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. Third Place: Social Momentum Before Spiritual Momentum

    4d ago

    Third Place: Social Momentum Before Spiritual Momentum

    Send us Fan Mail In Season 8, Episode 5 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark explores Third Place: Social Momentum Before Spiritual Momentum and challenges listeners to rethink how disciple-making often begins in everyday relational spaces. In this episode, Thomas shows that third place—the coffee shop, barber shop, gym, restaurant, park, sideline, or other place where people naturally gather—is often where trust, openness, and relational access begin to form. Drawing from Luke 24:13–32, John 1:14, and a missional-incarnational approach to everyday life, this conversation presses the truth that in a post-Christian age, social momentum is often the relational pathway that makes mission intelligible. Thomas explains why third place matters, why we must learn the language and culture of the people in our contexts, and why disciple-makers should not confuse spiritual pressure with spiritual fruitfulness. He also highlights how Jesus moved from presence to conversation, from conversation to truth, and from truth to shared table. This episode closes with a practical “I Will” statement to help listeners identify one third place in their lives and take one intentional step to build trust, presence, and social momentum there with greater faithfulness. Be sure to click Follow and engage with the podcast on your favorite podcast platform so you do not miss future episodes.  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

    33 min
  2. Second Place: Work as a Mission Field

    Jun 30

    Second Place: Work as a Mission Field

    Send us Fan Mail In Season 8, Episode 4 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark explores Second Place: Work as a Mission Field and challenges listeners to see their workplace through a Kingdom lens. In this episode, Thomas shows that work is not spiritually neutral, but one of the ordinary places where the presence, peace, and Kingdom of God can become visible through faithful disciples. Drawing from Colossians 3:23–24, Matthew 5:16, and the conviction that vocation can become a “mask of God,” this conversation presses the truth that if Jesus is Lord, then even our workday belongs to His Kingdom. Thomas explains why we should know and be known by the people with whom we work, why the workplace is not just a marketplace but a people place, and how ordinary faithfulness at work can prepare the ground for the gospel and make the reign of Jesus credible in everyday life. This episode closes with a practical “I Will” statement to help listeners take one intentional step toward becoming more faithfully present in their second place. Be sure to click Follow and engage with the podcast on your favorite podcast platform so you do not miss future episodes. 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
  3. First Place: Kingdom Over Castle

    Jun 23

    First Place: Kingdom Over Castle

    Send us Fan Mail In Season 8, Episode 3 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark explores First Place: Kingdom Over Castle and challenges listeners to rethink the place they call home. In this episode, Thomas shows that if Jesus is Lord, then our home is not a private fortress but a place that must come under His reign and participate in His mission. Drawing from Joshua 24:15, Matthew 5:14 and 16, and the missional-incarnational impulse of everyday discipleship, this conversation presses the truth that the first mission field many of us must learn to see is the community in which we live. Thomas explains why residence is not the same as presence, why neighboring is part of discipleship, and why the Kingdom often begins to become visible when we stop overlooking the people closest to us. This episode closes with a practical “I Will” statement to help listeners take one intentional step toward becoming more faithfully present in their first place. Be sure to click Follow, then choose your preferred listening platform so you can listen there and stay connected to each new episode of the Take Off Podcast. 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
  4. Missional Incarnation Impulse

    Jun 15

    Missional Incarnation Impulse

    Send us Fan Mail  In Season 8, Episode 2 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark explores the missional-incarnational impulse by asking what the incarnation of Jesus requires of those He now sends. Drawing from John 20:21, this episode shows that Jesus does not only send His followers with His authority—He sends them with His pattern. Thomas explains that mission is not merely something we do occasionally, but a way of showing up in the flesh in the ordinary places of everyday life. This conversation challenges listeners to move beyond church attendance, platform language, and occasional ministry activity and instead embody the peace, presence, and love of Jesus in the places they already live, work, and gather. The episode closes with a practical “I Will” statement to help listeners identify one ordinary place where they can show up more faithfully as someone sent by Jesus.  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

    26 min
  5. Jesus Moved Into The Neighborhood

    Jun 8

    Jesus Moved Into The Neighborhood

    Send us Fan Mail  In Season 8, Episode 1 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark begins a new season on incarnational living in first, second, and third places by exploring a foundational truth: Jesus moved into the neighborhood. In this episode, Thomas shows that the mission of God did not arrive through distance, abstraction, or occasional religious activity, but through the embodied presence of Jesus Christ. Drawing from John 1:14 and the life of Jesus, this conversation challenges listeners to move beyond admiring incarnation as doctrine and begin embodying it as a pattern for everyday life. Thomas explains why mission is not mainly about where we go occasionally, but about how we live where we already are, and why the gospel often takes root most deeply through presence before proclamation. This episode closes with a practical “I Will” statement to help listeners identify one place in their ordinary life where they can show up more faithfully as the presence of Jesus.  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. From Peace to Multiplication

    Jun 1

    From Peace to Multiplication

    Send us Fan Mail In Season 7, Episode 6 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark closes the season by exploring how reproducing disciple-making moves from peace to multiplication. In this episode, Thomas shows that recognizing openness is not enough—peace must be stewarded through faithful presence. Drawing from Luke 10 and Acts 16, this conversation challenges listeners to move beyond hurried, surface-level engagement and instead remain present long enough for trust, discipleship, and multiplication to take root in households, networks, and everyday relationships. Thomas explains that multiplication often begins not with a crowd, but with a household, a relationship, or a circle of trust where God has already opened the door. This episode closes with a practical “I Will” statement to help listeners identify one place where God has already opened relational peace and take one intentional step to stay, deepen trust, and invest there. 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

    33 min
  7. From Disciples to Leaders to Movements

    May 26

    From Disciples to Leaders to Movements

    Send us Fan Mail  In Season 7, Episode 5 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark explores why movements do not begin with scale, structure, or visibility—they begin with disciples who reproduce. In this episode, Thomas shows that disciples are the seedbed of leadership, leadership helps form churches, and reproducing churches can become part of movements. Drawing from this movemental sequence, he challenges listeners to resist the temptation to chase titles, platforms, or visible outcomes before giving themselves fully to the slow, deep work of disciple-making. This conversation highlights why leadership must rise from formation, why churches are healthiest when they emerge from reproducing disciples and leaders, and why movements grow only when each layer keeps reproducing from a healthy root. The episode closes with a practical “I Will” statement to help listeners identify one way they can invest more intentionally in discipleship as the foundation for what they hope God will reproduce later.  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
  8. Paradigm Shifts for Movement Mindset

    May 18

    Paradigm Shifts for Movement Mindset

    Send us Fan Mail  In Season 7, Episode 4 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark explores the mindset shifts required for discipleship that reproduces. Building from the 9 paradigm shifts identified by KC Underground, this episode challenges listeners to move beyond inherited Western church instincts and embrace a more movemental imagination for disciple-making. Thomas walks through shifts such as extraordinary prayer over human strategy, planting the gospel in existing relationships, obedience-based discipleship, discovery-based learning, sending the ordinary and willing, discipling groups of people, discipling to and through conversion, viral multiplication, and expecting spiritual families and microchurches rather than limiting church to inherited forms. This conversation shows that disciple-making will not become more faithful, accessible, and reproducible until our mindset changes. The episode closes with a practical “I Will” statement to help listeners identify one mindset shift they need to make and take one concrete step to live it out.  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

    31 min
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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! 

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  • Creator
    Thomas
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    53
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