GraceConnexion Podcasts

Podcast: How Audacious Are Your Prayers?

What image comes to mind when you hear the phrase “audacious prayer?”

Audacious means 1) extremely bold or daring, recklessly brave, fearless; 2) extremely original, without restriction to prior ideas, highly inventive; 3) recklessly bold in defiance of convention, propriety, law, or the like; insolent; brazen; 4) lively, unrestrained, uninhibited. (Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). 2007)

You may find it audacious to believe that there is a God who cares about you. If God exists, some of us have the sneaky suspicion that his agenda is to make our life miserable. Have you ever prayed for God to make life a lot safer and domesticated than what audacious sounds like?

The act of honest prayer is inherently audacious in that it goes against what we think the odds are in some situation – otherwise we don’t think about needing to pray. It goes against what we call reality or scientific laws. Our own deep doubts can make praying seem audacious. “I believe. Help my unbelief.”

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Advice From a Tree

Have you ever looked to a tree for advice? Mark Hanson shares the wisdom of a tree to create a wise life as a person.

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Arkful Living

What does Noah's challenge or Evan Almighty's "opportunity" have to do with HeartConnexion Living? Mark Hanson shares his perspective on Arkful Living as this week's Tool for HeartConnexion Living. Enjoy!

20 min. approx.

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Seven Word Shifts to Change Your Life

Words matter. The words we use, even in our casual speach, have the power to bless us with options and opportunities or to restrict and confine us to repeating unhealthy life patterns. Words we use can either allow us to imagine a different future from the past or keep our imagination feast on fear and hopelessness.

Check out this Tool and take a 30 day challenge to change your words and change your life.

15 min approx.

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The Question Connexion - Going Deeper

This week's podcast from the Front Porch includes an interview with Jan Harris sharing how she developed new eyes to see her neighbor and to have a concern to share heart in a way she had never experience before. Who knows it may just inspire you too.

This week's Tool is presented by Wanda Ray titled The Question Connexion - Going Deeper. She looks at the use of questions in creating and sustaining healthy dialog. Once again, we can have many motives behind our questions and it is important to be aware of our motives and ask good questions. Like you, I have had people ask me questions that I knew they would not remember my answers for long because their agenda was not to hear what I was saying but as part of their hidden agenda - not a good way to create dialog. Listen as Wanda shares.

14 min approx.

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Pathway to Healthy Conversations Pt. 2

Two skills are critical to maintain healthy dialog: 1) Noticing when the conversation has become too risky for either party and 2) Knowing how to restore the two fundamental conditions needed for safety. The key conditions are: Mutual Purpose and Mutual Respect. If either of these are missing the converstation will become unsafe. Dr. Paul builds reviews some practical suggestions to develop these skills.

Length: 11 min 24 secs.

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Pathway to Healthy Conversations Pt. 1

Ever have a conversation go bad? Suddenly what you thought was going to be a safe discussion become unsafe for you or for the other person? What makes a conversation unsafe? What do we do with those risky conversations we fear having? Ever get stuck in a "double-bind" where you feel like you need to have a conversation but you are pretty sure it will blow up?

Well, here is the first part of Tool that will give you some guidance about how to do your part to create the dialog you want.

Length: 11:00 minutes.

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Q and A Living Your Contract

What about being a TA?
Using "I Experience You As..." Outside the Training?
Living With Other People's Triggers?

Length: 10 min 25 sec.

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