54 - Race and the Gospel - Round Table Discussion
September 21, 2023 • Barrett Bowden, Steve Johnson, Jordan Frazier
Barrett Bowden (Lead Pastor, Island Community Church), Steve Johnson (Pastor, Kingdom Church), Michael Thomas (Campus Missionary, Kingdom Church), and Jordan Frazier (Church Planting Resident, Island Community Church) have a conversation around Race and the Gospel, reviewing the summer study at Island Community Church.
53 - Race and the Gospel - What is Gospel Unity?
July 12, 2023
Welcome back to Transformed for Impact! This summer, we are diving headfirst into an important conversation at the intersection of race and the gospel. This week, Steve Johnson, Pastor of Kingdom Church, teaches through episode four of "Race and the Gospel." In this episode, Steve helps answer the question "What is Gospel Unity?"
52 - Race and the Gospel - What is Justice and Righteousness?
June 28, 2023 • Steve Johnson
Welcome back to Transformed for Impact! This summer, we are diving headfirst into an important conversation at the intersection of race and the gospel. This week, Steve Johnson, Pastor of Kingdom Church, teaches through episode three of "Race and the Gospel." In this episode, Steve helps answer the question "What is Justice and Righteousness?"
51 - Race and the Gospel - What is the Dividing Wall of Hostility?
June 21, 2023 • Steve Johnson
Welcome back to Transformed for Impact! This summer, we are diving headfirst into an important conversation at the intersection of race and the gospel. This week, Steve Johnson, Pastor of Kingdom Church, teaches through episode two of "Race and the Gospel." In this episode, Steve helps answer the question "What is the Dividing Wall of Hostility?"
50 - Race and the Gospel - Why Does Race or Ethnicity Matter to God?
June 14, 2023 • Steve Johnson
Welcome back to Transformed for Impact! This summer, we are diving headfirst into an important conversation at the intersection of race and the gospel. This week, Steve Johnson, Pastor of Kingdom Church, teaches through episode one of "Race and the Gospel." This week, Steve helps answer the question "Why Does Race or Ethnicity Matter to God?"
49 - Rhythms of Health - Personal Planning: Choosing Less for More
July 27, 2022 • Micah Roeder
Welcome back to Transformed for Impact! Today we will be wrapping up our series Rhythms of Health: Choosing Less for More. In this series, we have been exploring a biblical roadmap for what it looks like for each of us, including you, to stay emotionally healthy and spiritually alive in the hurry of the world we live in. We have used John Mark Comer's book "The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry" as a framework for this series. On this episode, you will have the opportunity to explore what it looks like for you personally to live a life that rejects hurry, and embraces Jesus. Thank you so much for joining us today! We hope this training benefits you greatly. Make sure you subscribe to our podcast so you never miss an episode. We love you, and we hope to see you soon.
48 - Rhythms of Health - Practice Four: Slowing
July 20, 2022 • Barrett Bowden
Welcome back to Transformed for Impact! Today we will be continuing our series Rhythms of Health: Choosing Less for More. In this series, we have been exploring a biblical roadmap for what it looks like for each of us, including you, to stay emotionally healthy and spiritually alive in the hurry of the world we live in. We are using John Mark Comer's book "The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry" as a framework for this series. On this episode, you will learn Comer's fourth and final practice for living a life that rejects hurry, and instead follows after Jesus: Slowing. Thank you so much for joining us today! We hope this training benefits you greatly today. Make sure you subscribe to our podcast so you never miss an episode. We love you, and we hope to see you soon.
47 - Rhythms of Health - Practice Three: Simplicity
July 17, 2022 • Barrett Bowden
Welcome back to Transformed for Impact! Today we will be continuing our series Rhythms of Health: Choosing Less for More. In this series, we have been exploring a biblical roadmap for what it looks like for each of us, including you, to stay emotionally healthy and spiritually alive in the hurry of the world we live in. We are using John Mark Comer's book "The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry" as a framework for this series. On this episode, you will learn Comer's third practice for living a life that rejects hurry, and instead follows after Jesus: Simplicity. Thank you so much for joining us today! We hope this training benefits you greatly today. Make sure you subscribe to our podcast so you never miss an episode. We love you, and we hope to see you soon.
46 - Rhythms of Health: Interview with Jim Warberg
July 11, 2022 • Barrett Bowden, Jim Warberg
Welcome to Transformed for Impact! In this season at Island Community Church in Memphis, TN, we are having a conversation through our teaching series about spiritual habits. Ways that we can experience more of God's grace, and grow in his grace. These habits are a way for us to make a choice to be near Jesus, that we may experience Him and have a deeper relationship with Him. In this episode, we will be talking with a dear member and deacon of ICC, Jim Warberg, about the spiritual habit of reading the Bible. We hope his testimony will bring you hope, and ignite a desire to know God more through His Word. Make sure you subscribe to our podcast so you never miss an episode. We love you, and hope to see you soon!
45 - Rhythms of Health - Practice Two: Sabbath
June 29, 2022 • Barrett Bowden • Deuteronomy 5:12–15, Mark 2:23–28, Genesis 2:1–3, Exodus 20:8–11
Welcome back to Transformed for Impact! Today we will be continuing our series Rhythms of Health: Choosing Less for More. In this series, we have been exploring a biblical roadmap for what it looks like for each of us, including you, to stay emotionally healthy and spiritually alive in the hurry of the world we live in. We are using John Mark Comer's book "The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry" as a framework for this series. On this episode, you will learn Comer's second practice for living a life that rejects hurry, and instead follows after Jesus: Sabbath. Thank you so much for joining us today! We hope this training from the Scripture benefits you greatly today. Make sure you subscribe to our podcast so you never miss an episode. We love you, and we hope to see you soon.
44 - Rhythms of Health - Practice One: Silence and Solitude
June 22, 2022 • Barrett Bowden • Matthew 3:16—4:3
Welcome to Transformed for Impact! Today we will be continuing our series Rhythms of Health: Choosing Less for More. In this series, we have been exploring a biblical roadmap for what it looks like for each of us, including you, to stay emotionally healthy and spiritually alive in the hurry of the world we live in. We are using John Mark Comer's book "The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry" as a framework for this series. On this episode, you will learn Comer's first practice for living a life that rejects hurry, and instead follows after Jesus: living in silence and solitude with Him. We hope you will subscribe to our podcast and leave us some feedback, so you never miss an episode of TFI. Thanks again for joining us! We love you, and hope to see you soon.
43 - Rhythms of Health - The Solution: The Easy Yoke
June 15, 2022 • Micah Roeder • Matthew 11:28–30
Welcome back to Transformed for Impact! Are you desiring to move toward a healthier, more fruitful rhythm of life? Today we continue our training series on Rhythms of Health: Choosing Less for More, where we are exploring a biblical roadmap for staying emotionally healthy and spiritually alive in the chaos of the modern world. We are using John Mark Comer's book "The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry" throughout the summer, and each week we will be tracing his compelling emotional and spiritual case against hurry in favor of a slower, simpler way of life: following the way of Jesus. We hope you enjoy part two of this study, as Micah Roeder of our ICC family helps us understand what it looks like to embrace the easy yoke of Jesus. As always, we encourage you to subscribe to TFI and leave a review, so you never miss an episode. We love you, and we hope to see you soon!
42 - Rhythms of Health - The Problem: Hurry
June 8, 2022 • Barrett Bowden
In this fourth season of Transformed for Impact, follow along with our Summer Wednesday study "Rhythms of Health" at Island Community Church. This 7-week series taught by Barrett Bowden and a couple special guests will walk us through John Mark Comer's "The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry". You really won't want to miss this series, as we explore a biblical approach to health and wholeness in every facet of our lives. This week we address the problem: hurry. Be sure to subscribe to our podcast so you don't miss an episode, and leave a review. Your input is valuable to us. We love you, Jesus loves you, and we hope to see you soon.
41: Digging Deeper - Surrendering to the Purpose and Promise of God
November 29, 2021 • Barrett Bowden • 2 Samuel 23—24
Do you ever struggle with maintaining control? Do you ever struggle to completely release yourself and your plans into the hands of God? In this episode, we will discuss how to surrender to the purposes and promises of God. Late in David's life, he made a prideful and tragic mistake that most of us can relate to. Rather than trusting his success and future into God's care, he decided to put confidence in himself and take things into his own hands. God had to use his failure to teach him an important lesson in trust and surrender. As we follow Jesus, we must learn to choose (a deliberate act, a deliberate decision) to turn our lives and our wills over to the care of God.” In this episode, you will learn more about how to make that choice in daily life with Jesus. You will discover five common barriers to this choice. Additionally, you will learn four pathways to make a consistent choice to release yourself to Him.
40: Digging Deeper - Learning to Stand in His Grace
November 22, 2021 • Barrett Bowden • 2 Samuel 22—23
In this episode, we are going to be talking about learning to stand in the grace of God. Once we know God's grace in salvation, how can we learn to stand (or continue) in that same grace of God in daily life? At the end of the book of 2 Samuel (Chapter 22), we are given a long song of King David, as well as a record of some of his last words. At the end of his long life with God and reign as king, David is reflecting over all the ways in which God has been faithful to Him. At the end of the day, he recognizes that his story is a story of God's redeeming grace. He does not point to his own success, but God's success. He does not in pride say "I have been such a great man" but "God has been such a great Savior." In the passage, David points to God and His grace. The purpose of this podcast today is help give you some practical ways in which you too can learn to stand in God's grace. David's song & last words reflect the end of a life of learning to stand in God's grace. He did not always do this perfectly. But he has learned. And we can too. In fact, we should. You will be encouraged and challenged by this reflection on 2 Samuel 22, Galatians 3, and some practical ways in which we can continue in the grace of God.
39: Digging Deeper - Extending Restoration to Others
November 15, 2021 • Barrett Bowden • 2 Samuel 18—21
In today’s episode, we are going to be talking about extending restoration to others. As followers of Jesus, we are people of restoration. Our hope is built upon the person of a Restorer - Jesus Christ. As people who know his restoration personally, we should - above all people - be about the work of extending His restoration to others. Above all people, we should live with a heart of deep desire to see others restored. And above all people, we should live with a life committed to help other experience His restoration. In this episode, we will be be overviewing a few chapters of the book of 2 Samuel - Chapters 19 through 21 - to look at how King David used his influence to extend restoration to others. Together, we will discover five ways that David worked to extend restoration to the nation after a time of great brokenness, conflicted, sadness and trouble. We can learn from each of these steps that David took and consider how to grow in the work of extending restoration in our own lives.
38: Digging Deeper - Receiving God's Redeeming Grace
November 8, 2021 • Barrett Bowden • 2 Samuel 15—17
In this episode, you will hear an incredibly personal and important conversation on the topic of Receiving God’s Redeeming Grace. Once we are saved, we must learn to LIVE daily in God’s redeeming grace, identity, and truth. It is a common struggle to forgive ourselves of what God has already forgiven you. This lack of forgiveness can be debilitating in our minds, hearts, and lives, keeping us from the fullness of what God desires. In this episode, we will talk about this reality and how to practically overcome it with gospel truth and transformation. In the story of 2 Samuel, you will hear how this played out in King David’s life after his horrific sins with Bathsheba and Uriah. In this episode’s interview with Rob Hodum, you will hear how this plays out today.
37: Digging Deeper - Living with Hope in a Dysfunctional Family
November 1, 2021 • Barrett Bowden • 2 Samuel 12—14
Have you ever felt like your family was a bit dysfunctional? Maybe especially dysfunctional? In one way or another, we can all relate. All of our families have problems of some kind within. For followers of Jesus, two important questions emerge: How do we handle the presence and consequences of sin in our families? How can we live with hope in the midst of this dysfunction? In this episode, you will learn six characteristics of those who live with hope in the midst of family dysfunction. In this episode, Pastor Barrett will help you understand these six godly attitudes toward your family from Scripture. He will also lead you toward a pathway to desire and experience these characteristics personally and practically in your life. As we study book of 2 Samuel, we see that David’s sin led to incredible brokenness and dysfunction within his family. However, in the midst of his family conflict, he learns that God is still faithful to redeem and fulfill His covenant of grace. You can too! Listen to this episode and find help to know how to live with His hope in your dysfunctional family!
36: Digging Deeper - Experiencing Personal Forgiveness and Redemption
October 11, 2021 • Barrett Bowden
In this episode, you will hear Barrett interview someone who has a powerful, personal testimony of God’s redemption in sin and brokenness. Tim Keller once said: “The gospel says you are more sinful and flawed than you ever dared believe, but more accepted and loved than you ever dared hope.” We can understand this conceptually and study this biblically, but it is vital for us to experience this personally. In this episode, you will hear the story of someone who has personal story to tell of God’s forgiveness and grace. If you know your brokenness and long to experience God’s redemption, you will be deeply encouraged by this interview!
35: Digging Deeper - Displaying the Gospel in Daily Life
September 27, 2021 • Barrett Bowden • 2 Samuel 8—9
In this episode, you will be reminded and equipped in one of the greatest opportunities you have as a follower of Jesus Christ: displaying the gospel in daily life. What does it look like to really show His love - the good news of Jesus - in our everyday life? Together, we will look at several Scripture passages to remember that the gospel is something for us AND also something for others. It is meant to come to us AND to flow through us. The gospel is meant to be enjoyed AND also to be shared. The gospel must be received AND freely given. How can we embrace this joyful opportunity and obey this important responsibility? You will also discover a biblical framework for Displaying the Gospel in Daily Life. Through the story of David and Mephibosheth in 2 Samuel 9, you will learn four things that David did to extend God’s gospel and grace to this young man in need. From this, you will learn important questions to consider to push us to see gospel needs and opportunities around us each day.
34: Digging Deeper - Living in God's Plans, Not Our Own
September 20, 2021 • Barrett Bowden • 2 Samuel 7
Have you ever gotten ahead of God in your planning? Or felt tempted to? In this episode, we will be talking about living in God’s plans, not our own. You will receive help identifying some potential obstacles to living in God’s plans, and then some biblical principles today that will help you keep you aligned with Him. This episode draws lessons from a story in 2 Samuel 7, when David and his friend Nathan got ahead of God with a plan to build a permanent home for God. As we study this passage, we will discover two important and interesting lessons for times when we are desiring God’s will. First, we must saturating ourselves in the revealed will of God - the Bible. Second, we must choose to starting our planning with surrender, not assumption (and let God tell us no). You will benefit greatly from this practical and biblical episode, receiving encouragement and instruction for how to live faithfully in the will of God!