Dwellings Podcast

We are taking a break from our season on Kingdom Innovation bc it’s election week in the US, and we think this word from our teammate David Legge is one that is worth hearing, no matter what country you are listening from. As our house churches were gathering here in Little Rock this week, David Legge was in town with us, and we asked him to share a message with us, that he titled, “An Other World...

JR Woodward, author and national director of V3 church planting movement, shares how freedom and innovation enables movement. He tells us how a story of an ordinary woman innovating for the Kingdom in a retirement home, and he challenges us to all create more room for gifts of innovation to flourish in our communities, even in small ways.  --- www. Dwellings.info

Rob Wegner, Director of the Kansas City Underground movement of microchurches, shares with us the surprises he has had in his journey of doing ministry differently over the past seven years. Rob explains how decentralization can promote innovation, and what we can do when the best ideas come from outside of us.  www.kcunderground.org /  https://starfishinitiatives.com  --- www. Dwellings.info

While innovation is a key value in business and education, the church has been hesitant to innovate. In this episode, Kathryn and Jennie discuss why these hesitations exist, and how the church might apply innovative thinking to help it flourish. Jennie explains that the next generation is hungering for revival and awakening, and she talks about Gather 25, her greatest Kingdom innovation yet. Learn...

Have you checked out the Dwellings Pathway yet? It's one of the primary ways we can help you cultivate a community or house church where you are. The Pathway has guides, videos, and tools that will help you build a fresh and innovative community centered on the presence of Jesus, but this new way actually reflects the values of the early church. Check it out on our website,  www.dwellings.info .

Join the conversation with Jayme Thompson, founder of the Worship Initiative, Linger Conference, and the Five Talents Fund, as we talk about how Kingdom can intersect with entrepreneurial ideas, and how to discern the Spirit's direction when faced with a new idea. Jayme shares how to discern the right Kingdom alignments as we pursue the work ahead. Last, Jayme challenges us to think about our own...

As Christian leaders, we often feel dissatisfied with the status quo or overwhelmed by rapid cultural shifts. We know something needs to change, but the fear of uncertainty, loss, or pain leaves us clinging to ineffective systems and practices. Drawing from Jesus' life and ministry, leadership catalyst and coach Rich Robinson of Scotland outlines a four-phase framework to navigate adaptive challen...

In this episode, Kathryn Maack and David Legge talk about  7 myths around the concept of innovation. You can ask yourself if you have believed any of these myths for yourself, and how they might even get in the way of having Kingdom imagination in your context. If you want to start a conversation around it, we'd love to hear from you over in our Facebook Group, Dwellings Community.  --- Dwellings...

Dwellings Podcast Season 4 is on Kingdom Innovation. Let's talk about what Kingdom Innovation is, and begin this series with a story from the other side of the world to inspire us.  --- Dwellings Pathway: www.dwellings.info

We need to pursue Him passionately to experience more of the presence of God. King David reflects this in Psalm 63, and others like Moses and Isaiah show us what it is like to hunger after and interact with God's presence. In this message, you'll hear how God is calling us to turn away from other distractions and sins to gain a greater passion for friendship with him. -- If you would like to becom...

The greatest presentation of the presence of God was in his Son who came to this world, Immanuel, "God with us". We will learn how the glory of God shone through Jesus' life and how the disciples witnessed that glory on the Mount of Transfiguration. Find out how we can experience the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. --  If you would like to become a Dwellings Partner through a one-time...

Ezekiel tells us how the presence of God reluctantly withdrew from the Temple in stages and eventually from the whole nation. The sins of the people had driven him from them. This is a sobering message highlighting the need for holiness but also giving us great hope in the Savior we have in Jesus, who brings God's presence to us through His cross. -- If you would like to become a Dwellings Partner...

The primary way the presence of God rested among God's people in the Old Testament was in the Tabernacle and the Temple, particularly over the Ark of the Covenant. Unfortunately, the people of God came to the point in their history of taking God's presence for granted, and consequently, they lost it. Listen along as David shares some principles around reverencing the presence of God and how God's...

In the first part of this teaching series by David on  The Glorious Presence of God,  we look at the different " kinds"  of God's presence and how God manifests His presence to us in a unique way during times of awakening and revival. Then David focuses on God's relationship with Adam and Eve before sin entered humanity and how our sin impacts the presence of God in our lives. If you would like to...

In this episode, Christy Nockels tells us how, after years in the Passion Band and as the band Watermark, she has learned to experience his presence in the ordinary moments just as she has on the largest of stages. Christy gives us ways to posture ourselves when God seems far away: confession and consecration. She also tells us of a time when a song felt particularly consecrated to Jesus, and how...

Bill has been a champion of revival and awakening for decades, especially after he led his own church through 19 days and nights of prayer and worship. Bill talks about the issues we have in seeking experiences instead of Jesus himself, but also the issues if we avoid emotion and experience altogether. Bill will encourage you to open your eyes to all God is doing in our unique time and places, and...

Roy and Daphne Godwin decided to do things differently as they led a prayer retreat center for years in Western Wales called Flald-y-Brenin. As people arrived, they pulled back from programming and even teaching as their all-consuming goals became introducing people to the presence of Jesus. Learn how the Godwins learned to simply make space for his presence, and hear some stories about how people...

As the chapel speaker before the Asbury Outpouring last year, Zach shares with us about the days and weeks leading up to the revival, the consecration room that was vitally important behind the scenes, the desire to propel the leadership of Gen Z above celebrity, and the role that humility prays as we seek the presence of God. -- If you would like to become a Dwellings Partner through a one-time o...

In this episode, Kathryn and David briefly talk about the tendencies we have to operate in our own power, ignoring the fact that he is here and wants to lead the way.  Join our conversation around what it looks like to start with yourself, asking Jesus to be real in your life again. Awakening typically starts when just a few people begin to confess their sins, get right with God again, and invite...

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This episode gives you a glance behind the scenes to our one of our online gatherings of the Dwellings Cohort. Francis Chan is the bestselling author of  Crazy Love, Forgotten God , and  Letters to the Church , and leads a house church movement in San Francisco. He inspires us all with his recent growing appetite to devour the Scriptures, reminding us that a reading of the Word of God from an unsk...

Dwellings' Content Developer Sarah Wood has a background in both ministry and education and finds the crossroads between the two to be an interesting subject for our time in the Church.  On this week's episode, Sarah tells us about Jesus's conversational style of teaching his disciples and how it challenges our models of discipleship today. Do you know how many curiosity-provoking questions he ask...

Ryan Skoog of Minneapolis, head of Venture, tells us about his ministry abroad and in the US, and his increasing passion to create replicable forms of discipleship.  Hear Ryan talk about where he is seeing the most response to the house church movement in the US, how he is inspired to form international communities in his hometown after visiting Nepal, and the transition he has made overseas as he...

Kathryn opens up a conversation around the third shift we are making in our discipleship: from spectators to participants. In an era where our discipleship forms have often centered around a stage or a video, it's interesting to look back at Jesus's way with his disciples. He was the ultimate Rabbi, (teacher) but his teaching was different because it invited participation. He invited his disciples...

When Mary and Joseph arrived at the inn some 2000 years ago, there wasn’t room for them at the inn. So many of us can find ourselves in the same place this week- so consumed with tasks that we miss Jesus himself. The places we inhabit can also become too full for him, even this week. What type of things can we cut to make room for him? What would it look like for our homes to be more like the mang...