to say he most wants to go where he's most wanted.By Seedbed
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Dr. Instone-Brewer received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, where he specialized in early rabbinic literature. Today he is a Baptist minister in the UK who served for twenty years as a research fellow at Tyndale House in Cambridge, He is the author of lots of books and articles, including Divorce and Remarriage in the Bible (which my frie…
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Are You a Friend Like This? Do You Have a Friend Like This?
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20:04We know nothing about the faith of the paralyzed man. This is a story about the faith and love of his friends.By Seedbed
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The time is fulfilled: now. The kingdom of God is at hand: here.By Seedbed
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In his resurrection from the dead, Jesus defeated the curse of death and destroyed the power of sin.By Seedbed
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What if the outcome of my sin actually carries the real effect of directly and particularly assaulting Jesus Christ, the God of heaven and earth?By Seedbed
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How To Worshipfully Waste Your Life On Jesus
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19:10The gospel is an unreasonable, unfathomable, incomprehensible, and inappropriate display and demonstration of the affection of God for sinners.By Seedbed
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The kind of kingdom-venturing risk-taking that matters the most involves showing mercy to those most in need of mercy and doing so in a self-forgetful way.By Seedbed
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How can we be prepared? There is only one way. Receive the gift of eternal salvation in Jesus Christ.By Seedbed
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Jesus doesn't hate hypocrites, but he hates hypocrisy.By Seedbed
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J.R. Briggs is a pastor, seminary professor, coach, consultant, and writer. He has served in megachurches, church plants, and house church networks. In 2011, he founded Kairos Partnerships -- "an organization committed to equipping leaders with the perspective and tools they need to lead with clarity, health, and confidence." He works with The Eccl…
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The main thing is the love of God.By Seedbed
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The Word of God is the winnowing fork of Jesus.By Seedbed
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Jesus Saves: Session #2 with Chris Tomlin
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16:52Abundance saves people. Scarcity kills people.By Seedbed
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Sometimes it takes decades of trying to measure up only to finally realize Jesus measured down.By Seedbed
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True humility is becoming so enraptured with Jesus you've taken on his likeness.By Seedbed
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Tara Beth Leach has been with us before. She is a friend of New Room (and a friend of mine!), a pastor, preacher, writer, and advocate for women in ministry (find her latest blog on that topic if you are a woman leader who needs a little encouragement. Its powerful). Currently, Tara Beth serves as the senior pastor at Good Shepherd Church in Naperv…
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On the Mount of Transfiguration, Jesus unveils and reveals to us what we are meant to become—ordinary human beings invested and infused with the transcendent presence of God.By Seedbed
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Jesus Asking: The Question of All Questions
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22:03Who do you say I am?By Seedbed
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Crush the dividing walls in us between us and them. Lead us into your eternal we.By Seedbed
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The master class is not how to walk on water—it's how faith overcomes fear.By Seedbed
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The rule of the kingdom is not efficiency. It is extravagance—sowing seeds everywhere all the time.By Seedbed
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The Question Jesus Asks The Most. It Will Surprise You.
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19:51The minute you seek to become a master of the text is the minute you miss the point of the text. The goal is to be mastered by the text.By Seedbed
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How to Heal Our Broken Heart from a Broken Image of God
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20:35This is a beautiful and brilliant description of what the Gospels are all about—Jesus going over the goodness and glory of God line by line with us.By Seedbed
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The Four Things Jesus Said We Must Do That We Rarely Do
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19:05Freely you have recieved; freely give.By Seedbed
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The Surprising First Prayer Request of Jesus
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22:09Jesus doesn't call us to pray for the sheep. He calls us to pray for the workers.By Seedbed
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