The Takeaway: Recent Episodes
Caroline Braskamp
The Takeaway is a podcast of Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church (Dallas, Texas) that is focused on equipping you with the tools and habits that you need to live faithfully in the world. We’ll be sharing tips for taking care of yourself during troubling times, ways to coach yourself through a tough spot. Adulting requires spiritual strength. In the words of Ruth Ann Harnisch, “All leadership begins with the leadership of self.
In this season, Rev. Kathy Lee-Cornell hosts conversations exploring and examining people's call to mission with guests who are serving in mission globally and locally. In 2011, Alendra Lyons moved back to the street where she was born and raised: Collins Avenue in the Mill City neighborhood on the edges of Fair Park in South Dallas. Since her return, Alendra formed the neighborhood crime watch, became president of the Mill City Community Association, and she is now developing the Mill City Teaching Farm, designed to welcome neighborhood children and families to learn, grow, and safely play.
In this season, Rev. Kathy Lee-Cornell hosts conversations exploring and examining people's call to mission with guests who are serving in mission globally and locally. For more than thirty years Frank served the church in Africa as a PC(USA) mission co-worker, focusing on ministries of health and development. PHPC supports the Rebuilding Hope in South Sudan project, which reaches six South Sudanese refugee camps in western Ethiopia through facilitating trauma healing groups and resourcing churches and centers for adult learning with Bibles printed in the Nuer language.
In this season, Rev. Kathy Lee-Cornell hosts conversations exploring and examining people's call to mission with guests who are serving in mission globally and locally. Dr. Wingeier-Rayo previously taught at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. His academic work is informed by 15 years of missionary service where he served in Nicaragua, Cuba, Mexico and the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. Dr. Wingeier-Rayo is currently writing a book on a Wesleyan theology of mission and evangelism.
In this season, Rev. Kathy Lee-Cornell hosts conversations exploring and examining people's call to mission with guests who are serving in mission globally and locally. The Rev. Cheryl Barnes is a mission co-worker supported by PHPC and the Presbyterian World Mission agency in her service in Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe as the education facilitator for the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP). Cheryl arrived in Malawi two months before the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and has remained in Malawi since 2019 to continue her ministry and service.
Season 4 of the Takeaway is for families—of all shapes and sizes. This season is a series of conversations for you to listen to when you light your Advent candles.
In this series, I invite you to deepen your spiritual time with God by integrating intentional breathing techniques and meditative principles.
My prayer is that you are able to receive God’s promises through scripture in a deeper more meaningful way by using these tools in preparing your heart, body, and mind.
Each episode provides a scriptural basis from which we can re-center, refocus, and remind ourselves of God’s promises.
In this series, I invite you to deepen your spiritual time with God by integrating intentional breathing techniques and meditative principles.
My prayer is that you are able to receive God’s promises through scripture in a deeper more meaningful way by using these tools in preparing your heart, body, and mind.
Each episode provides a scriptural basis from which we can re-center, refocus, and remind ourselves of God’s promises.
In this series, I invite you to deepen your spiritual time with God by integrating intentional breathing techniques and meditative principles.
My prayer is that you are able to receive God’s promises through scripture in a deeper more meaningful way by using these tools in preparing your heart, body, and mind.
Each episode provides a scriptural basis from which we can re-center, refocus, and remind ourselves of God’s promises.
In this series, I invite you to deepen your spiritual time with God by integrating intentional breathing techniques and meditative principles.
My prayer is that you are able to receive God’s promises through scripture in a deeper more meaningful way by using these tools in preparing your heart, body, and mind.
Each episode provides a scriptural basis from which we can re-center, refocus, and remind ourselves of God’s promises.
Today we’ll be focusing on the peace of God as fuel for our lives—and we’ll explore how we can draw upon God’s peace for our own lives and communities.
Today we’ll be focusing on the power of God as fuel for our lives—and we’ll explore how we can tap into God’s power and harness it for ourselves.
Today we’ll be focusing on the joy of God as fuel for our lives—and we’ll explore how we can receive God’s joy and share it with the world.
Today we'll be focusing on the faithfulness of God as fuel for our lives and we'll explore how we can trust God's faithfulness and respond with faithfulness ourselves.
Today we’ll be focusing on the wisdom of God as fuel for our lives—and we’ll explore how we can begin to understand and apply God’s wisdom in our lives.
Today we’ll be focusing on the beauty of God as fuel for our lives—and we’ll explore how we can appreciate and participate in God’s beauty.
Today we’ll be focusing on the glory of God as fuel for our lives—and we’ll explore how we can offer God glory and participate in God’s glory.
Today we’ll be focusing on the love of God as fuel for our lives—and we’ll explore how we can participate in God’s love.
Today we’ll be focusing on the goodness of God as fuel for our lives—and we’ll explore how we can participate in God’s goodness.
Today we’ll be looking back to what we’ve covered in season one of the Takeaway—and giving you a sneak peak into season two. Listen in.
Today we’ll be talking about true thoughts—how easy it is to get lost in thought, how to test your own thoughts to discern what is true, and what our minds are truly meant for.
Today we’ll be talking about illness—from physical symptoms, to feelings of shame and guilt, to chances for healing.
Today we’ll be talking about nourishment, those things that give us strength—from food to exercise to Jesus himself.
Today we’ll be talking about negative thoughts—how easy it is to get stuck in seeing the glass as half empty, and how we can rebalance and reframe our thoughts to be more positive and true.
Today we’ll be talking about rest, from sleep to sabbath to just taking a break, and how we desperately need rest during these troubling times.
Today we’ll be talking about overwhelming feelings—such as fear, anxiety, anger, frustration, guilt, and shame—which tend to come out sideways during troubling times.
How to "right-size" the amount of news you take in each day, and where to turn when things seem overwhelming.
Today we’ll be talking about our behaviors, from handwashing to social distancing, and why they matter to God. Listen in.