Define the Relationship Podcast – Seeds Church

Episode 012 – Part Seven – Transition and Goodbyes Ted and Darlene sign-off with a conversation with the new Lead Team Leader, Jonathan Toews, and they say their farewells to the Seeds Community.

Episode 011 – “Critical Questions and Critical Events” Part Six 2020 to Present In Part Six- Ted and Darlene Enns-Dyck wrap up the final era of Seeds church, discussing the importance of Seeds organizational clarity around Patrick Lencioni's 6 Critical Questions and the significance of the Covid Years. Patrick Lencioni's book on 6 Critical Questions....

Episode 010 “I Could Sing…Forever?” Part Five Bonus Content with Rick Heppner Mueller This is bonus content for Part Five – 2015 to 2020 In this conversation with Rick Heppner Mueller as we discuss his experience as a long time Worship Music leader at Seeds and the development of the Worship Music culture at Seeds...

Episode 009 – “Opening and Extending the Table” Part Five – 2015 to 2020 In Part Five – Ted and Darlene Enns-Dyck think back to the period of 2015 to 2020 to discuss the significant moments in Seeds Church life. Syrian Refugee Welcome in Altona Manitoba a Globe and Mail report.    • ‘God has compensated me': Manitoba to…   Love is an...

Episode 008 – “Karl, Lester and Cell Groups” Part Four Bonus Content with Kevin and Jackie Nickel This is bonus content for Part Four – 2010 to 2015 In this conversation with Kevin and Jackie Nickel we discuss their experience as long time Cell Group leaders and Kevin's involvement in drama and the Seeds Christmas services.

In Part Four- Ted and Darlene Enns-Dyck think back to the period of 2010 to 2015 to discuss the importance of Soul Care and the Enneagram in the life of Seeds Church.

“Expanding Our Worldview” Bonus Content for Part Three – The Seeds Story: A Memoir This is Bonus content for Part Three – 2005 – 2010. In this conversation with Ray Loewen as we talk about the emergence of Build A Village. Build A Village presently works with the sponsorship and support of refugees as they settle in the Altona area.

Episode 005 – Rummage Sale Churching Part Three – Twenty Five Years: Seeds Church a Memoir In Part Three – Ted and Darlene Enns-Dyck think back to the period of 2005 to 2010 and discuss the interesting experimentation that happened as Seeds Church emerged in the beginnings of the 21st century. https://www.amazon.ca/Great-Emergence…

Episode 004 – “Doing Hard Things” Part Two – Bonus Content – A Conversation with Robin Doerksen Welcome to a new Special Edition of the Define the Relationship Podcast a...

Episode 003 – “Were We Deconstructing” The Seeds Story – Part Two – 2000 to 2005 Welcome to a new Special Edition of the Define the Relationship Podcast a Seeds...

Twenty Five Years: The Seeds Story – A Memoir – “At the North Pole” Bonus Content for Part One In this companion conversation to Part One, we sit down with...

Welcome to a new Special Edition of the Define the Relationship Podcast a Seeds Church production. Join us on this multipart journey of chronicling the history of Seeds of Life...

The Define the Relationship Podcast is back for its fourth season of conversation with Ted and Darlene but with a twist. For the next 6 weeks, our podcasts will be preparation and resource for the in person course Healing Haunted Histories: Doing the work of Settler-Indigenous Reconciliation.

The Define the Relationship Podcast is back for its fourth season of conversation with Ted and Darlene but with a twist. For the next 6 weeks, our podcasts will be preparation and resource for the in person course Healing Haunted Histories: Doing the work of Settler-Indigenous Reconciliation. This week focuses on the prep work for...

The Define the Relationship Podcast is back for its fourth season of conversation with Ted and Darlene but with a twist. For the next 6 weeks, our podcasts will be preparation and resource for the in person course Healing Haunted Histories: Doing the work of Settler-Indigenous Reconciliation. This week focuses on the prep work for...

The Define the Relationship Podcast is back for its fourth season of conversation with Ted and Darlene but with a twist. For the next 6 weeks, our podcasts will be preparation and resource for the in person course Healing Haunted Histories: Doing the work of Settler-Indigenous Reconciliation. This week focuses on the prep work for...

The Define the Relationship Podcast is back for its fourth season of conversation with Ted and Darlene but with a twist. For the next 6 weeks, our podcasts will be preparation and resource for the in person course Healing Haunted Histories: Doing the work of Settler-Indigenous Reconciliation. This week focuses on the prep work for...

The Define the Relationship Podcast is back for its fourth season of conversation with Ted and Darlene but with a twist. For the next 6 weeks, our podcasts will be preparation and resource for the in person course Healing Haunted Histories: Doing the work of Settler-Indigenous Reconciliation. This week we kick things off with a...

The Define the Relationship Podcast is back for a third season of conversation with Ted and Darlene. This week we go a little further into our Reconstructing Church series with a conversation on being an Open Church. In the podcast Darlene and Ted refer to his past Sunday's Worship Service and a TedxTalk on Polarities....

The Define the Relationship Podcast is back for a third season of conversation with Ted and Darlene. This week we go a little further into our Reconstructing Church series with a conversation on being a Open

This week's podcast, will hopefully serve to prepare you for our upcoming Worship Service and Congregational Meeting on February 13 @ 10:45am and provide a fuller background on our history surrounding LGBTQ+ inclusion at Seeds. Our regular hosts Darlene and Ted our joined by special guest t Joan Funk, who served on the Seeds Leadership...

On today's podcast Darlene and Ted are joined by pastor, activist and author Melissa Florer-Bixler to explore her new book How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger & The Work of Peace. Melissa is the pastor of Raleigh Mennonite Church, and a graduate of Duke University and Princeton Theological Seminary. She spent times studying in...

On today's episode of Define the Relationship Podcast, Ted and Darlene are joined by Erin Funk Wieler. Erin is responsible for giving direction to how we integrated children into the life of Seeds and how we are working to support parents in raising their children. Listen right to the end to get a short blooper...

It's been a few months, but the podcast is back in business, and it seems like we are starting a new season of Defining our Relationship to the Bible, but also to issues and to how we are doing church at Seeds. This week join Dar and Ted as they go back and forth on...

Would a good God, set things up so that only some would go to heaven and many others would be lost to an eternal hell? And what about Beauty, Truth and Justice? Will anything ever change? Will the brokenness of our world ever be healed. This week Ted and Dar delve into the ultimate end...

Have you ever asked the question, “What's the point of Christianity anyway? Can't I just be a good person?” In today's episode Darlene shares some reflections on how Plato and Simone Weil defined the “good” and how it connects to God and Jesus Christ. Enjoy.

So many good questions were asked this past Sunday at our Zoom Congregational Meeting, we decided to take some time to answer them in the form of a podcast. Again this will be a diversion from our regular podcast topics and if you are not a part of the Seeds Church community or the Altona...

This week on the Define the Relationship podcast we break away from our Reconstruction series, to update you on the Next20 process we initiated at Seeds to celebrate our 20th birthday. Covid19 has made so much of our life difficult to manage, and it has been no different with this visioning process. Despite that, we...

This week, we realize that there is more to say about Reconstructing our understanding of salvation. Buckle your seat belts as Ted gives us a quick tour of how Christians have understood the answer to the question, “How does Jesus Save?” For a more thorough understanding of these issues, we encourage you to pick up...

Are you saved? What does that even mean? Is it a gotcha question, or is it a gateway into an important conversation about how our relationship to Jesus and God, is about our need for some kind of rescue. Join Ted and Darlene as they try to unpack the fuller meaning of salvation and ask...

After a hiatus, Ted and Darlene are back into the move from Deconstruction to Reconstruction. So many places we could start God, salvation, sin, the environment, but today we begin with what it means to be the church. The pandemic has forced our faith community to rethink what it means to be the church when...

It's Pete Enns week on the podcast. Join us for an in depth conversation on how we can approach the Bible in a more helpful and authentic way. In biblical fashion, we spent quite a bit of time discussing genealogies and trying to locate Pete as a long-lost Mennonite and nearly had the conversation derailed...

This week we are doing something a little different, although it is something we have been thinking about doing for a long time. Many of us remember the Zuniga Ambriz family of Maria, Miguel, Miguel Jr., Francisco and Esperanza. Just over 2 years ago, this family was forced to leave Canada while their immigration situation...

This week we get the journey of reconstruction going by spending some time on preliminary preparations. What are the tools and resources we want to bring on this journey? Ted and Dar recently walked a long journey on the Way of St. James. This is what they packed for that journey.

Today, we begin a multi part series on the process of moving from Deconstruction to Reconstruction in our Faith. How is deconstruction actually a creative process? How do we move forward or beyond our deconstruction mode? We are really hoping that you will take the time to interact with our question. What are your Top...

Its been exactly 8 months since we began the Define the Relationship podcast and today we release the 20th episode. If you are into statistics, that means we have released an episode approximately once every 10 days. In today's episode we continue our reflections on 2020, as Ted gives his perspective on 2020 and learnings...

A New Year, but we aren't done talking about the last one. Join Ted and Darlene over the next two weeks as they share some personal reflections on where we have been and difference it makes for our faith relationship. Enjoy.

In today's episode of Define the Relationship podcast, we have a special guest Jason Byassee, who teaches preaching and biblical interpretation at the Vancouver School of Theology. Jason has recently written a book called Suprised by Jesus Again: Reading the Bible in Communion with the Saints, which is an invitation for Jesus followers to revisit...

Our corporate and cell group gatherings are on pause as we contend with a provincial Code Red designation, but we continue our series on What's so Real about Jesus? – Lover. Join Darlene and Ted as they discuss, the reality of Jesus the lover.

We continue our deeper dive into who Jesus is and how his reality impacts us and our faith.

Its been a while since we last recorded a podcast. We have finished up our conversation with Pete Enns' book How the Bible Actually Works and we are patiently waiting for the opportunity to interview Pete Enns. (Yes, its going to happen but not until late November.) Moving forward, we are going to switch our...

“Christians today, living when and where we are, have no choice but to be intentional in following the Bible and the entire history of Christianity in accepting the sacred responsibility to ask how we can talk about God in a way that is both connected to the tradition and meaningful for today. It is most...

“As one of my seminary professors said, “Reading the New Testament is like reading someone else's mail.” That might be the most valuable thing I ever learned in seminary. And now I pass it on to you, at a far lower cost.” Enns, Peter. How the Bible Actually Works (p. 254) On today's episode we...

We are back continuing our deep dive into the book How The Bible Actually Works by Pete Enns.  Dive in.

“The early followers of Jesus, though they too engaged the tradition creatively, did so for a very different reason—not because of God's apparent abandonment, but because of God's unexpected, counterintuitive presence, namely, in Jesus of Nazareth, a crucified Messiah.” Enns, Peter. How the Bible Actually Works This week we are back to Chapters 10 and...

“And so we are back to our paradox: to maintain any tradition, you need to hold on to some aspects of the past while at the same time thinking creatively about how the past and the present can meet—reimagining the faith, as I've been putting it. The perennial wisdom question is, “What remains and what...

We respect these sacred texts best not by taking them as the final word on what God is like, but by accepting them as recording for us genuine experiences of God for the Israelites and trying to understand why they would describe God as they do. God met the ancient Israelites on their terms, in...

And so, as a person of faith who studies the Bible for a living and who also lives (as I mentioned) in the here and now, I have come to terms somewhat with this dilemma of matching the God of the Bible with my faith: The God I read about in the Bible is not...

The Bible is relentless in modeling for us wisdom—reading the moment, never detached from the sacred tradition but never simply repeating it, because God is always present and on the move. And so we can never just read the Bible without also pondering it, with creativity and imagination, just like the biblical authors, in order...