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This half-hour adventure for kids (ages 6-12) follows Lizarardo “Liz” Lacerta and his reptilian friends in the little town of Terrene. In the quest for fun, Liz and his pals often get themselves into trouble! With the help of their parents and other grown-up lizards like Grandpa Anole and Granny Gecko, they wrestle with the challenges and drama of childhood, finding real answers in the Bible. Designed to help children find their own roles in God’s big story, the program is supported by a liv ...
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Groundwork is a half-hour conversation that digs deeply into Scripture, the foundation for our lives. Each week, pastors Dave Bast (president of Words of Hope) and Scott Hoezee (director of CEP at Calvin Seminary) cultivate our understanding of God's Word by unpacking the richness of the Bible and applying it with insight to today's world.
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Reframing Ministries Interviews

Colleen Swindoll Thompson

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Life can be unexpected, messy, and painful. At some point in your life you will need care on some level, and you will be called to provide care for others who are suffering mentally, spiritually, or physically. Colleen Swindoll-Thompson, daughter of well-loved Pastor Chuck Swindoll and director of Insight for Living’s Reframing Ministries, has an unwavering passion to encourage and equip caregivers and their families with truths and tools that help them live well, regardless of life’s ever-c ...
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Ministry Without Hating It

Chad Garrison & Brenton Hill

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Is it possible to do ministry without hating it? We have a theory that it just might be. Join us in our pursuit to answer this question through the stories of ministry leaders who have been where you're at, and pick up the wisdom they've earned in the trenches of their own ministry journeys.
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God Hears Her Podcast

Our Daily Bread Ministries

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God Hears Her explores the stunning truth that God sees you, He hears you, and He loves you because you are His. It's for women who are in the trenches of the beautiful and messy moments of relationships, work, ministry, and life. Join Elisa Morgan (author and speaker), Eryn Eddy Adkins (founder of the lifestyle brand, "So Worth Loving”), and Vivian Mabuni (author and speaker) as they explore relevant faith-topics and invite guests to share stories of how God has met them in the every-day.
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How could your church communicate better? Join hosts Bryan Haley and Jeanette Yates as they discuss tips, strategies, and tools that anyone in church communication can use to enhance their church marketing and communication.
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Have you ever felt like your prayers were inadequate? So many of us feel like we are “bad” at praying, yet that is exactly Satan’s goal: to bring doubt and do what he can to separate us from our heavenly Father. Join Colleen Swindoll Thompson and author and ministry leader Addison Bevere, as they dive […] Read complete post.…
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3.In this episode of the Post-Christian Podcast, Dr. Eric Bryant interviews Dr. John Anthony Dunne, associate professor of New Testament at Bethel University and host of The Two Cities podcast.In this conversation, Dr. John Dunne discusses the intersection of theology, culture, and church leadership, emphasizing the importance of a robust understan…
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“Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’” — Luke 10:9As a missionary, I sometimes traveled with health-care workers from the Luke Society, a medical mission organization, to remote villages in the Philippines. There we met people who usually didn’t have access to healthcare. The Luke Society workers wer…
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“When you enter a house, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’ . . . Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you.” — Luke 10:5-7We were heading south from Bacolod City in the Philippines, convoying with other vehicles for a church retreat. As we entered Valladolid, I found that our car’s brakes weren’t working. So we hobbled into a service s…
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Guest Bio: Amy Betters-Midtvedt, author of You’ll Make It (And They Will Too), is a Today Parenting contributing author with more than a million readers and twenty-five years of experience working with adolescents and families. In her job as a literacy coach and in her personal life—where she and husband, Todd, wrangle their five children—she is su…
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Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it. — Hebrews 13:2During my first year as a missionary on Panay Island in the Philippines, while I was still single, I heard someone knocking at my gate. It was Pastor Raul and his wife, Valerie, and they informed me that the…
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Is it your “ministry”, or your “mission assignment”? Distinguishing this small, yet profound detail has made all the difference for our guest, Pastor Peter Henderson. In this episode, Peter shares how being a survivor of the Columbine thrust him into Pastoral Ministry as a teen–leading him to become a Senior Pastor in his 20’s, the wisdom gained fr…
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You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth). . . . — Ephesians 5:8-9For a few years we rented a small fourth-floor apartment in a five-story tenement in Manila, the Philippines. Jason, the building manager, was a follower of Jesus…
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The commandments . . . are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” — Romans 13:9I thank God for the opportunities I’ve had to visit many countries and to live in several of them for a long while. All of this has given me a fascination for cultural differences.The differences in food alone can delight the palate (or sometime…
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We don’t have to look far to find examples of broken relationships. Many of us have our own stories, and almost all of us know someone with a story of brokenness, betrayal, or abuse. The Song of Songs offers us a vision of relationships in stark contrast to the self-serving models we see around us in culture. The celebration of intimacy in the Song…
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A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows. . . . God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing. . . . — Psalm 68:5-6“Welcome to the family; we’re glad that you have come to share your life with us as we grow in love. . . .”During my first year in the Philippines, I often heard this song at the beginning or end of a…
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“I am sending you to them to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins. . . .” — Acts 26:17-18Here the apostle Paul describes how his life turned around when he met Jesus. The Lord called him to be a witness to the Gentiles (non-Jews) so that they too could re…
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In this episode of the Post-Christian Podcast,Dr. Eric Bryantinterviews Aaron Pierce, the International Mission Director ofSteiger International, a global mission organization dedicated to mobilizing followers of Jesus to reach young people who would not walk into a church. Aaron shares insights on how church leaders can engage with young adults, p…
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How can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? — Romans 10:14In the Philippines there was a tribal group in the mountains that had never heard the good news of Jesus. Some of our missionary friends learned that the chieftain, who communicated with demonic spirits, performed a ye…
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The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. — Romans 6:23We didn’t overload Sharon (see Feb. 9) right away with all kinds of information on how to become a Christian when she first attended our group. We simply explained the way of salvation and knew that the Holy Spirit would keep working in her to brin…
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Guest Bio: After a harrowing riches-to-rags detour in life, Jennifer DiVita clung to her faith and rebuilt herself as a solo mom and professional career woman. Because of God’s goodness, she found her way out of poverty and climbed the career ladder carrying her kids on her back to become Associate State Director of AARP. She’s also an on-air perso…
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The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, “We have found the Messiah.” . . . And he brought him to Jesus. — John 1:41-42The first time Sharon came to our Bible study group in Beijing, she introduced herself this way: “My name is Sharon. I’m not a Christian yet, but I want to know how to become one.”God was obviously wor…
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“Whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and . . . has crossed over from death to life.” — John 5:24I was with a group going house to house in the Philippines to share the way of salvation. We used simple tracts that featured the Bridge Illustration—showing Jesus as the bridge from death to life. In the doorway of a palm…
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“Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language?” — Acts 2:7-8When I arrived in Iloilo City in the Philippines, I lived with a Filipino family for several months. They had two girls, ages 5 and 6, who loved having a kuya (older brother) in their home. When they started unexpectedly ente…
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We do not often hear sermons on the Song of Songs. But this book of love poetry in the Bible helps us understand God’s perspective on love, intimacy, and sex. As we study the passionate exchange between two lovers, we uncover themes of intense desire, the constant seeking and finding of each other, and the celebration of romantic love and physical …
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