

Every Knee Shall Bow (Your Catholic Evangelization Podcast)
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Lay Catholic evangelists Michael Gormley and Dave VanVickle bring you a podcast series that teaches you how to confidently share your Catholic faith with your family members, friends, co-workers, and the strangers you meet on airplanes. Every episode, Mike and Dave give you five steps you can take each week to become an instrument God uses to spread the Gospel, heal hearts, and renew his Church. Be inspired by stories of miraculous conversions and be reminded that God still powerfully intervenes to transform people's lives.
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Nov 9, 2022 • 38min
Overcoming Obstacles in Discipleship (with Annie Grandell)
How do we overcome some of the primary obstacles in discipleship? Dave and Mike are joined by Annie Grandell from YDisciple to discuss some of the obstacles in discipling young people and how to overcome them.
Snippet from the Show
Programs do not make disciples. People make disciples.
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Nov 2, 2022 • 37min
The Importance of the Domestic Church (with Adam Minihan and David Niles)
How important is the domestic church? Do we really understand what it is meant to be? Dave VanVickle is joined by guests David Niles and Adam Minihan to discuss these questions as well as their new book Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy Place.
Snippet from the Show
Faith ought to be experienced primarily in the home.
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Oct 26, 2022 • 39min
Go to Mission (Splendor of Truth Part 2)
What is the purpose of freedom? What is the relationship between conscience and truth? In this episode, Mike and Dave discuss these questions as they wrap up their examination of St. John Paul II’s Splendor of Truth. What we can learn from this encyclical can make us better missionaries for Christ.
Snippet from the Show
We are called solely to live for the glory of God.
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Oct 19, 2022 • 51min
Evangelization and the Moral Life (Splendor of Truth Part 1)
Do you struggle to address the moral teachings of the Church in evangelization? The Church’s moral teachings can be the hardest for people to accept. Dave and Mike explain, with the assistance of St. John Paul II, why it is necessary to accept the Church’s moral teachings in order to achieve union with Christ.
Snippet from the Show
“The moral life is a response to the love that God has already shown us.”
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Oct 12, 2022 • 36min
Knowing Isn’t Enough (Mission of the Redeemer Part 3)
Maybe you know what a missionary should be like, but is that how you live your life? In this episode, Dave and Mike explain what St. John Paul II teaches about missionary activity and spirituality. It isn’t enough to know how mission works. You must actually live it.
Snippet from the Show
Christ loves the Church and gave himself up for her, so why don’t we?
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Oct 5, 2022 • 45min
Use Words (Mission of the Redeemer Part 2)
Are you prepared to proclaim the Gospel with words? In this episode, Dave and Mike share why it is essential that in evangelization, we actually verbalize our witness. They also explain how the Holy Spirit is the primary mover of evangelization.
Snippet from the Show
If you love Jesus, you are going to share Jesus.
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Sep 28, 2022 • 50min
Where Are the Missionaries? (Mission of the Redeemer Part 1)
Did you know that you are called to be a missionary? In this episode, Mike and Dave begin their examination of the document Mission of the Redeemer. They explain the call of every Christian to be a missionary and what that might look like for each of us.
Snippet from the Show
Every Christian, everyone who has been baptized, is called to be a missionary.
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Sep 21, 2022 • 48min
Bonus Episode: Solemnities of the Church with Special Guests
In this special bonus episode, Dave and Mike talk with authors of the new book Solemnities: Celebrating a Tapestry of Divine Beauty. Denis McNamara, Chris Carstens, and Alexis Kutarna share about their new book and how we can more fully celebrate all seventeen solemnities in the Church.
Snippet from the Show
Intentionally participating in the solemnities can help us to open ourselves up more fully to the graces available.
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Sep 21, 2022 • 57min
Don’t Just Teach the Faith ( Redeemer of Man Part 3)
We are not called to just teach the faith. We must profess and live it! Mike and Dave explain how to make evangelization more than just teaching apologetics. They explain how to help people actually find themselves in Christ.
Snippet from the Show
After helping individuals find themselves in Christ, we need to help society become Christo-centric.
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Sep 14, 2022 • 50min
The Individual > Ideas (Redeemer of Man Part 2)
Mike and Dave continue their deep dive into John Paul II’s encyclical Redeemer of Man. How can we help someone know who they are? How essential is evangelization? What has replaced virtue? Find the answers to these and other questions in this week’s episode.
Snippet from the Show
Anytime you try to change the world without evangelization, it is not going to work.
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