“Meanwhile, be content with obscurity, just as Christ was.” Colossians 3:4 (MSG)
Isolation - something most of us are experiencing right now.
Today's podcast is about unwanted isolation - the type God uses to accomplish what only living in obscurity can do and how God uses obscurity to shape and mold us for greater things; things that we are not always aware of.
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?
This conversation with Stephen W. Smith is core and foundational to working through our thoughts, feelings, reactions and strongholds about racism. Steve believes this conversation is the way to begin. We can’t talk about forgiveness or really anything else until we understand that dignity matters. This Conversation helps us to begin a conversation below the water line where we can find one another and understand how valuable every life is in God’s heart.
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.
How do we determine where we are on the spiritual journey? It can be 1 step forward, 2 steps back! This is what we call the Critical Journey, a model that includes 6 stages in our journey in Soul Care. Today we will be discussing the first three stages (next week we will discuss the final three stages):
1. The Recognition of God
2. The Life of Discipleship
3. The Productive Life
Gwen and Steve recorded the podcast today about a prayer that took on great meaning and deeper insight during a difficult and dark time.
Their conversation today is an exploration of “The Welcome Prayer.” At a dark and tumultuous time in their lives, when they lost their grandson Tommy in death, they slid into a dark night. This one prayer offered light in the darkness. The writer Thomas Keating opened their hearts up to the power of this prayer and the consolation of letting go.
We struggle to identity ourselves, but what is the real truth about our Identity?
Today Dustin is talking about Identity with David Sachsenmaier, a trained and certified executive coach whose identity was challenged by a family crisis as a child and now focuses on identity as a cornerstone in his work with others.
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Before there was "original sin" there was original blessing! This is a conversation that may challenge much of what you have believed and help you reframe what the Bible actually says.
This is a deep and rich conversation about our true identity as men and women. We talk about reclaiming our blessing and birthright that some theology have taken from us. We talk about parenting with blessing, marriage and blessing, and troubled / broken friendships and blessing.
This will be our final episode for Season 7! We are taking a break this summer, but will be back in the fall. Wishing you all a lovely summer of rest and respite.
Danielle Shroyer spent over a decade in pastoral leadership and was a founding member of the emerging church movement. She speaks often across the country on issues of theology, faith, culture, and story, and blogs at www.danielleshroyer.com. A graduate of Baylor University and Princeton Theological Seminary, Danielle is the author of Original Blessing: Putting Sin in its Rightful Place; Where Jesus Prayed: Illuminations on the Lords Prayer in the Holy Land; and The Boundary Breaking God: An Unfolding Story of Hope and Promise.
Original Blessing: Putting Sin in Its Rightful Place by Danielle Shroyer
Audio of Danielle’s Prayer in podcast -DOWNLOAD
Ascending the Mountain Within: Experiencing God Through Contemplative Prayer by Stephen W. & Gwen Smith
Music Break at 26:24: Letter From Home - Artist unknown.
Music Break at 53:02: Medie noctis tempus est - Composed by John Tavener - Performed by Anonymous 4.
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“Grow old with me, the best is yet to be.”
Today is our third, and final episode in a series called Managing Transitions. And if you've been listening over the course of the last couple of weeks you've heard a lot about the terms of our own internal shifting amid transitions. Change is inevitable, but transitions is really our internal work to the external change that we've been going through. Today we're going to be talking about aging with special guest Alice Fryling.
Alice is the author of Aging Faithfully: The Holy Invitation of Growing Older, a beautiful book that addresses aging: how we all age differently and how God calls each of us to new spiritual birth as we mature. Whether you are approaching the beginning, middle, or end of your senior years, you are invited to today’s conversation.
Alice Fryling is a spiritual director and a bestselling author of ten books on relationships and spiritual formation, including her new book Aging Faithfully: The Holy Invitation of Growing Older. Alice received training in Spiritual Direction from the Christos Center in Minneapolis, and training in the Enneagram at Loyola University. She has been leading Enneagram workshops for thirty years, teaching participants how to use the Enneagram to know God and themselves more deeply.
She is also certified to teach the Myers Briggs Temperament Inventory. She and her husband, Bob, have two married daughters and four grandchildren. They live in Monument, Colorado.
Aging Faithfully: The Holy Invitation of Growing Older by Alice Fryling
Luke 19:41-42 NLT, Mark 4:26-29 MSG, Isaiah 46, Matthew 25:1-30 MSG
Chapter 9 from Inside Job Workbook Session - a way to work through this series and transitions - FREE DOWNLOAD
Music Break at 29:04: Joie De Vivre by Frederic Chopin - Performed by George Davidson.
Music Break at 50:49: Down to the River to Pray - Attributed to George H. Allan in the Slave Songbook of 1867 - Performed by The Apex Singers.
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“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens...”
We are on the second part of our series on Transitions, and Steve will be talking to us about the many ways we change and transition. Using personal examples and sharing from his heart, this is a podcast to not miss!
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (NIV)
Chapter 9 from Inside Job Workbook Session - a way to work through this series - FREE DOWNLOAD
The Inside Job: Doing the Work Within the Work by Stephen W. Smith
Managing Transition: Making the Most of Change by William and Susan Bridges
The Critical Journey, Part 1 and The Critical Journey, Part 2 (Podcasts with Steve and Joe Chambers)
To Re-position or to Retire by Stephen W. Smith (Blog Post)
SOLO: Creating Space with God by Stephen W. Smith and Peter M. Ivey
Music Break at 53:48: Turn, Turn, Turn by Pete Seeger - Performed by Ilse DeLange.
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It’s been said that the only constant in life is change. While that’s true, it’s not always reassuring.
Change, as William Bridges explains it, is “situational: the move to a new site, the retirement of the founder, the reorganization of the roles on a team.” It can be the end of a relationship, the death of a parent, the move of your best friend. Any change brings with it a gap, some-thing called a transition. These in-between times are hard, even in the best of circumstances, because they represent moving from one phase of life to another.
Today we begin a new series on Managing Transitions with Joe Chambers reading from Steve’s book Inside Job, The Leaders Transitions: Understanding Change (Chapter 9).
Thank you for joining us in this conversation!
Chapter 9 Workbook Session - a Way to work through this series - FREE DOWNLOAD
The Inside Job: Doing the Work Within the Word by Stephen W. Smith
Music Break at 42:12: Sing Joyfully by William Byrd (c.1540 - 1623) - set from Psalm 81. Performed by The King’s Singers.
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I (Steve) recently sat down with Steve Macchia of Leadership Transformations to have an honest conversation and assess where we are today in light of all that has been happening.
I was able to reflect backwards and think forward through Steve Macchia’s thoughtful questions. I felt liberty to just open my heart; this podcast is the result. I hope you’ll find the space to listen.
We want to thank Steve Macchia and Leadership Transformations, Inc (LTI) for allowing us to edit and air this episode (Season 15, Episode 3).
The Jesus Life by Stephen W. Smith
SOLO: Creating Space with God by Stephen W. Smith and Peter Ivey
Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard
First Music Break at 17:24: Till That Blessed Day by JOYSPRING. From the Album Quiet My Soul. With Permission from Epidemic Sound.
Second Music Break at 49:31: Abide with Me (Arr. Cleobury) - Performed by Choir of King's College, Cambridge.
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“The only foundation for lasting change is love. ”
The podcast this week is with a man who lost 140 pounds and reclaimed his health. It’s an incredible story of change with Paul Matthies - you’ll want to listen because it’s just so encouraging!
Change is what the Gospel of Jesus is all about. We change or we die. We can live like never before or we will be the living dead!
Paul is all about living LIFE -- love, integrity, faith, and empowerment. He likes acronyms too.
A graduate of Hardin-Simmons University, Paul has served as an elder at Hilltop Christian Fellowship, served as a pastor at The Village Church in Dallas, TX, and as a missionary to Asia. He now works in the business world, primarily in Administration Management.
Paul has completed 3 Life Time 60 day programs and earned 5 martial arts belts, and was named a Grand Prize Winner of the Fall 2019 National Life Time Fitness 60 Day Challenge. (Selected out of 20,000 participants!)
Cane Fu (self defense and exercise system for seniors and those who need to use a cane in their daily lives).
Philippians 2:12 (NIV): Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling,
Deuteronomy 30:19 (NIV): This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live
First Music Break at 21:49: 3 Bagatelles Op. 1 (2005) by Valentin Silvestrov. Performed by Peter Bannister - piano.
Second Music Break at 45:18: My Shepherd Will Supply My Need, performed by Anonymous 4. From American Angel - songs of redemption, hope and glory. (LYRICS)
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The theme of sabbatical is so much more than finding the time to take a break. A weekend away is not enough to help us return to our former selves, we need a reorientation to time… to reacquaint ourselves with our heart and soul.
We continue the discussion with Jason and Mary Vandel Young about Sabbaticals, and it gets practical and emotional.
As you listen to the podcast, think broader beyond just your work. Your fatigue might not be due to your work at all, it might look altogether different.
Mary Vandel Young’s passion for transformational ministry and soul care has guided her participation, study, leadership and ministry in the area of Christian spiritual formation for more than 20 years. God blessed Mary’s life with JourneyMates in 2006 and has served as Executive Director since 2012.Mary graduated from Baylor University in 1990. She served on Young Life staff nationally and internationally until 2000 and completed a M.Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary in 2003.
Dr. Jason Young has been working as a psychotherapist since 1997, and has worked in full-time private practice since 2005. Dr. Young has extensive experience, academically and clinically, in the integration of Psychology and Theology. His areas of therapeutic expertise are men’s issues, anxiety, depression, sexual trauma, marital conflict, crises of faith, stressors related to pastoral ministry, and sports psychology.
Mary and Jason live in Raleigh, NC and have two teenage sons, Luke and Tobias, and a precious Shi-Tzu named Petey.
Suggested Book from Mary (not mentioned in the podcast) - The Listening Life by Adam McHugh
FREE RESOURCE from Partners in Pastor Renewal. FREE guide and a free hour of consultation for planning your sabbatical. (Mention Potter’s Inn when you contact them for the free hour consultation. Contact info is in the Guide)
Reading: The Wisdom of Enough by Gwen Harding Smith. (Read Poem)
Mary’s Sabbatical Phases (the R’s)
1st Stage: Release and relinquish - pre-sabbatical. Two weeks handing things off: communicating to partners, constituents, etc. Planning for the sabbatical with staff, family, etc.
2nd Stage: Rest and recovery - Ceasing all activity.
3rd Stage: Rest, recreation, and relationships
Final stage: Rest again, and realignment. Continuing to rest, to engage in deeper reflection, prayer, and discernment around the influences of the sabbatical in vocational call.
First Music Break at 17:44: Japanese Dawn by Daniel Kaede. Provided by Epidemic Sound.
Second Music Break at 40:33: A Prayer for Ukraine by Ukrainian composer and pianist Valentin Silvestrov. Performed by the Bamberg Symphony.
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This week’s podcast is about the value and need for sabbaticals. There’s just no doubt that the past few years have drained us! Who isn’t exhausted? Who isn’t depleted?
If we think that a weekend away Is enough to help us return to our former selves, then we are in for a crash and burn!
Steve talks with Mary Vandel Young and her husband Jason, about their journey of needing, planning, and taking a sabbatical. This is not a “ how to” podcast. It’s much deeper than that!
Mary Vandel Young’s passion for transformational ministry and soul care has guided her participation, study, leadership and ministry in the area of Christian spiritual formation for more than 20 years. God blessed Mary’s life with JourneyMates in 2006 and has served as Executive Director since 2012.Mary graduated from Baylor University in 1990. She served on Young Life staff nationally and internationally until 2000 and completed a M.Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary in 2003.
Dr. Jason Young has been working as a psychotherapist since 1997, and has worked in full-time private practice since 2005. Dr. Young has extensive experience, academically and clinically, in the integration of Psychology and Theology. His areas of therapeutic expertise are men’s issues, anxiety, depression, sexual trauma, marital conflict, crises of faith, stressors related to pastoral ministry, and sports psychology.
Mary and Jason live in Raleigh, NC and have two teenage sons, Luke and Tobias, and a precious Shi-Tzu named Petey.
Suggested Book from Mary (not mentioned in the podcast) - The Listening Life by Adam McHugh
FREE RESOURCE from Partners in Pastor Renewal. FREE guide and a free hour of consultation for planning your sabbatical. (Mention Potter’s Inn when you contact them for the free hour consultation. Contact info is in the Guide)
Taylor Leonhardt song Hold Still.
Organizations that provide Soul Care:
Reading: For One Who Is Exhausted – A Blessing by John O'Donohue. From his book, To Bless the Space Between Us.
First Music Break at 20:58: The Night is so Moonlit (Lyrics)
Note: The Night is so Moonlit is a Ukrainian folk song composed by Mykola Lysenko, a nineteenth century composer, to the lyrics of a poem written by Mykhailo Starytsky, a contemporary of Lysenko’s. It has subsequently become one of Ukraine’s most popular folk songs. This particular performance was dedicated to all brave Ukrainian people, who will never surrender. Their freedom is our freedom. Their lives are our lives!
Second Music Break at 42:49: In Thy Kingdom (from the Liturgy) · Performed by Kyiv Chamber Choir, A Thousand Years of Ukrainian Sacred Music.
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Today, we continue this conversation with Father David. It’s an incredible story— so relevant to today’s world crisis in Ukraine. What motivates Father David to become Eastern Orthodox, and now a priest? What are the gifts we, in the west , can receive by our brothers and sisters in the East? A stunning, moving, and hopeful conversation where our soul meets the world!
Fr. David Morrison is parish priest at St Anthony Orthodox Church in Bozeman, MT. He received his Master of Divinity degree at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary and a B.A. in History from Trinity University in San Antonio. He spent his first year of marriage teaching high school in Guatemala, is a professional musician, and likes good Tex-Mex food. He and his wife have 3 children, and are grateful to live and hike in beautiful Montana.
St Anthony Orthodox Church on the web
Book: The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality
Reading: Let this Darkness be a Bell Tower by Rainer Maria Rilke
Learn more about the Eastern Orthodox Church
Icons and the Holy Mysteries/Sacraments
First Music Break at 16:14: Hymn of the Cherubim (Excerpt) – Performed by State Symphony Capella of Russia. Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky
Second Music Break at 33:16: Now the Heavenly Power, performed by Хор Сретенского монастыря. Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky
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“And this service was so strange and weird and beautiful and wonderful. The choir was sort of off to the side, I couldn’t really see them. There was candles all over the place. The priest for the most part was facing east. And the songs were being sung - very peaceful. And I felt the real remarkable sense of the holiness of God, the enormity of God, the otherness of God and the nearness of God, all colliding in a strange way in a matter of about 45 minutes. ”
The podcast this week is so timely and so needed!
Steve talks with Father David, a Russian Orthodox priest living and working as a priest in Bozeman, Montana. This is a 2-part podcast that will educate, inspire, and help us to embrace another perspective on the faith.
This is a timely conversation as we watch the people of Ukraine face the perils of today. But it is also for those of us eager to learn more, know more, and do more.
Fr. David Morrison is parish priest at St Anthony Orthodox Church in Bozeman, MT. He received his Master of Divinity degree at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary and a B.A. in History from Trinity University in San Antonio. He spent his first year of marriage teaching high school in Guatemala, is a professional musician, and likes good Tex-Mex food. He and his wife have 3 children, and are grateful to live and hike in beautiful Montana.
The Lazarus Life by Stephen W. Smith
Reading: I No Longer Pray for Peace by Ann Barr Weems
More about the Eastern Orthodox Church
The sign of the cross (as mentioned by Father David - picture below!)
First Music Break at 19:09 - Hymn to the Theotokos - Russian Kazan Cathedral
Second Music Break at 33:47 - Meeting and Vesting of Bishop: A Mercy Of Peace – Performed by Novospassky Monastery Choir
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“Our world needs kindness right now. Social media is flooded with anger, frustration, fear, despair, and negativity. Technology allows us to interact instantly, but people feel ignored, unheard, misunderstood, discouraged, alone. What if we choose to change that? What if we use digital media to connect, build relationships, and better understand our fellow human beings?”
I think most of us can agree that digital media can be an overwhelming space. So many different opinions, yet very little respect or kindness is shown to one another. How do we move past the negative and practice kindness on digital media?
Pam is our host this week and will be talking with Lauren Hug, a lawyer & mediator who now works as a community engagement strategist. Her background as a lawyer gives her a unique perspective on how we can develop community in our online worlds by practicing kindness, grace, and advocacy.
An accomplished speaker, author, and strategist, Lauren Hug has helped people reach and motivate markets and audiences for 20 years. In 2012 she founded HugSpeak, a community engagement firm that develops participatory communication strategies, empowering vibrant communities in both digital and physical spaces. Her academic credentials include an LL.M. with merit from the University of London, a J.D. with honors from the University of Texas School of Law, and a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from the University of Texas. She is the author of Digital Kindness: Being Human in a Hyper-Connected World, The Professional Woman’s Guide to Getting Promoted and The Manager’s Guide to Presentations.
Culinary Distancing COS (FB Group)
Factfulness by Hans Rosling
First Music Break at 18:43 – Fulfill by Heath Cantu – from Epidemic Sound
Second Music Break at 43:47: There is a Light by Stonekeepers – Epidemic Sound
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“So deconstruction is not demolition, demolition is easy. You just rent a bulldozer, knock it all down. That’s easy. That’s not all that courageous - you can knock things down. But deconstruction, to say there is some good here and there is some toxicity here. How do I do the work to humbly enter in to take this piece, pull this layer back to explore? It’s more about curiosity. But it’s also so difficult. People underestimate the pain. The pain that initiates deconstruction, and then the pain of doing the deconstruction. ”
Aaron Niequist is our guest today, and his discussion with Steve is vulnerable, honest, and courageous. Steve asks, what will the church of the future look like? (and Aaron gives an answer that might surprise you!) And what can we envision now to help us lay the foundation for a church we both need and want? We were deeply moved and encouraged by what Aaron had to say, and believe you will be also. Welcome to our conversation with Aaron Niequist.
Aaron Niequist is a liturgist, writer, and pastor in New York City. After leading worship at Mars Hill Church (Grand Rapids, MI) and Willow Creek Church (Barrington, IL), he created A New Liturgy - a collection of modern liturgical worship recordings. He then curated a discipleship-focused, formational, ecumenical, practice-based community at Willow Creek called “The Practice”. Aaron has written his first book, The Eternal Current, about a practice-based faith, and creating resources to help others flesh it out. The best part of his life is his wife Shauna, and their sons Henry and Mac.
A meditation on the beatitudes (Liturgy Project)
First Music Break at 32:06 – Drowning (Instrumental) by Haakon Haug
Second Music Break at 55:58 – The Road Home by Stephen Paulus, performed by Stanford Chamber Chorale
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