Intentional Living: Recent Episodes
True Hope Collister
Welcome to the Intentional Living Podcast where we take the concept of discipleship and find ways to apply biblical principles to every area of our lives.
Diane and Luke share about the invaluable importance that prayer has played in their lives.
This week we hear from two friends and roommates who have shared life together for many years, choosing intentional community as a way to live out their faith. By opening their home as an Airbnb, they’ve created space for radical hospitality—welcoming strangers and seeing God at work through simple acts of generosity. Their story is really about friendship, shared mission, and using what they have to serve others.
You can check out Amil's personal God Story here: Singleness: Amil's God Story
Vince and Darcie join Matt and discuss how God has called them to plant a church in partnership with True Hope Collister.
If you would like to reach out to them about the church plant, fill out a next steps card, located in the lobby and sanctuary, or just go to this link: https://truehopecollister.churchcenter.com/people/forms/343728
Tara joins Tori and Matt for our third episode of Devoted to God’s Word. Together, they discuss being devoted to God’s word not only as an individual, but also within community. What are the differences? Why are both important? Also, what are some of the obstacles we face on both sides?
Check out the book: The Other Half of Church by Jim Wilder & Michel Hendricks
In this episode, Vince joins Matt to talk about what being devoted to God’s word looks like. What are some of the key things for creating a space for engaging God’s word and making it into a consistent habit?
Find the James Bible Study Method at www.thejamesmethod.com
Check out the Bible Recap website at www.thebiblerecap.com
To learn more about the Daily Kairos and their journals, go to www.dailykairos.com
Check out the book: How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth by Gordon D. Fee
Join Matt, Ruth, and Tori as they talk about why it is important to live devoted to God’s word and what that means. How do we do that practically in our day to day lives? How can we approach God and learn how to have a relationship with Him and build a passion for wanting to do that?
Check out the "Bible Recap" website at www.thebiblerecap.com
Before you read God’s Word today, ask for His help by praying these 5 prayers:
- God, give me wisdom, knowledge, and understanding.
- Let any knowledge I gain help me love You and others more, and not puff me up.
- Help me see something new about You that I’ve never seen before.
- Correct any lies I believe about You or anything I misunderstand.
- Direct my steps according to Your Word. Amen.
To learn more about "Untying the Knots of the Heart", go to www.innerlifeministries.com
Also check out our "Soul Conversations" Podcast with Matt Priebe & Nate Hamlin.
Micah and Tori join Matt for a conversation about gospel transformation and sexuality. How does the freedom that gospel transformation provides apply to our sexual lives? How do we navigate this in our lives in order to prevent the destructive realities that can occur?
Check out the book: How to Talk with Your Kids About Sex by Rodney and Tracie Wright. You can find it on the Pure Desire Ministries website.
Matt is joined by Meridith and Kevin, as they talk about money and what gospel transformation in light of our finances looks like. How do we become good stewards with our money? What is our relationship between our ability to sacrifice and the freedom that we find in Christ?
Paula and Carolyn join Matt and discuss hospitality and relationships; and how does Gospel Transformation impact that for us in our lives?
Check out the book: B.L.E.S.S. - 5 Everyday Ways to Love Your Neighbor and Change the World by Dave and Jon Ferguson
Matt, Tori, and Eric dig into the question of what is Gospel Transformation? What does it look like in our lives? And why is it so important?
Nate and Matt delve into the idea of how people feeling loved, safe, and cared for is a necessity to transformation.
Matt and Nate build upon the community and confession conversation from last episode. What are the things we need to confront? How do we maintain safety in that group? And when someone confesses something, how do we help that individual?
For this episode, Nate and Matt ask, "What if the conflict that we are experiencing within our community is a sin issue?" What does scripture say and how do our relationships with each other dictate that we engage that idea?
Today, Matt and Nate delve into the question of: How do we have conflict in a community context that is appropriate, healthy, constructive, honoring, and loving?
For this episode, Nate and Matt build upon the conversation of the last episode and discuss the questions: How do we engage conflict? What is the benefit of developing the soul strength to stay and try to work through it? How do we strengthen our commitment with each other through conflict?
In this episode, Matt and Nate discuss the practice and discipline of fellowship. What is it? Why is it needed? Who should we engage with? And how do we know when it is time to break that fellowship?
Nate and Matt build on their discussion about shame and guilt, explaining further their meaning, as well as how we view ourselves in light of how God views us.
Continuing from the last episode, Nate and Matt discuss confession and how it is significant for us in our own soul growth and in our relationship with God.
Matt and Nate continue their discussion from the last episode about spiritual disciplines, unpack more of those disciplines, and see how they can benefit our souls.
Nate and Matt discuss what our window of tolerance is and how it applies to our lives, coping, and spiritual disciplines.
Nate and Matt continue talking about the idea of soul strength, and how our spiritual disciplines of being intentional with God is a way to strengthen our soul.
What does it look like to hold space with God? How can we do that? And how does he use that to increase our awareness about the selfishness in our lives?
If someone is feeling overwhelmed by this process of holding space, how do we become more self-aware in order to root out selfishness so that we can be more available to others in a healthy way?
This episode, Nate and Matt discuss our Internal Awareness and dealing with those thoughts that we're silently thinking and not verbalizing to others, but are moving through us.
For this episode, Nate and Matt dive into how we discover selfishness and what do we do about it? How does selfishness get in the way of our ability to hold space, be with someone else to help deliver the pain, so that they can move forward in their lives?
Matt and Nate talk about the practical aspects of safety and our bodies, and the ways that can impact how our soul conversations are going to go.
Building on last episode, where we want to create a space where people can be truthful and are able to take the next steps of engagement, how can we become the kind of person that can hold space with another person?
Nate and Matt continue their discussion of what it looks like to love God. How does the truth and honesty about our own heart become the beginning of that engagement? How does it benefit us in loving other people?
In this episode, Matt and Nate continue their discussion by exploring what it looks like to love God and experience God’s love.
In this episode, Matt and Nate continue the discussion of how to properly order your life through looking at loving the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength and your neighbor as yourself.
In this episode, Matt and Nate discuss what are some tangible, practical things we can do in our day to day living to help us evaluate and order our desires in a way that is actually beneficial to our lives.
In this episode, Matt and Nate discuss the soul & negative emotions and how they affect each other.
In this episode of Soul Conversations Matt and Nate discuss how to live aware in the everyday.
Join us in this episode as we sit down with Amil and Reuben and discuss how they said "yes" when God asked. Amil and Reuben serve at True Hope Collister and are constantly smiling faces and open hands.
The False Self and the Soul - In this podcast, we define the false self and how to live within the true self through soul strength.
The idea of living on mission seems ominous and overwhelming. In this series, our goal is to hear stories from our friends and church family on how they found missional opportunities in the everyday stuff of life. In these stories, we discover that living on mission for Jesus is more about being consistently present in everyday moments than doing something big.
This week we talk with Mike Crowley and learn how he engaged the opportunity to live on a mission in his neighborhood. Mike is a man passionate about helping people. He is a counselor, a husband and a man after God heart.
The idea of living on mission seems ominous and overwhelming. In this series, our goal is to hear stories from our friends and church family on how they found missional opportunities in the everyday stuff of life. In these stories, we discover that living on mission for Jesus is more about being consistently present in everyday moments than doing something big.
This week we sat down with our good friend Andrew Feraci to hear how he embraced community during a difficult season and leans into living on mission in his everyday life. Andrew has been attending True Hope Collister for a few years and is actively involved with our youth and media team here. In this episode he talks on the struggles of Divorce and the power of God and community.
The Soul and Relationships - In this podcast, we discuss the role of the soul and its strength in navigating relationships.
Soul Strength? In this podcast, we discuss soul strength and how to increase its fortitude.
What is the soul? - In this podcast, we discuss what a soul is and why it is essential to care for.
Show Notes:
Untying the Knots of Your Heart
Knowing Your Story Matters blog post by Matt Priebe
Today we are talking about how the idea of sharing our faith can be intimidating. How can we help people experience true hope in Jesus in the most effective way possible? In today’s podcast, we will wrestle with how to live as an agent of hope in our world.
Show Notes:
Displaying The True Hope Of Jesus Through Gospel Transformation blog post by Breanna Eaton
Gospel Fluency: Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life
by Jeff Vanderstelt
The Bible is our standard of truth and gives us access to God, his story, and how to accomplish his will. With it being so important how do I engage questions around its reliability? Today we will dive into those questions and begin to answer them.
Show Notes:
Engaging Kids in God’s World Blog Post
Bible Recap
Purpose is something we are all looking for in our day-to-day routines. The one who created has a very specific purpose for us to engage within God’s redemptive story. In this episode, we will wrestle with how to discover and live out of that purpose.
Show Notes:
What is my calling blog post
The Hard Good by Lisa Whittle
In this episode, we aim to help followers of Jesus discover the Big God Story so it can impact our lives by giving us an accurate and awe-inspiring perspective into how God has been moving throughout history. It further compels us to see how God is using every person’s life and is creating a unique story that deserves to be told for His glory.
Show Notes:
The Bible Recap plan By: Tara Lee Cobble on the Bible app
The Story Formed Way "starting in March 2022" Visit truehopecollister.com/messages
The Story of God the Story of Us: Getting Lost and Found in the Bible by Sean Gladding
10 Themes for Discipleship at True Hope Collister
