Understanding Calling

Alistair Forman
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For those wanting to grow into who God has called them to be, so they can do what God has called them to do. Hosted by Alistair Forman, this is an informal discipleship focused podcast that also acts a front door to a wider community of people growing and encouraging each other in their calling journeys. Check out our Patreon for options to become part of the community. www.patreon.com/c/understandingcalling/membership

  1. Trailer - New Patreon Course: The Calling Quadrant

    APR 30

    Trailer - New Patreon Course: The Calling Quadrant

    Please get in touch, what’s God doing in your life? What topics would you like me to look at? Over on Patreon Understanding Calling has a whole other Podcast called "Understanding Calling Extra", that is for courses and series to help with our personal discipleship journey.  This trailer is about the new course "The Calling Quadrant" - check it out for free on Patreon or become a monthly supporting member and sow into this ministry to support others who want to grow in their God given callings in the kingdom.

    3 min
  2. Ep 14: Insecurities and Why You Don’t Know What Is In You Until You Get Squeezed...(Waiting In The Wilderness Pt 3)

    APR 23

    Ep 14: Insecurities and Why You Don’t Know What Is In You Until You Get Squeezed...(Waiting In The Wilderness Pt 3)

    Please get in touch, what’s God doing in your life? What topics would you like me to look at? This episode is all about the insecurities God lets us see when we get squeezed by waiting and by the pressure of circumstances on us. Very few things expose the need for control in our lives like a season of prolonged waiting does. In this episode we look at a story from the Old Testament and the New to explore how we end up often looking back with rose tinted glasses to a former life when our current life squeezes us, or how we project forward to some kind of idyllic savior like a job or healing or change of circumstances that we believe will just change everything. "If God would just give me this thing...then all would be well...then I would follow Him..then I would be better than I am right now". God in His mercy resources us where we are and invites Him to trust Him as we are. I hope and pray this episode helps you...if you're in a prolonged season of waiting right now. --> You can be part of Understanding Calling's Patreon for more content for growing in your calling and support for pastors including: Monthly community calls, the Understand Calling Extra Podcast, Courses, Show Notes and Devotionals for each episode, the audio book of Alistair's book 'The Road to the Father's House, video sessions  Enjoy for FREE as well as supporting the show as a monthly partner go to:  www.patreon.com/c/understandingcalling/membership

    37 min
  3. Ep 13: Have You Had A Season of Obscurity and Hiddenness? What Does God Do When It Feels Like You’ve Been Forgotten... (Waiting In The Wilderness Pt 2)

    APR 10

    Ep 13: Have You Had A Season of Obscurity and Hiddenness? What Does God Do When It Feels Like You’ve Been Forgotten... (Waiting In The Wilderness Pt 2)

    Please get in touch, what’s God doing in your life? What topics would you like me to look at? In this second part of the Waiting in the Wilderness series, we're looking at Joseph's story and what God does in the life of someone who has been rejected, forgotten, lost a sense of belonging and purpose (multiple times) and yet been used where he was, as he was, and experienced huge redemption in areas of suffering and obscurity.  If you have felt forgotten, hidden, in a transition season or in a series of false starts in your calling, there may be some lessons here from God's Spirit to you that will help. --> You can be part of Understanding Calling's Patreon for more content for growing in your calling and support for pastors including: Monthly community calls, the Understand Calling Extra Podcast, Courses, Show Notes and Devotionals for each episode, the audio book of Alistair's book 'The Road to the Father's House, video sessions  Enjoy for FREE as well as supporting the show as a monthly partner go to:  www.patreon.com/c/understandingcalling/membership

    38 min
  4. Ep 12: Are You 'Waiting' or Are You 'Deferring'? (Waiting In The Wilderness Pt 1)

    MAR 19

    Ep 12: Are You 'Waiting' or Are You 'Deferring'? (Waiting In The Wilderness Pt 1)

    Please get in touch, what’s God doing in your life? What topics would you like me to look at? We all want to know what God is doing in us and around us as we wait for what He has for us next... However How do we know if we are actually waiting like we think we are? Could it be possible that we might be in danger of deferring, stuck in a holding pattern, kicking the can of what God has put in our hearts down the road? This new mini series "Waiting in the Wilderness" is about discerning what God is doing within us as we wait...but we have to know that we are waiting under godly obedience first and not simple existing, hoping that something in our callings will spontaneously happen out of nowhere. What does God's word say about this and what questions do we need to ask? // --> You can be part of Understanding Calling's Patreon for more content for growing in your calling and support for pastors including: Monthly community calls, the Understand Calling Extra Podcast, Courses, Show Notes and Devotionals for each episode, the audio book of Alistair's book 'The Road to the Father's House, video sessions and the first few chapters of Alistair's new book 'The Heart of Calling: What Matters Most to God'. Enjoy it all for FREE as well as becoming  a monthly partner of the show. For everything go to:  www.patreon.com/c/understandingcalling/membership

    35 min
  5. Ep 11: Ken Snyder on Why Nothing is More Important than Obidience to What God is Asking You to Do and Why Humility and a Heart that is Willing to Serve Will Always Keep You in God’s Will

    FEB 27

    Ep 11: Ken Snyder on Why Nothing is More Important than Obidience to What God is Asking You to Do and Why Humility and a Heart that is Willing to Serve Will Always Keep You in God’s Will

    Please get in touch, what’s God doing in your life? What topics would you like me to look at? Ken Snyder, Missionary and Pastor shares authentic stories about living outside of the limelight and from a place of humility and service - and ultimately from a place of trying to be obedient to God in our callings, not ambitious.  A very helpful listen to anyone wanting to grow in a real, not impressive looking, godly calling. Also, if you are a pastor of a numerically smaller church - this ones for you! --> You can be part of Understanding Calling's Patreon for more content for growing in your calling and support for pastors including: Monthly community calls, the Understand Calling Extra Podcast, Courses, Show Notes and Devotionals for each episode, the audio book of Alistair's book 'The Road to the Father's House, video sessions  Enjoy for FREE as well as supporting the show as a monthly partner go to:  www.patreon.com/c/understandingcalling/membership

    43 min
  6. Ep 10: ‘The Four Versions of You’ - The Questions We Ask to Discover Who God Made Us To Be and The One Way We Find Out

    JAN 30

    Ep 10: ‘The Four Versions of You’ - The Questions We Ask to Discover Who God Made Us To Be and The One Way We Find Out

    Please get in touch, what’s God doing in your life? What topics would you like me to look at? We all ask ourselves questions about who God made us to be: - Is who I dream I could one day be "The real me"?  - Is it the person I am on my worst day? - Is the real me the one that feels like my best days are behind me? - Or is there another way of discovering who God designed me to be? In this episode we explore how our human nature is to try and discover who God made us to be based on the vision we have for our lives, our successes or failures and the unfolding of our lives. We land on the biblical truth that God reveals to us, through daily intimacy and revelation who He really made us to be. It's actually not us working it out, but God revealing it to us as we trust that He is with us and guiding us through life - one day at a time. --> You can be part of Understanding Calling's Patreon for more content for growing in your calling and support for pastors including: Monthly community calls, the Understand Calling Extra Podcast, Courses, Show Notes and Devotionals for each episode, the audio book of Alistair's book 'The Road to the Father's House, video sessions  and support the show at:  www.patreon.com/c/understandingcalling/membership

    41 min
  7. Ep 9: Mark Burlinson on the Effects of the Orphan Spirit and Sonship Revelation on Our Callings, and the Wisdom Found in the Life Languages to Understand How We Were Made to Flourish Wherever We Are

    JAN 14

    Ep 9: Mark Burlinson on the Effects of the Orphan Spirit and Sonship Revelation on Our Callings, and the Wisdom Found in the Life Languages to Understand How We Were Made to Flourish Wherever We Are

    Please get in touch, what’s God doing in your life? What topics would you like me to look at? This week I am speaking to Mark Burlinson, who along with his wife Jane pastors Catch the Fire Church in Myrtle Beach in South Carolina. Mark has pastored in numerous denominations and movements, including during the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Toronto in 1994. He has a history in business, coaching and in facilitating the Life Languages profile. Today we talk about what it looks like trying to do your calling with an orphan spirit, the revelation that comes from knowing God is a good Father and how that makes us a secure son or daughter of His, especially when it comes to pursuing what He has given us to do. We also talk through the Life Language profile, a biblically based way to understand how God has made you, where you are strong, where you have areas to grow and what your unique jigsaw piece in God's kingdom looks like! Check out Mark's website for more info on coaching and life languages at markburlinson.com Check out Catch the Fire Myrtle Beach SC catchthefiremyrtlebeach.com For more information on Life Languages check out lifelanguages.com --> You can be part of Understanding Calling's Patreon for more content for growing in your calling and support for pastors including: Monthly community calls, the Understand Calling Extra Podcast, Courses, Show Notes and Devotionals for each episode, the audio book of Alistair's book 'The Road to the Father's House, video sessions  and support the show at:  www.patreon.com/c/understandingcalling/membership

    53 min
  8. Ep 8: ‘Put a Hand on the Bucket’ - Letting God Empty You As You Start 2026

    JAN 3

    Ep 8: ‘Put a Hand on the Bucket’ - Letting God Empty You As You Start 2026

    Please get in touch, what’s God doing in your life? What topics would you like me to look at? A new year is upon us, but many of us are still full and overflowing with the last year... This shorter episode is an offering for what I am doing this January and might be for those who are still considering what they want to do, with integrity, to position themselves for whatever God's kingdom has for them. God has been emptying me very intentionally for the last year...I'm only just realizing it now. So, using Philippians 2 as guide, I'm reaching out and putting a hand on the bucket that God is pouring out...and agreeing with what He's doing. What is He calling you to do? Do you need emptying? Do you need to partner with what He's already been doing?  Sign up to our Patreon and support the show at:  www.patreon.com/c/understandingcalling/membership

    20 min
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For those wanting to grow into who God has called them to be, so they can do what God has called them to do. Hosted by Alistair Forman, this is an informal discipleship focused podcast that also acts a front door to a wider community of people growing and encouraging each other in their calling journeys. Check out our Patreon for options to become part of the community. www.patreon.com/c/understandingcalling/membership

Information

  • Creator
    Alistair Forman
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    15
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Understanding Calling
  • Show Website
    Understanding Calling

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