Living and Effective

Prayer amid Pandemic is a podcast to encourage and sharpen the church during this season of coronavirus. Twice a week we’ll give you stories of Christian individuals and communities whose lives and faith were shaped by sickness. We’ll also get an update on the latest on the COVID-19 situation and pray together, hearing from Christians around the world.

"It’s certainly not linear. Grief is not like that. Grief is all over the map, that’s part of the difficulty of it. You can feel like you’ve gotten through a lot of it, and then feel like you’re back at the beginning again." - Diane Langberg, author of Suffering and the Heart of God Living and Effective is a collaboration between CT Creative Studio and The Christian Standard Bible. Music by: Yons, Sweeps, and The Gray Havens. Season 2 theme song by Yons.

"Death is something we did not ever talk about growing up. If you did, you were rebuked. I can't speak for every prosperity preacher. I'll just talk to you about the Hinn empire. There is no topic more scary than death. More than sickness, death. In our home, if we brought up death, we were told do not speak about death, lest you invite the spirit of death into our home." - Costi Hinn, author of God, Greed, and the Prosperity Gospel Living and Effective is a collaboration between CT Creative Studio and The Christian Standard Bible. Music by: Yons, Sweeps, and The Gray Havens. Season 2 theme song by Yons.

"I remember saying, 'I've lived long enough, but why does God want to take away my kids' dad?'" - Todd Billings, author of Rejoicing in Lament: Wrestling with Incurable Cancer and Life in Christ . Living and Effective is a collaboration between CT Creative Studio and The Christian Standard Bible. Music by: Yons, Sweeps, and The Gray Havens. Season 2 theme song by Yons.

"There's no distance in prayer. I'm going to send this powerful healing virtue transfer. I believe it's going to be transferred into your life. Here it comes. Touch my hands. Come a little closer and agree with me. Father in heaven, you see everyone who's watching who has pain. That man with prostate cancer, the woman with pain in her feet. My God, let your healing anointing and power throw out over the airwaves right now in their lives." - Televangelist, Peter Popoff Living and Effective is a collaboration between CT Creative Studio and The Christian Standard Bible. Music by: Yons, Sweeps, and The Gray Havens.

"That terrible, empty place has the seeds of life in it. Because you can't really have life after a death until it's based on the truth that the death occurred. Otherwise, you're pretending.  The darkest place actually has hope in it. It is a hope not felt, but it is inherent in it." - Diane Langberg, author of Suffering and the Heart of God Living and Effective is a collaboration between CT Creative Studio and The Christian Standard Bible. Music by: Yons, Sweeps, and The Gray Havens.

The wisdom tradition in the Bible is basically one big question: "Can you hold the tension?" - Hebrew and Old Testament Professor, Travis West Living and Effective is a collaboration between CT Creative Studio and The Christian Standard Bible. Music by: Yons, Sweeps, and The Gray Havens. Season 2 theme song by Yons.

Grief is inevitable. But it doesn't have to be inevitably lonely. Join us for season 2 of Living and Effective, coming August 2019. Living and Effective is a collaboration between the Christian Standard Bible and CT Creative Studio. 

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The Bible comforted and tormented Bonhoeffer until the very end. Misunderstood, isolated, and distraught, Bonhoeffer ended up a hero. But not before he lost it all.

Martin Luther's near death experience and a technological innovation kicked off a series of events that would make the Bible more accessible than ever. But could Luther deal with the fallout?

This week, we're taking a break. But there's a lot more that can be said about what we've already explored.

Martin Luther King Jr. and other Christian civil rights activists found themselves caught between two sides: fight or flight. But the Bible prepared them for a more transcendent approach. Guests: Jemar Tisby Mika Edmonson Living and Effective is produced by Christianity Today, in collaboration with the Christian Standard Bible.

The Jesus People embraced the counter-culture, used the book of Acts as their script, introduced Jesus to a generation of skeptics, and derailed Bob Dylan's career. Guests: Larry Eskeridge Greg Thornbury Trevin Wax Living and Effective is produced by Christianity Today, in collaboration with the Christian Standard Bible.

Slavery ended because of a war, not a Bible verse. Guests: Mark Noll Steve Patton Thabiti Anyabwile Living and Effective is produced by Christianity Today, in collaboration with the Christian Standard Bible.

Christianity Today and the Christian Standard Bible set out to make a podcast about what happens when humanity and the Bible collide. We'll be honest: this did not go the way we planned.