Life & Leadership

The Unity of the Church is Spiritual - Phil Fellows

Season 4 | Episode 13

In today’s podcast Jez speaks to Phil Fellows, pastor of Hershey Baptist church and doctorate student at Aberdeen university.

Some of the resources mentioned in the conversation are linked to below:

 

Timothy Ware on the Orthodox church: https://shorturl.at/ptJV9 

Pope Benedict, Jesus of Nazareth: https://shorturl.at/ersO4 

 

Design, Creation & Alabaster Jars - Sam arnold

Season 4 | Episode 12

 

In this episode Jez speaks to Sam Arnold, creative media lead at Kings Church Eastbourne (www.kings.church).

Sam is an incredible designer, a filmmaker, web designer and coder and has been on church staff producing gospel content for 20 years.

More information about Sam and his work can be found here:

www.sa-design.co.uk

and here:

wovendesign.uk

SHORTS | Small Town Jesus - Donnie Griggs

Season 4 | Episode 11

In the first of a new series of Shorts looking at 'Mission in the Modern Age' Jez speaks to author and pastor Donnie Griggs about Contextualisation and specifically the opportunities and challenges involved in ministering in Small Towns.

Donnie Griggs is pastor of One Harbor Church: oneharborchurch.com/

and is the author of Small Town Jesus: smalltownjesus.com/ andthe newly released Pastoring in Small Towns: www.amazon.co.uk/Pastoring-Small-…er/dp/1087764920

The Toxic War on Masculinity - Nancy Pearcey

Season 4 | Episode 10

In today’s episode Jez spoke to Professor Nancy Pearcey.

Professor Pearcey is the author of The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes, as well as Love Thy Body, The Soul of Science, Saving Leonardo, Finding Truth, and Total Truth. She is professor and scholar in residence at Houston Christian University. She has been quoted in The New Yorker and Newsweek, highlighted as one of the five top women apologists by Christianity Today, and hailed in The Economist as "America's pre-eminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual.”

For more information about Christian University go here: https://hc.edu/

And Professor Pearcey’s website: www.nancypearcey.com

Spiritual Harm & Church Leadership - Marcus Honeysett

Season 4 || Episode 9

In this episode Jez speaks to Marcus Honeysett about the distinctions that mark Christian leadership out from other forms of influence.

Marcus Honeysett is the founding director or Living Leadership an organisation that exists to grow disciple-making leaders. He is also the author of several books including Powerful Leaders: When Church Leadership Goes Wrong and How to Prevent It.

Helpful Links:

Spiritual Abuse report by ThirtyOneEight:

https://thirtyoneeight.org/media/4upcux21/spiritual-abuse-position-statement.pdf

 

Evangelical Alliance:

https://www.eauk.org/resources/what-we-offer/reports/reviewing-the-discourse-of-spiritual-abuse

 

Living Leadership’s Spiritual Leadership Audit:

https://spckpublishing.co.uk/pub/media/PDFs/Powerful_Leaders_Digital_Resource_Final.pdf

 

Marcus’ Book ‘Powerful Leaders’:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Powerful-Leaders-Christian-Leadership-Wrong/dp/1789743222/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2I8XN9NBO2JTZ&keywords=powerful+leaders+marcus+honeysett&qid=1704448753&sprefix=powerful+leade%2Caps%2C312&sr=8-1

Sex Work, Women & the God of Love - Rosie Hopley

Season 4 | Episode 8

In today’s episode Jez spoke to Rosie Hopley. Based in Bristol Rosie, for many years ran her own communications, PR and research business, whilst also founding the Christian charity ‘Beloved’ which works with women in prostitution in Bristol.

Rosie has since gone on to create networks and prayer gatherings and, more recently, has been involved speaking on and producing materials on the critical importance of God’s reconciling love lived out.

In our conversation we discuss her work with Jubilee+: www.jubilee-plus.org

Along with referencing the recent Jubilee+ conference: https://jubilee-plus.org/ctcc23/

And a WomanAlive article written by Rosie: https://www.womanalive.co.uk/reaching-out-to-women-in-prostitution/5541.article

Jez also made reference to a book written by Louise Perry on the impact of the Sexual Revolution: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Case-Against-Sexual-Revolution/dp/1509549994/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1702546720&sr=8-1

At the start of the episode Jez made reference to the conference material now available on the New Ground website. You can find that here: https://newgroundchurches.org/media/

A Praying Church - Paul Miller & Colin Millar

Season 4 | Episode 7

In this episode Jez speaks to Paul Miller & Colin Millar about the work of SeeJesus and the value of prayer for a local church.

Paul is Executive Director of seeJesus, a global discipleship mission which he founded in 1999 to help Christians and non-Christians alike “see Jesus.” Today, seeJesus is working in over 30 countries and has books and interactive Bible study materials translated into more than a dozen languages. Also author of Author of several books including: A praying Life, the J Curve and the Praying Church.

Jez was also joined by Colin Millar the European director for SeeJesus.

For more information about SeeJesus please visit: https://seejesus.net/

On Prayer, Men, Masculinity & Mission - Jon Tyson

Season 4 | Episode 6

 

In today’s episode Jez speaks to Jon Tyson, author and senior pastor of the Church of the City New York (https://www.church.nyc/). Jon is the author of nine books including Sacred Roots, The Beautiful Resistance and The Intentional Father: subtitled a practical guide to raising sons of rouge and character. It’s this book and the discipleship course that came out of it that forms the basis for much of our conversation today, particularly the second half of the episode.

Jon’s discipleship course for Fathers ‘The Primal Path’ can be found here: https://www.formingmen.com/

The books mentioned in the episode were:

The Contemplative Pastor by Eugene Peterson https://www.amazon.co.uk/Contemplative-Pastor-Returning-Spiritual-Director/dp/0802801145/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1L2DMR9ZMZE0H&keywords=contemplative+pastor&qid=1699904846&sprefix=contemplative+pastor%2Caps%2C83&sr=8-1

Adam’s Return by Richard Rawl https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adams-Return-Promises-Initiation-Paperback/dp/B015HVHYX2/ref=sr_1_2?crid=121BCQNDF6WES&keywords=adams+return&qid=1699904826&sprefix=adams+return%2Caps%2C84&sr=8-2

Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-Depended/dp/B07T7L39TN/ref=sr_1_1?crid=33JMLWCRGEQC9&keywords=never+split+the+difference+chris+voss&qid=1699904790&sprefix=never+split+di%2Caps%2C187&sr=8-1

Having a Heavenly Focus & a Kingdom Mindset - Jenni Calcraft

Season 4 | Episode 5

In this episode Jez speaks to Jenni Calcraft, mum of 3 and found of Someone Cares a ministry serving people at Alder Hey hospital. 

More information about Jenni and the ministry can be found on:

here: https://www.freedomchurchliverpool.co.uk/someone-cares 

and here: Jubilee-plus article: https://jubilee-plus.org/blog/1293/someone-cares/ 

A Message For Young Men - TJ Koleoso

Season 4 | Episode 4

In today's episode Jez speaks to Mercury Award Winning artist TJ Koleoso with the aim of encouraging  and offering strength to young men.

To hear more fromTJ you can find his newday talks here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6hp0R1PVNbQFN20X3dkzdX 

Find out about Jubilee Church London here: https://jubileechurchlondon.org/ 

Learn about The Ezra Collective or listen to their music here: https://ezracollective.com/