Lifeschool 134: 7 Pillars of Society: How to Change Your World

It’s easy to point fingers at “the culture” and think that it includes everyone else outside of ourselves. But we are the culture… and the culture is us.

Today on the Lifeschool podcast, we talk about how every culture is woven together in some pretty similar ways worldwide, and we’ll look for clues from this so that, as Christians, we can find natural ways to engage “culture” and change the world… or at least your corner of it!

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Lifeschool 133: How to Start a Missional Community From Scratch

Starting a missional community is not about tossing a rope around a few of your closest friends and trying to talk them into living more “missionally” together.

Today on the Lifeschool podcast, we’re talking about some very basic, but super-important steps on how to start a missional community from scratch. Let’s get you started…

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Lifeschool 131: What Causes Sin and How to Stop It

“Just stop it!” doesn’t really work when it comes to changing sinful actions, habits, or thoughts in our lives (or in others). And perhaps what you’ve been taught about sin and repentance is all wrong…

Today on the Lifeschool podcast, we talk about where sin really comes from and how we can move away from our particular brand of sin and find freedom. What if all sin is actually a symptom of something else?

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Lifeschool 130: How to Make the Gospel Beautiful and Relatable

Many in our churches have spent years listening to sermons, studying theology and reading the Word of God, yet still feel intimidated or unable to naturally express the good news of the Gospel into normal life, conversations, and circumstances.

Today on the Lifeschool podcast, we’ll give you a proven way to make the gospel beautiful, relatable, and reproducible.

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Lifeschool 129: The Pursuit of Happiness

Happiness is not something you achieve once and for all. Happiness is a muscle, a skill, a way of being that can and must be exercised. In this episode of Lifeschool, we talk with author, theologian, and pastor, David McDonald, about the pursuit of happiness: what it is, how we can get it, and why more Christians aren’t happier people.

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