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The Advent and Christmas Seasons

This week, Peter and Leslie, begin a short series on the Advent and Christmas Season. Advent is that time in the liturgical calendar when we, the faithful, prepare our hearts to celebrate the coming of the Lord! His coming, both as the babe in Bethlehem and the conquering King at the end of time, gives us hope in the midst of an unstable world. To celebrate Advent, it is necessary to understand its history as well as its theology. Advent is key to a correct approach to the holiday season and allows us to make Jesus first in a secular culture!

Rebuilding a Missional Church- Part XII

This week, Peter and Leslie completed their Rebuilding a Missional Church series. Throughout this series, the Doanes have drawn upon Sacred Scripture, the Catholic Church's Catechism, the Saints' lives, and the Church's teachings to demonstrate the "time is now" for every Catholic believer to move from "maintenance to mission.! The Lord is calling each of us out of our comfort zone to begin to imitate, in our callings, the mindset that St. Paul modeled as he went forward to extend the Kingdom of God. The American Church needs volunteers to bring this pioneering approach. Will you and I answer this call? This series can become a life-changer for individuals, families, and local parishes!

Rebuilding a Missional Church- Following in St. Paul's Footsteps- Part X

This week, Peter and Leslie complete their series of four broadcasts, recounting their pilgrimage "Following in the Footsteps of St. Paul."  In the middle of this series, Rebuilding a Missional Church, The Lord gave Peter and Leslie a providential divine appointment! They have just returned from a two-week pilgrimage to Greece and Turkey. They visited the places where St. Paul and his team carried the Gospel on their second and third missionary journeys. In this fourth and final episode, the Doanes discuss their visit to Ephesus. There, they encountered the Holy Spirit as they visited the Cave of St. John on the Isle of Patmos and the burial site of the disciple who leaned on Jesus's breast! They also visited the house of the Blessed Mother, which was discovered due to a mystic's revelation. Their experiences continued to build on the foundation that the early church was missional to the core! This series can catalyze listeners to "volunteer" and become missionary disciples and "Follow in the Footsteps of St. Paul!"

Rebuilding a Missional Church- Following in St. Paul's Footsteps- Part IX

 This week, Peter and Leslie continue their series of broadcasts, Rebuilding a Missional Church! In the middle of this important series, the Lord gave Peter and Leslie a providential divine appointment! They have just returned from a two-week pilgrimage to Greece and Turkey. They visited the places where St. Paul and his team carried the Gospel on their second and third missionary journeys. In this third episode, the Doanes describe what St. Paul emphasized in his preaching on his missionary journeys: Christ Jesus and Him crucified!. They also discuss what St. Paul shared and where he shared the Gospel. The Apostle carries out his calling but also becomes our model on how we, as missionary disciples, need to reproduce what he did in the first century. Just as St. Paul had a target for his outreach, we, too, can look at certain arenas where the Lord wants to send us. We, too, can adopt St. Paul's mindset! Nothing less will change our culture and world!

Rebuilding a Missional Church- Following in St. Paul's Footsteps- Part VIII

 This week, Peter and Leslie continue their series of broadcasts, Rebuilding a Missional Church! In the middle of this important series, the Lord gave Peter and Leslie a providential divine appointment! They have just returned from a two-week pilgrimage to Greece and Turkey. They visited the places where St. Paul and his team carried the Gospel on their second and third missionary journeys. In this second of three episodes, the Doanes describe what motivated St. Paul to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ into Europe. They also explore the culture that Paul faced and how we must learn from him as we face an anti-Christian culture today. If the Western Church is to make a turnaround and not lose relevancy, we must replicate the approach of St. Paul in our day and age!

Rebuilding a Missional Church- Following in St. Paul's Footsteps- Part VII

 This week, Peter and Leslie continue their series of broadcasts, Rebuilding a Missional Church! In the middle of this important series, the Lord gave Peter and Leslie a providential divine appointment! They have just returned from a two-week pilgrimage to Greece and Turkey. They visited the places where St. Paul and his team carried the Gospel on their second and third missionary journeys. The Doanes share how pilgrimage can be a powerful "life-changing" event. This pilgrimage provided information and, even more, a formation and vision for rebuilding a missional church. St. Paul provides us with the mindset and strategies to make this a reality in the Western church today!

Rebuilding a Missional Church-Part VI

This week, Peter and Leslie continue their series of broadcasts, Rebuilding a Missional Church! The next step after encountering the Lord Jesus is building a personal relationship with Him. That relationship will become the basis for us to develop "our story"  of how Jesus changed our lives. The question becomes, when and where does the Lord want me to share my story? How will I know the time is right? Sacred Scripture teaches a powerful metaphor- the Open Door! Over 400 times, the bible speaks of or alludes to "doors." St. Paul teaches us in the book of Colossians that "doors" are opportunities for spreading the Good News. Listen as the Doanes help make the "when" and "where" God gives us an open door clear and practical!

Rebuilding a Missional Church-Part V

This week, Peter and Leslie continue their series of broadcasts, Rebuilding a Missional Church! The next step after encountering the Lord Jesus is building a personal relationship with Him. That relationship will become the basis for us to develop "our story"  of how Jesus changed our lives. Peter and Leslie share how stories are powerful and how God has "hardwired" the human brain to respond to stories so that facts and statistics do not compare. Putting together our personal story is an important exercise so we can be prepared to share the Lord's life with those He may send us to. A Missional Church will consist of not just a few who share the story of salvation with others. But instead, that characteristic will be in every true Catholic believer! The Lord is preparing a People who will be His instruments in these challenging yet exciting times in which we live. Will you volunteer to serve Him?

Rebuilding a Missional Church-Part IV

This week, Peter and Leslie continue their series of broadcasts, Rebuilding a Missional Church! When St. Peter confessed that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of the Living God, he took the first step necessary to follow Jesus. But that would only be the beginning. Following Jesus would mean developing a personal relationship with Him. This would take place on the Lord's terms and not Peter's. So, with us, we are called not only to make an initial commitment to our Lord but also to follow the pattern we see in St. Peter. We are also called to develop a personal relationship with Jesus Christ through the patterns we see in Sacred Scripture and the Saints' lives. The Lord is a builder and a rebuilder. He plans to rebuild His Church as a "missional church" by creating a company of Catholic disciples with a deep and profound personal relationship with Him!

Rebuilding a Missional Church-Part III

This week, Peter and Leslie continue their new series of broadcasts, Rebuilding a Missional Church! When Jesus first spoke of building His Church, he did so at Caesarea Phillipi, where paganism, perversion, idolatry, and the "gates of hell" were fully displayed. There, St. Peter made his prototype confession of who Jesus was, the Christ, Son of the living God! There, Jesus said He would build His Church, and the gates of hell would not prevail against it. This portion of Sacred Scripture sets in motion the events for building the Church and has the necessary dynamics to rebuild the Lord's Church in our generation. Everything that was taking place at Caesarea Phillipi has significance for us today if we are indeed going to rebuild the Catholic Church here in the West. Today's broadcast will give us a vision of how we can begin to enter this rebuilding call from Jesus Christ!