The Advance: Recent Episodes
Daunavan Buyer
Moving toward Christlike Maturity. This podcast is all about how we posture our lives to grow into the people Christ is calling us to be.
One of the ways that we express our worship to God is through creativity. God created us in His Image - He created us to create. Join me as I talk to my sister, Katherina Stegerman, about this reality and how we all are creative (not just 'artsy people).' She also talks about a project that she's working on that we are all quite excited about!
Resources Recommended
- Walking on Water by Madeline L'engle
- Imagine by Steve Turner
Find more information about Katherina and her work here: https://www.facebook.com/seedandthesoil/
Music used in the Episode - "Do You Even Need me" by Choy (Used with Permission)
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Today's Podcast features a conversation with my friend Amanda. Her life and family are marked by a tangible passion for Jesus and putting that into practice! We talk about:
- Our responses to the racial tension that many of us are wrestling with now
- Why it's important for us to be spiritual role-models to our children
- Some of the very real obstacles that we face in regards to spiritual disciplines and having young children!
Whether you are already a parent, hope to be a parent, or don't even picture yourself having kids, I encourage you to give this one a listen. There is some amazing truth that Amanda invites us into!
Resources Mentioned in the Intro (Click for Amazon Link):
- James Davison Hunter's "To Change the World"
- Desmond Tutu's "No Future Without Forgivenesss"
- Miroslav Volf's "Exclusion and Embrace"
Music used in the Episode - "Do You Even Need me" by Choy (Used with Permission)
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I hope that you are blessed by a sermon that I preached a few weeks ago on Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit. This sermon sought to look at how the Fruit offered by Paul in Galatians 5 are both exactly what the world needs in the midst of this Covid Crisis as well as by-product of our intimacy with Jesus though the Holy Spirit.
In the intro, I talk about the practice of a "Dashboard for Life." A practice that I have put into place on a monthly basis since the Covid crisis began.
Resources mentioned (Click on link for Amazon purchase):
- Leading me by Steve Brown
- Leading on Empty by Wayne Cordeiro
- Church of the City Resources by Jon Tyson
Music used in the Episode - "Do You Even Need me" by Choy (Used with Permission)
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How do we continue to foster our spirituality as we navigate the restrictions we are currently facing in the midst of COVID-19? Join me as I interview my friend, Erik Freiburger, about how this season of isolation may be a gift from God as we posture ourselves to continue to grow in our walk with Him.
Erik also has a podcast, "The Inception of Wonder" - Click here to find his blog and follow His podcast.
We chat about:
- The reality of spirituality and how God is at work in every area of our lives
- The difficulties and opportunities of isolation
- We go through different spiritual practices that we have been living into since isolation started (and we hope to continue when restrictions loosen even more)
Resources Mentioned:
- With by Skye Jethani
- The Movie Proposal Podcast
Music used in the Episode - "Do You Even Need me" by Choy (Used with Permission)
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What does it look like to foster a life of prayer? Join me as I chat with Jim Hall, the director of the House of Prayer Edmonton about some of the practical realities of living a life of prayer. Jim's life has been marked by a hunger for God and a desire to see God move in tangible ways.
Join us as we talk about:
- What God is up to through the COVID-19 Crisis
- The story of the House of Prayer
- Some practical steps to growing as a person of prayer
Get connected with Jim and House of Prayer Edmonton by visiting www.hopedmonton.ca
Resources mentioned:
- www.ihopkc.org
- Red Moon Rising by Pete Greig
- 57 Words that Changed the World by Darrell Johnson
- Growing in Prayer by Mike Bickle
Music used in the Episode - "Do You Even Need me" by Choy (Used with Permission)
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Why is it important to participate in worship? How do I do that in my living room with my family? We are truly in a unique season as our churches are currently not gathering together on a weekly basis... but in the midst of this unique season I think it's important for us as followers of Christ to continue to actively participate in our church's worship services :)
I had the privilege of interviewing a long time friend of mine, Stephanie Fehr, Pastor of Worship and Discipleship at Greenfield Community Church, about these things!
We talked about:
- How Stephanie believes God is at work in this season
- The temptation of consumerism and how that impacts us as worshippers
- What it looks like for us to foster a posture of participation in worship while we are unable to gather together in person.
Music used in the Episode - "Do You Even Need me" by Choy (Used with Permission)
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Are you looking for a way to deeply engage with the scriptures? Join me as I converse with Hogan Brimacombe, a Campus Missionary with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship on the University of Alberta. Hogan loves the Bible and loves helping others engage with it in a meaningful way.
We discuss:
- Hogan's thoughts on the COVID-19 Crisis
- The importance of God's word to sustain us
- An introduction to the Inductive Bible Study Method
- How & Why we interpret the Bible
- Step by step guide to practice this method on your own!
Resources Mentioned: (Click for Links)
- Scripture and the Authority of God by NT Wright
- Captive to the Word of God by Miroslav Volf
- InterVarsity Bible Background Commentary New Testament
- Bible Background Commentary Old Testament
- Logos Bible Study Software
To connect with Hogan visit https://ivcf.ca/campus/connectoncampus/uofa/undergrad/
Music used in the Episode - "Do You Even Need me" by Choy (Used with Permission)
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Join me as I interview Stephen Epp, the lead pastor at Wiesenthal Baptist Church, on Disciplines of Mercy and Why it's so important to pray the Psalms. Do you feel discouraged in your Bible reading? Hopefully this will help!
What we talked about:
- Stephen's Thoughts on Covid-19
- The role that mercy plays in understanding spiritual disciplines
- An overview of the book of Psalms & why that book is so crucial in this season
- Why and how to pray the Psalms
Resources Mentioned: (Click for Link) The Spirit of the Disciplines by Dallas Willard The Daily Liturgy Podcast
A few Albums or Artists that sing the Psalms: Psalms by Shane & Shane The Shiyr Poets (Brian Doerksen) Psalms by Sandra McCracken
Music used in the Episode - "Do You Even Need me" by Choy (Used with Permission)
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Really excited to share this interview with all of you as Chris and I took some time to discuss some of the realities of hearing God's voice. I think that hearing from God is something that we can easily over-complicate, so take some time to listen to this interview and apply some of the principles to your life!
In the interview we discuss:
- Chris' thoughts about the COVID-19 Crisis.
- Some of the roadblocks we have to hearing His voice (improper view of God/ourselves/the scriptures, how do we know it's really Him speaking etc.)
- How we can begin to grow in hearing God's voice.
- How we are transformed as we learn to hear His voice and ask Him good questions.
Some of the Resources recommended (Click for the Amazon Links)
- Passion for Jesus by Mike Bickle
- Surprised by the Power of the Spirit by Jack Deere
To find out more about Chris & his ministry click here
Music used in the Episode - "Do You Even Need me" by Choy (Used with Permission)
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One of the main expressions of our lives as followers of Jesus is worship! Worship is something that we were created for and is something that is a consistent theme of the entire Biblical narrative! I had the opportunity to interview Caris Rinas about some of the ways that we can grow as worshippers, even through this crisis, where we can't gather together for corporate 'worship.'
Some of the things we chat about:
- What Caris believes God is up to in the midst of this crisis.
- A basic definition of worship.
- We spend a ton of time looking at passages that have to do with worship throughout the Bible.
- We end with talking about how we can engage with worship as a spiritual discipline.
Resources Mentioned (Click for Amazon Link):
- The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
- Some other Worship Resources not Mentioned:
- Look and Live by Matt Papa
- You are what You Love by James K.A. Smith
- A Royal Waste of Time by Marva Dawn
Get Connected with Resurgence in Edmonton by clicking here
Music used in the Episode - "Do You Even Need me" by Choy (Used with Permission)
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Why is it important for us as followers of Jesus to foster a lifestyle of prayer? Join me as I interview TJ Green, a good friend and minister who has such a heart to see God move in meaningful and tangible ways. His life has truly seen God move through prayer and he has been transformed as he has given himself to prayer.
In this podcast we talk about:
- What TJ Believes God is doing through the COVID19 crisis
- Why prayer is important
- What understanding our identity has to do with our prayer lives
- Some of the different ways that we can pray
Some of the books recommended in the introduction are (Click to find on Amazon):
- Streams of Living Water by Richard Foster
- Sacred Pathways by Gary Thomas
- Can You Hear me by Brad Jersak
- Hearing God by Dallas Willard
- Prayer by Timothy Keller
TJ's ministry can be found at:
- https://voiceofrevival.ca/
- https://www.tjgreen.ca/
Happy Easter, He is Risen! Today we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. What an exciting day. I wanted to do a special episode today so I've interviewed my friend Steve Kim, who works for apologetics Canada and is a pastor of Apologetics, around the question: Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead? This podcast is for believers and skeptics alike! Please share :)
In this podcast we discuss: - What is apologetics and why is it important for followers of Jesus? - An apologetic approach to the Covid-19 crisis? If God is good, why is this happening? - The historicity of the resurrection - how can we be sure that Jesus' resurrection is a historical reality?
Check out https://apologeticscanada.com/ For more info on Steve and who he works for!
Join me as I interview my brother, Adam Buyer, a Pastor at Terwilligar Community Church in Edmonton, on the importance and practice of reading God's word. As followers of Jesus, one of the most important practices that we can live into is reading God's word... but let's be honest, it's not always easy to do this regularly! In this podcast, we: - Talk a bit about what God may be inviting many into in this season of the Covid-19 Pandemic. - Look at different ways of reading scripture. - Take some time to start to imagine how one could regularly be 'in the word' as a habit or practice.
Resources: -The Bible Project - https://bibleproject.com/ -To get connected with some of Adam's teaching and to go deeper with what we talked about check out: https://www.tcchurch.ca/equip-discipleship
So what's the big deal with following Jesus? Why is it important for us to practice things like reading the Bible, prayer, worship, and community?
Join me as I interview Tim Pippus, a pastor from Hope for Life Church in Calgary (hflchurch.ca). Tim is passionate about seeing people engage deeply with Jesus and one of the most thoughtful/well spoken guys I know!
We chat about:
- What we believe God is doing in the midst of the Covid-19 Pandemic and some of the cool ways that Christians are responding.
- What Tim's Church is doing specifically (spoiler alert, they are not live-streaming services) and why.
- Why spiritual formation is so important.
- How to begin to take some steps towards spiritual disciplines as a practice through something called a rule of life.
Please take a listen & share!
Resources Recommended:
https://bridgetown.church/series/bridgetown-daily/
Welcome to the Advance Podcast: moving ourselves toward Christlike maturity.
There are a few parts to this podcast:
- a look at how we as Christians can respond to the Covid-19 pandemic
- the dangers of consumer Christianity and how we are being invited into an active spiritual life with God.
- an overview of what this podcast is all about!