A podcast to help you build up of the bride of Christ toward maturity—the beautification of the church.
Episodes
Friday Sep 04, 2020
Friday Sep 04, 2020
Dave Clayton shares the Awaken Nashville story, including how they used prayer and fasting books to equip over 700 churches with tens of thousands of people to pray and fast for revival in Nashville and beyond. Dave shares the story of how this all happened—from the beginning. Dave also shares his single greatest challenge as a leader, how God has changed churches in Nashville, and what God did in one man’s life that changed the trajectory of his family.
Learn more about the prayer and fasting books Dave references at himpublications.com/awaken.
Friday Aug 28, 2020
Friday Aug 28, 2020
This is class three of eight in our spiritual formation mini-series. Today, we enter into the disciplines themselves with Solitude and Silence, the primal “disciplines of abstinence.” In this class, Chad Harrington casts a vision for the importance of these disciplines, their benefits, common barriers, and practical guidance on how to make these disciplines an essential part of your spiritual formation journey. Get access to the class materials by going to himpublications.com/about and look for our contact info there.
Friday Aug 21, 2020
Friday Aug 21, 2020
This is class two of a mini-series on spiritual formation. Today we cover the importance of starting with your primary desire in life. Then, we get into the greatest barriers in your spiritual formation journey. And we look at how spiritual formation works in terms of God’s part, our part, and their part, which is other people’s role. If you want to get access to the class materials, go to himpublications.com/about for our contact info.
Friday Aug 14, 2020
Friday Aug 14, 2020
This is class session one of a mini-series on spiritual formation. It’s being recorded live at Harpeth Christian Church. You can join this course in audio format. If you want to get access to the class materials, go to himpublications.com/about for our contact info. We can send you class notes, downloads, and other materials to go with this course so you can join along. Enjoy!
Monday Aug 03, 2020
Monday Aug 03, 2020
One massive area of discipleship is learning how to handle conflict and seek reconciliation. The story of Jacob and Esau offers an excellent example of reconciliation from a relationship that had been filled with rivalry, hurt, and pain. With all the conflict in our world today, what does God's Word say about finding healing?
The story of Jacob and Esau provides a reliable guide.
As you listen to today's podcast you'll
- Understand the key lesson we can learn from the story of Jacob and Esau
- Gain insight into how the world gets the narrative “flipped”
- Walk away with a practical tool for walking into any conflict
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Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Today we're featuring a sermon preached by Chad Harrington on July 19, 2020, at Harpeth Christian Church. You can read this sermon in text form at himpublications.com/podcast/abraham-isaac/. Subscribe to the HIM Publications blog for more content like this here.
Monday Jul 13, 2020
Monday Jul 13, 2020
“Disciple.” We know that word and what a disciple is, but understanding how to disciple others—how to live the life of a disciple-maker—can be confusing. It is a great challenge to lead and disciple someone, especially if we question whether we have been discipled ourselves.
Brandon Guindon, author of Disciple-Making Culture, shares of the joy that comes when disciples make more disciples and when the culture of disciple-making grows and grows, just as Jesus intended it to. Brandon encourages us all to take heart because Jesus showed us the way, and Jesus invites us along in the mission of making disciples.
No matter who you are or your experience with making disciples, you can be a part of disciple-making culture. You can become a disciple who makes disciples who then goes out to make more disciples.
In this episode, which is the last in this five-part series, you’ll find:
- Stories of perseverance and transformation
- Glimpses into the fruit of disciple-making culture
- Testaments to the joy and celebration of seeing disciples grow
- Reasons to keep fighting for disciple-making culture in our homes
- Solace in the fact that a lot of people don’t quite know how to disciple (yet)
- A call to join with God in creating a disciple-making culture wherever you are
Monday Jul 13, 2020
Monday Jul 13, 2020
We are used to culture being something rarely thought about, something that goes unnoticed. But a culture of disciple-making doesn’t come easy. It’s a culture formed by people who are willing to fight for relationship, get on their knees in prayer, and strive to grow both spiritually and relationally. Jesus showed us the power of disciple-making culture. Are we willing to lean on him and live out that culture?
Brandon Guindon, author of Disciple-Making Culture, speaks about the barriers we can face while living out a culture of making disciples. He shares how he’s learned to overcome the barriers and pursue Christ above all.
In this episode, which is part four of a five-part series, you’ll find:
- Three barriers faced in shifting to a disciple-making culture
- Encouragement to leave busyness behind
- How disciple-making culture can be counter to American culture
- A reminder that we are taking part in a spiritual battle
- That Jesus modeled his dependence on God
- Motivation to lean into the Holy Spirit
Monday Jul 13, 2020
Monday Jul 13, 2020
Relationships within the church can be challenging. We are called to be unified, but often that call to unity can be difficult to navigate. Do we truly live out the culture that we believe in? Do we fight for our relationships and actively take part in the mission of Christ?
Brandon Guindon, author of Disciple-Making Culture, tells of how we, as Jesus’ church, can respond in a unified way to the call of disciple-making. He points us all back to biblical disciple-making culture, and he encourages us to be in real relationship with one another as we live out our calling as disciple-makers.
In this episode, which is part three of a five-part series, you’ll find:
- The challenges of cultivating disciple-making culture among church staff
- Advice for church leaders about being unified
- Metrics for measuring a disciple-making culture
- How to promote culture from within the church body
- Encouragement to participate in the culture-building process
- The power of living like disciples of Jesus
- What an identity of disciple-making looks like
- Why it’s important to protect, live out, and defend culture
Monday Jul 13, 2020
Monday Jul 13, 2020
Stories connect us to each other. They offer a glimpse into one another’s way of seeing the world. What happens when we realize that we are all taking part in the same narrative, that we are all already connected?
In this episode, part two of five in a special mini-series on disciple-making culture, author Brandon Guindon shares some of the stories he has gained throughout his years of ministry. He also shares his heart as he tells of the struggles and challenges in his own life and the power of being surrounded by a culture built upon making disciples who live and love and act like Jesus.
If believers and disciples of Christ will cultivate and live out the culture that Jesus founded, the natural effect will be a disciple-making culture with the power to renew and strengthen the effect of Jesus’ gospel throughout the world.
In this episode, which is part two of a five-part series, you’ll find:
- Stories of disciples caring for one another
- That we find growth even in hardship
- People making a difference by letting God lead them
- Glimpses into the effects of disciple-making culture
- How we can love people right where they’re at
- The secret to culture is community
- Growth as the byproduct of culture