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Most people will never be successful ... authentically successful. Viktor Frankl (Holocaust survivor and author of 'Man's Search for Meaning') said, "You become successful and happy when you pursue something beyond yourself … when you dedicate yourself to others. Then success and happiness show up." What is authentic success? Jesus reconnects us with our deepest sense of meaning in God's eternal p...

Faith is a super high value with God. It's impossible to come to Him and please him without it. What is the source of faith? And how can we enhance the quality of our faith? Faith is a point of contact between heaven and earth ... our quality faith is a landing strip for the best things from Father God. >> Visit JesusSmart.com >> Get the Jesus Smart eLetter and keep current with podcast episode re...

Will Jesus summon you to come out of your battered boat and walk on water with him? He just may if you show a faith initiative. What if you could express water-walking faith over difficulties and dilemmas? And what if you could even exploit opportunities and faith horizons with the audacious faith of Christ? In this episode we explore initiative, staying focused on Christ, getting a word from the...

Are you more committed to your past or present ... than to your future? In this quick Godspeed episode, we touch on 5 ideas on how to get unstuck and accelerate your commitment to your destiny path. Jesus is brilliant. He knows how life works best. Right here. Right now. Your rating and review help more people discover Jesus Smart: The Podcast. Thanks! See all of the Godspeed episodes at JesusSmar...

It's simple. There’s a way things work. It’s always true in the natural. And in the supernatural too. As we diligently explore the Gospels in the New Testament with openness, we will realize there’s a way that things work when we want to experience something extraordinary. There is a simultaneous faith movement on our part with the corresponding activity of Jesus. >> Go to the show notes page for...

Trials are times of testing and pressure. Everyone experiences them. For the Christ-follower, trials are a unique opportunity to use Kingdom leverage. If we process well with the Lord, God can gain what he's looking for ... and we can gain new territory in our life and expression of our calling. Amazingly, James writes that we can live joyfully through our trials because of the advantageous outcom...

What's on the other side of your groaning? It's beyond worth it! "Give ear to my words, O LORD, Consider my groaning" (Ps 5:1). The GROANING GAP is that space between WHAT IS and WHAT WILL BE. It's there that you carry the creative tension of the Holy Spirit. Things want to happen ... in the groaning are seeds of design and destiny. So what are you groaning about? Embrace the potential. ----more--...

There's a real sense in which the horizons of our lives are placed on a curve. Just like the curvature of the earth where the sky meets the earth. Over-the-horizon thinking and applied faith are necessary to journey into new things that want to happen from heaven's point of view. In this episode, we explore 1) worshipping and praying, 2) visualizing and prophesying, 3) belief set points, and 4) "a...

In part 2 of this discussion with Kevin Cloud, author of God & Hamilton , we focus on slavery and today's race relations, the empowerment of women, and how we are co-creators with God. Alexander Hamilton was an influential American Founder ... second only to George Washington. How does his life speak to us in our time? Kevin Cloud's book draws upon Hamilton, the acclaimed Broadway musical.----more...

The acclaimed Broadway musical Hamilton is now a part of the American cultural conversation. Inspired by the 2004 biography  Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, the extraordinary musical resonates with many on themes of faith, race, and immigration. Kevin Cloud, the author of God & Hamilton , is with us in this episode. Our conversation centers on spiritual themes from the life of Alexander Hamilto...

Look around -- progressivism is all the rage today. And it's not just political. It's leaking into parts of the Church too. What starts gradually as soft totalitarianism can evolve into terrifying tyranny. True justice is beautiful. But is Progressivism a delusion? ----more---- Even more, is it a hellish counterfeit to the real future that Jesus is bringing? This is a recast episode. For more reso...

In Christ you have a true superpower -- it's the capacity to consecrate things. We can consecrate new frontiers -- transitions, new seasons, opportunities -- bringing all things under the lordship and leadership of King Jesus. On the other side of each frontier is new territory you're destined to possess! Listen for 6 key takeaways. ----more---- This is a special recast episode. Go to the show not...

You’re designed for narrative ... your Personal Life Story and the Big Story that’s moving everything. The Grand Narrative is the loving rule and reign of God. Jesus has come to put things back to right, restoring us as Vice-Regents under God as King. ----more---- You’re going to hear from Matt Raines. Get ready for this. The 5 acts of the Kingdom Story -- nuanced and subtle, and yet writ large ac...

I had an especially vibrant time with the Lord this morning in prayer and the Word. In this quick Godspeed episode, you'll hear the 4 min. recording of what I shared with a friend in Europe via a messaging app. ----more---- We carry the Royal Presence of King Jesus ... the Voice of the King through us ... radiating the Mind of Christ ... and the Future Is Now. Your rating and review help more peop...

Episode 186 is a special feature episode from another podcast I host -- the Wild Ox Podcast. You'll have to listen to appreciate the name! Pray with me. Discover the potential of deep and clear repentance ... it's a gift of God's grace. ----more---- As we process with Christ, we become cleaner and cleaner. By cleansing ourselves, we become an instrument for noble purposes, useful to the Master, pr...

The great 20th century Chinese Bible teacher, Watchman Nee, said that 'earth governs heaven.' Could he be right? Jesus said he gave us the 'keys of the Kingdom of heaven' to bind and to loose. What if there is a clear connection between our move and heaven's move? P art 3 of the Page One series. ----more---- >> Go to the show notes page for this episode at JesusSmart.com/pageone >> Get the Jesus S...

You need to be super creative about something important, right? Jesus Christ is creative without limits! And the New Testament claims that Christ-followers have the mind of Christ. As we advance in the mind of Christ, we have boundless potential to be super creative ... uber creative. ----more---- We can imaginate with a touch of heaven to meet needs, solve problems, and exploit opportunities! The...

Stressed? Anxious? Brain fog? With our fast-paced lifestyles and digital hyper-connectivity, are we missing real life? We’re pushing, pushing, pushing to get to a next better moment and fail to appreciate the present one. The abundant life that Jesus offers is experienced IN THE NOW. Dr. Charles Stone is a spiritual leader with advanced degrees in ministry and neuroscience & leadership. ----mo...

Recently I walked into a local Catholic church for a time of prayer on a late afternoon. I pull away and pray in this church from time to time. I'd like to share a surprising insight that came to me as soon as I stepped across the threshold from the lobby into the church. This will probably be novel for you too. We can reframe our life with powerful horizons. -- Brian ----more---- Your rating and...

Frank Viola and Mary DeMuth return for the 2nd part of this vital conversation. Does Satan have a heightened hatred for women? Is Jesus a holy feminist? Are femininity and masculinity questioned today? All this and more on this episode. ----more---- Frank and Mary collaborated on 'The Day I Met Jesus: The Revealing Diaries of Five Women from the Gospels.'  Part 2 of 2 episodes. Listen to the first...

Those who are not of The Way (following Jesus) may be tempted to feel that Jesus or the Church is bad news for women. Has too much of the Christian movement misrepresented Jesus about women? Frank Viola and Mary DeMuth think that's the case. Is the Holy Spirit restoring the place of women in the Church? ----more---- Frank and Mary collaborated on 'The Day I Met Jesus: The Revealing Diaries of Five...

As Vice-Regents, we are designed to exercise dominion under the sovereignty of God as King. Have you lost your fierceness? It’s costing you. And those in your sphere of influence. Our full-on engagement is required to live our highest life for Christ. The authority is from above, but a fierce mastery must flow through us. Part 2 of the Page One series. ----more---- >> Go to the show notes page for...

The Imago Dei -- what does it really mean to be created in the image of God? Many things flow from this core understanding of the relationship between God and humanity. The first thing God says after creating the man and woman in his likeness is "rule." So how can we bear the image of God well on earth? Part 1 of the Page One series. ----more---- >> Go to the show notes page for this episode...

Ladies, it's time to get into your advanced place in God's story! The reality is the community of the Godhead designed humanity in the image of God ... fashioned as both female and male. If we're going to bear the image of God well, it will be fully expressed in both genders. What's at stake? Dominion. In this recast episode, you'll discover we're commissioned as Vice-Regents under King Jesus. Mar...

We can look to Jesus for best practices to experience our best lives as daughters and sons of God. In this recast episode, we explore a "Jesus tactic" -- give no ground to the Devil. As we grow, we can diminish friction and terminate self-sabotaging setbacks that work against momentum. (Live podcast recording) ----more---- If listening on another app, download the Podbean app to listen to future l...