Bill has been a champion of revival and awakening for decades, especially after he led his own church through 19 days and nights of prayer and worship. Bill talks about the issues we have in seeking experiences instead of Jesus himself, but also the issues if we avoid emotion and experience altogether. Bill will encourage you to open your eyes to all God is doing in our unique time and places, and thinks we could be on the verge of seeing a great move of God in our day. You can find Bill's book ...
Jun 05, 2024•39 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Roy and Daphne Godwin decided to do things differently as they led a prayer retreat center for years in Western Wales called Flald-y-Brenin. As people arrived, they pulled back from programming and even teaching as their all-consuming goals became introducing people to the presence of Jesus. Learn how the Godwins learned to simply make space for his presence, and hear some stories about how people's lives were subsequently changed. It takes humility to remove ourselves from the picture, and it t...
May 30, 2024•45 min•Season 3Ep. 3
As the chapel speaker before the Asbury Outpouring last year, Zach shares with us about the days and weeks leading up to the revival, the consecration room that was vitally important behind the scenes, the desire to propel the leadership of Gen Z above celebrity, and the role that humility prays as we seek the presence of God. -- If you would like to become a Dwellings Partner through a one-time or monthly gift, you can sign up today here: https://www.dwellings.info/give Want to meet friends on ...
May 22, 2024•45 min•Season 3Ep. 2
In this episode, Kathryn and David briefly talk about the tendencies we have to operate in our own power, ignoring the fact that he is here and wants to lead the way. Join our conversation around what it looks like to start with yourself, asking Jesus to be real in your life again. Awakening typically starts when just a few people begin to confess their sins, get right with God again, and invite him in new ways into thier lives and communities. You'll hear about how this happened years ago on a ...
May 15, 2024•35 min•Season 3Ep. 1
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May 14, 2024•2 min
This episode gives you a glance behind the scenes to our one of our online gatherings of the Dwellings Cohort. Francis Chan is the bestselling author of Crazy Love, Forgotten God , and Letters to the Church , and leads a house church movement in San Francisco. He inspires us all with his recent growing appetite to devour the Scriptures, reminding us that a reading of the Word of God from an unskilled orator might just change us more than any carefully crafted sermon that didn't center on Scriptu...
Jan 31, 2024•52 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Dwellings' Content Developer Sarah Wood has a background in both ministry and education and finds the crossroads between the two to be an interesting subject for our time in the Church. On this week's episode, Sarah tells us about Jesus's conversational style of teaching his disciples and how it challenges our models of discipleship today. Do you know how many curiosity-provoking questions he asked them? Little of Jesus's time with them involved preaching sermons. Also see how conversational lea...
Jan 17, 2024•27 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Ryan Skoog of Minneapolis, head of Venture, tells us about his ministry abroad and in the US, and his increasing passion to create replicable forms of discipleship. Hear Ryan talk about where he is seeing the most response to the house church movement in the US, how he is inspired to form international communities in his hometown after visiting Nepal, and the transition he has made overseas as he supports pastors in the most unreached parts of the world. -- The Dwellings Podcast is only possible...
Jan 10, 2024•49 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Kathryn opens up a conversation around the third shift we are making in our discipleship: from spectators to participants. In an era where our discipleship forms have often centered around a stage or a video, it's interesting to look back at Jesus's way with his disciples. He was the ultimate Rabbi, (teacher) but his teaching was different because it invited participation. He invited his disciples into conversation, asking over 300 questions, and he invited them into practicing their faith... in...
Jan 03, 2024•5 min•Season 2Ep. 8
When Mary and Joseph arrived at the inn some 2000 years ago, there wasn’t room for them at the inn. So many of us can find ourselves in the same place this week- so consumed with tasks that we miss Jesus himself. The places we inhabit can also become too full for him, even this week. What type of things can we cut to make room for him? What would it look like for our homes to be more like the manger bed- open and ready to receive him?
Dec 22, 2023•13 min•Season 2Ep. 7
In a world that has more accessible information than ever before, we can move beyond information transfer to transformational discipleship. While having knowledge about the Bible and God is very important, it is not enough... we were called to relationship with him. God is meant to be experientially known, not just mentally known. Job had second hand knowledge of God but desired a first hand experience of him... reminding us that there is always more for us as well. The Dwellings Podcast is only...
Dec 13, 2023•32 min•Season 2Ep. 6
We're adding this bonus episode at the end of our shift from isolation to family, after hearing from so many of you that your relationship with family has been complicated or wounding. Kathleen Doyle, a pastor counselor with over 25 years of church leadership experience, helps us walk through what it means to disentangle our relationship with Jesus from the wounds of people, the difference in spiritual abuse and wounding, and some steps we could take to move forward and reimagine what it could m...
Dec 06, 2023•46 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Hear David and Kathryn talk about how Jesus's life with his disciples was spent largely outside the walls of the temple-- not giving sermons but relating to them in real life: eating, drinking, fishing, walking with them. How should his life inform the way we look at Christian community? Hear some practical steps on how we can make a shift in our own communities from institutional to relational. The Dwellings Podcast is only possible because of the generous partnership of people like you. If you...
Nov 22, 2023•44 min•Season 2Ep. 4
One of the world's leading missiologists, Alan Hirsch, comes to us from Australia, explaining how we should question titles but embrace giftings in the church. Learn about the gifting that Christ has given his church, outlined in Eph 4, and a test we can take to help us understand the roles of: apostle, prophet, evangelist, shepherd, teacher. Kathryn and Alan discuss how these giftings have a scope way beyond church and ministry staff positions. They also talk about how certain leadership gifts ...
Nov 15, 2023•44 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Our culture in the West is increasingly individualistic, and increasingly lonely. Listen as Kathryn talks with Jack Meckfessel around an antidote... the spiritual family. What would it look like to recapture a sense of the church being a family over an institution? Jack gives stories from his house church experience in Thailand, and shares what he learned after experiencing the beauty of several models of church. The Dwellings Podcast is only possible because of the generous partnership of peopl...
Nov 08, 2023•32 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Today Kathryn introduces three shifts that are important for us to consider in the church. This episode introduces the shifts we will talk about during this season: isolation to family, information to transformation, and spectators to participants. We will be reminded that many of these aren't just a shift toward the future, but an echo of the past, as they are informed by the ways of the early church. We will also see how we are being informed by the ways of the church in the global south, wher...
Nov 01, 2023•9 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Dwellings Podcast Season 2 is on Future Shifts for the church. In this series we will explore shifts we feel God calling us into during this season. While they feel new to us in the West, they are actually shifts toward the early church, and are in keeping with the ways of the church in the global south where Christianity is growing the fastest.
Oct 26, 2023•3 min
Click the link bellow to learn more about the Dwellings Cohort: https://dwellings.info/cohort Click the link bellow to apply for the Dwellings Cohort: https://forms.gle/eybXdwxxdGxgMDhj7 The Dwellings Cohort is a 5- month collaborative learning opportunity designed to take you deeper in the mission of building communities centered around the presence of Jesus. We will be joined by the voices of Jennie Allen, Francis Chan, David Legge, and others, either in person or via our interactive Zoom call...
Aug 16, 2023•1 min
When it comes to making decisions, sometimes we isolate, making pros and cons lists or ruminating in our beds at 3am. Other times, we seek the counsel of others, hoping their advice can bring clarity to the situation at hand. While we can make decisions on our own, and we do need advice from others, we can often forget that God has ways of speaking into our situation with wisdom that is above the wisdom of man. Learn about a practical tool to use when it comes to making decisions in your life th...
Aug 01, 2023•15 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Despite it being a country where a conversion to Christianity can mean execution, Iran has the fastest growing Christian church in the world. Large numbers of Muslims have first been introduced to Jesus through a dream or vision. Why would God use dreams to reach the Muslim world? And what happens after these dreams or visions occur? In this eye-opening episode, Kathryn invites to Tom to help us know whether dreams and visions can be trusted as a way to hear God's voice. You can learn more about...
Jul 25, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Some of us have a life with God that is characterized by being with him. We might have a lot of practice hearing God's voice. Others of us have a more active life with God, one characterized by doing. We might struggle to sit around listening for God when there is so much to do on the earth. Inspired by the book Aaron and Kathryn wrote, Whole, this conversation focuses on how hearing God's voice relates to taking action. You can learn more about the book Whole here: http://readwhole.com You can ...
Jul 18, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 6
In this episode, we are joined by David Legge to discuss how we can hear God’s voice through Scripture. Sometimes Scripture can get dry when we treat it as a history book. But we are actually able to hear God through Scripture. Hear about the differences in the words "logos" and "rhema," which are both used to represent the "word" in Scripture. Learn some practical ways we can begin to actually relate to God in his Word. During this podcast, the following resources were mentioned or recommended:...
Jul 11, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 5
What is the prophetic? How do we hear God's voice on behalf of other people in our lives? How do we practice this in humility? Katia Adams , who founded and pastors The Table Boston with her husband Julian, helps demystify the prophetic, and gives us 3 practical ways we can all grow, following Pauls's charge in I Corinthians 14:1 - "Pursue love, but strive eagerly for the spiritual gifts, above all that you may prophesy." Don't miss this inspiring episode. You can find out more about Katia's chu...
Jun 27, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Today Kathryn is talking with our friend David Legge about his conviction to live by radical faith when it comes to his finances. After pastoring a local church for a decade, David became an itinerant pastor in Northern Ireland, and he shares many of his teachings via his podcast, Preach the Word. In this episode, David explains how he heard God call him into a life of not depending on man for money, and a story about just one of the miraculous ways God has provided along the way. If you are fam...
Jun 20, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Today Kathryn talks to Jonny Hughes in Nottingham, England, pastor of Trinity Nottingham. The church's beginnings are marked by the passionate prayers of an ordinary man named Don, who received a vision that he couldn't dismiss. Listen as Jonny and Kathryn talk about God giving unexplainable vision, having faith to contend for that vision, and what that can mean for ourselves and our communities. During this podcast, the following resources were mentioned or recommended: "Show your Power" by Kev...
Jun 13, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Our friend Darren Rouanzoin is joining us today. Darren is a pastor in Sunset Beach, CA at Garden Church. Listen as Kathryn and Darren discuss what it means to listen for God's voice as we pray for others. You'll get to hear Darren's contagious passion for making space to listen within our gatherings, and how we can speak about the supernatural in ways that normalize the fact that the Spirit is at work. You can find out more about Garden Church and Darren's ministry here: https://garden.church/ ...
Jun 06, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Welcome to the new Dwellings Podcast . Join us for some inspirational conversations and stories that will inspire you to seek the presence of God in all of life, and build Kingdom community right where you are. In Season 1, we will dedicate time to this question: does God still speak? The answer to this question is vitally important and changes everything about our lives. Special thanks to our Season 1 guests: Darren Rouanzoin, Jonny Hughes, Katia Adams, Tom Joyce, and more. __ Download our Hear...
Jun 02, 2023•2 min
