Church for Normies

This week, we're taking a break from our series to discuss the message and messenger that is Hosanna Wong . Before he met Christ, Hosanna's dad was a heroin addict and gang member in San Francisco. When Jesus Christ dramatically changed his life, he flipped the switch for his whole family and became a street preacher and outreach to the down, the out, the rejected, the disrespected and championed...

Like any parent, God wants his children to mature. I mean, don't we want our kids to be self-differentiated, free, and powerful? Imagine your adult child, still only seven pounds and nineteen inches long ... you don't want that?  Why should we expect anything less in our spiritual maturity? Why should God? In the lastest podcast, Sean is back from Sabbatical and get's to dig in with Rick on t...

Relationships can be difficult, in fact, sometimes they can be outright brutal.  The problem is, for a healthy life, we all need to have relationships.  Listen as Rick Hale and Alan Gedde talk about relationships. By the way, I know this is three days late, technical difficulties, or am I just getting old, you pick

How is your health?  Well wherever it is, this podcast is for you.  Today we discuss what it means to "Get a grip on your body"  Join Alan and Rick for a good discussion on the subject. ❓ - Why we're called Living Your Dash and how to get a FREE copy of Rick's book: https://www.livingyourdash.info/ 🎧 - Listen to Chris's message here:   https://youtu.be/rOBk4pdFJbQ?t=2461 📗 -...

Pray without ceasing, that is what we are called to do, but it is easier said than done.  Maybe the problem is that we don't know how to pray.  Chris VanDyke, our student pastor did a great job talking about prayer this last Sunday and we take some time to expound on that this week.  Enjoy ❓ - Why we're called Living Your Dash and how to get a FREE copy of Rick's book: https://www....

This week, Rick is gone and so is Sean.  So....  Alan is in charge.  After much thought, I decided to replay the episode that has had the most views.  Next week we will be back on track with a new episode, enjoy all of this from almost two years ago to the day.   

"Life is not a dress rehearsal," John Maxwell remembers his dad saying.  And it's true.  We need to figure out, as soon as possible, how and in what way we will make the contribution that God intends for us to make during our life.  Long or short - it doesn't matter; it's what we did with that time. In this message, Pastor Barry Anderson pulls out the stops to talk about the steward...

It is said that time waits for no man.  But one of things that we must do, is that we must tell our time what to do.  The question is not do I have time to do what I need - the question is do I know the wisest thing to do? Join Rick and Sean, as they discuss Rick's brand new series: Getting a Grip on life, especially this week's focus: time! ❓ - Why we're called Living Your Dash and how...

The day is coming.  It may be the last day you work at your job, or the day you wave goodbye to your child (now an adult), or the last day you live in your "earth suit" ... but the day is coming.  Will you be able to smile, look out and say, "I did it!  No regrets!  No sour feelings!  My new plan awaits  me ... "  Like it or not, we are practising the passing of...

When Jesus ascended to heaven, do you think he was worried?  Did he have second thoughts?  No, he'd been clear many times that his plans were much larger.  "I tell you the truth, " he said, "It is for your good that I am going away." (John 16:7)  The Lord Jesus Christ - the smartest, most powerful, most creative person in the Universe - basically said, "Nothing can beat my succ...

"People can project success," writes Lyle Tard, "but you cannot project significance. We all know what they both look like, but significance can’t be faked. We can feel significance — we know its tangible effect and it lasts." In Rick's teaching on succession, the important fruit of significance is the most outstanding goal that we want to achieve.  How do you get there? In this podcast, Rick...

Recently a teenager asked their aged grandparents about growing up.  "Well, back in my day, we didn’t watch TV while we ate dinner. We actually talked to each other. It was awful."    While we chuckle at things like that, what isn't funny is what happens when don't talk about inevitabilities that carry huge consequences: like "If this job or career isn't what you want to stay in, ho...

We're all an interim something - what matters is if we realize that and plan and live our life accordingly. Have you ever thought of that?  That your current job or role in life will not stay the same - that one day it comes to an end.  We all think of "retirement" as something we do when when we don't do what we're doing now.  But retirement is not a place - it's a door.  What...

The great philosopher and catcher for the New York Yankees, Yogi Berra, once said, "If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else." Truer words could not be spoken!  (I guess?) And that might be an amusing way to get lost, but that's a terrible way to live your life.  After all, there are no do-overs. In this podcast, Rick and Sean sit down and discuss some of e...

At this time in 2016, you could have bought stock in a certain electric car company for $47 a share.  Let's say that you bought 100 shares - about $5,000.  It sat for a while - finally in December of 2019, you thought: "enough is enough.  It's only grown by $10 - I'm selling!"  and you make $1,000.  Nice. But if you had waited until November of this year, you would have ea...

Where were you on March 5, 1979?  Well, Voyager 1 was 499 million miles away taking the very first closeup picture of Jupiter.  Voyager 1 and its brother, Voyager 2, were both part of a something called The Grand Tour of the outer planets.  It's a remarkable story that you need to check out here or on video .  The images they captured have helped form the philosophy of space mi...

If you go to the Lower Cave at Carlsbad Caverns, they will do something shockingly special.  You'll get in an absolutely pitch black portion of the lower cave, and then the guide will tell you to turn off your headlamp.  It is the strangest sensation to not see even the slightest light.  You can put your hand right in front of your face and not see it.  And there's no ambient n...

When your world is falling to pieces, how do YOU find peace?  God's got an answer - and it's not a trick.  But it is an alignment.  Rick talks to Sean about his recent message which was birthed in the midst of Sean's experience of going through chemotherapy.  THEN, Rick and Sean discuss the upcoming Christmas series, "Light of the World".  There are several key questions a...

Meet Keila Acosta.  In 2004, Grace Community Church had the opportunity to help send Dr. Mark and Karen Andrews to evangelize and plant churches in the beautiful country of Panama.  It was there that they met Jerry and Keila Acosta, who had grand and clever thoughts about helping local churches regain a healthy and reproductive vision of Latin America.  Eventually, Mark and Karen re...

https://www.roswellgrace.com/living-your-dash-podcast It may not surprise you - then again, it might - that the Living Your Dash podcast is only an extension of ministries at Grace.  The "meat and potatoes" of Rick Hale's teaching ministry and leadership are at the local church level as we help people find and fulfill God's purpose for their lives.  But he didn't get there alone.  A...

One of the most distinctive characteristics of Christianity is that Jesus himself makes certain promises that are eternal and profoundly encompassing. Take, for instance, when he says: "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and...

Ever heard of "burying the hatchet"? It's an early American idiom of native American origin. When an accord was reached between two warring people or tribes, they would literally throw their fighting tomahawks in a river or lake, or bury and forget where it was. The idea was to never revisit the quarrel or think of using it again. God's forgiveness is like that. Let us thank Him for that gift! In...

When you hear the word "mercy" what comes to mind?  The dictionary defines it this way: "Compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one's power to punish or harm."  Mercy implies that a wrong has been committed.  Mercy isn't a right - it's a grace.  But, again, that implies there is a Grace-Giver.  Conventional wisdom tells us that is the God of the B...

There's a story of a thief who went to confession and wept before the priest, openly telling him everything but feeling that he couldn't stop - that it was too late to repent.  He didn't even know why he was there.  But he asked the priest, "Father - how does a thief stop being a thief?"  The priest paused for a moment and told him: "The Gospel of Jesus transforms men like you and m...

https://www.roswellgrace.com/living-your-dash-podcast Prayer.  Every world religion has it. But what is it?  Does it really make sense that the all-powerful, all-knowing, totally self-sufficient ONE in the Universe would care what we have to say?  Jesus - the One who authoritatively talked about how to connect with The ONE said some pretty surprising things.  And it's not about...