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Listen along as I read Colossians 1:14-23 and guide you through three questions that will help you hear what God is saying in his word and apply what you hear.

Listen along as I read Luke 11:1-13 and ask some simple reflection questions that will help you connect with God by praying this story back to him.

Enjoy this episode, where I read Matthew 4:1-11 and lead us in some reflective questions on this reading.

The Conversation Quadrant is a tool that helps us track and measure the progression of the relationships we are building with those we are trying to help become followers of Jesus. Join me in this episode as I unpack the CQ and show you how you can use this tool as a disciple-maker as well.

In this episode, I use our recent experience of house hunting as an image to explore the habits of discipleship with.Go to LoveFirstMovement.com for more episodes.Contact me at jeremy@jeremyhoover.com.Find out more or explore financial partnership with our ministry at LoveFirstChurch.ca.

In this episode, I discuss a theology of Christian innovation, and how failure is simply an opportunity to pivot in a new direction. In the gospel, we have access to mercy, forgiveness, and new life, and these embolden us to take risks of faith in mission.

In this episode, I talk about a tool I, and others, use to discern what God is saying and what we should do about it. The tool is called the Learning Loop. I also explain how I am currently engaging with this tool to help me discover the next phase of ministry with Love First. Find previous episodes at LoveFirstMovement.com.Partner financially with us here.

In this episode, I talk about being creative in church planting and forming habits of prayer. Prayer walking is one such habit I'm forming. Listen in as I talk about the why and how of this new prayer walking habit.(I recorded this episode during a prayer walk, so excuse some of the wind noise you hear in the background!)Find more episodes at LoveFirstMovement.com.

We can take ownership of a process but we can't control outcomes. Church planters must own their process but also must be indifferent towards outcomes. Indifference builds resilience in church planting.Listen to this episode where I discuss the above principle, share some reflections on Mark 1-3, and provide an update of our recent work.

Missional church planting focuses on getting into the neighbourhood, meeting people where they are at, and helping them connect to Jesus in incarnational ways. As such, missional church planting is about helping people form new habits. In this podcast, I share how my family had to learn new habits around homeschooling, and how I applied that insight to the Love First Movement. I also cast vision for extending our work into the communities that spread up the Ontario side of Lake Huron and into the Bruce Peninsula.To learn more, go to http://lovefirstmovement.com.To partner financially with us, find the "Give" link at http://lovefirstchurch.ca

In this podcast, I share updates about our church planting work in Sarnia, Ontario, and reflection on missional habits we're adopting that are based on Michael Frost's BELLS acronym (as found in his book, Surprise the World).

Welcome to the inaugural episode of the Love First Movement Podcast. In this episode, I provide a recap of our summer activities and a brief overview of some of my future plans. I also explain how church planting is like apple picking: Sometimes, we have to push to the back of the orchard and climb a ladder to reach the harder-to-reach fruit.