Podcasts about Passion Conferences

Opening Psalm: Psalm 57 (Read by Caleb Daniels)Old Testament Reading: Ecclesiastes 7:1-14 (Read by Caleb Daniels)New Testament Reading: Galatians 4:12-20 (Read by Caleb Daniels)Gospel Reading: Matthew 15:21-28 (Read by Caleb Daniels)Song: Follow You Anywhere (By Kristian Stanfill and Passion Conferences, Performed by Ryan Gage, Recorded and Mixed by Drew McKellips)Background Music by Keller GageJoin us for our Sunday Service at 10:45am MDT: collegechurch.online.churchFind out more about the ministries of New Creation Community Online and Nampa College Church by visiting nampacollegechurch.com

Our guest is Shelley Giglio, Co-Founder of the Passion Movement, including Passion Conferences, and is Chief Strategist, and Director of Label Operations and Artist Management for Sixstepsrecords, and Founder of The Grove and The Grove Conference. Shelley has helped create and produce Passion Conferences for the last 25 years, arguably the most influential movement of 18-25 year olds in America and around the world. We discuss the recent Passion Conference, her leadership style, why consistency matters, her advice to leaders, how to lead up in the org, and much more. Make sure to visit http://h3leadership.com to access the list and all the show notes. Thanks again to our partners for this episode: OPEN DOORS - Get the latest 2024 World Watch List and prayer guide at http://odusa.org/h3. Since they were founded by Brother Andrew nearly 70 years ago, Open Doors has become the world's largest on-the-ground network working to strengthen persecuted Christians. Their annual World Watch List report ranks the 50 most dangerous countries for Christians today. Get the FREE World Watch List Prayer Guide at http://odusa.org/h3. The Prayer Guide gives you the World Watch List, real stories of persecuted Christians, profiles of all 50 countries and specific ways to pray for each one. Again, visit http://odusa.org/h3. And to order 50 FREE print copies of the Prayer Guide for your church or team, email Andrew Richards at andrewr@opendoorsus.org. And PHASE FRANCHISE PARTNERS – Phase exists to help churches have a multi-use strategy and specializes in helping churches own and operate a child development center that will activate your building space like never before. Their support service helps you navigate design, licensing, marketing and ongoing operation. Visit http://phasefranchise.com for more info and to talk with their team. Get on the path to greater use of your space and great impact in your community. Again, visit http://phasefranchise.com and schedule a complimentary call and download their FREE ebook today.

How would your life change if you knew you had everything you needed with Jesus? This week, guest speaker Louie Giglio, Pastor of Passion City Church and Founder of Passion Conferences, walks us through the life of Paul in Acts and his writings in Romans and 2 Corinthians to remind us that we have the authority under Christ to conquer sin and live convinced that we can accomplish the works God has appointed us to do.

How would your life change if you knew you had everything you needed with Jesus? This week, guest speaker Louie Giglio, Pastor of Passion City Church and Founder of Passion Conferences, walks us through the life of Paul in Acts and his writings in Romans and 2 Corinthians to remind us that we have the authority under Christ to conquer sin and live convinced that we can accomplish the works God has appointed us to do.

How would your life change if you knew you had everything you needed with Jesus? This week, guest speaker Louie Giglio, Pastor of Passion City Church and Founder of Passion Conferences, walks us through the life of Paul in Acts and his writings in Romans and 2 Corinthians to remind us that we have the authority under Christ to conquer sin and live convinced that we can accomplish the works God has appointed us to do.

How would your life change if you knew you had everything you needed with Jesus? This week, guest speaker Louie Giglio, Pastor of Passion City Church and Founder of Passion Conferences, walks us through the life of Paul in Acts and his writings in Romans and 2 Corinthians to remind us that we have the authority under Christ to conquer sin and live convinced that we can accomplish the works God has appointed us to do.

Our guest is Louie Giglio, one of the top Christian voices in the world today. Louie is the Visionary Architect and Director of the Passion Movement, including Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, Passion Publishing and Sixstep Records. He is the best-selling author of multiple books, including his most recent Seeing God as a Perfect Father. We discuss the new book, loneliness, the role of Fatherhood, what's inspiring him recently, and more. Plus, check out the list of 5 Articles to Read. Make sure to visit http://h3leadership.com to access the list and all the show notes. Thanks again to our partners for this episode: BELAY – for over 10 years, BELAY has provided U.S. – based virtual assistants to thousands of busy leaders like you. Visit http://belaysolutions.com to hire your virtual assistant. Delegate important details, travel planning, reporting and payroll so you can reclaim time to focus on your most valuable work. TEXT the word H3 to 55123 to get your FREE copy of their ebook, Delegate to Elevate. Or download for FREE at http://belaysolutions.com. And AFRICA NEW LIFE – founded over 20 years ago by local leaders in Rwanda to reverse the poverty and trauma left in the aftermath of the 1994 Genocide. You can help transform lives and communities in Rwanda at http://africanewlife.org/h3. Today, 11,000 Rwandan students benefit from Africa New Life's locally led, holistic educational sponsorship model, which includes access to education, medical care and the Gospel. You can raise up the next generaiton of Rwandan leaders with Africa New Life. To sponsor a Rwandan student, visit http://africanewlife.org/h3.

Sit down for a conversation with Louie and Shelley Giglio, Pastors and Founders of Passion City Church and Passion Conferences, on doing ministry outside the box, championing your spouse, grieving with grace, and London—the city and the dog. Connect with us on social! Levi: @levilusko Jennie: @jennielusko Fresh Life Church: @freshlife Louie: @louiegiglio Shelley: @shelleygiglio London: @london_doodle Passion City Church: @passioncity Passion Conferences: @passion268 Indescribable Activity Book for Kids Roar Like a Lion Grove Conference Passion Conference Want to be on the next Q&A episode? Send us your questions!

Sit down for a conversation with Louie and Shelley Giglio, Pastors and Founders of Passion City Church and Passion Conferences, on doing ministry outside the box, championing your spouse, grieving with grace, and London—the city and the dog. Connect with us on social! Levi: @levilusko Jennie: @jennielusko Fresh Life Church: @freshlife Louie: @louiegiglio Shelley: @shelleygiglio London: @london_doodle Passion City Church: @passioncity Passion Conferences: @passion268 Indescribable Activity Book for Kids Roar Like a Lion Grove Conference Passion Conference Want to be on the next Q&A episode? Send us your questions!

The Ride Home with John & Kathy! Buckle in for a Monday full! Like… This Week in the Nation's Capitol (Trump indictment (is there any other story?!) ... + ... -Conservatives giving Speaker McCarthy a headache ... + ... Biden root canal ... GUEST Greg Clugston ... SRN News White House Correspondent Arts & Beauty: do they play a role in our spiritual formation? ... GUEST Bette Dickinson prophetic artist, writer, & speaker who invites audiences to connect w God through visual parables of the spiritual journey in her ministry Awakening the Soul ... Bette has an MDiv and has worked w InterVarsity & World Vision ... Bette & her husband live in Traverse City Mich w their 2 boys Seeing God as a Perfect Father: and Seeing You as Loved, Pursued, & Secure  ... GUEST Louie Giglio ... Pastor of Passion City Church and Original Visionary of the Passion movement, established in 1997. The Passion Conferences have gathered college-aged people in events across the US & around the world, most recently 700,000 people from over 150 countries online at Passion 2021 ... Louie is bestselling author of over a dozen books including “Winning the War on Worry” and “Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table” ... Atlanta native & graduate of Georgia State Univ, Louie & Shelley make their home in Atlanta Thanks for riding with us on The Ride Home with John & Kathy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Ride Home with John & Kathy! Buckle in for a Monday full! Like… This Week in the Nation's Capitol (Trump indictment (is there any other story?!) ... + ... -Conservatives giving Speaker McCarthy a headache ... + ... Biden root canal ... GUEST Greg Clugston ... SRN News White House Correspondent Arts & Beauty: do they play a role in our spiritual formation? ... GUEST Bette Dickinson prophetic artist, writer, & speaker who invites audiences to connect w God through visual parables of the spiritual journey in her ministry Awakening the Soul ... Bette has an MDiv and has worked w InterVarsity & World Vision ... Bette & her husband live in Traverse City Mich w their 2 boys Seeing God as a Perfect Father: and Seeing You as Loved, Pursued, & Secure  ... GUEST Louie Giglio ... Pastor of Passion City Church and Original Visionary of the Passion movement, established in 1997. The Passion Conferences have gathered college-aged people in events across the US & around the world, most recently 700,000 people from over 150 countries online at Passion 2021 ... Louie is bestselling author of over a dozen books including “Winning the War on Worry” and “Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table” ... Atlanta native & graduate of Georgia State Univ, Louie & Shelley make their home in Atlanta Thanks for riding with us on The Ride Home with John & Kathy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jeff Sandstrom started his career as an independent music producer and engineer, and produced several Dove Award-winning projects in the studio. From 2007 to 2016, he was the Front of House engineer for Chris Tomlin and Passion Conferences. He's also toured with Matt Redman, Lauren Daigle, Steven Curtis Chapman and others, and has been a sought-after teacher and presenter at conferences and training events. His heart for teaching production teams to excel led to the co-founding of MxU, a platform designed to provide church production teams tools for technical training, creative communication, volunteer team building, and healthy leadership. Jeff and Kristian share practical and spiritual tips for fostering relationships well between technicians and musicians. Jeff also advises worship engineers, producers, technicians, etc. to be wary of your identity being tied up in your skill rather than who you are as a son or daughter of Christ. Learn more about the intentional tools and resources MxU provides @mxurocks / https://getmxu.com/Follow us @multitracks // @multitracksgospel // @leadworshipwellwww.multitracks.com

Rusty, Jeremy and Zach chat with Davis Kornegay from Passion about all things Passion 2023. You'll hear about the design process and the gear that was used to pull off the event. You can still tune into the broadcast of the event until January 31st at passion2023.com. Enjoy!

Our guest is Kristian Stanfill, Worship Pastor at Passion City Church, songwriter, longtime Worship Leader with the Passion Conferences movement and Passion Music artist. He recently released his latest album Make it Out Alive. We talk leadership, life on tour, the new album, his advice to worship leaders, power of friendship, and much more. Plus, check out the 5 Things from the Internet List. Make sure to visit http://h3leadership.com to access the list and all the show notes. Thanks again to our partners for this episode: IMPACT LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE —take your leadership to the next level, all for FREE. Plan to be part of the Impact Leadership Conference on December 7. Visit http://impactleader.com for more info and register for FREE. Learn from John Maxwell, Jamie Kern Lima, and Chris Hodges. Hosted by Highlands College in Birmingham, this half-day conference is a chance to grow in your leadership with practical application to positively impact your life. Register for FREE at http://impactleader.com. And CONVOY OF HOPE - the trusted partner for delivering food and relief by responding to disasters all around the world. Donate at http://convoyofhope.org/donate. Right now, Convoy of Hope is Helping war victims in Ukraine, providing basic needs like food, hygiene supplies, medical supplies, and more. Plus continuing to work in Florida with hurricane victims. All through partnering with local Churches. To donate visit http://convoyofhope.org/donate.

What do you do when fear grips you up in the middle of the night?  Pastor Louie Giglio joins me today for a transparent conversation on anxiety, depression, and worry. He shares his personal struggles, research on real and imagined fears, and most importantly, the pathway to peace through Jesus. We talk about our own seasons of anxiety and how Jesus gives us worship as a tool to combat the doubts in the night. Finally, Louie shares about the confidence we can have in Jesus to carry our worries, since he has already carried our sin.  Louie Giglio is Pastor of Passion City Church and Original Visionary of the Passion movement, which exists to call a generation to leverage their lives for the fame of Jesus. Since 1997, Passion Conferences has gathered collegiate-aged young people in events across the US and around the world. Most recently, Passion 2022 hosted 55,000 students and leaders. Louie is the national-bestselling author of over a dozen books including his newest release, Winning the War on Worry. An Atlanta native and graduate of Georgia State University, Louie has done post-graduate work at Baylor University and holds a master's degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Louie and Shelley make their home in Atlanta.    Resources Mentioned:  Louie Giglio's recent trilogy of books:  Winning the War on Worry: https://amzn.to/3RsbJoG Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: https://amzn.to/3BQapGu At the Table with Jesus: https://amzn.to/3dRTLOG Sign up for my Things for Thursday Email: https://tinyurl.com/292kv68y Support Let's Parent on Purpose! https://letsparentonpurpose.com/support/

“God has already given His best for me so I can trust Him with the rest of me.”  What a beautiful truth to hold on to! Today Stacy talks with Louie Giglio. Not only is he a pastor, and national best-selling author but Louie is also the Director of the Passion Movement, comprised of Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, Passion Publishing and more. He is here to share biblical and spiritual tools to help break the cycle of worry that is plaguing the vast majority of us.  Listen in as he encourages us through his own personal experience with worry and His gift of teaching. ABOUT OUR GUEST: Louie Giglio is Pastor of Passion City Church and Original Visionary of the Passion movement, which exists to call a generation to leverage their lives for the fame of Jesus. Since 1997, Passion Conferences has gathered collegiate-aged young people in events across the US and around the world. Most recently, Passion 2022 hosted 55,000 students and leaders. Louie is the national-bestselling author of over a dozen books including his newest release, Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table, as well as Goliath Must Fall, Indescribable: 100 Devotions about God & Science, The Comeback, The Air I Breathe, I Am Not But I Know I Am, and others. As a communicator, Louie is widely known for messages like Indescribable and How Great is Our God. An Atlanta native and graduate of Georgia State University, Louie has done post-graduate work at Baylor University and holds a master's degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Louie and Shelley make their home in Atlanta. SCRIPTURE: (NKJV unless noted) “Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.” Psalm 127:1 “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” Matthew 6:25-34 “Casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.” 2 Corinthians 10:5 “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;  and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.  Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.” Philippians 4:6-8 “Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:7 “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love”. 1 John 4:18   BOOKS BY LOUIE GIGLIO: Winning the War on Worry Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table Goliath Must Fall Indescribable: 100 Devotions about God & Science   LINKS: Louie Giglio   MOMS IN PRAYER New to Moms in Prayer? Find Out More!  PRAY with Moms in Your Community for Your Children Support Our Mission Moms in Prayer Shop

In this episode, Jeff, Jeff, and Matt discuss: Actively engaging God in all you do. Listening when God directs you in your life. Learning to be present and embracing the moments of life. Business as a mission, making an impact, and living well.   Key Takeaways: You do not need to be like everyone else. Be willing to be different and unapologetically you. God is the author of your story, not you. He is in control of your life, we only think we have control.  What you believe is important, but how you implement that belief is more so. You can make an impact where you are in business and glorify God in the process. You do not need to have mission and business as two separate aspects of your life.   "I think it just behooves all of us to really see Christ above all, and put our identity in Him and Him alone." —  Matt Morris About Matt Morris: Matthew (Matt) Morris is an active board member, advisor, and investor with industry expertise in the Real Estate, Financial Services, and Technology sectors. From 2011 through 2020, Matt served as the President and CEO of Stewart Information Services Corporation after joining the company in 2004. Matt currently serves on the public board of Stewart (STC), the Cornerstone Funds (CLM and CRF), and Stabilis Solutions (SLNG). In addition to his board service, Matt is the Founder and CEO of Lutroco, LLC, a private investment and advisory firm engaging purpose-driven entrepreneurs for growth and impact.Prior to his time at Stewart, Matt served as the COO and Managing Director for Marturion, a strategic consulting practice, and prior to that as the Director of Passion Conferences and Metro Ministries. Matt received his BBA in Organizational Behavior and Business Policy from Southern Methodist University and his MBA from the University of Texas with a concentration in Finance. Matt is a member of the Young Presidents Organization, The C Club of Houston, and the CEO Forum. He has also served in board roles for non-profits including the Greater Houston Partnership, Houston Baptist University, Homes for Hope, and the National Christian Foundation, Houston. Matt and his wife Melissa have been blessed with four boys and reside in Houston, Texas.   Connect with Matt Morris:Website: https://lutroco.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-morris-9a1b124/ Connect with Jeff Thomas: Website: https://www.arkosglobal.com/Book: https://www.arkosglobal.com/trading-upEmail: jeff.thomas@arkosglobal.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/ArkosGlobalAdv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arkosglobal/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/arkosglobaladvisorsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/arkosglobaladvisors/

In this episode, Todd sits down with a long-time friend and soon-to-be Worship Circle mentor, Kristian Stanfill. They discuss leading worship through the years for Passion Conferences and Passion City Church, song stories of some favorites of the Church, and leadership advice regarding the power of authenticity. 

“You are free from the flesh to the degree that you are controlled by the Spirit.” Pastor Louie heads into week three of our current series, the Power of a Transformed Mind, by journeying through Romans 8; clarifying what it looks like for God to conform us to the likeness of Jesus, living for His glory, in contrast to being conformed to our sinful nature. VERSES // Romans 12:2, 8:1,6,9,15,17,28-30,31-39  — With Passion City Online, you can join us every Sunday live at 9:30a and 11:45a, and our gatherings are available on-demand starting at 7p! Join us at https://passioncitychurch.com — Subscribe to our channel to see more messages from Passion City Church: https://www.youtube.com/passioncitychurch1 — Looking for content for your Kids? Subscribe to our Passion Kids Channel: https://passion.link/passionkidsonline — If you would like to give to our house, visit https://passioncitychurch.com/give/ — Check out Passion's books, music, and more at https://passionresources.com/ — At Passion City Church, we believe that because God has displayed the ultimate sacrifice in Jesus, our response to that in worship must be extravagant. It is our privilege, and our created purpose, to reflect God's Glory to Him through our praise, our sacrifice, and our song. — Follow Passion City Church: https://www.instagram.com/passioncity/ Follow Louie Giglio: https://www.instagram.com/louiegiglio Passion City Church is a Jesus church with locations in Atlanta and Washington D.C.

Todd Peterson started his career with 13 years in the NFL, but has since become a powerhouse in fueling the bible translation movement and encouraging others towards radical generosity. When Todd was drafted by the NY Giants in 1993, he was initially distracted by the excitement of a substantial income. However, God got Todd's attention with a dramatic wake-up call after his rookie year.  From that point on, Todd and his wife Susan dedicated themselves to the exciting adventure God had in store for them. Throughout his NFL career, Todd and Susan delved deep into their generosity journey and began drawing others into that journey with them. Since he retired from the NFL in 2006, Todd has become significantly involved in many organizations in the generosity and bible translation spaces. From 2008-2013, Todd served as Chairman of Seed Company, one of the leading bible translation ministries. And through his involvement, he was able to participate in the formation of the IllumiNations impact alliance between 11 major bible translation organizations. Because of that collaboration, it is anticipated that the bible will be accessible to every language spoken on Earth by the year 2033. In Todd's words, “The last bible translator is alive today.” Todd has served on numerous other boards including Global Generosity Movement, Passion Conferences, the Young Life Foundation, and Pro Athletes Outreach and has a depth of wisdom in living out radical generosity. Todd shared plenty of wisdom on topics like honing your giving focus and how to do more than write a check. Even more interestingly, Todd shared his unique insight into the relationship between givers and ministries, having spent significant time on both sides of the field. Listen now to hear all Todd had to share. QUOTES TO REMEMBER “We very early on saw the NFL as a mission field and we were very highly compensated missionaries in a sense.” “You can't really be a man of humility until you've been humiliated.” “I'm never going to make another penny before we give to God first.” When the income really started to come, we were better prepared for it because we had made a decision that we were going to give first.” “As our income increases, our lifestyle doesn't have to grow with it.” “My NFL career, all 13 years, felt like God had a plan for my life.” “At the end of the day, what we're supposed to be doing with our lives is giving them away.” “We want to life full and abundant life and experience all God has for us. And the best way we knew how to do that was to hold things loosely.” “Football was one thing that God gave me a talent for, but it wasn't the only thing he created me to do.”  “We are people who really want to be invested in every sense of the word. We don't want to simply write a check to an organization.” “All ministry hinges on the power of the gospel in the language of a person.” “Could there be a greater injustice than not having access to the Gospel in your language?” “By 2033, we can eradicate bible poverty, meaning every language on Earth has access to at least some portion of the scripture translated.” “We believe in the bible translation world that the last bible translator is alive now.” LINKS FROM THE SHOW Safely Home, by Randy Alcorn The IllumiNations Bible Translation Collaboration Finishing the Task (see our interview with Global Church Planting Strategist Dan Hitzhusen from FTT) Seed Company The Finish Line Community Facebook Group The Finish Line Community LinkedIn Group BIBLE REFERENCES FROM THE SHOW Matt. 16:25 | Whoever Seeks to Save His Life For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. Isaiah 55:8 | My Thoughts Are Not Your Thoughts For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. Ephesians 2:10 | We Are God's Workmanship For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Revelation 7:9 | Every Tribe, Nation, and Tongue After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! If you have a thought about something you heard, or a story to share, please reach out! You can find us on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. You can also contact us directly from our contact page. If you want to engage with the Finish Line Community, check out our groups on Facebook and LinkedIn.

Wrapping up his current collection of talks, Pastor Louie shares what we can expect when we are sitting at the Table with Jesus. VERSES // Luke 15, 7:37-50, Mark 10:17-22, John 2, Isaiah 53:5, Matthew 28:19 — With Passion City Online, you can join us every Sunday live at 9:30a and 11:45a, and our gatherings are available on-demand starting at 7p! Join us at https://passioncitychurch.com — Subscribe to our channel to see more messages from Passion City Church: https://www.youtube.com/passioncitychurch1 — Looking for content for your Kids? Subscribe to our Passion Kids Channel: https://passion.link/passionkidsonline — If you would like to give to our house, visit https://passioncitychurch.com/give/ — Check out Passion's books, music, and more at https://passionresources.com/ — At Passion City Church, we believe that because God has displayed the ultimate sacrifice in Jesus, our response to that in worship must be extravagant. It is our privilege, and our created purpose, to reflect God's Glory to Him through our praise, our sacrifice, and our song. — Follow Passion City Church: https://www.instagram.com/passioncity/ Follow Louie Giglio: https://www.instagram.com/louiegiglio/Passion City Church is a Jesus church with locations in Atlanta and Washington D.C.

Pastor Louie Giglio kicks off a brand new collection of talks, At the Table with Jesus. He emphasizes the importance of making living in communion with God daily a priority and accepting His invitation to sit at the table with King.VERSES // Psalm 23:5, Hebrews 11:5-6, Genesis 5:6-24 — With Passion City Online, you can join us every Sunday live at 9:30a and 11:45a, and our gatherings are available on-demand starting at 7p! Join us at https://passioncitychurch.com — Subscribe to our channel to see more messages from Passion City Church: https://www.youtube.com/passioncitychurch1 —Looking for content for your Kids? Subscribe to our Passion Kids Channel: https://passion.link/passionkidsonline — If you would like to give to our house, visit https://passioncitychurch.com/give/ — Check out Passion's books, music, and more at https://passionresources.com/ — At Passion City Church, we believe that because God has displayed the ultimate sacrifice in Jesus, our response to that in worship must be extravagant. It is our privilege, and our created purpose, to reflect God's Glory to Him through our praise, our sacrifice, and our song. — Follow Passion City Church: https://www.instagram.com/passioncity/ Follow Louie Giglio: https://www.instagram.com/louiegiglio Passion City Church is a Jesus church with locations in Atlanta and Washington D.C.

Louie Giglio introduces the talks from Passion 2022 with the world, calling all of us to live our lives for what matters most: bringing glory to Jesus. — With Passion City Online, you can join us every Sunday live at 9:30a and 11:45a, and our gatherings are available on-demand starting at 7p! Join us at https://passioncitychurch.com — Subscribe to our channel to see more messages from Passion City Church: https://www.youtube.com/passioncitychurch1 — Looking for content for your Kids? Subscribe to our Passion Kids Channel: https://passion.link/passionkidsonline — If you would like to give to our house, visit https://passioncitychurch.com/give/ — Check out Passion's books, music, and more at https://passionresources.com/ — At Passion City Church, we believe that because God has displayed the ultimate sacrifice in Jesus, our response to that in worship must be extravagant. It is our privilege, and our created purpose, to reflect God's Glory to Him through our praise, our sacrifice, and our song. — Follow Passion City Church: https://www.instagram.com/passioncity/ Follow Louie Giglio: https://www.instagram.com/louiegiglio

In the final session of Passion 2022, Louie addresses two foundational questions: Who are we? And why are we here? As we come to understand that God is the author and creator of our lives and that we are written into His story rather than our own, we can answer these questions of identity and purpose through Jesus. — Passion 2022 was held on January 2-3, 2022 at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, GA. To experience Passion conference for yourself, visit https://passionconferences.com/— Subscribe to Passion Conference's channel to see more messages and videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/passionconferences— Check out Passion's books, music, and more at https://passionresources.com/— PASSION EXISTS TO SEE A GENERATION LEVERAGE THEIR LIVES FOR WHAT MATTERS MOST. To live in such a way that their journey on earth counts for what is most important in the end. For us at Passion, that's the fame of the One who rescues and restores, and the privilege we have to amplify His name in everything we do. To stay connected to Passion, follow us on Instagram @passion268: https://www.instagram.com/passion268/ — Follow Louie Giglio: https://www.instagram.com/louiegiglio/

Jennie Allen reminds us that there is healing in confession through connecting with people, connecting with God, and saying it out loud instead of hiding behind a wall of shame. Through Christ, we have been empowered to throw off the weight and sin that entangles us so that we can run the race that God has for us. — Passion 2022 was held on January 2-3, 2022 at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, GA. To experience Passion conference for yourself, visit https://passionconferences.com/— Subscribe to Passion Conference's channel to see more messages and videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/passionconferences — Check out Passion's books, music, and more at https://passionresources.com/ — PASSION EXISTS TO SEE A GENERATION LEVERAGE THEIR LIVES FOR WHAT MATTERS MOST. To live in such a way that their journey on earth counts for what is most important in the end. For us at Passion, that's the fame of the One who rescues and restores, and the privilege we have to amplify His name in everything we do. To stay connected to Passion, follow us on Instagram @passion268: https://www.instagram.com/passion268/ — Follow Jennie Allen: https://www.instagram.com/jennieallen/

Ben Stuart tackles the topic of anxiety, reminding us that we were made for one thing—to know, enjoy, and glorify God. Yet, distraction and anxiety can derail us from our God-given destiny. By beginning to understand how to cast our anxieties on Him, we can embrace His Word and leverage every breath to glorify Him. — Passion 2022 was held on January 2-3, 2022 at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, GA. To experience Passion conference for yourself, visit https://passionconferences.com/— Subscribe to Passion Conference's channel to see more messages and videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/passionconferences— Check out Passion's books, music, and more at https://passionresources.com/— PASSION EXISTS TO SEE A GENERATION LEVERAGE THEIR LIVES FOR WHAT MATTERS MOST. To live in such a way that their journey on earth counts for what is most important in the end. For us at Passion, that's the fame of the One who rescues and restores, and the privilege we have to amplify His name in everything we do. To stay connected to Passion, follow us on Instagram @passion268: https://www.instagram.com/passion268/ — Follow Ben Stuart: https://www.instagram.com/ben_stuart_/

Jackie Hill Perry teaches on the holiness of God through the book of Isaiah. Holiness finds its most precise definition in who God reveals Himself to be. We learn how His transcendence and His moral purity make Him Holy, Holy, Holy. — Passion 2022 was held on January 2-3, 2022 at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, GA. To experience Passion conference for yourself, visit https://passionconferences.com/— Subscribe to Passion Conference's channel to see more messages and videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/passionconferences— Check out Passion's books, music, and more at https://passionresources.com/— PASSION EXISTS TO SEE A GENERATION LEVERAGE THEIR LIVES FOR WHAT MATTERS MOST. To live in such a way that their journey on earth counts for what is most important in the end. For us at Passion, that's the fame of the One who rescues and restores, and the privilege we have to amplify His name in everything we do. To stay connected to Passion, follow us on Instagram @passion268: https://www.instagram.com/passion268/ — Follow Jackie Hill Perry: https://www.instagram.com/jackiehillperry/

David Platt invites us into the stories of unreached people around the world, pleading with us to refuse to settle for a casual, comfortable, cultural Christianity. Instead, we are challenged to follow Jesus and let His worldwide plan of ransom and rescue dictate everything we think, desire, and do.— Passion 2022 was held on January 2-3, 2022 at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, GA. To experience Passion conference for yourself, visit https://passionconferences.com/— Subscribe to Passion Conference's channel to see more messages and videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/passionconferences— Check out Passion's books, music, and more at https://passionresources.com/— PASSION EXISTS TO SEE A GENERATION LEVERAGE THEIR LIVES FOR WHAT MATTERS MOST. To live in such a way that their journey on earth counts for what is most important in the end. For us at Passion, that's the fame of the One who rescues and restores, and the privilege we have to amplify His name in everything we do. To stay connected to Passion, follow us on Instagram @passion268: https://www.instagram.com/passion268/ 

Sadie Robertson Huff shares an impactful message on identity, reminding us that we are who God says we are, not what the world labels us. Once we understand the truth of who God is and who we are in His eyes, we are set free. —Passion 2022 was held on January 2-3, 2022 at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, GA. To experience Passion conference for yourself, visit https://passionconferences.com/— Subscribe to Passion Conference's channel to see more messages and videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/passionconferences— Check out Passion's books, music, and more at https://passionresources.com/— PASSION EXISTS TO SEE A GENERATION LEVERAGE THEIR LIVES FOR WHAT MATTERS MOST. To live in such a way that their journey on earth counts for what is most important in the end. For us at Passion, that's the fame of the One who rescues and restores, and the privilege we have to amplify His name in everything we do. To stay connected to Passion, follow us on Instagram @passion268: https://www.instagram.com/passion268/ — Follow Sadie Robertson Huff: https://www.instagram.com/legitsadierob/

Levi Lusko empowers us with the call that God has placed on all of our lives—to go and make disciples of all nations. We are encouraged to gather and be invigorated by the scattering—starting in our homes and ending on our campuses.— Passion 2022 was held on January 2-3, 2022 at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, GA. To experience Passion conference for yourself, visit https://passionconferences.com/— Subscribe to Passion Conference's channel to see more messages and videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/passionconferences— Check out Passion's books, music, and more at https://passionresources.com/— PASSION EXISTS TO SEE A GENERATION LEVERAGE THEIR LIVES FOR WHAT MATTERS MOST. To live in such a way that their journey on earth counts for what is most important in the end. For us at Passion, that's the fame of the One who rescues and restores, and the privilege we have to amplify His name in everything we do. To stay connected to Passion, follow us on Instagram @passion268: https://www.instagram.com/passion268/ — Follow Levi Lusko: https://www.instagram.com/levilusko/

Tim Tebow rallies us around our collective macro mission, to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, as we faithfully pursue the micro missions that God uniquely designed for each of us. As long as we have breath, we have a purpose.— Passion 2022 was held on January 2-3, 2022 at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, GA. To experience Passion conference for yourself, visit https://passionconferences.com/ — Subscribe to Passion Conference's channel to see more messages and videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/passionconferences — Check out Passion's books, music, and more at https://passionresources.com/ — PASSION EXISTS TO SEE A GENERATION LEVERAGE THEIR LIVES FOR WHAT MATTERS MOST. To live in such a way that their journey on earth counts for what is most important in the end. For us at Passion, that's the fame of the One who rescues and restores, and the privilege we have to amplify His name in everything we do. To stay connected to Passion, follow us on Instagram @passion268: https://www.instagram.com/passion268/ — Follow Tim Tebow: https://www.instagram.com/timtebow/

Christine Caine brings a powerful and purposeful word encouraging this generation to live with a different spirit and wholehearted devotion to Jesus. Through the book of Numbers and the story of Caleb, we are shown what it means to advance the gospel in our generation.— With Passion City Online, you can join us every Sunday live at 9:30a and 11:45a, and our gatherings are available on-demand starting at 7p! Join us at https://passioncitychurch.com — Subscribe to our channel to see more messages from Passion City Church: https://www.youtube.com/passioncitychurch1 — Looking for content for your Kids? Subscribe to our Passion Kids Channel: https://passion.link/passionkidsonline — If you would like to give to our house, visit https://passioncitychurch.com/give/ — Check out Passion's books, music, and more at https://passionresources.com/ — At Passion City Church, we believe that because God has displayed the ultimate sacrifice in Jesus, our response to that in worship must be extravagant. It is our privilege, and our created purpose, to reflect God's Glory to Him through our praise, our sacrifice, and our song. — Follow Passion City Church: https://www.instagram.com/passioncity/ Follow Louie Giglio: https://www.instagram.com/louiegiglio

Jourdan Johnson, Melodie Malone, and Chidima Ubah serve on the worship team at Passion City Church, where they collaborate both on and off the stage while leveraging their gifts for the glory of God. They illustrate the beauty available to us when we choose to celebrate rather than critique those responding with obedience to similar callings. Their voices can be heard leading worship at Passion Conferences, Passion's Sunday gatherings, and of course at The Grove, a monthly gathering for the women of Atlanta, hosted by Shelley Giglio and The Grove Team, now available online for women everywhere. The Grove is a part of the Passion City Church family in Atlanta, Georgia. Follow @pcc_thegrove on Instagram and visit thegroveonline.com for more information about The Grove, our gatherings and our FLOURISH mentoring journey. 

Pastor Louie Giglio welcomes us into a brand new series, "By Faith". He teaches us that faith is a step into the promise. What promise has God spoken over you? Are you ready to fight for it? VERSES // Hebrews 11:1, 3, 6, 8-16, Hebrews 10:35-39 — With Passion City Online, you can join us every Sunday live at 9:30a and 11:45a, and our gatherings are available on-demand starting at 7p! Join us at https://passioncitychurch.com — Subscribe to our channel to see more messages from Passion City Church: https://www.youtube.com/passioncitychurch1 — Looking for content for your Kids? Subscribe to our Passion Kids Channel: https://passion.link/passionkidsonline — If you would like to give to our house, visit https://passioncitychurch.com/give/ — Check out Passion's books, music, and more at https://passionresources.com/ — At Passion City Church, we believe that because God has displayed the ultimate sacrifice in Jesus, our response to that in worship must be extravagant. It is our privilege, and our created purpose, to reflect God's Glory to Him through our praise, our sacrifice, and our song. — Follow Passion City Church: https://www.instagram.com/passioncity/ Follow Louie Giglio: https://www.instagram.com/louiegiglio Passion City Church is a Jesus church with locations in Atlanta and Washington D.C. — Musicbed SyncID: MB01SZUBJ45HROU

Katherine Wolf shares how we can all embrace the GoodHARD life, understanding that God made us for the hard things. We are no longer the victim of our stories, but the overcomer. VERSES // Isaiah 45:3, Colossians 3:1-2, Psalm 42:5, John 16:33, Psalm 16:6, Galatians 6:4-5 — With Passion City Online, you can join us every Sunday live at 9:30a and 11:45a, and our gatherings are available on-demand starting at 7p! Join us at https://passioncitychurch.com — Subscribe to our channel to see more messages from Passion City Church: https://www.youtube.com/passioncitychurch1 — Looking for content for your Kids? Subscribe to our Passion Kids Channel: https://passion.link/passionkidsonline — If you would like to give to our house, visit https://passioncitychurch.com/give/ — Check out Passion's books, music, and more at https://passionresources.com/ — At Passion City Church, we believe that because God has displayed the ultimate sacrifice in Jesus, our response to that in worship must be extravagant. It is our privilege, and our created purpose, to reflect God's Glory to Him through our praise, our sacrifice, and our song. — Follow Passion City Church: https://www.instagram.com/passioncity/ Follow Louie Giglio: https://www.instagram.com/louiegiglio Passion City Church is a Jesus church with locations in Atlanta and Washington D.C.

Sadie Robertson Huff is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, influencer, and founder of Live Original. She joins Shelley Giglio for a conversation about the tough moments in our lives where we can choose to believe God is sovereign and in control in a seemingly out-of-control world. This conversation was recorded live at The Grove, a gathering for the women of Atlanta, Georgia, now in its ninth year. These gatherings are also available online for women everywhere. For more information about how to experience these nights in-person or online, visit thegroveonline.com and follow @pcc_thegrove on Instagram. Shelley and Sadie reference several messages from Passion Conference 2022, all of which can be experienced on Passion Digital All Access. From its start in 1997, the Passion movement has had a singular mission—calling students and leaders from campuses across the nation and cities around the world to live for what matters most. To learn more about how you can attend or serve at the next conference, visit Passion Conferences. To hear more from Sadie, check out her podcast Whoa, That's Good, subscribe to her channel on YouTube and follow @legitsadierob on Instagram. Her latest book, Who Are You Following?, is available now wherever books are sold.

Louie Giglio is back with us today, and you need to drop everything and listen now!    Okay, maybe it's not that urgent but what a gift to have Louie join us in continuing our series on lies we believe as Christians. Today we're discussing the common misconception that science and God do not line up, making christians have to turn a blind eye to certain science premises because of our faith.    Louie encourages us to actually do the opposite and stay diligent in exploring science to see how all things lead us back to God. We also discuss how important it is to have these discussions with our kids so they aren't blown out of the water having never considered this “science vs. God narrative” after they leave our homes.    Louie has a new devotional out for our younger kids (ages 8-12) called The Wonder of Creation: 100 More Devotions About God and Science. Grab a copy for the little ones in your life as a great way to start science related discussions.    Lastly, if you aren't familiar with his Passion Conferences for college kids, today is your perfect chance for an insider's look as Louie shares some of the most meaningful moments in Atlanta last month. 

As one of the most consistent servant leaders in the Passion movement, Kristian Stanfill's voice has led landmark songs like “Always,” “Heart Abandoned,” “One Thing Remains” and “Forever Reign.” The commitment that's so visible on stage comes from a life lived in servant leadership behind the scenes.Kristian has been a part of the Passion family since 2005, citing Louie and Shelly Giglio as significant factors in mentoring his calling to worship ministry into maturity. However, his personal pull towards this work goes back even further, to an experience at a youth camp that transformed his life. That testimony has driven him to becoming a participant in God's transformation of tens of thousands of students through Passion Conferences.You'll hear Kristian's story and his wisdom in this latest episode of Trevor Talks, as well as getting a window into how the ministry of Passion intersected with Trevor's own calling.Get Burn Bright, the latest from Passion, on Spotify and Apple Music. Follow Kristian Stanfill and Passion Music:Website: passionmusic.comFacebook: Passion MusicInstagram: @kpstanfillYouTube: Passion MusicFor more Trevor Talks:SpotifyApple MusicGoogle PodcastsInstagramFacebook

If you missed or want to relive your experience at Passion 2022, join me! Today, I share my experience with Passion Conferences. If you listen to the end, there is an opportunity of a lifetime waiting for you!

Louie closes out this season of Back to the Benz by sitting down with four other team members who spearhead the Passion Movement: Shelley Giglio, Jonathan Sheehan, Misty Paige and Brad Jones. Together, they talk through what it takes to plan and execute a large stadium event like Passion 2022— zooming in on some of the specifics like choosing the size and location of a venue, and zooming out on things like how to hold the tension between hard work and faith that God will come through.  Rooted in 25 years of event experience, this team gets practical and profound and lays out a strong approach for what it takes to do a stadium event.-To learn more about Passion 2022, visit passion2022.com. 

Many people these days struggle with anxiety and the pressures of life. We need to learn to break free from unhealthy thought patterns and live with the freedom God wants to give us. Louie Giglio is the Pastor of Passion City Church, and founder of Passion Conferences which has impacted millions of young people across the nation. Pick up Louie's book "Don't Give The Enemy a Seat at Your Table” here: https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Give-Enemy-Seat-Table/dp/078524722X/. Pick up Matt's book "Truth Plus Love” here: amazon.com/Truth-Plus-Love-Jesus-Influence/dp/0310355249/. For more from Matt Brown, and to receive our free e-book “5 Spiritual Keys to Find Fulfillment in God” go to: Thinke.org

This week we're jumping into some amazing messages from Passion Conferences past. If you're inspired, you can be in the room for Passion 2022 this year. Make sure to register today!—Register for Passion 2022 at Passion2022.com—With Passion City Online, you can join us every Sunday live at 9:30a and 11:45a, and our gatherings are available on-demand starting at 2p! Join us at https://passioncitychurch.com/online—Subscribe to our channel to see more messages from Passion City Church: https://www.youtube.com/passioncitychurch1—Looking for content for your Kids? Subscribe to our Passion Kids Channel: https://passion.link/passionkidsonline—At Passion City Church, we believe that because God has displayed the ultimate sacrifice in Jesus, our response to that in worship must be extravagant. It is our privilege, and our created purpose, to reflect God's Glory to Him through our praise, our sacrifice, and our song.—Follow Passion City Church: https://www.instagram.com/passioncity/Passion City Church is a Jesus church with locations in Atlanta

This week we're jumping into some amazing messages from Passion Conferences past. If you're inspired, you can be in the room for Passion 2022 this year. Make sure to register today!—Register for Passion 2022 at Passion2022.com—With Passion City Online, you can join us every Sunday live at 9:30a and 11:45a, and our gatherings are available on-demand starting at 2p! Join us at https://passioncitychurch.com/online—Subscribe to our channel to see more messages from Passion City Church: https://www.youtube.com/passioncitychurch1—Looking for content for your Kids? Subscribe to our Passion Kids Channel: https://passion.link/passionkidsonline—At Passion City Church, we believe that because God has displayed the ultimate sacrifice in Jesus, our response to that in worship must be extravagant. It is our privilege, and our created purpose, to reflect God's Glory to Him through our praise, our sacrifice, and our song.—Follow Passion City Church: https://www.instagram.com/passioncity/Passion City Church is a Jesus church with locations in Atlanta

This week we're jumping into some amazing messages from Passion Conferences past. If you're inspired, you can be in the room for Passion 2022 this year. Make sure to register before the price jumps after July 8th!—Register for Passion 2022 at Passion2022.com—With Passion City Online, you can join us every Sunday live at 9:30a and 11:45a, and our gatherings are available on-demand starting at 2p! Join us at https://passioncitychurch.com/online—Subscribe to our channel to see more messages from Passion City Church: https://www.youtube.com/passioncitychurch1—Looking for content for your Kids? Subscribe to our Passion Kids Channel: https://passion.link/passionkidsonline—At Passion City Church, we believe that because God has displayed the ultimate sacrifice in Jesus, our response to that in worship must be extravagant. It is our privilege, and our created purpose, to reflect God's Glory to Him through our praise, our sacrifice, and our song.—Follow Passion City Church: https://www.instagram.com/passioncity/Passion City Church is a Jesus church with locations in Atlanta

In this episode, Lisa talks about how she created her dream life; living in Paraguay, happily married, working only a few days a week, and capturing experiences. Lisa talks about what ignited her to take the action that led her down the path to create the life she lives today. With time, perseverance, thinking outside the box, taking small action steps, and not giving up, she has made her dreams a reality. Her message is to live your life NOW.Lisa grew up in Northern California where she received her Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from National University in 2006. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the State of California and has an online private practice. In her 15 years experience, she has successfully helped people overcome anxiety, depression, and trauma. In 2017, she made some life changing decisions. Lisa had a full time, in-person, private practice in Northern California but she had a deep desire to travel, explore the world, and learn about culture. She took action and is now living in Paraguay in South America and is loving every minute of it! Her passion is also to help people accomplish their dreams so that they wake up every single day with joy and zero regrets.Follow Lisa on InstagramLisa's WebsiteEmail Lisa at  Lisajellison517@yahoo.comFollow Candace on Instagram

This week we're jumping into some amazing messages from Passion Conferences past. If you're inspired, you can be in the room for Passion 2022 this year. Make sure to register before the price jumps after July 8th!—Register for Passion 2022 at Passion2022.com—With Passion City Online, you can join us every Sunday live at 9:30a and 11:45a, and our gatherings are available on-demand starting at 2p! Join us at https://passioncitychurch.com/online—Subscribe to our channel to see more messages from Passion City Church: https://www.youtube.com/passioncitychurch1—Looking for content for your Kids? Subscribe to our Passion Kids Channel: https://passion.link/passionkidsonline—At Passion City Church, we believe that because God has displayed the ultimate sacrifice in Jesus, our response to that in worship must be extravagant. It is our privilege, and our created purpose, to reflect God's Glory to Him through our praise, our sacrifice, and our song.—Follow Passion City Church: https://www.instagram.com/passioncity/ Passion City Church is a Jesus church with locations in Atlanta

Louie Giglio joins the show. Louie is the pastor of Passion City Church in Atlanta, the founder and lead visionary of the Passion Conferences movement, and author of Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table. Louie shares lessons from the last year, talks about his latest book, and unpacks what he's sensing and hearing from leaders right now. Plus, 5 New Things From the Internet. Make sure to check out http://h3leadership.com to access the list and all the show notes. Thanks again to our partners for this episode: Gloo—from Gloo and Barna—Barna Cities is now available. A brand-NEW year-long local learning journey, which also includes GlooConnect and Barna Access. Go to http://BarnaCities.com for more information and to sign up. And also to Ministry Grid—the online tool to develop and disciple your church. Ministry Grid is offering our podcast listeners $200 off the regular Ministry Grid price. For just $399 a year, you can get unlimited access for your church. Just go to http://ministrygrid.com/h3 to learn more about this special offer.

Serving God can often rob us of the joy of simply being with Him. In this episode, Christy Nockels, a wife and mother, singer-songwriter, and worship leader for Passion Conferences and IF: Gathering, shares how she made decisions to begin living more from a heart of rest. Christy shares about: A season when God called her to take a break from her ministry, and confront the false sense of purpose and worth she was finding in her career.How she learned to find rest in God's presence in every act of service she does as a parent.How she found her highest calling not in a duty to uphold, but in a beautiful identity to live out. Show Notes: ORDER CHRISTY'S BOOK! The Life You Long For: Living From a Heart of Rest is a beautiful invitation to discover your place in God's heart and let Him set the pace for your life.

A graduate of UT Austin, Nick Brandt began a career in the corporate marketplace consulting before following a calling to into full-time vocational ministry. Nick uses his diverse skillset and energy to consult and partner with organizations, ministries, and churches to accomplish their missions and serve their needs. His expertise lies mainly in collegiate and young adult ministries, event direction and management, and ministry development and growth. He has worked on staff for The Flippen Group (FlippenGroup.com), Young Life (Younglife.org), and Passion Conferences (passionconferences.com), and many years leading the collegiate ministry at Passion City Church (passioncitychurch.com) under the direction of Louie Giglio. In 2017, Nick helped plant an Acts 29 church, The Well Austin (TheWellAustin.com), and completed his Masters degree in Christian Leadership and Biblical studies at Dallas Theological Seminary. Currently he serves as a senior director at Pulse (Pulse.org) – a millennial-led evangelistic organization focusing on innovative campaigns to make Jesus known – and is the founder and director at The Gathering ATX (thegatheringatx.com) -  monthly gatherings of worship, word, and prayer in the heart of UT Austin. Most people may also be surprised to find out he has over 25+ years working professionally as an actor, model, and host within the national entertainment industry. Instagram: @thenickbrandt Twitter: @NickBrandt Website: nickbrandt.us 

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Where do you find your inner peace? Today Gabe and I talk to dear friend, author, singer-songwriter, and worship leader for Passion Conferences and IF:Gathering, Christy Nockels, about how she lives her life in cadence with God’s peace and love. In her new book, The Life You Long For, she shows us how to let go of hustle and achievement and instead find our identity in the quiet center of God’s love.  LINKS:Check out Christy’s new book, The Life You Long ForListen to Christy’s podcast, Glorious in the MundaneRegister for the Marriage & Parenting Renewal Retreat happening May 6-7.Ready to begin living in rhythm? Grab bestseller, Rhythms of Renewal, today!Discover your healthiest rhythm by taking Rebekah’s quiz.Change the life of a child by becoming a monthly food donor with our friends at Africa New Life.Are you looking for a simple, effective, and positive way to care for yourself in this season? Join the free Feel Good Pilates Challenge hosted by The Balanced Life. 

Happy New Year from the Grove Podcast! We are kicking it off with a 3-part series called Table Talks: Live from Passion 2021. As you may know, the Grove is a ministry of Passion City Church which was birthed out of the Passion Conference - a movement for 18-25 year olds who want to leverage their whole lives for Jesus. Since 1997, Passion Conference has gathered in arenas, fields, and stadiums with tens of thousands of young people. This year, we rang in 2021 at Passion with a virtual gathering that was able to host over 700,000 people worldwide! Many guests joined to encourage us around God’s Word and lead us in worship, and you can still catch it all on YouTube at the Passion Conferences channel. Some highlights were short round-table conversations facilitated by Shelley Giglio. Today’s episode is the first chat she had with Levi Lusko, Jackie Hill Perry, Ben Stuart, and Christian Huff as they come around how the Gospel transformed their lives and what that means for their present and future. We trust you’ll be encouraged! And be sure to check out passion2021.com to get more resources from this amazing gathering.

In this episode of the Unseen Leadership podcast, Chandler Vannoy and Josh Hunter are joined by Christy Nockels who is a wife, mother, podcaster, and worship leader for global movements like Passion Conferences and IF:Gathering. And she is also now an author with her debut book The Life You Long For. During their conversation, they discuss how to rest in God as a leader, how to protect ourselves from comparison, and the benefits of collaboration in leadership. QUOTES FROM EPISODE 53: “I was living for God, but I found myself in a place where I didn’t know how to live from God.” “We need to learn to live from a heart of rest, and when I say rest, I don’t just mean weekly Sabbath. I mean a soul rest.” “Resting in God is a posture of trusting God to make a way for us and not hustling for it on our own.” “When you live from your own belovedness, you lead from a place for contending and fighting for it in others.” “As leaders, it is easy to “yes” ourselves into exhaustion.” “I’ve tried to view social media as a place of serving others instead of feeding my soul.” “It is a gift to be able to collaborate with others.” RESOURCES MENTIONED The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer Abiding in Christ by Andrew Murray The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer The Birkman Personality Test

On this episode, we’re joined by Aaron McClung. Aaron is the founder and principal of AM, a full-service branding, marketing, and technology firm in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. For over two decades, AM has served businesses and nonprofits of all sizes including Carrier Corporation, AT&T, Sonic Restaurants, Phillips 66, North American Mission Board, Goodwill Industries, TobyMac, Kyser Musical Products (capos), Passion Conferences, NFL Hall of Famer Ray Lewis, and hundreds more. AM was recognized by the SMU Cox School of Business as one of the 100 fastest growing companies in Dallas in 2009. AM’s work has also been recognized by The Dallas Society of Visual Communications and the American Advertising Federation – Fort Worth. https://aaronmcclung.com/ https://www.discoveram.com Questions and lessons explored in this episode: What are some biblical principles for branding? Should business branding be product-focused or purpose-focused? What are some examples of purpose-focused businesses with great branding? Does product-focused branding work in today’s marketplace? Christianity in Business is the show that helps Christian business leaders to integrate biblical values into business. | Entrepreneurship | Marketing | Nonprofit | Church | Author | Startups | Marketplace | Ministry | Business as Mission | Faith and Work | Faith | Success | Leadership | www.ChristianityInBusiness.com

One of the greatest things we can live for is the glory of God. Have you ever heard anyone talk about this before? My guest this week is Louie Giglio, Pastor of Passion City Church in Atlanta, Georgia, and the founder of Passion Conferences. His mantra for decades has been from Isaiah 26:8, "Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts." He is calling for a 268 generation. There is something about this heart that yearns for the glory of God. I believe it was we were all created for -- to know God and to make Him known. To live for His glory, and to enjoy Him forever. All other pursuits miss their ultimate purpose without this. I still remember hearing about one of the old Passion gatherings in a field twenty years ago when I was a student in my college dorm. It impacted me profoundly back then, and Louie shares some of those personal stories about that meeting. So buckle up, because God showed up in our conversation today! Pick up Louie's book "Not Forsaken" here: amazon.com/dp/B07RDY3CVH/. Pick up Matt's book "Truth Plus Love: The Jesus Way to Influence" here: amazon.com/Truth-Plus-Love-Jesus-Influence/dp/0310355249/ For more from Matt Brown, and to receive our free gift “5 Spiritual Keys to Find Fulfillment in God” which will help you get started into the life of fulfillment God has for you, go to: Thinke.org

Jeff and Lee interview video director extraordinaire, Rusty Anderson. Rusty is the video director behind Passion Conferences, Chris Tomlin, any MANY others. He gave some very practical advice about cinematic video in live settings. Also you'll hear how cinema cameras are invading broadcast environments and how we can all get ahead of the curve. Check this episode out as you navigate this new landscape of the digital Church.

In Episode 4 of Life with Lisa Harper , Lisa continues her conversation with her good friend Shelley Giglio. Lisa and Shelley discuss the power of prayer, the nature of choosing to walk through hardship, and how pain legitimizes your testimony. They also explore the peace of God's presence in our lives when we don't have answers to difficult questions and how you must put pressure on the areas of your life where you want to grow spiritually. This is Part 2 of a 2 part interview. Shelley Giglio is the chief strategist, director of label operations and artist management for sixstepsrecords, an Atlanta-based record label, and leads The Grove, a monthly gathering for the women of Atlanta. Shelley is intricately involved in leading and directing sixstepsrecords/Capitol CMG artists. In addition, she and her husband, Louie, founded Passion Conferences in 1997, and in 2009 they planted Passion City Church with multiple campuses in Atlanta and Washington, D.C. Together, they lead the Passion Movement and are committed to spreading the fame of Jesus Christ to college-aged people around the globe. You can follow Shelley and learn more about her at the links below. Shelley's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shelleygiglio/?hl=en Shelley's Twitter: https://twitter.com/shelleygiglio?lang=en Passion City Church: https://passioncitychurch.com/ Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/life-with-lisa-harper/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

In Episode 3 of Life with Lisa Harper , Lisa has a conversation with her good friend Shelley Giglio. Lisa and Shelley dive into the Giglios' story, and explore God's faithfulness through the good and challenging seasons. Shelley speaks about the tough life transition when Louie's dad passed away and they moved to Atlanta, as well as when Louie fell into deep anxiety. Shelley and Lisa discuss how God uses the dark seasons of our lives to prune us and equip us for what lies ahead, and how we should handle the words that others speak over our lives. This is Part 1 of a 2 part interview. Shelley Giglio is the chief strategist, director of label operations and artist management for sixstepsrecords, an Atlanta-based record label, and leads The Grove, a monthly gathering for the women of Atlanta. Shelley is intricately involved in leading and directing sixstepsrecords/Capitol CMG artists. In addition, she and her husband, Louie, founded Passion Conferences in 1997, and in 2009 they planted Passion City Church with multiple campuses in Atlanta and Washington, D.C. Together, they lead the Passion Movement and are committed to spreading the fame of Jesus Christ to college-aged people around the globe. You can follow Shelley and learn more about her at the links below. Shelley's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shelleygiglio/?hl=en Shelley's Twitter: https://twitter.com/shelleygiglio?lang=en Passion City Church: https://passioncitychurch.com/ Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/life-with-lisa-harper/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Get up close and personal with Louie & Shelley Giglio, two of the most influential couples in the Church today! Louie and Shelley Giglio are leaders and founders of the Passion Movement, which includes Passion Conferences, Passion Music, and Passion City Church. Their ministry has impacted millions, and in this special interview from Hillsong Conference 2019, they share some of their personal journey, challenges they've faced and lessons they've learnt along the way. This episode is not to be missed! Louie's Message Notes

Don't Waste Your Life (Part 1) - John PiperDon't Waste Your Life (Part 2) - John PiperDon't Waste Your Life (Part 3) - John PiperFamilyLife Today® Radio TranscriptReferences to conferences, resources, or other special promotions may be obsolete. Don't Waste Your LifeDay 3 of 3 Guest:                            John Piper From the Series:         Boasting in the Cross ________________________________________________________________ Bob:                On days other than Good Friday is the cross central to your thinking?  Is it central to your life?  Here's Dr. John Piper with thoughts about the cross. John:              The word "cross" might mean something you're crucified on, or it might mean a piece of jewelry, or it might mean the last name of somebody you know, but in redemptive historical terms Jesus Christ the Son of God came into the world, He lived a perfect life, He laid Himself out voluntarily to be slaughtered on a cross.  He breathed his last breath in obedience to the Father so that He was a perfectly righteous substitute.  Then He raised Himself from the dead, He was taken up, sits at the right hand of God, intercedes for us.  When I say "the cross," I mean that great redemptive work from incarnation to the installation at God's right hand.  Yeah, that's really crucial to see. Bob:                This is FamilyLife Today for Friday, July 28th.  Our host is the president of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.  Today we'll look at the implications of the cross, why it still matters for your life 2,000 years later.                         And welcome to FamilyLife Today, thanks for joining us on the Friday edition.  You know, Dennis, I don't know that I will ever forget something that I heard our guest today say.  I remember where I was.  I was driving along on a highway on my way to Mount Ida, Arkansas.  I was tooling along listening to John Piper on tape, and he was saying that the world is not going to look at Christians in times of prosperity and say "I want to be a Christian," because you know what?  When Christians are blessed, they say "Praise the Lord," and when pagans are blessed, all we say is, "Boy, wasn't that lucky?"  He said, "No, the world is going to sit up and take notice when we go through adversity, and we still have a confidence in God; when we go through trials, and when we live the kind of radical life, then the world will say, 'Where does that come from?'"  And I thought, "He's right.  I am too comfortable, I am too content."  In fact, I should say here at the very beginning there needs to be a surgeon general warning on today's program. Dennis:          Mm-hm, I'll tell you that. Bob:                This program will create conviction in your soul and could bring you to a point of personal repentance yourself. Dennis:          It could bring you to the conclusion that you are dangerously close, too close, to the world. Bob:                Yeah, and it might bring you to the point where you need to get more dangerously involved in the Gospel.  And so let me introduce the pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church and the person who has brought me under conviction many times, John Piper, who is back with us for a third day.  Welcome back to FamilyLife Today. John:              Thanks, I'm real glad to be here. Bob:                And this book, "Don't Waste Your Life," you felt so strongly about this book you went to the publisher and said, "I want to give 50,000 copies of this book away." John:              Yeah, we created a website just to give it away called "Don't Waste Your Life."  You can go there now, but we don't give them away anymore, because people took them, and we got a special deal because we just wanted to jumpstart the impact of the book and give as many away as we could, so we raised the money and people took them. Bob:                Gave away 50,000?  Do you have any idea – any of the stories of folks who wrote to get a copy of this book? John:              Not yet. Dennis:          John, at the end of the broadcast yesterday, we challenged the listener to consider writing a title deed and transferring ownership over to Jesus Christ to become a disciple, a learner, a follower, a pursuer of God and His agenda for their lives.  And this is really at the core of what "Don't Waste Your Life" is all about.  In fact, you quote 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, as really one of the seminal passages in the New Testament calling people to deny themselves, take up their cross, and follow Christ. John:              Yeah, the link that I heard, what you ended the program that way, was between signing your life off so that it belongs now to another and the glory of God, which is the ultimate value of the universe and the value that we live to display, and the link is made there in that verse in 1 Corinthians 6 because Paul says you are not your own, you were bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your bodies, which are God's.  So he made the link between being owned by God and glorifying God.  And so I think you're absolutely right – every person should be challenged to sign the title of their lives over to another who will not then say, "Ah, now I have a slave."  He will say, "No longer do I call you slaves.  I call you friends.  And now, come on, let's live together to magnify my glory in the world, thus says the Lord."                         So that was the link I heard, and I thought it was crucial because the cross is right at the center of this book, and that's what I thought it might be helpful to think about a little bit – in what way is the cross center, because this book grew out of the one-day event in Memphis, Tennessee, in the year 2000, I think it was, where I delivered a message called "Boasting Only in the Cross," and told the illustration of the shells and so on that we talked about a couple of days ago.  That message was taken from Galatians 6:14, which says, "God forbid that I should glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ by which the world was crucified to me and I to the world," and I raised the question, "Really?  How can you only boast in the cross, only glory, only enjoy the cross?  What about your family?  What about your health?  What about your job?  I mean, aren't these good things that the Lord has given us?  Shouldn't we be glad that we have them?"  And my answer was, "Yes, you should be glad that you have them, but you should realize that as a sinner you only have them to enjoy forever because Christ died to take away the penalty of judgment and to become your righteousness and to become your sacrifice."                         So the cross is relevant for every single delight in my life.  If it's a beautiful blue sky day outside, and I have eyes to see it, I should be glad because of the cross, because apart from the cross I'd be in hell today.  He would snuff me out of existence because I deserved to be judged.  So the cross really is an absolutely central reality in everything I think about and everything we all do. Dennis:          And the passage that commands us as followers after Christ to take up our cross and follow after Him – what do you think He's challenging us to do at that point, John?  If the cross is to be central, and we're focusing on Christ-finished work, the love that is poured out there, the grace, forgiveness, the purpose, the peace with God, the relationship with God, all that's found in the cross, and He commands us to pick up our own cross, it seems to me at points it's almost like the fine print in the contract.  It's like now that he's got me, hello, there's a cross that I must carry. John:              Yeah, the whole text, in fact, uses the words "deny."  If anyone would be my disciple and deny himself and take up His cross and follow me, but the argument that he gives following that verse is "For he who seeks to save his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake and the Gospels will find it," and you do want to find it, don't you?  Therefore, lose it.                         So you've got this paradoxical call from the Lord saying, "Look, I have come to give you life.  I will give you everlasting joy in My presence at My Father's right hand if you join me on the Calvary road of self-denial and love."  Now, what does that mean?  I think it means assess all the things that stand in the way of making Jesus look more valuable than life and get rid of them.                         In other words, it might be your car, it might be your house, it might be the job you presently have.  Whatever is standing between you and an effective display of the superior worth of Jesus in your life, let it go.  That's what I think self-denial is. Dennis:          Isn't it interesting how we, as believers, can find something or someone or some activity that we enjoy and become enslaved to other than God?  It's just fascinating to me.  He made us to know Him, walk with Him, enjoy Him, interact with Him, and yet it's as though we're running from the hound of heaven in pursuit of all these different things, even the ministry.  And you've experienced this as a pastor, I'm sure – even the ministry can be addictive. John:              Right, it can be.  And how to move away from that without contradicting the goodness of creation is a challenge.  Because most of the idols that we have are good, they just shouldn't be idols.  And so to move away from them, you can swing to the ascetic side where you become a creation-denying person, and do you know who I got a lot of help from on that, is St. Augustine, and it's a prayer that he made.  He said, "He loves Thee too little who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake."  I found that very helpful, because it's saying anything can be an idol, any good thing can be an idol.  "He loves thee too little who loves anything together with Thee," and then he qualifies it by saying, "Which he loves not for Thy sake," which means that any good thing that is an idol can be deposed from its idolatrous position and become an instrument of worship.  So you might be worshiping food, and the solution to that is not to starve yourself to death with an eating disorder, but rather to say it's a precious gift from God to be used in moderation for the joy it brings and the strength it brings, and I will now turn all my eating back in thanks and worship to God and eat in moderation.  That's the kind of thing that he wants the shift to involve. Bob:                We started talking about not the cross that we pick up and carry but about the one that He carried for us.  I don't know that I can go through the day consciously aware of the cross.  Is that something that comes to mind on a conscious level for you, hour by hour, throughout a day? John:              I wish it came more often.  I think, to be honest there, I'd have to say no.  But my prayer is that when Paul said, "God forbid that I should glory, exalt, boast, rejoice, save in the cross, he meant, I think, number one, the cross bought all my joys as a believer.  It bought all my joys.  Therefore, as I rejoice in anything, that joy should be attached to the cross.  It doesn't, I'm sure, have to consciously be at every moment but probably more often than we do.  If we could realize the magnitude in the history, in the universe, of what happened when Christ, the Son of God, died in the place of sinners and provided a righteousness for us ungodly people, I think we would be more ravished with it than we are, and it would be more constant in our thinking than it is.  So, to be honest, no, but to express my longing, I wish it were. Dennis:          And so, for you, when you say, "I want to glory in the cross, I want to focus on the cross, I want to be caught up in the cross," you are caught up with the presence of God, His righteousness, His incarnation, His death on the cross on behalf of your sins, His burial and resurrection and ascension into heaven.  Have I done a good job of paraphrasing or describing what you are caught up with as we describe the cross?  Because a lot of people wear it as jewelry, and it's an event.  It's not just an event, though, is it, John? John:              That's a very helpful observation for the radio, especially, because the word "cross" might mean something you're crucified on, or it might mean a piece of jewelry, or it might mean the last name of somebody you know, but you summed it up – in redemptive historical terms, that's right – Jesus Christ the Son of God came into the world, He lived a perfect life becoming a holy, perfect lamb of God, He laid Himself out voluntarily to be slaughtered on a cross.  He poured out his forgiveness on us – "Father, forgive them, they don't know what they're doing" – He breathed his last breath in obedience to the Father so that He was a perfectly righteous substitute, and then He raised Himself from the dead.  I say that, even though the Father raised Him, it says in Romans 6, because He said, "Nobody takes my life from me.  I'll lay it down, and if I lay it down, I can take it again."  Jesus Almighty raised Himself from the dead, He was taken up, sits at the right hand of God, intercedes for us.  When I say "the cross," I mean that great redemptive work from incarnation to the installation at God's right hand.  Yeah, that's really crucial to see. Dennis:          And to that person who is listening to us right now, who does not have the awe, who does not have the wonder, who looks at the cross and said, "Yeah, that was an event in history," but who doesn't know the Savior, who doesn't know God's forgiveness, the peace with God that passes all understanding, what would you say to that person right now?   John:              Depending on how much they know, I would say, "Get to know Him by looking at the Scriptures, reading the Gospels, and once you see Him crucified, risen, then do what the Bible says – "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved."  And if you say, "Believe on Him," what does that mean?  What does that involved – believe on Him?                         I would say take these three words – it means trust Him or accept Him or embrace Him as Savior from your sin and judgment, as Lord of your life who has the right to dictate what is healthy and good and right for you to do, and the third and maybe just as important as the other three is embrace Him as your treasure, because I find that many people today will talk about Jesus as Savior or Jesus as Lord, and it's such worn-out language, they don't really realize the impact it must have in the transformation of their values.  But when I say, "Is He your treasure?  Are you accepting Him as your treasure," to as many as received Him, to them gave me power to become the children of God, receive Him as what, that I say, "Treasure, the treasure of your life."  Then they say, "Whoa, maybe He's not."                         And so I would say to every listener, get to know Him well enough to see that He is a Savior.  He is a wonderful Lord.  He's not a hard taskmaster, and He is a treasure that is so valuable that you can "let goods and kindred go, this mortal life, old soul, the body they may kill, God's truth abided still," and you can live a radical God-glorifying lifestyle because He's the treasure that will never fail. Dennis:          We have people listening from all types of denominations, and when you just went through what you explained, immediately they thought, "Well, do I need to pray to be able to move into that right relationship with God?  Do I need to kneel?  Do I need to go to a church or a cathedral?  Where do I need to go, how do I go about establishing this right relationship with God?" John:              One of the most beautiful things to me about the coming of Jesus Christ into the world is that He de-localized and de-externalized worship.  Because when He met the woman at the well, and she said, "Well, now, help me to understand this worship issue, Jesus.  Do we worship in this mountain or do we worship in Jerusalem?"  And Jesus said, "The day is coming and now is when you will not worship in this mountain or in Jerusalem, but you will worship in spirit and in truth."                         Notice the shift in categories from geography to spirit, and the reason he shifted from mountain in Jerusalem to truth in spirit is because truth in spirit can be anywhere, anytime.  In fact, Jesus Himself becomes the new temple.  Christianity is the one religion that has no geographic center.  We have no shrine.  You don't have to go anywhere or move one single muscle to get right with God through Jesus Christ because Jesus Christ is here, now, whenever He is called upon.                          And so I would say, "Call upon the name of the Lord, and you will be saved" – Romans 10:13.  And you can do that without moving your tongue.  A paralyzed person lying in bed unable to move eyelash or tongue can call upon the name of the Lord in their heart, and He promises you, "Call upon me as Savior, as Lord, as treasure, and you'll have all your sins forgiven, and you will have a righteousness imputed to you.  You'll have a home in heaven with me forever, because you've just honored me as a great Savior." Dennis:          And what I would say to the listener after the compelling picture you've presented to them of the love of God, poured out in the person of Jesus Christ, after we've spent an entire broadcast describing the cross and how attractive it is – if right now that picture, the person of Jesus Christ and all the cross represents is attractive to you as Savior, Lord, and treasure, right now, don't drive another mile, don't do another activity at work or at home or wherever you are listening to this broadcast.  Right now stop and make it right with God.  Do business with Him. John:              And, you know, I would just add when you use the word "attractive," they're going to feel that as yes and no, aren't they? Dennis:          Uh-huh, they are. John:              The cross is horrific.  It is ugly.  In fact, we've seen it recently in the movie.  It's really ugly.  Mel Gibson's, "The Passion of Christ," portrays Gethsemane and the cross for what it really was and yet in that very substitutionary ugliness is the attraction.  I mean, my only hope is that that didn't happen to me, it happened to Him for me, and so I'm both repulsed by it.  I've talked to people who say they can't watch more than a third of that movie, it's so horrible, and yet others are drawn to that movie because that it happened is my only hope.                         And so I hope that my effort to describe the meaning of that suffering will really help people see what that's all about. Bob:                You know, I was in the audience with about 3,000 others back in April when you spoke at the "Together for the Gospel" conference in Louisville, and you talked about how the cross is really the centerpiece of the Gospel, and if we're going to present the Gospel, we have to present the reality of the cross.  And if that's the centerpiece of our life, then our life is not going to be a wasted life.                         I really want to encourage our listeners, get a copy of John's book, "Don't Waste Your Life," which we have in our FamilyLife Resource Center.  This would be a good book to read together with your teenagers over the summer or just hand it off to them as a reading assignment and pay them $15, $20, whatever it takes, to get them to read it.  Maybe there's some other incentive you can use to get them to go through this book, and have them write a book report on it and report back to you on what they learned from the book.                         We have it, again, in our FamilyLife Resource Center.  Go to our website, FamilyLife.com, and in the center of the home page, you'll see a little button that says "Go."  Click on that button, it will take you right to the page where you can get more information about John's book, "Don't Waste Your Life."  You can order online if you'd like.  Again, it's FamilyLife.com or you can call 1-800-358-6329; that's 1-800-F-as-in-family, L-as-in-life, and then the word TODAY, and someone on our team can let you know how you can have a copy of this book sent out to you.                         I've already mentioned this week that my daughter had a chance to hear you speak at one of the Passion Conferences a few years ago.  In fact, she heard you twice – one year – I think it was in Texas, and the next year it was in Tennessee, and she brought back CDs, and I listened to them as well, and both of us profited from your teaching ministry during those conferences.                         She also heard Beth Moore speak at those same events with you and was struck by Beth's passion that our lives would be cross-centered, spiritually centered and, Dennis, you and I had the opportunity to talk to Beth several months ago.  We talked about her marriage and her family.  She's been married to her husband Keith for 25 years and, of course, tens of thousands of women have done her Bible studies in churches all around the country.                          Our conversation with her, I described it to my wife later and said she was one of the most highly caffeinated people I've ever met.  It was an energetic conversation, a lot of fun, and this month we'd like to make a CD of that conversation available to any of our listeners who can help support the ministry of FamilyLife Today with a donation of any amount.  We are a listener-supported ministry, and we depend on your financial support in order to continue the ministry of FamilyLife Today.                         If you can help us with a donation of any amount, you can request the CD of our conversation with Beth Moore.  You can go online at FamilyLife.com, fill out the donation form that you find there.  As you do that, you'll come to a 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Don't Waste Your Life (Part 1) - John PiperDon't Waste Your Life (Part 2) - John PiperDon't Waste Your Life (Part 3) - John PiperFamilyLife Today® Radio TranscriptReferences to conferences, resources, or other special promotions may be obsolete. Don't Waste Your LifeDay 1 of 3 Guest:                           John Piper From the Series:         Following the Call of Christ ________________________________________________________________­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Bob:                So why are you here?  For that matter, why is anything here?  Well, here is an answer from Dr. John Piper. John:              We need to help people see why the universe was created, and it wasn't created for people to become famous and for people to become powerful, it was created to display the worth and excellencies and beauty and wonders of God.  And we are here to receive that excellency and reflect it out in our lives so that other people see it.  It's all about God – from Him, through Him, and to Him are all things to Him be glory forever and ever. Bob:                This is FamilyLife Today for Wednesday, July 26th.  Our host is the president of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.  Understanding why we're here is the first step in not wasting our lives.  Stay tuned.                         And welcome to FamilyLife Today, thanks for joining us.  I have a distinct memory of an event that took place when I was in high school.  I was in an English class, and we were in a unit study on the subject of existentialism – "Existentialism and Man" – we were reading Camus and Sartre and the guy who wrote the story about being a cockroach – Kafka, Franz Kafka. Dennis:          This was in high school?  Bob:               This was in high school, and Mrs. Venary [sp] was our English teacher, and Mrs. Venary said one day, she asked us, "What's most important in your life?"  And I remember, we were going around the room and answering that question, and we got to me, and I don't remember what I said.  If I had to guess today, I would probably have said, "One of the really important things in my life is music."  I was in a band, I played guitar, I really liked music.                           But by the time we got to one of my classmates who was about halfway through the group, she said, "Really, the most important thing in my life is my relationship with God."  And I remember thinking, "Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the right answer.  I need to remember that next time." And then it dawned on me that if I didn't have that as the right answer when the question came around, it probably wasn't really the most important thing in my life, you know? Dennis:          Yeah, and I was thinking how I would have answered it – I'm sorry that God would not have been my answer, either – athletics would have been.  And I think whether you're in high school and how you would have answered it then or where you are today, the question is still a good question, and we have someone today with us on FamilyLife Today who I think is going to help you – well, maybe either realign your spiritual tires or maybe answer the question in the right way for the first time.                           John Piper joins us on FamilyLife Today.  John, welcome to FamilyLife Today. John:              Thank you, I'm glad to be here. Dennis:          John is the pastor of preaching at Bethlehem Baptist Church where he has served since 1980.  He and his wife, Noelle, have four sons and a daughter, live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and he's a prolific writer.  And, you know, Bob, it's not often that books come to our attention here at FamilyLife Today through our wives, but this one did.  Back last Christmas Barbara came to me, and she said, "You know, there is one book I want to give our kids for Christmas."  I said, "Oh, really?  Who is it by?"  She said, "John Piper."  And I immediately thought of some of the books that I've had the privilege of reading, browsing my way through, "Desiring God," among others, and she said, "It's a new book called "Don't Waste Your Life."  And I thought, "Now, that's a good title."  Because we have a generation of people, I believe, who are really not getting around to the question you asked, Bob – what is most important in your life.                         John, you tell a story about a couple who had retired on the coast of Florida. John:              Yeah, I got the story from "Reader's Digest." Bob:                That's okay, Ronald Reagan got a lot of his stories from "Reader's Digest," too.  There's nothing wrong with that. John:              And it was written by them, so it's not told about them, and I won't give any names, but they were marveling that at, I think, age 51 and 52 or something like that, they were able to retire early, go to Florida, and the peak of their excitement about this stage in their life was that they could play softball and collect shells.  And I just read that and thought, "You've got to be kidding?" Dennis:          Now, we're talking about the ultimate experience in their lives? John:              Evidently.  I mean, I'm thinking in the last chapter of my life, I am mainly preparing to meet the judge of the universe and give an account with my little vaporous life on this earth.  He is not going to ask, "Can I see your shell collection?"   Bob:                Who won the softball game?  It's not going to matter, is it? John:              It's not.  And so it became a kind of paradigm story for me of the American way because tragically the AARP and most people giving counsel on what to do with your latter years are telling you to go play them away on a golf course somewhere or something, and I'm thinking, "That is not the way I want to spend my life at all let alone my last few years in the months just preceding seeing the king of the universe." Bob:                And I think that's important.  The message in this book, "Don't Waste Your Life," is not just about not squandering the latter years of your life, but it's about the whole of your life.  It's a stewardship that we've been entrusted with, right? John:              Right.  Young people are making incredibly important choices early on, especially right at the juncture of early college years and post college years of "What am I going to do with my life?"  And I think they're eager and ready to hear somebody to call them to a radical kind of life that has a significance about it that is eternal and deep.  So that's what I've tried to talk about. Dennis:          Going back to your shell collection, as I read that, I thought – and you asked the question in your book, you can't imagine someone appearing before the judgment seat and God asking to see our shell collection.  And I thought, "What other kind of collections do we have?"  It could be our golf scores, our trophies, our businesses, our portfolio of stocks, our home that we built, the car we drive, the wardrobe or jewelry.  It could be our family.  We could make the family the chief end of man.  Or it could be our bank account.  You know, man has been collecting stuff, John, from the beginning of time.  It may not be as silly as a shell collection, but we have the wrong object of worship going all the way back to the Garden.                         When you were a young lad growing up, in your home there was a – was it a plaque or what was it?  Was it in the kitchen, as I recall, is that right? John:              Right, it was in the kitchen and probably it had as much to do with the title of the book as anything.  It hung, I remember it hung up where a clock started to hang later, but I now have it in my living room at home, so it's been on the wall for 50 years of my life, at least.  It says, "Only one life, 'twil soon be past, only what's done for Christ will last."  And that was emblazoned on my mind as a child, that significance and lasting reality is going to come from connectedness with Jesus.  If something is done to display the worth of Jesus, then that something will have value and significance, and if it didn't, it won't last. Bob:                So you would say that from early on, you understood this idea of the stewardship of your life and that it needed to be focused and rightly directed.  It's not something that came to you later in life? John:              I would say in my high school years, as I reflected back on the kinds of things I was thinking, the kinds of things I was writing and reading – as I reviewed those, it was amazing to me how much I was thinking about it in those days.                         The other thing that probably affected the title of this book, "Don't Waste Your Life" is the story my dad, as an evangelist, would tell when he was doing evangelism.  He came home one time and, with tears in his eyes, he said, "A man came to Christ who must have been in his 70s, and he'd been a sinner in the community for years, and people had prayed for him, and he'd resisted the Gospel, and he walked to the front, and he sat down.  And after the service, as I sat beside him and counseled him, he just wept and wept, and when I asked why he was weeping he just repeated over and over, 'I've wasted it, I've wasted it.'"                         I'll tell you, as a teenager, that story from my dad landed on me with such power that I thought, "Never, ever, ever do I want to be able to say that – I've wasted it."  So from maybe age 16, 15 on, I had this impulse in me, don't waste it, don't waste it. Dennis:          I have, for some reason, been kind of chewing on Acts, chapter 13, verse 36, and it reads, "For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep, and he was buried."  And I thought, you know, if that could be said of my life at the end of it, that I fulfilled God's purpose for my generation, whether you're a mother, a father, a businessman, and businesswoman, a single person, to be smack-dab in the middle of walking with God and fulfilling what He has for you, that's what you're talking about in the book.  You're talking about people who have a confidence that they are fulfilling not only God's will for their lives but they're a part of a grand scheme, a bigger picture, of what God's accomplishing on this planet. John:              Right, we need to help people see why the universe was created, and it wasn't created for people to become famous and for people to become powerful, it was created to display the worth and excellencies and beauty and wonders of God.  And we are here to receive that excellency and reflect it out in our lives so that other people see it.  It's all about God – "from Him, through Him, and to Him are all things to Him be glory forever and ever" – Romans 11:36 says.  And so I think significance must be defined in terms of God – depending on Him, being guided by Him, giving Him all the praise and all the glory and all the honor and then finding lifestyles and ways of talking and thinking and feeling and acting that make God look really good to this culture. Dennis:          In the '60s, your passion intensified for finding God's purpose and making sure you were about what He was doing, and it was your encounter with two different people that ultimately changed the course of your life.  Why don't you share those two people that you encountered in college? John:              I have three in mind, so I'm not which two you have in mind.  I'll mention Dan Fuller as a living teacher who had a tremendous impact in the way I read the Bible, and then I mentioned the dead person, Jonathan Edwards, and I'll mention another dead person, died in '63, the same days as John Kennedy died – C.S. Lewis.  So that triumvirate in the years, say, '64, as I began college to '68 when I went away, and then in the years '68-'71 in seminary that's where Dan Fuller and Jonathan Edwards conspired, and the key of the living teacher and the dead teacher was to show me that there is no final conflict between God's passion to be glorified and my passion to be satisfied.  I had grown up, for whatever reason, I'm sure it wasn't my dad's fault or maybe even the preacher's fault, thinking you can't have both of those.  Either God is going to be glorified or I'm going to be happy, because I heard – maybe it wasn't said, but this is what I heard – people would say, "Well, you should stop doing your will and do God's will."  And I kind of wanted to say, "Isn't there a third alternative?"  Like, maybe I would want to do God's will?  Maybe I would enjoy doing God's will?  And what those men showed me is that God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in Him; that God's glory shines in my being happy in Him.                         And so there isn't this necessary conflict between my pursuit of pleasures and his pursuit of glory if, in fact, my pursuit of pleasure is pleasure in him – that insight from Jonathan Edwards mainly, mediated through Dan Fuller and C.S. Lewis in his one page in "The Weight of Glory," where he said, "The problem with the world is not that we are pursuing pleasure but that we are far too easily pleased.  We are like children fooling around with mudpies in the slums when we could have a holiday at the sea, and we can't imagine what it's like."                         And what he meant was, we're fooling around with that list you gave earlier, Dennis, about just money, even family and possessions and business.  If we could see what a holiday at the sea that is a relationship with God, a delight in His beauty and power and excellencies was, then we'd see the problem in the universe is not that people are pursuing pleasure, but that they are settling for the low, fleeting, wrong, suicidal pleasures.  And so that's what I learned from Lewis and Edwards and then Fuller between '68 and '71, and it changed everything. Bob:                You later expressed that or referred to that as "Christian hedonism." John:              Right. Bob:                Hedonism is the philosophy that says the highest goal is the pursuit of pleasure.  And you said if we understand the Scriptures right, that's true, but the only real pleasure we're going to find is not in what the culture tells us will bring us pleasure. John:              Right, and the reason that is not in conflict with saying the highest goal is the glory of God is because God is glorified precisely in my being satisfied in the end.  That was the insight that makes lights go on, I find, for a lot of people these days. Dennis:          I have to read a passage that I know you're passionate about – Psalm 16:11 – "Thou will make known to me the path of life.  In Thy presence is fullness of joy."  And we don't believe this last third of the verse here.  It says, "In Thy right hand there are pleasures forever."  Frankly, it's what you described that for a number of years kept me at a distance from Christianity.  I didn't believe I could have a good time; that I could truly experience pleasure and happiness and fulfillment and walk with Jesus Christ.  I thought becoming a Christian was having to put on something black, put on a sour look, and be unhappy for the rest of my life.                         Now, I don't know where I got that picture, because I really grew up in a good church.  But nonetheless I had a caricature of Christianity that I was rejecting, and it wasn't this.  It wasn't the idea of a glowing, vibrant life filled with smiles and laughter and, as this says, enjoyment and pleasure.   John:              Right, but I think there are a lot of people who have said something like that and given it a little bit of our own twist; that is, I think there have always been rah-rah evangelistic youth crusades where we feature the athlete and the smiling beauty queen who say, "You really can have a great and happy life if you'll be a Christian."  And the ordinary folks look at that and thought, "That's not quite what I'm thinking.  That's not going to work for me, because I've got pimples, and I'm not strong."                           The difference with my message, and it's where you were going, I think, is that what I want to hold up is a joy and is a God who, in Himself, when all the beauty goes and all the strength goes and all the popularity goes and all the parties go, He's enough, and He's thrilling.                          You know, my wife and I were married in December of 1968, and we chose Habakkuk 3, the last four verses, I believe, of the book to be read at our wedding.  I don't know it all by heart, but I can paraphrase it.  It goes something like this – though the olive fail, though there be no fruit on the vines, though there be no cattle in the stall, though there be no sheep in the fold; in other words, we're talking famine and devastation, and then he says, "Yet will I rejoice in the Lord my God."                         Psalm 63:3 says, "The steadfast love of the Lord is better than life."  Or Paul says, "To die is gain."  So my message is a little more radical than what I was hearing from the rah-rah evangelistic crusade, "Yes, we can all have a good time" message but rather you may have an absolutely horrible life and smile your way all the way to heaven.                           In fact, 1 Corinthians 6, verse 10, Paul uses this phrase that, for me, has really stamped the way I want to talk about joy.  He says, "Sorrowful yet always rejoicing."  So I want there to always be a kind of minor key playing in the background of my parties and my celebrations, because I know the world is absolutely filled with pain and filled with suffering, and when I am rejoicing with those who rejoice, there is somebody very close to me weeping with those who weep, and so I just want to present an authentic call to radical pleasure at God's right hand when you may be wracked with cancer, your wife may have left you, your kids may be prodigal, your business may be failing, and you can say, "The Lord gives, and the Lord has taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord."                          So there's a flavor, I think, to this hedonism that I have that I hope is really realistic. Dennis:          And the time to develop that kind of relationship with Jesus Christ is not when you go through the valley.  The time to develop it is now.  It's to become focused on Him as your absolute source of life, of pleasure, of joy, and begin the process of walking with Him moment by moment.                           You know, I couldn't help but think, John, as you were talking about how those of us here at FamilyLife watched Bill Bright die.  The last two and a half years of his life were marked by him only having about 40 percent lung capacity, and he was literally – his body was starving for oxygen, and yet every time I saw him, and everyone else, too, he was praising God; talking about Him being his strength, his joy, his portion.  He never complained.  And I contrasted his life with how I've watched others die, and I thought, you know what?  Bill Bright taught me how to live, and he also taught me how to die.                         And what I want to do with my life is I want to do the same thing.  I want my deathbed to be as vigorous in the enjoyment and the pursuit of God, even though there will undoubtedly be pain, it will not be easy, but I would like it to be the way Bill Bright demonstrated as a man, and we can do that if we get into the Scripture and we find out who God is, because it's only as we know Him as He is that you can relate to Him as the God of the Universe. Bob:                You talk about somebody who didn't waste his life, Dr. Bright is a great example of someone who had the right priority, the right focus; who understood the implications of the Christian faith, and it changed the direction of everything.  It shaped every decision he made.  And I want to encourage our listeners that's really what is at the heart of the book that you have written, John.  It's called "Don't Waste Your Life," and it's a book that we have in our FamilyLife Resource Center.  I think this book gives each of us a good opportunity to re-evaluate how we're doing spiritually; whether the direction of our life is rightly aimed or not, and I think your book is helpful in that evaluation process.                         Let me encourage our listeners – contact us to get a copy of John Piper's book, "Don't Waste Your Life."  You can go online at FamilyLife.com to request a copy of the book or you can call 1-800-FLTODAY.  If you go online, in the middle of the home page you'll see a red button that says "Go."  If you click on that red button, it will take you right to the page where you can get more information about the book "Don't Waste Your Life."  You can order online, if you'd like, or call 1-800-FLTODAY and request a copy of the book.  We can have it sent out to you.  If you're interested in a copy of our conversation this week with John Piper, you can order that on CD, or you can download it as an MP3 file from our website at FamilyLife.com.  If you'd like the CD either order that online or call 1-800-FLTODAY.                         Over the last several years, one of the places where you have spoken, John, is at the Passion Conferences, and I know Beth Moore has also spoken to young people there challenging them to a wholehearted commitment to Jesus Christ.  Not long ago we had Beth as a guest on FamilyLife Today, and we talked with her about her 25-year marriage to her husband Keith, about some of the ups downs.  She was very candid in that interview, and this month and next month, we wanted to say thank you to those of you who can help support the ministry of FamilyLife Today with a donation of any amount by sending you a copy of this CD that includes our conversation with Beth Moore.                         Simply go to our website, FamilyLife.com, and click on the button that says, "Make a Donation," or call 1-800-FLTODAY and make a donation over the phone.  When you do, mention that you'd like the CD with Beth Moore and someone on our team will make sure that gets sent to you.  Or if you're making your donation online, when you come to the keycode box just type in the word "free," and we'll know that you want the CD sent out to you.  Again, it's our way of saying thanks for your financial support of the ministry of FamilyLife Today, and we appreciate hearing from you.                         Well, tomorrow we're going to continue our conversation with Dr. John Piper.  We're going to talk about the call to a cross-centered life and why we need to make sure that we're not sugar-coating our presentation of the Gospel.  Some folks may respond better if we tell them the hard truth, and we'll talk more about that tomorrow.  I hope you can join us for that.                         I want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team.  On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine.  We'll see you back tomorrow for another edition of FamilyLife Today.                          FamilyLife Today is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ.   We are so happy to provide these transcripts to you.  However, there is a cost to transcribe, create, and produce them for our website.  If you've benefited from the broadcast transcripts, would   you consider donating today to help defray the costs?   Copyright © FamilyLife.  All rights reserved. www.FamilyLife.com      

Mentoring is something we often talk about on the podcast because we know how critical it is as we grow in Christ, but it can also feel overwhelming. Today we’re excited to talk with >Shelley Giglio and Daniele Flickinger about FLOURISH. FLOURISH is a yearlong mentoring journey based on Scripture and created in partnership with Passion City Church. After 6 years of development and leading more than 3,500 women through this mentoring journey, Passion is excited to release this unique resource to churches worldwide. This study will help you establish strong relationships between both mentors and mentees as they dig into understanding God’s truth and love through His Word together. About Shelley: Shelley Giglio is the Chief Strategist of Passion Conferences and sixstepsrecords and the Visionary Leader of The Grove and Flourish Mentoring Journey at Passion City Church, which she and her husband, Louie Giglio founded and lead in Atlanta, GA. About Daniele: Daniele Flickinger leads the Flourish Mentoring Team at Passion City Church and has also been a key visionary and contributor to the Flourish Mentoring Journey since its inception in 2015. Links: Our team is honored to provide videos, documents, and other valuable resources (for free!) to get you started on your mentoring journey as a church, small group, or individual. Visit FlourishMentor.com today! Follow the journey of The Grove at Passion City Church at >passioncitychurch.com/thegrove, instagram.com/pcc_thegrove, or check out The Grove Podcast wherever you listen to yours. Search “The Grove Passion” to tune in! Ready to purchase a mentor or mentee book? Visit lifeway.com/flourish! God has a real purpose for your life. All the time, that purpose is greater than ourselves. – @shelleygiglio #MARKEDpodcast Features: Extensive leadership guidance to make your mentoring journey practical and simple. Personal study segments to complete over a year Beautiful design to foster daily time in God’s Word Specific goals and leader tips for each session Devotional journal to guide you through 6 thematic sessions over the course of a year, diving deeper into topics of God’s Word, prayer, identity, calling, kinship, and gratitude Mentor website with tools, coaching videos, and resources to help you start a FLOURISH program at your church Benefits: Develop a daily practice of spending time with God. Connect with a younger woman, and study God’s Word together. Grapple with spiritual concepts such as identity, calling, and more. Consider how the stories of individuals fit into the larger redemption story God is writing. Find valuable tools, videos and resources to help your churches, small groups, or individuals start their own mentoring journey at flourishmentor.com! Highlights: Four distinct words in the curriculum: Rooted in God's Word Flourish where we are planted Freedom in Christ Shade - Give your life away Related Links: WEBSITE: FlourishMentor.com FOLLOW ON FACEBOOK: /PCC.THEGROVE FOLLOW ON INSTAGRAM: @pcc_thegrove LISTEN: The Grove Podcast on iTunes

Christy Nockels has long had a huge appreciation for music and for ministry and its role in the kingdom of God. As a worship leader for over 25 years, she's seen first hand how music can usher people into the presence of God in a powerful way. Whether she's singing a gentle lullaby or belting out a corporate anthem, Christy's heart has always been to simply lead people to connect and communicate with the living God. The daughter of a pastor, born in Texas and raised in Oklahoma, Christy remembers simple beginnings that laid a sure foundation for her life. By the time she was seventeen, Christy was leading worship corporately on a regular basis, mostly thanks to her worship pastor at her church, who believed in her and helped to raise her up. In 1993 - at the Christian Artists Seminar in Estes Park, Colorado, - she met her husband, Nathan, and the two went on to record an independent album called Holy Roar with fellow worship leader and friend, Charlie Hall, under the name Sons & Daughters. The trio had a ground-breaking sound for their time, with hearts to see renewal happen in the Church. The record seeped out and into the hands of Louie Giglio, founder of Passion Conferences. In 1996, he wrote to Christy, Nathan, and Charlie to encourage them that "the songs you are singing are the prayers we are praying" and Giglio invited them to participate in the first ever Passion Conference in Austin, Texas in 1997. Christy and Nathan eventually moved to Houston, Texas to lead at a weekly gathering of over 3,000 people called "Metro Bible Study" - a ministry to singles held at Houston's First Baptist Church. Leading here was the gateway for Christy and Nathan being discovered and signed by Rocketown Records, a label formed by longtime Christian artist, Michael W. Smith. The two would form the duo, Watermark and Christy's voice began gaining a national platform. Christy and Nathan moved to Franklin, TN and over the next ten years recorded five acclaimed albums, including seven number one radio singles, before deciding to lay down their Watermark journey, for the sake of their family. In 2008, the Nockels family - now a family of five - moved to Atlanta, GA to become a founding family of Passion City Church, where they served on the worship team with friends Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman, and Kristian Stanfill. Christy eventually signed with sixstepsrecords, releasing her solo debut album, Life Light Up, and later released two more solo albums, Into the Glorious as well as her live, worship album Let it Be Jesus. Christy and Nathan spent twenty years altogether serving and traveling worldwide with Passion Conferences. In 2015, Christy and Nathan returned to Franklin, TN to continue raising their family in the place that has always felt most like home. Christy is now co-owner of Keeper's Branch Records, with her husband, Nathan. Christy released three albums in just three years after creating their independent label: The Thrill of Hope released in 2016, Be Held; Lullabies for the Beloved in 2018 as well as the instrumental version of that album. Christy's latest endeavor is her podcast called "The Glorious in the Mundane", which has exceeded her expectations since it's beginning in 2016. It has grown in listeners but also in Christy's heart as a place where she's learning to use her voice beyond singing. Christy calls Franklin, TN home, with her husband Nathan and their three children, Noah (18), Elliana (16) and Annie Rose (11). Are you ready to start dreaming big? CLICK HERE

Christy Nockels has long had a huge appreciation for music and for ministry and its role in the kingdom of God. As a worship leader for over 25 years, she’s seen first hand how music can usher people into the presence of God in a powerful way. Whether she’s singing a gentle lullaby or belting out a corporate anthem, Christy’s heart has always been to simply lead people to connect and communicate with the living God. The daughter of a pastor, born in Texas and raised in Oklahoma, Christy remembers simple beginnings that laid a sure foundation for her life. By the time she was seventeen, Christy was leading worship corporately on a regular basis, mostly thanks to her worship pastor at her church, who believed in her and helped to raise her up. In 1993 - at the Christian Artists Seminar in Estes Park, Colorado, - she met her husband, Nathan, and the two went on to record an independent album called Holy Roar with fellow worship leader and friend, Charlie Hall, under the name Sons & Daughters. The trio had a ground-breaking sound for their time, with hearts to see renewal happen in the Church. The record seeped out and into the hands of Louie Giglio, founder of Passion Conferences. In 1996, he wrote to Christy, Nathan, and Charlie to encourage them that “the songs you are singing are the prayers we are praying” and Giglio invited them to participate in the first ever Passion Conference in Austin, Texas in 1997. Christy and Nathan eventually moved to Houston, Texas to lead at a weekly gathering of over 3,000 people called “Metro Bible Study” - a ministry to singles held at Houston’s First Baptist Church. Leading here was the gateway for Christy and Nathan being discovered and signed by Rocketown Records, a label formed by longtime Christian artist, Michael W. Smith. The two would form the duo, Watermark and Christy’s voice began gaining a national platform. Christy and Nathan moved to Franklin, TN and over the next ten years recorded five acclaimed albums, including seven number one radio singles, before deciding to lay down their Watermark journey, for the sake of their family. In 2008, the Nockels family - now a family of five - moved to Atlanta, GA to become a founding family of Passion City Church, where they served on the worship team with friends Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman, and Kristian Stanfill. Christy eventually signed with sixstepsrecords, releasing her solo debut album, Life Light Up, and later released two more solo albums, Into the Glorious as well as her live, worship album Let it Be Jesus. Christy and Nathan spent twenty years altogether serving and traveling worldwide with Passion Conferences. In 2015, Christy and Nathan returned to Franklin, TN to continue raising their family in the place that has always felt most like home. Christy is now co-owner of Keeper’s Branch Records, with her husband, Nathan. Christy released three albums in just three years after creating their independent label: The Thrill of Hope released in 2016, Be Held; Lullabies for the Beloved in 2018 as well as the instrumental version of that album. Christy’s latest endeavor is her podcast called “The Glorious in the Mundane”, which has exceeded her expectations since it’s beginning in 2016. It has grown in listeners but also in Christy’s heart as a place where she’s learning to use her voice beyond singing. Christy calls Franklin, TN home, with her husband Nathan and their three children, Noah (18), Elliana (16) and Annie Rose (11). We also have a monthly giveaway you can easily download to help you make a plan for moving forward on your big ambitions... ————————— On the episode: Producer : Haley King Engineer : Jackson Carpenter Co-host : Scott Schimmel

Christy Nockels has long had a huge appreciation for music and for ministry and its role in the kingdom of God. As a worship leader for over 25 years, she's seen first hand how music can usher people into the presence of God in a powerful way. Whether she's singing a gentle lullaby or belting out a corporate anthem, Christy's heart has always been to simply lead people to connect and communicate with the living God. The daughter of a pastor, born in Texas and raised in Oklahoma, Christy remembers simple beginnings that laid a sure foundation for her life. By the time she was seventeen, Christy was leading worship corporately on a regular basis, mostly thanks to her worship pastor at her church, who believed in her and helped to raise her up. In 1993 - at the Christian Artists Seminar in Estes Park, Colorado, - she met her husband, Nathan, and the two went on to record an independent album called Holy Roar with fellow worship leader and friend, Charlie Hall, under the name Sons & Daughters. The trio had a ground-breaking sound for their time, with hearts to see renewal happen in the Church. The record seeped out and into the hands of Louie Giglio, founder of Passion Conferences. In 1996, he wrote to Christy, Nathan, and Charlie to encourage them that "the songs you are singing are the prayers we are praying" and Giglio invited them to participate in the first ever Passion Conference in Austin, Texas in 1997. Christy and Nathan eventually moved to Houston, Texas to lead at a weekly gathering of over 3,000 people called "Metro Bible Study" - a ministry to singles held at Houston's First Baptist Church. Leading here was the gateway for Christy and Nathan being discovered and signed by Rocketown Records, a label formed by longtime Christian artist, Michael W. Smith. The two would form the duo, Watermark and Christy's voice began gaining a national platform. Christy and Nathan moved to Franklin, TN and over the next ten years recorded five acclaimed albums, including seven number one radio singles, before deciding to lay down their Watermark journey, for the sake of their family. In 2008, the Nockels family - now a family of five - moved to Atlanta, GA to become a founding family of Passion City Church, where they served on the worship team with friends Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman, and Kristian Stanfill. Christy eventually signed with sixstepsrecords, releasing her solo debut album, Life Light Up, and later released two more solo albums, Into the Glorious as well as her live, worship album Let it Be Jesus. Christy and Nathan spent twenty years altogether serving and traveling worldwide with Passion Conferences. In 2015, Christy and Nathan returned to Franklin, TN to continue raising their family in the place that has always felt most like home. Christy is now co-owner of Keeper's Branch Records, with her husband, Nathan. Christy released three albums in just three years after creating their independent label: The Thrill of Hope released in 2016, Be Held; Lullabies for the Beloved in 2018 as well as the instrumental version of that album. Christy's latest endeavor is her podcast called "The Glorious in the Mundane", which has exceeded her expectations since it's beginning in 2016. It has grown in listeners but also in Christy's heart as a place where she's learning to use her voice beyond singing. Christy calls Franklin, TN home, with her husband Nathan and their three children, Noah (18), Elliana (16) and Annie Rose (11). We also have a monthly giveaway you can easily download to help you make a plan for moving forward on your big ambitions... ————————— On the episode: Producer : Haley King Engineer : Jackson Carpenter Co-host : Scott Schimmel

As a worship leader and songwriter, it’s vital to write and sing from that real and authentic place for which people are hungering and thirsting. Kristian Stanfill is Worship Pastor at Passion City Church in Atlanta, and the Worship Leader at the Passion Conferences. Passion’s latest album, Follow You Anywhere, was recorded live at their church and released in January. Kristian describes the album as a “different project” that covers many of the same themes common to their music, like living a surrendered life, proclaiming the cross, and exalting Jesus. Kristian refers to one song from the album,” I’ll Follow You Anywhere,” as the heartbeat of Passion’s message. He says the song, “Bigger Than I Thought You Were,” calls people to be honest and vulnerable, and he describes what it’s like to sing “dangerous lyrics” like these. Kristian explains how he has hit mountaintops and valleys in his life, and just like the rest of us, he always needs something to call him back to the goodness and faithfulness of God--and that’s what the music does. Kristian shares why it’s important to say YES to Jesus daily and why Passion is involved with the ENDIT Movement, dedicated to helping free those in sex slavery. He says, “God is calling us to something eternal and something bigger than ourselves.”   Resources:   Find Follow You Anywhere at Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon, Vimeo, and more. Find the CD at Lifeway and other Christian retailers.   www.outcrytour.com  Find out about Passion’s upcoming tour!   www.enditmovement.com   Find out more about ENDIT Movement.

This week you’re going to hear from the Global Brand Curator for Passion, Jonathan Sheehan. In his role, Jonathan oversees Passion Conferences plus assists with the touring and marketing efforts for Passion Music and a lot more. We talked about he's learned in his role and what a Powerbook on the hood of a car taught him about paying close attention to what he's doing! It's a memorable story that we think you'll enjoy. This episode is brought to you by Planning Center. Connect with Worship Together:  Twitter: https://twitter.com/worshiptogether Facebook: facebook.com/worshiptogether  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/worshiptogether/?hl=en Hosted by: Jimi Williams  David Gutekunst Jessica Sweet  Production and Editing by Form & Function –– formandfunctionmedia.com  Worship Together is the number one resource for Worship Leaders. Find free resources and videos at worshiptogether.com

Shelley Giglio is the Chief Strategist, Director of Label Operations and Artist Management for sixstepsrecords, an Atlanta-based record label. She and her husband, Louie began Passion Conferences in 1997 and planted Passion City Church in 2009.  In addition, Shelley leads a monthly gathering for the women of Atlanta called, The Grove. Shelley is passionate about investing in the lives of people, desiring to equip them to flourish into what God has created them to be. Connect with Worship Together:  Twitter: https://twitter.com/worshiptogether Facebook: facebook.com/worshiptogether  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/worshiptogether/?hl=en Hosted by: Jimi Williams  David Gutekunst Jessica Sweet  Hunter Sims Production and Editing by Form & Function –– formandfunctionmedia.com  Worship Together is the number one resource for Worship Leaders. Find free resources and videos at worshiptogether.com

This week Jimi talks to Christy Nockels. Christy is a powerful worship leader and songwriter who has been a familiar voice at Passion Conferences and various ministry events around the world.  Connect with Worship Together:  Twitter: https://twitter.com/worshiptogether Facebook: facebook.com/worshiptogether  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/worshiptogether/?hl=en   Hosted by: Jimi Williams David Gutekunst Production and Editing by Form & Function –– formandfunctionmedia.com  Worship Together is the number one resource for Worship Leaders. Find free resources and videos at worshiptogether.com

Brett Younker is a Dove Award-winning artist, and worship leader at Passion Conferences and Passion City Church in Atlanta, Georgia. He has lived and served under the guidance of some of the most influential leaders in the Church, including Louie Giglio, Chris Tomlin and Matt Redman.  In this episode, Jimi talks with Brett about Passion’s approach to leadership development; what they look for in new team members, their approach to on-boarding new volunteers and what he’s personally learned about his calling since joining the team.   Connect with Worship Together:  Twitter: https://twitter.com/worshiptogether Facebook: facebook.com/worshiptogether  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/worshiptogether/?hl=en Hosted by: Jimi Williams David Gutekunst Michael Fogarty Production and Editing by Form & Function –– formandfunctionmedia.com  Worship Together is the number one resource for Worship Leaders. Find free resources and videos at worshiptogether.com

Recorded earlier - 6/6/16 In this episode of The Willie Robertson Podcast, Willie and Johnny D are joined by Louie Giglio, the pastor of Passion City Church in Atlanta, Georgia, and founder of Passion Conferences--"a global movement of college-aged people living for the fame of Jesus Christ." Louie fills the guys in on the details of his Passion event, how kids can start to drift away from their church while in college, and he even shares the moment he decided he wanted to "live a life about things bigger than just things on earth." He also discusses how the greatest privilege of being a pastor is being invited in to other people's pain. Listen below to hear what he means by that.

Louie Giglio returns to the podcast and talks about the kind of preaching that actually connects with today’s young adults and other lessons learned from 20 years of Passion Conferences that have...Read the whole entry... »

How did Jesus use storytelling, and what is the role of storytelling in business? (Comment at www.TheologyofBusiness.com) Taylor Jones co-founded Whiteboard, an award-winning creative agency whose client list includes Chick-fil-A, Passion Conferences, Youth For Christ USA, and Q Ideas. With over a decade of experience in programming, U/X design, and accounting, Taylor serves as Whiteboard's CEO and leads the development team. Theology of Business helps marketplace leaders to partner with God in business to make a greater impact in society and in eternity. If you want to learn more about how to do business for the glory of God, this show is for you. This is a podcast by Christian business leaders for Christian business leaders. | Entrepreneurship | Marketing | Nonprofit | Church | Author | Startups | Marketplace | Ministry | Business as Mission | Faith and Work | Faith | Success | Leadership | www.TheologyofBusiness.com

How did Jesus use storytelling, and what is the role of storytelling in business? (Comment at www.TheologyofBusiness.com) Taylor Jones co-founded Whiteboard, an award-winning creative agency whose client list includes Chick-fil-A, Passion Conferences, Youth For Christ USA, and Q Ideas. With over a decade of experience in programming, U/X design, and accounting, Taylor serves as Whiteboard's CEO and leads the development team. Theology of Business helps marketplace leaders to partner with God in business to make a greater impact in society and in eternity. If you want to learn more about how to do business for the glory of God, this show is for you. This is a podcast by Christian business leaders for Christian business leaders. | Entrepreneurship | Marketing | Nonprofit | Church | Author | Startups | Marketplace | Ministry | Business as Mission | Faith and Work | Faith | Success | Leadership | www.TheologyofBusiness.com

How did Jesus use storytelling, and what is the role of storytelling in business? (Comment at www.TheologyofBusiness.com) Taylor Jones co-founded Whiteboard, an award-winning creative agency whose client list includes Chick-fil-A, Passion Conferences, Youth For Christ USA, and Q Ideas. With over a decade of experience in programming, U/X design, and accounting, Taylor serves as Whiteboard’s CEO and leads the development team. Theology of Business helps marketplace leaders to partner with God in business to make a greater impact in society and in eternity. If you want to learn more about how to do business for the glory of God, this show is for you. This is a podcast by Christian business leaders for Christian business leaders. | Entrepreneurship | Marketing | Nonprofit | Church | Author | Startups | Marketplace | Ministry | Business as Mission | Faith and Work | Faith | Success | Leadership | www.TheologyofBusiness.com

Christy Nockels, singer, songwriter, and worship leader with Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, and sixsteprecords, joins us in studio for an in-depth conversation on her latest album Into the Glorious, along with a multitude of other topics.

Brad sits down with Louie and Shelley Giglio, founders of Passion Conferences, Six Step Records and Passion City Church for an in-depth conversation.

Part Two of our feature interview with Louie Giglio, founder and visionary architect of Passion Conferences, as well as pastor of Passion City Church. We discuss the One Million Can Campaign, leadership, calling, and Auburn football, plus a few other surprises.

Part One of an extended feature interview with Louie Giglio, founder and visionary architect of Passion Conferences and pastor of Passion City Church.

We continue in this episode with the second half of our interview with Louie Giglio, Visionary Architect and Director of Passion Conferences.

Louie Giglio is the Visionary Architect and Director of Passion Conferences. He is also a featured speaker at the upcoming Catalyst Conference in Atlanta.

This episode was incredibly special to me. I have long admired Pastor Louie Giglio and the work he has done through Passion Conferences and Passion City Church. I invited Amelia McBrayer, one of my favorite college kids, to join me in chatting about how to find authentic faith in the college years. This episode is packed with wisdom on how to help encourage our kids (and all of us) to not just know ABOUT God, but to really KNOW God.Since 1997, Passion Conferences has gathered over one million collegiate-aged young people in events across the U.S. and around the world. It was so much fun to bring one of those students on the podcast with me today - to share what God has done through Passion and how her life has been impacted by Jesus.My favorite part is when he talks about the ups and downs of faith. That we need to keep praying and believing for the faith of our kids - but never to shove it on them. He encouraged us to spend more time doing what we want our kids to do. He reminds us that our time as parents in God's word and praying will have a massive impact on the lives of our kids. In this episode, we discuss:How to stop shoving faith on our kidsPower of praying and believing for your kids' faithHow to practically put a touch point with God - easy ways to connectTips on how to grow in a community as a college young adultEnjoy!Courtney Chapters00:00Introduction and Background02:02The Impact of Passion Conferences06:03Faith and College Life10:51Navigating Spiritual Challenges15:04The Power of Prayer and Authenticity20:11The Role of Devotionals23:05Maintaining Faith After Events30:08Prayer for the Next GenerationConnect with Pardon The Mess:Christian ParentingPardon The Mess Courtney DeFeoGet your 2024-2025 prayer journal, A Life of FaithResources from today's show:Grace & Glory - Louie's new devotionalLouieGiglio.comPassion ConferencesPassion City ChurchChristian Parenting storeChristian Parenting Christmas Gift GuidePardon The Mess is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. For more information visit www.ChristianParenting.orgPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy