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About This Podcast
How can I arrange my life to apprentice under Jesus?
The Rule of Life podcast is designed to guide you in arranging your everyday life around being with and becoming like Jesus. Each season will cover one of nine ancient Practices from the Way of Jesus: Sabbath, Prayer, Fasting, Solitude, Scripture, Community, Simplicity, Generosity, and Hospitality. You’ll hear from pastors, thought leaders, and everyday apprentices of Jesus, all hosted by John Mark Comer and produced by Practicing the Way.
Each season will be released alongside a Practice - a four week long experience created by Practicing the Way, designed to integrate these ancient practices into your everyday life.
This work is made possible by the Circle—a growing community of givers from across the world, who care deeply about integrating spiritual formation into the church at large.
To learn more about the Circle or to run a Practice with your church, community or small group, visit www.practicingtheway.org.
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Recent Episodes
Witness 04: Share the Good News (featuring Shaila Visser)
What becomes possible when we embrace a patient yet courageous approach to sharing the good news of Jesus? Join John Mark Comer and Shelbi Shutt as they explore how to share the gospel through your…
Witness 03: Partner with the Holy Spirit (featuring Pete Hughes)
What changes when we know that the Holy Spirit is already at work in the lives of those around us who don’t know Jesus? Join John Mark Comer and Shelbi Shutt as they discuss the role of the Holy…
Witness 02: Practice Hospitality (featuring Drew Hyun)
What if our ordinary homes and tables were brimming with latent potential for gospel encounters? Join John Mark Comer and Shelbi Shutt as they explore the role hospitality plays in our witness,…
Witness 01: Begin With Love (featuring Ger Jones)
How can we move beyond duty and obligation, into a witness motivated by a deep love for the lost? Join John Mark Comer and Shelbi Shutt as they explore the core motivation for the practice of witness…
Service 04: Where Does Service Lead? (featuring a Luminary Roundtable)
What if service in the way of Jesus was meant to lead not first to life change or impact, but to relationship? Join Tyler Staton and Shelbi Shutt as they explore kinship as Jesus’ destination for a…
Service 03: How Do I Serve? - Part 02 (Edwin Colon)
How can we cultivate an intentional and interruptible life of service in our everyday rhythms and routines? Join Tyler Staton and Shelbi Shutt as they explore this “Good Samaritan” way of being in…
Service 02: How Do I Serve? - Part 01 (featuring Jonathan Tremaine Thomas)
How can service grow beyond projects and campaigns and into a lifestyle? Join Tyler Staton and Shelbi Shutt as they explore the primary environments and relationships where Jesus invites us to serve,…
Service 01: Why Do I Serve? (featuring Gary Haugen)
Love is the hallmark of Jesus’ followers, but what does it look like? Join Tyler Staton and Shelbi Shutt as they explore the topic of love — the core motivation of a life of service — featuring…
Community 04: What We Avoid in Community (featuring David Kim)
What kind of community do we desperately long for, and yet, what are we often unwilling to do to form it? Join John Mark Comer and Shelbi Shutt as they explore five practices for cultivating…
Community 03: Overcoming Shame — The Ancient Enemy of Community (featuring Dr. Curt Thompson)
What is the main culprit behind so much disconnection and damage in our relationships? Join John Mark Comer and Shelbi Shutt as they explore the universal experience of shame, featuring conversations…
Community 02: Family Systems and Life in Community (featuring Jay and Danielle Pathak)
Is Grandpa really in my bones? Join John Mark Comer and Shelbi Shutt as they explore the topic of Family Systems, featuring conversations with everyday people in the West, testimonials from real-life…
Community 01: Rediscovering Jesus’ Vision for Family (featuring Andy Crouch)
How can we cultivate the deep relationships Jesus invites us toward in an age of isolation, transience, and superficiality? Join John Mark Comer and Shelbi Shutt as they explore the topic of kinship…
Scripture 04: Reading Scripture as a Spiritual Discipline
John Mark and guests Dr. Tim Mackie, Dr. Brittany Kim, and Hakeem Bradley explore what it means to read Scripture as a spiritual discipline and why, as apprentices of Jesus, reading is ultimately…
Scripture 03: Unlocking the Wisdom of Scripture
John Mark and BibleProject’s Dr. Tim Mackie, Dr. Brittany Kim, and Hakeem Bradley discuss what it means to approach Scripture as “wisdom literature” and “meditation literature.”Wisdom literature…
Scripture 02: Scripture as a Cross-Cultural Experience
BibleProject’s Dr. Tim Mackie, Dr. Brittany Kim, and Hakeem Bradley continue a conversation with John Mark around BibleProject’s seven-part paradigm for understanding Scripture. Episode 02 addresses…
Scripture 01: Three Problematic Approaches to Scripture
In this first episode of the Scripture season of the Rule of Life podcast, John Mark is joined by BibleProject scholars Dr. Tim Mackie, Dr. Brittany Kim, and Hakeem Bradley for a conversation on the…
Generosity 06: Roundtable with John Cortines, Jimmy Mellado, Sara Miller, and Christian Huang
In this second roundtable on Generosity, John Mark is joined by John Cortines, co-author of God and Money; Jimmy Mellado, president of Compassion International; Sara Miller, founder of A House on…
Generosity 05: Roundtable with Patrick Johnson and April Chapman
John Mark leads the first of two roundtable conversations with leaders who have devoted a significant share of their lives to advancing generosity and giving.This episode features Patrick Johnson,…
Generosity Testimonial 04: Josh & Abbi
Josh and Abbi learned early on in marriage to live on a meager income – just enough to cover essential needs, and not much else. Today they consider it a gift, because it taught them how little they…
Generosity 04: Be Generous to the Poor
The early church was marked by extravagant generosity to the poor. Followers of Jesus formed socioeconomically diverse communities that cared for each other like family, something unheard of in the…
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Rule of Life has published 50 episodes since September 2022, covering topics in Christianity, Religion & Spirituality.
Rule of Life is currently sporadic with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 59m.
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