Live Alive Podcast

Thousands of people left Summit Church within a year. A big part of the Christian community in Orlando was left to figure out how to move forward. Difficult questions needed real answers. Their Pastor was gone. In the end, was anything that Isaac used to teach even real or worth following anymore? What does trust look like for those who are trying to honestly face real life?

After finding out that Isaac Hunter resigned, people all over the city of Orlando were left with tons of questions. What happened? What went wrong? The idea of a calling from God can be really challenging to face. As the days turned into weeks where Isaac's behavior became more strange, it led to deeper questions. Was Isaac ever really called to be the Pastor of Summit Church? If he was, what does that mean for all of us? We're deep in Fantasyland.

Ten years ago, our hometown of Orlando, FL was a bedrock of contagious Christianity. Young people all over the city were experiencing God with a love that felt like it could spill out and bless the whole world. Churches were growing, and one church in particular had a vision not unlike that of Walt Disney himself. The call of God inspired the founders of Summit Church to see an entire city transformed, and they had the momentum and the power of God moving among them in a way where nothing seemed impossible...Today, however, Orlando has become a Christian ghost town among local Millennials, a city of Lost Magic. Join us as we explore the most obvious question, "What happened here?" Welcome to Fantasyland.

Walt Disney made an academy award winning film that they worked hard to pull from the shelves. Only rare copies of VHS are left, and they have intentionally never released it on DVD... Do you know what that film is? There's even a ride in the Magic Kingdom based on the film. This episode is an exploration of the things we hide. Companies hide, institutions hide, churches and pastors hide, and even we hide. What is the impact of hiding?www.livealivepodcast.com

Singer//Songwriter John Mark McMillan took time off his latest tour to present us with an approach that helps cut through challenges in conversations that are hard about the faith. Tune in for thought provoking, inspiring, and super interesting insights from an artist who has integrity, grit, and loads of talent.JMM has a new Christmas Album out called Smile in the Mystery. Grab a copy here:JMMs website: https://www.johnmarkmcmillan.com/store/w: www.livealivepodcast.comFollow us on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQQ1jFqLuMizEAwmrU6GLYA

When Walt Disney showed up on the scene, Orlando, FL was changed forever. He had a vision of building the perfect city, but how does it fall short of The Kingdom that Jesus came to build? Today, tens of millions of people come to our hometown looking for the happiest place on earth, but for the locals, life in the Magic Kingdom is surprisingly lonely and disenchanted. We pick our story back up in Frontierland, to explore the makings of a Magic Kingdom.———————Ted Talk about Beauty: https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_seymour_how_beauty_feelshttps://www.livealivepodcast.comRecorded at Central Florida StudiosExecutive Producers Ed Holtz and Steve Douglass

To fully live, you need to understand the story of where you live. In this episode, we become nostalgic as we explore some of the lesser known facts about our city and its people. What makes Orlando so magical? Tune in and find out.NOTES: Jeremy's Most Cinematic Animated Scene Ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-coYU-INP3EOrlando's Old City Hall:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy-OKLuMikkw: https://www.lostmagic.org@letslivealive

To start the next season we decided to get started off right, with some sensory deprivation. Follow our journey into clarity... or was it?

Research proves that getting way outside of your comfort zone with friends can reorient your perceptions about life and change your core belief systems, so Jeremy had an idea... What if we found the cheapest possible plane tickets to a foreign country and spend 24 hours there trying to live fully alive to the experiences and people God brings our way? This week on our summer bonus episode we spend 24 hours in a very unique country. Join us as we discover what living fully present in unfamiliar territory can do to our brains, our friendships, and our daily lives.

A few surprise guests crowd around the table in our new studio to help us recap our favorite moments from season one of the Live Alive Podcast.

The new Live Alive studio is being built so we took the show to a popular park in Orlando. Dana Roquemore, founder of The Dinner Party Project makes an appearance. She explains all about an epic road trip she is about to embark on to bring hundreds of people together around dinner tables. Listen 'till the end to catch our run in with some interesting strangers.Dinner Party Project: www.thedinnerpartyproject.co

We were scheduled to hang with author and podcaster Jamie Ivey for 15 minutes. Those 15 minutes turned into a ridiculously outrageous hour-long conversation about dreams, struggles, and the abundant life. Jamie hosts the Happy Hour podcast.Jamie is just fantastic, and she hosts . All her resources are available here: https://jamieivey.com/

Connecting with people who are different than us can be awkward. A few weeks ago on the show Mia challenged us to get lunch with someone who is super different than us. Mia joins us on the show again as we talk about what happened when we stepped out of our comfort zone to engage people who believe, act, and see the world differently than us. It was an interesting experiment for sure and it taught us more about how to enter the world of others the way Jesus did.

Dr. Mika Edmondson is an expert and author on the suffering of Martin Luther King. We caught up with him in Memphis to talk about how to walk alongside those who are suffering, even when it’s hard for us to understand their pain.https://www.livealivepodcast.com

Guest Host Mia Lycett from the Messy Heart Podcast joins us in reflecting on some of the wisdom that Dr. John M Perkins shared with us. We are challenged on what it means for us to take action on connecting well with people who are different from us and learning how to Listen, Connect, and Help in a world of challenging relationships and hardships.https://www.livealivepodcast.com

The Live Alive Podcast had the incredible honor of spending over an hour with Dr. Perkins in his hotel room at the MLK50 event in Memphis, TN on April 4, 2018. We asked him all kinds of questions that we needed answers too. He was releasing his final book called One Blood that very same day, and he talked with us in detail about his experience of racism, the challenge of the idea of reconciliation, the power of the Gospel, the need to reach out to people who are different from us, the need to LIVE OUT the Gospel and to share Jesus with others, and much more. Enjoy! Subscribe to the Live Alive Podcast here:www.livealivepodcast.comPick up Dr John Perkins latest book called One Blood.

This week we head to Memphis to spend some time with Dr. John M Perkins and stand in the place where Dr. Martin Luther King spent his last few hours. While in Memphis we went on a journey to find the people who knew Dr. King and talk to them about chasing down the abundant life in the midst of the racial tension of the past and present.

Do you have a spidey-sense that flairs up anytime someone tells you that they have heard directly from God? Many people struggle with understanding how to hear from God. Does God really speak to us today? And if so, how can you tell the difference between if it is just your own thoughts or if God is really speaking to you? Explore the resources and means for getting clarity about when God is speaking to you and how He does it.

How does God use us to speak blessings into the lives of other people? Learn how to hear God's voice on behalf of other people as we join Chad on campus at UCF. We draw on Chad's experience of being intentional in conversations to learn how we can bless the people around us during the day. What are the right things to say? What questions should I ask to show that God cares for people? If Evangelism is bringing good news to people and God wants us to use us to speak His message, then let's learn together how to share specific blessings into the lives of others.This can be summed up like this: God wants us to learn how to listen to Him, allow Him to connect with us, and then to help us. Listen Connect, and Help

If you’ve ever struggled to hear from God, or if you aren’t sure that God really talks with us, we created this discussion with you in mind. A lot of times Christians can go through seasons where we don’t really know how to differentiate from God’s voice and the other voices around us. Was that God’s voice I just heard, or was it just my imagination?Jesus says, “My sheep know my voice.” and this means that we have it on good authority that God is actually communicating with us in a way that we can hear Him. This is good news!In this episode, we learn more about how the Holy Spirit is the One who to help us hear from God. This is the first of a two part series with our friend Chad Johnson, who shares with us from a robust experience of daily interaction with the Holy Spirit. We learn about how God is a communicating God, and that He is communicating with us.Chad Johnson was the A&R man for Tooth and Nail and discovered many popular bands such as Underoath, Copeland, and Anberlin, and Chad is the founder of Come&Live! In this Episode, Chad shares how to actually hear the voice of God in our everyday lives. We discuss a lot of our experiences together.Come&Live! is an organization that provokes and inspires artists to proclaim the revolutionary message of Jesus.Chad Johnson’s new book: One Thousand Riskshttps://www.amazon.com/One-Thousand-R...Listen to the Music: “Too Soon // Too Late” by Native Culture nativeculturefl.com