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One of the results of social distancing is that we are more likely to become socially distant.  Just because you’re practicing social distancing it doesn’t mean you have to be socially distant.  We can still call people, text people, video chat people, engage more deeply with people that we're quarantined with and so on.  The trouble is sometimes, even when we’re not practicing social distancing, we can still be socially distant.One of our #WholeLifeTakeAways this week asked:  How have you intentionally tried to connect during this time to avoid for yourself or relieve another’s feeling of being socially distant?If there was ever a week, or a time to share what Jesus is doing in your life to connect with others who desperately need a word of hope and the assurance that the #Resurrection and the #Salvation it brings is in fact real, and for all, this is it!  Please share with all of us what God has put on your heart to reach out and connect.  We will play your voicemail responses on next week’s podcast, or if

How do you move towards hope?  In our current world with all that is going on, there can easily be a move to cynicism. Christians are called to be people of faith and faith, exercised well, leads to hope – a change in direction from cynicism. How can we make sure to be people of hope?One of our #WholeLifeTakeAways this week asked:  How confident are you that God can keep you through the days ahead?Please reach out if you have questions or just need someone to bounce things off of.  Finding peace in our lives may be the most important spiritual discipline and joy creator we can gift ourselves, and it will only come in its purest form from Jesus.  As always we'll take your questions, your answers, or comments on something we said, didn’t say, or how you feel about the subject at hand.  You can leave us your insights by using one of the following:■ Text/Voicemail:  407-965-1607■ Email:  podcast@wholelife.church■ WLC Mobile App:  Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links■ Social Media:  #WholeLifePodc

We live in uncertain times, and life isn't always what we expect. Even during the turmoil currently invading our lives, is it possible to experience rest? Is a day to stop and put our trust wholly in God exactly what we need right now? One of our #WholeLifeTakeAways this week asked:  What do you think about Sabbath’s role to remind us that we are worth more than what we can produce?So what about you?  Does this idea of our worth being more than we can produce make you as grateful as it does me?  As always we'll take your questions, your answers, or comments on something we said, didn’t say, or how you feel about the subject at hand.  You can leave us your insights by using one of the following:■ Text/Voicemail:  407-965-1607■ Email:  podcast@wholelife.church■ WLC Mobile App:  Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links■ Social Media:  #WholeLifePodcast/ #WholeLifeTakeAwaysFind all of the #WholeLifeTakeAways in the WLC Mobile App under “This Week” on the WLC Tab and they will be included with their c

It seems clear from the commandment that at least part of what “keeping Sabbath” means has to do with the day being “different” from the other days of the week. Six are designed for working, and one designed for rest. Paul says the law is good, and that we are not “under the law," so how does this relate to Sabbath? One of our #WholeLifeTakeAways this week asked:  How has this time of “social distancing” affected your thoughts about Sabbath? About corporate worship? About fellowship?So, how have these last few weeks changed your thoughts about Sabbath, worship, and fellowship?  As always we'll take your questions, your answers, or comments on something we said, didn’t say, or how you feel about the subject discussed in this week’s episode.  You can leave us your insights by using one of the following:■ Text/Voicemail:  407-965-1607■ Email:  podcast@wholelife.church■ WLC Mobile App:  Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links■ Social Media:  #WholeLifePodcast/ #WholeLifeTakeAwaysFind Mark Buchanan’s

Jesus broke the Sabbath taboos, but he also never sinned, which means he “kept the Sabbath holy.” How do blessings get turned into curses? The way Jesus related to the Sabbath was to return to its original intent: it was made for people—people weren’t made for it! It fits the New Testament idea that the law is meant to be descriptive of the life of a follower of Jesus, not a means to please or appease God. One of our #WholeLifeTakeAways this week asked: What are some ways that Sabbath has been corrupted over time?As always we'll take your questions, your answers, or comments on something we said, didn’t say, or how you feel about the subject discussed in this week’s episode. You can leave us your insights by using one of the following:■ Text/Voicemail: 407-965-1607■ Email: podcast@wholelife.church■ WLC Mobile App: Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links■ Social Media: #WholeLifePodcast/ #WholeLifeTakeAwaysFind all of the #WholeLifeTakeAways in the WLC Mobile App under “This Week” on the WL

It is often thought that the Sabbath is a Jewish construct beginning when the 10 Commandments were given on Mt. Sinai. It is important to remember that, whatever Sabbath would become in the culture of a fallen world, it preceded the fall. The Sabbath finds its roots in the story of creation, God’s story of what is ideal for his perfect creation in a sinless garden. How will this clear place of Sabbath’s birth change our relationship to Sabbath today?One of our #WholeLifeTakeAways this week asked:  Why do you think God initiated Sabbath before anyone was tired?  As always we'll take your questions, your answers, or comments on something we said, didn’t say, or how you feel about the subject discussed in this week’s episode.  You can leave us your insights by using one of the following:■ Text/Voicemail:  407-965-1607■ Email:  podcast@wholelife.church■ WLC Mobile App:  Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links■ Social Media:  #WholeLifePodcast/ #WholeLifeTakeAwaysFind all of the #WholeLifeTakeAways i

This year’s Retreat speaker was Dr. Carla Gober Park. Carla is currently the Executive Director of Faith Community Strategy at AdventHealth in Florida and the Special Assistant to the President at AdventHealth University. Before moving to Florida, she was Assistant Vice President for Spiritual Life and Mission at Loma Linda University Health and director of a center for whole-person care. Carla has degrees in four different fields: nursing, counseling, public health, and a Ph.D. in religious studies. She is also a storyteller and filmmaker. In 2015, she was the producer and executive producer of the award-winning film, A Certain Kind of Light, a short-form documentary film on whole-person care. Carla’s humor and deep commitment to God, community, and church form the foundation for everything she does. She married the love of her life in 2013 — a Scotsman in a kilt! Carla and Gordon, with their dog Cypher, split their time between California and Florida and love being out where you can still see the stars at n

Great Question 2020 - This annual series invites questions from young adults about Christian beliefs they would like explained more thoroughly. This week's question:  How can I keep from having doubt with such ambiguity in the Bible? This week our final #fhcTAKEAWAY, EVER… asked:   Does the fact that the Bible contains poetry, idioms, hyperbole, etc. diminish its authority? How would you answer that question for someone who’s wrestling with the validity of Scripture? As always we'll take your questions, your answers, or comments on something we said, didn’t say, or how you feel about the subject at hand, you can leave us your insights by using one of the following:■ Text/Voicemail:  407-965-1607■ Email:  podcast@hospitalchurch.org■ FHC Mobile App:  Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links■ Social Media:  #WholeLifePodcast/ #WholeLifeTakeAwaysChurch Retreat questions?:  email tami@hospitalchurch.org  Find all of the #WholeLifeTakeAways in the FHC Mobile App under “This Week” on the FHC Tab and the

Great Question 2020 - This annual series invites questions from young adults about Christian beliefs they would like explained more thoroughly. This week's question:  How Does Conscience, Free Will, and Compliance To A Denomination Fit Together? This week one of our #fhcTAKEAWAYS asked:   How hard is it for you to abandon rebellious independence and let God be God?How have you been able to let God be God?  Let us hear your thoughts and we’ll share them on the next podcast!  Use one of the following:■ Text/Voicemail:  407-965-1607■ Email:  podcast@hospitalchurch.org■ FHC Mobile App:  Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links■ Social Media:  #WholeLifePodcast/ #WholeLifeTakeAwaysRegister for church retreat:  www.hospitalchurch.org/retreat and email tami@hospitalchurch.org if you have questions or need assistance! Find all of the #WholeLifeTakeAways in the FHC Mobile App under “This Week” on the FHC Tab and they will be included with their corresponding message!Watch the message that this episode is

Great Question 2020 - This annual series invites questions from young adults about Christian beliefs they would like explained more thoroughly. This week's question: Is the Bible meant to speak to my culture today?This week one of our #fhcTAKEAWAYS asked:   How has God revealed himself to you in nature, your family, the Bible, and through Jesus?This is a discussion that we should all be having and getting ourselves ready to be unified and “all in” as we become WholeLife Church!  What do you think?  How has God revealed Himself to you? Let us hear your thoughts and we’ll share them on the next podcast!  Use one of the following:■ Text/Voicemail:  407-965-1607■ Email:  podcast@hospitalchurch.org■ FHC Mobile App:  Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links■ Social Media:  #WholeLifePodcast/ #WholeLifeTakeAwaysRegister for church retreat:  www.hospitalchurch.org/retreat and email tami@hospitalchurch.org if you have questions or need assistance! If you are interested in a Serendipity study bible that A

The Hospital Church Vision: “to be a church without walls fully engaged in serving the people of our community.” Wherever we are for our whole life, no matter who we are with, they are our community, and our whole lives are lived to serve.This week one of our #fhcTAKEAWAYS asked:   What will it take for you to be “all in” on our church’s Mission, Strategy, Values, Metrics, and Vision? This is a discussion that we should all be having and getting ourselves ready to be unified and “all in” as we become WholeLife Church!  What do you think?  Have questions, answers, or a tip on being “all in” that we could all use?  Let us hear your thoughts and we’ll share them on the next podcast!  Use one of the following:■ Text/Voicemail:  407-965-1607■ Email:  podcast@hospitalchurch.org■ FHC Mobile App:  Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links■ Social Media:  #fhcPODCAST / #fhcTAKEAWAYSRegister for church retreat:  www.hospitalchurch.org/retreat and email tami@hospitalchurch.org if you have questions or need

When we segment our lives into the sacred and the secular, we end up using the wrong measures.  When we live an integrated whole life, then we can see the importance of measuring or having markers to let us know how we are connecting. Our church Metrics relate to our whole life.This week one of our #fhcTAKEAWAYS asked:   When will you do a self-reflection to mark your progress in becoming a lover, worshipper, volunteer, and giver?What do you think?  Have questions, answers, or a tip on self-reflection that we could all use? Let us hear your thoughts and we’ll share them on the next podcast!  Use one of the following:■ Text/Voicemail:  407-965-1607■ Email:  podcast@hospitalchurch.org■ FHC Mobile App:  Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links■ Social Media:  #fhcPODCAST / #fhcTAKEAWAYSRegister for church retreat:  www.hospitalchurch.org/retreat and email tami@hospitalchurch.org if you have questions or need assistance!Thank you for listening!  If you’ve enjoyed this episode please share it on socia

Ours is a divided culture. We each see things from our own perspective. Too often there are values we live at home, different ones at work or school, and still a different set when we come together to worship.  The Hospital Church has four Values that we believe should oversee our lives 24/7: Love, Acceptance, Forgiveness, and Grace. They are to be with us, enmeshed in our whole life.This week one of our #fhcTAKEAWAYS asked:   Where are you participating in the life of our church family?What do you think about what Andy had to say about member participation? “This value makes it clear that a non-mission driven, non-attending, non-serving, non-giving member is an oxymoron”.  Let us hear your thoughts and we’ll share them on the next podcast!  Use one of the following:■ Text/Voicemail:  407-965-1607■ Email:  podcast@hospitalchurch.org■ FHC Mobile App:  Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links■ Social Media:  #fhcPODCAST / #fhcTAKEAWAYSHere are the links to the TED Talks referenced in today’s episod

The Hospital Church Strategy is a strategy for friends, family, and strangers, and it encompasses our whole life: Connect with people – Demonstrate compassion – Meet their needs – Win their confidence – and Invite them to join us in following Jesus. It doesn't fit in a box, and it can't be applied to just one part of our life.  This week one of our #fhcTAKEAWAYS asked a very simple but profound question:   Who needs you to love them with specificity?Did you answer “who” needs you to love them this week?  Did the Holy Spirit give you an encounter that was unexpected?  Let us in on what God is doing in your life this week and we’ll share them on the next podcast!  Use one of the following:■ Text/Voicemail:  407-965-1607■ Email:  podcast@hospitalchurch.org■ FHC Mobile App:  Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links■ Social Media:  #fhcPODCAST / #fhcTAKEAWAYSThank you for listening!  If you’ve enjoyed this episode please share it on social media.  Our show is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcas

We are stewards of the love of God that he has poured into our hearts. There is no place, no time, no persons who are not part of our whole life loving.This week one of our #fhcTAKEAWAYS got super-personal and asked us self-check ourselves:   What barriers to love are most attractive to you? Ethnicity-Economics-Social-Political-Religious-Gender-Sinfulness….How will you self-evaluate and work to remove your barrier?  Let us hear your thoughts and we’ll share them on the next podcast!  Use one of the following:■ Text/Voicemail:  407-965-1607■ Email:  podcast@hospitalchurch.org■ FHC Mobile App:  Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links■ Social Media:  #fhcPODCAST / #fhcTAKEAWAYSThank you for listening!  If you’ve enjoyed this episode please share it on social media.  Our show is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and iHeart Radio!  Be sure to join us next week for Episode 189!Find all of the #fhcTAKEAWAYS in the FHC Mobile App under “This Week” on the FHC Tab and they will be inc

Whatever was in (2019) or might be in (2020), God’s loving, continuous call to us is:  "Be still and know that I am God.”   Javier Diaz is a member of the Hospital Church and serves as a Pastoral Ministries Field Associate for Florida Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.  You can follow him on twitter:  @javid21This week one of our #fhcTAKEAWAYS takes us to the bible in chapter and asks us to consider multiple questions:   Psalm 46 leads us and inspires us to grasp that, no matter what may come our way, God is in control. With that beautiful truth in mind, of what is it that you are most concerned/fearful? Why? How can you trust/surrender it to God?How will you be still in 2020?  Let us hear your thoughts and we’ll share them on the next podcast!  Use one of the following:■ Text/Voicemail:  407-965-1607■ Email:  podcast@hospitalchurch.org■ FHC Mobile App:  Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links■ Social Media:  #fhcPODCAST / #fhcTAKEAWAYSHere are the links discussed in today’s show:The Restore

God doesn’t just reach down into our world and snatch us out. He must be consistent with himself. Humanity has messed up and, in love, that circle of unbroken unity is willing to alter itself for all eternity. The Son will come—the incarnation of God, fully human and fully divine. We are torn by the loss of a loved one from our family, and it is all so very temporal. God is willing to forever be the human and divine. Jesus doesn’t put on humanity like we put on our jacket in cool weather; he becomes one with us. For all eternity, when the Father speaks to the Son, the language is human.  Jesus unites, bridges, and re-opens the eternal intention of God to invite us messed-up humans into his own inner circle of Trinity life.This week one of our #fhcTAKEAWAYS asked the question:  Galatians 5:1 “So Christ has really set us free.  Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t get tied up again in slavery to the law.” How can you live in the freedom of Christ being your redeemer?How do you live in Christ’s freedom?

It was a good, perfect, generous plan gone bad.  Here is a side of the story we may not easily associate with Christmas Joy. Have we ever considered the disappointment of God? There had been a battle in heaven. The accusations had been harsh—that God is an inappropriate glory hog, that he is arbitrary and selfish at his core, and that living within borders of his design is unnecessarily restrictive. Before we hear the gospel story, there’s the promise of wisdom and freedom in doing your own thing. That circle of Trinity life that was opened, and that inner circle who longed to invite humanity in, was rejected for a counterfeit. In announcing the results, God gives a glimmer of his plan of hope and coming Christmas Joy.This week one of our #fhcTAKEAWAYS asked the question:  How do you think Mary and Joseph worked through their failed plans?How can we work through ours this Christmas season and show the love of Christ in our actions?  Let us hear your thoughts and we’ll share them on the next podcast!  Use one

A whole life of service to others reveals the life of Christ and the joy of Christmas.This week one of our #fhcTAKEAWAYS asked the question: Diversification is a “safe” investment strategy.  Why do you think God wants us all in with our whole life? Why do you think God wants us all in?  Let us hear your thoughts and we’ll share them on the next podcast!  Use one of the following:■ Text/Voicemail:  407-965-1607■ Email:  podcast@hospitalchurch.org■ FHC Mobile App:  Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links■ Social Media:  #fhcPODCAST / #fhcTAKEAWAYSTune in every Wednesday as we take a look back at our prior week's message for unique takeaways, added perspective, and a peek at the upcoming message at the Florida Hospital Church.  Thank you for listening!  If you’ve enjoyed this episode please share it on social media.  Our show is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and Spreaker!  Be sure to join us next week for Episode 185!Don’t forget to send us your thankful list, thankful sto

Love is relational, and God has always existed in the relationship of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The God of all abundance invites humanity to share in Trinity life. This amazing, generous, self-less open plan is where the story of Christmas Joy begins.This week one of our #fhcTAKEAWAYS asked the question:  How different is God’s love of knowing all the pain to come but still valuing the relationship enough to go through it?What do you think about God’s love and His value of a relationship with us? Let us hear your thoughts and we’ll share them on the next podcast!  Use one of the following:■ Text/Voicemail:  407-965-1607■ Email:  podcast@hospitalchurch.org■ FHC Mobile App:  Media Tab/Podcast Banner and Use Text and Email links■ Social Media:  #fhcPODCAST / #fhcTAKEAWAYSTune in every Wednesday as we take a look back at our prior week's message for unique takeaways, added perspective, and a peek at the upcoming message at the Florida Hospital Church.  Thank you for listening!  If you’ve enjoyed this episode