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Faith that Acts
by Barry Gladden
Welcome to the bi-weekly podcast, Faith that Acts. We share discoveries of faith and the stories of people who are authentically responding to God's grace in their lives. We believe that when others can see the reality of God in how we live and show the love of Christ, that they will be encouraged. You will no doubt be inspired by these discoveries and interviews. Blessings.
Episodes
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Committed Community
Learn why its more important than ever to grow missional communities across the West, the powerful force for change our youth are, and the potential to increase Christian presence in our neighborhoods.
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Missional Life – Wherever You Are!
Explore what it means to be a light right where you live. Discover the Mission of God and why this is a conversation that must be had. Did you know that some studies suggest that in the next 30 years, American churches need to plant 215,000 to possibly as many as 275,000 new churches simply to…
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A Story of Transformation and Witness – The Testimony of Ervin McNeill
a life, a fall, a recovery and a coming to faith that bears witness to the saving grace of Christ. It is a testimony that reveals the challenges of one life - from not fully hearing the gospel in church as a youth, to the ravages war can have on a veteran, to recovery in both faith and life. You...
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Legacy – A Revealing Discovery of Faith
Life lessons and a legacy of faith discovered in a pocket-sized notebook found during one family's search for ancestors.
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Christianity in the Post-Modern West – Part 1
Many people as asking why Christianity is on the decline in the West. Listen to this well researched two part podcast analyzing the trend and faithful response.
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Christmas Matters in Your New Year
New Year's is a great opportunity to set out with new ambitions. But is this hope? In this episode we explore how Christmas is the true hope to live into for life.
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A Passion for Youth and Service
An interview with YoungLife staffer Anneke Stremler. She shares her walk in faith and her passion for training our youth in the ways of Christ. After a tragic loss, she emerges stronger in her pursuit of God and her desire for service.
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Community that Serves
An interview about the compassion, operation, and challenges of the Elmhurst-Yorkfield Food Pantry. Hunger may be where you least expect it, maybe even next-door!
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2016 Global Leadership Summit Review
A review and lessons learned from the 2016 Global Leadership Summit.
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How We Come to Jesus!
Have you wondered just how it is that people come to Jesus? Why do they make that choice? Today, we discuss both the doctrine and the experience of coming to Christ.
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Shining a Light; Proclaiming Good News
By listener request, this episode is the continuing story of God's grace in the life of Barry Gladden, founder of Faith that Acts! Special Host Ed Ronne seeks to answer what the impact of this ministry has been on it's founder as well as explore some revealing details not in his published testimony.
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Discipleship and Spiritual Maturity; A Result
Pastor Brandon Cooper discusses relational discipleship, it's relevance, and how to encourage discipleship that results in disciples who make disciples.
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A Heart to Serve – On Radio, In Person
A fun interview with Mr. Edward Ronne. Fabulous stories of life - have you been brought to the hospital in a wheelbarrow? And practical faith that serves. During his career as a broadcaster, Mr. Ronne, was privileged to interview Dr. Billy Graham, Ruth Graham, Dale Evans, the wife of cowboy Roy...
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Authenticity is About Being
A great discussion with special guest Pastor John Wendel about personal authenticity and how it's opposite, inauthenticity, shows up in our lives. Practical suggestions included!
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Where’s the Power of the Cross in My Life?
We lay out the biblical perspective on perseverance leveraging scripture, Charles Spurgeon, Jerry Bridges, John MacArthur, John Piper as well as various studies on what it means to Persevere.
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Serve It Forward – Responding to Grace
A woman impacts her community for Christ. Called to use her family farm to serve the poor, she enlists her church to participate and her act of service becomes a mission. This episode is full of life transformation and a growing response to grace.
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A Good Old Book
What is the value of a good old book? Sure books are content driven and the bible is the Word of God. Sometimes we load them up with momentos of life or hand them down through generations. But do our bibles reveal something about us?
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Stigma – Christian Faith – Modern Life
"I am not fully there yet," a social services Chief Executive says. What does that mean and how does it relate to the application of Christian faith in our modern lives? What is the intersection between what we claim to believe and our daily lives. Stigma - Christian Faith - Modern Life discusses...
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Faith that Waits
Here's why waiting is important. It's not the exception to the rule. It is normal and if you experienced it, you are in good company The question is, "What is the effect waiting has on us?"
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Just What’s In a Gift?
Christmas is upon us. Christmas concerts are everywhere, music is playing, the rush to finish shopping is afoot. Much of what we enjoy about Christmas today comes from a melding of traditions from many cultures and has secular origins. I invite you to listen in on this podcast. You’ll not only...
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Contemplations on Billy Graham’s Where I Am
Eternity, it is before us all. Do you wonder about it? Contemplations on Billy Graham's Where I Am Reviews his new book and I share my observations.
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Local Missions at College – Surrendering it all
A young local missionary explains what it means to "surrender all" to the Lord and to serve in America's affluent culture where the perceived need for God seems to lessen every day. But, in reality He is greatly needed. This is a story about the reality of God in a young woman's life who deeply...
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Of Pride and Humility
In Of Pride and Humility, I speak to the issue and how pride, part of our being, is at the root of sin in our lives. Not all pride is bad, however. Like good cholesterol and bad cholesterol. If you should boast, boast in Christ as the apostle Paul said. I invite you to take a journey with me into…
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Faith, Surrender, and Learning to Serve
Faith, Surrender, and Learning to Serve, is the story of a missions-minded young woman growing in faith through her formative years. Here, you will hear about the importance of community, the positive impact of youth leaders in the Church, and how the grace and hard love godly mentors give keeps…
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Plug in the Jug: Alcoholism to Saving Faith
In Plug in the Jug: Alcoholism to Saving Faith, a young father discusses his decent into dependency and how he found recovery and the love of Jesus.
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2015 Global Leadership Summit
August 5th and 6th, I attended the 2015 Global Leadership Summit. It is a Christ-centered leadership event which since it's inception has expanded to satellite broadcast worldwide in over 105 countries and 250,000 attendees.This podcast will share key takeaways from the event as well as a lite...
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God’s Faithfulness and Ours
In God's Faithfulness and Ours I discuss multiple observations about faith related to our spiritual development, growth in faith and God's ultimate faithfulness and that it multiplies our confidence and dependence on Him.
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Relationships Matter
Here's how what is in our hearts comes out in our lives. Do we edify and build people up or tear them down? Do we keep our commitments or walk away. Do we receive criticism with a humble heart or reject it? Why do we justify our leaving relationships because somebody offends us while at the same...
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From Big Rigs to Christ and Bikes
Here's the story of a man who logged 4.5 million miles driving a tractor trailer all over North America. Having been "really out there in the world," Burt Porter discusses the struggles of being away from home for 2 - 5 months at a time while raising a young family and the struggles of exercising...
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Baseball? Why I Decided to Follow Jesus
This is a great story of a man with a heart to follow and serve. Kyle openly shares his testimony revealing his faith, doubts and struggles. God is faithful and you will see how in Kyle's life God drew on all of Kyle's life experience and skills as he pursued his calling. From education, to...
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How to Make Worship Personal
In How to Make Worship Personal, I share how I discover natural unmanufactured worship, genuine acknowledgement of God simply because He alone is worthy. This is also the wrap on Season 1 and I offer a brief summary of key lessons learned in season 1.
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Spiritual Discipline – What?
Discover Spiritual Disciplines and how they can impact our walk in faith. In Spiritual Disciplines - What? I offer my experience. Perhaps you will identify with these, and perhaps you will learn something new. Be encouraged to be intentional about your faith.
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Experiencing Doubt in Faith?
Here's how I handle doubt. Doubt can be devastating in our walk of faith. For some, it may prevent them from stepping forward to accept and know God. Have you experienced moments of doubt? It can hit from many angles from God's existence to does He answer prayer. It can even cause us to question...
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A Christmas Bloom at Easter
Sometimes we're too busy to notice the small things in life. Hear how simple observations about a Christmas cactus that insists on blooming at Easter each year deepened my faith.
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Missions – A Growing Heart to Serve
Missions trips were something I never thought I'd do myself. I reasoned that was something for someone else to do and report on in church occasionally. In Missions - A Growing Heart to Serve, a must hear episode, I share heartfelt, life altering, perspective changing lessons-learned, while on a...
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Honoring Parents – My Tribute
In Honoring Parents - My Tribute, I discuss the impact of my parents in the context of honoring them. Here I use a tribute to honor them publically. Listen. Here's why honoring parents matters.
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How To Know Your Calling – A Pastor’s Perspective
In How To Know Your Calling - A Pastor's Perspective, gain biblical insight about just what calling is and how we can come into the knowledge of it. Also discover how connected identity, purpose, and calling are.
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Why YOU Should Mentor: A Mentor's Point of View Why YOU Should Mentor: A Mentor’s Point of View
In Why YOU should mentor, enjoy an intimate view into the importance and incalculable value of these special relationships. In Season 1 Episode 5, I shared the mentee's perspective. Here, in Season 1 Episode 8, we discuss the mentor's perspective. Two men seeking God together intentionally and...
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My Calling – How I Knew
In this episode, My Calling - How I knew, I share how I confidently knew my calling. Have you ever wondered what your calling is? I think we all have a one time or another. I remember sitting with the guidance counselor at school to discuss what I would do with my life. You know, that time when...
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Life’s Purpose – Bigger than Me!
Before we get to calling in the next episode, it is important to understand purpose. For years I thought the world was my oyster - or at least parts of it! In reality, getting beyond myself was a long and sometimes difficult process. There was a point that I discovered that the world was not all...
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Season 1 Episode 5 Mentors and Their Impact
Have you had an influential person in your life - one that stood by you, believed in you, built into you, maybe even helped shape your spiritual development and affirm you? I have. In Season 1 Episode 5 - Mentors and Their Impact, I speak about mentors who have impacted me for Christ and I am...
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The Word Effect – Impact of God’s Word
We all have something that influences us or brings us to a cross-roads of sorts. Sometimes it's an uplifting experience. Something we read, heard or saw happen. Sometimes it's a relationship. Sometimes it's a loss. Sometimes it's temporary. Sometimes it's lasting... I have experienced what I'm...
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Experience the Reality of God in His Word – My Experience
As I returned to my faith, one of the key ingredients was a practical reality of God that I discovered in His word. I learned by reading in the bible about the many characters we all know. They weren't just irrelevant people founded in myth. They were real. They were flawed. But, they interacted...
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God is Real! Here’s My Testimony
God is Real! Here's my testimony about how He moved in my life. This post is much more detailed than episode 1. "I went from being a churched Christian, to a skilled backslider, to a world loving man rejecting God, to a restored believer who enjoyed the risk free comforts of church, to having a...
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A Stake In The Ground – For Me
We all have a life story. Don't we? Mine brought me to a decision point after a long, hard fall. Here, I share my baptism testimony. It summarizes the journey of my return to faith. Since I loved the pleasures of the world, that was a rocky road! Was yours? My baptism 2 years ago was not a…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to the bi-weekly podcast, Faith that Acts. We share discoveries of faith and the stories of people who are authentically responding to God's grace in their lives. We believe that when others can see the reality of God in how we live and show the love of Christ, that they will be encouraged. You will no doubt be inspired by these discoveries and interviews. Blessings.
HOSTED BY
Barry Gladden
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Faith that Acts currently has 45 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Faith that Acts about?
Welcome to the bi-weekly podcast, Faith that Acts. We share discoveries of faith and the stories of people who are authentically responding to God's grace in their lives. We believe that when others can see the reality of God in how we live and show the love of Christ, that they will be encouraged....
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Faith that Acts has 45 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
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Faith that Acts is created and hosted by Barry Gladden.
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