Family Fest Speaker Podcast

Tom Thibodeau - SS17 Talk #2 - Nothing important in our lives happens fast

To be open to the Word, is to have our lives transformed. The Word demands discipline, obedience, and contemplation of us. Jesus is the most powerful Word that God ever spoke. Obedience is much more difficult than sacrifice. It's hard to learn, to listen, to be silent, to acquiesce in terms of our own will so that we can listen to God’s.

Samuel 3:1-9

Tom Thibodeau - SS17 Talk #3 - We are not human doings. We are human beings.

When we feel embedded in a community, we feel protected, respected, and connected which in turn generates enormous trust. Healthy communities create the context for us to relax our hearts and minds and we are open to hear and engage with each other.

Tom Thibodeau - SS17 Talk #4 - Those who choose to be joyful must help others find happiness.

The way we talked to and with each other shapes our lives, our families, our school, our church, and our nation. Those who want to live meaningfully must enrich the lives of others, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. The quality of our response to joy depends on the quality of our thoughts and love that we share and spread. The welfare of each of us is bound up in the welfare of all of us.

Tom Thibodeau - SS17 Talk #5 - We are not alone

We have been called into partnership with God to bring joy and love, peace and goodness into God's world. God speaks in the midst of the storms; at unexpected times when we're not prepared. After Jesus was transfigured, the disciples could not stay in the upper room. We too must go back onto the streets and bring the power of the love of Jesus Christ to others.

Tom Thibodeau - SS17 Talk #6 - The power of encouragement moves us forward.

Community takes a long time to form, for barriers to drop and for mutual confidence to grow. Community forms when we conscientiously seek the fulfillment and the happiness of every other member. Small acts of sharing life, small acts of nurturing joy, are small acts of meeting Jesus.

Laugh Often, Love More - Marriage Keynote

Pete Larson - Family Fest Ministries. Laugh Often, Love More Keynote is an approximately one-hour presentation geared for MOPS groups, Church marriage enrichment, Cana Dinners, or other groups looking for a fun and informative presentation on Christian marriage.

Don & Renee Worcester - WWF17 Talk #1- What's your navigation system?

God invites us into something that's greater than all of us. He wants us to receive him and he helps us sense his presence in one another. However, without a reliable navigation system we might wander into harm's way.

Scripture: John 4

Don & Renee Worcester - WWF17 Talk #2 - Essential Friends

There are times that we need to be carried and there are times that we're supposed to carry others and both of them require trust in God. To truly trust, we need to believe that the people closest to us will jump in the deep end for us. That they are willing to find us even though we're lost in the bottom.

Scripture: Mark 2

Don & Renee Worcester - WWF17 Talk #3 - Be careful what you hide

When you hide hurt, you become full of hurts and hurtful. When you hide fear, you fill up on fear and become fearful. And when you hide shame, you become full of shame and shameful. Be careful what you hide. The Lord tells us the denying, the ignoring, the fixing, the hiding will never serve us well. The repentance and confession is the way.

Don & Renee Worcester - WWF17 Talk #4 - Moving beyond the deeper brokenness

In confession, darkness gets released and no longer has power over us. We're safe when we're in the Lord’s light, not in the darkness. The Lord draws us in with a voice of love and compels us to be with him.