Lifeschool 213: How to Destroy the Idols in Your Life

We all have hidden idols in our life…big and small. An idol is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, or anything you seek to give you what only God can give.

This week on the Lifeschool Podcast, we tackle the four root idols: control, approval, comfort, and power. We’ll get you started and show you how to destroy the idols in your life.

This is powerful!

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Lifeschool 212: Why Apologetics Makes For Poor Evangelism

One of the things that keep Christians from talking about their faith to their friends is the fear of sounding like a freak or being asked hard questions they can’t answer. Or they feel like they are supposed to “win” people over to their side of the discussion or they’ve failed.

This week on the Lifeschool Podcast, we’ll explain why focusing our evangelism on winning a spiritual tug-of-war is not a great approach to evangelism. In fact, apologetics often makes for poor evangelism… No one is ever really “argued” into the Kingdom!

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Lifeschool 211: Why the Church Should Throw Better Parties

Does the way we celebrate, drink and eat remind us of God’s continued blessing in our life through Christ… and show our culture what it looks like to really party and celebrate unto the Lord?

This week on the Lifeschool Podcast, we’ll show you why Christians should be the most celebratory people in the world. In every neighborhood, in every city!

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Lifeschool 210: How to Be Confident in Your Calling

People who know their calling in life seem to live with a form of built-in GPS that guides them throughout their lives. They’re focused, but there is often an ease about them. And while calling and vocation sometimes overlap, they are in fact very different things.

This week on the Lifeschool Podcast, you’ll discover how to find your personal calling and live it with more clarity and confidence. Let’s get started on your journey of discovery!

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Lifeschool 209: How to Make Faith and Life Fit Together

Many of us live with a form of spiritual schizophrenia. We live our “Christian life” primarily on Sunday, and then there’s our “regular life” lived the rest of the time.

This week on the Lifeschool Podcast, we’ll help you learn how to incorporate your faith into every area of life. To see that the Gospel really is good news for today, and help you experience a fuller, Kingdom life now.

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Lifeschool 208: Growing in Patience with God, Yourself and Others

Patience is a fruit of the Spirit, but it is often difficult to find. How many people would label you “a patient person”? The roots of impatience lead deeper than you might imagine, and the effects compound each other.

This week on the Lifeschool Podcast, we’ll look at the immediate and lifelong benefits of growing in our ability to be more patient… with God, with others, and with ourselves.

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