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Experience Christian ChurchExperience Bonus Content - A Life Lived FaithfullyThis week we continue with our series: Empowered: Living a Life that’s Fully Charged. Matt and Diane dive into a fruit that seems rather easy to define, but poses so many questions and challenges to live out: Faithfulness. Join in and discover what makes a family’s legacy – like a ring or a dogtag or a long marriage – an example of faithfulness in action. You won’t want to miss out on the personal stories they share about how faithfulness has both challenged and blessed them in their own lives, and how understanding it can bless yours as well.2021-06-2539 min
Experience Christian ChurchExperience Bonus Content - The Rhythms of the FruitThis week we continue with our series: Empowered: Living a Life that’s Fully Charged. After last’s week message about peace, it seems that this week’s dive into Patience would offer a new direction. Far from it! “When peace is disrupted, patience is needed.” Join Matt and Diane as they pull that idea apart with Rhythm Community’s Sr. Pastor, Matt Fogle, from Mesa, Arizona. Learn how our life’s rhythms can add or distract from our peace, and our ability to be patient. And, you won’t want to miss the difference between Rhythms and Ruts – the good, the bad...2021-06-1851 min
Experience Christian ChurchExperience Bonus Content - Blessed are the PeacemakersThis week we continue with our series: Empowered: Living a Life that’s Fully Charged. We are focusing in on peace, one of the fruit of the Spirit that Paul writes about in Galatians 5.16-17. Peace is certainly a topic on the top of many of our minds as we read and hear the headline stories each day; here in the US, and across the globe. But God teaches in His Word that peace does not have to allude us if we seek God in the midst of what looks like turmoil – both in our world and in our hear...2021-06-1128 min
Experience Christian ChurchExperience Bonus Content - Loving Like JesusThis week we began a new series: Empowered: Living a Life that’s Fully Charged. Based on Galatians 5.16-17, we dive deeper into this idea of living our lives for Jesus in the context of the kind of love that God has for us. Join us as we discuss this with Dr. Philipp Kenneson, professor for 26 years at Mulligan College in Tennessee and author of several books, one of which we will be referring to, entitled Life On The Vine. Come for the information, but you’ll stay for the inspiration on this one. Resources:...2021-05-2157 min
Experience Christian ChurchExperience Bonus Content - The Wisdom from the Book of JohnThis week in our series, Things Jesus Never Said, we finished up in John 21 with the story of Peter and Jesus walking on the beach together. It was a powerful conclusion to the teachings of the Book of John. It also brought to a conclusion our Master Class taught by Drs. Lee and Pat Magnus who took us deeper into John each week with insights and themes that new – or even seasoned - readers to this book might have missed. They join us on our podcast this week to wrap up our observations and learnings from this book, and ta...2021-05-1341 min
Experience Christian ChurchExperience Bonus Content - Grace and Suffering Co-ExistThis week in our series, Things Jesus Never Said, we will go deeper into the misconception that when we believe in Jesus we are freed from suffering. God never said that, but we’ll talk in-depth about what He did say: that He will be with us in the midst of our suffering. Joining us this week is our ministry friend, Rachel Short, from Project 938 Church, who helps us grasp how suffering and God’s peace can co-exist, and what we can do to take hold of that truth. Get involved in our Bible Challenge - rea...2021-05-0740 min
Experience Christian ChurchExperience Bonus Content - Navigating the Divine DisappointmentsThis week in our series, Things Jesus Never Said, we explore what it means to know that God is good, yet not understand why he doesn’t do what we ask. “If you would only…” is our plea to God, trying to understand his lack of delivery. Tune in as we dive into this difficult, but real-life, topic of God’s goodness in the face of ‘divine disappointments.’ Joining us is Jaret Mitchell, Chick-Fil-A owner and ECC Leadership Team member who offers perspective on navigating this in his life as a Christian, a business owner, a father, a husband, and a friend.2021-04-3043 min
Experience Christian ChurchExperience Bonus Content - Things Jesus Never Said: Exploring Shame and GuiltThis week in our series, Things Jesus Never Said, we explore how doing ‘what makes us feel good’ is not always the wisest way to go. Drawing from the story of Jesus and the accused adulteress, Marc Lucenius of Project 938 Church gives us insight on the feelings of shame and guilt based on his work with people in the Celebrate Recovery program. Join us to learn how much these emotions have to do with our spiritual growth, and how we can work towards freeing ourselves. Get involved in our Bible Challenge - read the Book of Joh...2021-04-2241 min