Take Off With Thomas Clark

Send us Fan Mail From Reaction to Representation: Following Jesus in a Conflicted Culture How should followers of Jesus respond when the culture around us is shaped by outrage, fear, tribalism, power struggles, and constant reaction? In this Season 10 finale of Take Off with Thomas Clark , Thomas brings together the major themes of the season—power, outrage, cultural intelligence, faithful presenc...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Take Off with Thomas Clark , Thomas continues Season 10: Power, Outrage, Culture, and the Gospel . Episode 9, “Winning Means Losing Well: How to Respond Like Jesus When People Push Back,” asks a challenging question: If we win the argument but misrepresent Jesus, did we really win? Culture often teaches us to win by having the last word, embarrassing the other p...

Send us Fan Mail More Than Going to Heaven: The Good News That Jesus Is Lord It keeps the tension you want while immediately telling the listener what the episode is really about. Your episode makes clear that you are not presenting another Gospel or minimizing salvation, the cross, resurrection, repentance, or faith ; you are recovering the fuller biblical announcement of Jesus as Savior, King, L...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Take Off with Thomas Clark , Thomas continues Season 10: Power, Outrage, Culture, and the Gospel . Episode 7, “Culture Will Not Improve On Its Own,” explores a simple but important truth: culture is always being formed by somebody. Families, workplaces, neighborhoods, churches, social media, politics, entertainment, and everyday habits are constantly teaching pe...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Take Off with Thomas Clark , Thomas continues Season 10: Power, Outrage, Culture, and the Gospel . Episode 6, “Presence Before Strategy: Learning to See People Like Jesus,” explores why disciple-makers cannot faithfully serve people from a distance. Jesus did not simply observe people. He entered real places, walked among real people, noticed pain, listened, ask...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Take Off Podcast , Thomas Clark continues Season 10: Power, Outrage, Culture, and the Gospel . Episode 5, “Learn Before You Lead: Listening Before You Correct,” explores why disciple-makers must learn people before trying to lead, correct, or help them. It is easy to assume that our way of speaking, thinking, worshiping, leading, or understanding the world i...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Take Off Podcast , Thomas Clark continues Season 10: Power, Outrage, Culture, and the Gospel . Episode 4, “When Outrage Takes Over: How to Respond Like Jesus,” looks at what happens when anger, offense, frustration, or misunderstanding starts to control the way we respond to people. If Jesus is Lord, then He must also be Lord over our reactions. In this epis...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Take Off Podcast , Thomas Clark continues Season 10: Power, Outrage, Culture, and the Gospel . Episode 3, “The Power of Weakness: Representing Jesus With Humility,” explores why disciple-makers do not need to dominate people in order to represent Jesus faithfully. In a culture where many people are suspicious of religious power, institutions, and leaders who...

Send us Fan Mail The episode focuses on helping disciple-makers use influence, knowledge, titles, platforms, and authority to lower power distance so others can participate faithfully in the mission of God. Buzzsprout Description: In this episode of the Take Off Podcast , Thomas Clark continues Season 10: Power, Outrage, Culture, and the Gospel . Episode 2, “Sharing Power Like Jesus: Leadership Th...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Take Off Podcast , Thomas Clark begins Season 10: Power, Outrage, Culture, and the Robust Gospel . Episode 1 asks an important question for every disciple-maker: What is power, who has it, and what do we do with it? Power is not automatically evil. Power is influence. The real issue is what we do with the influence we have when Jesus is not Lord over it. Par...

Send us Fan Mail Based on the episode outline, this description highlights the main movement: APEST moving from leadership language into everyday mission in neighborhoods, workplaces, and third places. Buzzsprout Description: In Season 9, Episode 6 of the Take Off Podcast , Thomas Clark closes the season “APEST and the Collective” with an episode titled “APEST in the Neighborhood.” In this episode...

Send us Fan Mail In Season 9, Episode 5 of the Take Off Podcast , Thomas Clark continues the conversation on APEST and the Collective with an episode titled Living an Apostolic Life . In this episode, Thomas helps listeners recover apostolic life not as a title, office, denomination, rank, or personality type, but as a sent life of obedience to Jesus. Apostolic life is about being available to go...

Send us Fan Mail In Season 9, Episode 4 of the Take Off Podcast , Thomas Clark continues the conversation on APEST and the Collective with a practical picture for how apostolic, prophetic, evangelistic, shepherding, and teaching functions work together in the body of Christ. This episode, Different Gifts, One Mission: How the APEST Hand Strengthens the Body , uses the hand metaphor to show that AP...

Send us Fan Mail In Season 9, Episode 3 of the Take Off Podcast , Thomas Clark continues the conversation on APEST and the Collective with a transparent and deeply pastoral reflection on why no one person was ever meant to carry the fullness of Jesus’ ministry alone. In this episode, " Beyond the Solo Leader Why Movements Need the Whole Body” Thomas shares lessons learned over years of pastor...

Send us Fan Mail In Season 9, Episode 2 of the Take Off Podcast , Thomas Clark continues the conversation on APEST and the Collective by challenging listeners to stop treating APEST as titles, offices, ranks, or spiritual status. APEST was not given so people could chase recognition. It was given so the body of Christ could mature. Drawing from Ephesians 4:11–13, Thomas explains that apostles, pro...

Send us Fan Mail In Season 9, Episode 1 of the Take Off Podcast , Thomas Clark begins a new season called APEST and the Collective by helping listeners understand that APEST does not begin with gifted leaders, titles, hierarchy, or personality types. It begins with Jesus. Before the church carries apostolic, prophetic, evangelistic, shepherding, and teaching functions, Jesus embodied the fullness...

Send us Fan Mail In Season 8, Episode 6 of the Take Off Podcast , Thomas Clark closes the season with Tic-Tac-Toe Neighboring Challenge , a practical episode designed to move listeners from missional imagination to embodied presence. After exploring incarnational living in first, second, and third places, this episode turns the conversation toward one simple but revealing question: Do I actually k...

Send us Fan Mail In Season 8, Episode 5 of the Take Off Podcast , Thomas Clark explores Third Place: Social Momentum Before Spiritual Momentum and challenges listeners to rethink how disciple-making often begins in everyday relational spaces. In this episode, Thomas shows that third place—the coffee shop, barber shop, gym, restaurant, park, sideline, or other place where people naturally gather—is...

Send us Fan Mail In Season 8, Episode 4 of the Take Off Podcast , Thomas Clark explores Second Place: Work as a Mission Field and challenges listeners to see their workplace through a Kingdom lens. In this episode, Thomas shows that work is not spiritually neutral, but one of the ordinary places where the presence, peace, and Kingdom of God can become visible through faithful disciples. Drawing fr...

Send us Fan Mail In Season 8, Episode 3 of the Take Off Podcast , Thomas Clark explores First Place: Kingdom Over Castle and challenges listeners to rethink the place they call home. In this episode, Thomas shows that if Jesus is Lord, then our home is not a private fortress but a place that must come under His reign and participate in His mission. Drawing from Joshua 24:15, Matthew 5:14 and 16, a...

Send us Fan Mail  In Season 8, Episode 2 of the Take Off Podcast , Thomas Clark explores the missional-incarnational impulse by asking what the incarnation of Jesus requires of those He now sends. Drawing from John 20:21, this episode shows that Jesus does not only send His followers with His authority—He sends them with His pattern. Thomas explains that mission is not merely something we do occas...

Send us Fan Mail  In Season 8, Episode 1 of the Take Off Podcast , Thomas Clark begins a new season on incarnational living in first, second, and third places by exploring a foundational truth: Jesus moved into the neighborhood . In this episode, Thomas shows that the mission of God did not arrive through distance, abstraction, or occasional religious activity, but through the embodied presence of...

Send us Fan Mail In Season 7, Episode 6 of the Take Off Podcast , Thomas Clark closes the season by exploring how reproducing disciple-making moves from peace to multiplication . In this episode, Thomas shows that recognizing openness is not enough—peace must be stewarded through faithful presence. Drawing from Luke 10 and Acts 16, this conversation challenges listeners to move beyond hurried, sur...

Send us Fan Mail  In Season 7, Episode 5 of the Take Off Podcast , Thomas Clark explores why movements do not begin with scale, structure, or visibility—they begin with disciples who reproduce . In this episode, Thomas shows that disciples are the seedbed of leadership, leadership helps form churches, and reproducing churches can become part of movements. Drawing from this movemental sequence, he...

Send us Fan Mail  In Season 7, Episode 4 of the Take Off Podcast , Thomas Clark explores the mindset shifts required for discipleship that reproduces . Building from the 9 paradigm shifts identified by KC Underground, this episode challenges listeners to move beyond inherited Western church instincts and embrace a more movemental imagination for disciple-making. Thomas walks through shifts such as...