God can speak to us anyway he wants to. If he spoke through a donkey(true story) he can speak through your spouse, song lyrics, a movie, radio, a billboard on the highway…however He wants to. The real question is are you listening? Life itself creates all kinds of distractions  with daily activities and the unexpected storms of life but God is working through it all speaks to us to calm our anxious hearts. (Scott Curtis is with Shawna this morning) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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God Speaks To Us in Many Ways

When it comes to hearing from God – we tend to think that experience is reserved for really holy people like Moses. Hear a powerful modern day story of God speaking to a teenage girl in the middle of the night and the impact it had on another teen who was questioning God’s love. Learning to hear from God probably won’t happen all at once. It will take an investment of your time. But it’s so worth it! Also, we talked about a 4 step process that theologian, Dr. Mark Virkler discovered from Habbakuk 2 to help you to learn to hear from God. (Scott Curtis joins Shawna this morning)   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is God Listening?

Let’s get real…Someone says, “Then God told me _____” and you’re like, “How? Did you audibly hear His voice? How did God tell you?” That’s fair. This week on Perry and Shawna Mornings we are breaking it down, removing the mystery, and learning together how to hear from God. Todd Krygsheld, Executive Director of Escape Ministries, joined us for the conversation. You can join us too! Let’s learn together how to hear God’s voice and obey. *Scott Curtis is filling in for Perry today See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I Want to Hear God's Voice

When we talk about leaders who fail big time, we say, “They fell from grace.”  From a gospel point of view that makes no sense.  When a leader’s life or anyone’s falls apart, the gospel says that we get to fall into grace.  That’s what happened to Dr Jeremy Grinnell.  Jeremy was the preaching pastor at Bella Vista Church in Rockford, MI.  He taught at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary, and he fell.  Hard.  Fell into an emotional affair, fell into a near fatal clinical depression. And then in 20 seconds of folly threw everything away as he looked into the bedroom window of the woman he was having an emotional affair with.  He was charged with invasion of privacy, was publicly disgraced and lost his ministry.  But he didn’t lose Jesus or his bride and children.  This is a story of self-destruction and redemption.  Jeremy and his bride Denise join the team today to share their beautifully broken story.  Their story will be shared at an even deeper level in Jeremy’s upcoming book, The Bellowing of Cain.  Please share this show! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fall Into Grace

D.L. Moody said, “The world has yet to see what God can do with a man fully consecrated to him. By God’s help, I aim to be that man.”  A conversation about how God takes ordinary, wounded, flawed, and surrendered people to bring the life of Jesus to the world.  Then being all in with Jesus doesn’t mean being all put together.  It means failing forward and most of all throwing yourself into Jesus.  Next, being the good soil that produces massive fruit comes from 1001 decisions to surrender to Jesus.  And finally, Perry longs to live unashamed, to no longer be afraid, to no longer be motivated by fear and shame.  That would be all in for him.  Please share if this encourages you! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Christian Superheroes Need Not Apply

Perry’s wresting with some questions:  What is it in me that keeps me from completely surrendering to God, what keeps me from fully trusting him, what keeps me from letting go of anything in my life that is ripping me off?  An assist here from American poet, minister, writer, and hip-hop artist from St. Louis, Jackie Hill Perry.  Shawna shares why saying “yes” to Jesus has been the riskiest commitment she’s made in her life.  Then, what can empower us to let go of what we hold so tightly?  Another assist from Jackie Hill Perry. Finally, Jesus’ call is to recklessly bet everything on Him. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Reckless Abandon

Nope not 50%, 100%, right!?  Shawna’s daughter Bryn is leaving everything behind to share Jesus’ love with people on the other side of the sea.  And seeing her daughter take this leap is challenging Shawna to look at what she’s still holding on to.  Then Perry wants to be a follower of Jesus and not just a fan—to really trust Jesus when life blindsides him, instead of freaking out.  We get an assist here from Dan Mike, teaching pastor at Crossroads in Grand Rapids, MI.  Then the martyrdom of Jim Elliot, the willingness of his bride to forgive his killers and to bring them the gospel.  And finally, from the human side of things, Abram’s willingness to leave everything behind to follow the living God is why someday there will be a new heavens and new earth! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I Surrender 50%

A call to leap into the exhilarating, scary, risky, hard, uncomfortable life of faith.  Then following Jesus means sacrifice.  But what we let go frees us to live as we were created to live.  Next, Jesus goes after our excuses to move us from casual to committed follower of Him.  (Perry and Shawna admit that this is an everyday reset for them).  Then if you’re looking up a rock face today and you know you must climb it, and you have no idea how you’re going to, the way up is surrender.  Perry shares what this looks like for him.  Finally, sometimes the life of faith is like surfing a wave in sunny Hawaii, and sometimes it’s like swimming across the frigid English Channel! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Leaving Everything to Follow Jesus

#FreedomFriday Woot!  Woot!  Shawna’s back from vacation and she shares about growing up in a great Jesus-loving family and yet the enemy whispered in her ear as a child, “You’re not wanted.”  Perry shares a new realization about grace:  That confessing his sins isn’t about admitting every day that he’s rotten to the core.  Shawna shares the scariness of this season of life (becoming empty nesters), how it’s creating fear and yet how God is speaking to her that he’s got this.  Finally, the sinful nature is not who you are, it’s what you’re fighting against!  Who you are in Jesus is Abba’s beloved child!  A couple assists today from bible teacher Colin Smith. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

#FreedomFriday

David Doerner, Teaching Pastor at Frontline Community Church and Nick, a Leadership Resident at Frontline join the team to talk about the earth-shaking, life-transforming power of prayer.  First a dangerous prayer:  “Lord search me and know me.”  Yes, the Lord will reveal our sins, but he’ll also show us the dead things in us that he wants to raise to life.  Then how prayer brought the power and love of heaven to a witchcraft shop owner and her daughter in Grand Rapids!  Also, how prayer breaks down walls of division when God’s people pray together.  Then Nick shares how Jesus healed his Cornerstone classmate from cancer through prayer.  David shares how the prayer “Lord search me and know me,” revealed the anger in his life that led to the healing of his heart.  Finally, how the Lord’s Prayer frees us from selfishness so that we get what our hearts really long for. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Prayer Brings Heaven to Earth

Singer/Songwriter Kali Joy (Perry’s daughter) joins the team to tell us about her new album Real Life and to share how the Father is freeing her to come out of hiding and shame to be the beloved daughter of God he’s created her to be.  Kali shares the story behind Real Life, the title track from her yet-to-be-released album.  Then, how she’s leaning into pain to be healed.  Next, how the Lord freed her as a child from the fear of dying in a fire.    She shares what she’s learned from Michael Jordan’s, The Last Dance.  Then, how she never has to track her spiritual growth again or compare herself to anyone else’s spiritual growth ever again.  (It’s about grace)!  Next the story behind her song, You Are Better, (to be released later this year).  And finally, the death of George Floyd, how racial reconciliation has been born in Kali’s heart, and a song (I Can’t Breathe) to help us feel the pain of the other.  Please share today’s show! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

#RealLife

Today Bri LaHaie, Perry’s daughter in law joins the team!  Bri works with GoCorps, a mission community sending twenty-somethings to the nations to use their marketplace skills and to share the good news with people who have least access to the gospel.  Bri shares her journey from San Francisco to Azusa Pacific U to the Middle East to work with Muslim refugees.  She shares about her Muslim refugee friend Hannah who now follows Jesus in part because Bri said “Yes” to Jesus. We hear about Becca, a GoCorps go-er whom God used to rescue a woman from sex trafficking and bring her into God’s family!  Bri tells us about Kendra, who was trapped in prostitution and how her dream of Jesus was the bridge to her rescue.  Bri talks about learning to find her identity in God’s love and not in what she does for God.  Then how the story of the bible is all about going to the nations.  And finally, how Bri and Taylor found each other on the other side of the ocean.  Love story.  Woot!  Woot! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today Bri LaHaie, Perry’s daughter in law joins the team!  Bri works with GoCorps, a mission community sending twenty-somethings to the nations to use their marketplace skills and to share the good news with people who have least access to the gospel.  Bri shares her journey from San Francisco to Azusa Pacific U to the Middle East to work with Muslim refugees.  She shares about her Muslim refugee friend Hannah who now follows Jesus in part because Bri said “Yes” to Jesus.  We hear about Becca, a GoCorps go-er whom God used to rescue a woman from sex trafficking and bring her into God’s family!  Bri tells us about Kendra, who was trapped in prostitution and how her dream of Jesus was the bridge to her rescue.  Bri talks about learning to find her identity in God’s love and not in what she does for God.  Then how the story of the bible is all about going to the nations.  And finally, how Bri and Taylor found each other on the other side of the ocean.  Love story.  Woot!  Woot! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When it comes to hard cultural conversations like pornography, premarital sex, racism, divorce, abortion, the LGBTQ conversation, or politics, it can be easy to tap out.  But as Jesus followers we’re to bring life and truth to the hardest places.  And pastor, apologist and author of Challenging Conversations shows us the way forward.  To winsomely speak the truth in love.  Today Jason shows us how to be a bridge builder in hard conversations and how desperately maturity and humility is need.  Then Charles Morris reminds us that we are more than what we’ve done wrong.  In fact, in Jesus we are no longer identified by our sins!  Then Jason gives us three tactics to engage in the hard conversations and finally he shares why we desperately need to be talking about mental health in the church. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Challenging Conversations

Today on Freedom Friday, Marina Hofman is on the team again!  She teaches at Palm Beach Atlantic University and has just authored Women in the Bible which was awesome to talk about yesterday.  But today Marina shares her story:  How a horrific car accident that nearly took her life and led to intense suffering is something she would never trade away.  Her suffering has given her more of God and has created in her a river of living water to bring hope to her world.  Also, Perry shares how he longs to live in the freedom of self-forgetfulness, finding his identity in Jesus’ performance and not his own.  And he shares how Jesus keeps destroying religion in his heart to keep him rooted in the gospel.  And he has a resource to share to help you with this!    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hope In Suffering and Guilt

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