A Pilgrimage of Unfolding Grace
by Ryan Adams
Welcome to A Pilgrimage of Unfolding Grace, a podcast intended to extend the conversation on themes from my book of the same name. In this journey, I want to help you explore your Story with God, your personality in the light of Christ, and the gifts you have been given by the Holy Spirit. I believe your calling is found at the intersection of these related themes if you learn to listen carefully enough.
Episodes
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Justin McRoberts
Like many people, the Covid-19 pandemic became a sort of apocalyptic reckoning for me. When the world shut down I was forced to examine the way I held my work - although if I’m honest I already knew on a deep level I was teetering on burnout even before everything stopped. As all our norms and...
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Scott Evans
It is no accident that you were born into this moment in history. There is something here, now, for you to offer a broken world. Not only has God gifted you with talents and passions, he has called you to a specific time and place that, if you allow them, will also speak to your life’s calling.…
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Brittney & Trevor Reinholt
Sometimes there are stories we tell ourselves that are actually deceptive - they prevent us from embracing reality so that we might be open to God’s healing touch. We insist that life should follow whatever playbook we were handed along the way, but when tragedy comes we are left disillusioned…
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Brian Ban
The conversation around spiritual gifts can be a contentious one, both for people who have grown up in charismatic circles where they were sensationalized, or perhaps even weaponized; or for others who may not have grown up with any awareness of them at all. In many regards, it seems a facet of…
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Christina Ruiz
We live in an era of remarkable privilege. There are so many avenues available to us in terms of what we choose to do with our lives, which in one respect can be quite exciting; yet, at the same time, it can also feel rather daunting. Where previous generations may have struggled with a lack of...
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Kristen Blommel
I am convinced that the greatest gift the Holy Spirit gives us is self-awareness. To see ourselves through the eyes of God is to understand the unique way we have been crafted to move through the world. In a way, maturity is learning to accept the full gamut of who we are, and to begin to do the...
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Mark Nicks
The problem with the ways in which we often try to name the truest things about ourselves is that they are so transparent and transient. They are transparent in that they don’t seem to provide a solid enough foundation upon which to see ourselves, and transient in that they seem to constantly...
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Brian Zahnd
It is apparent to most that the church in the West is at a tipping point. The faults and failures of what has come before have been laid bare in apocalyptic terms. Yet we know that from the ashes of frail human institutions God is able to birth something new, something vital. Part of what keeps…
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Jenna Wimmer
If our first calling is based on the solidarity of “me too”, then the invitation in our second calling is to those with whom we don’t naturally empathize. There is opportunity for growth outside our tribal allegiances and prejudices when we cross the border into Samaria. The challenge Jesus puts...
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Johnny
The writer Ann Lamott says the most powerful sermon we can ever preach is “me too”. She is speaking to this special form of authority we carry when we see others living a story we intimately know, because it is our story as well. Our hearts are more open because of empathy. The people who are…
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Nathan Carlton
There are gifts and pains to be found in every room of the Christian household. Spiritual migration is becoming the norm, at least for the younger generations. I believe this is, at least in part, a deep desire to find authentic ways of exploring and expressing faith. My guest today is a…
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Brad Jersak
Alongside the shift from mono- to poly-culture as a norm in contemporary society comes the common story of drift from one room in the Christian household to another. It is becoming increasingly rare that someone is born into a particular faith tradition and stays there until they die. There is an...
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April Ban
We imprint upon our parents from day one, perhaps even while we’re still in the womb. Our first awareness at birth is that “mother” is the source of all our needs, and before long, we become aware of “father” in the room(often the obstacle we have to overcome to get back to “mother”), and then...
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Shavier Martinez
Our current moment in history is unique in that many of us are not the product of one monoculture, but a living Venn diagram of many. We are connected across national boundaries and ethnicities, largely in part to the ease at which people can move around the globe since the industrial revolution...
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Kenneth Tanner
Part of our philosophical inheritance in the West is the notion that “knowledge is power”. We’re taught from an early age to scan information for whatever may be helpful to make sense of the moment, yet in doing so we often reduce the beautiful to the merely useful. Those of us who still inhabit...
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Andy Squyres
It’s no bad thing to seek to live a quiet life. In fact, perhaps it’s this very context in which we find joy and happiness in doing the Lord’s work. The life we are invited to live, the abundant life, is as much about laundry and bass fishing as it is about preaching the gospel by any means...
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Ian Simkins
It's all too common in our modern era to blur the lines between what we do and who we truly are. We can often feel at any given moment our value is being measured and tested, like we're living up to some sort of cosmic exam that requires we prove our worth. There is a cry of exhaustion within so...
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Introduction
We can admire the abstract ideas of our faith from a distance - salvation, grace, and so on - but they don’t gain real profundity until we begin to explore the terrain of our lives, stepping out in faith to see how wide, deep, long, and high is this love we’re are called to engage. In order to do...
About this show
Welcome to A Pilgrimage of Unfolding Grace, a podcast intended to extend the conversation on themes from my book of the same name. In this journey, I want to help you explore your Story with God, your personality in the light of Christ, and the gifts you have been given by the Holy Spirit. I believe your calling is found at the intersection of these related themes if you learn to listen carefully enough.
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Ryan Adams
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