Let’s Go Barefoot – Loren Cunningham

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Bill Hutchison

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Loren CunninghamThis episode of the YWAM Teaching Podcast presents us with a classic and timeless teaching from Loren Cunningham. Loren speaks on the importance of submission and relinquishing our “rights”. He calls us to lay down the things we cling to so that we can experience complete freedom in our relationship with God and be fully available to serve Him.

Joshua 1: 3 (NIV)

I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses.

Exodus 3: 5 (NIV)

“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”

Joshua 14: 9 (NIV)

“So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly.’”.

Ruth 4: 7 – 8 (NIV)

(Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and transfer of property to become final, one party took off his sandal and gave it to the other. This was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel.) So the guardian-redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it yourself.” And he removed his sandal.

Mark 8: 34 – 35 (NIV)

Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life[a] will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.

Responsibility – Rights = Reward of Relationship with God

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Did You Ever See a Worried Bird – Loren Cunningham

Posted on August 28, 2014 by Bill Hutchison

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Loren CunninghamIn this episode of the YWAM Teaching Podcast, Loren Cunningham shares a message based around Matthew 6. He describes how we can trust in God in finance, and how this is a very practical way that God can display his faithfulness to us …

Matthew 6: 25 – 34 (NIV)

25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Loren Cunningham is the founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and the co-founder and International Chancellor of the University of the Nations (U of N). He is also the leader of the YWAM UofN Campus in Hawaii and a member of the YWAM International Eldership.  Continue reading →

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Planning to Go – Floyd McClung

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Bill Hutchison

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Floyd McClung 1Floyd McClung is the international director of All Nations, an international leadership training and church-planting network.

Floyd shared with teaching with a Leadership Training School (LTS) that was held in New Zealand in 2000.

All Nations, the organisation that Floyd McClung is the international director of, has partnered with local churches to send short-term and long-term church-planting teams to more than thirty countries and provides specialized leadership and discipleship schools.  Continue reading →

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Brief Canadian Introduction to Inductive Bible Study with Pete and Todd

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Bill Hutchison

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Pete and Todds SBS in CanadaIn this episode of the YWAM Teaching Podcast Pete Sutherland and Todd McCormick introduce us to the inductive bible study method used by the Youth With a Mission School of Biblical Studies.

The goal of inductive Bible study is to be taught by the Word, letting it guide us into truth. In the inductive method, we want to allow the Holy Spirit to be our teacher as we let our conclusions evolve from what we observe. We do not want to approach the Scriptures with a thesis in hand that we attempt to support by searching its pages (which is a deductive approach). Therefore, preconceived ideas (beliefs that we have come to accept from sources outside of the Word) must be laid aside as they may blur our vision from seeing what the Bible may really be saying. In this way, we become listeners of the Scriptures rather than dictators to them.

This teaching originally appeared on the YWAM Turner Valley web-site.  Continue reading →

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Releasing Women – Loren Cunningham

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Bill Hutchison

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Loren CunninghamIn this episode of the YWAM Teaching Podcast Loren Cunningham shares about Releasing Women into Ministry.

Loren Cunningham is the founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and the co-founder and International Chancellor of the University of the Nations (U of N). He is also the leader of the YWAM UofN Campus in Hawaii and a member of the YWAM International Eldership.  Continue reading →

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The Eldership Model of Leadership in YWAM with Lynn Green

Posted on June 28, 2013 by Bill Hutchison

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Lynn Green joined us for a Google Hangout in June of 2013 to talk with us about the Eldership Model of Leadership in YWAM.

During the last 10-years Youth With A Mission has been moving away from a business style of leadership structure to an Eldership model of leadership. In this conversation with Lynn Green we get to hear what this change means, and how we can implement it at our own YWAM locations. Continue reading →

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Spiritual Eldership – Loren Cunningham 2004 (Updated 2012)

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Bill Hutchison
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When I was seven years old, my family and I visited Niagara Falls. I have an indelible picture in my mind of what I saw: a barge, wedged against a huge rock right at the edge of the falls, with the water raging around it. I was forever impacted by the story I heard:  Continue reading →

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Finding Your Identity in Christ – Joseph Avakian

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Bill Hutchison

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Joseph AvakianIn this episode of the YWAM Teaching Podcast Joseph Avakian tells us about the journey that God took him on in Discovering and Restoring the Identity that God created him with.

Joseph Avakian has been working with Youth With A Mission since 1984 and has been involved in teaching and projects around the world. He has been responsible for pioneering and launching many of the schools that YWAM is currently running in the area of communication. Joseph was also one of the key developers of the current YWAM logo.

You can find out more about Joseph Avakian on his personal web-site and blog.

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Support Raising for Missionaries with Terry Sherman

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Bill Hutchison

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Terry-ShermanTerry Sherman joined us for a Google Hangout in February of 2013 to talk with us about support raising for missionaries.

During the 1.5 hours session Terry addressed many of the mentalities that come along with support raising including:

  • Short Term vs Long Term Thinking
  • Feeling Like a Beggar
  • Thinking that “Just Getting By” is Good Enough
  • Missions is not a “Real Job”
  • Missionaries need to embrace Support Raising as part of their ministry

Terry also gave six practical steps for missionary fund raising:

  • Get a personal understanding about the spiritual aspect of money
  • Know your calling and put your core message into one sentence
  • Cast you vision as far and wide as possible
  • Make a plan of action including a budget and communications plan
  • Find an accountability and prayer partner
  • Invite people to partner with you as personally and intimately as possible

At the end of the session Terry also answered live questions from the chat room.

Update:

Terry recently launched a new Online Relational Fundraising course. If you are not able to attend a 3-day workshop the online course is the next best option.

Terry Sherman has also changed her e-mail address since the recording of her video, her new address is relationalfundraising (at) gmail.com.

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What is Your Calling and Gifting – David Hamilton

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Bill Hutchison

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David HamiltonDavid Hamilton shares with us about God’s Calling and Gifting on us as individuals in YWAM, and God’s unique Calling and Gifting on Youth With A Mission as a Missions Organisation.

David Hamilton has served in YWAM for almost 30-years. During this time he has served in many different roles, including:

  • The International Associate Provost of the University of the Nations
  • Assistant to the YWAM President
  • Member of the International Leadership Team of the U of N
  • Member of the Global Leadership Team of YWAM
  • Director of Training on the YWAM/U of N Kona campus
  • Vice President for Strategic Innovation at YWAM’s University of the Nations

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