God is love.  That's the most simple definition of love.  But our world sees things differently.  Love is one of the most misunderstood words because there is so much context that is often missing when we use the word "love."  In this episode of the Bold Moves Podcast, Pastor Tim & the gang discuss the nuances of different types of love, how we can love people well, and the way that God loves us. 

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Unthankfulness is a disease that affects every aspect of our lives.  It's shocking to take a step back and realize how not maintaining a spirit of thankfulness in your life can make such a negative impact in every part of your day.  In this episode of the Bold Moves Podcast, Pastor Tim & the gang discuss how a mindset shift can make all the difference.

This week's episode of the Bold Moves Podcast centers around the idea of forgiveness and how it can powerfully change your mindset while following Jesus.  When we fail to forgive, we carry the weight of "what happened" with us everywhere we go, collecting spiritual baggage and dragging it along with us at every turn.  Forgiveness allows us to live our lives free from the toll that weight has on us each and every day.

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Human relationships are messy.  And if we're being honest, it's easy to get wrapped up into a toxic culture.  So many things that happen in our world and in our personal relationships have the potential to go south quickly.  And more often than we'd like to admit, we're the problem!  In this episode, Pastor Tim and the gang discuss how to determine if toxicity is bleeding into your life and your relationships.

At Crossroads Community Church, we have 3 important values that drive everything that we do.  We Connect People With God, Celebrate the Change, and Contribute to the Community.  In today's episode of the Bold Moves Podcast, Tim and the gang discuss how we can live our lives by those 3 principles over the course of the Summer in 2025 and how Crossroads has made plans to live on mission this summer as well.

The Bold Moves Podcast will be taking a break over the summer as we reimagine what the next stretch run of the podcast will look like.  We'll be back with more episodes in the Fall of 2025!

Did you know that every single day we make choices that have the potential to affect the rest of our lives?  Many choices are minor and mundane, but sometimes even the little choices can add up to change our direction in life.  In this episode, Tim and the gang discuss how choices have changed our lives along the way, and how we need to view the power of choices if we want to follow Jesus every single day.  Life is choices, choices have consequences.  Make right choices!

The Bible is clear that taking care of widows and orphans is a top priority if we intend to boldly follow Jesus.  But if we're being honest, for many of us, foster care rarely crosses our minds.  We can get so busy with our day-to-day activities that we have the tendency to never look beyond our regular circles to ask the question of "What would Jesus do?".  On today's episode, we talk with Melvin Manning, Jr. (Member of Board of Directors for Bashor Children's Home located in Goshen, IN) about his personal journey through the foster care system and how we have the ability to make an impact by stepping up to serve as a foster family.

When we attempt to live a life that follows the path that God has laid out for us, it's so important to always listen to hear His voice.  He's constantly leading and guiding us through the journey of life, and where we start is rarely where we end.  We talk with special guest Micah Johnson (Goshen Campus Pastor, Crossroads Community Church) about the journey she has had while following the call on her life, and how her immediate "yes" has enabled her to find success in ways she never dreamed possible.

When it comes to making bold moves, it's so important that we also tell of the events of what happens in our stories.  Courage is contagious, and our choice to tell our story will help others to make a bold move themselves.  And as Christians, we have the greatest story ever told in the story of Jesus!  This week we talk to Dave Roberts (Lead Pastor of Montrose Church in Montrose, CA) as he discusses the way that Hollywood tells stories, and how the Church can learn from their approach.

Bold moves can so often present challenges that you didn't anticipate or predict.  But making bold moves is crucial regardless, because your future and your legacy depend on it.  It's even more difficult when those bold moves affect more than just yourself, but instead affect an entire global movement.  Today we talk with Stan Reeder (Church of the Nazarene Regional Director for USA/Canada) about how resetting the culture of the Nazarene denomination has made an incredible and positive impact around the continent, and lives are truly being changed as a result.

If we're going to live a life of following Jesus, it will require us to stretch our faith to the limits at times.  The most difficult part of having faith is taking a step and then waiting to see how God is going to show up.  But bold moves are part of living a a life that is sold-out to radically following Jesus, no matter what happens.  In this episode we talk with Freddy Wright (Lead Pastor at Living Word Church in Houston, TX) about some of the bold moves he has made in his journey of following Jesus, and how those steps have consistently proven God's faithfulness along the way.

Have you ever been waiting for something amazing that's "right around the corner," only to find out that seeing that thing come to life is not going to happen as soon as you hoped?  We've all faced disappointment that the amazing thing we're aiming for and striving for isn't happening as soon as we'd like.  Today we talk about that principle with a dear friend of the Bold Moves Podcast, LaMorris Crawford, as he explains how the life of Joseph in the Old Testament is something that we can all learn from.

We've all been there.  Maybe you're in a huge store or driving in an unfamiliar neighborhood, or maybe even trying to find where you parked your car.  Being lost is something everyone has experienced.  And that's true in our walk with Jesus as well.  Today we discuss how that process, and the forward application of that process toward other lost people, is such an important piece of making a bold move toward Jesus. We also talk with special guest Kevin Jack (Lead Pastor, Church for the One - Lakeland, FL) about some of those topics.

Sometimes in life we get ourselves in situations and scenarios that seem to have us completely cornered.  As far as we can see, there just simply isn't a way out.  Failure seems inevitable.  In this episode of the Bold Moves Podcast, Tim and the gang discuss how this very principle played out in the life of Moses, as well as how it plays out in our lives today, and how learning to trust God in every situation is the key to unlocking what it means to follow Him.

We all drag our feet on something.  In fact, the next step you need to take is likely a difficult one.  We can know that because, it was an easy step, you would've already taken it!  In this episode of the Bold Moves Podcast, Tim and the gang discuss a few things in life that we sometimes dread, sometimes including folioing the path God has for you.  We also talk to Ryan Friedauer about the bold moves that God called him to in his life to leave the old behind and begin something new.

Let's just be honest – saying "yes" to everything that God calls us to in our lives is not always easy.  In fact, sometimes it's actually really difficult.  But making bold moves in faith is crucially important to creating a legacy of following Jesus for your and your family.  In this episode of the Bold Moves Podcast, Tim and the gang talk about the importance of taking control of your legacy.  We also talk with Mike Fisher (Tim's dad, former pastor) about how that legacy was created in the Fisher family.

It's really easy to become paralyzed by our insecurities in life.  Because we all know the truth – our lives are not as simple and beautiful as we intended for them to be.  But God is calling us to check our insecurities at the door and to allow Him to use our messy lives in the same way that He used the messy lives of the characters in the Bible.  On today's episode, we talk about how God used Moses in spite of his shortcomings and how God wants to use our imperfections as well.  We also talk with Ashley LeCount (Director of Crossroads Preschool) about the way that God is using her and her family during this season of life.

In order to live boldly, we must be able to identify and move beyond our insecurities, or the things that stand in the way of making a bold move.  On today's podcast, Tim and the gang discuss ways that insecurities have gotten the best of them in the past, and ways that they've learned to take a bold step despite the fear that stands in the way.  We also interview Carrie Dume from the Community Center at Crossroads to learn more about how serving despite insecurities can help us live boldly.

Jesus created a plan for the movement that He created to continue after He left this earth, and that plan is the Church!  In this episode of the Bold Moves Podcast, Tim and the gang discuss the importance of the Church in our everyday lives and how our connections with other believers play such huge role in becoming more like Jesus.

God doesn't care about your money – He cares about your heart!  In today's episode of the Bold Moves Podcast, Tim and the gang talk about the importance of our money and why it's such an important part of our relationship with Jesus.  Pastor Marc Royer (Christian Resource Group) joins the podcast to help us understand more about how to settle the ownership issue of money in our lives.

We wander through life, living each day, largely unaware of the battle that goes on around us.  The spiritual realm is something that we tend not to put much thought towards, but it is very real and has an impact in all of our lives.  On today's episode of the Bold Moves Podcast, Tim & the gang discuss the battle for your soul and how we can be more aware of that each day.  We talk with Ralph Tubbs (Director of Facility, Crossroads Community Church) about his book and how those principles play into the conversation about the spiritual world.

In the Bible, Jesus says, "In this world you will have trouble."  He gives us a guarantee that our lifetimes as a whole will never be a smooth and seamless journey the entire way through.  But He also tells us, "Take heart!"  In this episode of the Bold Moves Podcast, Tim & the gang discuss what to do when you're in the middle of suffering in your life.  Pastor Doug Boquist (Goshen Campus Pastor, Crossroad Community Church) joins us and helps us to gain an important perspective on how to view our suffering through the lens of God's faithfulness.

As we kick off 2025 on the Bold Moves Podcast, Tim and the gang discuss the importance of prayer in our lives, how amazing it is that we get the opportunity to have direct conversation with God each and every day, and how to practically keep prayer at the forefront in our families. We discuss with Tim Kellerman (Northeast Indiana District Superintendent, Church of the Nazarene) how building your life on prayer makes a lasting difference.

In this bonus episode of the Bold Moves Podcast, Tim & the gang talk about the importance of creating goals and how focus is such an important factor in making bold moves.

Jesus gives us a promise that we will all face trouble in this world.  But he also provides the solution for that trouble: Himself!  In today's episode of the Bold Moves Podcast, Tim & the gang discuss everything related to joy – what it means to have it and how to utilize it in all situations.