Thrive With Asbury Seminary

Overview Today on the podcast, I had the true delight of getting to talk to Dr. Barbara L. Peacock. Dr. Peacock is a D.Min. graduate of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. She’s a spiritual director, author, teacher and preacher. She is the founder of Barbara L. Peacock Ministries, a ministry committed to developing disciples through prayer, spiritual direction, soul care, mentoring and teaching....

Overview Hey Everyone just popping into your podcast feed for just a minute to let you know that will not be releasing a podcast today. We are taking a break to celebrate Holy Week and Easter and to give our team a chance to rest from that so that we can continue to bring you really great conversations with authors, thought leaders and people just like you who are looking to connect where your pas...

Overview Today on the podcast I got to talk to three of the counseling faculty at Asbury Seminary, Dr. Toddy Holeman, Dr. Steve Stratton and Dr. Laklieshia Izzard. We talked about the ways that 2020 has affected all of our mental health, ways we can practice self-care and God care, how we can incorporate that into our daily lives and some signs and symptoms when it’s time to look to a counselor to...

Overview Ranjo Clements, associate pastor and worship leader at Great Commission Fellowship in Wilmore, Ky., joins the Thrive with Asbury Seminary Podcast today. Ranjo is from Mumbai, India, is an Asbury Seminary alum and is currently enrolled in a Ph. D. program at the Seminary. In today’s conversation, we talk about Ranjo’s story of calling, his heart for discipleship and worship, and his Ph. D....

Overview Sandra McCracken, singer-songwriter and hymn writer from Nashville, Tennessee, joins the podcast today. She is a prolific recording artist and has produced 14 solo albums over two decades. Her best-selling release, Psalms (2015) received critical acclaim, followed by God’s Highway (2017) which made the top 50 on Billboard Heatseekers chart without a major label. Blending the old and new,...

Overview Today on the podcast, I talked to Dr. Gregg Okesson, Dean of the E. Stanley Jones School of World Mission and Evangelism at Asbury Seminary. Dr. Okesson is a church planter and served as a faculty member at Scott Christian University in Kenya. All told, he spent 13 years serving and working alongside the people of East Africa. He also recently released a book entitled "A Public Missiology...

Overview  Today on the podcast, I had the real joy of talking to Tracy Balzer. Tracy is an author, speaker and guide. She’s written Thin Places, A Listening Life, and Permission to Ponder, and releasing this June A Journey of Sea and Stone. It’s available for pre-order now, so if you’d like, go ahead and order a copy from your favorite book store. In addition to all of that, Tracy is the director...

Overview Today on the podcast, I had the privilege of talking to Dr. Winfield Bevins, Director of the Church Planting Initiative at Asbury Seminary. Dr. Bevins recently released a book this month called Living Room Liturgy, a book of worship for the home. This book is just that--a compilation of guided prayer, scripture reading and prompts for reflection that Winfield has written to help the indiv...

Overview Today on the podcast, I had the real privilege of getting to talk to Lo Alaman. Lo is an artist, speaker and minister. He works as Director of Community Life at the Harvest Campus of the Woodlands UMC the Woodlands, Texas. He is also a husband, a father, and a son of the Most High God. Whether preaching, spitting poetry, or just chilling with his new best friends, Lo seeks to create momen...

Overview Today on the podcast, I had the real privilege of talking to Rev. Dr. Girma Bishaw. Dr. Bishaw is a 2019 Asbury Seminary alum and presently serves as the director of The Gratitude Initiative  in Great Britain. The Gratitude Initiative is a charity that exists to promote the sharing of gratitude to change the social imagination that leads to relational transformation, a fulfilled self, a s...

Overview Today on the podcast, I talked to Rev. Dr. Iosmar Alvarez. Dr. Alvarez is an Asbury Seminary alum and the Global Executive Director of Disciple 21, a church planting and re-missioning network that the Seminary has partnered with. He is also a pastor, church planter and district superintendent for the United Methodist Church in Lexington. I could not be more excited to share today’s conver...

Overview Mr. Shane Claiborne, best-selling author, speaker and activist, joined the Thrive with Asbury Seminary Podcast today. Shane worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, and founded The Simple Way in Philadelphia.  He heads up Red Letter Christians, a movement of folks who are committed to living "as if Jesus meant the things he said." Shane is a champion for grace which has led him to jail advo...

Overview Welcome to this episode of the Thrive with Asbury Seminary Podcast! Today on the podcast, we’re continuing the conversation with Dr. Christine Pohl, Professor Emeritus of Christian Ethics at Asbury Seminary where she taught for 29 years. Today we’re talking about community and her book Living into Community. We learn what a healthy community looks like and how we can really live in a heal...

Overview Welcome to this episode of the Thrive with Asbury Seminary Podcast! Today on the podcast, I got to talk to Dr. Christine Pohl, Professor Emeritus of Christian Ethics at Asbury Seminary where she taught for 29 years. This is the first of a two-part series on hospitality and community. Today on the podcast we talked about the origins of hospitality, the important difference between hospital...

Overview Today on the podcast, we have a great conversation with Rev. Donna Covington, Vice President of Formation at Asbury Seminary. We talk about racism, justice and reconciliation. She shares her personal story of her son Daniel who was killed in a racially motivated incident on September 16, 2010. As she shares her story, we talk about the hope and healing that she has found and some steps th...

Overview Today on the podcast, I had the privilege of talking to Dr. Timothy C. Tennent, President of Asbury Theological Seminary. We talked about his new book that releases on November 17 called For the Body: Recovering a Theology of Gender, Sexuality, and the Human Body. We talk about what it means to have a theology of the body, the building blocks that make up our theology of the body, like ma...

Overview Today on the podcast, I had the privilege of talking to Adam Weber, Asbury Seminary alum, church planter and lead pastor of Embrace Church in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. We talk about a lot of things in today’s conversation—how he experienced his call to ministry and church planting, how Embrace church got started, and the release of his newest book Love Has a Name. We talk about loving pe...

Overview Hey everyone! Just popping into your feed for a minute to let you know that we are taking a short podcast break. We are planning great content for the fall and will return with a new episode at the end of August. Thank you so much for listening and we look forward to our next season with you! Next season, we'll talk about hospitality, community, racial reconciliation, theology of the body...

Overview Today on the podcast, I had the privilege of talking to Jim Ramsay, Asbury Seminary alum and Vice President of Global Operations at TMS Global. We talk about his call to ministry and missions, the time he and his family spent serving in Kazakhstan, and the ways that we can connect with others to see what God is up to in the world. Let’s listen!

Overview Dr. Matthew Sleeth, co-founder of Blessed Earth, joins the podcast today. Dr. Sleeth is a former ER physician and chief of medical staff. He resigned from that position to teach, preach and write about faith and stewardship issues. Today, we talk to him about his book "24/6" that invites us into a beautiful rhythm of work and rest that is woven into the universe. We talk about what Sabbat...

Overview Hey Everyone! Welcome to this week’s edition of the Thrive with Asbury Seminary Podcast. This episode is the final of a four-part series of Community Conversations on Race all releasing today that were hosted by Rev. Donna Covington, Vice President of Formation at Asbury Seminary. These recordings are also available as a video series at thrive.asburyseminary.edu, but we wanted to make the...

Overview Hey Everyone! Welcome to this week’s edition of the Thrive with Asbury Seminary Podcast. This is the third of a four-part series of Community Conversations on Race all releasing today that were hosted by Rev. Donna Covington, Vice President of Formation at Asbury Seminary. These recordings were originally released as part of a video series that released earlier this month, but we wanted t...

Overview Hey Everyone! Welcome to this week’s special edition of the Thrive with Asbury Seminary Podcast. This episode is the second of a four part series of Community Conversations on Race. All four parts are releasing today and were originally hosted by Reverend Donna Covington, VP of Formation at Asbury Seminary. These recordings are also available as a video series at thrive.asburyseminary.edu...

Overview Hey Everyone! Welcome to this week’s edition of the Thrive with Asbury Seminary Podcast. This episode is the first of a four-part series of Community Conversations on Race all releasing today that were hosted by Rev. Donna Covington, Vice President of Formation at Asbury Seminary. These recordings are also available as a video series at thrive.asburyseminary.edu, but we wanted to make the...

Overview Today on the podcast I had the privilege of talking to Dr. Michael Peterson, Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Asbury Seminary. We talk about his recently released book C.S. Lewis and the Christian Worldview. We’ll link to this book in the show notes, so you can pick up a copy if you haven’t already. His book engages Lewis philosophically and provides a comprehensive framework for L...