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While we may not care for a life of obedience, Jesus demonstrates the reward that comes when surrender is part of our lifestyle. For further reading see Mark 1:11, Matthew 17:5, Luke 23:34,46, Matthew 26:39, John 17, and John 15

When we feel it easier to hide the Father comes out of His compassion to renew us and make us whole.

This is the beginning of a look at compassion. First, we define it. In later episodes, we will explore compassion as demonstrated by the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Love thy neighbor. Love God. Love be another as I have loved you. The Bible is full of these simple commands to love but what if our time and culture has used this word”love” so much we really have no idea what love truly means.

Initiated by the Gospel of Luke, we enter into the leveled field of care and compassion that Jesus reveals to us as our God-given image. Through prayer, Jesus learns, understands, and gives action to the will of the Father. Through prayer, we too can learn to yield our own ways for the ways of Jesus.

Are we spending our time telling God in one way or another we just don't want to hang around Him? In this episode, God teaches me the special nature of my relationship with Him through the relationship I have with my children.

In this craze of finding purpose and meaning in the things we do, we are called out of activity to simply "be." This is a statement to me, as much as others, that I need to stop and breathe, being present with the God who is present in me. This requires of me a slowing down that our world resists regularly but that is vital to all aspects of life.

It's 2021 and that means looking at all things new... but this is hardly new. A return to the image we were originally created is the best way to ward off all the trends out there vying for our attention, but what is this original image and how do we embrace it, possibly for the first time?

The last in this short series - this is a call to continue your gifts discovery with more in-depth resources for the sake of the Kingdom. God desires to work with us in ushering in the new Kingdom and has thus empowered us. Listeners are encouraged to visit www.fivefoldsurvey.com to take a free APEST assessment.

The last of the gifts in this series we take a look at the passions of the teacher and how this gift can both build and seclude a church body in their maturing process. We find in this, that the gift of teacher is a necessity and for good reason.

A brief look at a familiar image, the Good Shepherd as embraced by people within the spiritual community. Often seen as a gentle nurturer, there is much more to the Shepherd and the strength that this gift brings to the entire Body.

More than just your street corner proclaimer - the evangelist brings a particular life to the body of Christ as the recruiters to the Good News of God! Often misunderstood, it is of great value to explore in this brief moment, some of the heart behind the evangelist and how this gift edifies the rest of the Body of Christ.

Using materials from Alan Hirsch as a guide this is a brief introduction of the nature and role of the prophetic gift as given by Christ to His church body.

Utilizing the work of Alan Hirsch, this is a brief description of the nature and pull of the apostolic gift. The purpose of these few minutes is to introduce one of the fivefold gifts given by Christ to His church body.

The APEST is hardly new. God designed creation to work through these specific traits all of which are first and perfectly demonstrated in Jesus. We begin our look at the gifts of apostle, prophet, evangelist, shepherd, and teacher with Jesus, in hopes of laying a foundation for understanding how these same gifts are present in each of us in a very God-specific design.

An introduction to the five-fold gifts as identified in Ephesians 4:11. To be formed by Christ as a mature body that can serve, speak, and most importantly listen for God's will, presence, and guidance, we have been given by Jesus Himself five gifts. These have been well studied but not well utilized by the church body - and thus unity seems more and more impossible today. Through Christ Jesus as our primary instructor, though, along with some help from theologians like Alan Hirsch (5Q) and Mark Sayers (Reappearing Church) we can begin to learn, recurve, and equip ourselves to be one as the Father, Son, and Spirit are One. This is the beginning of an exploratory series of the 5Q... the APEST.Intro Music: Bethel, Without Words, "Angels." 2013