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Spiritual guide, leadership consultant and former pastor Gideon Tsang joins the show to discuss the deep challenge and freedom of discovering the truest form of yourself. In this interview you will be challenged to rethink your own motives for why you do what you do.Find out more about Gideon at: www.gideontsang.orgPurchase the Book 40 Days on Being a Seven HERE------------Be sure to check out my website to listen to past episodes and see what else is happening including info about my upcoming book Bring it Home which is set to be released in September at www.mattkendziera.comFind me on Instagram @mattkendzieraFind me on Facebook HEREReligion has too often put a dark stain on history and has left a lot of destruction in its wake. Because of this, we are at a time in history when many are rethinking religion and faith altogether. The exciting part is that In in the midst of this faith shift lies hope for a better future. A future where faith acts not as an opportunity to oppress but as a catalyst to do good.Outside of the religious systems of our past life is beginning to bloom as many dedicated people of faith are coming up with new culture changing ideas to create a better and more humane world. The work being done is difficult and time consuming leaving little space for those engaged in it to share their stories. Matt Kendziera uses his voice to elevate the voices of these changemakers.Stories give courage to the dreamers and hope to the discouraged. Each one has the ability to motivate and inspire the next brilliant idea from the next social entrepreneur or faith leader. Through speaking, writing, and producing Matt brings these stories, causes and thoughts to the forefront so that they can be seen heard and experienced.Matt has had the honor to work with incredible difference making organizations such as Fierce Freedom, Rachels Challenge, Ashoka, Soularize, Celtic way and others create the space necessary to inspire the world to act out of kindness, compassion and love.There is hope in the voices and stories of people of faith. When hope emerges, change happens. When change happens, the world becomes a more beautiful place.

Our dear friend Gideon Tsang returns to contribute to our fall series on rediscovering an enchanted faith. Gideon invites us to contemplate our spiritual practices, and how they can help to guide us from anxiety and the internal voice of critique toward gentleness and peace. The Worship Table: Online LiturgyLive Teaching Podcast Scripture & LiturgyPhilippians 4: 4-6“Welcome” PrayerWelcome, welcome, welcome.I welcome everything that comes to me today, because I know it's for my healing.I welcome all thoughts, feelings, emotions, persons, situations, and conditions.I let go of my desirefor power and control.I let go of my desire for affection, esteem, approval, and pleasure.I let go of my desire for survival and security.I let go of my desire to change any situation, condition, person or myself.I open myself to the love andhealing of the Divine Mysteryand to God's peace within.Amen.

In this conversation we talk about creating a plan for our own flourishing, the real meaning of being born again, and the outcome of creating systems where leaders can't be fully human.

Our series in collaboration with Good Shepherd New York continues to explore important dimensions of our lives and communities as followers of Jesus in this season of re-establishing rhythms. Our dear brother Gideon Tsang invites us to consider how our experience of time has been changed by the pandemic, and how Jesus calls us to the kind of mindfulness which will help us be more fully alive in the passing moments.

In this episode, Caleb talks with Gideon Tsang about her book, Forty Days On Being a Seven *Links Mentioned* Gideon Tsang ( https://www.gideontsang.org/ ) Forty Days on Being a Seven by Gideon Tsang ( https://www.amazon.com/Forty-Being-Seven-Enneagram-Reflections/dp/0830847545/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=gideon+tsang&qid=1620689372&sr=8-1 ) *The Learner's Corner Recommended Resource* There's a Name for the Blah You're Feeling: It's Called Languishing by Adam Grant ( https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/well/mind/covid-mental-health-languishing.html ) I'm Not Languishing, I'm Dormant by Austin Kleon ( https://austinkleon.com/2021/04/26/im-not-languishing-im-dormant/ )

Adventurer, spiritual leader, and artist Gideon Tsang tackles this question with the signature style of a Seven. Intermixed with stories of travel and making new friends in surprising places, is a commitment to honest self-assessment. Gideon shares how his Enneagram journey has led to personal and spiritual transformation in a series of readings that will delight readers and enlighten readers who want to understand the world of the Seven more fully. 

That's right! Back to back episodes with authors from the Enneagram Daily Reflections series! Enneagram 7, Gideon Tsang joins Suzanne and Joel on the Journey to share a little of his experience and his story as a seven. What does depression really look like in a 7? He'll share some of his history in Austin, TX by way of Canada, and did you know he is codependent? We hope you enjoy the conversation and then take the opportunity to get a copy of his book 40 Days on Being an Enneagram 7 at ivpress.com, Amazon.com or lifeinthetrinityministry.com   Prayer and the Enneagram with Rev. Joseph and Suzanne Stabile An online workshop on March 26-27. Join Live and then really get to note taking while enjoying the replay afterwards. You can find more information and registration here, and sign up by March 15th to take advantage of the early bird discount!

Gideon Tsang reflects on what our invitation is to be born and live as people of the Spirit  [John 3:3-8].   Reflection Where have you seen the delightful breeze of God’s Spirit in your life? What might it look light to pause and listen for the breeze of the Spirit this week?

Gideon Tsang reflects on how we’re invited to dwell in our present moment.  Danielle Dalsey Kimball also shares her reflections on this text [John 14:15-17].   Reflection Are you present to what's alive in you? What practices can bring you back to the present moment this coming week?   Spiritual Practice Contemplative Prayer. Breathing in, I calm my body.  Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment, I know this is a wonderful moment.   Resources Video: Vox Online Liturgy Replay Podcast: On Being (Ocean Vuong)      

Gideon Tsang reflects on how we can slowly practice getting out of the hell of our minds and into the experience of heaven that’s at hand.  Christina Cotham and Judy Peterson also share their reflections on this text [Acts 7:54-60].   Reflection What does heaven on earth feel like for you? How can you cherish the moments when you're at home without shame in this world? Spiritual Practice Contemplative Prayer. Breathing in, I calm my body.  Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment, I know this is a wonderful moment. Resources Video: Vox Online Liturgy Replay

Gideon Tsang reflects on the paradox of rebirth on this Easter Sunday.  Matt Inman, Gena Minnix and Virginia Cumberbatch also share their reflections on this text [Matthew 28:1-10].   Reflection What have you experienced during this gestation period before an eventual rebirth? How can you hold the paradox of fear and joy this week?   Spiritual Practice Create a tomb in your home to place the sources and feelings associated with loss that you have experienced. Leave yourself a reminder to “embrace the suck” during this challenging season.   Resources Video: Vox Online Liturgy Replay      

As we enter the season of Lent, Gideon Tsang reflects on what we need to remember about God’s goodness [Psalm 103:1-6].   Reflection What does it look like to bring your shame into the magnitude of mercy this week? How does it make you feel knowing God wants to satisfy your needs with goodness as long as you live?   Spiritual Practice Marinate in the vastness of mercy.  Where’s the furthest place you’ve been on earth?  Drop off your shame on a trip across the world.   Resources Film: Portrait of a Lady on Fire Music: Only One (Kanye West)  

Gideon Tsang reflects on what we might find in God’s home, which is us [Psalm 84].   Reflection How is God inviting you into yourself this week?  Where are you in your pilgrimage to find your own strength?   Spiritual Practice Reflect on how comfortable we are with ourselves.  Are you comfortable with yourself? What parts are you not comfortable with?  What parts are you comfortable with? Reflect on your pilgrimage.  What part of this pilgrimage are you on?  What is your valley? Do we trust that we’ll find springs in the valley?   Resources Video: Dave Chapelle at DC Improv Video: Space12 Move    

Gideon Tsang reflects on the season of epiphany using the framework of order, disorder and reorder [Isaiah 42:5-9].   Reflection Who or what in life brings you alive? How might loss and disappearance bring you into yourself   Spiritual Practice Reflect on God’s Creation. Think of the tastiest food you’ve eaten. Think of something beautiful or breathtaking in creation. Look at yourself and think about your life. Say aloud “Mmmmm… so good” Reflect on Disorder. What part of your life do you feel stuck, like a prison?  What if our blindness, our darkness, our stuckness, is an important part of epiphany?  Reflect on Reorder.  Is your original beauty still blossoming? How might your original beauty continue to spring forth?   Resources Video: Andy Goldsworthy’s Rivers and Tides Music Video: Smile by Jay-Z (feat Gloria Carter)    

Our brother Gideon Tsang guide us into the practice of contemplation, a practice that invites us to notice your life deeply. Gideon serves as a member of the pastoral team of Vox Veniae in Austin.

As we begin the Advent season, Gideon Tsang reflects on what we are invited to spend time on and what we can use this season for [Romans 13:11-14].   Reflection How can you rest in knowing that your awakening will find you in time without your own willpower? What parts of you are being made whole in this season of Advent?   Spiritual Practice Waking from sleep.  What parts of your life are still asleep?  What parts of your life are recently awakened?  What parts of your life are disorienting right now? Examining our wholeness.  What are our current exoskeletons?  What parts of us are learning to stand on our own, connecting to Christ in us, the hope of glory?   Resources Vox’s Open Letter Regarding ECC Vox Values Vox Homily on How to Apply Scripture    

Gideon Tsang reflects on how prayer might realign the posture of our soul and being [Luke 18:1-8].   Reflection How might prayer help keep your heart open to God, ourselves and others? How does the way you feel about yourself reflect on the way you feel about God?   Spiritual Practice Centering Prayer.  Choose a sacred word as the symbol of your intention to consent to God’s presence and action within.  Sitting comfortably and with eyes closed, settle briefly and silently introduce the sacred word as the symbol of your consent to God’s presence and action within.  When engaged with your thoughts, return ever-so-gently to the sacred word. At the end of the prayer period, remain in silence with eyes closed for a couple of minutes.   Resources Book: The Cloud of Unknowing

As we continue our fall vision series exploring Contemplation, Gideon Tsang reflects on why it might be helpful to notice our lives more deeply [Matthew 8:18-22].   Reflection What does it look like to contemplate the ways we divide in life? How can we contemplate finding home within ourselves?   Resources Song: Love More (Sharon Van Etten)       Spiritual Practice Consider the sides we experience.  What if contemplation helps the crowded other side, slowly depopulate?  Perhaps overtime we’ll realize there are no other sides within us either.  Then perhaps slowly, maybe one day, we’ll realize there aren’t sides. Consider our home.  Where are you most at home?  With whom are you most at home?  Where are you least at home? With whom are you least at home? Centering Prayer.  Sit for 10 minutes and use a sacred word, phrase or image to center and allow yourself to move into a posture of surrender and openness to God.

Gideon Tsang explores what our faith provides for us and in what ways it might be freeing us [Luke 13:10-17].   Reflection Is our faith making us less or more free? How can we engage the space between our acting and our being? What parched areas of our life might need watering this week?   Resources Song: Faith (Bon Iver)     Spiritual Practice Notice the times where you’re acting vs. being.  Give each of the characters a name. Thank these characters for being so helpful.  Gently experiment with acting to being What part of your life needs watering?  What does your soul love to do? How can you find space to water your soul this week?

For Kid’s Sunday, Gideon Tsang reflects on the story of Mary and Martha and how we can be present here [Luke 10:38-42].   Reflection How can you invite God into your mess this week? What does it look like to practice your preferred posture of presence?   Resources Song: First World Problems (Chance the Rapper) Video: 4 Year Old Mic'd up at Hockey   Spiritual Practice Welcome Your Mess.  Invite someone into your home without cleaning it.  Sit in the discomfort of being accepted in your mess. Learn to Idle.  Sit for 10 minutes in a room with a friend.  Do nothing. Share your observations.  

Our dear brother Gideon Tsang joined us once again; offering a reflection on God’s creative artistry, and the needed reminder of the loving gaze with which we are seen, even as we are prone to resist God’s affection.Gideon serves as a member of the pastoral team of Vox Veniae in Austin.

Our dear brother Gideon Tsang joined us once again; offering a reflection on God’s creative artistry, and the needed reminder of the loving gaze with which we are seen, even as we are prone to resist God’s affection.

For Family Sunday, Gideon Tsang reflects on what we can learn about God and ourselves from creation [Psalm 8]. Reflection How can your experience of being loved drown out the unlovable voices in your life What thunderstorms are you experiencing that might bring healing and new life? Resources The Observable Universe Food: Vietnamese Crawfish  

Gideon Tsang reflects on how God is inviting us to clean our profane view of the other [Acts 11:1-18]. Reflection Who in your life is loving you into more expansive ways of seeing? Why do you think we are addicted to judging our distinctions? Spiritual Practice Commonality.  Think of someone who you see as less worthy.  What do you have in common with that person? Try engaging them this week with commonality rather than distinction. Resources MWG: Discussion Guide  

As we celebrate Easter, Gideon Tsang invites us to consider what resurrection means for us and why we tell this story over and over [John 20:1-18].   Reflection Awakening begins while it is still dark. How can we be present and patient with our slow awakening? What does it look like to live out of abundance this week? Resources Video: Dax Shepard Interview on Recovery MWG: Discussion Guide   Spiritual Practice Catch a sunrise.  Be present for the entirety of the sunrise.  Remind yourself of the gentle slowness of healing & awakening. LOVE says unmerited, “I’m so happy you exist”.  Tell a neighbor you’re so happy they exist. Once a day this week, tell someone, I’m so happy you exist.

Our good brother Gideon Tsang shared this weekend with us from Exodus 3. He walked us through how we can mature and grow in this Lenten season and some practices to pick up to help us listen to our lives and the places in our lives where we need to mature.Gideon serves the community of Vox Veniae in Austin, TX

As we continue in the season of Lent, Gideon Tsang reflects on what maturation looks like for us personally and collectively [Exodus 3:1-15]. Reflection How can you sit with a part of you that might be flaring up, ready to mature? What can you do to listen to the parts of you that need healing this week? Resources Podcast: Experts on Expert - John Gottman Art: Brown State of Mind MWG: Discussion Guide Spiritual Practice What do you sense flaring up in your life?  Sit with it like a campfire without judgement.  How might it be a part of you, ready to mature?  

As we near the beginning of Lent, Gideon Tsang invites us to consider what we hope for in our maturity and transformation [2 Cor 3:12-18]. Reflection What are your hopes for Lent? Who allows you to be fully who you are when you are with them and what does that feel like? Resources Book: A Hidden Wholeness (Parker Palmer) Video: Jim Carrey - What it All Means Video: Yayoi Kusama - Infinity Mirrors MWG: Discussion Guide Spiritual Practice List the characters you’ve played.  How did the characters begin? Which characters are you ready to let go of? Consider fasting.  How does this restriction lead to freedom?  How does this reconnect me to myself and God?

As we celebrate and give thanks for our new home, Gideon Tsang invites us to consider how we are all an indispensable part of Christ’s body, both in our strengths and weaknesses. [1 Cor 12] Reflection How can you remind yourself this week that your being is pre-approved? What does it look like to embrace your limitations in order to participate in collaboration? Resources Book: The Enneagram: Understanding Yourself and the Others in Your Life (Helen Palmer) Homily Slides: Our Body As Christ’s Body Spiritual Practice Pick a body part as a reminder of your pre-approval this week. Try entering a conversation from or about weakness.    

Virginia Cumberbatch and Gideon Tsang dialogue around what it would be like to see our city of Austin as a beloved community [Luke 3:15-17, 21-22]. Reflection How can we continue to ask questions about our city with intention and humility? How can we enter spaces of discomfort to form connection?

As we start the new year with our first liturgy in our new building, Gideon Tsang invites us to consider how we might need to expand our spiritual vision to see love in ourselves and others  [Matthew 2:1-12]. Reflection What if God continued to expand our vision of love for ourselves and others? How can I welcome all parts of myself? Spiritual Practice Vesper.  Remind ourselves nothing can add to our intrinsic value.

As we begin the Advent season, Gideon Tsang reflects on what we are paying attention to during this Advent season [Luke 21:29-36].   Reflection What would you like to pay attention to in this advent season? How can you slow and quiet down your life to experience God's gentle nearness?   Resources Video: The Secret Rhythm Behind Radiohead’s “Videotape” Book: Heart and Mind: The Four Gospel Journey for Radical Transformation (Alexander Shaia) Book: The Gift of Being Yourself (David Benner)   Spiritual Practice Reflect on your season of faith.  What season of faith are you in? Meditate on the gospel of your current season (Matthew - fall, Mark -winter, John -spring, Luke - summer). Start a seasonal book club. Reflect on God’s stillness.  Create an advent sound journal.  What’s the noisiest part of your life?  How can you turn it down or hit pause?  

Our beloved brother Gideon Tsang joined us once again, asking the question of what it means to be rooted. As Christ remains (roots) in us, we must ask: Where are our lives rooted? With whom are we rooted? What resistance do we feel towards planting ourselves fully where God has placed us? May God speak to you uniquely through this invitation to stillness, contemplation, and participation.Gideon serves the community of Vox Veniae in Austin, TX

Gideon Tsang finishes our vision series on Rootedness by exploring what it looks like for us to consent to rootedness and the fruit that we’ll bear [John 15:15-17]. Reflection What kind of people do we want to be in 20 years? What kind of fruit do we hope to produce over time? Resources Video: Mindful Silence (Phileena Heuertz) MWG: Discussion Guide   Spiritual Practice Attend the new building open house.  What is your Oneing dream for Vox? How can we dissolve our illusions of separateness? Dream of a name that captures our lasting fruit.  Submit it to roots@voxveniae.com.  How can you be a part of that dream?

Gideon Tsang continues our vision series on Rootedness by considering why we should be rooted with Christ and each other [John 15:4-8]. Reflection How is Christ inviting the disappointment of our exterior lives to deepen into our interior lives? What does it look like to root together with the Vox community this season? Resources Podcast: On Being (Kevin Kelly)   Spiritual Practice Examine your interior and exterior life.  What disappoints you about your exterior life?  Embrace the disappointment. Receive your invitation to Christ IN you. Stake your claim in our collective soil through the new building: Ask, Donate, Volunteer  

Gideon Tsang reflects on how full we are of gratitude and what questions we can ask that lead us to gratitude [Psalm 103].   Reflection How has God healed us? How does contentment work in my life? What does it mean that God's love is steadfast and expansive?   Resources Video: Obama Dropping Off Malia for College       Spiritual Practice Consider a friend in the pit. Offer them tender mercy. Observe their experience.  Consider that’s God’s gift to our woundedness God, grant me the grace to be in the space between impulse and action.  God, grant me the space to be in the grace between impulse and action

Gideon Tsang reflects on what it would look like to find a way to live that’s renewing [2 Corinthians 4:16-18].   Reflection What can you subtract this week to free up space for the renewing of your inner being? What interruptions can we embrace this season?   Resources Film: I, Tonya     Spiritual Practice Try subtracting something from your life.  What do you sense is being freed up?

As we celebrate Trinity Sunday, Gideon Tsang explores how we participate in the Trinity and not just how we understand the Trinity [John 3:1-8]. Reflection What do you wonder about Trinity this morning? How can you welcome God's movement for all things in your life this week? Resources MWG: Discussion Guide

Rev. Gideon Tsang, pastor at Vox Veniae in Austin, Texas, talks to Laura Everett about planting a church, discerning the needs of his community, some painful failures, and the risks and rewards of moving forward without a grand vision. --- About the podcast: Rev. Laura Everett and the Rev. Bill Lamar ask fresh questions about leadership and the future of the church and breathe life into Christian leaders struggling in the valley of dry bones. --- Can These Bones is an offering of Faith & Leadership/Leadership Education at Duke Divinity. Follow Can These Bones: https://www.faithandleadership.com/can-these-bones  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leadershipeducation/ Twitter: @faithleadership #canthesebones Laura: @RevEverett Bill: @WilliamHLamarIV  

Gideon Tsang, our friend and pastor of Vox Veniae, continued our Advent reflections with an invitation to live with joy. Quotes and Resources: “If I do not feel a sense of joy in God’s creation, if I forget to offer the world back to God with thankfulness, I have advanced very little upon the Way. I have not yet learnt … Read More → The post Advent 2 — Joy (2017.12.10 Sermon) appeared first on Austin Mustard Seed.

Gideon Tsang is a pastor at Vox Venaie. He leads this community in Austin, TX as they are collectively learning to find ways for love and life to intersect and coming to understand how we can do more together than we can do alone. He joins us in this episode of let the music play podcast as we discuss his personal reflections what community is and how it can be a gift to the world. Vox Veniae - http://voxveniae.com/ @GideonTsang - https://www.instagram.com/gideontsang/

The Vine is a new church in Austin, TX with the purpose of following Jesus together. This week, we welcome guest teacher, Gideon Tsang. www.thevineaustin.org

Gideon Tsang is a pastor with Vox Veniae in east Austin, Texas which pioneered Space 12, a unique non-profit collaborative space which serves as a neighborhood gathering point hosting art shows, concerts, slam poetry events, computer classes, and dance classes, while partnering with neighborhood associations and varying organizations. In this episode of RePlacing Church, he joins me to talk about: How the city gave their church their voice Learning how to release agendas The joys and struggles of starting a third space as a church Pastoral burnout and the challenges of slowing down in a frantic culture How not to be a pastor obsessed with performance (especially on Easter) Why talent is a curse *Get your free RePlacing Church Resource List, a guide to being and becoming the church in the neighborhood. SUBSCRIBE, RATE, and REVIEW the RePlacing Church Podcast on iTunes, or listen on Stitcher, Google Play, or Podbean. Sign up for RePlacing Church updates at www.replacingchurch.org. Like on Facebook, Follow on Instagram. Episode Song Credits: "Another Wrong to Right" and "You Won't Walk Alone" by Mercir. "Closed" by Zadok Wartes. Used with Permission. Production Assistance by Nate Tubbs.

Our friend Gideon Tsang, from Vox Veniae, joins us with a challenge to change our minds. Quotes and resources mentioned: When Jesus said, ‘(Change your minds),’ to his first disciples, he was calling them to change the direction in which they were looking for happiness. ‘(Changing our mind)’ is an invitation to grow up and become a fully mature human … Read More → The post Easter 4 (2017.05.07 Sermon) appeared first on Austin Mustard Seed.

[East Side, Gideon Tsang] As we celebrate Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week, guest preacher Gideon Tsang asks how God might be asking us to change our minds, and what true maturity looks like.

Gideon Tsang heads up vision and teaching at Vox Veniae, a multi-ethnic church community in Austin, Texas. Originally from Canada, Gideon has made a home for the last decade in East Austin with his family. He is a speaker, pastor, photographer, cyclist and overall great thinker.

Episode 3 guest, Gideon Tsang discusses the relationship between discipline and passion.

Episode 3 guest, Gideon Tsang shares a story about how his identity began taking shape as a child.

Aaron chats with Austin-based pastor & church-planter, Gideon Tsang about burnout, growth and the process of spiritual maturity.