Soma Downtown Podcast

As we take a renewal Sunday this week, Kent reflects on how the reality of church has been challenged this year and what we had learned about being the body of Jesus in 2020.

Kent discusses the importance of growth in self awareness as a life long practice in one's discipleship from various Proverbs and the book of Ephesians.

Kent walks through several New Testament scriptures to show the will of God for a Christians life is less about your career, spouse, etc, and instead about the call for the church to intentionally and sacrificially love one another.

This week Kent teaches on the calling, gift, holiness, and curse of our work and asks, “how are you called to co-rule with God and build the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven?”

Kent teaches the on how how a person who practices holding onto their identity in Christ is the only person whose identity becomes continuously less fragile.

Kent kicks off a new Spiritual Formation series in Living Into Your Identity & Calling by showing this theme from the scriptures and showing why it matters now.

Pastor Jon Lough teaches through Paul’s encouragement to the Corinthians of how to keep from loosing heart in challenging and difficult seasons of life.

Ta’Sean teaches on what the over quoted Philippians 4:13 actually means in the context of the letter to the Philippians.

Kent teaches on how to grow as a non-anxious presence. Audio is from our outdoor gathering so environmental noise is present.

The church being family means that conflict is a necessary and healthy part of growing together in the image of Jesus.

Paul reminds himself and the Philippians that the decision to leave behind what one came from and follow Jesus is a daily temptation and decision.

If our salvation is a free gift, how do we work it out with fear and trembling? Pastor Kent teaches from Philippians 2:12-13.

Kent teaches the concept of Jesus loving us into loving.

Kent welcomes Joseph Rhea back to the Soma DT audio world. Joseph and Kent talk through Romans 12 and how to apply it to our relationship to God and media consumption (1:48), our relationship to others and loving our political enemy (40:48).

Kent lays out Paul’s thesis statement for the letter of Philippians and compares what it means to be a citizen of Jesus’s Kingdom vs a citizen of the Kingdom of now.

Teaching for the 8/23/2020 Sunday Gathering on Philippians 1:12-26.

Kent and Alli D. chat harmony model vs the traditional process model for the enneagram and how thinking of the enneagram differently can help you develop as a whole person in Christ (:23-32:44), then they walk through how the harmony model works for each of the 9 profiles (32:55-1:08:32).

Kent teaches on Pauls’s prayer from Philippians 1:1-11.

Kent and Ryan Sawrie sit down to talk a about a number of things they are thinking through in recent days.

Kent sets up our new series walking through the letter to the Philippian church by setting up the backstory of their relationship to Paul and the circumstances they face when receiving the letter.

Kent and Mitch Green of Stones Crossing Church talk how a paradigm of Spiritual Formation doesn’t contradict the Gospel, but they must go together. They also discuss what it looks like to have a Rule of Life for a vision for your growth in Christ.

Kent and Michael Kineman discuss how we can make deals with anger, righteous anger, what faith in God really is when things are going bad, and more.

Kent discusses the prophetic power of two things we typically take for granted, but just may be the most powerfully, prophetic display of the Kingdom our culture desperately needs to see right now.

Kent and Aaron Lentz of Athens Church Columbus have a conversation on how churches and church leaders (including them) have prioritized leading through management vs loving people like the church is actually called to do.

Kent discusses what revival is, how the Spirit brings it, and how we can pursue it in our day as a local church.