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.
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.
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?
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.
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!
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.
A pandemic, protests, riots, racial unrest… the world is in conflict. How do we fight the urge to give in to the underlying sense of inertia? How do we go thru each day as if nothing is happening? How do we live a resilient life in the midst of chaos and heartache?
Today’s podcast is from Steve’s book “An Inside Job” about living and leading a resilient life.
Today begins a three-part series on resilience; how we can begin to understand how to navigate our inner world with the outer world of the pandemic.
Part one is a personal message from Steve, using the metaphor of spiritual wilderness; the best and most apt description of what is happening in our inner world. He talks from his heart of his own struggles during the pandemic and how we can each understand the reality of coping in a time of wilderness.
For many of us, the Pandemic has served as a mirror, forcing us to take a hard, long look at ourselves. And it might have revealed somethings you do not like very much, as well as the best in each of us. It is a back and forth that is known in spiritual terms as the True and False Self and is the topic of today’s podcast.
The pandemic has changed many things for each of our lives, yet our “real life” is still happening - children are graduating from HS, weddings continue to take place, and so on. How do we balance “Real Life” with everything happening around us?
Jeremy talks to Joel Roberts about how the pandemic is affecting us and how to stay sane amidst the chaos and the “real life.” They discuss some practices to engage in and put in place to stay grounded and centered during these times.
Kaylene chats with Nathan and Kate Grieser about the loss of Nathan’s sister Hannah in a tragic car accident. They share their emotional and timely story and grief journey – a journey they are still on.
This conversation was recorded a few weeks before the Pandemic broke out. We didn’t know what was coming then, yet somehow it seems fitting to share this now at a time when many are dealing with the loss of loved ones while being isolated and in quarantine.
In today’s world of accusations of “fake news” and the erosion of “who can you trust?”—this podcast is important. Steve sits down with author, counselor, and teacher Sharon Hersh to have a truthful and personal conversation about what is like to be diagnosed, live with, and recover from Covid-19. Sharon’s voice and work is important in the world of soul care. Her books have impacted us in Potter’s Inn work because of her honest, Scriptural, and insightful way she talks about addiction, recovery, our true identity, and being the Beloved.
Easter feels different this year, doesn’t it? The loss of a tangible place to come together in community feels like a loss. Is this how the disciples felt when Jesus died on the cross? Did they feel alone, scared, and helpless?
Join us as we discuss Easter and the struggles we all face during this time of isolation. This is a beautiful, vulnerable, and honest conversation with all our hosts. They share what Easter means to each of them in 2020 and how Easter can offer us a sense of hope, as God is saying “I am here, trust me.”
“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.
