Pastors Ken and Kris Dillingham tackle the topics and discuss the strategies of getting the church "out of the box."
In this episode, we’re joined by special guest, Pastor Les Cotton, pastor of Apostolic Life in Urbana, IL, to talk about his testimony of overcoming addiction, their residential recovery program called LifeLine Connect, and how they built a multi-lingual ministry. I promise...this is going to be so good!
Pastor Jimmy Toney is a church planter, conference speaker, served as the North American Missions Director for the UPCI, and currently serves as Senior Pastor of The Pentecostals of Gainesville, a thriving church that has launched several church plants. Join us today for our conversation with Jimmy about his passion for church planting and the mission.
In his book, “The Starfish & the Spirit,” Alan Hirsch talks about the importance for missional movements to operate in a chaordic way. Today, we discuss what chaordic movements are and why this is vital for true multiplication movements.
While we enjoy the benefits of living in covenant relationship with Jesus and all of blessings that go along with that, we were made for more than just gathering together for good services and reaping material blessings. Today we tackle the topic of identifying the fundamental purpose of every believer/follower of Jesus: THE MISSION.
In our discipleship we have to be aware of this … If our lives are rooted in the flesh then the soul will draw from there and produce fruit of the flesh. If our lives are rooted in the Spirit then the soul will draw from there and produce fruit of the Spirit.
Easter Sunday has been referred to as “The Super Bowl of the Church” because of the amount of people who typically don’t attend a church service on a regular basis will get up and go to church this Sunday. For the attractional model church, the focus is on doing whatever is necessary to get as many people in the building as possible. While we certainly celebrate church attendance, we all know this typically doesn’t result in sustainable, long-term change. So the question is this: how is the appr...
We've talked about a lot of concepts and principles, had conversations with pastors and leaders, and shared statistics and trends about multiplication. But at the end of the day, stories tell the story. Today we talk about our experiences on this journey and what apostolic multiplication truly looks like.
Pastor Jason West and his wife Leah are building a tremendous work in the inner city of San Jose, CA, called The Hope Center. Join us for our conversation with Jason about his passion for making disciples and reaching our metro areas.
People often are prepared for change because they are tired/frustrated/irritated with something. How can we recognize this and have a spiritual conversation where our transformation story inspires them to consider that there is an alternative (the better way of Jesus’ kingdom)?
While there is significant movement of the Holy Spirit, there is no denying that the majority of people still fall into one of two categories regarding that..either apathy or antipathy. The question then becomes how do missional people truly work with how the Holy Spirit is working?
The 5 Love Languages Books have been very popular for years. The book by Gary Chapman attempts to relate how we experience and express love within a framework of 5 “languages” to which human personalities are wired. Today, on Valentine’s Day we are discussing how the 5 Love Languages can not only help us understand love within our marital and family relationships but also how the love languages affect our ability to show others the love of God.
How do we have spiritual conversations with people who have found that the end of their quest for fulfillment has ended in bitterness? The pursuit of what satisfies the soul may at first feel sweet and deeply gratifying. It is very difficult to persuade someone who is in this stage. They have imagined that “that thing, that experience, that romance, that person, etc” will be everything they have been wanting. But as we know, it never satisfies for long and in the end leaves us empty and often hu...
Join us for this fantastic conversation with church planter, Pastor Tim Gaddy, who launched New Life Church in Cabot, AR in 1992. Through his exceptional leadership, New Life has grown into a thriving apostolic revival center that is making an impact around the world. Tim also serves as the District Superintendent of the Arkansas District for the UPCI.
Many churches and believers start the new year with focused prayer and fasting as a part of their consecration efforts recognizing our need to align with a heaven-down perspective. The reason consecration is so critical is because we understand that the ways that are appealing in the Spirit are appalling to the flesh.
Are you telling the story of Jesus or proving a point? Much of our world today seems to be in a growing divide. The hostility in the socio-political environment of our world is making it increasingly more difficult to debate the gospel into the hearts and minds of people. But Jesus gave us the model…our stories tell His story!
Generational curses are less generationally transmitted demonic domination than they are generationally observed behaviors that incline the children to repeat the dysfunction that they have both seen and are often victims of. Any succession of spiritual domination (family strongholds) is broken in new birth in Christ (you are new creatures). And when by faith the old ways are put off and new life is put on a new model for living is presented which provides a redemptive affect for that family. To...
The Word of God provides stability in a world that is changing and moving at a rapid pace and in challenging ways. Certainly, this is something that is needed in our walk with God. There is, however, something about the Spirit of God that challenges us to grow and to change that can cause us to feel unsettled. This powerful combination of His Word and His Spirit is critical to spiritual transformation. Today we talk about how God unsettles us by the moving of His Spirit in our lives.
2023 is right around the corner. It is common during this time of year to both look back to what we have done and accomplished and to look forward to a new year and the possibilities of a fresh start. In this episode, we look at how disciple multiplication movements have different metrics that define the win and different processes for calendar planning and leadership development.
The second commandment from Jesus is to love others as we love ourselves, but we all know that can be a significant challenge. Today we tackle the topic of how, as disciples of Jesus, we can fulfill the responsibility to love even the most “unlovable.”
PEACE What is it? What produces it? And why we need it so desperately in our time. Peace is often merely thought to be the “absence of conflict,” but in today’s podcast, we look at Shalom in its rich Hebrew meaning. We discover that it is the characteristic of God’s Kingdom people who are submitted to the rule and reign of Jesus Christ in their lives. And we are reminded that even at Christmas it’s still … “All about being disciples.”
We know that the gospel of Jesus is a message of good news because it is a message of hope and deliverance from the effects of sin. As missionaries of Jesus, we have a responsibility to boldly to declare the good news of Jesus to a world that desperately needs hope. But should the gospel be a “crafted message” designed to attract unbelievers? Today we tackle the challenge of delivering good news to a lost world.
The holiday season is a season of nostalgia…traditions that make us feel secure and content. There is something about tradition that brings us a sense of safety and security because it’s familiar. But we also understand that we’re living in a constantly changing world that can often leave us longing for what we are familiar with. As disciples of Jesus, how do we deal with this tension?
As disciples of Jesus, we are called to allow God to transform us by the renewing of our minds so that the way we think is aligned with Jesus and His Kingdom values. We understand that as Paul told Timothy, one of the evidences of the endtimes is that people would become increasingly unthankful. In today’s episode, we talk about what it means to have the mindset of a disciple of Jesus which is rooted and grounded in thankfulness.
There is no denying that we are living in tumultuous times…socially, politically, spiritually. We would all agree that this is such a challenging hour especially for believers and yet, there are clear signs that we are living in the last days, which includes prophecies of supernatural revival. How do we, as believers, navigate through the challenges of current events/endtime prophecies and live on mission?
We have spent a lot of time discussing the various aspects of what it looks like to live on mission in the key spaces of life…where we LIVE, WORK, AND PLAY. But here’s an interesting question: how does missional living affect the way we live and function within the body of Christ? Today we discuss how a missional culture is the key to being the healthy church family God has designed us to be.
CS Lewis once famously said that most Christians fall into one of two camps as it relates to spiritual warfare: they either deny its existence or they become fascinated with it. In today’s episode, we discuss the functional, not the fantastical, aspects of spiritual warfare within the mission and how this important topic can mean the difference in unlocking our missional activities.
On this podcast, we have talked a lot about the importance of building a missional culture within the church but the question is this: how do you know if you truly have a missional culture? It’s easy to mistake the activity of committed people for missional living, but they are not synonymous. In today’s episode, we discuss the markers of a true missional culture.
One of the challenging things we face as missional people is how we engage our current culture that is increasingly more secular. Andy Crouch addresses this in his book, “Culture Making”, where he identifies the four ways Christians have typically responded to culture, which has produced cultural wars. The questions is as God’s missional people how do we engage our harvest field without feeling like we’re compromising.
One of the challenging things we face as missional people is how we engage our current culture that is increasingly more secular. Andy Crouch addresses this in his book, “Culture Making”, where he identifies the four ways Christians have typically responded to culture, which has produced cultural wards. The questions is as God’s missional people how do we engage our harvest field without feeling like we’re compromising.
Since we started this journey in 2016, one of the amazing things we have discovered is that there is clearly a move of the Holy Ghost that is drawing people into apostolic discipleship and multiplication. Everywhere we go we encounter people who have been on a similar journey and who are hungry to see God do even more than what we have experienced. It is clear that this is not just a passing fad or a buzzword but a movement led by the Holy Ghost.
