Episodes

  • 269. Stepping Forward Into 2025 - The Power of Thanksgiving!

    269. Stepping Forward Into 2025 - The Power of Thanksgiving!
    Dec 28 2024
    Is it possible to be at peace and assured that we are in God’s will as we head irresistibly (or is it uncontrollably) into this coming new year, 2025? * We do have a part to play, but it is God Himself who works in us to both will and do our part. We play a part in both our hope and manifesting God’s will, but our part is 100% the gift of Father, Himself being with us and us with Him in Jesus by the Spirit! * What is the Power of Thanksgiving as We Pray? In addition to literally being a component of “God’s will for us in Christ Jesus”, our very thoughts, words, and obedience of giving thanks “in everything” to Father God in Jesus by Holy Spirit is what empowers us to “stay alert in” our prayers and our praying! Thanksgiving focuses and opens our senses and heart to what God is doing around and to us. Follow along at our social outlets: https://joylandlife.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joylandlife/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5-vPe7h_wjctIQxnaUQSnQ?view_as=subscriber Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/joyland-life/id1494637858 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6gCbEDE8pgrNhHlG0WM0fo?si=6fSKeO87SoGrx2BOUveHfQ&nd=1 Zoom: https://www.zoom.us/j/3377733377 Joyland App: https://tithely.app.link/joyland (You must follow this through your phone.) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joylandlife/ X: https://twitter.com/JoylandLife Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/joylandlife
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    53 mins
  • 268. Jessica Leigh: Community In This Season - Part 4

    268. Jessica Leigh: Community In This Season - Part 4
    Dec 21 2024
    As we finish up this series on "Community", the JOYLAND Community examines how The Father has revealed to us that we have always been a part of community, and it is our awareness of this truth that brings it to reality. In the spirit of Christmas, we revelated on the inclusion of all and the parts that each played as they were invited into the partaking of Jesus's birth. Follow along at our social outlets: https://joylandlife.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joylandlife/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5-vPe7h_wjctIQxnaUQSnQ?view_as=subscriber Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/joyland-life/id1494637858 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6gCbEDE8pgrNhHlG0WM0fo?si=6fSKeO87SoGrx2BOUveHfQ&nd=1 Zoom: https://www.zoom.us/j/3377733377 Joyland App: https://tithely.app.link/joyland (You must follow this through your phone.) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joylandlife/ X: https://twitter.com/JoylandLife Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/joylandlife
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    46 mins
  • 267. Life Is In Community - Part 3

    267. Life Is In Community - Part 3
    Dec 14 2024
    ROMANS 12:4-5 N.T. WRIGHT: THE KINGDOM NEW TESTAMENT 4 As in one body we have many limbs and organs, you see, and all the parts have different functions, 5 so we, many as we are, are one body in the Messiah, and individually we belong to one another. * Community is the home where we (as little children of our Father) grow up into sons and daughters learning and doing His will. * What does it mean to you when you hear, “…individually members one of another"? ** What might we discover if we take this a bit more literally? “How do we think about our relationship with each other?” As a duty, a revelation, an opportunity, an honor? * “We are not ourselves by ourselves. We are ourselves only in community.” – Eugene Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, 2005. (Are we each a revelation of one another’s identity?) * "Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses." – C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, 1941 (An encounter with God’s Image? A holy honor?) * "When we step into God’s light, we walk with others who are stepping into that same light." – George MacDonald --Unspoken Sermons, 1867–1889. (An opportunity forward into faith?) 1 Cor 12:12b …the “members”… though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ. Follow along at our social outlets: https://joylandlife.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joylandlife/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5-vPe7h_wjctIQxnaUQSnQ?view_as=subscriber Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/joyland-life/id1494637858 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6gCbEDE8pgrNhHlG0WM0fo?si=6fSKeO87SoGrx2BOUveHfQ&nd=1 Zoom: https://www.zoom.us/j/3377733377 Joyland App: https://tithely.app.link/joyland (You must follow this through your phone.) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joylandlife/ X: https://twitter.com/JoylandLife Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/joylandlife
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • 266. Life Is In Community - Part 2

    266. Life Is In Community - Part 2
    Dec 7 2024
    ROMANS 8:19: 19 Yes: creation itself is on tiptoe with expectation, eagerly awaiting the moment when God’s children will be revealed. ~ N.T. WRIGHT: THE KINGDOM NEW TESTAMENT LUKE 13:34: 34 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and stone the people sent to you! How many times did I want to collect your children, like a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would have none of it! ~ N.T. WRIGHT: THE KINGDOM NEW TESTAMENT * Living in & from community is God’s “good, acceptable and perfect.” * Community is the home where we (as little children of our Father) grow up into sons and daughters doing Kingdom work. 22 The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; 23 I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.” ~ John 17:22-23 * Practicing love for one-another in Community, makes what we offer the world around us effective. * Think of living from community alongside and into the world. Join the JOYLAND Community for this wonderful and most important topic as we discuss: “How best can we give ourselves to this call?” How healthy can a community be, living from our identities as Father’s much-loved children and as Jesus’ co-heirs and “full-stature” mature Sons? Follow along at our social outlets: https://joylandlife.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joylandlife/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5-vPe7h_wjctIQxnaUQSnQ?view_as=subscriber Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/joyland-life/id1494637858 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6gCbEDE8pgrNhHlG0WM0fo?si=6fSKeO87SoGrx2BOUveHfQ&nd=1 Zoom: https://www.zoom.us/j/3377733377 Joyland App: https://tithely.app.link/joyland (You must follow this through your phone.) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joylandlife/ X: https://twitter.com/JoylandLife Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/joylandlife
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    46 mins
  • 265. Being Thankful

    265. Being Thankful
    Nov 30 2024
    Follow along at our social outlets: https://joylandlife.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joylandlife/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5-vPe7h_wjctIQxnaUQSnQ?view_as=subscriber Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/joyland-life/id1494637858 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6gCbEDE8pgrNhHlG0WM0fo?si=6fSKeO87SoGrx2BOUveHfQ&nd=1 Zoom: https://www.zoom.us/j/3377733377 Joyland App: https://tithely.app.link/joyland (You must follow this through your phone.) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joylandlife/ X: https://twitter.com/JoylandLife Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/joylandlife
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    48 mins
  • 264. Life Is In Community!

    264. Life Is In Community!
    Nov 23 2024
    4 As in one body we have many limbs and organs, you see, and all the parts have different functions, 5 so we, many as we are, are one body in the Messiah, and individually we belong to one another. ~ ROMANS 12:4-5 N.T. WRIGHT: THE KINGDOM NEW TESTAMENT * Living in & from community is God’s “good, acceptable and perfect.” * Community is the home where we (as little children of our Father) grow up into sons and daughters doing Kingdom work. * Practicing love for one another in community makes what we offer the world around us effective. ~ John 17:22-23 * We are connected to each other - we are "share-holders" in community with one another - IF we choose to be... Real love requires others. Community is becoming part of others. Living transparently engaged in Community prepares us to live and minister effectively in the eyes & scrutiny of the world. Follow along at our social outlets: https://joylandlife.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joylandlife/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5-vPe7h_wjctIQxnaUQSnQ?view_as=subscriber Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/joyland-life/id1494637858 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6gCbEDE8pgrNhHlG0WM0fo?si=6fSKeO87SoGrx2BOUveHfQ&nd=1 Zoom: https://www.zoom.us/j/3377733377 Joyland App: https://tithely.app.link/joyland (You must follow this through your phone.) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joylandlife/ X: https://twitter.com/JoylandLife Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/joylandlife
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    1 hr and 38 mins
  • 263. Jessica Otero - Intentionality - Part 2

    263. Jessica Otero - Intentionality - Part 2
    Nov 16 2024
    This week the Joyland community goes deeper into intentionality, and discusses ways to grow in intentionality - and - the power of intentionality to impact all of creation! We also investigate the Father’s intentionality towards us and how it is all about the intent of Love. Join us and be part of this continuing revelatory conversation! Follow along at our social outlets: https://joylandlife.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joylandlife/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5-vPe7h_wjctIQxnaUQSnQ?view_as=subscriber Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/joyland-life/id1494637858 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6gCbEDE8pgrNhHlG0WM0fo?si=6fSKeO87SoGrx2BOUveHfQ&nd=1 Zoom: https://www.zoom.us/j/3377733377 Joyland App: https://tithely.app.link/joyland (You must follow this through your phone.) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joylandlife/ X: https://twitter.com/JoylandLife Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/joylandlife
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    37 mins
  • 262. Jessica Otero - Intentionality - Part 1

    262. Jessica Otero - Intentionality - Part 1
    Nov 8 2024
    In this thought provoking discussion, the Joyland community contemplates: Is God always intentional? ​ God’s intention is always life, light, and Love!!!​ Are we called to always be intentional? ​ If we are always operating under intent, ​ then what intent? Intentionality in Hope & Love, and what that practically looks like. Follow along at our social outlets: https://joylandlife.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joylandlife/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5-vPe7h_wjctIQxnaUQSnQ?view_as=subscriber Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/joyland-life/id1494637858 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6gCbEDE8pgrNhHlG0WM0fo?si=6fSKeO87SoGrx2BOUveHfQ&nd=1 Zoom: https://www.zoom.us/j/3377733377 Joyland App: https://tithely.app.link/joyland (You must follow this through your phone.) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joylandlife/ X: https://twitter.com/JoylandLife Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/joylandlife
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    1 hr and 3 mins