Filled up through fasting. That’s what we talk about in Episode 072 of The Naked Party Time Podcast, which is out today for you to enjoy. In this episode, we continue answering some great questions from a listener around fasting: I’ve tried a few times but always feel like I’m doing it wrong or I gi…
On this Episode we tackle some listener questions around prayer, happiness, and trusting God. As always, it’s a real and raw look at life, leadership, and love. If you haven’t, please take a moment to subscribe to the podcast – that way you will never miss a conversation. We try and release one new…
In this episode, Sabrina and I answer a listener’s question about church hurt. “How to have conversations with those who have church hurt, or specific prayers to pray for them.” We walk through Four Principles for having a conversation: 1. Be humble 2. Be honest 3. Be helpful 4. Be hopeful
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…
In this episode, we talk about the rhythm of our spiritual relationship. Being with Jesus and becoming more like Jesus are the desired outcomes of today’s podcast. We talk about the “why” behind 5 key spiritual practices. What you do will only be as strong as why you do it. The purpose of spiritual…
In this episode of The Naked Party Time Podcast, we talk about the what, why, and how of a spending fast, by replaying Episode 007 called “Spending fast challenge.” Sabrina and I are doing our third spending fast in three years as we felt led to recalibrate, refocus, and reenergize our finances towa…
In this episode, Sabrina and I bring to a conclusion our unintended series on relationship myths with Episode 038: Busting more myths about singleness, marriage, and sex! Other episodes mentioned: Episode 036 – Celebrating Singleness Episode 037 – Busting some marriage myths (and a few single ones t…
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 this episode of The Naked Party Time Podcast, Jeff and Sabrina talk about the what, why, and how of a spending fast, and extend a challenge for all the listeners to join them on a spending fast, starting on October 1st. If you want to join the spending fast challenge you need to commit to at leas…
Recently, my wife and I had a heated conversation with our daughters about modesty. It was all born out of our personal parental standard that we don’t let our girls wear a bikini as a swimsuit. Please hear me, that we do not condemn anyone who wears a bikini or allows their girls to wear one, it is…
On Sunday at Element Church , we ended our sermon series called Confessions Of A Pastor with our Conference Superintendent Steve Strutz bringing the word. Element is a part of The Evangelical Church of North America , and Steve is the superintendent of the Western Conference in that denomination. No…
If you don’t know, we have a great prayer tool out there called PrayForWyoming.com . Every day of the month from the 1st to the 23rd we offer a prayer guide for a corresponding county in Wyoming. For instance, tomorrow is March 1st and we will have a prayer guide to pray over Natrona County which is…
Great sermons typically require a great amount of work. [Tweet “Great sermons typically require a great amount of work. “] I’ve met some people and listened to others that seem to make sermonizing simple. Surely, God has uniquely gifted some people to walk onto a stage and wax eloquent for 45 minute…
Hey Element Church ! Meet Stormy, this week’s Volunteer Of The Week. Stormy was nominated by Andy, one of our campus pastors, who said this: “Stormy serves as a leader on the 11 am Living Room Team. She is one of the most consistent volunteers I’ve seen here at Element and always has such a joy in s…
Spelling matters! I know some people are getting really excited right now because you are the ones who believe it is your life mission to find spelling and grammatical errors wherever you are. But I’m not talking about errors in a presentation, I’m talking about errors in our belief system when it c…
One of our Core Values here at Element Church is: “It Matters: That no matter what you do in the church, it matters just the same for the church.” We believe that. That the person in the pulpit is no more valuable than the volunteer in the parking lot. Every position in the church matters just the s…
Prayer is perhaps one of the most misunderstood, guilt associated, under utilized disciplines in the Christian faith, and all three of those things work against each other. It’s under utilized because we don’t fully understand it and we feel guilty because we under utilize it. Most people probably w…
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…
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.…
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…
