Navah Podcast

In a bonus episode drop, we're sharing the recording from a special evening we hosted with Pete Greig (founder of 24-7 Prayer) during his visit through Kansas City. Adam Cox and David Blackwell host a playful and provoking conversation with Pete to help Navah connect with the past, present and future story of the wider 24-7 Prayer movement.

Closing out Season 3, these final two episodes are pulled from a teaching time Juli and Adam Cox gave during our recent Spring Retreat. Adam continues by rehearsing our roots as a prayerful family on mission surrendered to the Holy Spirit and the promises of Jesus that still hold true through the process of pruning.

As we close out Season 3, these final two episodes are pulled from a teaching time Juli and Adam Cox gave during our recent Spring Retreat. Seasonly timely, Juli starts off with exploring the differences between voluntary vs involuntary transitions, and pruning vs topping in how we see and receive change, loss, and growth from the Lord.

Rule of Life, Ep 13 : Continuing David and Adam’s conversation with Doug and Julie Day, the Day’s expound on their practical history of spiritual disciplines and how over their life—from being newlyweds to parents, and from the home to the workspace—they’ve worked to continually plan out a structure of small disciplines that have brought refreshment and strength to their family.

Rule of Life, Ep 12 : Launching conversation around the “Saints Gathered” part of Navah’s Common Rule, David and Adam talk with Doug and Julie Day about being a family on mission gathered together and the power that comes through the hospitality of welcoming the life of Jesus in each other that we only get when we gather.

Rule of Life, Ep 11 : This week, David and Adam hang out with Gary Schmitz, a local father in the faith and leader in the citywide prayer movement, PrayKC, and hear about his 20+ year dedication to reading scripture in community and how his pursuit of hunger for the word of God has sown into his life over the decades.

Rule of Life, Ep 10 : In this second part of David’s conversation with Tim Goddu about the Sabbath we focus on the fourth word of Sabbath: Contemplation, our unhurried attention on Jesus. We talk about the barriers of busy-ness and some of the practices of Listening Prayer and Scripture Memorization as a part of our Sabbath contemplation of and towards hearing the voice of God.

Rule of Life, Ep 9 : We continue our conversations around Sabbath as David sits down with Tim Goddu. Tim reflects how through his life the pursuit of Sabbath helped him lean into the strength of God’s way for his life instead of our own energy, and how Sabbath is a foundational piece of shaping his intimacy with Jesus, whether it be in seasons of hustle and intense ministry, or seasons of grief.

Rule of Life, Ep 8 : In the second part of David and Adam’s conversation about the Sabbath, they talk about they have used the Four Words of Sabbath—Stop, Rest, Delight, and Contemplate—as a practical way to help their ongoing journey and how these four words help anchor a new mindset about a Sabbath life trusting our lives, families, and world to God over our own energies.

Rule of Life, Ep 7: David and Adam begin to unpack their last few years of learning why practicing Sabbath is the design of God for our lives, moving beyond seeing it as merely “a day off” to an invitation from the Father to sow into and foreshadow the eternal life of rest He has for us.

Rule of Life, Ep 6: Joshua ad Meredith Johnson are leaders in the missions organization All Nations, and are a part of Navah’s Home Church Equipping Team. The Johnsons spoke with David and reflected on how spiritual practices aren’t just for our own edification but how the simple practices of abiding with Christ are integrated in the great Commission of disciplining others.

Rule of Life, Ep 5: Silence and Solitude. David, Katie, and Juli expound on their different experiences and practice of silence and solitude as a part of prayer. Whether it be a willful surrender of our ego to the Lord’s timing in the midst of a fast past culture or the easy, restful coming home to the Lord, we highlight the importance and power of letting stillness become the new norm of our hearts.

Rule of Life, Ep 4: From swing sets to road trips, to folding laundry, silence or weeping, David sits with Katie Egli to think back on their learning experiences of prayer and how we grow in our prayer by reframing our conversations around “I want to enjoy prayer more” instead of “I’m not praying enough”.

Rule of Life Series, Ep 3: David hangs out with Adam Chiarelli to talk about the Bible and each of their own history of moving from familiar to fascinated with the written word and how the scriptures can be a pathway to relationship with God.

Rule of Life Series, Ep 2: Continuing to talk about spiritual practices, Adam and Juli Cox share with David Blackwell about their own personal histories of attempting a Rule of Life, and how they have worked to move away from holding these practices as a rigid, perfectionistic burden to an ongoing process of letting Jesus teaching us through our fumbling and joyful attempts to live like Him.

Launching Season 3, we are shifting our focus to conversations on how we are engaging in a Common Rule of spiritual practices together as a church family. Adam & Juli Cox and David Blackwell share their own heart for and experience of spiritual practices and how we aim to bring them together into a "Rule of Life” in order to form of our lives around the priorities of love. For more info on our Common Rule of Life, see links below.

For the (officially) last episode this season, David and Adam grab time with Jesse and Leah Roberts and hear a plethora of stories about their ministry of family and extravagant hospitality with art students in Midtown, and how the simplest offering of generosity open the door for a powerful and lasting blessing in peoples live. Beyond their ministry living among a neighborhood of artists, the Roberts are incredible musicians working under the name Poor Bishop Hooper and we can not more strongly suggest you check out their work (Links Below)

We continue with more conversation about the seasons we find ourself in as David sits down to talk with Adam Cox about the movement of Jesus in the near past (and near future) of Navah. Looking at how we live in a year of uncertainty and turmoil, Adam dives into the vulnerability of how to receive pressure out of James 1, and then how do we walk forward in that pressure.

(Part 2 of 2) In the second half of David' conversation with Katie Egli around the prophetic, we delve into the murkier waters of our responsibility to test and weigh words in the midst of relationship, our need for both diversity and disagreement, and how we submit our personal filters as we discern both the personal and public words we feel from God.

(Part 1 of 2) In a bit of departure from storytelling, David hangs out with Katie Egli for a conversation about the meeting place of the pastoral and the prophetic, specifically in places of differences or downright disagreement in the church. Drawing from Galatians 5, we talk about how the fruits of the Spirit push us to prioritize humility and friendship over ‘being right’.

After decades of missionary life in Morocco, Robb and Patti Black were asked to move to Kansas City. David sits with them to hear their story of being led by the Lord to wait in Kansas City and now to again love and live among the Muslim people, now here in Kansas City, in partnership with All Nations and Hope for Ismael. If you are inspired by the Black’s story and want to know more about how to be prayer or finance partners with them, or to take part in their course “Lead with Love” (an 8-week course around cross-cultural discipleship with Muslims) you can email Robb at krobb.black@gmail.com

After 30+ years of inner city ministry, Tim Goddu was led by the Lord in a season of grief to land in Kansas City. Tim and Laurie Goddu are a part of Navah’s regional teams which coach home church leaders across the city and this week we talk with Tim about his history of living out ministry in a neighborhood, whether it's a coastal inner city or midwest suburb, and how his experience informs how they coach young leaders.

The Navah Podcast returns! Season 2 is underway and this time around we are focused on local stories of Kingdom mischief in the Navah family scattered around Kansas City. First up is a powerful story from Mark and Jana Sawyer that makes the Family of God live up to it’s name.

Part 3 of 3: Closing out our first season, Joe Steinke and Mike Andrea sit with us taking a high-altitude look at the history and future of 24-7 Prayer, looking and speaking into the next generation of firebrand youths with a strengthening voice and once again saying “What’s the Vision?”: It’s still just Jesus.

Part 2 of 3: From questions about Kayne West around a bonfire to piercing questions over board games, Joe and Mike share from their learning curve stories of parenting and how they hold their kids before the heart of God. Joe Steinke serves on Global Leadership Team of 24-7 Communities Network, and Mike Andrea is the International Team Leader of 24-7 Prayer.

Part 1 of 3: We got an afternoon hanging out with Joe Steinke and Mike Andrea and in the first part of our conversation we ended up talking through their history in leadership and the crucial role of asking questions and re-affirming “who are we to one another” in seeing the success in failures. Joe Steinke serves on Global Leadership Team of 24-7 Communities Network, and Mike Andrea is the International Team Leader of 24-7 Prayer.

Part 2 of 2: In this second part of our time with Jon Petersen, Jon delves into an overview of six stages of life and leadership development and the challenges and welcome of the Father into maturity as well as the role of surrendering control in the process. If you’d like to hear more from Jon, check the full episode notes for links to Jon’s two books.

Part 1 of 2: Jon Petersen is an overseeing father in 24-7 Prayer and the founder of CityForce, an organization that partners with churches and business leaders for city transformation. We got to sit with Jon and hear from his long legacy of fathering from the perspective of Jesus, both in the sense of raising a family and raising and coaching young leaders in the Church.

Welcome to 2020 Friends! Just a little house-keeping hello as we approach the the ending horizon of our first season, but before we start tiding up our things we have a special mini-series of interviews that will launch next week that we are really excited to share with you. Find us next week!

Part 2 of 2: In this shorter addition from our time with Ralf Neumann, Dave and Ralf talk about two challenges that Ralf’s family and community face in their cultural context and how they respond with patience and humility to being where Jesus has called them to be.

Part 1 of 2: A longtime friend, Ralf Neumann is a leader in the PolyLux 24-7 Prayer Community in Neubrandenberg, North East Germany, and we kick off our time hanging out by talking about his cultural context and the patience and faithfulness in being the Church in one of the most a-religious areas in Europe.

While Lisa Koons (USA National Director of 24-7 Prayer) was in town we were able to sneak in a brief conversation and get a verbal tour of the shape and stories of the Charlotte 24-7 Prayer Room, and hear how creative engagements in a sacred space can open us up to meet a God who’s particular about being everywhere and somewhere specific.

Part 2 of 2: After years in pastoral and missions work, Nathan and Marisa Chud landed back in their home turf of Alaska working in their respective fields of education and law. In this episode we dig into Nathan’s journey of embracing the calling of Jesus to work “outside the Ministry” and the process of fighting through a sacred/secular divide to normalize a sense of dignity in the calling to work—and seek the Kingdom—in the spheres of society.

Part 1 of 2: Nathan and Marisa Chud are core founding friends of Navah and we sat down with Nathan for an—often squirrelly—stroll down memory lane into the deep history of friends exploring together which Navah (then named the KC Boiler Room) grew out of.

Bonus: Live from the PrayKC Vision Night on October 4th, 2019. During the launch event for PrayKC’s 2020 Year of Prayer we were joined by Pete Greig, founder of 24-7 Prayer, and Adam Cox hosted Pete on stage for a conversation about his new book “How to Pray”. (see show notes for further information on the book)

Part 3 of 3: At the end of our time with Alain, we pulled away from the big picture of national prayer initiatives and church planting into Alain’s personal story of being painfully honest with God and leaning into His nearness in the midst of tragedy and death.

Part 2 of 3: In this part of our time with Alain Emerson, we shift our focus from nationwide prayer initiatives to their local church story; delving into the process of continually surrendering to let Jesus build His Church His Way, and holding fast to the Presence of God over a preference of form.

Part 1 of 3: Alain Emerson is the National Director of 24-7 Prayer Ireland and a leader at Emmanuel church in Lurgan, Northern Ireland. He opens up our conversation sharing his story of 24-7 Prayer in the context of a historically divided church.

Part 3 of 3: Drew continues with more stories of seeing how Jesus is intimately moving in the Middle East, and talks about his family finding a balance of outward movement vs the inner life through rhythms of being with God for God’s sake in the practices of stillness and solitude.

Part 2 of 3: In this part of our conversation with Drew, he dives into stories of his family’s engagement in the midst of disciple-making movements and seeing fruit emerge out of the place of rest and abiding with God over strategic planning.

Part 1 of 3: Kicking things off in our first podcast conversation, we talk with Drew (who’s last name we’re keeping private for sensitivity reasons). Along with his wife Mary and three daughters, Drew lives in Beirut and in the first part of our conversation he recounts his journey of being called to love and live in the Middle East.

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