The Rabbit Trails Podcast

Today Danny shares his song an we talk about creativity, connecting, creating space for a mind to be and more. 

In this the second recording of Rabbit Tunes, the guys each pick a song and talk through it. This is a three part series with Garrick first up. 

Character. It is what matters. Barrett recently watched the movie A Hidden Life, a profound movie about the life of a Christian in the middle of WW2 and the Nazi advance in Europe. The guys discuss the movie and what it says about following Jesus. 

We are finally back after a LONG hiatus for no reason other than what can be blamed on Spanish bureaucracy. Paul Duncan lives in Birmingham, UK, and works with Agape Europe helping to train leaders at all levels. Aside from being fun to speak with, Paul has great insights into what makes a leader, what is needed for future leaders in Europe, and how leadership has changed over the years. 

The 4th most popular religious podcast in Croatia is expanding its empire! We talk a lot about art, music, and culture on The Rabbit Trails Podcast, so we have decided that from time to time we will be joined by our friend Danny Piangerelli to discuss music, movies, and art and how we can better understand God as a result. True to form on this podcast, we just decided to press record and give you the results unfiltered. We went on for a bit and eventually trail off into the wild conversations of life...welcome to the Rabbit Tunes Podcast

Robin Pou is an Executive Coach, Author, and Founder of a popular newsletter, The Confident Leader. He joins us as a guest to discuss what real leadership looks like, what misconceptions we need to slay, and what the future of leadership will look like.   Top 3 Takeaways:   The new style of leadership is built on relationships, not skill level It’s important to determine what results you want. Start with the end in mind The most impactful way to get people interested in leadership is to model good leadership. When we are modeling relational leadership, it will be appealing to our team, peers, and organization.   Follow Robin on LinkedIn: Robin’s LinkedIn Read Robin’s weekly Newsletter:  The Confident Leader  

What in the world is leadership anyway? Gary Runn joins us to take a deep dive. 

Should we be focusing on building skills in leaders or character? We discuss a problem that vexes us to a certain extent, while so much secular literature focuses on building character in leaders, much Christian literature is still focused on skills building. 

Nolan Sharp is just that. Sharp. We have a great conversation with Nolan who has been living in Coratia for 20+ years and brings a wealth of wisdom and experience to missions. 

Today we talk about music and one of the world's greatest theologians, Bono, and why this is important to making Jesus known in this world. 

How have missions changed as the world is becoming more interconnected? How has it changed now that "traditional" mission fields are sending to the world? How have missions changed as Christians from cultures less powerful and culturally dominant that the "west" are sending people all over? We talk about this and more with Josh Irby, staff with Cru City. 

This episode we talk about some needed shifts in our paradigms and modes of Evangelism. 

Shane and Shane once sang "When did I replace serving you with knowing you? The trappings of "serving" God can often be that the professional Christian makes an idol out of "building the kingdom."

We often talk about how we cannot really reverse engineer movements that have been seen around the world. So why bother with a list of preconditions for outreach? Well, these particular preconditions can help us to gauge how we ourselves are doing in our Christian life and to prepare our labors and the ground for the gospel. 

Today we think out loud. So, this is like every other podcast that we have done...What is the connection between evangelism and play? Do we stop playing as adults? Or does our play become more sophisticated? If it does, is it possible that evangelism and play are connected? 

What is a movement? We use that word rather loosely in this day and age and we call a lot of things movement which maybe aren't actually movements. Are organizations movements? Were they once movements and now aren't? How does it actually work? Well, don't get us wrong, HR departments and the like of various organizations are essential to the organization, but it is important that we understand if what makes a movement is actually the idea or the structure. We foray into this a bit...

It worked! Great. Now what? Is it possible to learn the wrong lessons from success? We think so. 

People deconstructing their faith is a real thing and needs to be taken seriously. Reconstructing is also a real thing and also needs to be talked about. We wade into this topic again, hoping to process a little bit more along the way. 

How is technology adding to the burnout that we are feeling as a society?