Breathing In Christ

More and more of us find ourselves dangerously tired and burnt out. Jesus offers an alternate path. Deacon Marsha Roscoe explores Ruth Haley Barton's book resources which have shaped her ability to slow down and make space for solitude with God.

Deacon Marsha Roscoe interviews the Rev. Dr. Gary Neal Hansen, author of Kneeling with the Giants, to explore how Christian theology, spirituality, and community are food for our faith journey.

The winter months can be long and hard for many. In this episode, Deacon Marsha Roscoe shares personal insights that might help others navigate the SAD season.

Are you tired? Worn out? At the end of your rope? Jesus' invitation to replace weariness and exhaustion with rest for our souls is only a breath away. Keeping our eyes on the sacred - the holy - is a spiritual practice. What dry bones in your life need a breath of fresh air, a burst of new life from the Spirit?

Jamie Kopinetz has served the community as a police officer for more than 20 years. In this vulnerable interview, learn how his relationship with God shapes the way he loves and leads.

God's promises and actions are often far greater than anything we might desire. Reflecting on the Walk to Emmaus, Deacon Marsha Roscoe invites us to notice how, through the ongoing gift of the resurrection, God sends the Jesus we need, more than the Jesus we want.

Deacon Marsha Roscoe and Dr. Kristen Albert, President of Turning Points, explore the importance of trauma awareness and better understanding how trauma shows up in our bodies.

Deacon Marsha Roscoe interviews Gregory Kratzer, a high school history teacher and philosophy enthusiast, about the spiritual power of habit.

Deacon Marsha Roscoe invites us to consider Christ-minded intention setting as guiding principles for how we want to be, live, and show up in the world.

As a result of her time in Costa Rica, Christian minimalist, author, blogger, and Lost Resort reality TV show cast member Pastor Becca Ehrlich reflects on her self-discovery experiences and post-retreat healing.

Focusing on forgiveness, one of the most difficult teachings in the New Testament, Marsha shares how forgiveness touches the rawest part of our lives and is where we need Jesus the most.

Marsha shares how the Breathing in Christ wholeness journey set to launch in October, 2020, is a 12-month transformational experience empowered by God’s divine design. Guiding communities in discovering the deepest calling that transforms God’s potential, together we learn, practice, grow and become God’s truest nature in our lives. Learn more about this experience at https://www.breathinginchrist.com/wholeness/.

Christian minimalist, author, blogger, and Lost Resort reality TV show cast member Pastor Becca Ehrlich pauses mid-season to share how chronic illness, the death of her son, and her faith led her to Costa Rica on a journey of self-discovery. Photo Credit: FELICIA GRAHAM/TBS

Inspired by Roger Joslin’s book, Running the Spiritual Path (2004), Marsha shares the surprising gifts in running as a spiritual discipline, including finding God as the pacer in our lives.

In this podcast, Marsha explores the relationship between God as creator and us as creation.

Marsha Roscoe wrestles with the deep lamenting and despair of the injustices all around and invites us to consider what God is doing in these moments and how we are called to respond. In this podcast, she also announces the July Breathing in Christ book study is Austin Channing Brown’s I’m Still Here.

Pastor Matthew Best, serving St. Stephen New Kingstown, shares how his walk with Jesus embodies all four of the spiritual types: earth, water, air and fire.

Lutheran Pastor Elaine Dent and Lutheran leader Jennifer Lau explore their faith practices through the lens of the air spiritual type.

Mother Barbara Hutchinson, rector at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Shippensburg, PA, passionately shares how exploring her spiritual type deepens her awareness and attentiveness to God’s presence.

Newest Breathing in Christ team member Ashley Moss shares how her in-the-moment God experiences, service to others and relationships reflect the water spiritual type.

Charlie Roberts, Lower Susquehanna Synod Director of Faith Formation and Youth Ministry, shares how his personal and communal rhythms embody the fire and water spirituality types, especially during this season. For those desiring to support mission and ministry in Lower Susquehanna Synod, donations can be made online at lss-elca.org

Deacon Marsha Roscoe interviews Lower Susquehanna Synod Bishop James S. Dunlop about his faith life from the perspective of the earth spiritual type.

About Breathing In Christ

As the second podcast in the Spirituality Types series, learn how earth, water, air and fire more intimately connect us to God.

In this third and final Practicing Forward podcast episode, Host Marsha Roscoe interviews Rev. Gina Campbell about the deep connection between play and our imagination at work and how the relationship between play and anxiety affect our thinking.

In this second episode in the Stevenson School for Ministry’s new podcast series, Practicing Forward, Marsha Roscoe interviews Gina Campbell to explore how the use of language affects our brain’s ability to move forward, even under duress.

In this new podcast series from the Stevenson School for Ministry, Marsha Roscoe hosts Gina Campbell in a conversation about what it means to be practicing forward as resilient and adaptable leaders in the church. In this first episode, Rev. Dr. Gina Campbell invites church leaders to think about lament as a threshold to hope.

Liminal space provides an opportunity for God to do something new. How we transition during this time is the difference between stress and growing in Christ. When we employ basic spiritual self-care rhythms, we invite our whole selves to live into God’s grace with freedom and ease.

Anxiety is one of the most contagious emotions we experience. How we respond to anxiety either draws God closer or pushes God away. Reflecting on Jesus and anxiety, we are invited to remember that God’s rescue mission is made possible through the cross of Christ.

In this practice of imaginative prayer, you are invited to encounter God’s story from Mark 10:46-52 as if you are really there.

By discovering your spirituality typology, Marsha invites you to replace fear and insecurity with a better understanding of how you conceptualize and experience God. The spiritual type assessment and descriptions can be found online at www.breathinginchrist.com.

Our lives depend on breathing; yet, many of us we were never taught how to breathe properly. In this brief Podcast, Marsha shares how to actively engage in breathing that positively influences our bodies.

This simple practice which can be experienced outside or indoors uses Psalm 1:3 as a noticing breath prayer to deepen our roots in Christ.

We are what we love; and we just may not love what we think. To love like Jesus loves calls us to examine our behaviors and beliefs because what we believe shapes our practices and rhythms of life. Breathing in Christ helps you examine what you love and how you live.

Too often we wait until we have a breakdown to summon God into the messy places of our lives. What one aspect of your life do you desire God’s inspiration? This meditation invites you to experience the heart of inspiration through God’s creative breath.

Using Scripture to help make sense of our basic human desires and needs, Marsha calls us to an intentional life of loving God deeper starting with our next breath. As founder of Breathing in Christ, Deacon Marsha Roscoe is an ordained minister, writer, speaker, spiritual director, retreat guide and spiritual growth consultant.  Visit www.breathinginchrist.com for more information.

In this short meditation, you are invited to notice how your body is feeling and encouraged to pay attention to proper breathing habits. By inhaling the gifts of God’s creation, you can connect to Jesus one breath at a time.