Posts by Caesar Kalinowski
Halloween: Your Neighborhood Mission
Halloween has some “dark history”, and many of us were taught that this was a holiday you were supposed to avoid if you’re a Christian. But the truth behind this annual event may surprise you. There’s no reason to miss out on this HUGE chance to bring redemption to your neighborhood. In this episode, Caesar…
Read More and ListenHow Seasonal Rhythms Serve Our Disciple-making
Regardless of where you live, the changing seasons can provide you with diverse opportunities for gospel growth and disciple-making. God designed it that way! In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we explore how seasonal rhythms can positively impact relationships and discipleship–if you embrace them. In This Episode You’ll Learn: Seasonal rhythms and their…
Read More and ListenHow Leaders Keep from Burning Out or Tapping Out
My good buddy Hugh Halter and I have been rejoicing and commiserating lately about how long we have actually been doing this. Ministry in its various forms. Trying to lead people into a lifestyle of discipleship and mission. Decades of it now. Man, we’re getting old, bro. Somewhere in all that commiserating we started wrestling…
Read MoreHearing God With a Head Full of Voices
Are we hearing impaired when it comes to the voice of God? Could it be that what we believe and have labeled as relational, emotional, and spiritual problems are actually ‘hearing’ problems? In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, Caesar shows us how to turn down the negative voices in our heads, dial in…
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There are a zillion things I still want in life. Okay, maybe just a few thousand. But my life has been filled with an absurd amount of blessing, and I don’t always slow down enough to notice it. Tina and I were driving the other night and got to talking about what we’re actually thankful…
Read More5 Ongoing Essentials Missional Leaders Need
Leadership within the Church is so much more than just tasks and jobs getting done. Biblical leadership does get things done and serve the Family, but effectiveness as leaders is so much more about character, their hearts, and a growing ability to speak and model the Gospel in all of life. In this episode, Caesar…
Read More and ListenGospel Tipping: God Definitely Over-Tipped Us
Is it just me, or does it seem like more and more people expect a tip these days? At higher and higher rates. When Tina and I lived in Manhattan we had to actively plan to carry cash in small bills at all times, because the whole city runs on tipping. So the questions pile…
Read MoreDealing With Limiting Beliefs About Discipleship And Mission
As Christians, we most often use the word “belief” in connection to our faith and the Bible, but we also have beliefs that shape our lives connected to pretty much every action or inaction in life. Sometimes these beliefs can limit our potential. In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’ll talk about how…
Read More and ListenWhy We Stopped Taking Our Kids’ Sin Personally
When it comes to parenting, everybody has advice for you. Mostly about how you should raise your kids. Less about theirs. So I want to pass along one piece that actually held up, given to Tina and me a long time ago. Our kids were little at the time. Around three, five and seven. And…
Read MoreSpirituality That Fuels God’s Mission
Mission for God and intimacy with God can often become disconnected and seem like competing priorities and passions. But what if you could cultivate a vibrant and authentic spirituality that doesn’t draw you away from your neighbors, but propels you into the lives of others and the needs of your city? In this episode of…
Read More and ListenHow to Create a Lifestyle of Discipleship
Is discipleship about gaining knowledge, or is it about a transformed life? Is it a series of classes or, like with Jesus and his pals, was it an all-of-life kind of a deal? In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’re talking about true discipleship and looking at what a lifestyle of discipleship looks…
Read More and Listen5 Dumb Things Christians Need To Stop Doing
The life of Jesus was and will always be counter-cultural. But often, it seems, we’re not ridiculed or rejected because we’re living such radically loving and selfless lives, it’s because we actually live so little like Jesus. In this episode, Caesar looks at 5 dumb things that Christians need to stop doing that are affecting…
Read More and ListenDiscipleship Rhythms For a Community on Mission
Ministry and discipleship cannot merely be a series of events on the calendar. If all we have are organized events, then what we offer people is a program. But, if all we do in our disciple-making is organic and rarely organized or predictable, it is hard for people to know what it is we’re asking…
Read More and Listen7 Reasons You Need to Play More
Ever since I was a young guy I’ve loved riding motorcycles. I’ve told you before about my thing for Harleys. What’s changed is that I no longer think of riding as something I enjoy. I’ve come around to thinking I actually need it. And often. Here’s my problem. My natural setting is workaholic, and I…
Read More7 Challenges To Cultural Diversity in the Church
Experiencing a diverse group of believers walking with and worshiping God together as a family is a beautiful thing. However, there will be obstacles to overcome for this to become a common reality. In this episode, Caesar walks through 7 challenges to greater cultural diversity that are facing the Church. Some of these are age-old,…
Read More and Listen5 Steps to a Date Night That Actually Happens
I started dating Tina when we were both sixteen and in high school. We have now been together for well over half of our lives. I can barely remember a “me” without her in it. Love you, honey. We started out as friends who dated, and somewhere in all the years since we figured out…
Read MoreIt’s Time For The Church To Tell a New Story (w/Brad Brisco)
If we are serious about changing the culture within the church, then we must begin to change the narrative that leaders tell. If the only stories we are telling through social media are who is preaching, what you’re preaching, and how amazing everything was on Sunday, then we will continue to get and BE what…
Read More and ListenWhen Your Faith Feels Like a Burden, Not a Gift
There’s a version of faith that wears you out. You know what I mean. The Sunday morning guilt when you didn’t read your Bible all week. The internal ledger — what you should have done, what you shouldn’t have said, how you ought to be further along by now. The creeping sense that if God…
Read MoreWhen Faith Feels Like a Foreign Language
There’s something most Christians don’t talk about openly. You know the gospel. You’ve heard it preached, you’ve read it in Scripture, maybe you’ve even shared it with someone who didn’t know Jesus. But when a real moment arrives — a friend confessing something they’re ashamed of, a family member clearly wrestling with something deep, a…
Read MoreWhat Causes Sin and How to Stop It
“Just stop it!” doesn’t really work when it comes to changing sinful actions, habits, or thoughts in our lives (or in others). And perhaps what you’ve been taught about sin and repentance is all wrong… Today on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we talk about where sin really comes from and how we can move away…
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