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Love is the Antidote for Anxiety
Potter's Inn Soul Care Conversations
11/10/20 • 41 min
Today’s Verse’s: Ephesians 3:14-21
How do you experience the Love of God? Not just know about the Love of God, but to truly experience it?
For many of us, unlearning how we experience love may be necessary to begin understanding the true love of God. And when you experience this love, it can be the greatest antidote to anxiety, worry, and fear.
How to experience the love of God
- Silence/Reflection
- Look for beauty
- Reading scripture - Lectio Divina
- Daily Examen
Join Steve for this beautiful conversation on what true love really means.
MENTIONED IN PODCAST- Ephesians 3:14-21
- Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: It's Impossible to Be Spiritually Mature, While Remaining Emotionally Immature by Peter Scazzero
- Pray as you Go – Prayer and reflection App
- Galatians 2:20
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Ten Movements in the Care of the Soul
Potter's Inn Soul Care Conversations
11/03/20 • 31 min
Today’s Verse’s: Luke 9:28-36 (NIV)
Movement: Journeying from one place to the next.
What does it mean to ‘move to’ soul care and to begin to practice it in each of our lives?
We begin by moving from how we used to do life to a new understanding of life. And that is today’s podcast- the movement and journey of understanding the care of the soul.
Thanks for join us in the Conversation!
MENTIONED IN THE PODCASTWe wish to thank St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in Nashville , for allowing us to use their performance of Fernando Ortega's "Grace and Peace" in this week's podcast.
Words: Philippians 1:2. Music by John Andrew Schreiner and Fernando Ortega.
© 2006 Curb Songs, Cerdo Verde Music, and John Andrew Schreiner Music; admin. Curb Records, Lori Kelly Rights & Licenses, and Curb Music Publishing. Used by permission. CCLI#4854694
Lead vocal: George Rowe Instrumentalists: Bethany Bordeaux (violin), Doug Carpenter (viola), Mark Lickey (flugelhorn), Paul Nelson (cello), Joy Pratt (clarinet). Musical adaptation and video production/editing by David Madeira. Audio mixed by Tim Lauer. Videography by Matthew Shepherd and David Madeira.
- Luke 9:28-36 (NIV)
- The Benefits of Being Jarred - Episode 68
The Ten Movements
- Movement from Presence to Absence
- Movement from Deafness to Listening
- Movement from Strategy to Encounter
- Movement from Stagnation to Journey
- Movement from Striving to Belovedness
- Movement from Competing Priorities to No One But Jesus
- Movement from Being Asleep to Being Awake
- Movement from Hearing to Listening
- Movement from Leading to Being Led
- Movement from Information to Experience
TIME STAMP OF PODCAST
- 0:17 - STEVE begins podcast
- 1:53 - SCRIPTURE READING of Luke 9:28-36 (NIV)
- 3:34 - MUSIC BREAK
- 5:38 - STEVE Resumes podcast
- 27:04 - MUSIC BREAK
- 30:46 - CLOSING
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Embark on a Journey in Soul Care
Potter's Inn Soul Care Conversations
10/20/20 • 39 min
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SHOW NOTESRediscover your heart and learn the ancient paths that lead to spiritual wholeness.
Today we get to revisit with an old friend to the podcast - Kaylene Derksen! Kaylene is the new President of the Soul Care Institute (SCI) and will be talking to Steve about what SCI is all about, and how they are reimagining SCI in the midst of a Pandemic.
The second half of the podcast is a reading and discussion of John O’Donahue’s poem A New Beginning, with Joe and Steve talking about it’s meaning for all of us.
Thanks for joining the Conversation today!
Kaylene Derksen grew up a farm girl in northern Wisconsin to parents who loved God and loved people. After college, she felt a call to spend her life in mission work. This call has taken her to Central America, the southern United States, the Netherlands, and Germany.
While in the midst of her productive life she became aware of a deep longing for a more sustainable rhythm. Going further on the journey inward, Kaylene became a student of the Soul Care Institute. This altered the course of her life by awakening a desire to live the Jesus way as wholehearted and integrated person. She and her husband, Jimm, are both Soul Care Providers and are now leading the Institute as President (Kaylene) and Vice-President (Jimm).
MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST- Soul Care Institute Website
- Soul Care Institute Cohorts
- Soul Care Institute Events
- Reading & Discussion of “ For a New Beginning” By John O’Donohue from To Bless the Space Between Us
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Top 10 Episodes #6! Belovedness The Core Truth That Changes Everything
Potter's Inn Soul Care Conversations
07/06/21 • 47 min
This is WEEK 5 of our summer series The Roaring Summer of ‘21 Series: The Best of the Best! We have gone back thru all 5 of our seasons and come up with 10 episodes that have been our most listened too and will be airing those episodes over the next 10 weeks.
Today is our 6th most popular podcast, and originally aired just last year in October, 2021 - Belovedness: The Core Truth that Changes Everything.
SHOW NOTESToday’s Verse’s: Mark 1:9-11 (NIV)
Friends, the message of this podcast is a game changer. It’s that profound and it’s that simple.
I’ve spent years of my life and ministry trying to wrap my head and heart around what I’m talking with you about this week in this particular podcast.
For sure, if you listen to one podcast this week—let this ONE be it!
Share it with some friends and try to listen to it with your spouse, family, or friends.
I’m going to send the link to some specific men and women that I, myself, have been on the journey of understanding the profound truth of what it means to call oneself, the Beloved of God.
Three years ago, our Board of Potter’s inn mandated Gwen and I to capture the key message—the essence of the ministry of Potter’s Inn. They asked us to take the time to record these messages so that the message might outlive us. This one message would be what I can honestly tell you is THE message that has altered so many lives in our work around the world. We hope that you’ll be greatly blessed and encouraged by this. Goodness...what days these are—that we simply need the good news! This, dear friends is the good news we can savor!
It is with this great and profound seriousness—that we send you this week’s podcast!
Thank you for your support and prayers these days.
Every blessing!
Steve and Gwen Smith
MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST- Mark 1:9-11 (NIV)
- Priest and Author Romano Guardini - Essay We've Got Some Work to Do
- Author Macrina Wiederkehr
- Pastor and Swiss Psychologist Walter Trobisch
- Romans 8 (The Message)
- Reading from Life of the Beloved by Henry Nouwen
BOOKS/Resources MENTIONED toward end of podcast
- Love Yourself: Self-Acceptance and Depression by Walter Trobisch
- Life of the Beloved by Henry Nouwen
- The Gift of Being Yourself by David Benner
- Soul Custody: Choosing to Care for the One and Only You by Stephen W. Smith
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CONTACT US INTERESTED IN MORE SOUL CARE RESO...I Think I Need 100 Days Like This
Potter's Inn Soul Care Conversations
02/14/24 • 2 min
This cool breeze by the river bank.
A great blue heron feeding in the shallows.
The pilated woodpecker serenading the forest with its haunting song.
I think I need one hundred days like this!
Slowly, ever so slowly. Here. Now. This!
Bit by bit and little by little, I feel a twinge of what may be life.
A steady erosion has happened in me.
It’s taken time to do this damage.
It will take more time to regain what’s been lost.
The locust have ravaged much I feel now.
Sad stories, and far too many of them, have layered my heart with deep grief.
I think I need one hundred days like this.
But today, I just may have felt my heart again.
As I let this breeze wash over me, is this a baptism of love?
And as silence does what only the deep quiet does,
I sit here and stay here for a while this beautiful morn.
Soaking. Marinating. Feasting . Healing.
Brennan's Letter to the Imposter - Moment to Breathe
Potter's Inn Soul Care Conversations
05/13/20 • 5 min
From Episode 55 "The Imposter: Discovering your True and False Self
Good-morning, impostor. Surely you are surprised by the cordial greeting, you probably expected, "Hello, you little jerk." since I have hammered you from day one of this retreat. Let me begin by admitting that I have been unreasonable, ungrateful, and unbalanced in my appraisal of you. (Of Course, you are aware, puff of smoke, that in addressing you, I am talking to myself. You are not some isolated, impersonal entity living on an asteroid but a real part of me.)
I come to you today not with rod in hand but with an olive branch. When I was a little shaver and first knew that no one was there for me, you intervened and showed me where to hide. (In those Depression days of the thirties, you recall my parents were doing the best they could with what they had just to provide food and shelter.)
At that moment in time, you were invaluable. Without your intervention I would have been overwhelmed by dread and paralyzed by fear. You were there for me and played a crucial, protective role in my development. Thank you.
When I was four years old, you taught me how to build a cottage. Remember the game? I would crawl under the covers from the head of the bed to the footrest and pull the sheets, blanket, and pillow over me - actually believing that no one could find me. I felt safe. I am still amazed at how effectively that worked. My mind would think happy thoughts, and I would spontaneously smile and start to laugh under the covers. We built that cottage together because the world we inhabited was not a friendly place.
But in the construction process you taught me how to hide my real self from everyone and initiated a lifelong process of concealment, containment, and withdrawal. Your resourcefulness enabled me to survive. But then your malevolent side appeared and you started lying to me "Brennan," you whispered, "if you persist in this folly of being yourself, your few long-suffering friends will hit the bricks, leaving you all alone. Stuff your feelings, shut down your memories, withhold your opinions, and develop social graces so you'll fit in wherever you are."
And so, the elaborate game of pretense and deception begin. Because it worked, I raised no objection. As the years rolled by, you - I got strokes from a variety of sources. We were elated and concluded the game must go on.
But you needed someone to bridle you and rein you in. I Had neither the perception not the courage to tame you, so you continued to rumble like Sherman through Atlanta, gathering momentum along the way. Your appetite for attention and affirmation became insatiable. I never confronted you with the lie because I was deceived myself.
The bottom line, my pampered playmate, is that you are both needy and selfish. You need care, love, and safe dwelling place. On this day in the Rockies my gift is to take you where, unknowingly, you have longed to be - into the presence of Jesus. Your days of running riots are history. From now on, you slow down, slow very down.
In His presence notice that you have already begun to shrink. Wanna know somethin’, little guy? Your much more attractive that way. I am nicknaming you "Pee-Wee". Naturally, you are not going to roll over suddenly and die. I know you will get disgruntled at times and start to act out, but the longer you spend time in the presence of Jesus, the more accustomed you grow to His face, the less adulation you will need because you will have discovered for yourself that He is Enough. And in the Presence, you will delight in the discovery of what it means to live by grace and not by performance.
Your friend,
Brennan
The Three Rhythms of Life: Solitude, Community, Mission
Potter's Inn Soul Care Conversations
11/17/20 • 36 min
Each week you join us in our conversations and together we are learning how to navigate today’s changing world. For this, we are so very grateful! You make it possible to explore these challenging and soul giving topics right here on the internet.
As we move to the end of the year, will you help us continue through 2021?
2 Ways to contribute:
- For an individual contribution at www.pottersinn.com/donate
- To start monthly support, visit us at www.patreon.com/pottersinn.
Thank you dear friends!
SHOW NOTESToday’s Verse’s: Luke 6:12-19 (NIV)
This week's podcast comes at the perfect time for me, and offers each of us a new rhythm in our life. It's all about these three words: solitude, community, and mission.
Join us today in the latest conversation.
The Three Rhythms:
- Solitude
- Community
- Mission
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FAQ
How many episodes does Potter's Inn Soul Care Conversations have?
Potter's Inn Soul Care Conversations currently has 217 episodes available.
What topics does Potter's Inn Soul Care Conversations cover?
The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Christianity, Jesuit, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality, Podcasts, Balance and Jesus.
What is the most popular episode on Potter's Inn Soul Care Conversations?
The episode title 'The Resilient Life, Part 3: Rebuilding a Life of Resilience' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Potter's Inn Soul Care Conversations?
The average episode length on Potter's Inn Soul Care Conversations is 38 minutes.
How often are episodes of Potter's Inn Soul Care Conversations released?
Episodes of Potter's Inn Soul Care Conversations are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Potter's Inn Soul Care Conversations?
The first episode of Potter's Inn Soul Care Conversations was released on Mar 5, 2019.
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