The Living Unleashed Podcast: Fearless and Free

In this episode, we continue our look at discipleship by exploring how to effectively engage with scripture as we learn from Jesus how to better follow him. Keep on Living Unleashed!!

In this week's podcast, we are looking at the question “What Is Discipleship?” This will be the first of a series of episodes that will dive into this topic to see the importance of discipleship as we walk with Jesus.

It is officially spring. The grass is getting greener, the birds are singing, and the squirrels are playing in my backyard. Spring is filled with signs of new life and God's new work. What new thing is God doing in your life this spring season? Are you ready to embrace it?

I start every podcast describing the abundant life that Jesus offers as a life filled with hope, joy, peace, and freedom. In this podcast episode, we dive deeper into the passage from John 10:10 where Jesus says he has come to give us this abundant life to see what that looks like.

This past week Christie and I had the opportunity to go to the movies with a couple of friends to see “Jesus Revolution”. I am amazed at the many parallels between that time period of the late 1960's and early 1970's to the historic movement of revival and renewal that is playing out today before our very eyes. But while all eyes are focused on the various locales where God is moving that continue to make the news, I would like to pose a question for you—Is God prompting you? As God moves, is it possible those little nudges you have been sensing to either re-engage with God or go deeper with Him are actually His invitations for you to join in on this historic movement? Listen along to this episode of the Living Unleashed Podcast to be challenged to say “yes” to Jesus.

In our last episode, I shared my upcoming trip to visit the Asbury revival. In this episode, I share the impact the revival had on my journey. It can be summed up in the following five effects:A Deeper Thirst for Jesus. Greater Hunger for God's Word.A Renewed Richness In My Prayer Life.A More Profound Compassion For Others.Clearer Vision To Discern the Spiritual Nature of Distractions, Misunderstandings, and Trials.Keep On Living Unleashed!

I am headed on a road trip. Revival has broken out at Asbury University and has spilled across the street to Asbury Seminary and onto other college campuses around the country. On this episode of the podcast, I discuss the plans for this road trip and what I hope to gain from the experience. I can't wait to share that experience with you all in future episodes of the podcast.

In our previous episode, we looked at what Jesus described as the one thing that is the most important thing of all—loving on God with all that we are. But he didn't stop there. The second part is to love others in the same way that we love ourselves. In this episode, we explore what that looks like in our everyday lives. Join me for the journey and keep on Living Unleashed!

If we want to live unleashed, then it would make sense that we would look to the one who demonstrated the type of life that we want. He is also the one who offers us this life. So when someone asks him a question about living, we definitely want to pay attention to what he offers. He is asked what is the most important thing, the greatest commandment. What he says in response to this question is the key to living unleashed.

Welcome to the all-new Living Unleashed Podcast. On this episode, Jeremy goes into more detail about what precipitated this new beginning in his life and how you can launch a new beginning in your life as well.

Welcome to the all-new Living Unleashed Podcast. Join Jeremy as he discusses the long break since he last got on the mic and how a desperation for Jesus leads to living unleashed. Life is an epic journey…Let the journey begin!

This is a new start to the Living Unleashed Podcast. In this episode, we discuss the journey I have been on during the break from podcasting and how that journey will bring structure to and fuel for the journey ahead. I can't wait for you to join me as we embark on this new adventure.

We have a choice to make. What are we going to think about? What are we going to focus on? This choice affects whether we experience peace and joy or chaos and fear. Paul says that we are to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. He also tells us that when we focus our minds on the Spirit and allow him to control our minds, we will experience life and peace. We can change our lives by changing our minds.

In L. Frank Baum's classic story, The Wizard of Oz, we discover that the Great and Powerful Oz is merely an old, wrinkled man behind a curtain. All of the smoke and mirrors and booming voice are only a show. Once the curtain has been pulled back, Dorothy and her companions discover the Wizard isn't so great and powerful after all. Fear works in much the same way. It blusters and blows and puts on a big show, but in reality has no power at all other than what we give it. As Zach Williams writes in his song—“Fear, he is a liar”. In his second letter to Timothy, Paul writes, “For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.” Through the Holy Spirit we have a spirit of power and not fear; a spirit of love and not timidity; we have a spirit of self-discipline so that we need not be controlled by fear. 

In today's podcast, you will learn how to get your “gratitude vaccination”. Studies have found not only a correlation but an actual causal link showing that increased social media use brings an increase to feelings of depression, loneliness, anxiety, and envy. According to Dr. Frank J. Ninivaggi, “Unconscious envy prompts one to feel inadequate, incomplete, impotent and missing out.” Gratitude reduces our tendencies to compare ourselves to others. “Comparison is the thief of joy,” as Theodore Roosevelt once said. When we practice gratitude, we are better able to celebrate the accomplishments of others in place of feeling bitterness and resentment towards them because of what they have or what they have accomplished. Proverbs 14:30 says, “A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.” Do you have a heart that is at peace? Gratitude is the antidote—or vaccine— to envy and a whole host of other negative emotions. Paul encourages us in Philippians 4:4-7 with these words: “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” 

We had our first Live Feed worship service on Sunday due to the restrictions in place to attempt to flatten the curve of the coronavirus pandemic. Today's podcast is the message that I shared during that Live Feed. In this time of crisis, we are invited to remember that God is with us, therefore, we can be strong and courageous (Joshua 1:1-9). The title of this podcast is actually the final words of John Wesley before his death. I hope you find some encouragement with these words. As always, Keep on Living Unleashed.

Has life made you tired and exhausted? Especially during this time of crisis with the coronavirus pandemic, you may feel overwhelmed and beat. Jesus offers us a real rest--one that we can't find anywhere else. With him, we can live freely and lightly even in the midst of crisis and tough times. Listen to today's episode to find out how to take a real rest.

How quickly everything has changed. Ten days ago, the coronavirus seemed to be something that was still effecting “them” (with “them” referring to someone else but us). The major headline in the news cycle was the primary elections that had been dubbed Super Tuesday II. Yet, as each 24 hour cycle passed, the news continued to get worse, until large portions of our communities were shut down in an effort to “flatten the curve” of the progression of this virus. To look back and review all of the changes that have happened in a little more than a week can make one's head spin. And to attempt to look forward can seem to be an overwhelmingly scary and hopeless task. How much more will everything change?  I have good news for your today. No matter how much or how quickly the world around us changes, one thing holds true—“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever”. (Hebrews 13:8) Nothing on earth can change that and that is good news. The Psalmist says, “I love you, Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.” (Psalm 18:1-2) Jesus promises to be with us always. (Matthew 28:20) He even tells us we can find peace in him even though in this world we will find trouble, but we are to take heart because he has overcome the world. (John 16:33)

Hey fellow Journeyers! It is finally here!  This season you are invited to go DEEPER into the Living Unleashed life. We will focus on practical strategies, tips, and habits that will help you to experience passion, hope, joy, peace, and freedom as you live unleashed. God wants you to be joy-filled, but there is a secret. Listen to today's episode to find the answers. Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! It is finally here!  This season you are invited to go DEEPER into the Living Unleashed life. We will focus on practical strategies, tips, and habits that will help you to experience passion, hope, joy, peace, and freedom as you live unleashed. Where does your strength come from to tackle each new day? What gives you stamina for the journey?  Listen to today's episode to find the answers to these questions and more.   Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! It is finally here!  This season you are invited to go DEEPER into the Living Unleashed life. We will focus on practical strategies, tips, and habits that will help you to experience passion, hope, joy, peace, and freedom as you live unleashed. Is joy the same thing as happiness? Is God happy? Can I be happy? Listen to today’s episode to find the answers to these questions and more.   Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! It is finally here!  This season you are invited to go DEEPER into the Living Unleashed life. We will focus on practical strategies, tips, and habits that will help you to experience passion, hope, joy, peace, and freedom as you live unleashed. God overcomes our fatalism and gives us hope by promising to do a new thing. Can you feel it?   Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! It is finally here!  This season you are invited to go DEEPER into the Living Unleashed life. We will focus on practical strategies, tips, and habits that will help you to experience passion, hope, joy, peace, and freedom as you live unleashed. We continue our discussion of hope overcoming fatalism. It is no longer we who live, but Christ who lives in us and that is the great mystery…Christ in you, the hope of glory!   Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! It is finally here!  This season you are invited to go DEEPER into the Living Unleashed life. We will focus on practical strategies, tips, and habits that will help you to experience passion, hope, joy, peace, and freedom as you live unleashed. We continue our discussion of hope overcoming fatalism. By looking at Ezekiel and the valley of dry bones, we discover how hope can overcome the direst of circumstance.   Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! It is finally here!  This season you are invited to go DEEPER into the Living Unleashed life. We will focus on practical strategies, tips, and habits that will help you to experience passion, hope, joy, peace, and freedom as you live unleashed. Today, we discuss hope vs. fatalism through the lens of light and darkness. Jesus is the light of the world so we have hope. Since he is in us, we also shine light into the world so that the world can see hope in us.  Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! It is finally here!  This season you are invited to go DEEPER into the Living Unleashed life. We will focus on practical strategies, tips, and habits that will help you to experience passion, hope, joy, peace, and freedom as you live unleashed. As Christians, we use the word hope a lot. However, much of the time, our words, attitudes, and actions betray that we are fatalists. In today’s episode, we learn how hope overcomes fatalism. Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! It is finally here!  This season you are invited to go DEEPER into the Living Unleashed life. We will focus on practical strategies, tips, and habits that will help you to experience passion, hope, joy, peace, and freedom as you live unleashed. The main reason we love is because we are first loved by Jesus.  We do it because of who God is and what he has done for us. Listen in to this episode to find out how. Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! It is finally here!  This season you are invited to go DEEPER into the Living Unleashed life. We will focus on practical strategies, tips, and habits that will help you to experience passion, hope, joy, peace, and freedom as you live unleashed. The only way to live the Living Unleashed life is to give it away. But sometimes we just don’t feel like it. However, we don’t do it because we feel like it. We do it because we have been called by God to do so. Listen in to this episode to find out how. Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! It is finally here!  This season you are invited to go DEEPER into the Living Unleashed life. We will focus on practical strategies, tips, and habits that will help you to experience passion, hope, joy, peace, and freedom as you live unleashed. The only way to live the Living Unleashed life is to give it away. How are you giving life away to find it? Listen in to this episode to find out how. Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! It is finally here!  This season you are invited to go DEEPER into the Living Unleashed life. We will focus on practical strategies, tips, and habits that will help you to experience passion, hope, joy, peace, and freedom as you live unleashed. In today’s episode, I reflect on the spiritual retreat I participated in last week. Keeping Jesus at the center of our lives changes everything. Listen in to this episode to find out how. Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! It is finally here!  This season you are invited to go DEEPER into the Living Unleashed life. We will focus on practical strategies, tips, and habits that will help you to experience passion, hope, joy, peace, and freedom as you live unleashed. Today’s episode is recorded in a special location. I had the opportunity to go on a spiritual retreat at the end of last week and recorded this podcast in that setting as I reflected on pausing and resting. Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! It is finally here!  This season you are invited to go DEEPER into the Living Unleashed life. We will focus on practical strategies, tips, and habits that will help you to experience passion, hope, joy, peace, and freedom as you live unleashed. In today's episode, we sum up our conversation about this passionate life that God has designed for us.  This is the life we were created to live. Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! It is finally here!  This season you are invited to go DEEPER into the Living Unleashed life. We will focus on practical strategies, tips, and habits that will help you to experience passion, hope, joy, peace, and freedom as you live unleashed. In today's episode, we are talking about why we love. Why are we passionate about God and others? What is the source of all of this love? Listen today to find out. Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! It is finally here!  This season you are invited to go DEEPER into the Living Unleashed life. We will focus on practical strategies, tips, and habits that will help you to experience passion, hope, joy, peace, and freedom as you live unleashed. In today's episode, we are talking about being passionate about others. Passion for others is the natural outworking of our passion for God. It is what keeps us grounded. This is the life we were created to live. Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! It is finally here!  This season you are invited to go DEEPER into the Living Unleashed life. We will focus on practical strategies, tips, and habits that will help you to experience passion, hope, joy, peace, and freedom as you live unleashed. In today's episode, we are talking about being passionate about God. When we are passionate in love with God, we are truly living. This is the life we were created to live. Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! It is finally here!  This season you are invited to go DEEPER into the Living Unleashed life. We will focus on practical strategies, tips, and habits that will help you to experience passion, hope, joy, peace, and freedom as you live unleashed. In today's episode, we are talking about the engaged life. When we are passionate about God, we are engaged in living life. This is the life we were created to live. Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! It is finally here!  This season you are invited to go DEEPER into the Living Unleashed life. We will focus on practical strategies, tips, and habits that will help you to experience passion, hope, joy, peace, and freedom as you live unleashed. In today's episode, we are talking about hope. Life is built on hope. Without hope, there is now vision and without vision, there is no life. Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! It is finally here!  This season you are invited to go DEEPER into the Living Unleashed life. We will focus on practical strategies, tips, and habits that will help you to experience passion, hope, joy, peace, and freedom as you live unleashed. In today's episode, we are talking about hope. Hope is not merely wishful thinking. It is an expectation in an outcome based on a belief. Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! It is finally here!  This season you are invited to go DEEPER into the Living Unleashed life. We will focus on practical strategies, tips, and habits that will help you to experience passion, hope, joy, peace, and freedom as you live unleashed. In today's episode, we are continuing to unpack the term “epic” as we discover that we have epic influence. Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! It is finally here!  This season you are invited to go DEEPER into the Living Unleashed life. We will focus on practical strategies, tips, and habits that will help you to experience passion, hope, joy, peace, and freedom as you live unleashed. In today’s episode, we are unpacking the term “epic” with the help of some superheroes. Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! It is finally here! The launch of season 3 of the Living Unleashed Podcast, Deeper, happens today and I am so excited! This season you are invited to go DEEPER into the Living Unleashed life. We will focus on practical strategies, tips, and habits that will help you to experience passion, hope, joy, peace, and freedom as you live unleashed. Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! I am so glad you have joined us this week for the journey. We just wound up our journey through Luke and Acts last week and are preparing to launch Season 3 of the Living Unleashed Podcast on April 15th! For these two weeks, we are doing Bonus Replay podcasts. I am selecting 10 of my favorite episodes from Season One to replay. This will give you a chance to listen in to some of the early episodes that you might have missed. Today's episode is entitled “Ending The Week Well”.  God is with you and He is all you need. Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! I am so glad you have joined us this week for the journey. We just wound up our journey through Luke and Acts last week and are preparing to launch Season 3 of the Living Unleashed Podcast on April 15th! For these two weeks, we are doing Bonus Replay podcasts. I am selecting 10 of my favorite episodes from Season One to replay. This will give you a chance to listen in to some of the early episodes that you might have missed. Today's episode is entitled “God’s Got This”.  God is with you and He is all you need. Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! I am so glad you have joined us this week for the journey. We just wound up our journey through Luke and Acts last week and are preparing to launch Season 3 of the Living Unleashed Podcast on April 15th! For these two weeks, we are doing Bonus Replay podcasts. I am selecting 10 of my favorite episodes from Season One to replay. This will give you a chance to listen in to some of the early episodes that you might have missed. Today's episode is entitled “The Dentist”.  God is with you and He is all you need. Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! I am so glad you have joined us this week for the journey. We just wound up our journey through Luke and Acts last week and are preparing to launch Season 3 of the Living Unleashed Podcast on April 15th! For these two weeks, we are doing Bonus Replay podcasts. I am selecting 10 of my favorite episodes from Season One to replay. This will give you a chance to listen in to some of the early episodes that you might have missed. Today's episode is entitled “Be Strong And Courageous”.  God is with you and He is all you need. Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! I am so glad you have joined us this week for the journey. We just wound up our journey through Luke and Acts last week and are preparing to launch Season 3 of the Living Unleashed Podcast on April 15th! For these two weeks, we are doing Bonus Replay podcasts. I am selecting 10 of my favorite episodes from Season One to replay. This will give you a chance to listen in to some of the early episodes that you might have missed. Today's episode is entitled “A Bunch Of Hats”.  Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! I am so glad you have joined us this week for the journey. We just wound up our journey through Luke and Acts last week and are preparing to launch Season 3 of the Living Unleashed Podcast on April 15th! For these two weeks, we are doing Bonus Replay podcasts. I am selecting 10 of my favorite episodes from Season One to replay. This will give you a chance to listen in to some of the early episodes that you might have missed. Today's episode is entitled “Worship Community”. This podcast opens with a short reflection on the global reach of the Living Unleashed Podcast. I am amazed at how the places around the world that have downloaded an episode of the podcast has continued to grow. Then we jump into a discussion of what it takes to have authentic worship. Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! I am so glad you have joined us this week for the journey. We just wound up our journey through Luke and Acts last week and are preparing to launch Season 3 of the Living Unleashed Podcast on April 15th! For these two weeks, we are doing Bonus Replay podcasts. I am selecting 10 of my favorite episodes from Season One to replay. This will give you a chance to listen in to some of the early episodes that you might have missed. Today's episode is entitled “It Rained And We Were Blessed,” and it contains a story from a mission trip I went on to Mexico. Sometimes we just need a new perspective. Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! I am so glad you have joined us this week for the journey. We just wound up our journey through Luke and Acts last week and are preparing to launch Season 3 of the Living Unleashed Podcast on April 15th! For these two weeks, we are doing Bonus Replay podcasts. I am selecting 10 of my favorite episodes from Season One to replay. This will give you a chance to listen in to some of the early episodes that you might have missed. Today's episode is entitled “Calm In The Midst Of Chaos.” Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! I am so glad you have joined us this week for the journey. We just wound up our journey through Luke and Acts last week and are preparing to launch Season 3 of the Living Unleashed Podcast on April 15th! For the next two weeks, we are doing Bonus Replay podcasts. I will be selecting 10 of my favorite episodes from Season One to replay. This will give you a chance to listen in to some of the early episodes that you might have missed. Today's episode is entitled “What Are You Afraid Of?” In some of these early episodes, I experimented with doing the podcast from a script that I had all written out to read. I didn’t like the way these ended up sounding because they lacked warmth and spontaneity. I love the content of this episode and have thought about recording it again sometime now that I have more experience on the mic. Hope you enjoy. Keep on Living Unleashed! Jeremy

Hey fellow Journeyers! I am so glad you have joined us this week for the journey. We just wound up our journey through Luke and Acts last week and are preparing to launch Season 3 of the Living Unleashed Podcast on April 15th! For the next two weeks, we are doing Bonus Replay podcasts. I will be selecting 10 of my favorite episodes from Season One to replay. This will give you a chance to listen in to some of the early episodes that you might have missed. Today’s episode is entitled “Lakeside Sunrise”. Here is a little bit of trivia: This is the first (and, as of right now, only) episode that I have recorded in the outdoors. Listening to it again, makes me want to record another outdoor episode. What do you think? Should I record another episode in nature? Let me know in the comments. I hope you enjoy! Keep on Living Unleashed. Jeremy