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…
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…
Hey Element Church ! This is Alaina, and she’s this week’s Volunteer Of The Week. Alaina was nominated by our e:kids Director, Stephanie, who said this: “Alaina is a teen volunteer on the eKidz team. Every week she serves, she shows up and is ready to go! She loves to interact with the kids and teac…
If I was preaching I would say, “Everyone say ‘I’m surrounded!’” Did you know that you’re surrounded? It sounds like a bad thing right? Some of us would agree by saying, “I know I’m surrounded. I’m surrounded by trouble. I’m surrounded by pain. I’m surrounded by fear. I’m surrounded by doubt. I’m su…
God would not command us to “not be afraid” if it was not also paired with a promise. [Tweet “God would not command us to “not be afraid” if it wasn’t also paired with a promise.”] More than 300 times in the Bible, God commands His people to “not be afraid,” “do not fear” or “fear not.” By mere math…
Prayer won’t always free us from the things that cause our fear but they can free us from our fear of those things! Typically when we pray, especially when we pray about things that are causing us fear, we pray for God to remove those things. We ask God to rescue us, heal us, protect us and change o…
Sometimes you can’t pray your way out of discouragement you have to praise your way out of it. [Tweet “Sometimes you can’t pray your way out of discouragement you have to praise your way out of it. “] The other day I was reviewing one of my favorite memory verses when something stood out to me for t…
Being determined isn’t enough, you also have to be diligent! [Tweet “Being determined isn’t enough, you also have to be diligent! “] I’m in the book of Ecclesiastes for my quiet time and ran across a verse that jumped out to me. Ecclesiastes is a fascinating book in the Bible. Here you have Solomon,…
I’ve heard other preachers say this and I’ve said it before as well that if you’re not having fun while you sin then you’re not doing it right! HA! Well, not only is that true, but I learned this week that it is also fun to illustrate sin in a sermon. (Sin IS fun by the way…for a season. Sin might b…
Failing doesn’t make you a failure, but you need to learn from it to advance in the future! [Tweet “Failing doesn’t make you a failure, but you need to learn from it to advance in the future!”] Recently, I was asked by Tony Morgan and the leaders at the Unstuck Group to share about the lessons we le…
Vision will communicate where you want to go but unity is what will get you there! [Tweet “Vision will communicate where you want to go but unity is what will get you there!”] Last week, I blogged about vision HERE . One of the things I didn’t share in that blog was the idea of unity. Unity is the b…
Not only is nothing impossible for God but nothing is even remotely difficult for Him! [Tweet “Not only is nothing impossible for God but nothing is even remotely difficult for Him!”] On Sunday at Element Church we continued our sermon series called “Our Father: Praying Prayers That Matter.” In the…
Hey Element Church ! This is Katie and she is this week’s Volunteer Of The Week. Katie serves in our Fusion Student Ministry, and Pastor Brendan, our youth pastor, said this about Katie: “ Katie has had such an incredible impact on our youth ministry. She is a person who goes above and beyond, conne…
