Episodes
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Katie Lind: Northwood Christian Church Social Media Interview
In this episode, I sit down with Katie Lind, Communications Manager at Northwood Christian Church, to explore how churches are using social media as a form of ministry. Katie shares how Northwood approaches digital communication with a “Welcome Home” mindset—helping people experience belonging...
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Anticipating Mercy: Advent 2024 "The Mercy Promised"
A sermon series for Advent at Creswell Presbyterian
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Anticipating Mercy: Advent 2024 - Week 1 "at all times praying"
Creswell Presbyterian sermon series for Advent.
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Lament with Hope
I used as a resource for crafting this reflective sermon on lament: https://www.anewliturgy.com/no-7-lament This is a great resource from Aaron Niequist, I've used the Examen liturgy for years now and this is one I will add to the rotation as well for my own personal prayer times. In my…
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Grief is the key to Hope
Sermon at Franklin Christian Church about grief.
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Hope in Conflict
Hopeful Imagination series continues as we look at the Book of Jeremiah. I really love the video resources available at thebibleproject.com and highly recommend taking a look at their Exile and how to read the Prophets and Biblical poetry videos.
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Values and Meaning
This was originally shared as a Facebook live video. These Friday reflection podcasts are going to continue being this way. What's your personal mission statement? Do you have values you want to be known for? What clutter in your life keeps you from being able to focus on creativity and leadership?
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Psalm 1 - A Hopeful Obsession
The start of a new series of sermons on the perspective of the Old Testament prophets and psalmists who had in the words of Walter Brueggemann a "Hopeful Imagination."
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Improving Leaders
This was a Facebook live video of the launch of our Improving Leaders YouTube channel. Learn more about what Improving Leaders is by visiting improving leaders.org
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New Years - Intentionality
I've preached this message before for New Years but enjoyed sharing it slightly differently with the Franklin Christian Church. Every year is a new beginning, and probably better for us than resolutions we are going to end up abandoning or feeling like we missed out or failed, what if we chose to...
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A Call to Holiness
One of the most common New Years resolutions for Christians is to start a "Read the Bible Cover to Cover in a Year" plan. And if you're anything like me getting started was fun, Genesis is captivating with big story arcs like Creation and fascinating stuff about towers, languages, floods, and…
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Advent - Gifts and Journeys
Third and final installment in the advent series at Franklin Christian Church. We talk about the Magi and the idea of presence.
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The Bible as Scripture
I've been listening to a lot of perspectives about spiritual deconstruction so I took a chance to review some resources and a book I read about the Bible as Christian Scripture. This may be a little rambl-ly but I hope it may spark some curiosity and questions you might want to explore.
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Advent Sermon - Waiting to Watching
Sermon at Franklin Christian Church on Dec 13.
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Honestly Though
A conversation about honesty. Apologies for no intro and outro music. I have an issue with my main computer system and haven't resolved it yet.
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Advent - The Second Coming
Sermon at Franklin Christian Church where I am speaking every Sunday while they wait to formalize a search for a pastor. It's a very small and rural church. I worked with my good friend Jason Swick on the theme and shared ideas back and forth for this mini series on Advent.
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Coburn family update, Advent, and the Second Coming
No time like the present to get back into the swing of things. Take a listen for the updates to the Coburn family and also some Advent thoughts I've had. Hoping to post more frequently. Would love to hear from you and do some Q/A and deal with topics and questions you are interested in! Email me...
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Day 30 - Wasting Time
We come to the end of the 30 day devotional series. I hope it hasn't been a waste of your time, my intention has been that anyone watching these would be able to say "that added value to my life." I hope the intentionality, questions, mentoring, and rhythms I've talked about has done that in some...
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Day 29 - Examen
Let's be grateful people. Reviewing our day, week, month, year, season, covid-19 Quarantine with thanksgiving and looking ahead with hope. Check out my blog for my adapted prayer of Examen guide. Link in bio.
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Day 28 - Rule of Life
You may not be familiar with the Benedictine Monastic Rule, but you probably have some rules you follow about your life. A beautiful metaphor I heard used was that of a trellis or grape arbor. We want our lives to be trained up so they produce good fruit. Check out my blog, link in bio for a more...
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Day 27 - Rest
What's one way you can lean into the Creators invitation to have a rhythm of Rest?
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Day 26 - Rhythms
What are your rhythms? Music requires a rhythm, a beat to keep time and enable the creativity and beauty of the sound and words to evoke mystery and awe. May our lives have a rhythm to it that points people to say "Thank you God."
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Day 25 - Say Thank You
We need to adopt the rhythm of saying thank you to the mentors in our lives.
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Day 24 - Fitness Test
Index cards. Goals. Accountability. Physical, Relational, and Spiritual - this is mentoring. We get to come alongside each other.
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Day 23 - Story-listening
Mentor groups center around story-telling but there's another side to the coin, we also need to be people who are good story-listeners if the stories we tell will actually change our lives and churches. Find my whole mentor groups guide on my blog, link in bio.
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Day 22 - Story-telling
Want to lead your own mentor groups at your church? These next few videos to round out the week will focus on just that. Let's be good story tellers! Check out my blog for the mentoring guide. Link in bio. valueaddconversations.com
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Day 21 - Types of Mentors
What are the three types of mentors we all need in our lives...
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Day 20 - Mutuality
Mentoring is not a “top down” approach where old mentor the young or the learned teach the inexperienced. Mentoring is a mutual endeavor, where we are all transformed by the Spirit of God found in each us.
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Day 19 - Mentoring
Who is a mentor in your life? What do we want to be learning from others? This week we'll reflect on the Fruit of the Spirit and how we can "follow the Spirit" by being intentional with the relationships we have.
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Day 18 - Good Question
"Do you love me?" Now that is a good question. Join the conversation, link in bio.
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Day 17 - Where
Where do I fit? Do I belong? Let's think through this very important question that helps us locate ourselves. Join the conversation, link in bio.
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Day 16 - When
From - "when are we going back to 'normal'" - to "when is dinner gonna be ready?" We want specifics on when things are going to take place. We like to know the date and time, even of things like our death. How does Jesus treat the when question?
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Day 15 - Who
From - "when are we going back to 'normal'" - to "when is dinner gonna be ready?" We want specifics on when things are going to take place. We like to know the date and time, even of things like our death. How does Jesus treat the when question?
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Day 14 - Why
Ask me why, one more time...Perhaps you've been annoyed by the curiosity of a child who pesters you with why questions. They are developing their brain and reasoning skills. We all could grow from asking why, just one more time.
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Day 13 - What & How
What makes a good question? How do you ask it? What are you trying to do? How will you go about it? These essential questions help ground our lives. Jesus masterfully uses what and how questions to help others reflect. I would love to hear what you think makes for a good question, comment here or...
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Day 12 - Questions
Happy Easter! Our second week is about questions. Jesus asks a lot of questions in the Gospels, join me this week as we reflect on how questions can help add value to our lives. I would love for you to add to the conversation the questions you find valuable, what are some good questions we need…
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Day 11 - Communion
What if eating and drinking was a moment of intentionality? "Do this in remembrance of me" "for when you eat this bread and drink this cup you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes." Let's be people who continue eating and drinking as we wait for the coming of our savior, Jesus.
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Day 10 - Memorization
We used to memorize a lot of things, phone numbers, addresses - then we got smartphones. What things do you still memorize? What if the things you memorized could help you pray during times when you don't know what to pray? Times like Covid-19.
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Day 9 - Listening 1.2
Learning to listen to others is great, but how do we learn to listen to God? What does cultivating humility in our relationship with God look like? Take a breath. Join the conversation, valueaddconversations.com
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Day 8 - Listening 1.1
Jesus' modeled intentionality in the virtues in his life. Possibly the most evident is that of humility. From the humble beginnings in the manger to the humble obedience throughout his life all the way to the Cross - Jesus lived humility. How do you cultivate humility in your life? Join the...
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Day 7 - Intimacy
Intentionality is about creating habits and seasons of our lives where we live into intimacy with God and our families. This means the point isn't goal setting and accomplishing our to do lists or burdening ourselves with routines, but it does mean we evaluate and reflect on practices and habits...
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Day 6 - Markers
Joshua and the people of Israel were getting ready to ford the river Jordan...what lay ahead was a lot of difficult tasks. During this season we can feel overwhelmed by what lays ahead, even just waking up is something we must "conquer." Living with intentionality doesn't mean we win every battle...
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Day 5 - Intentionality
The first conversation is INTENTIONALITY. There is no such thing as a “normal” day, week, year. The important in our lives is constantly at risk of being crowded out by the immediate. Intentionality acknowledges this tension and realizes grand goal making can leave us beaten down and discouraged...
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Day 4 - Anticipation
An introductory week to my 30 day devotional series. This first week I look at lent and the disruptive nature of Covid-19. Then in the next four weeks we look at 1. Intentionality, 2. Questions, 3. Mentoring, 4. Rhythms as key conversations that add value to our life. Add to the conversation at...
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Day 3 - Value Add
An introductory week to my 30 day devotional series. This first week I look at lent and the disruptive nature of Covid-19. Then in the next four weeks we look at 1. Intentionality, 2. Questions, 3. Mentoring, 4. Rhythms as key conversations that add value to our life. Add to the conversation at...
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Day 2 - Failure
An introductory week to my 30 day devotional series. This first week I look at lent and the disruptive nature of Covid-19. Then in the next four weeks we look at 1. Intentionality, 2. Questions, 3. Mentoring, 4. Rhythms as key conversations that add value to our life. Add to the conversation by...
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Day 1 - Lent
An introductory week to my 30 day devotional series. This first week I look at lent and the disruptive nature of Covid-19. Then in the next four weeks we look at 1. Intentionality, 2. Questions, 3. Mentoring, 4. Rhythms as key conversations that add value to our life.
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Introduction to 30 Day Devotional Series
An introductory podcast to my April 2020 30 Day Devotional. We'll talk through four conversations: 1. Intentionality, 2. Questions, 3. Mentoring, 4. Rhythms throughout the month of April. Each week I'll share a passage of Scripture with you and walk through a 5-8 min devotional. Connect with me…
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Visual Leadership
Guest host Larry Coburn guides a fun father & son conversation with Lars about leadership.
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Ephesians Session 1 - What is theology?
In this part one of a four part mini-series on Ephesians Lars shares some insights on reading the Bible, doing theology, interpretation, and wisdom. Lars looks at three key aspects of interpretation: 1) asking good questions, 2) using good tools, 3) and making wise application.
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