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I Need A Hero - How Identifying Your Heroes Can Help You Make Sense of Your Calling

I Need A Hero - How Identifying Your Heroes Can Help You Make Sense of Your Calling

Identifying your heroes—those individuals you admire and look up to—can play a pivotal role in clarifying your own calling or purpose. Think of your heroes as mirrors reflecting elements of God's purposes in your life. They might be historical, contemporary or even fictional. They might be entrepreneurs, educators, artists, or anyone who embodies qualities and achievements you find inspiring.In this talk from the archives, find out how the people you hold in esteem may be pointing you in a direction.

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I Need A Hero - How Identifying Your Heroes Can Help You Make Sense of Your Calling

I Need A Hero - How Identifying Your Heroes Can Help You Make Sense of Your Calling

Identifying your heroes—those individuals you admire and look up to—can play a pivotal role in clarifying your own calling or purpose. Think of your heroes as mirrors reflecting elements of God's purposes in your life. They might be historical, contemporary or even fictional. They might be entrepreneurs, educators, artists, or anyone who embodies qualities and achievements you find inspiring.In this talk from the archives, find out how the people you hold in esteem may be pointing you in a direction.

5. Bread, A 5 Minute Guided Devotional, Episode 5, Made for Influence

5. Bread, A 5 Minute Guided Devotional, Episode 5, Made for Influence

Bread is a guided devotional series. And my intention is to help you connect with God, meaningful way in about five minutes.God made man in his own image. What does that mean? For insight, check out this episode.

4. Bread, A 5 Minute Guided Devotional Series, Episode 4, Seedtime and Harvest

4. Bread, A 5 Minute Guided Devotional Series, Episode 4, Seedtime and Harvest

Bread is a guided devotional series. And my intention is to help you connect with God, meaningful way in about five minutes. In this episode we discuss the Law of the Farm.

3. Bread, A 5 Minute Guided Devotional, Episode 3, Hearing God Speak

3. Bread, A 5 Minute Guided Devotional, Episode 3, Hearing God Speak

Bread is a guided devotional series, designed to help you connect with God in a meaningful way, in about 5 minutes.In this episode, we discuss God's desire to speak to you.

2. Bread, A 5 Minute Guided Devotional, Episode 2, Chaos to Order

2. Bread, A 5 Minute Guided Devotional, Episode 2, Chaos to Order

Bread is a guided devotional series to help you connect with God in a meaningful way all in about five minutes. In this episode we discuss how God turns the chaos of our lives into order.

1. Bread - A 5 Minute Guided Devotional Series - God Made, Looked, and Saw

1. Bread - A 5 Minute Guided Devotional Series - God Made, Looked, and Saw

Bread is a devotional series designed to help you connect with God in a meaningful way, all in about 5 minutes. The 5 minutes moves int three parts: A verse and meditation on that verse.Pray the Lord's prayerMake declarations over your day. In this episode we discuss how God took time for reflection and enjoyment of his creative work. The implications for us is that we were made for this same type of meaningful reflection.

1. The Life of Joseph - Prospering in Your Land of Captivity

1. The Life of Joseph - Prospering in Your Land of Captivity

While we are participants of our circumstances, we do not have to be victims in them. From Joseph's experiences, we can learn powerful lessons on how to prosper with the hand we are dealt.

Making Plans - A Simple Exercise

Making Plans - A Simple Exercise

In this podcast, Josh introduces a simple exercise to help you jog through a year of experiences to connect with areas you want to grow or with plans you would like to make for the season ahead.Reflection is one of the most important steps to planning because it allows us to attach meaning to the things that matter the most.Bonus Material: Josh also shares a thought on the importance of continuing to meet with one another in the Covid Era.

3. Crying Out To God - A Key to Your Rescue

3. Crying Out To God - A Key to Your Rescue

Psalm 107 provides an amazing template for expressing our needs and pain to God. Learn four life situations that God expressly says he rescues in. "Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. "

2. How to Have an Honest Heart

2. How to Have an Honest Heart

The heart in immensely valuable. If we do not value our hearts, we will become broken because of it. In this talk, learn 3 steps that will move you closer to emotional honesty and walking with God from a place of honesty, from your heart.

1. Pray Honest Prayers

1. Pray Honest Prayers

Jesus does not want us to just medicate our pain. He wants us to process it with him in order to heal it. Since God can handle the rawest form of who we are, why not learn to pray honest prayers today?

Honor's Reward - How Honor Works

Honor's Reward - How Honor Works

Jesus taught that if you "receive a prophet, you receive a prophet's reward. If you receive a righteous person, you receive a righteous person's reward.." What is honor and how does it work in our lives? Learn how honor literally releases the potential in those around us. They shine and we benefit. Honor opens doors that dishonor will never open.

3. How to Be Blessed Every Day - Meekness, Mercy & Purity

3. How to Be Blessed Every Day - Meekness, Mercy & Purity

One of the greatest qualities that every leader needs is meekness, power under restraint. Learn how meekness postures your for for effectiveness with others. Early in Jesus ministry, he sat down and gave 8 keys to blessing in the life of his followers. In this series we examine some of those attitudes that Jesus linked with specific blessings and how they are awarded. In this episode, learn about meekness, mercy and purity.

2. How to Be Blessed Every Day - Grieving Your Losses

2. How to Be Blessed Every Day - Grieving Your Losses

Grieving may not be something you consider a "best practice," yet Jesus promised comfort to those who mourn. In this talk, learn important steps to grieving your losses so you can move on and move forward. Grieving Your Losses is part two in the series based on the Beatitudes. Early in Jesus ministry, he sat down and gave 8 keys to blessing in the life of his followers. In this series we examine some of those attitudes that Jesus linked with specific blessings and how they are awarded.

1. How to Be Blessed Every Day - Be Poor In Spirit

1. How to Be Blessed Every Day - Be Poor In Spirit

Early in Jesus ministry, he sat down and gave 8 keys to blessing in the life of his followers. In this series we examine some of those attitudes that Jesus linked with specific blessings and how they are awarded. In this talk, we learn the vital key of understanding our need for God's help in our lives.

S-M-A-R-T-E-R Goals

S-M-A-R-T-E-R Goals

Vision enables you to direct your efforts in the right direction. Goals provide the actual steps to get you where you want to go. Make the best of the rest of 2020 by using S-M-A-R-T-E-R goals!SMARTER Goals Worksheet: http://www.theoaks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Smarter-Goals-Worksheet.pdfBased on material from this great author: https://michaelhyatt.com/goal-setting/. Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theoaks61Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theoaks61

2. How to Avoid Selling Out to Your Pain, The Role of Encouragement

2. How to Avoid Selling Out to Your Pain, The Role of Encouragement

In times of pressure, pain or intense need, we can make poor decisions that will impact us long term. In this series we unpack an interesting Bible story where Esau sells out to his own hunger and makes a decision that changes his life. Learn keys that will help you become a better decision maker when the sound of your distress seems louder than the voice of reason.In this talk, understand the key role encouragement has in enabling us to live for the things that matter most to us.

1. How to Avoid Selling Out to Your Pain

1. How to Avoid Selling Out to Your Pain

In times of pressure, pain or intense need, we can make poor decisions that will impact us long term. In this series we unpack an interesting Bible story where Esau sells out to his own hunger and makes a decision that changes his life. Learn keys that will help you become a better decision maker when the sound of your distress seems louder than the voice of reason.

4. How to Become Stable In a Unstable World - Know Who You Are

4. How to Become Stable In a Unstable World - Know Who You Are

Discover the two most stabilizing or unstabilizing forces in your life. One, who you think God and two, who you think you are. Learn three "identity statements," that will both center you and give you confidence to move forward in life.

3. How to Become Stable in an Unstable World - Know the Real Enemy

3. How to Become Stable in an Unstable World - Know the Real Enemy

Our struggle is not again flesh and blood but against an unseen enemy. Learn how we fight by using the armor God has given for our benefit.