The Jim Bradford Podcast
A Weekly podcast of conversations with Pastor Jim Bradford. Each conversation focuses on life, faith, and leadership. We hope it helps you grow as a whole person and to minister out of a real depth of spirituality. Hosted by Chase Replogle.
Episodes
210 episodes
What's the Purpose of the Gifts of the Spirit?
In today's episode, we answer a listener's question about the proper function and purpose of the gifts of the Spirit. It's not surprising that there is often confusion and misuse of the Spirit's gifts. It also happened in the earliest churches,...
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Episode 210
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29:44
The Baptism of the Holy Spirit
Today, we have a listener's question about the meaning of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Pastor Jim and I explore how the Bible presents this baptism, why it's often misunderstood, and how believers today should seek the baptism of the Spirit....
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Episode 209
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36:26
Is it Biblical for Women to Lead in the Church?
In today's episode, we're discussing questions about women in ministry. While we've talked about this question before, we hope this episode will pull together all of the various biblical passages and cultural questions, offering clarity on what...
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Episode 208
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41:12
When You're Ready to be a Lead Pastor
Today we're discussing another listener's question. "How do you know when you're ready to be a lead pastor?" Pastoring requires a lot of responsibility and experience. Pastor Jim and I discuss our own transitions and what Pastor Jim has observe...
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Episode 207
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33:11
Understanding and Engaging Culture
The world around us is changing fast. Christians aren't called to live isolated from the world. We're supposed to be in the world but different from it. In our conversation today, Pastor Jim and I are exploring how to recognize the changing tre...
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Episode 206
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28:36
How to Prepare a Sermon
We're in a short series answering listener questions. Today, we have a question about preparing a sermon. Pastor Jim and I explore how we go about studying a passage, preparing a sermon, and how new tools like AI are helping us study. We hope i...
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Episode 205
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40:22
How Should Pastors Handle Power and Authority
As part of our current series answering listener questions, we discuss how churches and pastors should think about power and authority. Authority is a hot topic in our culture and is often misused in our churches. We ask what scripture has to s...
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Episode 204
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38:35
Finding Your Voice in Preaching
As we continue our series answering your questions, today we're talking preaching. One of the challenges of preaching can be finding your own voice. It's easy to sound like the preachers you listen to. In our conversation today, Pastor Jim disc...
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37:46
How to Know If God is Calling You to a New Place of Ministry
For many, transitions are a part of a lifetime of ministry, but how do you know when what you're feeling is your own restlessness vs a genuine call from God? In today's conversation, we're going to explore how to recognize God's call to a new p...
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Episode 202
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28:52
Why We Are Still Assemblies of God?
We're starting a new series answering listener questions. Special thanks to those who submitted questions. In today's episode, we talk about how we became Assemblies of God credential holders and what keeps us in the AG. We'll discuss some of t...
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Episode 201
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43:51
Should We Seek to Offend Others?
In today's episode, we're wrapping up our conversations through the book A Sharp Compassion. If Jesus was willing to risk offending people, should we seek to offend people like Jesus did? How should we think about hard words and hard conversati...
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Episode 200
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35:14
Learning to Imitate Christ
As we continue our look at the book A Sharp Compassion, we unpack what it really means to follow Jesus. We've talked about how insecurity and imitation of this world draw us into offense, but in our conversation today, we'll discover h...
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Episode 199
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33:51
Our Culture's Spirit of Accusation
In our conversation on A Sharp Compassion, we have been looking at what we've called the mechanism of offense, the complex series of emotions and desires that lead from insecurity to offense. In today's episode, we're looking at the final step ...
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Episode 198
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31:03
Our Need for Affirmation
Over the past few episodes, we've been talking about the mechanism of offense. How insecurity creates idols and leads us into imitation. That imitation leaves us more insecure and desperate for affirmation. In today's episode, we're taking a lo...
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Episode 197
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33:17
How You're Drawn into Imitation
As we continue our look at A Sharp Compassion, we come to the topic of imitation. With our attention fixed on an idol, we are drawn to imitating them. We become like what we worship. But imitation is more pressing than most realize. Wh...
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Episode 196
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32:34
Becoming Obsessed
As we continue our discussion of the book A Sharp Compassion, we take a closer look at the consequences of our insecurity. Wherever there is an insecurity, there will inevitably be an idol, a hope for some salvation and security. We di...
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Episode 195
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33:35
The Consequences of Insecurity
As we continue our discussion of the book A Sharp Compassion, we turn to the topic of insecurity. There is a deep connection between the feeling of offense and insecurity to which we are often blind. You might not have recognized it, b...
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Episode 194
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30:51
The Biblical Idea of Offense
We're continuing our discussion around the topic of offense, based off of Chase's new book, A Sharp Compassion. In today's episode we track the theme of offense through the Old and New Testaments and discuss why the theme is often nege...
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Episode 193
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31:52
The Hard Words of Jesus
In this episode, we have a special conversation about the hard words of Jesus and how we should think about them in a world that is increasingly sensitive to offense. We discuss the idea of offense and how it appears in the Biblical gospels. We...
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Episode 192
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31:33
Those who Came to Worship at Christmas
In the final episode of our Christmas conversations, we take a closer look at the shepherds and the magi who came to worship at the birth of Christ. We discuss how the Christmas season moves us to worship and how we can receive the incarnation ...
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Episode 191
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33:50
A Closer Look at the Real Nativity Scene
We're continuing our December conversations on the birth of Christ by taking a closer look at the scene of the nativity. While most of us have nativity sets in our homes, they don't always convey the full details the gospels record. We discuss ...
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Episode 190
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32:38
How The Christmas Story Connects the Old and New Testaments
Over the next few weeks, we're taking a closer look at the Christmas story and why it matters to the story of Jesus. In this week's episode, we're looking at how the gospels begin and how the story of Jesus's birth connects the Old Testament st...
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Episode 189
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33:09
A Conversation of Revelation
We have spent the last 66 episodes working our way through each book of the Bible. In this week's episode, we take a closer look at the book of Revelation and the incredible way in which the Biblical story comes to a close. Pastor Jim helps set...
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Episode 188
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33:14