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In this episode, Jason Zastrow sits down with Ken Tew, a long time Apexer and Shepherd. They discuss how Ken came to know Christ and what he’s learning now. Specifically, they discuss how God wants us to live in freedom with our sanctification.If you have any questions comments, or show ideas, please send an email at podcast@apexcommunity.org. We’d love to hear from you!For more stories and future episodes, visit apexanthologies.com. You can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

In today’s episode, Robin Zastrow talks with Cindy Green and discuss what God has been doing in her life and how God has been teaching her truths about him.If you have any questions comments, or show ideas, please send an email at podcast@apexcommunity.org. We’d love to hear from you!For more stories and future episodes, visit apexanthologies.com. You can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.Also, much of what Cindy said regarding dependency on the Lord and how he is near to the broken hearted and poor in spirit were highly influenced by Mike’s sermon on the church of Smyrna. If you’d like to listen to that sermon click here!

In this episode, you'll learn the Japanese word for "delicious" and how to accidentally threaten someone in Swahili. But more importantly, you'll learn how the events of Pentecost in Acts 2 fits into the larger Biblical Story.If you have any questions comments, or show ideas, please send an email at podcast@apexcommunity.org. We’d love to hear from you!For more stories and future episodes, visit apexanthologies.com. You can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

Robin Zastrow sits down with Nichole Smith and we hear about her story of God’s faithfulness through cancer. She encourages us that God is with us through seasons of big change and will never leave us!If you have any questions comments, or show ideas, please send an email at podcast@apexcommunity.org. We’d love to hear from you!For more stories and future episodes, visit apexanthologies.com. You can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

In today’s episode, Jesse Bowers sits down with Tim Smiertka. They discuss how God has shaped Tim through two missions trips and what God is doing in the Arab World Affinity Bloc. If you have any questions comments, or show ideas, please send an email at podcast@apexcommunity.org. We’d love to hear from you!For more stories and future episodes, visit apexanthologies.com. You can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

In today’s episode, Jason Zastrow sits down with Jay Jackson and Joan and Mark Eilers. They are three of our house church leaders who also help lead our equipping community. An equipping community is a community of house church leaders who gather every six months for a deep dive training that they work out in their house churches, reflecting weekly on their ups and downs through online webcam conference calls that we call huddles. This week Jason, Jay, Joan and Mark reflect on their experience in the equipping community, how it has transformed them personally and how it has transformed and will transform our house church network.

In today's podcast, Chad and Jason discuss how through the Ascension, Jesus is both the Presence of God and the Prince of God. This is an example of God's covenant and kingdom -- the two helix's of the Bible's DNA.As a thank you gift to you our listeners, the first three people who email growing@apexcommunity.org their name and address will receive a free copy of Covenant and Kingdom by Mike Breen, our teaching team lead at the Apex Kettering Gathering.In this book, Mike explores how covenant and kingdom are central to our relationship with God and how He is re-ordering the world through Kings Jesus.If you have any questions comments, or show ideas, please send an email at podcast@apexcommunity.org. We’d love to hear from you!For more stories and future episodes, visit apexanthologies.com. You can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

Jason and Robin Zastrow sit down with Doug and Jackie Perseghetti who are house church Shepherds in the Centerville area. They discuss their story and dive in deep into a special phrase they’ve used; “God’s person, at God’s time, in the life of another.”If you have any questions comments, or show ideas, please send an email at podcast@apexcommunity.org. We’d love to hear from you!For more stories and future episodes, visit apexanthologies.com. You can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

Robin Zastrow takes time to sit down with Sally Breen, Mike Breen’s wife. They talk about where Sally has seen God working in the past, what he’s up to now, and some encouragement for people that have gone through grief and loss.If you have any questions comments, or show ideas, please send an email at podcast@apexcommunity.org. We’d love to hear from you!For more stories and future episodes, visit apexanthologies.com. You can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

In today’s episode, Jesse Bowers talks with Elise Herzing and Troy Jones. They are both working closely with the East Asian Affinity Bloc team. They discuss what God has been doing in their Affinity Bloc, but also dive into how God has specifically gifted them to help serve the Church.If you have any questions comments, or show ideas, please send an email at podcast@apexcommunity.org. We’d love to hear from you!For more stories and future episodes, visit apexanthologies.com. You can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

Welcome back to Season 2 of The Apex Anthologies Podcast! We’re kicking things off with some theology on the resurrection. We figured it would be the perfect time since Easter is just around the corner. Hosting today’s podcast is Chad Osborne with his wife, Hunter Osborne. If you have any questions comments, or show ideas, please send an email at podcast@apexcommunity.org. We’d love to hear from you! Email us For more stories and future episodes, visit apexanthologies.com. You can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

This is the last episode for our Christmas mini-series. We'll be talking about what it means for us to bear God's image. Joining me, Chad, and Jason is our Staff Team Lead and Region 4 elder, Chris Cardiff.We hope you enjoyed this little Christmas series! Please let us know if you did by emailing podcast@apexcommunity.org.After doing twenty podcasts, we're going to take a small break so we can regroup and come up with new show ideas. Do you have an idea for an episode? You can email us that as well!Thanks for listening to us talk about Jesus! Don't forget to subscribe and if you really enjoy an episode, share it with a friend!Apex's mission is to make and multiply disciples with the gospel of Jesus Christ through the power of the Spirit.We envision God using every Apexer to join His disciple-making movement in reaching the Greater Dayton area and unreached people groups of the world.If you'd like to learn more about us, go to apexcommunity.org. You can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.Thanks again for listening!

Genesis 3:14 and 15 says:"The Lord God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”Today we're in the second episode of our Christmas themed mini-series: the Promised Seed. When you read that passage, you might not immediately think of the Christmas season, but our hope is that by the end of this episode, Chad Osborne and I are able to show you how much this passage is all about Christmas.If you have any questions comments, or show ideas, please send an email at podcast@apexcommunity.org. I'd love to hear from you!For more stories and future episodes, visit apexanthologies.com. You can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.From the Apex leadership to you, have a merry Christmas! We hope you enjoy time with family and friends and that you can rest knowing that the promised seed has come.

In the next few episodes, we wanted to discuss important themes that we usually miss during this Christmas season. Our culture can make Christmas about a lot of different things, but we know that Christmas really is about how God came to us; 'Emmanuel'. That reality is a mind blowing, insane, grace-filled story. So, today we're going to talk about God bringing Heaven and Earth back together.We'll be chatting with Chad Osborne, Mark Eilers, a Region 5 elder, and Mark's wife, Joan Eilers, who also is on our admin team.As we talked about in the episode, if you'd like some more resources on Heaven and Earth check out The Bible Project's video called Heaven & Earth. If you'd like to understand the Bible as a big story, take a look at James L. Nicodem's book called Epic: The Storyline of the Bible. Also, stay tuned for Apex's resource called Foundations that we're planning on releasing in 2019.

As we're coming to the end of 2018, we thought it would be helpful to reflect on what's happened in the Going ministry this year. We also wanted to vision-cast and let you hear what we're excited about for 2019. I'm joined with the Going Team Lead, Jesse Bowers, and the Going Team Admin, Rosalind Whitman.I'm glad we got to sit down and discuss what all he's been doing with the Going ministry. If you are confused on how our Going ministry works, make sure to check out episode 5 on our podcast!

In this episode, Jason Zastrow and I are talking with Jillian Vincent and Natalie Herr. You might recognize their names from their ministry called Dayton Women in the Word. But before they helped lead that, they were regular Apexers listening to what the Spirit had for them to do next. Today you'll be hearing their stories and their heart for learning and teaching God's word.This episode helped me get excited about reading and diving deep into the word. I hope it did the same for you! Make sure to go to daytonwomenintheword.com and catch all of their helpful resources. They also have a great podcast, so make sure to check that out on your favorite podcast app. Just search for “Dayton Women in the Word”.If you're an Apexer and would like to join their women's winter study, go to apexcommunity.org/news to find more info!If you have any questions comments, or show ideas, please send an email at podcast@apexcommunity.org. I'd love to hear from you!For more stories and future episodes, visit apexanthologies.com. You can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

In today's episode, we're going to talk about how a needless division exists between those who want to care for their local community and those who want to care for the global community. I’ll be chatting with Jesse Bowers, our Going team lead, and Jason Zastrow, our Growing team lead.If you have any questions comments, or show ideas, please send an email at podcast@apexcommunity.org. I'd love to hear from you!For more stories and future episodes, visit apexanthologies.com. You can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

Thanksgiving is in a few days, so we thought it would be a great time to talk about gratitude! We'll be sitting down with the entire Apex Anthologies Podcast team which includes Jesse Bowers, Chad Osborne, and Jason Zastrow.If you have any questions comments, or show ideas, please send an email at podcast@apexcommunity.org. I'd love to hear from you!For more stories and future episodes, visit apexanthologies.com. You can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

In this episode, you'll be hearing about Dayton Family Tree, a house church ministry serving those who are serving kids from hard places.We know from scripture we should care for orphans, but sometimes it's hard to know where to start. I hope hearing this story showed you how God's heart for the orphans shapes our hearts. If you, or someone you know needs help with fostering or adopting, make sure to go to daytonfamilytree.com.

In this episode, you'll be hearing a conversation about the importance of caring for kids affected by trauma and how it changes your heart, family, and views on obedience and culture.Make sure to listen to part 3 here!