This week's podcast comes at the perfect time for me, and offers each of us a new rhythm in our life. It's all about these three words: solitude, community, and mission.
Episode 72 - Love is the Antidote for Anxiety
How do you experience the Love of God? Not just know about the Love of God, but truly experience it?
For many of us, unlearning how we experience love may be necessary to begin understanding the true love of God. And when you experience this love, it can be the greatest antidote to anxiety, worry, and fear.
Episode 71 - Ten Movements in the Care of the Soul
Episode 70 - Solo: Planning a Day Alone with God
Have you ever thought about getting away and having a personal retreat, a way to disconnect from the world reconnect with God? Today’s podcast is all about that, with practical tips to help you begin this amazing journey.
Sit back and enjoy, this is a great conversation that all of us need to listen to!
Episode 69 - Embark on A Journey in Soul Care
Today we get to revisit with an old friend to the podcast - Kaylene Derksen! Kaylene is the new President of the Soul Care Institute (SCI) and will be talking to Steve about what SCI is all about, and how they are reimagining SCI in the midst of a Pandemic.
The second half of the podcast is a reading and discussion of John O’Donahue’s poem A New Beginning. Joe and Steve have a heartfelt talk about it’s meaning for all of us.
Episode 68 - Belovedness: The Core Truth that Changes Everything
This one message would be what I can honestly tell you is THE message that has altered so many lives in our work around the world. We hope that you’ll be greatly blessed and encouraged by this. Goodness…what days these are—that we simply need the good news! This, dear friends is the good news we can savor!
Episode 67 - The Benefits of Being Jarred
Episode 66 - Finding Peace in Anxious Times
Episode 65 - Crisis as Invitation for Change
In Steve’s talk today, he discusses the major movements that help us understand change and transformation. They are all based on the timeless image and metaphor of the potter and clay. Form, Reform, Transform, Conform.
These four movements are the story of our lives. In one way or in a mixture of these movements, we are all going to find ourselves on the potter’s wheel.
Episode 64 - Embracing Changing Seasons
Everything is always changing - it’s a given. You could even say that this year there have been more changes than usual!
Ecc. 3:1-8 is all about change - how we need to understand that change is not on our own timetable; that we're not the ones in control of the clock of the universe. This perspective of time in God's hands is what is needed to help us really embrace Soul Care in Difficult, Changing, and Anxious Times.
Episode 63 - Finding Comfort in Trouble
We've all lived through many challenging times in life. And if there ever was a time you might need grace and you might need peace- it's today. It's this week. It's this season of our lives.
Steve weaves this verse and Paul’s story in with our own troubles, and asks the question, how have you experienced the compassion of God in a difficult, anxious time?
Episode 62 - Soulcare in Exhaustion
Today is the start of our fourth season, and we are changing things up a bit with a new format that will be more reflective, personal, and focused on Soul Care in Anxious Times. This week’s episode is Steve sharing his recent struggles with exhaustion… that deep in the heart, soul weary exhaustion that many of us are struggling with now. It’s a beautiful episode that will speak to your heart and soul and help you find the unforced rhythms of grace.
"Best of" Conversations: Episode 34 - Does God Really Care?
How many times have you thought you were completely alone in this stress-filled world - financial issues, family conflicts, marital struggles, depression… the list is long and exhausting.
The big question is, does God care about all that? The answer is so much more complex than a simple “yes.” Listen in as Steve speaks to this very question - please join us.
"Best of" Conversations: Episode 13 - Becoming the Beloved
In our heads, we know that being is more important than doing. But the reality of our day-to-day life is that we easily drift into a performance-based relationship with God and others. Jesus modeled a different way to live. In today’s episode, we learn how Jesus lived a life that began with acceptance by his Heavenly Father and ended by achieving more than any human being ever has. He has shown us the way---living as the beloved of God.
"Best of" Conversations: Episode 12 - Cultivating Daily Shalom: Using the Daily Examen
The art of reflecting on our day is almost a lost art in our busy and over-committed life. However, in this week’s podcast, Steve explores an ancient spiritual exercise called The Daily Examen. In this podcast, Steve walks us through five easy steps used to reflect back upon our day, to see where God was in our midst that we might have missed because of our busyness, and to foster a heart of gratitude.
"Best of" Conversations - Episode 6 - God's Design For Our Dilemma
In this episode we are treated to a special preview of the Potter’s Inn Soul Care Institute where Gwen Smith teaches on Sabbath Keeping: God’s Design For Our Dilemma. The discussion includes the origin of Sabbath, why we feel so much guilt concerning Sabbath, and why God gave us Sabbath in the first place.
"Best of" Conversations - Episode 5 - Three Core Questions of Every Soul
In this episode we join Steve and Gwen for two sessions of their Soul Care 101 course recorded at the retreat center known as Potter’s Inn at Aspen Ridge. Enjoy this fireside conversation with pops and crackles from the fireplace, as they examine the three core questions of every soul. In the first session they talk about the questions… Am I Loved? Am I Safe? Do I Belong?
"Best of" Conversations - Episode 2 - What is Soul Care?
Episode 61 - The Resilient Life, Part 3: Rebuilding a Life of Resilience
Today is our final part on "The Resilient Life” (Listen to Part 1, The Resilient Life: In The Wilderness and Part 2, The Resilient Life: Living and Leading the Resilient Life)
It’s a conversation between Steve and Kelley Mossburg, a market leader, on how he learned to rebuild his life with resilience. It's such an honest witness to how a man hit a wall--then learned to rebuild his entire life. You will not want to miss this.
Episode 60 - Care of the Soul from an African American Perspective
Today’s conversation is between Steve and Dr. Barbara Peacock, the author of Soul Care In African American Practice. It’s a timely conversation on current struggles and past practices, and how the development of spiritual direction and soul care in African American context emerged out of an oppressive reality.
It’s a beautiful conversation about God’s grace - please consider sharing with your friends!
