Message from Ron Jones on April 21, 2024.

On this episodes hosts Andrew Arndt and Daniel Grothe have a conversation with Jared Patrick Boyd, a pastor, spiritual director, and founding director of the Order of the Common Life. In this conversation, the trio dive into Jared’s complex origin story of church and the Christian ‘story.,’ as well as the topic of Christian deconstruction — and how…

Message from Steve Swisher on April 14, 2024.

Message from Steve Swisher on April 7, 2024.

Message from Steve Swisher on March 31, 2024

Essential Church, message from Pastor Steve Swisher Shownotes Main Points - Analogy of NCAA tournament seeding to have congregation think about where they rank themselves among fellow churchgoers (1-300) - Discusses how people can move from being self-focused to open-handed and thinking of others - Wonders if it takes a near death experience to pro…

Message from Steve Swisher on March 17, 2024 Pastor Steve references a scene from The Princess Bride where Wesley responds to Buttercup's commands with "As you wish," which she eventually realizes means "I love you." He notes this unconditional love. Pastor Steve discusses a Bible scene where Jesus washes his disciples' feet, exemplifying his humbl…

Message from Eddy Morales on March 10, 2024Bởi Essential Church

On this brief episode of Essential Church, Andrew and Rory sit down with Brit Windel a pastor and church planter from Kenosha, Wisconsin. Brit shares the story of Daybreak Church, a church that is ‘making much of Jesus’ and serving the city. Brit’s story is one of faithfulness, longevity and serving. Host: Andrew Arndt Co-Host: Rory Green Guests: B…

Message from Steve Swisher on March 3, 2024

Message from Steve Swisher on February 25, 2024Bởi Essential Church

Message from Steve Swisher on February 18, 2024Bởi Essential Church

Message from Chris Gill on February 11, 2024

Message from Steve Swisher on February 4, 2024.

On this week’s episode Andrew and Daniel are joined by Ken Tanner, Pastor of Church of the Holy Redeemer in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Ken takes the time to wade through his own story of life and maturity, as well as the complexities of living a life devoted to ministry(2:30). Much of Ken’s life and ministry is wrapped up in the great journey he to…

Message from Steve Swisher on January 28, 2024Bởi Essential Church

Message from Steve Swisher on January 21, 2024Bởi Essential Church

Greg is a former university president and pastor, and Andrew and Daniel start a conversation around how to sustain longevity in ministry (01:18). The trio lean into a discussion around Sabbath and work, and the reciprocal relationship they hold for pastoral faithfulness (11:05). The pod wraps up with an emphasis on the pastoral relationships we nee…

Message from Steve Swisher on January 14, 2024Bởi Essential Church

Andrew and Geoff Holsclaw sit down to discuss how the field of neuroscience and spiritual formation intersect in the life of faith (3:43). Andrew and Geoff go on to discuss how these new fields of combined study can actually help people who are beginning to wrestle with, or even deconstruct their faith (12:45). A rabbit trail about attachment theor…

Message from Steve Swisher on January 7, 2024.

Message from Steve Swisher on January 7, 2024Bởi Essential Church

Message from April Bradford on December 31, 2023Bởi Essential Church

Message from Steve Swisher on December 24, 2023Bởi Essential Church

Message from Steve Swisher on December 17, 2023Bởi Essential Church

Message from Steve Swisher on December 10, 2023Bởi Essential Church

Message from Chris Gill on December 3, 2023Bởi Essential Church

Andrew Arndt and Daniel Grothe are joined by a New Life congregation member and author Bri Stensrud to talk about the complexities and challenges of what it looks like to “meet the strangers at our gates.” (01:35) The trio discuss how this issue moves far beyond simply a social or political issue, Bri helps guide a discussion around immigration and…

Message from Steve Swisher on November 26, 2023

Message from Steve Swisher on November 19, 2023Bởi Essential Church

Message from Steve Swisher on November 12, 2023Bởi Essential Church

Message from Alex Goff on November 5, 2023Bởi Essential Church

Andrew and special guest, Derek Vreeland have a detailed discussion around Derek’s new book Centering Jesus: How the Lamb of God Transforms Our Communities, Ethics, and Spiritual Lives. One of the core values of Essential Church is that Jesus is at the center, and this is exactly what Derek’s book reveals — from the book of Revelation, the COVID pa…

Message from Steve Swisher on October 29, 2023Bởi Essential Church

Message from Steve Swisher on October 22, 2023Bởi Essential Church

Message from Steve Swisher on October 15, 2023Bởi Essential Church

Andrew and Brady take the time n this episode to sit down with author Dr. Russell Moore to discuss his book Losing Our Religion, An Alter Call for Evangelical America. Russell shares the history that created a need for such a book, but also the weight of utilizing his prophetic voice in a time of need (3:36). Dr. Moore goes on to share a few key id…

Message from Steve Swisher on October 8, 2023

On this episode of the Essential Church podcast Andrew Arndt is joined by Pastor Daniel Grothe for a conversation with special guest Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt. The trio ask the all-important question about the nature of prayer (00:50). Andrew then guides the interview towards a breakdown of the Lord’s Prayer and raises the question: is Jesus…

Message from Steve Swisher on October 1, 2023Bởi Essential Church

Message from Steve Swisher on September 24, 2023Bởi Essential Church

Message from Chris Gill on September 17, 2023Bởi Essential Church

Essential Church’s Andrew Arndt is joined by Rory Green, Associate Lead Pastor at New Life East to talk all things preaching and teaching ahead of the Essential Church Learning Community on September 19th. (9:49) The duo goes on to discuss the “Five key elements of successful preaching” — Preparation, Presence, Authority, Content, and Creativity. (…