Life & Leadership

Season 3 // Episode 15   Rachel Turner is the founder of Parenting for Faith and has worked in churches for over 15 years as a Family Life Pastor, Children's Pastor, and a Youth Pastor. She runs training days for church leaders, consults and speaks at conferences on parenting and faith in the home. Rachel has also produced the Parenting for Faith course and is the author of nine books.   James Archer. Has worked in education for over 20 years and was a primary school educator and science advisor before becoming a Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at Canterbury Christ Church University. James started his Doctor of Ministry in 2018 from York St John University and is now the CEO for The Institute for Children, Youth and Mission.   Rachel’s book ‘It Takes a Church to Raise a Parent’ is available here: shorturl.at/glwE5 along with her author page for all the books she's released: https://www.rachelturner.org.uk/    A great quote from today: “Talk and questioning and enabling the child to explore for themselves supported in a community of believers is the most authentic way to support and nurture faith in children.” - James Archer   James mentioned Sarah Holmes. Her work is available here:https://www.nurturingyoungfaith.org/post/families-faith-and-covid-19   The questions and format James mentioned for the Discovery Bible Study are:   1) Retell last week’s story. 2) How was your week? Anything need help with? 3) Read passage aloud three times 4) What does this tell me about god 5) What does this tell me about people? 6) If this is God’s word to me, what am I going to do about it? 7) Who am I going to tell about it?   Information about James, Rachel and the courses at the Institute for Children’s & Youth Mission is available from here: www.cym.ac.uk

Season 3 // Episode 14   In today’s episode Jez speaks to Jo Johnson a clinical psychologist who specialises in MS and brain injury. She has written a range of family related publications and is now offering psychological intervention and workplace training using the acceptance commitment therapeutic model (a more recent version of CBT). Jo has also released several publications including two psychological novels Surviving Me (shorturl.at/hpuBN) in 2019 and more recently Surviving Her (https://tinyurl.com/muh85adk)   Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) summary: Get in contact with and consider your core values Develop small action patterns that help move toward those values   Jo said to ask the question: what would my values lived out look like on a camera? For example: “I want to be a supportive mum.” Followed by the question: “What’s the smallest action I could do in support of that value?” Jo said that ACT is about: values driven action vs actions driven by negative thoughts and feelings.   A great quote and insight from today's episode was: "avoidance increases anxiety"

Season 3 // Episode 13   In today’s episode Jez speaks to Lauren Windle about her story from addiction to discipleship.   For more information about Lauren along with links to her writing and media visit: https://laurenwindle.com/

Season 3 // Episode 12 Part of our Shorts series, this is part 3 on preaching with Andrew Wilson, where he explores how to prepare a sermon.  The video for today's podcast can be found here: VIDEO 3 https://youtu.be/BVj4m5oal_k Part one can be found here: https://youtu.be/G6yyKvK7T0c Part two is here: https://youtu.be/62GA0wf7YUc  

Season 3 // Episode 11 In today's episode Jez speaks to Claudine Roberts about her recently released book: Violence Against Women, El Roi discovering the God who sees.  Copies of the book are available to buy here: https://equippingthechurch.com/Products/ViewOne.aspx?ProductId=147096 

Season 3 // Episode 10 Part of our Shorts series, this is part 2 on preaching with Andrew Wilson, where he explores the journey of good preaching.  Part one can be found here: https://youtu.be/G6yyKvK7T0c and the video accompanying the audio for today is here: https://youtu.be/62GA0wf7YUc

Season 3 // Episode 9 Today’s episode features a conversation with Phil & Sarah Varley about how God spoke to them and ultimately led them to move city, country and church to plant a new work of God in Rotterdam.  If you want to find out more or connect with Phil & Sarah please visit their website: https://www.360degreeview.nl/ 

Season 3 // Episode 8 As part of our Shorts series Jez speaks to Andrew Wilson about preaching. In this episode they discuss the purpose of preaching. Look out for further episodes on how to communicate well and advice on preparing a sermon. The video that accompanies this podcast can be found here: https://youtu.be/G6yyKvK7T0c

Season 3 // Episode 7 In this episode Jez speaks to cross cultural missiologist, church panter and Bible teacher Andy McCullogh about what God's doing around the world, his latest book 'The Bethlehem Story' and Jesus' love of the margins and marginal people across the world. For more information about the Unreached Network Internship programme and more visit: www.unreached.network/internship/ For links to Andy's books go here: Global Humility - www.amazon.co.uk/Global-Humility-…aps%2C245&sr=8-1 The Bethlehem Story - www.amazon.co.uk/Bethlehem-Story-…aps%2C144&sr=8-1

Season 3 // Episode 6 In this episode Jez concludes his series on leadership conversations with Simon looking at the subject of loving well, when people leave your church, along with also some practical nuts and bolts advice on leading meetings in church and ministry.  The videos that accompany these podcasts can be found here: https://youtu.be/pm4G1fIHTrs & here: https://youtu.be/ODemvlck0x0  Previous videos from these shorts are available here: Measuring Success: https://youtu.be/2vGUjV005qc  On Personality & Identity: https://youtu.be/9HO-Fwj81xI  On Self-Awareness & Authenticity: https://youtu.be/VqPJAM6s2Bo  Death & Privilege: https://youtu.be/G4HyDJOWO_4