The Pressure Is Off ⎮ Podcast by Arnt Jakob Holvik

The smartphone can be both a blessing and a real threat to your spiritual life and psychological well-being, But what if you put it in flight mode as your default mode?!

Jesus wants to set us free, and He has given us the tools and the authority of His Name to both become free ourselves and to deliver others. This podcast episode gets first into the practicals of what the ´groundwork´ is that we and others can & need to do ourselves & then secondly how to identify & expel the evil spirits with Jesus´help so that freedom can come!

Our western culture doesn't speak much about the spiritual problems people have in their lives, how they are negatively affected by those spirits, and how they can get help. Therefore I want to speak about my experience of helping people in this area on this podcast. As you probably know, a big part of Jesus´way of serving people was to deliver them from evil spirits. In a similar way He can...

Getting out of your box of self-centredness is the fastest way out of negative emotions, insecurities and fears. Learn to live for something greater than yourself, and break free from depression into love, peace & joy.

There is a great way of living life that is so simple and yet a road not travelled by many in our society & including Christian circles today. Giving is the way of life Jesus taught and showed, and has to do with the motivation of your heart and what you seek first in life. It will completely change your life if you decide to embrace it!

Our family is back from serving in the Middle East, and in this episode I want to set the focus where it belongs: on Jesus! What your eyes is set on in life will determine your life. 

Step into the place where Jesus had much of his secret: solitude in the morning with his Father. In this episode we get very practical and personal on what this morning routine of Jesus can look like in your life and what a mysterious transformation it will bring.

This episode for all of us who get easily offended

David Perez Arago grew up in church, but found much of his life driven by fear of people and their recognition, rather than being content and happy as God´s son. Listen to the fascinating story of how God got to the root of the identiy issue and changed David´s life and in effect his family relationships and the newly planted church community. 

Is there anything I can do to bring change to an area in my life which is ´stuck´ & where I feel hopeless? - Yes there is..!

Sometimes Jesus shows up to teach us important things when we are at the end of ourselves. In this episode I share some of my personal experiences of what Jesus taught me in the hospital.

This time one story from the bible and one from our family´s life: Learn from Joshua and Caleb, and from my wife Liva, - how to get into your ´Promised Land´

The key to learn from Jesus is to live with peace and trust in the middle of the storms that break in life. Everyone faces storms, but the storm doesn´t have to become your inner reality. Learn how to have peace on the inside, even when there´s a storm breaking on the outside.

The practical message from the bible that seems ´too-good-to-be-true´. The Good News is better than you think ;)

Prayer is crucial, - but still so many of us tend to slide away from it in the midst of full working days, leaving us relying on only our own efforts. Why is it so, and how can you get back into prayer to God?!

The business start-up environment has a most empowering way of being honest about failures and celebrating those failures as steps of faith in direction of what you are called to do and achieve. Your failures or mistakes along the way does not mean that you are a failure. They are your brave stepping stones towards what God called you to do. 

Performance Christianity is a strange and tiring phenomenon. But what if the Stage could be set with only your own Father in the room?

Listen to hear how God stopped Vineyard leader John Wimber´s church growth career, and brought him into a more fruitful life & ministry as a Christian leader. 

In this episode I share how my wife helped me out of inner turmoil and into peace by trusting God, and how you can exit your inner turmoil and get to peace in the same way.

How do I deal with the "sink or swim" life experience of being a Christian Leader?!

In this episode the following question is raised: «Is there a way out of this ‘survival mode’ that I experience in my daily life? Or is stress, worries, burdens and striving just how life is for eveybody?»