Developing Imperfect Leaders Hope Community Church

In this episode, the team welcomes LDI Intern, Matt LaFrambois to the microphone to discuss rest. The LDI Crew discusses how they rest and considers how adding God into our rest is the way to find the restoration we actually need. 

Each episode features a leading question, quote of the week, and a Growing Together segment geared at imperfect leaders who are seeking development in their leadership potential. 

Quote of the Week:
“You don’t need to unburden or collect yourself and then come to Jesus. Your very burden is what qualifies you to come. No payment is required; he says, “I will give you rest.” His rest is gift, not transaction. Whether you are actively working hard to crowbar your life into smoothness (“labor”) or passively finding yourself weighed down by something outside your control (“heavy laden”), Jesus Christ’s desire that you find rest, that you come in out of the storm, outstrips even your own.” — Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

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Host & Guests


Paul Stiver
Naty Severson
Kaelyn Larson

Sound Engineer - Austin Sego
Technical support - Nolan Bauer

In this episode, the team welcomes LDI Intern, Sami Schwink to the microphone for a discussion on comparison. Why do we feel almost compelled to compare ourselves to others? The LDI Crew considers how to turn comparison from a curse to a celebration of God’s creative design.

Each episode features a leading question, quote of the week, and a Growing Together segment geared at imperfect leaders who are seeking development in their leadership potential. 

Quote of the Week:
“The problem with comparing our lives to others can be traced to our hearts that produce the comparison. When we desire the life someone else has, we are saying in our heart that the gifts God has given us just aren’t enough. Our discontentment, jealousy, and bitterness points a finger at God and tells him that he has gotten the story of our life wrong, and we can write it better.”
-Christina Fox, Dare not Compare, The Gospel Coalition

Additional Resource: The Comparison Games We play, Kaelyn Larson, Red Tree

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Paul Stiver
Naty Severson
Kaelyn Larson

Sound Engineer - Austin Sego
Technical support - Nolan Bauer

In this episode, the team discusses the definition of a shame narrative and walks through ways to break them by talking through some of their own current shame  narratives and the truth statements they use to combat them.
 
Each episode features a leading question, quote of the week, and a Growing Together segment geared at imperfect leaders who are seeking development in their leadership potential. 

Quote of the Week:
“We can know that we are listening to and internalizing a shame narrative when we are consistently beating ourselves up in our own mind. We might say things that demonstrate that we are really down on ourselves, that we don’t matter, or that we suck. Remember, shame says, “I’m bad” at an internal, personal, value level. We can know that we are listening to and internalizing a shame narrative when we find ourselves unwilling to take care of our own needs or assert our desires in a relationship. We can know that we are listening to and internalizing a shame narrative when we are in constant comparison to others, or in consistent need of approval from others. We can know that we are listening to and internalizing a shame narrative when we are not taking care of ourselves (physically, mentally, spiritually, emotionally), because we are unwilling.”
-Paul Stiver and Kaelyn Larson, Breaking a Shame Narrative, HopeCC Resources

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Paul Stiver
Naty Severson
Kaelyn Larson

Sound Engineer - Austin Sego
Technical support - Nolan Bauer

In this episode, the team welcomes their Sound Engineer, Austin Sego to the microphone to discuss shame and its corrosive effect on joy. Join the LDI Crew for an honest discussion on the roots of shame and why the Gospel is the antidote. 

Each episode features a leading question, quote of the week, and a Growing Together segment geared at imperfect leaders who are seeking development in their leadership potential. 

Quote of the Week:
“The character of God is the basis for our connection to him, not our intrinsic worth. Self-worth, or anything we think would make us acceptable to God, would suit our pride but it has the disturbing side-effect of making the cross of Jesus Christ less valuable. If we have worth in ourselves, there is no reason to connect to the infinite worth of Jesus and receive what he has done for us. So if you feel unworthy of God’s love, you can turn in one of two directions. You can turn inward, in which case you are looking for a little self-worth to bring to the Lord, and that is pride. Or you can turn to him and discover that he has a heart for the unworthy.” -Shame, Interrupted, Ed Welch 

Brené Brown on Empathy

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Paul Stiver
Naty Severson
Kaelyn Larson

Sound Engineer - Austin Sego
Technical support - Nolan Bauer

In this episode, the team leans into theology and discusses spiritual gifts, how we can know our gifts, and how to begin to use them for the common good. 

Each episode features a leading question, quote of the week, and a Growing Together segment geared at imperfect leaders who are seeking development in their leadership potential. 

Quote of the Week:
Various Quotes and ideas generated from Wanye Grudem’s Systematic Theology:
A spiritual gift is “any ability that is empowered by the Holy Spirit and used in any ministry of the church.”

“Gifts are related to both natural abilities and miraculous things empowered by ‘one and the same Spirit’ for the common good. (As seen in 1 Corinthians 12:7)”

The purpose of spiritual gifts are  “to equip the church to carry out its ministry until Christ returns”

Three things about Spiritual Gifts:


Each and every follower of Christ has some gifts.
There isn’t one gift we all have.
No one has every gift.

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Paul Stiver
Naty Severson
Kaelyn Larson

Sound Engineer - Austin Sego
Technical support - Nolan Bauer

In this episode, the team discusses the value of the local church and why every follower of Christ should be committed to a church.

Each episode features a leading question, quote of the week, and a Growing Together segment geared at imperfect leaders who are seeking development in their leadership potential.

Quote of the Week:
“In God’s church we find something worth being devoted to—an embassy of God’s kingdom, a family of God’s people, the bride of the Lord Jesus. It is remembering what the church is, and whose the church is, that makes hard work glad work, and keeps us joyfully devoted.”
-Why Bother With Church?, Sam Alberry

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Thanks for listening! Please subscribe to or follow our show. We’d also love it if you’d leave a review, which will help us grow in our imperfect podcasting. Finally, send us any show ideas or recommendations for quotes of the week at LDI@hopecc.com.

Host & Guests


Paul Stiver
Naty Severson
Kaelyn Larson

Sound Engineer - Austin Sego
Technical support - Nolan Bauer