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We're taking a look back across 2024 looking at our episode with Strahan Coleman.
‘When I was really at the peak of my ill years I‘ve had at least 2 seasons where I spent 80% of my time really just being able to sit in a chair or lying in bed’.
Strahan Coleman is a writer, award-winning folk musician, spiritual director and founder of commoners communion. He’s also someone who has experienced chronic illness which has led him to find God in new and deeper ways. He shares some of his experience with Lizzie Oakes.
https://www.commonerscommunion.com/
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We're taking a look across 2024, revisiting our episode with Andrew Curtis, where he opens up about how he struggled to receive God’s love but now that he has received it, he realizes his Christian journey is more about God finding him.
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Looking back across 2024 we revisit the very first episode of Where Do You Find God. Lizzie Oakes chats with Cathy Jenke who has worked with Rhema Media for over 45 years and is soon moving out of Auckland to Nelson and will be working part time broadcasting from there.
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‘I had a real encounter at the age of 19 and I thought that was enough, until I realized God is available for me to encounter every day’.
Rev Keri-Ann Hokianga, Maori Evangelist in Te Takiwa o Manukau talks with Lizzie Oakes of God calling her out of the corporate sector to work in evangelism. She shares of finding God in all sorts of places including meeting with a group of women in prison.
https://manukau.tetaitokerau.anglican.org/users/the-reverend-keri-ann-hokianga
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'I really feel that God is always with us; the question is, are we are aware of him being with us?'
Author Anna Harris of Not Abandoned -(a story of how God's love and understanding your true identity overcome abandonment and rejection from trauma, adversity and rejection) - talks with Lizzie Oakes about the ways she connects with God.
https://definedbygod.com/
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‘And as I walked past this group, it was like I literally ran into a wall, the presence of God, the Holy Spirit, it was very odd and very unusual for me’.
Bjorn Brickell has been a breakfast show host on the Morning Wake Up on Life FM for 13 years. He talks with Lizzie Oakes about the ways he finds God and has come to the conclusion that these days it's more about where God finds him.
https://lifefm.co.nz
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‘Sometimes it’s in the noise and the chaos or the big mountain top moments, but he does follow us down into the normality of life’.
Davina West, born in Singapore and now living and working in New Zealand is a Producer/Broadcaster with Rhema Media. Davina talks of having searched for God in all sorts of places but how now she is increasingly learning to recognize God in the everyday moments of life, whether it’s spending time with her children or making healthy, tasty and nourishing food.
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"I help those whose lives have experienced the heart of the Father - whose hearts cry: How do I authentically live this out in the context of my own life – without all the usual effort driven striving?”
Mark Head, Spiritual Director of The Finding Home Journey talks with Lizzie Oakes about the ways we can struggle to find God and how he helps people to connect with God in their own individual lives.
To find out more visit: https://www.finding-home.net/
https://refocussing.com/ - as mentioned in the conversation Di Divett's practice of helping us to connect to God in our everyday lives.
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‘The storms don’t go away, the unfortunate times don’t not happen, but if you open up your heart, he’s there.’
Broadcaster Sela Alo who once told Lizzie that his greatest super power is being vulnerable shared openly and honestly about the ways he finds God in his life in the good times and the hard times.
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‘I would stay up late at night and binge watch Netflix and snack, and what I was trying to avoid was the next day coming with its stresses.'
Francis Ritchie, Minister, Media Chaplain & Broadcaster openly and honestly shares of some of the struggles he and his family have been facing the last 4 years and is still currently working his way through.
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‘This thing that I fought for years, to try and start to receive, this love that God has for me if I could go to you and just unlock it, just click and bang, and it would just be the best, and I can’t do it and I hate that’.
Andrew Curtis honestly shares of how he struggled to receive God’s love but now that he has received it, he realizes his Christian journey is more about God finding him.
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"He's everywhere and I'm a carrier of the presence of God, and every Christian is a carrier of the presence of God.
Canon J John and his wife Killy chat with Lizzie about the ways they find God in their everyday lives.
https://canonjjohn.com/
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‘I grew up thinking that maybe only the serious people could find God, you know the real holy ones who do things properly and all the rest and then I lived the life that I lived and, on my way, back through to the heart of God I found he is very near to the broken hearted’.
Captain Hana Seddon of Rotorua Salvation Army shares with Lizzie Oakes of finding God with her sleeves rolled up.
https://www.salvationarmy.org.nz/centres/nz/central-bay-of-plenty/rotorua
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‘It’s not about achieving; its understanding what it’s like to sit down and imagine God sitting down next to you on a park bench, on your good days and your bad days. When you’re crying, when you’re laughing’.
Counsellor Craig Gemmell talks with Lizzie Oakes about the ways he used to struggle to find the presence of God compared to how he is now readily able to access the presence of God.
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‘I have the most profound moments with God when I realize that he’s said something in scripture and then you get that moment, & they don’t happen all the time, of revelational revealing’.
‘It’s just incredible how he works in your life and his kindness, and I think you get more in tune to that the closer you get to him’.
Luke Weston, newly appointed CEO of Rhema Media shares with Lizzie Oakes how important it is for him to find God each day in scripture.
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‘Grief is horrible, and it hits you at times you least expect, and I find God there. There’s that passage of scripture that talks about the peace that passes all understanding. I would encourage anyone who’s in a grief situation to find that space of peace. He’s always there’.
Jo Hood is the Visionary of Mainly Ministries. She shares some of her journey with Lizzie Oakes including how she has encountered God in grief, having lost her beloved husband six years ago.
https://mainlymusic.org.nz/
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‘As the years go by, things that would’ve freaked me out 15- 20 years ago, they don’t freak me out because it’s not my problem’. ‘I’ve seen so many miracles over the last 20 years, that I have given up worrying’.
Sue van Schreven, CEO & Founder of Orphans Aid International looks back over her 20 year ministry journey and reflects on the ways God has sustained her and the ways she encounters him in her everyday life.
https://www.orphansaidinternational.org/
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'The place I really find God and find a tangible sense of his presence is at the end of me'. Andrew Urquhart has been a broadcaster with Rhema Media for over 30 years & shares with Lizzie Oakes about the way he encounters God in his work.
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‘When I was really at the peak of my ill years I‘ve had at least 2 seasons where I spent 80% of my time really just being able to sit in a chair or lying in bed’.
Strahan Coleman is a writer, award-winning folk musician, spiritual director and founder of commoners communion. He’s also someone who has experienced chronic illness which has led him to find God in new and deeper ways. He shares some of his experience with Lizzie Oakes.
https://www.commonerscommunion.com/
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"One of the struggles I have is a struggle around anxiety, so for me going to scripture is an absolute life line. It's not just the words on the page but it’s the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking through scripture which has held me when I’m really anxious".
Reuben Munn, Senior Pastor of Shore Community Church candidly shares with Lizzie Oakes about where he finds God and how vital it is for him to regularly connect to the presence of God.
https://www.shorecommunity.church/
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- Visa fler
