Your Quality Faith Is the Landing Strip for Heaven‘s Best (Ep 199)

Faith is a super high value with God. It's impossible to come to Him and please him without it. What is the source of faith? And how can we enhance the quality of our faith? Faith is a point of contact between heaven and earth ... our quality faith is a landing strip for the best things from Father God.

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Get Out of That Boat! Water-Walking Faith (Ep 198)

Will Jesus summon you to come out of your battered boat and walk on water with him? He just may if you show a faith initiative. What if you could express water-walking faith over difficulties and dilemmas? And what if you could even exploit opportunities and faith horizons with the audacious faith of Christ? In this episode we explore initiative, staying focused on Christ, getting a word from the Lord Over All, and more. (This may stretch your personal belief!)

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Accelerate Your Commitment to Your Future Self (Godspeed Episode! Ep 197)

Are you more committed to your past or present ... than to your future? In this quick Godspeed episode, we touch on 5 ideas on how to get unstuck and accelerate your commitment to your destiny path. Jesus is brilliant. He knows how life works best. Right here. Right now.

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Do You Want a Miracle? Stretch for It. (Ep 196)

Leverage Your Trials to Advance — Frank Viola (Ep 195)

Trials are times of testing and pressure. Everyone experiences them. For the Christ-follower, trials are a unique opportunity to use Kingdom leverage. If we process well with the Lord, God can gain what he's looking for ... and we can gain new territory in our life and expression of our calling. Amazingly, James writes that we can live joyfully through our trials because of the advantageous outcomes.

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Good Things Come to Those Who Groan (Godspeed Episode! Ep 194)

What's on the other side of your groaning? It's beyond worth it! "Give ear to my words, O LORD, Consider my groaning" (Ps 5:1). The GROANING GAP is that space between WHAT IS and WHAT WILL BE. It's there that you carry the creative tension of the Holy Spirit. Things want to happen ... in the groaning are seeds of design and destiny. So what are you groaning about? Embrace the potential.

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Developing Over-the-Horizon Faith (Ep 193)

There's a real sense in which the horizons of our lives are placed on a curve. Just like the curvature of the earth where the sky meets the earth. Over-the-horizon thinking and applied faith are necessary to journey into new things that want to happen from heaven's point of view. In this episode, we explore 1) worshipping and praying, 2) visualizing and prophesying, 3) belief set points, and 4) "acting as if" with faith action. All 4 of these elements make up over-the-horizon thinking and faith to move you into new territory.

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God and Hamilton, Part 2 — Kevin Cloud (Ep 192)

In part 2 of this discussion with Kevin Cloud, author of God & Hamilton, we focus on slavery and today's race relations, the empowerment of women, and how we are co-creators with God. Alexander Hamilton was an influential American Founder ... second only to George Washington. How does his life speak to us in our time? Kevin Cloud's book draws upon Hamilton, the acclaimed Broadway musical. Read the rest of this entry »

God and Hamilton — Kevin Cloud (Ep 191)

The acclaimed Broadway musical Hamilton is now a part of the American cultural conversation. Inspired by the 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, the extraordinary musical resonates with many on themes of faith, race, and immigration. Kevin Cloud, the author of God & Hamilton, is with us in this episode. Our conversation centers on spiritual themes from the life of Alexander Hamilton, an influential American Founder ... second only to George Washington. How does his life speak to us in our time? This is a recast episode. Part 1 of 2.

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Q4U: Is Progressivism a Hellish Counterfeit for the Real Future? (Ep 190)

Look around -- progressivism is all the rage today. And it's not just political. It's leaking into parts of the Church too. What starts gradually as soft totalitarianism can evolve into terrifying tyranny. True justice is beautiful. But is Progressivism a delusion?

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