S06 Episode 16: The Good News
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🗓️ 23 December 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The Good News
In this episode, the fourth part of our Advent series, we interview our friend Sarah Kaczmarek. Sarah is the Assistant Director of Alpha Catholic USA, as well as the Pastoral Director of Encounter School of Ministry. We chat about the call we have as Catholics to share the Good News of the Gospel and the stumbling blocks we often run into. We also discuss how essential it is to be an authentic witness and how to grow in having the Father's heart for the lost.
Sarah's one thing - Whole Heart - Hillsong United
Sister Miriam's one thing - Winter Snow by Audrey Assad
The Shadow Can't Have Me by Arthur Alligood
Michelle's one thing - The song Into the Unknown from Frozen 2
Heather's one thing - The song Noel by Lauren Daigle
Additional Notes:
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Discussion questions:
- What struck you from the podcast?
- What are some of the stumbling blocks that you experience in sharing what God has done in your life?
- Are there areas of your life where you're afraid to share yourself authentically?
- What is one way you can bring good news to the lost?
- Where can you set aside time this week to pray for the grace to love with the Father's heart?
Journal Questions:
- Reflect and journal about this scripture: Isaiah 61:1. What does it speak to you personally?
- We can't selectively numb the bad without numbing the good. Where are you numbing your life and not living fully awake?
- Where do I need to say "Yes" to the Lord, so he can bring restoration and good news?
Quote to Ponder - "This is our mission: to give pure and fresh air to those immersed in the pollution of our world; to bring to earth that peace which fills us with joy whenever we meet Jesus on the mountain in prayer; to show by our lives, and perhaps even by our words, that God loves everyone and never tires of anyone" Pope Francis
Scripture for Lectio Divina - Isaiah 61:1
"The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me,
because the Lord has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners."
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Abiding Together podcast. Abiding together is a place where you can |
| 0:13.4 | find connection, rest and encouragement on your journey with Jesus Christ. My name is |
| 0:18.2 | Sister Miriam James Heitland and every week I am joined by two of my dearest friends, |
| 0:23.1 | Michelle Benzinger and Heather Kim. This podcast is born out of our friendship of sharing |
| 0:28.4 | all kinds of things together. Our walk with Christ, our insights, our joys, sorrows, tears |
| 0:34.2 | and laughter and you are most welcome on the journey with us. So grab a cup of coffee, settle |
| 0:40.5 | in and welcome home. |
| 0:48.0 | Hello and welcome to the Abiding Together podcast this week and welcome to the last, this is |
| 0:52.9 | hard to believe the last week of Advent. It is already upon us and the Savior is coming and |
| 0:59.1 | it has been tremendously, tremendously beautiful and we were just chatting before because we |
| 1:03.0 | have another wonderful guest for you. We were just chatting before we started recording |
| 1:06.5 | of just how beautiful it's been to have four different people on and four equally wonderful |
| 1:11.3 | people and just have the light of Christ, his heart revealed in each one of them. So our |
| 1:15.8 | guest this week is no exception but we're going to make you wait for that. So before we do |
| 1:20.8 | that, Heather, it's the last week of Advent. How's the journey been for you, dear? |
| 1:24.6 | Beautiful. You know, right at the beginning of Advent, it was like day two is the Monday, |
| 1:30.1 | the first Monday of Advent. We found out that our house sold and it was like the biggest gift |
| 1:37.0 | that God could have given me because we have three birthdays during December in our family and |
| 1:42.1 | Christmas and all the festivities and I was like, Lord, how am I going to keep the house? |
| 1:46.2 | Like super spotless with people traipsing through here all during the Christmas seat or Advent |
| 1:51.3 | season and I have two dogs and three children and what am I going to do? And so it was just like |
| 1:56.4 | the biggest gift that God gave me for Advent. So we've been able to just settle in and be messy |
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