Citylight Family Podcast

Tim Raglin, elder and ministry leader, joins us and shares five things that can compromise and marginalize ministry leaders.

Barnabas Piper, author and pastor, joins the show and shares perspective and wisdom on growing up in the Church and on raising kids in the life of ministry.

Anthony from Citylight Lincoln and Luke from Citylight Omaha, Directors of Global Missions, share stories and vision behind God's heart toward the nations.

Austin Edwards and Josh Luse share what God has been doing in and through Citylight Lincoln.

Eric Carpenter, Director of Care at Citylight Omaha, joins us and shares how we can care for those in our church who are hurting and broken.

Alex Tuckniss joins us on the show and shares perspective and truth on how to engage and what to consider as we enter an election year.

Jon Randall, co lead pastor at Salt Church Greeley, sits down with us and discusses the call to church plant and offers encouragement and wisdom on what that looks like while updating our Family on Salt Church Greeley.

Gavin Johnson, co lead pastor at Omaha, joins us on the show and shares how he's navigated topics in our culture that can be divisive.

Episode 20 - Andrew Rutten, co lead pastor at Providence Church in Omaha, NE, sits down with us and shares what he has learned over the past 10+ years in preparing and preaching God's Word.

Dr. Matt LaPine joins Chris and Jared and talks about the how and why equipping the Church isn't just a good thing but a necessity for growth and stability. Episode 19

We talk about living on mission specifically in your neighborhood with guest Nate Morgan, Citylight North Lincoln pastor. He shares what this has looked like with he and his wife and their neighbors.

Welcome back Family and to another season of the Family Podcast! Chris & Jared sit down with Tom Rempel, retired pastor and church planter, as he shares with us over 50 years of ministry and personal experience and vision.

Jared and Chris sit down and talk about the 'why' and the 'how' on co leading a church.

We are taking some time off and will launch another season of the Family Podcast this fall. See you then!

Comments or questions, email us at communications@citylightfamily.org

We are talking about hard conversations and why they are important and how to have them. Trevor Nashleanas, Citylight Omaha, joins the show and shares practical truth and encouragement.

Why are elders biblical and vital to the church and to leadership? We sit down with co lead pastor, Phil Robinson, from Citylight Fort Collins, who launched a church a few years ago and who just recently commissioned their first elder board.

We sit down with Amy Wackerhagen, Citylight CB, and Christin McDermott, Citylight Omaha, and discuss the big take aways from this year's first LEAD women in leadership conference.

Join us as we sit down with Todd and Kristin Richardson, Citylight members, elder, and founders of Resurrecting Sexuality, and discuss Gospel centered marriages and how to advocate and shepherd this in your church and with your own marriage.

We discuss singleness in the Church. How do we as leaders and pastors see, care, and minister well to the singles in our church.

Join us as we sit down with college ministry leaders in the Citylight Family, Travis & Mirrya with Salt Company Omaha & Daniel with PC3. We discuss how to run toward college students well and how pastors and elders can and should support and lead college ministry.

We are talking about the next generation and why it makes sense to invest in the next generation specifically the college student.

In this episode we are taking some time to talk about rest. And not just rest, but intentional rest and what it looks like and how to lead it in your life and ministry. 

How does the Christian live in Gospel-centered community and why we think that matters.

Join us as we discuss knowing theologically who God is at a character level but also experiencing Him on a personal level.

We are talking about the gathered church and what it is...and what it isn't and why the family of God should gather together on a weekly basis.

There's a famine of friendship and even for ministry leaders. We discuss the dangerous place of having no authentic friends and why God calls into a deeper and transparent community. 

We are discussing culture on this episode and what the Gospel has to do with it. How do we cultivate culture, identify it, and protect it?

We are talking about identity and the symptoms that we find our identity in. What happens when people in ministry feel like that they have to walk around with an impressive exterior, while the inside they are questioning their worth? How do we step out of a place of fragile and crazy dysfunction and into a place of acceptance and strength in Jesus Christ?

We are talking about how God writes the best and most unexpected stories including the one He is writing with the Citylight Family of Churches.