Adonai has spoken audibly to human ears only a handful of times in Scripture. One of those times was on the Mount of Transfiguration. The message was five words. This is My beloved Son. Then three more. Listen to Him. Host Rolland Wright asks the question the modern church has largely stopped asking. Are we? In this Tuesday solo teaching, Rolland walks Matthew 17 and the specific instructions Yeshua gave that get quoted often but obeyed rarely. Sell what you have. Deny yourself. Love your enemies. Forgive. He walks the shift from Kingdom Christianity to consumer Christianity. He closes with a story about a coat, a homeless man, and the wife who found him weeks later to say my husband loved you. Not sermons. Not programs. A coat, a conversation, and a life quietly changed. Are you listening?

You'll hear:

• The Mount of Transfiguration and the audible voice from the cloud
• This is My beloved Son. Listen to Him. — the command from the Father
• The resistance most believers feel when asked whether we are actually listening
• The Great Commission as a command, not a slogan
• The shift from Kingdom-of-Heaven Christianity to consumer Christianity
• Sermons rated by how they make us feel
• Worship songs measured by how much they move us
• The customer replacing the disciple
• The specific instructions Yeshua gave that get quoted rarely obeyed — sell, give, deny, follow, love enemies, forgive
• The cost of discipleship versus the comfort of attendance
• Rolland's encounter with a homeless couple
• The coat, the conversation, and the wife who found him weeks later
• My husband loved you — and what that means
• The Ekklesia lifestyle as daily obedience, not Sunday commitment

Scripture referenced: Matthew 17:1–8 (the Transfiguration), Matthew 28:18–20 (the Great Commission), Matthew 6 (do not store up treasures, do not worry, forgive as you have been forgiven), Luke 9:23 (deny yourself, take up your cross), Matthew 5:44 (love your enemies), Acts 28 (Paul on Malta and the healing that opened the whole island)

Resources

Ekklesia Declared! — https://a.co/d/0fkrigsyEkklesia Infused! — https://a.co/d/0gdii5A0Choose Life — https://a.co/d/069OtMTNChoose Life Workbook — https://a.co/d/06vseuNHFirst Place Ministries Website — https://www.firstplaceministries.comSupport the Ministry via PayPal — https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=82WSYT9FXJ9CYConnect with Caliatra — https://www.facebook.com/Chaplaincaliatra

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• TLV (Tree of Life Version) — the Scripture translation Rolland uses

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Our Forever Family — Rolland returns with the next solo teaching in the Ekklesia Series.

Watch a room of toddlers with a pile of toys. There is always the one toy. And whoever has it says the same word every child in every language eventually learns. Mine. Host Rolland Wright says most of us never grew out of it. And Acts 2 shows us what a community actually looks like when they finally do. In this teaching, Rolland walks Acts 2:42–47 line by line and asks the honest question: how much of the toddler instinct is still shaping the way we as adults hold what Adonai has given us? He walks the cultural conditioning of consumerism and contrasts it with the Acts 2 pattern of open-handed community. Not communism. What Rolland calls common-ism — a Spirit-formed practice. And the truth that reframes everything: we are not owners. We are managers of what Adonai entrusts to us.

You have left the faith. There is a conversation many believers walking out of institutional church have had, and most of them have not known how to answer. In this episode, host Rolland Wright continues the fresh conversation with Pastor Tim Kurtz, author of Leaving Church, Becoming Ekklesia. Tim opens with a personal story about his mother that he has since repented of. He walks his Boots on the Ground initiative — a systematic training on Ephesians 4 that turns believers from hearers into doers. They open Malachi 3, Matthew 15, and the corban tradition Yeshua confronted. And they sit with 2 Timothy 3 and the man in the mirror. Tim closes with three things: study to show yourself approved, pray for the people who cannot yet see, live it. The doing is the answer.

You'll hear:

• Tim's personal story about lashing out at his mother — and the repentance that followed
• Why the answer to the you've left the faith conversation is not defensive
• Boots on the Ground — Tim's systematic training on Ephesians 4
• The Bible class where Tim asked, what is the work of ministry?
• Working the sound system, folding bulletins, and the machine Paul never imagined
• Malachi 3 and the honor commandment
• Matthew 15 — Yeshua confronting the corban tradition
• How the corban mindset still operates in modern religious life
• 2 Timothy 3 and the last-days list — and the man in the mirror
• The three things Tim wants listeners to hold onto — study, pray, live
• A mutual prayer over the audience
• How to reach Tim if you want to engage further

Scripture referenced: Ephesians 4, Malachi 3, Matthew 15, 2 Timothy 3, Acts 2, Romans 12, Hebrews 10

Resources

Ekklesia Declared! — https://a.co/d/0fkrigsyEkklesia Infused! — https://a.co/d/0gdii5A0Choose Life — https://a.co/d/069OtMTNChoose Life Workbook — https://a.co/d/06vseuNHFirst Place Ministries Website — https://www.firstplaceministries.comSupport the Ministry via PayPal — https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=82WSYT9FXJ9CYConnect with Caliatra — https://www.facebook.com/Chaplaincaliatra

Guest Resources — Pastor Tim Kurtz

Leaving Church, Becoming Ekklesia by Tim Kurtz - https://a.co/d/0cmYF0rCNo Longer Church As Usual by Tim Kurtz - https://a.co/d/0iA1adAmTim Kurtz's ministry website - https://theekklesiacenter.org/Follow ReGenesis

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Rolland returns with the next solo teaching in the Ekklesia Series.

Yeshua did not say church. He said Ekklesia.

And Ekklesia is not just an assembly. It is a legislative body. A governing council. When Yeshua declared upon this rock I will build my Ekklesia at Caesarea Philippi, the Greeks and Romans in earshot understood the concept immediately. They had Ekklesias in every community. Yeshua was declaring that His followers would function as a governing body for the Kingdom of Heaven on earth as it is in heaven.

In Part 2 of this teaching, host Rolland Wright picks up from where Part 1 closed and walks the pivot Pentecost launched. The word church, inserted by King James's translators in the 1600s. The moment Rolland met Brian Simmons, lead translator of the Passion Translation, and asked him about Matthew 16:18. The Passion's later rendering of the verse: my legislative assembly.

He walks a new anointing (Acts 1:8), a new commission (Matthew 28:18–20 read starting at verse 18, not 19), a new immersion in the Ruach ha-Kodesh, and closes on Luke 5:36–39 and the new wine. The line most pulpits skip: No one who drinks old wine wants the new, because he says the old is fine.

Rolland says he wants the new wine. He hopes his listeners do too.

WHAT YOU'LL HEAR

• Picking up Part 1: Who do you say that I am?

• Matthew 16:18 walked in the original Greek

• Ekklesia as legislative body, not just assembly

• The Passion Translation's rendering of legislative assembly

• New anointing — Acts 1:8

• Why we start at Matthew 28:18, not verse 19

• Make disciples, not just teach

• New immersion in the Ruach ha-Kodesh

• What Rolland actually experienced when the Ruach came upon him

• 2 Timothy 3 and the man Rolland did not recognize as himself

• If the vertical is not right, the horizontal cannot be either

• The Ruach as helper, comforter, restrainer

• New wine — Luke 5:36–39

• No one who drinks old wine wants the new

• Seek Him today. Seek the new wine.

📚 RESOURCES

Ekklesia Declared! — https://a.co/d/0fkrigsy

Ekklesia Infused! — https://a.co/d/0gdii5A0

Choose Life — https://a.co/d/069OtMTN

Choose Life Workbook — https://a.co/d/06vseuNH

First Place Ministries Website — https://www.firstplaceministries.com

Support the Ministry via PayPal — https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=82WSYT9FXJ9CY

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MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

The Passion Translation — Brian Simmons, lead translator

TLV (Tree of Life Version) — Kings University / Jack Hayford / Messianic collaboration The Divine Mentor by Wayne Cordeiro

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First Place Ministries | Colossians 1:18b "That He might come to have first place in all things."

Six years ago Pastor Tim Kurtz and host Rolland Wright had two conversations that ended up in the ReGenesis archives. This year they reconnected. Both men are still walking the same road. In this fresh conversation, Tim and Rolland open up about the last six years — what they have watched with believers who tried to leave and could not, believers who did and paid the cost, and what they have learned about what Ekklesia actually is. And just as importantly, what it is not. They walk Tim's Ephesians 4 class where he asked what is the work of ministry?

They walk the Israel-out-of-Egypt pattern. They walk the doulos question. And Rolland closes with Luke 5:39 — the line nobody preaches after the wineskins parable. We are not mad at church folks. Part 2 continues next week.

You'll hear:

• The reunion — how Tim and Rolland reconnected six years after the archive conversations

• Why the church mindset is more powerful than either man realized

• Tim's honest admission — the pageantry still pulls at him sometimes

• Rolland's parallel admission from his own music-ministry background

• Six years of watching believers try to leave — and some going back

• What Yeshua told Peter about the cost of leaving everything

• The Ephesians 4 class where Tim asked what is the work of ministry?

• The bulletin-folding ministry and other things Paul never imagined

• Coming out of Egypt with only slaves for counsel

• Why so many believers turn back to the system

• Not one stone left upon another — Yeshua dismantling a whole system, not just a temple

• The Kings University / TLV translation and community as the term for Ekklesia

• Rolland on King James, the Divine Right of Kings, and the Supremacy of the Crown

• The doulos question — servant, slave, and why Paul used a word English Bibles have softened

• Luke 5:39 — the line nobody preaches after the wineskins parable

• The mutual clarification: We are not mad at church folks

• A preview of Tim's Boots on the Ground initiative — Part 2

Scripture referenced: Matthew 16:18, Matthew 19:27–29 (Peter's what is in this for us?), Ephesians 4, John 4 (the woman at the well), Luke 5:36–39 (the wineskins), Nehemiah (the wall and the divided worship), Exodus (coming out of Egypt), Romans 6 (slaves of righteousness)

Resources

Ekklesia Declared! — https://a.co/d/0fkrigsy Ekklesia Infused! — https://a.co/d/0gdii5A0 Choose Life — https://a.co/d/069OtMTN Choose Life Workbook — https://a.co/d/06vseuNH First Place Ministries Website — https://www.firstplaceministries.com Support the Ministry via PayPal — https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=82WSYT9FXJ9CY Connect with Caliatra — https://www.facebook.com/Chaplaincaliatra

Guest Resources — Pastor Tim Kurtz Leaving Church, Becoming Ekklesia by Tim Kurtz — [INSERT VERIFIED LINK] No Longer Church As Usual by Tim Kurtz — [INSERT VERIFIED LINK] Tim Kurtz's ministry website — [INSERT VERIFIED LINK]

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Ekklesia Arising by Dean Briggs

• TLV (Tree of Life Version) — Kings University / Jack Hayford collaboration with a Messianic group

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The word new shows up in Scripture 314 times. And most of us have never sat with what it actually means — recently created, having started to exist recently, something that never existed before. That is what Pentecost was.

In this episode, host Rolland Wright walks a Good Friday teaching that stretches from Genesis 1 to Revelation 21 and lands squarely on what Pentecost launched. A new relationship — the believer as the temple. A new creation — 2 Corinthians 5:17. A new accessibility — direct to Adonai, no mediator required. A new nature — Ephesians 4 walked line by line. A new worship — the woman at the well and worship in spirit and truth. And the opening of a new community — the question Yeshua puts to Simon Peter at Caesarea Philippi and puts to us.

Who do you say that I am?

This is Part 1 of a two-part teaching.

RESOURCESEkklesia Declared! — https://a.co/d/0fkrigsyEkklesia Infused! — https://a.co/d/0gdii5A0Choose Life — https://a.co/d/069OtMTNChoose Life Workbook — https://a.co/d/06vseuNHFirst Place Ministries Website — https://www.firstplaceministries.comSupport the Ministry via PayPal — https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=82WSYT9FXJ9CYConnect with Caliatra — https://www.facebook.com/Chaplaincaliatra

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODETLV (Tree of Life Version)

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First Place Ministries | Colossians 1:18b

"I was ruined for modern Christianity when I came to Christ in Hawaii."

Shawn O'Schrader was thirty-one and totally unchurched when he found a small church in Hawaii where the practice was simple: when someone walked in the door, the question was not who invited them. The question was that God did. In this Thursday interview, host Rolland Wright sits down with Shawn — a Pacific Northwest believer Rolland first met during COVID at Grand Avenue Park in Everett. The conversation walks Shawn's path from Hawaii, through Henry Blackaby's Experiencing God, through the 2018 launch of house Ekklesias that multiplied into three communities, into five trips to Nepal and a ministry sponsoring computers for at-risk Nepali kids with discipleship built into the curriculum. God is under no obligation to bless what I do for Him, but He will bless His work when I do it His way.

You'll hear:

• Shawn's conversion in Hawaii at thirty-one — and the church that ruined him for modern Christianity

• The three expectations of that church: ministry involvement, family ministry (home gatherings), and Experiencing God

• Henry Blackaby's framework and why it still shapes Shawn's discipleship

• The 2018 launch of house Ekklesias from Shawn and Becky's home

• Multiplying from one gathering to three

• The COVID-era park gatherings in Grand Avenue Park, Everett, where Shawn and Rolland first met

• Picking up strays — Shawn's adult daughter's description of their open-home ministry

• Nepal: five trips since 2018

• Baburam's story — the son of a Hindu high priest who started speaking after praying for rest

• Why healing is central to evangelism in Nepal

• The Luke 10 method — bless, fellowship, heal, then proclaim

• The computer sponsorship ministry — three hundred dollars per laptop, discipleship through typing Scripture

• God is under no obligation to bless what I do for Him, but He will bless His work when I do it His way

• David Albrecht's line about letting your light shine — but somebody's got to tell them who flipped the switch

Scripture referenced: Acts 17:11 (the Bereans), Luke 10 (the sending of the seventy), Deuteronomy 29:29 (the secret things and the things revealed), Ephesians 4 (equipping the saints), Matthew 5:16 (let your light shine), John 5:19 (the Son does what He sees the Father doing)

Resources

Ekklesia Declared! — https://a.co/d/0fkrigsy

Ekklesia Infused! — https://a.co/d/0gdii5A0

Choose Life — https://a.co/d/069OtMTN

Choose Life Workbook — https://a.co/d/06vseuNH

First Place Ministries Website — https://www.firstplaceministries.com

Support the Ministry via PayPal — https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=82WSYT9FXJ9CY

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Guest Resources — Shawn O'Schrader

Email: shawnoschrader@gmail.com

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Experiencing God by Henry Blackaby

• Henry Blackaby Ministries (now run by Henry's son Richard Blackaby)

• Baburam and the children's home in Pokhara, Nepal

• David Albrecht — Christian author and speaker

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All Things New, Part 1 — Rolland returns with the next solo teaching in the Ekklesia Series.

This episode is Part 2 of the teaching Rolland began last week with Do You Fast? The Fast God Wants. Part 1 walked Isaiah 58 — the fast Adonai actually chooses, the sin of omission, the question of whether we may be blocking our own healing by not fasting the way Scripture describes. Part 2 turns to the New Testament companion: Matthew 25:31–46.

It was the doing that determined eternity in Yeshua's message." Part 1 of this teaching walked Isaiah 58. Part 2 turns to Matthew 25:31–46. The Son of Man returns. The sheep are separated from the goats. And the criteria Yeshua names are striking — not doctrine, not creed. I was hungry. I was thirsty. I was a stranger. I was naked. I was sick. I was in prison. Host Rolland Wright anchors the teaching in James — faith without works is dead — and reminds listeners that Abraham was called a friend of God because he did, not because he declared. He closes with an introduction to Keith Green, the revivalist who died young in 1982, and points listeners to Green's The Sheep and the Goats. Are you a sheep or a goat?

The episode ends with a question Rolland is not asking rhetorically. Are you a sheep or a goat? Are you a doer or a hearer? Is your name written?

You'll hear:

• The if-then structure of Isaiah 58 most listeners missed last week

• The promises that follow obedience — guidance, satisfaction, light in darkness

• Matthew 25:31–46 read in full

• The sheep and the goats and the criteria Yeshua actually named

• Why this is not works-righteousness — James on faith and works

• Abraham was called a friend of God because he did, not because he declared

• The popular contemporary worship line "I am a friend of God" and the question Rolland raises about it

• The discipleship gap in the modern church — and what the Choose Life video series is meant to address

• An introduction to Keith Green and his recorded message The Sheep and the Goats

• Why Rolland does the Thursday interviews — to honor the doers Scripture describes

• Closing question: are you a sheep or a goat?

Scripture referenced: Isaiah 58:13–14, Matthew 25:31–46, James (Jacob) 2:14–26, Romans 12:2, the Lord's Prayer and the verses that follow it on forgiveness

Resources

Ekklesia Declared! — https://a.co/d/0fkrigsy

Ekklesia Infused! — https://a.co/d/0gdii5A0

Choose Life — https://a.co/d/069OtMTN

Choose Life Workbook — https://a.co/d/06vseuNH

First Place Ministries Website — https://www.firstplaceministries.com

Support the Ministry via PayPal — https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=82WSYT9FXJ9CY

Connect with Caliatra — https://www.facebook.com/Chaplaincaliatra

Mentioned in this episode:

• Keith Green — The Sheep and the Goats (search on YouTube)

• TLV (Tree of Life Version) — the Scripture translation Rolland uses

• Choose Life video series (forthcoming this fall)

  
  

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Shawn O'Schrader: Ekklesia Lifestyle — a conversation with a believer Rolland met during COVID in Grand Avenue Park, Everett, Washington. Hawaii conversion. Henry Blackaby's Experiencing God. House church multiplication. Computer sponsorship for at-risk youth in Nepal. The Ekklesia lifestyle, walked out.