The Engedi Collective
Home to episodes from The Engedi Collective's new podcast, and to sermons from The Light Church. Here you will learn more about the founders, members, and friends from this online community, who are championing one another, as they pursue Jesus' callings for their lives.
Episodes
241 episodes
Introducing The Engedi Collective
Host, Rebecca Fanning, interviews the founders of The Engedi Collective (John Kovacs, David Mueller, and Elizabeth Agre) to find out what this Collective exactly is, what the heart is behind it, and who it's for!
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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The Future of The Light Church: Some Significant Updates
Pastor John shares some important updates regarding some significant, exciting, but also bitter sweet, changes to The Light Church. Summary of Next Steps for The LightLast Sunday - After several weeks of discuss...
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A Righteous Reality: God & Government
Romans 13 is an often controversial, mis-appropriated, and even mis-applied chapter of the New Testament. So as we examine it, let's consider a couple of questions: Where is our allegiance meant to be according to scripture? What context is bei...
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A Righteous Reality: A Contextual Reading of Romans 12-15
Join us for our fourth contextual reading in this series on righteousness as defined by Paul, this time from Romans 12 - 15.
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A Time for Testimonies: Hear from The Light Church!
Here at The Light Church, we make space in our service every Sunday for people to share any testimonies from their own lives, processes, and journeys as they feel led. Join us this week for an extended time of sharing as several members from Th...
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A Righteous Reality: Discerning God's Will - and Walking In It
We return to our series on Romans, picking up at the top of Chapter 12.Here, we find the recognizable verse 2: "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test ...
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Words from Leadership for a New Year
Join us as we hear from each member of The Light Leadership Team as they share the word God has put on their heart for the church in 2020. Family - David MuellerSimple - Calvin FanningHoly - Cynthia MillerDiscernment - ...
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Setting a Foundation and a Fire for a New Year
Join us as Pastor John unpacks 2 Timothy 5-12, Paul's reminder to Timothy of: Our existing foundation of faith; Our agency in tending the flame of the Spirit within us; And the role that same Spirit plays in our ability to even perceive and ste...
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Hearing God for a New Year
Join us as start 2020 with a call to stop, slow down, and practice discernment for God's heart and desires for us in the New Year!
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Advent 2019: Love is God Seen
This time of year we hear a lot about "the Word becoming flesh" and "the Light coming into the darkness" - which implies that it, the Word, the Light, Jesus - is SEEN. It doesn't mean that it's showy - but it does show up! So what does Love see...
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Advent 2019: Beholding
Sometimes it feels like this time of the year, the holiday season marks a sharp and somewhat unsettling shift - a mad dash to parties, end-of-year festivities, time off, shopping, decorating, you name it. Sometimes it feels like it just sneaks ...
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A Righteous Reality: The Complexity (and Simplicity) of God's Plans
Paul's letter to the Romans takes somewhat of a shift as he begins Romans 9. He becomes transfixed on this idea of the expansion of salvation beyond God's chosen people, the Israelites, into the rest of the world. This might seem obvious and no...
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A Righteous Reality: A Contextual Reading of Romans 9-11
Join us for our third contextual reading in this series on righteousness as defined by Paul, this time from Romans 9 - 11.
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"Get in the Car": Learning to Trust in the Healing Process
In the Bible, the word most often referenced in relation to healing is “Sozo”, which translates not only to "heal”, but to "make well”; to "restore to health"; to "deliver from penalties of judgement"; to "save." It would...
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A Righteous Reality: "The Working of Our Good" in Context
Today we continue our pursuit of Romans 8, coming upon one of our favorite verses, Romans 8:28 - "We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." Verse 28 is ...
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A Righteous Reality: Heirs in Glory AND Suffering
Join us as we reengage with Romans 8 and Paul's call for us to be co-heirs with Christ - both in His glory, but also (and often first) in His suffering.
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Life in the Spirit (Romans Interlude): The Value & Purpose of Fellowship
Jesus said in Matthew 18:20 that "When two or more are gathered in my name, there I will be also." And in light of this Word, believers have been meeting and gathering for what we call Church for over 2,000 years. It is fundamentally understood...
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Life in the Spirit (Romans Interlude): The Pursuit of Justice
This past week, the trial of Amber Guyger for the wrongful death of Botham Jean in Dallas, TX was concluded. When it comes to justice, we know it is at the root of God's heart; it is something that He is after. So how do we respond when it does...
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Life in the Spirit (Romans Interlude): Fanning the Flame
Tune in this week as we lean into 2 Timothy 1 and Paul's charge to "fan into flame" the Spirit of God. It seems that too often, we settle for something less than the intimacy of God's voice being close to us. We forget in the midst of uncertain...
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Life in the Spirit (Romans Interlude): Questions of Nicodemus, Part II
Last week we focused on the story of Nicodemus, unpacking his questions and applying Jesus's answers as they relate to the heightened clarity and understanding that comes from living Life in the Spirit. And this makes sense - according to scrip...
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Life in the Spirit (Romans Interlude): Questions of Nicodemus, Part I
As we continue our series about Life in the Spirit (Romans 8), we turn our attention to the story of Nicodemus in John 3. Nicodemus, a prominent religious leader in the Jewish community during Jesus's ministry, comes to Jesus in the night with ...
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Life in the Spirit (Romans Interlude): Setting Our Mind on the Spirit
Last week, we talked about what it means to have the Holy Spirit living in us, the presence of God in us - and what that means in the context of our daily lives. But what about when we believe, when we have received the Holy Spirit - but we are...
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Life in the Spirit (Romans Interlude): The Presence of God In Us
The Holy Spirit is often talked about in the collective Church as the distant relative that you've heard about, but don't really know and haven't really ever met. It seems that frequently, the Holy Spirit and its role in daily Christian life is...
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Life in the Spirit (Romans Interlude): An Unexpected Gift
As a precursor to Romans 8, we pick back up where we left off last week in our new series within a series "Life in the Spirit", focusing on what it looks like to engage with the person of the Holy Spirit, to gain a greater understanding of who ...
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Life in the Spirit (Romans Interlude): What Does It Look Like?
Join us as we take a embark on a mini-series within a series, entitled "Life in the Spirit", a precursor to Romans 8. Oftentimes in our daily lives, we can lose sight of the fact that our walk with Jesus is not supposed to be easy....
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