Cultivate Network Jamie Couch

Enjoyed a discussion with our friend Will Bolin on a paper he recently wrote on second hand stress.  The implications and practical approaches to cope.  Enjoyed a discussion with our friend Will Bolin on a paper he recently wrote on second hand stress.  The implications and practical approaches to cope.  

Enjoyed a discussion with our friend Will Bolin on a paper he recently wrote on second hand stress.  The implications and practical approaches to cope.  

Enjoyed this conversation going backstage into the preparation for the sermon series "David".  We break down the walk to the brook that David took.  We discuss how David was able to have confidence amidst adversity, how we can take what we have and use it for God's glory, we don't have to wait until we have "enough" to do something meaningful and the scriptural parallels to David carrying the staff to the brook.  We hope you enjoy!  

Enjoyed this convo on Saul attempting to convince David to use his armor.  He hadn't seen a warrior go to battle with no armor before.  We have a long discussion on how God's ways are higher than ours and how that we often become entrenched in tradition and if we're not careful, we'll miss what God may want to do because of our limited perspective of how God can move.  God isn't limited by our putting himself in a box...  He'll get his work done whether we choose to be involved or not.  

We enjoyed breaking down some of the events that unfolded just before David took stage to battle Goliath.  The battle before the battle.  The opportunities he had to be distracted from the battle at hand.  We parallel into our modern context of focusing on the right battles.  We also unpack the mindset of David in contrast to those around him in the days leading up to the battle.  

Enjoyed this conversation on what it means to be a person after the Heart of God and draw out some of the practical implications of this from scripture.  We hope you enjoy the discussion as much as we did.