Take Off With Thomas Clark

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I help equip you to bring the peace of God to places you live, work, learn, and play. All for His glory! 

  1. Jesus Is Lord — What This Means for the World

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    Jesus Is Lord — What This Means for the World

    Send us Fan Mail In Season 6, Episode 1 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark revisits one of the most familiar—and most misunderstood—confessions of the Christian faith: “Jesus is Lord.” What if this phrase was never meant to be casual, private, or devotional-only? What if it was always intended to disrupt, confront, and reorder everything? In this episode, Thomas explores how this early Christian confession carried real weight in the first century—directly challenging the dominant claim that Caesar is Lord—and why it still carries that same disruptive power today. Drawing from Scripture, history, and lived disciple-making experience, he addresses a critical shift in modern faith: how truth has been reduced to something “personal,” and how that shift has quietly reshaped how we understand Jesus, salvation, and discipleship. This conversation reframes the gospel from a private belief to a public reality. Jesus is not one lord among many—He is Lord over all. His reign is not limited to individual lives but extends to all creation, all authority, and every sphere of life. Listeners will be challenged to consider how competing “lords” still shape our world today, why self-rule remains the most subtle rival to Jesus’ authority, and how the cross and resurrection reveal a radically different kind of power. The episode concludes with a reflection question and a practical “I will…” invitation, helping you move from confession to lived allegiance in real, everyday life. Key takeaway: Salvation is personal—but it is never private. Jesus is not just Lord of our hearts—He is Lord of the world. 🎧 Listen and take your next step in living under His reign. #TakeOffPodcast #JesusIsLord #DiscipleMaking #KingdomLiving #MissioDei #FaithInRealLife Support the show Take Off is a disciple-making podcast designed to equip everyday followers of Jesus to live missionally where they live, work, learn, and play. Supporters help sustain this work and receive short bonus reflections each week that go deeper into the themes of the episode—offering additional insight, pastoral encouragement, and formation-focused teaching. Supporting is not about buying content, but partnering in the slow, faithful work of making disciples who make disciples. https://www.facebook.com/bishopthomas.clark/ https://www.youtube.com/@taclark4 https://www.taclark4ministries.com/ https://x.com/TAClark4

    20 min
  2. From Practices to People Who Multiply Living a Reproducible Life

    MAR 16

    From Practices to People Who Multiply Living a Reproducible Life

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark explores what it truly means to move from faithful practices to multiplying people. Disciple-making movements don’t grow through models, programs, or personalities—they grow when ordinary followers of Jesus live reproducible lives in everyday places. Building on the foundations laid throughout the season—presence, rhythms, practices, and pathways—this conversation reframes multiplication not as a strategy to master, but as an identity to embrace. Thomas challenges the idea that discipleship should stop at formation and invites listeners to consider whether their lives can be imitated by others who want to follow Jesus. Through Scripture, lived experience, and movement wisdom, this episode highlights why multiplication flows from identity rather than obligation, why reproducibility is a key measure of health, and how letting go is essential for others to grow. Listeners are encouraged to think beyond addition and toward a way of life that can travel across kitchens, neighborhoods, workplaces, and communities. The episode closes with a reflective question and a season-defining “I will…” invitation, calling listeners to intentionally invest in others with the goal of helping them do for others what has been done for them. Support the show Take Off is a disciple-making podcast designed to equip everyday followers of Jesus to live missionally where they live, work, learn, and play. Supporters help sustain this work and receive short bonus reflections each week that go deeper into the themes of the episode—offering additional insight, pastoral encouragement, and formation-focused teaching. Supporting is not about buying content, but partnering in the slow, faithful work of making disciples who make disciples. https://www.facebook.com/bishopthomas.clark/ https://www.youtube.com/@taclark4 https://www.taclark4ministries.com/ https://x.com/TAClark4

    23 min
  3. From Pathways to Practices The Rhythms That Sustain Disciple-Making

    MAR 9

    From Pathways to Practices The Rhythms That Sustain Disciple-Making

    Send us Fan Mail Disciple-making is not a short burst of passion—it’s a way of life sustained through shared rhythms. In this episode of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark explores how disciple-making movements are sustained not by intensity or events, but by simple, repeatable practices that shape everyday life. Building on the previous episode about relationships becoming pathways, Thomas asks an honest question: Why do so many disciple-making efforts start strong but fade over time? Drawing from Scripture, lived experience, and years of practicing disciple-making in real contexts, he explains how burnout often comes from passion without rhythm—and why movements endure when practices are embedded into daily life. Listeners are introduced to core disciple-making practices like prayer, listening, shared meals, service, Scripture engagement, reflection, and sending—framed through the B.L.E.S.S. practices and the simple “up, in, and out” rhythms seen in the life of Jesus. Rather than offering a formula, this episode highlights what has emerged faithfully over time: practices that travel with people, multiply naturally, and protect discipleship from burnout. The episode concludes with a reflection question and a practical “I will…” invitation, helping listeners identify which rhythms are shaping their lives—and which ones need to be reclaimed or simplified—so disciple-making can be sustained with faithfulness, not flash. Support the show Take Off is a disciple-making podcast designed to equip everyday followers of Jesus to live missionally where they live, work, learn, and play. Supporters help sustain this work and receive short bonus reflections each week that go deeper into the themes of the episode—offering additional insight, pastoral encouragement, and formation-focused teaching. Supporting is not about buying content, but partnering in the slow, faithful work of making disciples who make disciples. https://www.facebook.com/bishopthomas.clark/ https://www.youtube.com/@taclark4 https://www.taclark4ministries.com/ https://x.com/TAClark4

    27 min
  4. From Peace to Pathways: How Relationships Become Disciple-Making Spaces

    MAR 2

    From Peace to Pathways: How Relationships Become Disciple-Making Spaces

    Send us Fan Mail In Season 5, Episode 5 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark builds on the last episode’s focus on persons of peace and takes the next step: What happens after peace is discovered? This conversation explores a movemental truth many believers miss—peace may open the door, but pathways move people forward. Thomas unpacks how God doesn’t just connect us to people of peace—He turns those relationships into disciple-making pathways, where spiritual formation can grow naturally through shared life. Drawing from the way Jesus walked with people over time, this episode names what has proven faithful in real contexts as The Launching Pad Worldwide has practiced release-based discipleship—equipping and releasing disciple-makers back into their everyday environments to make disciples where life already happens. You’ll hear why friendship alone isn’t the destination, why “niceness” can be confused with discipleship, and how intentionality creates movement without manipulation. Thomas introduces practical, reproducible examples of disciple-making pathways—walking together, sharing meals, prayer moments, Scripture conversations, serving side-by-side—and clarifies what pathways are not (not a class, not a curriculum-first process, not pressure-driven). The episode also addresses why many relationships never become pathways (fear of rejection, fear of being misunderstood, waiting for the “perfect time”) and offers gentle, simple “pathway starters” that honor trust while inviting growth. Ultimately, pathways emerge when we learn to walk at the speed of trust. The episode concludes with a reflection question and an “I will…” invitation to help you take a concrete next step: Reflection Question: Who has God already given me relational access to—and what step am I hesitating to invite them into? I Will Challenge: This week, I will intentionally invite ______ into a simple next step of shared life with me. Remember: Peace opens doors, but pathways build disciples—and discipleship is relational long before it is instructional. Support the show Take Off is a disciple-making podcast designed to equip everyday followers of Jesus to live missionally where they live, work, learn, and play. Supporters help sustain this work and receive short bonus reflections each week that go deeper into the themes of the episode—offering additional insight, pastoral encouragement, and formation-focused teaching. Supporting is not about buying content, but partnering in the slow, faithful work of making disciples who make disciples. https://www.facebook.com/bishopthomas.clark/ https://www.youtube.com/@taclark4 https://www.taclark4ministries.com/ https://x.com/TAClark4

    27 min
  5. From Places to People Recognizing Persons of Peace

    FEB 23

    From Places to People Recognizing Persons of Peace

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark explores a crucial shift in disciple-making: God sends us to places, but He reveals His mission through people. Building on the previous conversation about being scattered on purpose, this episode moves from where God sends us to who God highlights as He sends us. Rather than offering a formula or strategy, Thomas names what has proven faithful over time within a disciple-making movement. He challenges the common question, “What should I do?”, and reframes it with a more biblical lens: “Who should I notice?” Disciple-making movements don’t begin with plans—they begin with discernment. Drawing from Luke 10 and the concept of persons of peace, this episode unpacks how movements grow through relationships, not programs; through attentiveness, not efficiency; and through people God has already prepared. Thomas shares lived examples that show how persons of peace—often unexpected and sometimes overlooked—become bridges for the gospel rather than bottlenecks. Listeners are invited to reflect on how program-driven ministry can unintentionally overshadow people-driven mission, why trust precedes teaching, and how mutuality transforms discipleship from a patron–client model into shared partnership on mission. The episode concludes with a reflection question and a practical “I will…” invitation, encouraging listeners to intentionally invest in the people God has already opened to them—right where they live, work, learn, and play. Support the show Take Off is a disciple-making podcast designed to equip everyday followers of Jesus to live missionally where they live, work, learn, and play. Supporters help sustain this work and receive short bonus reflections each week that go deeper into the themes of the episode—offering additional insight, pastoral encouragement, and formation-focused teaching. Supporting is not about buying content, but partnering in the slow, faithful work of making disciples who make disciples. https://www.facebook.com/bishopthomas.clark/ https://www.youtube.com/@taclark4 https://www.taclark4ministries.com/ https://x.com/TAClark4

    29 min
  6. Scattered on Purpose: Sent to Specific Places

    FEB 16

    Scattered on Purpose: Sent to Specific Places

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark explores a vital discipleship truth: we are scattered on purpose and sent to specific places. While God gathers His people for formation, He intentionally scatters them for mission—not randomly, but with divine purpose. Drawing from Scripture and lived experience within a disciple-making movement, Thomas clarifies two common errors in the Church today: staying gathered and never going, or scattering without shared identity and purpose. This episode reframes scattering not as a weakness of the Church, but as God’s design for reaching His world. Thomas unpacks how Jesus formed His disciples before sending them, why the Church was never meant to be a place we “go to” but a people who are sent, and how our neighborhoods, workplaces, and everyday gathering spaces are commissioned mission fields. Listeners are invited to see geography as theology—recognizing that where we live, work, learn, and play is where God has already sent us. The episode concludes with a reflection question and a practical “I will…” invitation, challenging listeners to engage one specific place God has entrusted to them with intentional, faithful presence. Support the show Take Off is a disciple-making podcast designed to equip everyday followers of Jesus to live missionally where they live, work, learn, and play. Supporters help sustain this work and receive short bonus reflections each week that go deeper into the themes of the episode—offering additional insight, pastoral encouragement, and formation-focused teaching. Supporting is not about buying content, but partnering in the slow, faithful work of making disciples who make disciples. https://www.facebook.com/bishopthomas.clark/ https://www.youtube.com/@taclark4 https://www.taclark4ministries.com/ https://x.com/TAClark4

    37 min
  7. God Sends a People Not Just Individuals

    FEB 9

    God Sends a People Not Just Individuals

    Send us Fan Mail In Season 5, Episode 2 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark explores a foundational truth for disciple-making movements: God does not send isolated individuals—He sends a people. Drawing from Scripture and lived experience, this episode challenges the deeply individualistic assumptions many of us carry and invites listeners to rediscover God’s design for mission as communal, shared, and embodied life together. Thomas unpacks the difference between crowds and community, audience and body, and shows how Jesus formed a people—not solo heroes—to live sent lives in real places with real problems. From the life of Abraham to the formation of the early church, we see that God’s mission has always moved through a collective shaped together in tension, trust, and shared obedience. This episode calls listeners to move from isolation to collaboration, to resist burnout disguised as faithfulness, and to embrace discipleship as a shared way of life. As always, the episode ends with a reflection question and a practical “I will…” invitation, helping you discern how God may be calling you to live His mission with others where you live, work, learn, and play. Please consider following this podcast so that you do not miss an episode. Also, please support the work we are doing with either a monthly or yearly subscription. Subscribers will receive early access to episodes along with other perks. Support the show Take Off is a disciple-making podcast designed to equip everyday followers of Jesus to live missionally where they live, work, learn, and play. Supporters help sustain this work and receive short bonus reflections each week that go deeper into the themes of the episode—offering additional insight, pastoral encouragement, and formation-focused teaching. Supporting is not about buying content, but partnering in the slow, faithful work of making disciples who make disciples. https://www.facebook.com/bishopthomas.clark/ https://www.youtube.com/@taclark4 https://www.taclark4ministries.com/ https://x.com/TAClark4

    41 min
  8. God is the Sender

    FEB 2

    God is the Sender

    Send us Fan Mail In this opening episode of Season 5, Thomas Clark lays a foundation that quietly reshapes everything we believe about discipleship, mission, and the Church. On a “capital C” level, the Church of Jesus Christ does not have a mission—God has a mission, and the Church exists because of it. Thomas explains why phrases like “the church has a mission” or “we need to do more mission” can unintentionally make mission feel optional—like a department, a program, or an outreach night—when in reality mission flows from the very nature of God. Introducing the missio Dei (the mission of God), he walks listeners through the biblical storyline of creation, fall, redemption, restoration, and new creation, showing that God’s ongoing work is to restore humanity back into His shalom (peace) through Jesus Christ. Thomas then connects this to the sending nature of God: God sends Abram, Moses, Isaiah, and ultimately sends His Son. God doesn’t send ideas—He sends people. Jesus is the ultimate “sent One,” and in John 20:21 Jesus makes it clear that as the Father sent Him, He now sends His followers. This episode challenges listeners to stop thinking of mission as something we initiate or “take God” to, and instead to become discerners—joining God where He is already moving in everyday places. The episode ends with a tension-building question and an “I will” challenge to help listeners take a concrete next step toward living as sent disciples in their neighborhoods, workplaces, and third places. Please consider following this podcast so that you do not miss an episode. Also, please support the work we are doing with either a monthly or yearly subscription. Subscribers will receive early access to episodes along with other perks. Support the show Take Off is a disciple-making podcast designed to equip everyday followers of Jesus to live missionally where they live, work, learn, and play. Supporters help sustain this work and receive short bonus reflections each week that go deeper into the themes of the episode—offering additional insight, pastoral encouragement, and formation-focused teaching. Supporting is not about buying content, but partnering in the slow, faithful work of making disciples who make disciples. https://www.facebook.com/bishopthomas.clark/ https://www.youtube.com/@taclark4 https://www.taclark4ministries.com/ https://x.com/TAClark4

    30 min
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  • Creator
    Thomas
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    39
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    © 2026 Take Off With Thomas Clark
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