Life in the Tension: Recent Episodes
Rachel Plyler
In a culture permeated by "Love is love" and "living your truth," Jesus models living in the tension of both. How do we genuinely love someone yet not compromise the truth of Scripture in today's world? Host Rachel Plyler brings both the Word of God and powerful testimonies to help us unpack living life in the tension.
Life in the Tension is back! In this episode, Rachel shares at The Collective Church of the incredible testimony of God healing self-harm scars, the pride flag prayer strategy, and more!
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This week, we dive into 1 Samuel 1 and the story of Hannah to learn about how to respond when it seems like God isn't answering in the places we are contending to see Him move.
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Rachel interviews Silas Gentry, a 14-year-old with a powerful testimony of vulnerability leading to his freedom. Silas also shares his heart for healing and for his generation, GenZ, to see a great revival.
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Rachel presents an open letter to millennials about accepting or abdicating the call of God on our generation.
Rachel dives into why we should use our voices to speak the truth and not bow to the deception of sitting down and staying silent. Three well-known stories from the Bible help us hone what speaking up looks like and why we would do it.
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This week we get a look inside the real wrestle of someone in their moment of confession and some foundational Scriptures of how to come to these conversations with someone else.
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Rachel talks about two of the foundational principles for creating a culture of vulnerability that leads to freedom in Jesus: confession and repentance.
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Rachel sits down with Ellie Gentry to talk about the day that God rescued her from a same-sex relationship, how she continues to walk out freedom every day, and the hope that exists for others!
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This week, Rachel recounts going to a kid's Pride Festival in Portland, OR, and the necessity of a Godly compassion coupled with Heavenly strategies to take down what can often feel like the Giants of Culture.
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Rachel introduces herself and her testimony of being set free from same-sex relationship/attraction, depression, anxiety, and ultimately, rejection - and how that testimony has helped her understand the immense need for holding truth and love together in tension.
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Culture is permeating us 24/7 with ideologies like "love is love" and "live your truth," but where should Christians land? We aren't to copy the behaviors of the world. Instead, Jesus showed modeled to us living in the tension of both truth and love without compromising on the Word of God or His compassion for people. This is life in the tension.
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The Return is a show highlighting powerful testimonies of miracles, transformation, and revival founded on the truth of the Word of God. In this intro episode, Rachel walks us through Nehemiah 8 & 9 to show the impact of returning to the Truth!