Exciting Times to be Alive! | Stephen Foster
Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud
Great Lakes Outreach
4.9 • 663 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Stephen leads St Aldate’s in Oxford, having originally worked as a successful barrister in London. What is going on there these days is profoundly encouraging, with many folks encountering God and coming to faith on a weekly basis. It’s a rocking podcast that left me totally fired up!
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| 0:00.0 | Girl who is 17 and had a dream. |
| 0:03.0 | In her dream, she had a voice, an image of the Bible, open at Luke's Gospel. |
| 0:09.0 | And the voice was saying, you need to read about Jesus in Luke's Gospel. |
| 0:14.0 | She kind of woke up in the middle of the night thinking, that was a freaky dream. |
| 0:18.0 | And she's thinking, she's not church girl, girl church going to family she says i don't even |
| 0:22.4 | if we have a bible in our house how am i going to read luke's gospel so she kind of leans over turns on |
| 0:28.7 | the lamp on a bedside table and there on her bedside table is a bible open at luke's gospel |
| 0:35.5 | wow open at Luke's Gospel. |
| 0:38.3 | Wow. |
| 0:42.9 | Welcome everybody. |
| 0:44.6 | This is Simon Gilworth, Inspired. |
| 0:47.1 | Inspired, if you're new to us, it's all about meeting. |
| 0:51.6 | It makes mind from different walks of life that, well, God is doing beautiful stuff through. |
| 0:54.5 | It's the aim is to encourage and stir faith because basically I'm sick to death of being relentlessly bombarded by negativity in the press that just |
| 0:59.2 | induces fear and cynicism and anxiety. And I've got no doubt this week at the end of this |
| 1:04.1 | hour you will leave encouraged and stirred in your faith because we have with us the one for |
| 1:09.2 | Stephen Foster. Welcome, Stephen. Welcome, Simon. |
| 1:12.9 | It's great to be with you. So good to have you. So Stephen's married to Beth. They've got four |
| 1:16.2 | girls. He was a barrister before being called into the church. He was part of the Alphocene HGB. He's |
| 1:22.1 | now a church leader in Oxford. Our lodger, Jody, lived us several years, moved from us to him to work |
| 1:29.8 | in Oxford at State All Day. She's wonderful. We did a podcast with her in the early days, so I'll put that in the |
| 1:33.8 | blurb after us as well. Our piles have overlapped at sort of H-DB focus weeks away and UI and that |
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