Encounter Faith Podcast

Jeannine Allen sat down with host Ross Cochran to share about the many ways you can make an impact this season at Good Shepherd!  SHOW NOTES See all the details about ways to make an impact here. The Encounter Faith Podcast is dedicated to creating space to slow down and dive deeper into the critical conversations we’re having every week at Good Shepherd. We fundamentally believe that you cannot e...

Pastor Tara Beth starts our new series, The God who Delivers. SHOW NOTES The Encounter Faith Podcast is dedicated to creating space to slow down and dive deeper into the critical conversations we’re having every week at Good Shepherd. We fundamentally believe that you cannot encounter the risen Lord unchanged, and through the replays of our Sunday Sermons and conversations with our pastors and com...

Pastor Greg kicks off our brand new series  The God who Delivers. SHOW NOTES The Encounter Faith Podcast is dedicated to creating space to slow down and dive deeper into the critical conversations we’re having every week at Good Shepherd. We fundamentally believe that you cannot encounter the risen Lord unchanged, and through the replays of our Sunday Sermons and conversations with our pastors and...

Pastor Tara Beth and Max Schiewe both joined host Ross Cochran to reflect on our current political dynamic. This episode was recorded prior to any election results being announced, and we're intentionally releasing it today because it doesn't have anything to do with any particular election or any particular issue. Tara Beth and Max reflect on how they prepare a sermon during any kind of...

Pastor Tara Beth wraps up our  Language of Belief  series. SHOW NOTES The Encounter Faith Podcast is dedicated to creating space to slow down and dive deeper into the critical conversations we’re having every week at Good Shepherd. We fundamentally believe that you cannot encounter the risen Lord unchanged, and through the replays of our Sunday Sermons and conversations with our pastors and commun...

Pastor Tim wraps up our  Language of Belief series. SHOW NOTES The Encounter Faith Podcast is dedicated to creating space to slow down and dive deeper into the critical conversations we’re having every week at Good Shepherd. We fundamentally believe that you cannot encounter the risen Lord unchanged, and through the replays of our Sunday Sermons and conversations with our pastors and community lea...

Pastor Tara Beth returns to the podcast to wrap up our  Language of Belief series to focus on how the language we use as believers impacts our witness in our communities.  SHOW NOTES The Encounter Faith Podcast is dedicated to creating space to slow down and dive deeper into the critical conversations we’re having every week at Good Shepherd. We fundamentally believe that you cannot encounter the...

Pastor Tara Beth wraps up our  Language of Belief series . SHOW NOTES The Encounter Faith Podcast is dedicated to creating space to slow down and dive deeper into the critical conversations we’re having every week at Good Shepherd. We fundamentally believe that you cannot encounter the risen Lord unchanged, and through the replays of our Sunday Sermons and conversations with our pastors and commun...

Max Schiewe wraps up our series  The Language of Belief. SHOW NOTES The Encounter Faith Podcast is dedicated to creating space to slow down and dive deeper into the critical conversations we’re having every week at Good Shepherd. We fundamentally believe that you cannot encounter the risen Lord unchanged, and through the replays of our Sunday Sermons and conversations with our pastors and communit...

Ryan Hammer serves as the Worship & Creative Arts Executive Minister at Good Shepherd and is a seminarian. He returned to the podcast to share with host Ross Cochran his perspective on how the language we use influences our relationships and can help cultivate friendships that can withstand every season of life. SHOW NOTES Register for Alpha at Good Shepherd here . The Encounter Faith Podcast...

Pastor Greg continues our  Language of Belief series and shares on wisdom. SHOW NOTES The Encounter Faith Podcast is dedicated to creating space to slow down and dive deeper into the critical conversations we’re having every week at Good Shepherd. We fundamentally believe that you cannot encounter the risen Lord unchanged, and through the replays of our Sunday Sermons and conversations with our pa...

Pastor Tim continues our  Language of Belief series. SHOW NOTES The Encounter Faith Podcast is dedicated to creating space to slow down and dive deeper into the critical conversations we’re having every week at Good Shepherd. We fundamentally believe that you cannot encounter the risen Lord unchanged, and through the replays of our Sunday Sermons and conversations with our pastors and community le...

Max Schiewe returns to the podcast to share his perspective with host Ross Cochran about how we as Christians are meant to represent ourselves online and in conversations around issues like politics. SHOW NOTES The Encounter Faith Podcast is dedicated to creating space to slow down and dive deeper into the critical conversations we’re having every week at Good Shepherd. We fundamentally believe th...

Pastor Tara Beth continues our  Language of Belief series in our Sanctuary. SHOW NOTES The Encounter Faith Podcast is dedicated to creating space to slow down and dive deeper into the critical conversations we’re having every week at Good Shepherd. We fundamentally believe that you cannot encounter the risen Lord unchanged, and through the replays of our Sunday Sermons and conversations with our p...

Pastor Elisabeth continues our  Language of Belief  series on our Chapel. SHOW NOTES The Encounter Faith Podcast is dedicated to creating space to slow down and dive deeper into the critical conversations we’re having every week at Good Shepherd. We fundamentally believe that you cannot encounter the risen Lord unchanged, and through the replays of our Sunday Sermons and conversations with our pas...

Pastor Tim Nybroten joined the podcast with host Ross Cochran to walk through the ways that the language we use can build bridges... and create obstacles, for those who are new to the faith or new to our communities. SHOW NOTES The Encounter Faith Podcast is dedicated to creating space to slow down and dive deeper into the critical conversations we’re having every week at Good Shepherd. We fundame...

Pastor Gerald Aloran serves as the Pastor of Adult Ministries at Compass Church in Naperville.  SHOW NOTES The Encounter Faith Podcast is dedicated to creating space to slow down and dive deeper into the critical conversations we’re having every week at Good Shepherd. We fundamentally believe that you cannot encounter the risen Lord unchanged, and through the replays of our Sunday Sermons and conv...

Pastor Pamela continues our Language of Belief series. SHOW NOTES The Encounter Faith Podcast is dedicated to creating space to slow down and dive deeper into the critical conversations we’re having every week at Good Shepherd. We fundamentally believe that you cannot encounter the risen Lord unchanged, and through the replays of our Sunday Sermons and conversations with our pastors and community...

What if Biblical Unity has far less to do with agreement than we think? Host Ross Cochran sits down with Pastor Elisabeth Lectka to talk about unity as part of Good Shepherd’s Language of Belief series. They explore why we so easily equate unity with being around people who think like us, how the early church challenged that assumption through the relationship between Jews and Gentiles, and how Ch...

Pastor Tim continues our  Language of Belief Series. SHOW NOTES The Encounter Faith Podcast is dedicated to creating space to slow down and dive deeper into the critical conversations we’re having every week at Good Shepherd. We fundamentally believe that you cannot encounter the risen Lord unchanged, and through the replays of our Sunday Sermons and conversations with our pastors and community le...

Pastor Tara Beth continues our  Language of Belief series. SHOW NOTES The Encounter Faith Podcast is dedicated to creating space to slow down and dive deeper into the critical conversations we’re having every week at Good Shepherd. We fundamentally believe that you cannot encounter the risen Lord unchanged, and through the replays of our Sunday Sermons and conversations with our pastors and commun...

Pastor Tara Beth Leach returns to the podcast to reflect on the language of our faith. She and host Ross Cochran discuss how words can be distorted and perceptions of agendas can be easily formed and they dive into how the church is meant to respond in this moment. SHOW NOTES The Encounter Faith Podcast is dedicated to creating space to slow down and dive deeper into the critical conversations we’...

Pastor Tara Beth kicks off our new series, The Language of Belief. SHOW NOTES The Encounter Faith Podcast is dedicated to creating space to slow down and dive deeper into the critical conversations we’re having every week at Good Shepherd. We fundamentally believe that you cannot encounter the risen Lord unchanged, and through the replays of our Sunday Sermons and conversations with our pastors an...

Max Schiewe is a Seminarian and leads our middle school ministry at Good Shepherd. Here, he kicks off our new series The Language of Belief. SHOW NOTES The Encounter Faith Podcast is dedicated to creating space to slow down and dive deeper into the critical conversations we’re having every week at Good Shepherd. We fundamentally believe that you cannot encounter the risen Lord unchanged, and throu...

Max Schiewe is in Seminary and leads our Middle School Ministry at Good Shepherd. He joined host Ross Cochran for a discussion about the upcoming sermon series at Good Shepherd, why a "shared language" matters for our faith, and they dove into how we understand key foundational elements of our faith impact how we live out our relationships to Jesus. SHOW NOTES The Encounter Faith Podcast...