Podcasts about slow kingdom coming

What if grief could actually help us do better humanitarian work? In this episode of The Better Samaritan Podcast, Dr. Jamie Aten and Kent Annan explore the idea of lament—or as Jamie calls it, “faithful grief”—and how it can reshape how we approach global challenges and humanitarian aid. Drawing from Kent's book Slow Kingdom Coming, personal stories, and research with Biola and the University of Connecticut, they break down how lament isn't just about sadness—it's about being honest with God through complaint, praise, and asking for help. They also share powerful moments from places like post-earthquake Haiti and the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, where leaders model resilience and generosity in the face of scarcity. This episode offers a fresh take on grief, healing, and hope—and how small, faithful actions can lead to significant change in a hurting world. Jamie and Kent conclude with a preview of upcoming conversations on TBS with leaders in different humanitarian sectors, who will be discussing how federal and foreign aid cuts are impacting their area of focus and what may be next. Want to explore the books, articles, and research mentioned in this podcast? (2:08) Book: Slow Kingdom Coming - https://www.ivpress.com/slow-kingdom-coming (3:39) Studies: Biola University & University of Connecticut on lament for Christians - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388450256_Lament_Measuring_a_Christian_Meaning-Making_Coping_Practice https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361353087_Lament_and_Well-Being_Measuring_a_Christian_Meaning-Making_Practice (5:16) Book: Aftershock - https://www.ivpress.com/after-shock (8:35) Study: Research strategies on lament and why lament matters - https://www.spiritualfirstaid.org/why-lament-matters-study-slides (9:48) Workshop: Spiritual Self-Aid - SpiritualfirstaidFree Spiritual First Aid Course Preview (11:20) Study: On community as a source of hope and resilience among black female cancer survivors - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378169783_Spiritual_Surrender_Initial_Appraisals_of_Cancer_Diagnoses_in_Black_Christian_Women Resources: Pick up a copy of Kent's book - https://www.amazon.com/Slow-Kingdom-Coming-Practices-Justice/dp/0830844554  Download your free copy of our Called to Serve: Navigating Your Christian Vocation in Humanitarian, Disaster, and Development Work e-book, which includes articles full of practical advice, insight, and encouragement. Each of the three sections concludes with thought-provoking questions and a prayer. We hope this e-book informs and guides you toward reflection, prayer, and next steps.  ------------ This episode was produced by WildfireCreative  Theme Song: “Turning Over Tables” by The Brilliance Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | Stitcher | RSS Follow us on Twitter:  @drjamieaten |  @kentannan Follow on Instagram: @wildfirecreativeco @wheaton_hdi (Note to the listener: In this podcast, sometimes we'll host Evangelicals, and sometimes we won't. Learning how to “do good, better” involves listening to many perspectives with different insights and understanding. Sometimes, it will make us uncomfortable; sometimes, we'll agree, and sometimes, we won't. We think that's good. We want to listen for correction–especially in our blind spots.) The Better Samaritan podcast is produced by the Humanitarian Disaster Institute at Wheaton College, which offers an M.A. in Humanitarian & Disaster Leadership and a Trauma Certificate. To learn more and apply, visit our website. Get your application fee to the HDL M.A. program waived with code TBS25. J amie Aten, Ph.D., and Kent Annan, M.Div., co-direct the Humanitarian Disaster Institute at Wheaton College and are the Co-Founders of Spiritual First Aid.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's season FIVE of The Ferment Podcast, and our friend David Ruis is back to kick it off with a conversation about communal discernment of prophetic words! He and Adam talk about how and why the Lord speaks in a community, the process of discerning the timing and meaning of words, and some lessons they've learned the hard way.    David and Anita Ruis have lead, encourage, and empowered the Vineyard in Canada as the National Directors since 2014. David is a well-respected worship leader and songwriter (You're Worthy Of My Praise, Every Move I Make) and has also authored two books: The Worship God Is Seeking and The Justice God Is Seeking. Most recently, he is a contributing songwriter on Vineyard Worship's highly anticipated album “This Joy”, releasing summer 2023! As a team David and Anita are also known to be effective church planters and seasoned pastors, having established churches in Canada and the US. David has also been instrumental in seeing Vineyard communities established in Nepal and India. Much of the Ruises' focus has been in indigenous settings, working with people experiencing poverty and subsequent marginalization. They also have significant experience facilitating leadership development and on the creative side David is known for fostering originality in song-writing and the arts in various cultural settings.   A burning passion for the Ruises is both practical and theological integration of creative worship in church community, and deep life engagement with issues of poverty and social injustice. The Ruises currently reside in Kelowna, BC. In their down time they love to be creative and hang with their grandkids.     Show Notes:  The Patient Ferment of The Early Church by Alan Kreider https://amzn.to/3Y8eNdZ   Slow Kingdom Coming  by JT Meyer, Dan Wilt and Michael Hansen (2017 Mercy/Vineyard Publishing) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foedee85CDk     

Lead Pastor Jack Moraine shares the message "Slow Kingdom Coming" as a part of the series "The Kingdom."

Today we are joined by Steve Diggs who is the president and CEO of Emerald Youth Foundation as we discuss what it means to become a part of the lives of the people we are serving and being served by and that this is how the Kingdom advances. Today Rick and Lauren are joined by Steve Diggs. Steve is the president and CEO of Emerald Youth Foundation and is on the Executive and Governance Committee for Emerald Charter Schools. Here's a link to where you can get involved. Steve references Slow Kingdom Coming by Kent AnnanEmail Rick at rickdunn61@gmail.com or find him on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Email Lauren at laurengmorgan@gmail.com or find her on Instagram. 

Wendy Thiessen, the Canadian director of PiFò Haiti, has a passion for speaking truth and advocating for how we can help others without the unintended consequence of harming the families, economy, and community we are assisting. She is a very strong advocate for being relational and asking, “what can we do for you”, rather than being churches and individuals collecting clothing, shoes, and toys because it feels good and it's what we “think” they need. PiFò Haiti's programs are completely run by the community in which they serve. In response to the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti an organization known as Haiti Christian Schools (HCS) partnered together with 4 schools to provide affordable education to a small community on the island of La Gonâve, Haiti.In 2014, with the understanding that moving from emergency relief to recovery is important, the organization began to focus on creating longer-term, locally led initiatives.In 2020 HCS became PiFò Haiti. PiFò is a Haitian Créole word meaning “Stronger”. Thanks to God's amazing provision and the generosity of our supporters, the organization had become just that, stronger. This is also the year we began working with GCF, God was strengthening the organization both in Haiti and in North America.Our programs have grown beyond education. Our prayer since we began in 2011 has been a consistent food program at each of our partner schools. It is a very costly initiative, but 10 years later we are beyond excited, our prayers have been answered. Thanks to the support of Trinity Hope an organization based in the United States who use local labour and supplies to provide affordable food programs all over Haiti.We currently have food programs in all our schools, 5 teachers will be graduating from teachers college this year, we are able to provide food and medical funds for vulnerable community members, and we are strengthening an agriculture project that will provide jobs and food for a community in the mountains. None of this would be possible without God's grace and the strong relationships we have with the locals in the community. Resources:https://www.pifohaiti.org/https://gcfcanada.com/pifo-haiti/https://friendsgc.com/pifo-haiti/ Recommended books to read:"Slow Kingdom Coming, Practices for Doing Justice, Loving Mercy and WalkingHumbly in the World" by Kent Annan"When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...andYourself" by Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert

with guest David Witt of iTeams. When you hear the words ‘community development', what comes to mind? International or local? Urban or rural? While many people might default to thinking of a tiny international village, there's plenty of community development work that needs to happen right here in Canada too. In this episode, Dave Witt from iTeams, offers insight into what it means to work with those on the margins in urban centers in Canada. Dave shares moving anecdotes from real communities banding together and reminds us of the importance of recognizing that everybody has a story that leads them to where they are today, no matter their circumstances. Recommended Resources & Readings: https://www.amazon.ca/Twenty-Piece-Shuffle-Greg-Paul/dp/1434799425 (The Twenty-Piece Shuffle) https://www.amazon.ca/God-Alley-Being-Seeing-Broken/dp/0877880921 (God In The Alley) by Greg Paul https://www.amazon.ca/Slow-Kingdom-Coming-Kent-Annan/dp/0830844554 (Slow Kingdom Coming) by Kent Annan Episode hosted by Shelaine and Eric. Support this podcast

President J. Bradley Creed visits with Kent Annan, the director of humanitarian and disaster leadership at Wheaton College's Humanitarian Disaster Institute and cofounder of Haiti Partners, a nonprofit focused on education in Haiti. Annan is author of "You Welcomed Me," "Slow Kingdom Coming," "After shock" and "Following Jesus Through the Eye of the Needle." 

Kent Annan is author of You Welcomed Me: Loving Refugees and Immigrants Because God First Loved Us (forthcoming, November 2018), Slow Kingdom Coming (2016), After Shock (2011), and Following Jesus through the Eye of the Needle (2009). He is director of humanitarian and disaster leadership at Wheaton College, where he leads an M.A. program as part of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute. He's on the board of directors of Equitas Group, a philanthropic foundation focused on ending child exploitation in Haiti and Southeast Asia. He cofounded Haiti Partners. And he's a senior consultant for Development Associates International, which trains Christian leaders around the world.

Lead Pastor Jack Moraine continues the series "Unlikely King" with the message "Slow Kingdom Coming."

We can be part of the slow process of God’s Kingdom coming to earth when we are intentional about who we follow, who we are with, and love others as we do ourselves.

From the time the seed of the Kingdom is planted to when the fruits are seen there is 'the meantime'. How do we hang on in that tension? In that radicle middle? We keep hoping, we keep praying, we keep waiting. And We keep looking at what God is doing in the meantime. It is a slow Kingdom coming, but it's coming. And just like yeast acting on dough making it rise, we can see things around us change, pointing to so much that is coming when the Kingdom of God is fully here.

Slow Kingdom Coming — a sermon on Matthew 13:24-43 by Resurrection MPLS Sermons

[ This episode is a recast from April 25, 2017 ] In Episode 119, you will hear from Kent Annan, author of Slow Kingdom Coming and Co-Director of Haiti Partners. For full show notes, please visit www.thinkorphan.com

SPEAKER: PASTOR STEVE GAULTNEY

Jeff Bloem is a PhD student in applied economics at the University of Minnesota. He's written several peer-reviewed papers, including a recent one on "measuring hope" in Myanmar and a program evaluation of the material, social, and spiritual impacts of a business skills training program in western Kenya. Jeff is also an active blogger on the topics of international development, economics, policy, and theology. Check out his blog at: www.jeffbloem.wordpress.com and find him on Twitter @jeffbloem. Jeff's book recommendations: Slow Kingdom Coming by Kent Annan. https://www.amazon.com/Slow-Kingdom-Coming-Practices-Justice/dp/0830844554 Experimental Conversations: Perspectives on Randomized Trials in Development Economics by Timothy Ogden. https://www.amazon.com/Experimental-Conversations-Perspectives-Randomized-Development/dp/0262035103/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1532710731&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=timothy+ogden+%28nyu%29%3A+experimental+conversations Cents and Sensibility by Morson & Schapiro. https://www.amazon.com/Cents-Sensibility-Economics-Learn-Humanities/dp/069117668X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1532710769&sr=1-1&keywords=Cents+and+Sensibility

Matthew 23:1-12: The parable of the ten bridesmaids reminds us that the Church still waits for the fulfillment of God's kingdom. How shall we wait? The oil points to practices that no one else can do for us that help us prepare for the long haul, the "slow kingdom coming." These practices add up to "Keep awake." At First Presbyterian Church of San Anselmo, we also know that the best way to wait is to serve in Christ's name.

In Episode 50, you will hear from Kent Annan, author of Slow Kingdom Coming and Co-Director of Haiti Partners. For full show notes, please visit www.thinkorphan.com

Kent Annan is the co-founder of Haiti Partners and author of Slow Kingdom Coming. Listen to discover what happens when we focus our attention well and approach missions with justice. - http://engagingmissions.com/163

Kent Annan is the co-founder of Haiti Partners and author of Slow Kingdom Coming. Listen to discover what happens when we focus our attention well and approach missions with justice.

Kent talks with Shane and Tony about his recently released "Slow Kingdom Coming" and practices that can form us into people of justice and mercy for the long haul.