Life & Leadership

Season 4 | Episode 16 Mission in the Modern Age.  For this episode Jez spoke to Kate Sycamore (not her real name) someone, who for the past 6 years has been on mission in the middle east hoping to share the gospel with muslims. Kate shares some of the lessons she's learnt along the way as well as some encouragements from things God has done.

Season 4 | Episode 15 In this episode Jez speaks to Dave Holden about his passion for the Holy Spirit and his desire to see more churches operating in the full ministry of the Spirit. For more information about Dave Holden, New Ground or the Leadership Conference mentioned at the start visit: www.newgroundchurches.org

ISeason 4 | Episode 14   In today’s episode Jez speaks to Lex Loizides, elder at Jubilee Community Church Cape Town, Evangelist, Bible Teacher, Evangelist and Musician.   In the course of their conversation Lez mentioned a few books, among them:   They Speak in Other Tongues: https://shorturl.at/jouvU 9 O’Clock in the Morning: https://shorturl.at/giST9   For more information about Lex or to read his blog you can find him here: https://lexloiz.wordpress.com/

Season 4 | Episode 13 In today’s podcast Jez speaks to Phil Fellows, pastor of Hershey Baptist church and doctorate student at Aberdeen university. Some of the resources mentioned in the conversation are linked to below:   Timothy Ware on the Orthodox church: https://shorturl.at/ptJV9  Pope Benedict, Jesus of Nazareth: https://shorturl.at/ersO4   

Season 4 | Episode 12   In this episode Jez speaks to Sam Arnold, creative media lead at Kings Church Eastbourne (www.kings.church). Sam is an incredible designer, a filmmaker, web designer and coder and has been on church staff producing gospel content for 20 years. More information about Sam and his work can be found here: www.sa-design.co.uk and here: wovendesign.uk

Season 4 | Episode 11 In the first of a new series of Shorts looking at 'Mission in the Modern Age' Jez speaks to author and pastor Donnie Griggs about Contextualisation and specifically the opportunities and challenges involved in ministering in Small Towns. Donnie Griggs is pastor of One Harbor Church: oneharborchurch.com/ and is the author of Small Town Jesus: smalltownjesus.com/ andthe newly released Pastoring in Small Towns: www.amazon.co.uk/Pastoring-Small-…er/dp/1087764920

Season 4 | Episode 10 In today’s episode Jez spoke to Professor Nancy Pearcey. Professor Pearcey is the author of The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes, as well as Love Thy Body, The Soul of Science, Saving Leonardo, Finding Truth, and Total Truth. She is professor and scholar in residence at Houston Christian University. She has been quoted in The New Yorker and Newsweek, highlighted as one of the five top women apologists by Christianity Today, and hailed in The Economist as "America's pre-eminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual.” For more information about Christian University go here: https://hc.edu/ And Professor Pearcey’s website: www.nancypearcey.com

Season 4 || Episode 9 In this episode Jez speaks to Marcus Honeysett about the distinctions that mark Christian leadership out from other forms of influence. Marcus Honeysett is the founding director or Living Leadership an organisation that exists to grow disciple-making leaders. He is also the author of several books including Powerful Leaders: When Church Leadership Goes Wrong and How to Prevent It. Helpful Links: Spiritual Abuse report by ThirtyOneEight: https://thirtyoneeight.org/media/4upcux21/spiritual-abuse-position-statement.pdf   Evangelical Alliance: https://www.eauk.org/resources/what-we-offer/reports/reviewing-the-discourse-of-spiritual-abuse   Living Leadership’s Spiritual Leadership Audit: https://spckpublishing.co.uk/pub/media/PDFs/Powerful_Leaders_Digital_Resource_Final.pdf   Marcus’ Book ‘Powerful Leaders’: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Powerful-Leaders-Christian-Leadership-Wrong/dp/1789743222/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2I8XN9NBO2JTZ&keywords=powerful+leaders+marcus+honeysett&qid=1704448753&sprefix=powerful+leade%2Caps%2C312&sr=8-1

Season 4 | Episode 8 In today’s episode Jez spoke to Rosie Hopley. Based in Bristol Rosie, for many years ran her own communications, PR and research business, whilst also founding the Christian charity ‘Beloved’ which works with women in prostitution in Bristol. Rosie has since gone on to create networks and prayer gatherings and, more recently, has been involved speaking on and producing materials on the critical importance of God’s reconciling love lived out. In our conversation we discuss her work with Jubilee+: www.jubilee-plus.org Along with referencing the recent Jubilee+ conference: https://jubilee-plus.org/ctcc23/ And a WomanAlive article written by Rosie: https://www.womanalive.co.uk/reaching-out-to-women-in-prostitution/5541.article Jez also made reference to a book written by Louise Perry on the impact of the Sexual Revolution: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Case-Against-Sexual-Revolution/dp/1509549994/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1702546720&sr=8-1 At the start of the episode Jez made reference to the conference material now available on the New Ground website. You can find that here: https://newgroundchurches.org/media/

Season 4 | Episode 7 In this episode Jez speaks to Paul Miller & Colin Millar about the work of SeeJesus and the value of prayer for a local church. Paul is Executive Director of seeJesus, a global discipleship mission which he founded in 1999 to help Christians and non-Christians alike “see Jesus.” Today, seeJesus is working in over 30 countries and has books and interactive Bible study materials translated into more than a dozen languages. Also author of Author of several books including: A praying Life, the J Curve and the Praying Church. Jez was also joined by Colin Millar the European director for SeeJesus. For more information about SeeJesus please visit: https://seejesus.net/

Season 4 | Episode 6   In today’s episode Jez speaks to Jon Tyson, author and senior pastor of the Church of the City New York (https://www.church.nyc/). Jon is the author of nine books including Sacred Roots, The Beautiful Resistance and The Intentional Father: subtitled a practical guide to raising sons of rouge and character. It’s this book and the discipleship course that came out of it that forms the basis for much of our conversation today, particularly the second half of the episode. Jon’s discipleship course for Fathers ‘The Primal Path’ can be found here: https://www.formingmen.com/ The books mentioned in the episode were: The Contemplative Pastor by Eugene Peterson https://www.amazon.co.uk/Contemplative-Pastor-Returning-Spiritual-Director/dp/0802801145/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1L2DMR9ZMZE0H&keywords=contemplative+pastor&qid=1699904846&sprefix=contemplative+pastor%2Caps%2C83&sr=8-1 Adam’s Return by Richard Rawl https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adams-Return-Promises-Initiation-Paperback/dp/B015HVHYX2/ref=sr_1_2?crid=121BCQNDF6WES&keywords=adams+return&qid=1699904826&sprefix=adams+return%2Caps%2C84&sr=8-2 Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-Depended/dp/B07T7L39TN/ref=sr_1_1?crid=33JMLWCRGEQC9&keywords=never+split+the+difference+chris+voss&qid=1699904790&sprefix=never+split+di%2Caps%2C187&sr=8-1

Season 4 | Episode 5 In this episode Jez speaks to Jenni Calcraft, mum of 3 and found of Someone Cares a ministry serving people at Alder Hey hospital.  More information about Jenni and the ministry can be found on: here: https://www.freedomchurchliverpool.co.uk/someone-cares  and here: Jubilee-plus article: https://jubilee-plus.org/blog/1293/someone-cares/ 

Season 4 | Episode 4 In today's episode Jez speaks to Mercury Award Winning artist TJ Koleoso with the aim of encouraging  and offering strength to young men. To hear more fromTJ you can find his newday talks here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6hp0R1PVNbQFN20X3dkzdX  Find out about Jubilee Church London here: https://jubileechurchlondon.org/  Learn about The Ezra Collective or listen to their music here: https://ezracollective.com/   

Season 4 || Episode 3   In today’s episode Jez speaks to Dr. Danielle Treweeek. Dani is a Christian theological researcher, author and speaker, the founding director of Single Minded ministry and an adjunct teacher at Moore Theological College, Sydney. Dani publishes regular articles on singleness, sexuality, marriage and complementarianism on her substack which is titled: ThatGirlBoss Theologian. She is also the author of this recent book “the meaning of Singleness: retrieving an eschatological Vision for the Contemporary Church.” You can find more about Dani, buy a copy of her book and engage with her substack here: https://www.danielletreweek.com/

Season 4 // Episode 2 In this episode Jez speaks to Clive Cernik about his life and ministry sharing some of the things that he's most passionate about. They discuss the valubale and life giving role of the pastor and also the need for more than a pastor for a church to remain healthy. 

Season 4 // Episode 1 Jez speaks to Taylor Collingsworth, Rebecca & Ajay from Asbury University in the States about the remarkable outpouring of God’s goodness they experienced in February of 2023.

Season 3 // Episode 24 In this episode Jez speaks to Margaret Law about her experience of the Charismatic renewal in the early eighties, along with lessons she learnt under the ministry of pastor and teacher Arnold Bell.

Season 3 // Episode 23 In this episode Jez speaks to Adrian Holloway about his journey to faith and then on to then have faith that God could use him in healing others through prayer.  Married to Julia, adrian is the father of four daughters. He is a pastor, a preacher and an itinerant evangelist speaking extensively throughout the UK with the John3:16 trust the ministry he established for evangelism. Information about which can be found on his website: https://www.adrianholloway.com Adrian has ministered at the Newday youth festival since it began where he regularly prays for the sick and preaches the gospel. Over the years he has seen literally hundreds of young people respond to the call for both salvation and to give testimony about a healing they’d received. Formerly a BBC radio and TV presenter, Adrian started his working life as a reporter on The Times newspaper. In 2004 he moved to from Birmginham to London to help plant ChristChurch London. He now leads the team at Beacon Church Camberley: https://beaconchurch.co.uk 

Season 3 | Episode 22 In this episode Jez speaks to pastor and evangelist Paul Brown about all things outreach. In a post-christian, post-covid world such as ours how can we effectively communicate the gospel and reach out to those outside of the church? The details about the conference Paul mentioned can be found here: https://cityhope.churchsuite.com/events/icv1qlqk For information about the book Paul co-authored with Natalie Williams  'Invisible Divides' see here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Invisible-Divides-culture-barriers-belonging/dp/028108520X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=invisible+divides&qid=1687274316&sr=8-1 

Season 3 // Episode 20   In this episode Jez speaks to Joel Harris, youth and students co-ordinator for Kintsugi Hope a christian mental health charity that helps equip local churches in establishing Wellbeing groups across the country. Wellbeing groups are places where people can experience safety and support, gain self-confidence and have a deeper understanding of God’s love.   Website: https://kintsugihope.com/   Book recommendation:   The Secret Place of Tunder - John Starke https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Place-Thunder-Trading-Noticed/dp/0310139848/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1686080834&sr=8-1   Statistics shared:   39% increase in a year of referrals for NHS mental health treatment for U18s Sharp increase in number of 18s who say that they have psychological disorder 46% more 15-19yr olds committed suicide in 2015 than in 2007 Spikes seen around 2012 after snapchat was created