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We are a Spirit-Filled church based in La Mesa, California in the County of San Diego. We love everyone. We believe that God still does miracles. We believe that God still heals today. We believe that Jesus Christ is the same Yesterday, Today, and Forever as it says in Hebrews chapter 13 verse 8. We believe in total victory in Jesus Christ!
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Word Of Life Christian Center

Word Of Life Christian Center

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Word of Life Christian Center will be a loving church that is multi-racial, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and socially aware of our responsibility to meet the temporal or practical needs of the poor and marginalized in our community and in the world. The ministry will be characterized by a strong emphasis on developing numerous preachers and lay teachers who are able to clearly and accurately expound the Word of God in a relevant manner. Additionally, the development of effective, visionary l ...
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How do you find hope when you can only see yourself and your future in light of your past mistakes? When you’re certain that everyone on the outside looking in is doing the same, punishing you, immobilizing you, invisibilizing you…? Seems the only way out of that spiral is the “God Who Sees.” Practical theologian Sarah Farmer joins Evan Rosa to dis…
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What happens when our deepest moral beliefs are challenged or violated? How do we navigate the emotional aftermath of witnessing or participating in events that conflict with our sense of right and wrong? It might just start with identifying moral injury. For additional information visit The Shay Center for Moral Injury at Volunteers of America. A …
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Protests dominate the news. And while we’re familiar with freedom of speech, free exercise of religion, and freedom of the press—what about the freedom of assembly? The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution—also contains “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” But what exactly does that secure? How does this foundational, but often forg…
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"Having lost a sense of the sacred, the only thing we want is acquisitiveness—more of everything. How can we break this vicious cycle of avarice? It seems to me that the only way we can possibly reign this in on ourselves is some retrieval of the sense of the sacred, something beyond ourselves. And I think that relearning humility—realizing that a …
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Flannery O’Connor is known for her short stories in which “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” But it’s often those ugly, mean, disgusting, scandalizing, violent, weird, or downright hateful characters in Flannery O’Connor stories that become the vessels of grace delivered. So, how should we read Flannery O’Connor? Jessica Hooten Wilson (Pepperdine Univer…
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This conversation is based on a free downloadable resource available at faith.yale.edu. Click here to get your copy today. “We may heed the call of Jesus to follow me and find him leading us right into the home we already have.” (Ryan McAnnally-Linz) What are the possibilities of homemaking in a world out of joint? What does it mean for Christians …
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Help us improve the podcast! Click here to take our listener survey—5 respondents will be randomly selected to receive a signed and personalized copy of Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most. We need the world to understand it. Human embodied experience and material life in the world has a profound effect on our thinking—not just poetry a…
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Help us improve the podcast! Click here to take our listener survey—5 respondents will be randomly selected to receive a signed and personalized copy of Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most. "There were a lot of people with moral courage to resist, to protest the communist revolutions, but few of them had the spiritual resource to questi…
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Help us improve the podcast! Click here to take our listener survey—5 respondents will be randomly selected to receive a signed and personalized copy of Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most. What are the goals of education? Are we shaping young minds or corrupting the youth? Theologian Mark Jordan joins Matt Croasmun for a conversation a…
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Can you spare 3 minutes to take our listener survey? After the survey closes, we'll randomly select 5 respondents to receive a free, signed, and personalized copy of Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most. Click here to take the survey! Thank you for your honest feedback and support! “For theology to be worth anything, it must traffic in r…
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Loving oneself is indeed foundational for healthy, wholehearted relationships. Do you love yourself? Is it easier for you to love others? Loving self is indeed foundational for healthy, wholehearted relationships. A special thank you to Randy and Pamela Copus from the musical group 2002 for generously allowing me to use their music. https://www.200…
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There’s a 500-year history of social justice activism that emerged from Christianity in the Americas, and it comes to us through the Brown Church. Rev. Dr. Robert Chao Romero (Associate Professor of Latina/o Studies at UCLA) joins Evan Rosa to discuss the history of Christian racial justice efforts in the Americas, as well as a constructive and fai…
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What would it mean for us to take Christianity seriously as a way of life, a set of practices and ways of being in the world—and not merely a list of beliefs? Theologian Kevin Hector (University of Chicago Divinity School) joins Ryan McAnnally-Linz for a discussion of his latest book, Christianity as a Way of Life. Together they reflect on the prac…
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With unflagging and unwavering hope in our civic life Michael Wear (Center for Christianity & Public Life) wants to renovate the character of Christian political engagement. He’s a former White House and presidential campaign staffer and his new book is called The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life. In thi…
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What are the economic forces that underly racist thinking? What are the theological dimensions of racism? How does the “political economic distortion of the divine economy” impacts the contemporary experience of and response to racism? In this episode, Jonathan Tran (Baylor University) joins Matt Croasmun to discuss his book, Asian Americans & the …
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Imagine a future that brings personal and communal wholeness, a commitment to truth even when it hurts, and the beauty of pursuing integration in the wake of fragmentation. Anne Snyder joins Evan Rosa to talk about her vision and hopes for a whole-person revolution that honors our moral complexity, holds us accountable to virtue, and seeks a robust…
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We often think of speaking up as an act of courage. And of course, there are times when it most certainly is. But what about the courage to listen? The best kind of generous listening is interesting because it seems to acknowledge and create a mutual agency. The courageous, generous listener grants the speaker an authority to have the floor and mak…
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Is it time to let go of the past and move from outdated, soggy, obsolete "things"? If so, it's about knowing AND owning YOUR TRUTH. Todays the day! Make 2024 a great year! A special thank you to Randy and Pamela Copus from the musical group 2002 for generously allowing me to use their music. https://www.2002music.com Visit me online at www.newhaven…
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American Christianity enjoys a great deal of power and influence at home and abroad. Is the church better for it? Is the world better for it? Or is Christian Nationalism just another idolatry—a temptation to take up the sword instead of taking up the cross? Journalist Tim Alberta (The Atlantic, POLITICO) joins Evan Rosa for a discussion of his new …
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Help the Yale Center for Faith & Culture meet a $10,000 matching challenge for podcast production; click here to donate today. How does the light get in? Leonard Cohen suggests, "There's a crack in everything / That's how..." Whether from our restlessness, our fear, or our trauma, to see the world rightly might start with the need to acknowledge th…
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Help the Yale Center for Faith & Culture meet a $10,000 matching challenge for podcast production; click here to donate today. Part 4 of 4 in our 2023 Advent Series. Bo Karen Lee discusses how Ignatian spirituality, contemplative prayer, and meditating on the loving gaze and deep compassion of Christ—a love that suffers with—can be a transformative…
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Help the Yale Center for Faith & Culture meet a $10,000 matching challenge for podcast production; click here to donate today. Part 3 of 4 in our 2023 Advent Series. Stacey Floyd-Thomas presents a vision of Black joy—which the world can't give and the world can't take away. Looking into several depictions of female agency in the Gospels, she outlin…
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Help the Yale Center for Faith & Culture meet a $10,000 matching challenge for podcast production; click here to donate today. How do you speak to the unspeakable? How does a people connected to place retain their sense of meaning and time when they are displaced and ignored? Indigenous Australian journalist and public intellectual Stan Grant (Mona…
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Part 2 of 4 in our 2023 Advent Series. David Dark introduces a new way of thinking about non-violent resistance, which he dubs "Robot Soft Exorcism," whereby, in an appeal to our common humanity, we call each other out of the potentially violent power structures and systems we all (knowingly or unknowingly) inhabit. Show Notes Help the Yale Center …
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Inner Peace is a state of mental and emotional tranquility, with no anxiety, stress, or worry. Sounds wonderful huh?! A special thank you to Randy and Pamela Copus from the musical group 2002 for generously allowing me to use their music. https://www.2002music.com Visit me online at www.newhavenhealing.org…
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To read is human. Even as literacy rates or the quality of that literacy make us nervous for the future, the act of reading looks like it’s somewhere near the essence of what it means to be human. Because reading doesn’t end, or even start, with books. Reading is this search for meaning. A turning and tuning of our senses outward. Looking for symbo…
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Help the Yale Center for Faith & Culture meet a $10,000 matching challenge for podcast production; visit faith.yale.edu/give to donate today. A special Advent bonus episode on hope. Theologian Miroslav Volf reflects on "Hope is the thing with feathers" by Emily Dickenson, comments on the dark hope of Martin Luther & the Apostle Paul, and how hope a…
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As you listen today, would you consider helping the Yale Center for Faith & Culture meet a $10,000 matching challenge for 2024 podcast production? visit faith.yale.edu/give to donate today. "Christians are called to collaborate without compromise and to critique without dualism." (N.T. Wright, from today's episode) What better way to secure the gre…
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“Gratitude enlivens the world.” Gratitude is the emotional expression of the interchange of love between giver and receiver. So of course we’re looking for more of that in public—it’s the very evidence of giving to one another, grace with each other, beneficence for one another. In this conversation, Miroslav Volf and Evan Rosa discuss this remarka…
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Let's face it, life passages often come with a level of unpredictability, so we try super hard to hang on for dear life. Join us as we learn to move from "what was" to "what is next". A special thank you to Randy and Pamela Copus from the musical group 2002 for generously allowing me to use their music. https://www.2002music.com Visit me online at …
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Recent psychological studies find that gratitude can help us create, cultivate, and maintain the kinds of relationships that make life worth living. Other studies are finding that gratitude is far more complicated, and plays a nuanced role in our complex emotional lives. Research psychologist Jo-Ann Tsang (Baylor University) joins Ryan McAnnally-Li…
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Why do we like horror films? Why do we gravitate to the theatre for a collective catharsis—living out our nightmares vicariously through the unwitting victim on the screen? What draws us to the shadows? All the more poignant for the Christian who shouldn’t watch the bad movies. But let’s take the point seriously: How might we watch horror films Chr…
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Do your friends LIFT you up...or TEAR you down?? I know, been there, done that! I jotted down 10 traits which encompass a range of qualities and characteristics of my friends...check it out. A special thank you to Randy and Pamela Copus from the musical group 2002 for generously allowing me to use their music. https://www.2002music.com Visit me onl…
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Activist, Pastor, and Global Leader Evan Mawarire reflects on the role of Christian faith in democratic leadership, specifically looking at three significant Gospel passages that reveal not just Jesus’s approach to leadership, but how he teaches his disciples to lead with peace, humility, compassion, and faith. In Mark 4, we find Jesus leading from…
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In the context of personal healing or self-improvement, the phrase "the 10% difference" can be interpreted to mean that making relatively small, teeny weeny YET remarkable changes or adjustments in one's life, habits, or mindset can lead to significant improvements in well-being and personal growth. Join us!! A special thank you to Randy and Pamela…
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“Wrestling with oneself, with one’s past, with one’s relationships, with God … These stories push us to use disability to think about the human condition more broadly.” Longstanding narratives about disability shaped our emotional responses, our caregiving responses, and our social commentary, and our treatment of the disabled. But what if we saw d…
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Show Notes Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women Creative non-fiction and “essays” as a genre “I guess what I was trying to do was come up with ways into the lives of these women who I find interesting. That would also be compelling to someone who had never heard of them.” Dinner party Hannah Arendt and her cocktai…
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Compassion is an Inside-Out journey. Author Joyce Rupp teaches that within every human heart, there exists a seed of compassion.....a tiny, dormant ember that holds the potential to ignite into a warm, nurturing flame. Learn more here!!! A special thank you to Randy and Pamela Copus from the musical group 2002 for generously allowing me to use thei…
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Resilience refers to the ability to effectively adapt, recover, and bounce back from life's messiness..... Learn 7 simple tips on how to build inner strength and cultivate resilience. A special thank you to Randy and Pamela Copus from the musical group 2002 for generously allowing me to use their music. https://www.2002music.com Visit me online at …
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Show Notes Instructive irony: Evan’s disabling experience of setting up a microphone for a podcast interview Three ways to think about disability: Minority Model (Impairment of Individuals), Social Model (Societal factors create impairment), and Political Model (emerges from collective action and identity; generated from Americans with Disabilities…
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To carry hope in our hearts means to maintain a positive and optimistic outlook on life despite challenges and uncertainties. It is a state of mind where we believe in the possibility of a better future and trust that things can improve, even in the midst of change. Who are your Hope Builder Uppers?? A special thank you to Randy and Pamela Copus fr…
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Where does boredom come from? Have humans always experienced boredom, or has it only come on in the entertainment age, having more time than we know what to do with? Kevin Gary (Valparaiso University) is author of Why Boredom Matters: Education, Leisure, and the Quest for a Meaningful Life. He joins Drew Collins & Evan Rosa to reflect on the discon…
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Self-compassion involves directing the same warmth, kindness, care and understanding towards ourselves that we so readily give to others. The time has come to give more you to you.....first! A special thank you to Randy and Pamela Copus from the musical group 2002 for generously allowing me to use their music. https://www.2002music.com Visit me onl…
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The final installment of our 5-part book club series on Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most, produced and hosted by Kelly Corrigan, and featuring Claire Danes & Kate Bowler. Special thanks to the Warren Smoot Carter III and Meagan Carter Charitable Fund for making this series possible. Show Notes https://katebowler.com/about/ https://di…
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Show Notes https://katebowler.com/about/ https://divinity.duke.edu/faculty/kate-bowler https://www.kellycorrigan.com/podcast About Kelly Corrigan Kelly Corrigan has written four New York Times bestselling memoirs in the last decade, earning her the title of “The Poet Laureate of the ordinary” from the Huffington Post and the “voice of a generation”…
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Healing is a unique and individual journey. There is no one-size-fits-all approach, and it's important to be patient with yourself. Toggling between two spectrums, such as peace and acknowledging pain, can be challenging but not impossible. Join us as we seek to find the sweet spot where Grace is abound. A special thank you to Randy and Pamela Copu…
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Today’s episode is part 3 of a 5-part book club series produced and hosted by Kelly Corrigan. The PBS host and author of four New York Times bestselling memoirs is taking a deep dive into the latest book from the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. Written by Miroslav Volf, Matt Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz, Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Mat…
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Peace and pain represent contrasting states or experiences, where peace is associated with tranquility, pain is linked to suffering. Join us as we explore the hidden true essence of who we are at our core AND the benefit cocooning offers to us as we journey to the center of our Be-ing. A special thank you to Randy and Pamela Copus from the musical …
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Today’s episode is part 2 of a 5-part book club series produced and hosted by Kelly Corrigan. The PBS host and author of four New York Times bestselling memoirs is taking a deep dive into the latest book from the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. Written by Miroslav Volf, Matt Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz, Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Mat…
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"Your life is too important to be guided by anything less than what matters most." Part 1 of a 5-part book club series on Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most. Written by Miroslav Volf, Matt Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz, the book is based on a Yale College course that takes up some of the most pressing questions of life, but doesn’t…
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