Dwellings Podcast

In a world that has more accessible information than ever before, we can move beyond information transfer to transformational discipleship. While having knowledge about the Bible and God is very important, it is not enough... we were called to relationship with him. God is meant to be experientially known, not just mentally known. Job had second hand knowledge of God but desired a first hand exper...

We're adding this bonus episode at the end of our shift from isolation to family, after hearing from so many of you that your relationship with family has been complicated or wounding. Kathleen Doyle, a pastor counselor with over 25 years of church leadership experience, helps us walk through what it means to disentangle our relationship with Jesus from the wounds of people, the difference in spir...

Hear David and Kathryn talk about how Jesus's life with his disciples was spent largely outside the walls of the temple-- not giving sermons but relating to them in real life: eating, drinking, fishing, walking with them.  How should his life inform the way we look at Christian community? Hear some practical steps on how we can make a shift in our own communities from institutional to relational....

One of the world's leading missiologists, Alan Hirsch, comes to us from Australia, explaining how we should question titles but embrace giftings in the church. Learn about the gifting that Christ has given his church, outlined in Eph 4, and a test we can take to help us understand the roles of: apostle, prophet, evangelist, shepherd, teacher.  Kathryn and Alan discuss how these giftings have a sco...

Our culture in the West is increasingly individualistic, and increasingly lonely. Listen as Kathryn talks with Jack Meckfessel around an antidote... the spiritual family.  What would it look like to recapture a sense of the church being a family over an institution?  Jack gives stories from his house church experience in Thailand, and shares what he learned after experiencing the beauty of several...

Today Kathryn introduces three shifts that are important for us to consider in the church. This episode introduces the shifts we will talk about during this season: isolation to family, information to transformation, and spectators to participants. We will be reminded that many of these aren't just a shift toward the future, but an echo of the past, as they are informed by the ways of the early ch...

Dwellings Podcast Season 2 is on Future Shifts for the church. In this series we will explore shifts we feel God calling us into during this season. While they feel new to us in the West, they are actually shifts toward the early church, and are in keeping with the ways of the church in the global south where Christianity is growing the fastest.

Click the link bellow to learn more about the Dwellings Cohort: https://dwellings.info/cohort Click the link bellow to apply for the Dwellings Cohort: https://forms.gle/eybXdwxxdGxgMDhj7 The Dwellings Cohort is a 5- month collaborative learning opportunity designed to take you deeper in the mission of building communities centered around the presence of Jesus. We will be joined by the voices of Je...

When it comes to making decisions, sometimes we isolate, making pros and cons lists or ruminating in our beds at 3am. Other times, we seek the counsel of others, hoping their advice can bring clarity to the situation at hand. While we can make decisions on our own, and we do need advice from others, we can often forget that God has ways of speaking into our situation with wisdom that is above the...

Despite it being a country where a conversion to Christianity can mean execution, Iran has the fastest growing Christian church in the world. Large numbers of Muslims have first been introduced to Jesus through a dream or vision. Why would God use dreams to reach the Muslim world? And what happens after these dreams or visions occur? In this eye-opening episode, Kathryn invites to Tom to help us k...

Some of us have a life with God that is characterized by  being  with him. We might have a lot of practice hearing God's voice. Others of us have a more active life with God, one characterized by  doing.  We might struggle to sit around listening for God when there is so much to do on the earth. Inspired by the book Aaron and Kathryn wrote,  Whole,  this conversation focuses on how hearing God's v...

In this episode, we are joined by David Legge to discuss how we can hear God’s voice through Scripture. Sometimes Scripture can get dry when we treat it as a history book. But we are actually able to hear God through Scripture. Hear about the differences in the words "logos" and "rhema," which are both used to represent the "word" in Scripture. Learn some practical ways we can begin to actually re...

What is the prophetic? How do we hear God's voice on behalf of other people in our lives? How do we practice this in humility? Katia Adams , who founded and pastors The Table Boston with her husband Julian, helps demystify the prophetic, and gives us 3 practical ways we can all grow, following Pauls's charge in I Corinthians 14:1 - "Pursue love, but strive eagerly for the spiritual gifts, above al...

Today Kathryn is talking with our friend David Legge about his conviction to live by radical faith when it comes to his finances. After pastoring a local church for a decade, David became an itinerant pastor in Northern Ireland, and he shares many of his teachings via his podcast, Preach the Word. In this episode, David explains how he heard God call him into a life of not depending on man for mon...

Today Kathryn talks to Jonny Hughes in Nottingham, England, pastor of Trinity Nottingham. The church's beginnings are marked by the passionate prayers of an ordinary man named Don, who received a vision that he couldn't dismiss. Listen as Jonny and Kathryn talk about God giving unexplainable vision, having faith to contend for that vision, and what that can mean for ourselves and our communities....

Our friend Darren Rouanzoin is joining us today. Darren is a pastor in Sunset Beach, CA at Garden Church. Listen as Kathryn and Darren discuss what it means to listen for God's voice  as  we pray for others. You'll get to hear Darren's contagious passion for making space to listen within our gatherings, and how we can speak about the supernatural in ways that normalize the fact that the Spirit is...

Welcome to the new Dwellings Podcast . Join us for some inspirational conversations and stories that will inspire you to seek the presence of God in all of life, and build Kingdom community right where you are. In Season 1, we will dedicate time to this question:  does God still speak?  The answer to this question is vitally important and changes everything about our lives.  Special thanks to our...