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EPS 37: James Prescott on Rob Bell, Spiral Dynamics, and creating

Today, I welcome writer and recently minted podcaster JAMES PRESCOTT from all the way across the pond!

Scroll down for shownotes and my book release new at the bottom!
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Go here for James’ website.

Make sure you listen to the James Talks podcast!

MIN 3

Early formation and suffering, including his parent’s problems and his mom’s death and pivotal spiritual influences.

10 min
Being changed by Rob Bell at camp/

About how our formation directs our lives whether we know it or not

15 min
Christian Mystics and the commonalities

Spiral Dynamics a theory about human consciousness

26 min Church as a place of grace

29 James’ book
Dance of the Writer

(join his Facebook group here)

34 min
The War of Art
 
38 min
The monotheism of money in the U.S. (Lisa)

44 min
Wrestling with the lie and myths of success

50 min How quickly what we do will be forgotten. How much do you know about our great grandparents? (Lisa)

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Booming the right kind of person now and surrendering the outcome of the work of passionate creation.

Thanks for listening to the podcast!

A message from Lisa

The new book is called FORKED: A Discernment Pocket Guide (for Choosing Between Two Good Things).

Watch the trailer!

If you’re in the middle of a tough decision or at a crossroads season of your life, this is the resource for you.

• To read a sample click HERE.

• Click the image for more info.

Soul School – Lesson 5: Would you be Offended if…

Welcome back to another Wednesday edition of Soul School. This one is called: Would you be Offended if I said you got Offended Way too Much

I hope you’re enjoying them. Just a reminder that these will continue until the end of 2015. If you enjoy this short format and these “lessons” let me know and I’ll keep them coming. I’ve heard from some of you and the the downloads are higher than I expected, but I may need some convincing to keep them going on a regular basis.

Tell me which one have you liked the best or which one has stood out the most?

Is there a topic you should I cover?

Send in your questions if you’d like.

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I’m really excited to release my new book and I’ll be reading some excerpts from it on the podcast soon.

It’s called FORKED: A Discernment Pocket Guide (for Choosing Between Two Good Things).

If you’re in the middle of a tough decision or at a crossroads season of your life, this is the resource for you. To read a sample click HERE.

Click the image for more info.

EPS 36: 30 Books in 10 Years, Mary DeMuth talks about healing through her career

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Mary is the author of thirty books, including her latest: The Day I Met Jesus: The Revealing Diaries of Five Women from the Gospels. She has spoken around the world about God’s ability to uncage a life, bringing needed freedom to her audiences. You can visit her website at MaryDeMuth.com

Scroll down for shownotes and be sure to see the news about Lisa’s new book on godly discernment and decision-making HERE.

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1:30
Introduction

2:00
What is an “Uncaged Life”?

Being set free from the past and living with an abundant mindset.

3:00
The Day I met Jesus

co-authored with Frank Viola
Name Your Link

Worth Living (new book in Spring 2016)

3:30
Finding healing through writing books.

4:30
How to have a broken heart without becoming walled-off.

5:30
Praying through the Lord’s Prayer as an avenue for healing a broken heart with a mindset towards relationships (community).

6:30
Mary’s story of how she realized how true healing could be found.

7:50
The cost of shutting out pain is the cost of the love and joy that is also shut out.

9:30
The treadmill of wanting to be noticed.

10:30
Finding worthiness through self-centered consciousness.

11:30
How has she found safe people.

Traits of safe people.

13:00
What draws us to others.

14:30
On conversational parenting

Modeling authenticity, authentic faith, and being real and imperfect.

Why kids often rebel.

16:00
Bringing stability to the home. Thinking of relationships as an unfolding story.

17:00
When you can’t measure it (i.e. relationships).

How life is measured: relationships and connections.

19:00
Not too many books about launching your children in the world.

Soul School – Lesson 4

This episode is called Shift for Homecoming

When the people closest to us don’t seem to understand us at our deepest level and in other ways we can start to feel deeply disconnected and become weary in our soul.

We are actually longing for something we might not realize…homecoming.

If you think I should continue these short weekly lessons, please let me know. I’m testing out this format until the end of 2015 and letting you decided.

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This Friday will be an interview with famed author Mary DeMuth.

Also, this week is the slow roll out release of my new book on making wise decisions at the forks in our roads called FORKED: A Discernment Pocket Guide (for Choosing Between Two Good Things).

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EPS 35: Sarah Bessey talks about “Out of Sorts”

People in over 149 countries listen to SPARK MY MUSE!

And you do too.

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A big welcome back to Sarah Bessey!

You will LOVE this conversation about Sarah’s new book which involves a spiritual homecoming. Her message of love and hope oozes from every decibel of this episode.

Scroll down for shownotes and please do look around at the other episodes. Psst, subscribe for extra awesomeness.

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Make sure you stop back HERE to join us for a Live conversation about the book November 10th at 8pm EST/GMT-4.

Her new book is HERE!

Sarah Bessey “Out of Sorts”

The difference between this book and the last one.

8:00
Six years away from church.
Finding friends outside of a church community context and the loneliness of that.

Making friends in the neighborhood and having more time because church obligations didn’t take so much time.

11:30
Programing church can take away the organic way people can become bonded.

“Maybe community is a really churchy word for being a really good friend.”

13:30
Obey the Sadness is her favorite chapter

Barbara Brown Taylor
“Learning to Walk in the Dark”

Solar and Lunar Christians

15:30
What unanswered prayers teach.

16:20
I didn’t know how to be sad. I didn’t know how to say [things weren’t] right and that I was longing for wholeness and longing for resolution and redemption. And make peace with that and sit in that tension well.

Holding space for unfinished business.

18:00
The lamenting psalms are meant to be sung in community.

The sacred work of listening when people are hurting.

19:30
When people are uncomfortable with our pain.

The winnowing times when friendships don’t stay provide comfort during the painful times.

22:00
The Ash Wednesday breakthrough story.

27:00
on not knowing how to pray anymore.

The Book of Common prayer

The daily offices

The 28:00
The papal visit in Philly

LINK for the videos of all the U.S. papal messages

Open communion in the street

The World Meeting of Families

Sarah’s interaction with liturgy now and underestimating her spiritual roots and homesickness.

Missing the unscripted script of her church.

34:00
Recognizing the global church and its expressions.

35:30
Sushi forever or the many expressions of Christianity.

If your hands are open you can have many ways to encounter God.

37:00
Understanding the wrath of God and sovereignty of God.

46:00
The pain and relief of the dross getting burning away.

“Can God Be Trusted”
by John Stackhouse

49:00
Being okay with growing pains.

The one message she hopes people get from the book.
(She takes us to church! ENJOY!)