Podcasts about denver pres

In this seminar, Will Berry, a paramedic and Denver Pres member, will share what God has been teaching him in his work as a first responder. He’s had to deeply reflect on death and the world’s brokenness since he’s face to face with it every day. He wants to help us apply our faith in a world where the effects of the fall simply can’t be managed. Whether you are grieving the world’s brokenness, or you’ve been sent into chaos by death and loss in your own life, you will hopefully walk away with an expanded and more realistic view of sin and death, and an even more powerful view of Jesus and what he’s doing in the world, and in your life.

We all have limited, finite space in our homes which naturally fills up with our things. Even when it comes time to “spring clean,” why is it so difficult to face down the excess that fills up our homes? Denver Pres member Tana Padilla is a professional home manager and personal organizer who takes a therapeutic approach to helping people work through their connections to their things and to understand what they should keep and why. She will share her thoughts on how you can begin changing your relationship with your possessions, to ultimately work toward more freedom in your life.

Some of us at Denver Pres have had experiences in the past with church or ministry cultures that were unhealthy or oppressive. Many of these cultures were deeply affected by a lack of understanding of the good news of Jesus. Mark Miller and Christian Swan examine some of these experiences for us, helping us to see what makes a church culture healthy, what patterns are potentially unhealthy, and give guidance on how we can all journey on a path toward healing with those in our community who are hurting.

Regardless of faith conviction, nobody likes the present state of political polarization and lack of civil and constructive discourse. Christians have a great opportunity to embody a distinct and attractively counter-cultural vision for political engagement. But what is it? In our recent core experience survey, nearly 80% of Denver Pres regulars reported that they struggle to see what it means to follow Jesus in the area of political engagement. This class is intended to begin to provide frameworks for participants to imagine new possibilities for political engagement rather than falling into the tired patterns of our culture.

Shame has recently become a popular topic of conversation in our culture. But why do we talk about shame? What IS it exactly? Shame can be difficult to define. Distinguished from other emotions (like guilt, or embarrassment), shame is the belief that there is something fundamentally wrong with us, at a base identity level. The experience of shame is universal to every human, by virtue of living life in a broken world, and can show up in every life context - friendship, vocation, marriage, work, parenting, sexuality. Shame scrambles the signals in our brain and body in a way that disrupts our thinking and feeling, and this disruption teaches us to isolate ourselves. A small, but stacked, panel of Denver Pres people in mental health professions (headed up by Nina Walch) guided us through this conversation, giving us vocabulary to process shame, and helping us maintain hope as we move forward on a path of growth and healing.