Crucial Conversation – Details, episodes & analysis

Last week we lost a dear friend of the show. This is her story.

The Urshan name is a household name in the Apostolic movement. In this episode you will hear a lot of the back story and how the foundation began. Sit back, relax and enjoy another Crucial Conversation.

Scars come in many forms. Physically, Mentally and Emotionally. Listen to Paula LeJeune's story of being born a Siamese twin and being the one who survived not only a very rare surgery but an abusive childhood and growing up poor. Hear how her trust in God changes her story to one of finding true love, forgiveness and a brand new outlook on life. 

Bro. Fazel Culbreath is a bible study teacher extraordinaire. This week you will hear him give practical advice and share testimonies about teaching home bible studies. During this recording you will hear the power of God start to move. We are excited to share this very crucial conversation. 

During the pandemic a lot of things were a reality check. Including realizing just how much we depended on our school system and Sunday school departments to teach our children. When the world stopped so did that learning for our kids. In this episode Adam Dozier and Kim Ramsey speak about their burden to not let the spiritual growth stop in our young generation. Together they wrote a Just for Kids bible study to help develop a relationship with God.

From addiction to grace. Scott Breedlove tells his story from how went from a life full of addiction to opening restoration houses. In this episode you will hear a story about how God spoke to him while he was in the middle of a shift bartending and knew INSTANTLY his life was about to change. 

The words we speak are real. We have no idea how they really effect people. In this episode we speak to a licensed therapist who battled with spiritual abuse. Denise Lee shares her story with us in this conversation.

Dr. Brickle teaches New Testament studies and Greek at UGST in Wentzville, Missouri. While his research interests are eclectic, he focuses primarily on the confluence of Johannine Literature with Ancient Media Culture (orality/aurality, sound mapping, memory arts, literary and book culture, performance, spatiality, intertextuality). Along with his published dissertation, Aural Design and Coherence in the Prologue of First John (T&T Clark, 2012), he has contributed essays to The Fourth Gospel in First-Century Media Culture (T&T Clark, 2011), Rethinking the Ethics of John (Mohr Siebeck, 2012), Memory and Identity in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (SBL Press, 2014), Abiding Words: The Use of Scripture in the Gospel of John (SBL Press, 2015), and Sound Matters: New Testament Studies in Sound Mapping (Cascade, 2018). He also has written and edited for a more general readership: The Apostolic Study Bible (New Testament editor and contributor), Handbook on the Gospels, and Handbook on the General Epistles and Revelation (co-authored).

Dr. Brickle earned degrees from Harvard University (A.L.B. in Religion), Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (M.A. in Urban Ministry), and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis (Ph.D. in Biblical Studies). His professional memberships include Society of Biblical Literature, Society for Pentecostal Studies, and Institute for Biblical Research. In addition to 18 years teaching at UGST, Dr. Brickle has also served as a full-time instructor at Gateway College of Evangelism, assistant pastor, full-time campus minister, lab administrator at Harvard University's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and support staff member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has played the electric bass since 1976, holds an associates degree in music (Finger Lakes Community College), and studied bass at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He grew up on a farm outside the small town of Phelps, New York.

This dynamic duo sits in on a conversation with us and explains their burden for reaching a generation through music. Their passion is 2nd to none. Enjoy this episode! 

Faith over Fear has been theme for the year of 2020. In a year unlike we've ever seen as a society Mark Crowder set out to change the perception of living with Faith instead of Fear. We speak with Mark about his most recent project he just recorded at his church in Ohio to his UPCI General Conference sessions. In this episode you will hear the heartbeat and future for what is in store for his ministry and how he coveys what God gives him.