Dwellings Podcast

In this episode, Christy Nockels tells us how, after years in the Passion Band and as the band Watermark, she has learned to experience his presence in the ordinary moments just as she has on the largest of stages. Christy gives us ways to posture ourselves when God seems far away: confession and consecration. She also tells us of a time when a song felt particularly consecrated to Jesus, and how she - and many others - experienced a special moment together as a result. This song was Knees to the Earth, and since Christy just released a new version of the song, listen for it at the end of this episode. If you would like to become a Dwellings Partner through a one-time or monthly gift, you can sign up today here:  https://www.dwellings.info/give Want to meet friends on this journey? Join our Dwellings Community Facebook group. There you can share your ideas, and hear from other, about how to cultivate communities around the presence of Jesus… right where you are. https://www.facebook.com/share/qQJKTJiRexz4KhUu/?mibextid=K35XfP Join our newsletter here: https://dwellings.info/connec If you want to get in touch with us, you can email us at info@dwellings.info

Bill has been a champion of revival and awakening for decades, especially after he led his own church through 19 days and nights of prayer and worship. Bill talks about the issues we have in seeking experiences instead of Jesus himself, but also the issues if we avoid emotion and experience altogether. Bill will encourage you to open your eyes to all God is doing in our unique time and places, and thinks we could be on the verge of seeing a great move of God in our day. You can find Bill's book here: https://a.co/d/dP6gSDc If you would like to become a Dwellings Partner through a one-time or monthly gift, you can sign up today here:  https://www.dwellings.info/give Want to meet friends on this journey? Join our Dwellings Community Facebook group. There you can share your ideas, and hear from other, about how to cultivate communities around the presence of Jesus… right where you are. https://www.facebook.com/share/qQJKTJiRexz4KhUu/?mibextid=K35XfP Join our newsletter here: https://dwellings.info/connec If you want to get in touch with us, you can email us at info@dwellings.info

Roy and Daphne Godwin decided to do things differently as they led a prayer retreat center for years in Western Wales called Flald-y-Brenin. As people arrived, they pulled back from programming and even teaching as their all-consuming goals became introducing people to the presence of Jesus. Learn how the Godwins learned to simply make space for his presence, and hear some stories about how people's lives were subsequently changed. It takes humility to remove ourselves from the picture, and it takes faith to rely on God to show up as we make space for him. Be challenged to do the same in your community as you hear the Godwins' story. The Grace Outpouring: Becoming a People of Blessing: https://a.co/d/bSnHtq2 If you would like to become a Dwellings Partner through a one-time or monthly gift, you can sign up today here:  https://www.dwellings.info/give Want to meet friends on this journey? Join our Dwellings Community Facebook group. There you can share your ideas, and hear from other, about how to cultivate communities around the presence of Jesus… right where you are. https://www.facebook.com/share/qQJKTJiRexz4KhUu/?mibextid=K35XfP Join our newsletter here: https://dwellings.info/connec If you want to get in touch with us, you can email us at info@dwellings.info

As the chapel speaker before the Asbury Outpouring last year, Zach shares with us about the days and weeks leading up to the revival, the consecration room that was vitally important behind the scenes, the desire to propel the leadership of Gen Z above celebrity, and the role that humility prays as we seek the presence of God. -- If you would like to become a Dwellings Partner through a one-time or monthly gift, you can sign up today here:  https://www.dwellings.info/give Want to meet friends on this journey? Join our Dwellings Community Facebook group. There you can share your ideas, and hear from other, about how to cultivate communities around the presence of Jesus… right where you are. https://www.facebook.com/share/qQJKTJiRexz4KhUu/?mibextid=K35XfP Join our newsletter here: https://dwellings.info/connec If you want to get in touch with us, you can email us at info@dwellings.info

In this episode, Kathryn and David briefly talk about the tendencies we have to operate in our own power, ignoring the fact that he is here and wants to lead the way.  Join our conversation around what it looks like to start with yourself, asking Jesus to be real in your life again. Awakening typically starts when just a few people begin to confess their sins, get right with God again, and invite him in new ways into thier lives and communities.  You'll hear about how this happened years ago on a small island called the Island of Lewis, as we pray that we could experience a similar move of God in our communities today. If you would like to become a Dwellings Partner through a one-time or monthly gift, you can sign up today here:  https://www.dwellings.info/give Want to meet friends on this journey? Join our Dwellings Community Facebook group. There you can share your ideas, and hear from other, about how to cultivate communities around the presence of Jesus… right where you are. https://www.facebook.com/share/qQJKTJiRexz4KhUu/?mibextid=K35XfP Join our newsletter here: https://dwellings.info/connec If you want to get in touch with us, you can email us at info@dwellings.info

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This episode gives you a glance behind the scenes to our one of our online gatherings of the Dwellings Cohort. Francis Chan is the bestselling author of Crazy Love, Forgotten God, and Letters to the Church, and leads a house church movement in San Francisco. He inspires us all with his recent growing appetite to devour the Scriptures, reminding us that a reading of the Word of God from an unskilled orator might just change us more than any carefully crafted sermon that didn't center on Scripture. He goes on to answer some questions from cohort participants such as: How should we invite the participation of people that are more reserved? When we talk about everyone participating, where does leadership come into play? And how do smaller communities multiply well?  You don't want to miss this inspiring conversation. Join the interest list for the 2024-2025 Dwellings Cohort: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKelMl-Yt99SADacTbdF0LuUpLJ17yR-9fF0lEafLuhiJj4Q/viewform -- The Dwellings Podcast is only possible because of the generous partnership of people like you.  If you would like to become a Dwellings Partner through a one-time or monthly gift, you can sign up today here: https://dwellings.info/give. We are constantly releasing new resources. The Dwellings App is the best place to be kept up to date on all of our new resources. You can download our app today by following this link: https://dwellings.info/app Join our newsletter here: https://dwellings.info/connect If you want to get in touch with us, you can email us at info@dwellings.info

Dwellings' Content Developer Sarah Wood has a background in both ministry and education and finds the crossroads between the two to be an interesting subject for our time in the Church.  On this week's episode, Sarah tells us about Jesus's conversational style of teaching his disciples and how it challenges our models of discipleship today. Do you know how many curiosity-provoking questions he asked them? Little of Jesus's time with them involved preaching sermons.  Also see how conversational learning relates to trends we are seeing in the field of education. We have much to learn and it's a great time to explore how we might grow as we move from monologue to dialogue in our discipleship Download the Dwellings Scripture guide here: https://dwellings.info/guides -- The Dwellings Podcast is only possible because of the generous partnership of people like you. If you would like to become a Dwellings Partner through a one-time or monthly gift, you can sign up today here: https://dwellings.info/give We are constantly releasing new resources. The Dwellings App is the best place to be kept up to date on all of our new resources. You can download our app today by following this link: https://dwellings.info/app Join our newsletter here: https://dwellings.info/connect If you want to get in touch with us, you can email us at info@dwellings.info

Ryan Skoog of Minneapolis, head of Venture, tells us about his ministry abroad and in the US, and his increasing passion to create replicable forms of discipleship.  Hear Ryan talk about where he is seeing the most response to the house church movement in the US, how he is inspired to form international communities in his hometown after visiting Nepal, and the transition he has made overseas as he supports pastors in the most unreached parts of the world. -- The Dwellings Podcast is only possible because of the generous partnership of people like you. If you would like to become a Dwellings Partner through a one-time or monthly gift, you can sign up today here: https://dwellings.info/give We are constantly releasing new resources. The Dwellings App is the best place to be kept up to date on all of our new resources. You can download our app today by following this link: https://dwellings.info/app Join our newsletter here: https://dwellings.info/connect If you want to get in touch with us, you can email us at info@dwellings.info

Kathryn opens up a conversation around the third shift we are making in our discipleship: from spectators to participants. In an era where our discipleship forms have often centered around a stage or a video, it's interesting to look back at Jesus's way with his disciples. He was the ultimate Rabbi, (teacher) but his teaching was different because it invited participation. He invited his disciples into conversation, asking over 300 questions, and he invited them into practicing their faith... involving them in active miracles, a life of prayer, and more. How could we begin to go back to not only his way, but the way of the early church, and invite participation in new ways?