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Heaven Here Now Podcast
by The Gathering People
Welcome to the Heaven Here Now Podcast where some former pastors and their friends talk about the radical shift that happens in life when we stop viewing heaven as something that we can only experience some day, far away, and begin to explore the possibility that heaven is something that we have the power and responsibility to create and sustain here and now. In a world where problems seem to grow bigger and more complex everyday, we love to focus on the individuals, organizations and ideas that can help us empower people to lead in love on a local level and bring about real change.
Episodes
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Episode 17 - Connie Jones - Arise Counseling
One of the concepts that is foundational to the idea of Heaven Here Now, is that Heaven starts in the Heart. This is why the ancient wisdom says, "Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it" (Proverbs 4:23) and why Jesus said, "the Kingdom of God is within you" (Luke...
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Episode 16 - Frank Mercer - 4Heroes
In this week's episode, we discover a kindred spirit with former pastor and current non-profit founder Frank Mercer. Frank led Rolling Hills Baptist Church in Fayetteville, GA for over a decade. The church thrived under his leadership, but instead of following the normal trajectory of growth…
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Episode 15 - Shelby Barker - Rise of the Nones
What will the Next 50 Years look like for Christianity in America? In this week's episode, we welcome back Shelby Barker to discuss the recent Pew Recent Center on the continued decline of Christianity and the rise of "the Nones". Each of us shares our unique take on what the story behind this...
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Episode 14 - Nate Harkness - Supernatural
This week we take a trip into the Supernatural with Nate Harkness, International Director of Worldwide Discipleship. In this episode, we talk about hearing the voice of God and how Heaven Here Now often looks like the supernatural showing up in our midst.
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Episode 13 - Phil Fincher - Compassion
This week, we sit down with one of our good friends Phil Fincher. He's a campus pastors at Compassion Christian Church and a local legend of compassion and love in his day to day life. Phil shares his experience of growing up being the kid who didn't belong and coming to Jesus from the outside...
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Episode 12 - Melanie Reeves - Burnout
In this week's episode, we sit down with our good friend Melanie Reeves. Melanie is the Director of RiverLife, a local non-profit based out of Newnan, GA that does wonderful work and is one of our closest partners. After a tornado devastated many homes in Newnan in 2021, RiverLife emerged as one…
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Episode 11 - Pete Cocco - What is Church?
This week, we sat down with Pete Cocco, creator of PerMission Inc. (https://wehavepermission.com). In our conversation, Pete shares some simple criteria for what the fundamental elements of church are, and gives us a really helpful tool (Discovery Bible Study...
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Episode 10 - Jake Dukes - Rechurching
In this week's episode, we talk to Jachin Dukes about his journey through different seasons with the church. Jake has served in a variety of leadership roles in churches and had a season where he left, but ultimately felt the call to come back and use his gifts to serve. If you've ever had mixed...
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Episode 9 - Karlye Ramer - Dechurching
“I feel like the church could do so much more.” On this week’s episode of the Heaven Here Now podcast, we talk with self-described atheist, Karlye Ramer. Karlye talks about her experience growing up in the church and the roadblocks she faced. She also talks about the vast difference between what...
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Episode 8 - Rick Harper - GA Tech CCF
On today's episode, we chat with Rick Harper, Campus Minister at Georgia Tech Campus Christian Fellowship, about the role that authentic community plays in creating Heaven Here Now. For many people, Christian community can feel like a place where you have to have to hide your faults and where…
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Episode 7 - Zach Lambert - Restore Austin
How can Jesus Followers speak up for the voiceless, speak out against injustice and speak truth into our world's most pressing issues without adding to the noise of an increasingly divisive and graceless culture? Today on the podcast we talk with Zach Lambert, Lead Pastor of Restore Austin about...
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Episode 6 - Debbie - The Women at the Well
This week we talk to a local treasure, Debbie Gronner who is an author and the founder of The Women at the Well. Debbie shares her story about how from the outside looking in she had the "perfect Peachtree City life" but inside she was broken and hurting, much like the woman that Jesus met at the...
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Episode 5 - Karhma Novak - i58 Mission
This week on the Heaven Here Now Podcast, we talk to Karhma Novak about the fire God set in her heart for her local community of Senoia, GA. Karhma is treasure to this community. She holds the title of executive director of The I-58 Mission but as you listen, you’ll realize she didn’t need that...
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Episode 4 - Empowerment
In this episode, Katie and Jesse talk about an idea that is fundamental to a vision for Heaven Here Now, which is Empowerment. We both share our experiences with navigating the process of empowerment and how our ideas and expectations around it have changed. The big shift that we discuss is how…
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Episode 3 - Freedom
On this episode, we explore how the idea of Freedom is connected to the concept of Heaven. Heaven is supposed to be a place of ultimate freedom, where anything is possible and where we're finally free from death and pain. So the question is, if that's so, what does it take to begin to experience...
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Episode 2 - Good Faith/Bad Faith Communication
In this episode, we explore the idea that Heaven Here Now can first and foremost be created or destroyed in how we communicate with one another. Shelby and Jesse look at the differences and distinctions between Good Fatih and Bad Faith Communication based on this article from The Consilience...
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Episode 1 - Origins
In this first episode, former pastors, Jesse Dukes and Shelby Barker explore the origins of the idea of Heaven Here Now, and discuss their experiences of working in churches that operated primarily from a "Not Hell, There, Then" paradigm. They then explore how each of these shifts from "Not Hell…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to the Heaven Here Now Podcast where some former pastors and their friends talk about the radical shift that happens in life when we stop viewing heaven as something that we can only experience some day, far away, and begin to explore the possibility that heaven is something that we have the power and responsibility to create and sustain here and now. In a world where problems seem to grow bigger and more complex everyday, we love to focus on the individuals, organizations and ideas that can help us empower people to lead in love on a local level and bring about real change.
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The Gathering People
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Welcome to the Heaven Here Now Podcast where some former pastors and their friends talk about the radical shift that happens in life when we stop viewing heaven as something that we can only experience some day, far away, and begin to explore the possibility that heaven is something that we have...
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