Understanding Calling

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you! In this episode I talk to Jay Snyder, a pastor, missionary, Father and friend. Jay along with his wife Peg heads up Passion For Life Ministries (passionforlifeministries.org) a ministry that equips pastors and leaders in churches in America and Central America, plants churches and seeks to show release the love of the Hol...

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you! How much should we think about our God given calling...and how much is too much? How do we draw the right balance between being intentional and being egotistical? What is God's best for our mindset and perspective on what He's called us to? In this episode we look at: Obedience - Intentionality - Living - Living...

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you! Over on Patreon Understanding Calling has a whole other Podcast called "Understanding Calling Extra", that is for courses and series to help with our personal discipleship journey.  This trailer is about the new course "The Calling Quadrant" - check it out for free on Patreon or become a monthly suppor...

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you! This episode is all about the insecurities God lets us see when we get squeezed by waiting and by the pressure of circumstances on us. Very few things expose the need for control in our lives like a season of prolonged waiting does. In this episode we look at a story from the Old Testament and the New to explore how we en...

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you! In this second part of the Waiting in the Wilderness series, we're looking at Joseph's story and what God does in the life of someone who has been rejected, forgotten, lost a sense of belonging and purpose (multiple times) and yet been used where he was, as he was, and experienced huge redemption in areas of suf...

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you! We all want to know what God is doing in us and around us as we wait for what He has for us next... However How do we know if we are actually waiting like we think we are? Could it be possible that we might be in danger of deferring, stuck in a holding pattern, kicking the can of what God has put in our hearts down the ro...

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you! Ken Snyder, Missionary and Pastor shares authentic stories about living outside of the limelight and from a place of humility and service - and ultimately from a place of trying to be obedient to God in our callings, not ambitious.  A very helpful listen to anyone wanting to grow in a real, not impressive looking, godly c...

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you! We all ask ourselves questions about who God made us to be: - Is who I dream I could one day be "The real me"?  - Is it the person I am on my worst day? - Is the real me the one that feels like my best days are behind me? - Or is there another way of discovering who God designed me to be? In this episode we expl...

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you! This week I am speaking to Mark Burlinson, who along with his wife Jane pastors Catch the Fire Church in Myrtle Beach in South Carolina. Mark has pastored in numerous denominations and movements, including during the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Toronto in 1994. He has a history in business, coaching and in facilitati...

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you! A new year is upon us, but many of us are still full and overflowing with the last year... This shorter episode is an offering for what I am doing this January and might be for those who are still considering what they want to do, with integrity, to position themselves for whatever God's kingdom has for them. God has...

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you! One of the most used words in Christendom these days seems to be 'Seasons'. We talk about being in a season, coming out of one and into another, navigating them and contending with what God is teaching us in them. What is the theology, biblical basis, significance, purpose and process with seasons though? How do...

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you! Tom Allsop is the Pastor of Catch the Fire: Three Rivers Church in Hertfordshire England and this week I get to sit down and talk with him about what a life led by calling looks like. We talk about failure in calling, humility, choosing the low path rather than seeking personal glory and how our ministries and callings ne...

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you! God calls a life over a lifetime - that means there is more than one thing you and I are called to do with our lives.  The bible shows us ways calling in the Kingdom can be expressed, these are not fixed or rigid categories for us to be restricted by. Instead they are useful identifiers so we can get a better understandin...

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you! Gifts, skills, prophetic words and dreams, vision for our future and the 'what if's' of our younger years - all of these feed into what 'our potential' is. A vital question we need to ask ourselves as we pursue our God given calling is "Is God looking for me to reach and achieve my potential....

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you! Check out our Patreon for ways to become part of the community and our monthly video calls: https://www.patreon.com/c/understandingcalling/membership Ep 3:  Here’s a breakdown of what we’re contending with… 1. We all have been made with an innate and personal way of hearing God‘s voice and discerning how He’s leading us. ...

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you! Check out our Patreon for ways to become part of the community and our monthly video calls: https://www.patreon.com/c/understandingcalling/membership Pilot Episode:  God calls all of us to be something and to something. His calling on our life is complex, but also simple. It's mysterious, yet it can also be staring u...

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you! Check out our Patreon for ways to become part of the community and our monthly video calls: https://www.patreon.com/c/understandingcalling/membership Ep 2: This episode is full of questions for you to consider about who God has created you to be. We're considering all the past 'versions' of you from differe...