FOLLOW
What does rearrangement sound like?
The FOLLOW 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.
Episodes
20 episodes
Who did God think up when he thought of you? /// FOLLOW
Episode 019: Who did God think up when he thought of you?How many decisions have we made while a quiet loop plays underneath everything: “You’re not enough. You’re not enough. You’re not enough.”In thi...
What is your reaction trying to protect? /// FOLLOW
Episode 018: What is your reaction trying to protect?Why do we sometimes react in ways that feel completely out of proportion to what just happened?A comment, a conflict, a change of plans—even getting...
What do you need to unlearn about Jesus? /// FOLLOW with Tommy Nixon
Episode 017: What do you need to unlearn about Jesus?Following Jesus can get complicated—especially when what Jesus actually said starts challenging what we’ve always believed about him.In this episode...
What happens when the mask stops working? /// FOLLOW with Dr. Harvey Powers
Episode 016: What happens when the mask stops working?What if some of the hardest moments in our lives aren’t interruptions to transformation—but the very places where transformation begins?In this epi...
Why is “help” so hard to say? /// FOLLOW with Rick Dunn
Episode 015: Why is “help” so hard to say?What happens when everything looks fine on the outside, but something inside you knows it isn’t?In this episode of The FOLLOW Podcast, Eric Parks and Steve Car...
What if mental health isn’t separate from following Jesus? /// FOLLOW with Chad Bruegman
Episode 014: What if mental health isn’t separate from following Jesus?Mental health is often treated like a separate category from our spiritual lives. But what if that separation is part of the problem?...
What if comfort is making us fragile? /// FOLLOW
Episode 013: What if comfort is making us fragile?What if comfort is shaping us more than we realize?In this episode of the FOLLOW podcast, we explore the connection between comfort, spiritual formatio...
What are we missing when no one really knows us? /// FOLLOW with Luke Peach
Episode 012: What are we missing when no one really knows us?In this episode of the FOLLOW podcast, we explore why following Jesus was never meant to be a solo project.In a culture shaped by hurry, cur...
Why doesn’t God answer every prayer? /// FOLLOW
Episode 011: Why doesn’t God answer every prayer?Prayer often begins with asking—but what if that’s not where it should begin?In the final episode of this five-part prayer series, Steve Carter and Eric...
How do you access the access? /// FOLLOW
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 fi...
What are you still defending? /// FOLLOW
Episode 009: What are you still defending?In this episode of the FOLLOW podcast, Steve Carter and Eric Parks explore the prayer of confession—not as shame, performance, or merely admitting what someone already knows, bu...
Did someone teach you how to grieve? /// FOLLOW with Chad Bruegman
Episode 008: Did someone teach you how to grieve?In this episode, Steve Carter and Eric Parks are joined by Chad Bruegman, Lead Pastor of River Pointe Church in Houston, for an honest conversation about grief, lame...
Why is “enough” is so hard to say? /// FOLLOW 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
Episode 006: Can getting lost get you found?In this episode, Eric Parks and Steve Carter explore the ancient practice of pilgrimage and why movement, disorientation, and embodied faith can become powerful parts of spiri...
What if the story in your head isn’t true? /// FOLLOW
Epissode 005: What if the story in your head isn’t true?In this episode, Eric and Steve explore the stories people live inside of—and how those stories quietly shape identity, grief, fear, ambition, and spiritual format...
What happens when charisma outruns character? /// FOLLOW with Michele Cushatt
Episode 004: What happens when charisma outruns character?Very few people finish well. That reality is sobering, especially for those in Christian leadership.In this episode, Eric Parks sits down ...
Can we learn to wander well? /// FOLLOW with Michele Cushatt
Episode 003: Can we learn to wander well?In this episode, Steve Carter and Eric Parks are joined by Michele Cushatt, author, teacher, and seminary student, for a conversation about formation, suffering, truth, and the l...
Is it impossible to arrive? /// FOLLOW with Doug Miller
Episode 002: Is it impossible to arrive?In this episode, Steve Carter and Eric Parks are joined by Doug Miller, Lead Pastor of Plum Creek Church, for a conversation about following Jesus over a lifetime.<...
