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Our Crazy Bivocational Lifestyle

There are more and more people interested in bi-vocational ministry these days. And more reasons that people want and even need to be involved in jobs that go hand in hand with their vocational ministry.

In this episode, Caesar and his wife Tina share their incredible 30+ years of doing full-time ministry while starting and running dozens of businesses and other non-profit ministries. Their story will encourage anyone who is considering alternative ways to do ministry and pay the bills at the same time!

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

How to find flexibility and freedom to do what God is calling you to.
How Caesar and Tina combined ministry and business with family life.
The benefits and challenges of working bi-vocationally.
Why our identity is NOT attached to our title or specific job.

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Halloween: Your Neighborhood Mission

Halloween has some “dark history”, and many of us were taught that this was a holiday you were supposed to avoid if you’re a Christian. But the truth behind this annual event may surprise you. There’s no reason to miss out on this HUGE chance to bring redemption to your neighborhood.

In this episode, Caesar shares a classic and informative conversation he had a while back with Heath Hollensbe, as they discuss the amazing opportunity that our current cultural experience of Halloween provides as we live on mission and make disciples.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

The history of Halloween and how the Church may have actually invented it.
How the Gospel redeems culture instead of avoiding it.
Why Christians can and should participate with radical generosity.
7 ideas on ways to be more intentional and missional this year.

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Grief According to the Gospel

Throughout scripture, we see that God, magnified in the life of Jesus, grieves. He grieves sin and the effects of sin on humanity and our relationships. Created in God’s image, experiencing grief is part of what makes us human. But not all of us understand how to grieve and help others in their grief.

In this episode, Caesar shows how the Gospel speaks to our grief and why God has given us a wide range of emotions to draw us closer to him. If we’ll let him.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

The reasons for God’s grief and our own.
Why grief is not only connected to death.
Why our goal is not to make grief smaller or get past it quicker.
The 5 Stages of Grief and how the Gospel speaks to each.

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Holistic Discipleship: The Gospel In Everything

Discipleship involves caring for the whole life of a person. How we steward our time, jobs, money, relationships, entertainment, health, and body etc. can all be transformed by the Gospel for God’s glory. Not just the “spiritual” things.

In this episode, Caesar shows how the Gospel speaks to and transforms ALL of life, and why our disciple-making must and can be holistic. He also uncovers the reasons why our discipleship is not as holistic as it could be.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

The commitment Jesus had to developing his disciples holistically.
7 areas of life we can apply the Gospel to in our disciple making.
What keeps us from being more holistic disciple-makers.
Ways to begin having a much broader view in all of this.

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It’s Time For The Church To Tell a New Story

If we are serious about changing the culture within the church, then we must begin to change the narrative that leaders tell. If the only stories we are telling through social media are who is preaching, what you’re preaching, and how amazing everything was on Sunday, then we will continue to get and BE what we continue to highlight.

In this episode, Caesar is joined by author and missional strategist, Brad Brisco. They discuss how the types of stories we’re commonly telling about our churches are having damaging consequences. It’s time to change all that!

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

How silly our stories about our church sound and look online.
How many of our stories betray a deep sense of consumerism.
Why changing the narratives we tell will reshape the Church itself.
Ways to discover and discern what God is already doing, and then tell those stories.

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Experiencing Spiritual Disciplines In Everyday Life

Making mature disciples of Jesus includes passing on healthy spiritual disciplines… life-giving, gospel-reminding practices and rhythms. Yet you won’t find a passage in scripture that gives a list of spiritual disciplines listed.

In this episode, Caesar will explode your understanding of what spiritual disciplines are, and show you how they can be woven into the rhythms of your normal, everyday life.

In This Episode You’ll Learn: