Soul Renovate Podcast

If Christ is the goal of spiritual formation, is it really possible to achieve? Can we really become like Christ this side of Heaven? Soul Renovate brings a conversation about spiritual formation and soul care to our listeners in the hope of our transformation into Christlikeness. Learn more about Soul Renovate or donate to our ministry at our website: https://soulrenovate.us Timestamps: -Part One...

God initiates the work of transformation in us, and grace is His means. As we follow Jesus, grace is a continual work, the oxygen of our spiritual life. Soul Renovate brings a conversation about spiritual formation and soul care to our listeners in the hope of our transformation into Christlikeness. Learn more about Soul Renovate or donate to our ministry at our website: https://soulrenovate.us Ti...

Jesus is central to Christian spiritual formation. Though much of us focus on salvation through his death, we can also experience salvation through his life. Soul Renovate brings a conversation about spiritual formation and soul care to our listeners in the hope of our transformation into Christlikeness. Learn more about Soul Renovate or donate to our ministry at our website: https://soulrenovate....

What exactly is spiritual formation? Becoming more like Christ is just as much about what God is doing in us as it is about what spiritual practices we carry out. Soul Renovate brings a conversation about spiritual formation and soul care to our listeners in the hope of our transformation into Christlikeness. Learn more about Soul Renovate or donate to our ministry at our website: https://soulreno...

In the final week of our series on Friendship, Georges and Jim look at the Last Supper, and how Jesus’s model of being broken and given relates to our friendships with God and with one another. Have questions you’d like Georges and Jim to respond to? Email info@soulrenovate.us Soul Renovate brings a conversation about spiritual formation and soul care to our listeners in the hope of our transforma...

Being chosen in friendship is a blessing. This is especially so when it comes to friendship with God. This week Georges and Jim discuss both the blessing of friendship and the ways in which friendship is a means for blessing others. Soul Renovate brings a conversation about spiritual formation and soul care to our listeners in the hope of our transformation into Christlikeness. Learn more about So...

The life of the beloved of Jesus is friendship, and Jesus invites us into a beautiful life in friendship to God. This friendship is incubated within the Church. Within the Body of Christ, we learn to listen to, appreciate, love, host, accompany, and dialogue honestly with one another. Soul Renovate brings a conversation about spiritual formation and soul care to our listeners in the hope of our tr...

What do we do when our friends don’t show up for us in the way we want them or need them to? Jesus knows what that’s like, and what’s more – he shows us the way of love that leads us through the pain of failed friendship. Soul Renovate brings a conversation about spiritual formation and soul care to our listeners in the hope of our transformation into Christlikeness. Learn more about Soul Renovate...

We cannot have healthy, sane friendships without wisdom from above. Through the wisdom literature, we see that Kingdom friendships are chosen, sacred relationships in which we love by listening, sharing vulnerably, offering counsel, and showing up for each other in helpful ways.  Soul Renovate brings a conversation about spiritual formation and soul care to our listeners in the hope of our transfo...

Friendship isn’t always forged in Hallmark movie contexts. While they’ve gained notoriety for portraying ideal friendship, David and Jonathan give us a picture of complicated, messy friendship between two veterans who share the bond of trauma.  Soul Renovate brings a conversation about spiritual formation and soul care to our listeners in the hope of our transformation into Christlikeness. Learn m...

Through the unusual and beautiful story of Ruth and Naomi, we see the emergence of faith and friendship amidst grief. Refusing the temptation to isolate in their pain, these two widowed immigrants forge a powerful friendship of Christlike presence, hospitality, and dialogue. Soul Renovate brings a conversation about spiritual formation and soul care to our listeners in the hope of our transformati...

In this episode, Georges and Jim discuss issues related to living as the Beloved of God. Soul Renovate brings a conversation about spiritual formation and soul care to our listeners in the hope of our transformation into Christlikeness. Learn more about Soul Renovate or donate to our ministry at our website: https://soulrenovate.us Timestamps: -Part One [0:00–13:06] -Part Two [13:06–29:59] -Part T...

Soul Renovate brings a conversation about spiritual formation and soul care to our listeners in the hope of our transformation into Christlikeness. Learn more about Soul Renovate or donate to our ministry at our website: https://soulrenovate.us Timestamps: -Part One [0:00–18:15] -Part Two [18:15–30:46] -Part Three [30:46–54:57] Resources and References: -For info on our next Spending the Day with...

The conversation about Abraham continues and deepens. Jim highlights passages of events in the life of Abraham in his friendship with God. We are beginning to see Abraham’s relationship with God as a friendship seeing God’s love for his friend, his open conversations with him, the intimacy of those encounters Abraham and God shared, the mutual mission of blessing humanity coming to fruition in Isa...

Today we have a conversation about Abraham who is called a friend of God. The big question we’re talking about is: on what basis do biblical writers call Abraham a friend of God. How did they read or hear the story of Abraham and thought he was a friend of God and God says of him “my friend”? Soul Renovate brings a conversation about spiritual formation and soul care to our listeners in the hope o...

In one of Jesus’s final addresses to His disciples before His arrest, He calls them His friends. Today Georges and Jim take a look at John 15:13–17 and share their thoughts on the implications of Jesus’s words. Soul Renovate brings a conversation about spiritual formation and soul care to our listeners in the hope of our transformation into Christlikeness. Learn more about Soul Renovate or donate...

Welcome back! Georges and Jim are kicking off a new series on friendship. Today, they're talking about spiritual formation and how friendship fits into this lifelong process. Soul Renovate brings a conversation about spiritual formation and soul care to our listeners in the hope of our transformation into Christlikeness. Learn more about Soul Renovate or donate to our ministry at our website:...

In the final part of this Advent series Jim and Georges consider the roles of the Magi in the Christmas story. Who were they? What can we learn from them? Soul Renovate brings a conversation about spiritual formation and soul care to our listeners in the hope of our transformation into Christlikeness.  Learn more about Renovate at our website: soulrenovate.us Timestamps: - Part One [0:00–15:21] -...

In part 5 of our Advent series, Jim and Georges are discussing Jesus and His role in the Advent story. Soul Renovate brings a conversation about spiritual formation and soul care to our listeners in the hope of our transformation into Christlikeness.  Learn more about Renovate at our website: soulrenovate.us Timestamps: - Part One [0:00–21:24] - Part Two [21:24–34:43] - Part Three [34:43–45:54] Re...

In part 4, Jim and Georges consider the important roles the shepherds play in the Christmas story. Who were the shepherds? How did they respond to the messenger of God? What inspired them? Soul Renovate brings a conversation about spiritual formation and soul care to our listeners in the hope of our transformation into Christlikeness.  Learn more about Renovate at our website: soulrenovate.us Time...

Soul Renovate brings a conversation about spiritual formation and soul care to our listeners in the hope of our transformation into Christlikeness.  In part 3 Jim and Georges, continue their conversation about the characters of the Christmas story. Today they focus on Mary  the mother of Jesus. We ask the question what did Mary know? Learn more about Renovate at our website: soulrenovate.us Timest...

In this inaugural podcast, Jim and Georges, long time friends, discuss the Holy Spirit’s overlooked role in the Christmas Story. He is the messenger and agent who orchestrates everything at Christmas. He comes into our waste land and with God’s shining face smiles on us.  Learn more about Renovate at our website: soulrenovate.us Timestamps: - Part One [00:00–14:00] - Part Two [14:00–33:25] - Part...

In part 2, Jim and Georges continue their conversation about the characters of the Christmas story. Today they focus on John the Baptizer and his message of repentance and humility.  Learn more about Renovate at our website: soulrenovate.us Timestamps: - Part One [00:00–21:18] - Part Two [21:18–29:37] - Part Three [29:37–45:01] Resources & References: - Luke 3:7-18 - Repentance as described to...