PODCASTS
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DISCOVERING OUR CALLING: How does God reveal our unique calling to us? What's the pattern he uses? Join special guest Gary Barkalow and Jim as they unpack how God brings us into a deeper clarity of our calling. This is part five of their seven-part podcast series on calling.
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THE ASSAULT AGAINST YOUR CALLING -- Calling Series -- Part 4
Guest Gary Barkalow joins me again for part 4 of our series on calling. What has been coming against your heart to shut it down? What is at stake as we pursue the deep desires of our hearts and the calling that is written there?
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THE UNIQUE GLORY YOU BEAR-- Calling Series - part 3
Guest Gary Barkalow joins me for part 3 of our series on calling. How do you uniquely bear the glory of God? What is your particular affect on those around you?
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MYSTERY - Calling Series - part 2
Guest Gary Barkalow joins Jim again for this session.
Confusion is a normal part of the journey. How do we walk with God so that we don’t conclude: “God isn’t speaking to me,” or “I must be blowing it.”?
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ORIENTATION - Calling Series - part one - guest Gary Barkalow joins Jim. How do become oriented to our location in the Story? Gary talks about three points of orientation that keep us "alert and oriented" to our place in the story: story - desire - journey. (This is part one of a 7-part series Gary and Jim will do.)
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Striving vs. Action: Topic: "Striving vs. Action." When things aren't moving fast enough for us, how do we relate to God when we're feeling the pressure to make things happen? This was a fun interview. Thanks to Matthew Gillogly and Bob Regnerus, hosts of the Renegade Christian Entrepreneurs podcast for having me as their guest today.
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Discovering your calling: How do we move beyond the personality inventories and spiritual gifts test that often leave us unsatisfied and still looking for our calling?
Gary Barkalow spent seven years on the men's leadership and speaking team with Ransomed Heart Ministries when God called him to launch full-time into helping others discover their place in the Story.
Gary's teaching on calling is the best and most helpful I've found. You can learn more about Gary at his website: www.thenobleheart.com.
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Why desire matters in our journey -- Jim tells the story of how his 5-year journey to find a better town for his family and a more sustainable life has now come full circle; and how desire was the glue that held his dreams together when he wanted to give up. You will also discover that your deep desires matter to God and that he will use them to give you answers and direction.
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Recovering our desire -- Jim is a guest again on Joel Brueseke's Growing in Grace Together podcast. They talk about our fears to trust our desires, because we've mistrusted our hearts. They also talked about the various sources of desires and the consequences of not trusting the desires that are in our new and good hearts.
Here's Joel's podcast site
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Misleading ourselves - Andrew Farley, author of The Naked Gospel, joined me again to talk about the misleading catch-phrases Christians use that end up leading them away from their new and good hearts.
We also address that sticky passage in the Lord's Prayer that says, "If you don't forgive others...neither will your Father forgive you." But wait a minute, aren't we already and fully forgiven? How do we reconcile other passages on our completed forgiveness with this passage that follows the Lord's Prayer?
Andrew Farley's site: www.thenakedgospel.com
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The Heart and the New Covenant - Joel Brueseke, who hosts the Growing in Grace Together podcast, is a good friend and a guy who really gets the good and noble heart. Joel interviewed me today for a two-part series. Here is part one.
Listen in for some great conversation about why Christians tend to walk around in guilt and shame, and why there seems to be such a focus in the church on behavior management and sin management - and how living with a New Covenant mentality rather than an Old Covenant mentality, as well as a proper view of the new heart, will overcome all of that.
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'THE NAKED GOSPEL' - Andrew Farley and I talked about his fantastic new book, The Naked Gospel - the truth you may never hear in church. Find out what Andrew says about our new identity and freedom. It really is a lot better than we've been told.
- Should Christians really obey the moral law in the Ten Commandments?
- Do we really have pure and good hearts - the very same that Jesus had?
- Can Christians trust their hearts?
The answers may surprise you!
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Spiritual abuse and healing grace - Jim talks with Aida Calder, the blogger behind Forgetting the Former Things blog. Aida shares her journey out of religious abuse and into the freedom Jesus offers. She offers helpful and hopeful advice for those who are in similar situations and may not even realize it.
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Quiz - Recover Your Good Heart -- Take the quiz with Jim as he exposes the tragic assumptions we've made about our hearts as Christians. You may be surprised at the answers.
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Meaningful aliveness -- "Just take the rough edges off, God. Make things run smoothly." Join Jim as he shares how his search for comfort became a substitute for meaningful aliveness.
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Let us take the adventure - Join Jim as he talks about the adventure he and his family have been on for the last five years; the pain of unfulfilled longing, and the journey it has taken them on as they arrive at the place of their dreams (with no job, no friends, and the great unknown). (9/10/09)
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Steve Brown (Steve Brown, Etc.) interviewed Jim about his book, Recover Your Good Heart -- Living free from religious guilt & the shame of not good-enough. Steve's radio show is a blast. (07/24/09)
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"The Misunderstood God -- The Lies Religion Tells Us About God" - special guest Darin Hufford.
Darin is the author of The Misunderstood God, and the creator of The Free Believers Network. We talked about his book, how religious thinking (vs. the Gospel) has distorted love, and what it means to be a free believer. Listen on Jim's Blogtalk Radio podcast.
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"Grace roots-- special guest Joel Brueseke, founder of GraceRoots.org."
Joel has recently created a Graceroots community on Ning network. He's a guy that gets the message of Jesus and understands the message of the new heart. Listen on Jim's Blogtalk Radio podcast.
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"A truer authenticity" 6/5/09 Grace without restoration is cruel, like releasing a man from prison without giving him new desires and strength. Grace must go beyond forgiveness (pardon) to the giving of a new and supernaturally-good heart. Otherwise, it is stunted grace. Simply seeing ourselves as a miserable mess - yet forgiven- doesn't help a person in the long run. We need a new kind of "real." A new authenticity.
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"A life of desire" 11/12/08 Is desire a snare to be avoided or the instrument through which God leads us into our very identity and calling? Jim talks about what the Church has done with desire and what God is really inviting us into.
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“There’s even more to ‘grace.’” 9/5/08. Is it possible we’re stilling framing the idea of grace within an Old Covenant mentality? Is there more Jesus is offering us than pardon?
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INTERVIEW: Special Guest, Jim Robbins. 8/20/08. Jim was interviewed by the guys at Family Room Media. Topic: Jim’s new book, Recover Your Good Heart. The promise of the Gospel goes beyond forgiveness to the promise of a new heart. God must rescue people at the level of the heart. This is why you already have a new goodness, new power and new desires. — Thanks to Bob, Dave and Loren at Family Room Media.
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“Rescuing the Heart” - 10/29/07
Jim reads excerpts from his upcoming book, Recover Your Good Heart. Is the Church really giving people the cure we claim to have? Or, are we busy managing externals?
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”A Better Way to Relate to God - part two - Better Assumptions” 9/6/07
Many of us have been taught to relate to God with wrong assumptions — particularly assumptions about the heart (will, spirit) of a Christian. For example, are we really “Just sinners, saved by grace?” Are we really “prone to wander?” Jim continues to explore some more accurate, hopeful assumptions Christians can have about their heart as they relate to God.
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“A Better Way to Relate to God” - part one 8/26/07
Assumptions will either kill or bring life. Like medical doctors, church leaders operate under certain assumptions about people’s central disease, as well as the presumed cure they need. What if we’ve got that course of treatment wrong? (If we were really getting the cure/treatment right, our churches would be filled with healed and whole individuals — not perfectly, but substantially. And that’s not what we see.)
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“Your Stories-Guest -Keith Stanton”
These are excerpts from an interview I did with a good friend, Keith Stanton, in which we describes his journey to faith and subsequent disillusionment with simplistic believing and easy answers after more than twenty years. His journey moves from external religious props to internal security. Note especially what the church’s message was to Keith about the nature of his heart - even after having become a Christian.