Empowering The Damascus Man - Foundations Series, the Trinity
Shawn Arstein
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About This Podcast
ReignMakers forge brings it hot. Join the forge to engage with thought provoking insights on Christian topics. Following a God holds highest honor systematic theology and a focus on God's desire to connect with his favorite creation, humanity, the forge dives into the tools and innovative thinking of the Trinity to launch mankind on a journey worth taking.
ReignMakers forge combines technology, bioscience, innovation, and generally cool stuff to provide insight into Scripture and living a life connected to God. The forge has a strong focus on spiritual formation using a tool called the ReignMakers Lens to raise awareness of 16 tools, the elements, that reshape our nervous system and reconnect our true identity.
This podcast has been developed as a system instead of a stand along lesson. Listeners are encouraged to sign up at www.crushingtheserpent.com to receive a workbook for each series and 5 additional mini-podcasts that supplement this main podcast. This main podcast will be released every other Monday.
The mentality of the forge is that transformation is hard work. Whether creating a blade from common steel, or a damascus man from common humanity, removing impurity, reshaping corruption, and sharpening an edge is arduous. But it is worth the blood sweat and tears put in. We invite you to join the forge, bring along some friends, and journey with us through the fire.
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Christian discipleship, high five, spiritual formation, anvil, Trinity, honor, forge, impact.
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S4E5 The Arrival of Advent: Actualizing Connection with God
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S4E4 The Love of Advent: Connecting to the Goodness of God
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S4E3 The Joy of Advent: Empowered Life and Community
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S4E2 The Peace of Advent: How God Transforms Our Minds
This second week of Advent explores a radical understanding of peace—not as mere tranquility, but as the alignment of our minds with the Spiritual Realm. When Jesus said "I did not come to bring…
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S4E1 The Hope of Advent: Healing Humanity's Broken Heart
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S2E30 Balaam Reveals How Even those Empowered Spiritually can disconnect and Use God's Gifts Against Him.
When connecting with God spiritually, we must humble ourselves. God imparts the fruits of the Spirit on individuals; even though who have wicked behavior. We unintentionally allow ourselves to become…
S2E29 Joshua's Forty Years of Abiding Outside the Tent of Meeting Prepared him to Lead Israel into the Promised Land.
God knew Joshua was trustworthy because he willingly stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting for 40 years. Inferring from his appointment as leader after Moses, Joshua never complained of his…
S2E28 Jonah's Focus on the Physical Realm Ruined his Opportunity to Save the Israelites from the Exile.
It appears that Jonah saw or experienced first hand the brutality of the Physical Realm. The trauma he experienced paralyzed him, shutting down his heart to the people of Nineveh. God’s request of…
S2E27 King David Honored God and the priority of the Spiritual Realm, but Often Disconnected from God and Chose Chaos.
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S2E26 By Glossing Over the Spiritual Realm, Christianity Only knows God in Part.
Discussing 1 Corinthians, Paul reminds us that the Spiritual Realm holds information that we need for understanding God. We see in part because we think the Physical Realm reveals all the answers to…
S2E25 Christian Foundations: Trinity - Exploring God's Crossing the Chasm Between the Spiritual and Physical Realms to Connect with Us.
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S2E24 Connection to God's Kairos Requires Silencing Everything that Prevents Hearing.
Jesus tells us in John 5 :28-29,“Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live,…
S2E23 Kairos Time Modeled by Jesus in the Daily Execution of Life.
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S2E22 Kairos Time is More than Predicting the Future.
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S2E21 Barriers that Prevent us from God’s Kairos Provision, Protection and Connection Using the Story of Naaman.
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S2E20 In order to live the Kairos life, we must keep our hands on the umbrella handle.
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S2E19 Christian Foundations: Trinity - How God Uses Kairos Time to Create Connections with God, Ourselves and Others.
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S2E18 The 4 Body-Directed Elements are Worship, Fasting, Action, and Fellowship.
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