The Dick Schroeder Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Dick Schroeder draws his teaching from a deep well of love for the Bible and decades of strategic ministry among university students. The Dick Schroeder Podcast makes these messages available to people hungry to know God more deeply. Dick’s teaching features warm, practical insights and real-life stories. Episode one features an interview with his wife Joy who candidly addresses the question, “Who is Dick Schroeder.” They were married, best friends, and partners in ministry for 43 years before Dick, to their shock, was diagnosed with cancer and died 8 weeks later. Digitizing Dick’s messages from cassettes to podcast episodes is one vehicle by which Dick’s timeless and important teaching continues to carry impact.
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This is part 5 of a 5 part series about King David’s life. Dick teaches how the disciples waited for the gift from God after Jesus’ ascension even when not understanding what it meant. Dick points out scripture of God’s desire to empower his followers to express his power and love through the gifting of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Dick empresses that humility, desire, and obedience are the traits the Lord wants to develop in His followers so that empowerment does not lead to a haughty heart.
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This is part 4 of a 5 part series about King David’s life. Dick teaches on how a relationship with God requires time, openness, and obedience. Jesus teaches that He is the living water that satisfies, not merely religious adherence and right action.
*Editor’s note: There was some corruption in a chunk of the teaching that was left out and the ministry time was included.
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This is part 3 of a 5 part series about King David. Dick teaches how God’s approach to life’s challenges often baffle the typical way of doing things. He shares the story of David and Goliath as an example of David’s faith in God’s plan that seemed odd throughout his set of actions until Goliath fell. Dick encourages the listeners to believe and walk with God even when His instructions seem odd with the way of the world.
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This is part 2 of a 5 part series about King David. Dick teaches how God prepares His followers for the plans and purposes He designs. Dick teaches how David’s time spent being a musician and a brave shepherd prepared him for the battle with Goliath and eventual Kingship.
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This is part 1 of a 5 part series about King David. Dick teaches how God is aware of the details of our lives. Dick notes how God’s eyes see where we have been, where we are at, and what His plan is for our lives. Dick uses the story of David’s anointing to showcase God’s preference for those who have faith over those who have “desirable qualities” such as strength, beauty, or charisma.
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This is part 4 of a 4 part series on the challenge of love. Dick invites his audience to consider the challenge of loving through confrontation. Dick covers seven principles to consider before confronting another with an issue. He then covers five ways to be a healthy receiver of confrontation. Dick petitions his listeners to press into this difficult arena with love and the idea that God uses confrontation to love us, to mature us, and to conform us into His image.
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This is part 3 of a 4 part series on the challenge of love. Dick covers ten different practical ways to love others. He challenges the idea of being overly spiritual rather than practical finding ways to identify and love others. This sermon is full of fun and powerful stories of people loving others in authentic and helpful ways.
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This is part 2 of a 4 part series on the challenge of love. Dick offers the idea that love is greater than an intense feeling and invites his listeners to consider how they could cultivate love if it were only a feeling. Dick shares a definition of love that allows for a mature cultivation of love in the life of the believer.
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This is part 1 of a 4 part series on the challenge of love. Love is central to the life of a Christian as it was the model that Jesus displayed to those around him. Dick teaches on the Christian’s reliance on The Lord’s strength in order to meet the challenge of loving others. Dick shares how we do this by giving practical ways of engaging in loving-kindness towards others. He tackles the tension of how do we love those we do not like and those who do not like us.
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This is part 7 of a 7 part series Dick entitled How to Minister Effectively at the Altar which will be shortened to Altar Ministry. Chuck Lester teaches on the baptism in the Holy Spirit and the releasing of a prayer language. He instructs the believer to have faith through the understanding of the eagerness and the character of God to bless His children. Chuck gives many practical tips of instruction and encouragement to help others be baptized in the Holy Spirit and release a heavenly language intended to edify the believer and glorify God.
*Special Note: There were several teachings in this series that were unable to be used. This means that the part of the series that Dick announces may not line up with what this description denotes.
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This is part 6 of a 7* part series Dick entitled How to Minister Effectively at the Altar which will be shortened to Altar Ministry. Steve Frey teaches on how to hear God’s voice in our daily faith. He shares principles that are drawn from scripture and how people heard God in the Bible. He shares many examples from scripture to help guide the believer and to stir up faith to hear God’s voice. Steve also covers the hindrances to hearing God’s voice so that believers can identify these issues and cast them aside.
*Special Note: There were several teachings in this series that were unable to be used. This means that the part of the series that Dick announces may not line up with what this description denotes. And we have updated previous descriptions to match these changes.
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This is part 5 of a 9 part series Dick entitled How to Minister Effectively at the Altar which will be shortened to Altar Ministry. Dick teaches how God equips His followers with the prophetic key to His kingdom in order to bring Heaven to earth. Dick teaches that this prophetic key is accessed through speaking in tongues. Dick shares amazing stories of believers that have spent time developing intimacy with God through speaking in tongues. These stories have the supernatural element that points believers and non-believers towards God’s presence and intention in this world.
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This is part 4 of a 9 part series Dick entitled How to Minister Effectively at the Altar which will be shortened to Altar Ministry. Pam Western is a guest speaker on this series and teachings about Discernment. She instructs believers to pursue actively listening to The Lord for encouragement, instruction, and ministry opportunities. Pam teaches principles used in the process of discerning God’s voice. Pam exhorts believers to pursue maturity with The Lord through hearing His voice.
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This is part 2 of a 9 part series Dick entitled How to Minister Effectively at the Altar which will be shortened to Altar Ministry. Dick teaches that in order to minister effectively God comes to us to deal with our hearts first. Dick challenges self-righteous attitudes that ignore God and others in order to justify one’s heart and behavior. Dick impresses God’s desire for purity of heart in His disciples and calls them to repentance and restoration.
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This is part 1 of a 9 part series Dick entitled How to Minister Effectively at the Altar which will be shortened to Altar Ministry. Dick teaches how Jesus' relationship with Father God is the model for disciples to emulate. Dick lays out how this model of ministry is based on intimacy rather than performance. God’s grace to give revelation is how a disciple comes to greater intimacy, and a disciple can foster this by creating space for meditation and prayer.
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This is part 2 of 2 of How to Love People taught by Joy Schroeder. Joy teaches a group of high school students about God’s love for people. Joy shares more stories of moving towards other people with love. Joy teaches through her stories of being humbly used by God in order to care for the lost, lonely, and those in need of hope. Joy instructs the students to pray and trust the Holy Spirit to help guide them to others that are in need of love.
This recording is from 1988.
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This is part 1 of 2 of How to Love People taught by Joy Schroeder. Joy teaches a group of high school students about God’s love for people. Joy shares how she has been led by The Lord to love others, both believers and non-believers. Joy shares stories of love, humor, and confession that have flowed out of a life lived towards others. She teaches important attitudes and perceptions that are useful in loving others and being open. She leads a group of students in a discussion and intercession from the passage in Matthew 25.
This recording is from 1988.
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Dick preaches this sermon on the scripture of Hebrews 12:1-3. How do we cast off those sins and desires that entangle us? Where do we find strength through pains and seasons of hopelessness? He shares his own life and challenges of following the Lord through repentance and obedience. Dick encourages his listeners to reflect on God’s character and His eagerness to show His abundant love.
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Dick shares a message about what it means to live by “walking in the light.” Dick points to God's character as a fair judge and will expose every secret to the light. Dick notes how this “light” is a relational concept that God has given to His creation. Dick shares that God’s heart is a heart wanting to know His creation and wanting His creation to know Him and therefore desires to help reveal through light.
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Dick shares about his time and experience going to a revival happening at a Vineyard church in Toronto, Canada. His testimony captures the principles of yielding, humility, freedom, and partnership with God. Dick invites two friends to give testimony during this teaching. How might this testimony affect your view of the Holy Spirit and your approach to engagement?
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Revelation of God
Dick teaches about the idea of revelation of God through the scriptures. Dick teaches how revelation is different from intellectual knowledge of God and that it is more gifted rather than obtained with effort. Dick encourages his listeners to eagerly desire revelation from God and to add a prayer of request for revelation to their spiritual discipline.
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Dick shares at Bozeman Christian Center church his testimony from a mission trip he took to Albania. Dick shares how he partnered with Youth With a Mission (YWAM) at one of their Discipleship Training Schools (DTS). We hope that Dick’s testimony of those hearing and responding to the gospel message encourages your faith.
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Dick teaches at Campus Minister’s Conference, which is Chi Alpha’s summer conference for campus missionaries. Dick shares on how to cultivate a life that is directed by God’s vision. Dick uses personal stories to show how God had shaped his life and the life of students that were in his ministry. Dick teaches how if Christians are humble, pure, and faithful to God then God can redeem and resurrect dreams and visions that were broken or dead.
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Growing in knowing God’s Voice - Confessions of a Modern Christian Mystic Part 4
This is part 4 of a 4 part series on Modern Christian Mysticism. Dick wraps up this series by exhorting the believer to spend time listening for God’s voice. He gives principles that pursuing God’s voice comes after the believer understands His character through what is revealed in the Bible. Dick shares that God is passionate to reveal Himself to those that eagerly pursue His face.
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This is part 3 of a 4 part series on Modern Christian Mysticism. Dick instructs the Christian believer to pursue an intentional practice of Christian meditation. Dick shares personal stories of how his own discipline has led him to deeper understandings of truth. Dick shows how King David was instructed and disciplined himself to meditate on the scriptures and how from that had wisdom and guidance that helped him to be one of Israel’s greatest kings.
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This is part 2 of a 4 part series on Modern Christian Mysticism. Dick teaches on the disciplines of listening and solitude in relationship with God. He shares how God desires to speak to His people and yet the noise, business, and urgency distract mankind from entering into a dedicated time of quiet. Dick shares several stories of Christian mystics that pursued relationship with God through the ordinary moments of living and found deep revelation of the Kingdom of God.
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This is part 1 of a 4 part series on Modern Christian Mysticism. Dick is teaching a series at a Chi Alpha SALT Conference. Dick teaches how the Bible shows people of faith spend time pursuing the knowledge and relationship with God. Dick sets up the foundation of how we are to evaluate ourselves and humbly pursue intimacy with God instead of performing for others or clout.
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This is part 4 of a 4 part series on being an Effective Spiritual Fighter. Dick finishes covering some principles of the armor of God and then proceeds to teach about principles of being offensive in the spiritual realm.
Editor’s Note: At approximately 39 minutes there is lost audio that could not be recovered and therefore has an abrupt and awkward transition.
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This is part 3 of a 4 part series on being an Effective Spiritual Fighter. The students engage Dick in a question and answer time about principles for understanding the spiritual realm. Dick teaches and names several spiritual practices that a Christian would avoid. Dick touches on how to understand the armor of God with this teaching. Dick humbly answers the majority of students' questions and shows how he uses Christian principles even if a situation is not easily categorized. (Special Note: the students can be hard to hear and Dick does his best to reiterate the question before answering. Most of the time!)
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This is part 2 of a 4 part series on being an Effective Spiritual Fighter. Dick draws out principles from the life and story of Job as well as the armor of God. Dick focuses on some spiritual principles about how the believer operates to defend themselves and this world from spiritual forces of evil.
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This is part 1 of a 4 part series on being an Effective Spiritual Fighter. Dick discusses how we are to recognize and integrate a Biblical understanding of the spiritual realm into our life. He compares and contrasts the natural and seen world versus the supernatural and unseen world.
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This is part 10 of a 10 part series titled Theology 101. Dick summarizes the teachings he has done on the character of God. Dick shares the discernment of knowing and paying attention to God’s character to understand His ways. When believers choose not to trust their own wisdom and rely on God’s wisdom and His character then they will participate in bringing forth the fruit of the Kingdom of Heaven.
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This is part 9 of a 10 part series titled Theology 101. How are we to understand the character of God’s anger? Did God’s anger change after Jesus died and resurrected? Dick teaches when Christian’s deserve God’s anger even in the new covenant with the Lord. Dick’s teaching hedges in the common misunderstanding around anger and its volatility by giving a holistic approach to understanding God’s character.
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This is part 8 of a 10 part series titled Theology 101. Dick points to the covenants in the Bible as a marker of God’s willingness to be connected and faithful to humankind. How are we to understand God’s faithfulness? What does it provoke in followers of God? And what type of testimony does it give to those who do not believe? Dick shares how God’s faithfulness surpasses our vantage point to stretch into eternity.
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This is part 7 of a 10 part series titled Theology 101. Dick teaches why the idea of Hell exists. He responds to people’s criticisms of Hell and what misunderstandings there can be in how we perceive God. Dick gives honor to God’s character, the sanctity of free choice, and the dignity of man through this teaching. What does Hell reveal about our world, about our choices, and about God?
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This is part 6 of a 10 part series titled Theology 101. Following the teaching from part 5, Dick jumps into how the believer is taught to respond to the holiness of God. What does it mean to be consecrated? What is the effect of God’s holiness on the world or the believer? Dick explores how God’s holiness creates response in the audience and how believers can partner with His holy light.
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This is part 5 of a 10 part series titled Theology 101. “Holiness” can be a word that we can feel disconnected from in our world today. Dick tells Bible stories that give grounding and understanding to God’s holy character. Dick explains the process of something being made holy through three lenses: to purify, to make blameless, and to set apart. Dick calls believers to respond to the Bible’s teachings on holiness by asking for revelation.
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This is part 4 of a 10 part series titled Theology 101. A tooth for a tooth, and an eye for an eye. How do we resolve the justice we desire with the mercy that we need? Dick teaches how God’s mercy and justice are complementary to one another. Dick explains how God's mercy sits on principles of truth that cannot be changed and becomes the catalyst to help change the heart of man. Man transforms from being given mercy and in response gives mercy to others.
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This is part 3 of a 10 part series titled Theology 101. Dick begins talking about divine revelation of God that is stewarded with obedience. Dick then teaches about the justice and fairness of God. Dick addresses the concerns of unfairness, favoritism, and revenge. Dick points to how the Bible helps us to understand our role in partnering with God’s justice.
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In this special episode you will hear from both Dick and Joy Schroeder one year after the accident that left Joy paralyzed. Dick and Joy share the story and details of the accident and recovery. They focus their story on how they saw God weave His presence and His provision in their life. Their testimony is a powerful testimony of how they process the suffering and hardship through relationship with the Lord. Please enjoy this very special episode.
Note: The Theology 101 series will continue!
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The Love of God - Theology 101 Part 2
This is part 2 of a 10 part series titled Theology 101. Rod Enos, once on staff with Dick, teaches about the love of God. How do we know about the love of God? How are we to experience it? Rod shares scripture that helps to highlight this facet of God’s being and nature and how we are to experience it and how it challenges us.
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This is part 1 of a 10 part series titled Theology 101. Dick explores the question “What type of being is God?” This episode expands on the thoughts of “what does character mean?” and “what does the Bible reveal about God’s character?” How we understand the character of God will directly affect our faith in him.
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Dick shares the Biblical principle of the fear of The Lord. What does it mean? Am I to be afraid of God? Dick clarifies through the wisdom books what this principle means, what is promised to those that cultivate this principle, and how to cultivate this principle. Dick teaches how this principle is to be tied into an experiential relationship with Christ that invites us into God’s holiness.
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Dick covers 2 Kings chapter 3 and the story of ancient kings of Israel and Judah as they trusted their own understanding and neglected to seek God’s council. What will be our response to heavenly wisdom? Will we adhere to our own interests and understandings? Or will we dig ditches?
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This is part 4 of a 4 part series on Hearing God’s Voice. Dick answers a few questions at the beginning of this session (*Note: It is difficult to hear those asking questions though Dick answers most in a way where the question is part of the answer he gives). Dick follows this up on teaching that God’s heart in speaking to us is to serve His purpose of love.
Source: Dick is teaching at SALT (Student Activist in Leadership Training) winter Chi Alpha conference.
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This is part 3 of a 4 part series on Hearing God’s Voice. Dick shares 6 practical concepts to hearing God’s voice. Following these principles Dick shares a number of stories of what it has been like for him to hear God speak to him.
Source: Dick is teaching at SALT (Student Activist in Leadership Training) winter Chi Alpha conference.
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This is part 2 of a 4 part series on Hearing God’s Voice. Dick teaches on how to understand why God talks to us in certain ways. Dick uses Paul’s teaching on prophecy and spiritual gifts to display how God uses humans to build up fellow believers, reveal hidden things in order for healing to happen, and ultimately to recognize and glorify God.
Source: Dick is teaching at SALT (Student Activist in Leadership Training) winter Chi Alpha conference.
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This is part 1 of a 4 part series on Hearing God’s Voice. Dick begins his four part teaching on how he has learned how God speaks to humans. Dick shares Biblical principles that show that God has created humankind to be in communication with Him. Dick teaches three baseline attitudes needed to hear His voice properly.
Source: Dick is teaching at SALT (Student Activist in Leadership Training) winter Chi Alpha conference.
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This is part 3 of a 3 part series on the Ministry of Prayer. Dick teaches how Christian ministry is advanced through prayer. Dick explains how the Bible invites the Christian to intercede for specific causes for restoration and revelation of the Kingdom of God, even in the face of spiritual opposition.
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This is part 2 of a 3 part series on the Ministry of Prayer. Dick shares the way the Bible explains how to pray. What does it look like to have a concentrated season of prayer, fasting and praying, praying large prayers of faith, or praying in the Holy Spirit? Listen to this episode to learn how God instructs us to pray.
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This is part 1 of a 3 part series on the Ministry of Prayer. In this episode, Dick encourages the Church on the vitality of a personal prayer life. Dick shares how waiting on the Lord’s voice for each day is the way we are intended to live out our obedience to Him.
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Enjoy this interview with Joy Schroeder and Andrew Youngblood as they discuss the heart behind the launch of the Dick Schroeder Podcast. Listen for information on what you can expect to see from this podcast project.
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