MissionLife

Nathan Metz
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Welcome to Community Wesleyan Church's podcast network! We are a Wesleyan Church in Newark, Ohio. In this podcast, you will find content from our Sunday morning services, Table Talk podcasts, as well as Pastor Nathan's MissionLife podcast!

  1. Table Talk: Intro

    10/22/2020

    Table Talk: Intro

    Welcome to Table Talk! Our weekly opportunity to dive deeper into the weekly sermons at Community Church. In this episode, we share what our goal for this podcast is. Let's dive deeply!

    6 min

  2. 08/07/2017

    MissionLife 00 - Preview

    Take 3-minutes to listen to this preview of the MissionLife Podcast! It’s a hometown first, start next door, kind of life. You can be a missionary right now. Together, let’s take some time to look through the individual little pieces of a missionary life. Sometimes, we might look at neighboring, relationship development or things that hit close to home. Other times, especially when I’m overseas, we might look at stories from international missions, cultural comparisons or even a Bible study through the lens of someone who might think differently than you. It doesn’t matter where you live, what you know or how you make a living. This Christian life, it’s a mission life.

    3 min

  3. 08/08/2017

    MissionLife 01 - Linger

    I’ve been thinking a lot lately the word “linger”. A couple months ago, I mentioned the idea in a sermon. It’s become a sort of family motto that we write on chalkboards and things around the house. As our van pulls up to a house, my wife turns around and tells the kids to remember to linger. The word means: present longer than expected. It’s the opposite of loneliness and I think it’s one of the most countercultural concepts I’ve ever heard of.

    9 min

  4. 08/22/2017

    MissionLife 02 - Inefficient

    Was it ever our goal to become so focused on life’s events that we lose the people within them? When everything is on time, on time, on time, we’ve lost our minds and the gravitational pull of our hearts shifts from human to habit and schedule and misplaced efficiency.

    14 min

  5. 09/05/2017

    MissionLife 03 - Empathy

    Strangely, even though there are enormous volumes of research to support the value of empathy and personal connection, it can’t be counted or tracked or recorded. So what do we do? We find other things to count and track and record. Of course, I’m talking about the counseling world but do we see this in the church? Do we see a priority of countable, trackable, recorded movements and actions as greater and more celebrated than merely a personal connection. In missional living, there are few greater accomplishments than connection. Empathy is the road we must travel.

    16 min

  6. 09/19/2017

    MissionLife 04 - Meeting

    There is something about being in a crowd. Being together. The value of standing next to someone else, even a stranger, in a crowd of strangers, all watching the same thing and doing the same thing, it’s magnetic. We’re just wired that way. We are designed to desire togetherness and comradery. A philosopher once wrote, “All real living is meeting” suggesting that to be human is to be in community. And he was right. The Bible says that we were created in the image of God. And God is three, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We are created in the image of community. All real living is meeting.

    20 min

  7. 10/03/2017

    MissionLife 05 - Curve

    In this episode, I'm joined by two special guests! David Drury is the author of SoulShift and Chief of Staff for the Wesleyan Church. Jade Metz is my wife, an extraordinary mother and a powerful voice of love and action. Together, we delve into the complex world of motivations and intentions. Buckle up, folks. This one might sting.

    19 min

  8. 10/17/2017

    MissionLife 06 - Tony pt. 1

    In this episode of the MissionLife podcast, we change gears from looking at tools and ideas to stories and proof. From “how do I do this” to “what could happen when people do this”. Every great story has a hero whose name represents hope, change and the power to overcome. In this story, you’ll hear of the life of Anthony Vasquez. I warn you, it’s dark, it’s heavy and although I’ve edited carefully, it’s probably not suitable for young children. As I sat across the table listening to this story, Tony wept and squeezed his eyes shut for minutes at a time as he spoke. There are heroes, though. Listen for them in the story because this episode will have two parts.

    31 min
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Welcome to Community Wesleyan Church's podcast network! We are a Wesleyan Church in Newark, Ohio. In this podcast, you will find content from our Sunday morning services, Table Talk podcasts, as well as Pastor Nathan's MissionLife podcast!

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  • Creator
    Nathan Metz
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2020
  • Episodes
    360
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright MissionLife Podcast
  • Show Website
    MissionLife