GARDEN CHURCH Podcast

There is a heaviness in the air at Garden Church, and it has been felt in our relationships, workplaces, and our homes. Pastor Darren took a break from our Emotionally Healthy Church series to address the spiritual warfare that our church has been feeling. There is a lot of uncertainty when it comes to the spiritual battles that we are constantly facing, and we are thankful for our Pastor equipping us to move on and fight!

What happens when we believe that we can transform lives, renew cities, preach the gospel, bring forth the kingdom, reign in heaven on earth on our own? Disaster. When left to our own devices humanity can and will run itself into the ground. It is because on our own we aren't enough. You are not enough, but Jesus is. How can we learn to root our identities in Christ, so that we may bring life? Listen as our friend, Megan Fate Marshman, walks us through the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand and how Jesus teaches us to lean into him when we don't have enough.

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No one is perfect. While most people believe that, we still put on a perfect version of ourselves out into the world so that people can't see our flaws. However, just because we avoid our brokenness doesn't mean it stops existing. It is our brokenness that will corrupt us from the inside out unless it's brought to light so that it may be exposed. Pastor Bill continues our Emotionally Healthy Spirituality series by teaching us the necessity of "living in brokenness and vulnerability," in order to live a life that thrives through the boasting of weaknesses.

Pastor Bill continues our series "Emotionally Healthy Spirituality" by talking about "generational sins." It doesn't matter if we come from a healthy or a dysfunctional family, but we adopt sins from our families. Jesus gives a model on how to be emotionally healthy apart from our family of origin, but it doesn't come from ignoring our upbringing, but allowing God to redeem it.

We are not just a body, nor are we just a spirit. We are souls, a product of both spirit and body. Each soul is made of five parts: spiritual, social, intellectual, physical, and emotional. This is a core understanding as Pastor Bill begins our newest series, Practicing the Way of Jesus: Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, which focuses on the emotional aspect of being truly human. As he pulls from Pete Scazerro's book Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Bill teaches us the necessity of truly dealing with our emotions and the journey of connecting them to our behavior. Once we look beneath the surface, we can then take the next step in our discipleship with Jesus.

How does it look like for disciples of Jesus to live in the 21st century? We can easily burn out trying to keep up with the Joneses and lose our identities as children of God in the midst of it. Guest Speaker, Dave Lomas, teaches us how we can match our hearts and minds to Jesus by just leaning back. This is a key journey for us to take so that we can take the essential steps to be with Jesus, to become like Jesus, and do what Jesus did.

t is getting more and more difficult to be a follower of Jesus in our current culture. The system that we are currently living in is designed for disciples to fail. If left unchecked, we can easily get overwhelmed and discouraged to even continue down the path to holiness, spiritual maturity, and purity. Listen as Pastor Darren gives us a call to respond to this time by praying and fasting.

Out of all of Jesus' ministry, the disciples asked Jesus to teach them one thing, "teach us to pray." The church has identified this teaching as the Lord's Prayer. Pastor Darren began an analysis of the Lord's Prayer last week and was joined by Michael Petrila this week as they co-taught the rest of the Lord's Prayer. We learned why it is so important to adopt the template that Jesus lays out, and how it not only forms our prayer life but it forms our spiritual journey with God.

Pastor Darren continues our series Practicing the Way of Jesus: Prayer by dissecting the Lord’s Prayer. The more we understand the template of the Lord’s Prayer, the more vibrant our prayer lives will be. Join us as we dive into prayer, in order to get to know the heart of the Father.