FOLLOW x UP
What does rearrangement sound like?
The FOLLOW x UP podcast offers steady companionship in the long, quiet work of discipleship, creating space for honest, unhurried conversation where faith moves from the margins to the center of everyday rhythms and relationships.
Spiritual formation is approached as life architecture—through the intentional rearrangement of all of life around the way of Jesus—so that belief becomes embodied, practiced, and lived.
This is what rearrangement sounds like: honest voices and steady steps—following Jesus fully.
Meet your hosts, Eric Parks and Steve Carter
Eric Parks
Eric is an Executive Pastor at Plum Creek Church in Castle Rock, Colorado, who cares deeply about helping people rehearse the way of Jesus in everyday life—and holds firm as a Denver Broncos fan, no matter how often Steve brings up the Bears.
Steve Carter
Steve is the Lead Pastor at Christ Church in Oak Brook, Illinois, offering a thoughtful and honest voice to the deeper work of formation and calling—and remains a devoted Chicago Bears fan, even with Eric representing Broncos country.
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We’re all following something—habits, expectations, ambition—but Jesus offers a different way. A way marked by love, presence, trust, and a life that actually leads somewhere good. Not perfectly, but increasingly, we begin to shape our lives around his.
We believe that if Jesus is right—about God, about life, about the soul—then is only makes sense to rearrange your life around what he says is true.
Follow isn’t a program to complete or a path to master, but a way of life centered on Jesus. A way of living that takes shape over time through a steady rearrangement of our lives—our priorities, our rhythms, and the things we trust most.
FOLLOW x UP
Latest Episodes
How do you access the access? /// FOLLOW x UP
Episode 010: How do you access the access?Prayer is one of the most common spiritual practices, yet many of us only know one way to do it: asking God for what we need.In this first conversation of a five-part ser...
What are you still defending? /// FOLLOW x UP
Episode 009: What are you still defending?In this episode of the FOLLOW x UP podcast, Steve Carter and Eric Parks explore the prayer of confession—not as shame, performance, or merely admitting what someone already know...
Did someone teach you how to grieve? /// FOLLOW x UP with Chad Bruegman
Episode 008: Did someone teach you how to grieve?In this episode of the FOLLOW x UP podcast, Steve Carter and Eric Parks are joined by Chad Bruegman, Lead Pastor of River Pointe Church in Houston, for an honest conversa...
Why is “enough” is so hard to say? /// FOLLOW x UP with Michele Cushatt
Episode 007: Why is “enough” is so hard to say?In a culture that constantly urges us toward the next achievement, experience, purchase, or milestone, gratitude can feel surprisingly difficult. Why is it so hard to belie...
Can getting lost get you found? /// FOLLOW x UP
Episode 006: Can getting lost get you found?In this episode of the FOLLOW x UP podcast, Eric Parks and Steve Carter explore the ancient practice of pilgrimage and why movement, disorientation, and embodied faith can become powerfu...