The Advance

A Lifestyle of Prayer (An Interview with TJ Green)

Why is it important for us as followers of Jesus to foster a lifestyle of prayer? Join me as I interview TJ Green, a good friend and minister who has such a heart to see God move in meaningful and tangible ways. His life has truly seen God move through prayer and he has been transformed as he has given himself to prayer. 

In this podcast we talk about: 

•  What TJ Believes God is doing through the COVID19 crisis
• Why prayer is important
• What understanding our identity has to do with our prayer lives
• Some of the different ways that we can pray

Some of the books recommended in the introduction are (Click to find on Amazon): 

• Streams of Living Water by Richard Foster 
• Sacred Pathways by Gary Thomas
• Can You Hear me by Brad Jersak
• Hearing God by Dallas Willard
• Prayer by Timothy Keller

TJ's ministry can be found at: 

• https://voiceofrevival.ca/
• https://www.tjgreen.ca/

Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead (An interview with Steve Kim)?

Happy Easter, He is Risen! Today we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. What an exciting day. I wanted to do a special episode today, so I've interviewed my friend Steve Kim, who works for apologetics Canada and is a pastor of Apologetics, around the question: Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead? This podcast is for believers and skeptics alike! Please share :)

In this podcast we discuss:
- What is Apologetics and why is it important for followers of Jesus?
- An apologetic approach to the Covid-19 crisis? If God is good, why is this happening?
- The historicity of the resurrection - how can we be sure that Jesus' resurrection is a historical reality?

Check out https://apologeticscanada.com/ For more info on Steve and who he works for!

Engaging With God’s Word (How, why, when etc. to read the Bible) (With Adam Buyer)

Join me as I interview my brother, Adam Buyer, a Pastor at Terwilligar Community Church in Edmonton, on the importance and practice of reading God's word.
As followers of Jesus, one of the most important practices that we can live into is reading God's word... but let's be honest, it's not always easy to do this regularly!
In this podcast, we:
- Talk a bit about what God may be inviting many into in this season of the Covid-19 Pandemic.
- Look at different ways of reading scripture.
- Take some time to start to imagine how one could regularly be 'in the word' as a habit or practice.

Resources:
-The Bible Project - https://bibleproject.com/
-To get connected with some of Adam's teaching and to go deeper with what we talked about check out:
https://www.tcchurch.ca/equip-discipleship

Why Should I Care about ’Advancing’? (Featuring Tim Pippus)

So what's the big deal with following Jesus? Why is it important for us to practice things like reading the Bible, prayer, worship, and community? 

Join me as I interview Tim Pippus, a pastor from Hope for Life Church in Calgary (hflchurch.ca). Tim is passionate about seeing people engage deeply with Jesus and one of the most thoughtful/well spoken guys I know! 

We chat about: 

• What we believe God is doing in the midst of the Covid-19 Pandemic and some of the cool ways that Christians are responding.
• What Tim's Church is doing specifically (spoiler alert, they are not live-streaming services) and why. 
• Why spiritual formation is so important. 
• How to begin to take some steps towards spiritual disciplines as a practice through something called a rule of life.

Please take a listen & share! 

Resources Recommended: 

https://bridgetown.church/series/bridgetown-daily/

The Advance Podacst - Introduction & Covid-19

Welcome to the Advance Podcast: moving ourselves toward Christlike maturity.

There are a few parts to this podcast:

• a look at how we as Christians can respond to the Covid-19 pandemic
• the dangers of consumer Christianity and how we are being invited into an active spiritual life with God.
• an overview of what this podcast is all about!