In this episode, we answer a listener question by talking about Jesus and the Next Generation. The question was, “How do we teach our children to love Jesus and not just the Church or it’s programs?” We share three principles to keep in mind for us to help lead the next generation to love and follow…
In this episode, we talk about our wishes for humans in 2023. Things we wish we could all get better at doing. 1. Conversation instead of condemnation 2. Unity without uniformity John 17:20-23 20 “I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their me…
New Year’s Resolutions are really about refocusing your priorities. That’s what Sabrina, and I just took a day to do last week, and it’s part of what we talk about in Episode 033 of the Naked Party Time Podcast. It might be 2022 already, but it’s never too late to take some time, sit down, and revie…
In Episode 033 of the Naked Party Time Podcast, Sabrina and I talked about planning for the new year. One of the steps in living out that plan is to re-order your life around your new goals. If you don’t do this step of re-ordering your life, you don’t have goals; you have wishes. You hope these thi…
In Episode 033 of The Naked Party Time Podcast, Sabrina and I talk about how you can be intentional with a plan to get the most out of the coming year. If you aren’t intentional about where you’re going in life, then you’ll just end up going wherever life takes you. Benjamin Franklin said, “If you f…
We’ve been talking about doing this episode for quite a while now but other topics or life situations kept getting in the way, but we are finally here. We are doing an episode on truth statements, destroying the lies that derail us. We’ve mentioned them a ton on different episodes, but we’ve never r…
In Episode 031, Sabrina and I talk about some principles that help you to wait well when you are waiting in your calling. Do you ever feel like God is preventing a dream from being fulfilled, or forcing you to wait on something you believe He called you to? In those moments, remember this, when it s…
In this episode, we continue our conversation about mental health and what we can learn from the Simone Biles situation. In Episode 028, we focused on those who are currently facing a mental health struggle of some kind. In this episode, we focus on those who are walking with someone or know someone…
In this episode, we start to tackle the subject we’ve been teasing about since we started the podcast…sexual intimacy. We’ve titled this episode, “Let’s talk about sex, baby!” If you know the song, you know! Sex is awesome! It is a good gift from God. But like every good gift, our enemy the devil wa…
Episode 020 of The Naked Partytime Podcast is live! In this episode, Jeff and Sabrina dive into the five levels of intimacy in relationships and marriage. If we don’t cultivate every area of intimacy in marriage, we’ll be in danger of being great roommates, but only average spouses. 20% of US coupl…
In this episode, we pick up where we left off last time talking about living our lives on mission. If your marriage is not focused on the right mission, then your mission will become only about your marriage. If you haven’t yet, make sure and listen to Episode 018 of the podcast. We start talking ab…
I am frustrated with today’s politics, so much so that I feel a bit politically homeless. I don’t fit in their camp and I don’t fit in their circle. Anyone else feel that way? “I’m a Christian who is theologically conservative & socially compassionate, too conservative for progressives & too progres…
In this episode, we start a conversation about living out a marriage that is on mission (And stuff for singles too) If your marriage is not focused on the right mission, then your mission will become only about your marriage. This affects single people too because as singles, you are also on missi…
What is Lent? I can tell you this; it’s more than pocket fuzz. In this kickoff episode of “The Naked Weekly,” I talk about the season of Lent, where it came from, why we do it, and some practical tips if you want to seek God during the Lenten season intentionally. The Naked Weekly will drop…
In Episode 016 I interview Pastor Fred Gallop. Fred is a Chaplain in the USAF who served on the Element Church pastoral team while stationed here in Cheyenne. In this episode, we get real and raw by diving into the conversation on race: Fred answers questions like, “Why do we need Black H…
In Episode #002 we start a four-part series of podcasts called “I don’t want to go back to normal, because normal wasn’t working.” Today we’re going to highlight six things total that we don’t want to go back to normal on, then in the next three podcasts, we’re going to cover two of the six things e…
Episode 001 of the Naked Party Time Podcast is ready to consume. In this podcast, Sabrina and I talk about “How we can come out of this season even stronger.” Today’s spotlight is on Hayley Laban, @hayleystorm16 on Instagram. Hayley did our amazing podcast artwork and is an incredible graphic artist…
This last week at Element Church we started our Christmas sermon series called “My Advent: What does it mean for me?” In this series we are looking at the Advent (which means arrival) of Jesus and answering the question of how it applies to us. Traditionally in the Christian Church, Advent is the fo…
Sometimes I am caught by one word in a Bible verse that we might otherwise not pay attention to. For instance, imagine for a moment that you were wrongfully imprisoned and awaiting a trial the next day that most likely would not be remotely fair. And I’m not talking about an American prison with 3 s…
This past week at Element Church we started a new sermon series called “My Advent: What does it mean for me?” In this series we are going back to our Christian roots, lighting a candle in the Advent wreath each week, and talking about what Advent truly means for me. But we don’t want to leave the se…
Hey Element Church ! Meet Shauna, this week’s Volunteer Of The Week. Shauna was nominated by our Outreach Ministries assistant, Eiron who said this: “Shauna has been serving in the church for 2 years. First in tech and now in a small women’s group that serves struggling and homeless children in Chey…
Have you ever been unsure of when to start something new? Well, in episodes 1 and 2 of the Infuse Leadership Podcast we talk about just that. In part 1 of this 2 part podcast, we started talking through six things you need to know before you start something new. By the time we were done with part 1…
On Sunday at Element Church , we had our annual “You Choose Sunday.” On these days we let the people pick the worship songs and also select the sermon content by submitting questions that I do my best to answer. We’re gonna have to start doing two weeks of You Choose Sunday because there were way mo…
Today is the day. Whether you’ve already voted or not, and if you are eligible to vote I would encourage you to do that prayerfully and informed, by the time we wake up tomorrow morning we will have a new elected president of the United States of America. I gotta be honest, this election season has…
If I’m not nervous before I preach God’s Word then I have a real reason to be nervous. [Tweet “If I’m not nervous before I preach God’s Word then I have a real reason to be nervous.”] Just recently I had the great privilege of preaching to a group of ministry students at Nebraska Christian College.…
Hey Element Church! I know it’s several weeks away but I wanted to start letting you know about our annual year end offering called the “So That” offering on Sunday, December 11th. You can watch the video below where I talk about it in our Sunday service, or you can continue reading. Either way, if…
On Sunday at Element Church we finished our sermon series called “Decision 2016: Escaping the political paranoia”. Regardless of who is elected and regardless of what happens to the economy, what does God want us to decide to do? So far in the series we talked about changes that need to be made in G…
If you don’t want to live in God’s shelter you won’t find rest in His shadow. [Tweet “If you don’t want to live in God’s shelter you won’t find rest in His shadow.”] So many people want to find rest in God, the problem is we aren’t willing to live in God’s shelter. Psalm 91:1 says, Those who live in…
Culture is talked a lot about today in leadership, and well it should be. The potential of an organization is only as powerful as the culture in which it has created. Culture is like the foundation to a building. You might have the most impressive looking structure, but if the foundation is not soun…
