In a lifetime of church attendance, Rolland Wright says he has never once heard a pastor preach the passage he is about to walk through. The text is Isaiah 58.

The fast Adonai chooses is not about food. It is about untying the yoke of the oppressed. Sharing bread with the hungry. Bringing the homeless poor into your house.

In this solo teaching — the first of a two-part series — Rolland walks Isaiah 58 line by line, anchored in Richard Stearns's The Hole in Our Gospel and the concept of the sin of omission. He points back to recent ReGenesis guests Gary McReynolds and the Marendishes as living examples of believers who saw the need and went. Part 2 follows next Tuesday: What's a Doer?

You'll hear:

• Why Rolland has never heard a sermon preached on Isaiah 58
• Richard Stearns's The Hole in Our Gospel and the question it asked him
• Sins of commission and the sin most believers were never taught — omission
• The Good Samaritan as a study of the priest and Levite who walked past
• Traditional fasts — Daniel fasts, juice fasts, forty-day fasts, social media fasts — and what they all have in common
• Isaiah 58:1–14 walked line by line
• The fast that releases the bonds of wickedness and tears off every yoke
• The promise that follows obedience — light breaking forth like the dawn, healing springing up speedily
• Why we may be blocking our own healing by not fasting the way Adonai chooses
• Living examples from recent ReGenesis episodes: Gary McReynolds and the Marendishes
• A preview of Part 2: What's a Doer?

Scripture referenced: Isaiah 58:1–14, Matthew 28:19–20 (the "make disciples" correction), Luke 10:25–37 (the Good Samaritan)

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

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns
• Gary McReynolds — ReGenesis Recovery (recent ReGenesis interview)
• Chris and Mary Marendish — Word of Freedom Ministries (recent ReGenesis interview)
• TLV (Tree of Life Version) — the Scripture translation Rolland uses
• Choose Life video series — forthcoming complement to Rolland's book, releasing this fall

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What's a Doer? — Part 2 of this teaching. The New Testament companion to Isaiah 58, and a portrait of one man Rolland knew personally who was living it.

Pastor Tim Kurtz grew up so close to his childhood church the back door was a hundred feet from the parsonage. He was licensed in ministry, planted a work, and was on his way to building the next charismatic megachurch when the Ruach started tampering with him. In this archive conversation, host Rolland Wright sits down with Tim — author of Leaving Church, Becoming Ekklesia — for the long version of a story most believers have never heard told this honestly. The moment the lights came on. The seven primary covenants. The four-hundred-year windows from Egypt to Malachi to King James. And why the translators rendered Ekklesia as church 115 times and as assembly exactly once. Two pastors, two long walks out of institutional church, one shared conviction. Part 2 follows next week.You'll hear:

• Tim's childhood as a "church kid" next door to the parsonage

• His 1987 sense of being called to start a work, and the two-year notice he gave his pastor

• The 1992 launch of John 3:16 Ministries — and what the Ruach kept tampering with

• Care groups, control, and why the house-church movement didn't go far enough

• The book footnote where the word Ekklesia changed everything

• The seven primary covenants of Scripture, traced from Eden to the New Covenant

• The four-hundred-year windows — Egypt, the Malachi-to-Matthew silence, and now King James to today

• Why King James translated Ekklesia as church 115 times and as assembly exactly once

• Rolland and Tim on doulos — and the translation choice to soften slave into servant

• A shaking of earth and heaven — and how to know heaven is being shaken

• Two pastors, two long walks out of institutional church, one shared conviction

Scripture referenced: Matthew 16:18, Acts 19, Galatians 3, Ephesians 3, Hebrews 12, Romans 6, Genesis 1–11, Luke 3, Matthew 1, Malachi-to-Matthew (the silent four hundred years)

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 - https://a.co/d/0cmYF0rC

No Longer Church As Usual by Tim Kurtz - https://a.co/d/0iA1adAm

Tim Kurtz's ministry website - https://theekklesiacenter.org/

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Bondslave — forthcoming book from Rolland Wright

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

• New American Standard Bible and the Lockman Foundation

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Coming Next Tuesday

Do You Fast? The Fast God Wants — Rolland returns with a solo teaching on Isaiah 58 and the fast that actually moves heaven.

Coming Next ThursdayTim Kurtz Pt. 2: Ekklesia Center — the conversation continues, moving from theology into practice.

Part 1 named the system being built around us. Part 2 names what the Ekklesia is being called to in the middle of it.

Host Rolland Wright anchors the teaching in Hebrews 10 — the early believers joyfully accepted the plundering of their possessions because their inheritance was elsewhere. From there, the conversation moves through CERN and the Large Hadron Collider, the spiritual character of what's being built underground in Switzerland, and the question that decides everything: what mindset survives when the system around you turns?

The center of the teaching is Acts 2:42–47. Rolland walks the text line by line and corrects a misread that has cost the body of Messiah dearly: this was not communism. It was the Ruach ha-Kodesh prompting a people who had been depraved the day before. The Acts 2 economy is not a political system. It is a Spirit-filled people. Ownership to managership. Acquisition to distribution. Hoarding to giving.

He closes with Yeshua's question to Peter, now put to every listener: who do you say He is, and are we who He says we are?

Ideas worth wrestling with, testing against Scripture, and bringing before God in prayer.

You'll hear:

• Picking up Part 1: persecution, the diaspora, and the seizing of property
• Hebrews 10:32–39 — joyfully accepting the plundering of possessions
• CERN, the Large Hadron Collider, and what's happening underground in Switzerland
• The 2017 CERN opening ceremony and what Rolland saw in it
• Elon Musk's "demonic technology" quote in context
• The Hebrews 10 mindset as a discipline, not a feeling
• Why capitalism is not God's system — even where it is better than the options
• Why socialism is not God's system either
• Ownership to managership. Acquisition to distribution. Hoarding to giving.
• Acts 2:42–47 — the text walked through line by line
• Why Acts 2 was not communism, but the Ruach moving on a depraved people
• 1 John 2:15–17 — do not love the world or the things in the world
• Spiritual family vs. biological family
• The apostles as martyrs to a man, save John and the one who denied
• The entrepreneur's built-in ministry — to customers, vendors, employees
• Closing question: who do you say He is, and are we who He says we are?

Scripture referenced: Hebrews 10:32–39, Acts 2:42–47, 1 John 2:15–17, Matthew 16:13–18, Genesis 11

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

Mentioned in this episode:

• Zeitgeist 2025 by Tom Horn
• CERN — Home.CERN
• The Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary entry on Hebrews
• TLV (Tree of Life Version) — the Scripture translation Rolland uses in teaching

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Rolland sits down with another guest living the Ekklesia lifestyle.

Part 1 asked what Ekklesia is. Part 2 asks what Ekklesia does. Dr. Tom Schlueter and Rolland Wright open a conversation on the authority Yeshua gave His followers — what it looks like when believers move from gathering to governing in prayer, what tribunals are and aren't, and how the Ruach moves through ordinary people who decide to act on what Scripture actually says.

Part 1 of this conversation laid the foundation: what Ekklesia means, why Yeshua used the word, and how the early Ekklesia modeled a kind of intercession the modern body has largely forgotten.

Part 2 picks up the question most listeners were left holding: if Ekklesia is what Dr. Schlueter and Rolland described, what does it actually do?

In this episode, the conversation moves into authority, strategy, and the governance dimension of Ekklesia. Dr. Schlueter walks through what he understands as the legislative nature of the assembly Yeshua said He would build, the role of tribunals as gatherings of intercessors aligned with the heart of God, and how he believes the Ruach is calling believers to engage spiritual principalities through prayer, decree, and covenant relationship.

He and Rolland talk through what it has looked like to apply these convictions in cities and states, the kinds of issues believers have brought before God in this way, and the patterns Dr. Schlueter has observed over decades of prayer ministry. They also discuss the responsibility that comes with claiming authority — the call to align with Scripture, to test every impression, and to walk in covenant relationship rather than in isolation.

This is a meaty conversation that goes places the modern church doesn't always go. Dr. Schlueter's framework will resonate with some listeners and challenge others. Listeners are invited to engage as Rolland has framed it from the beginning of this series — with ideas worth wrestling with, testing against Scripture, and bringing before God in prayer.

This episode also connects to a prayer initiative First Place Ministries is planning for the fall. To learn more, register, or get involved, visit firstplaceministries.com.

You'll hear:

• Picking up from Part 1 — what authority actually means in the believer's life
• Dr. Schlueter's framework for the legislative dimension of Ekklesia
• What tribunals are and how he understands them functioning biblically
• Engaging spiritual principalities through prayer and decree
• Stories from decades of prayer ministry in cities and states
• The role of covenant relationships in sustained intercession
• The responsibility of authority — testing every impression against Scripture
• Learning to decree from heaven: what Dr. Schlueter means and how he teaches it
• A continuing preview of the fall prayer initiative
• Scripture themes: Matthew 16:18 (authority of the Ekklesia), Ephesians 6 (spiritual warfare), Isaiah 9:6 (the government on His shoulders)

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 — Dr. Tom Schlueter Dr. Tom Schlueter's Website — https://drtomschlueter.org Texas Apostolic Prayer Network — https://texasapn.org Tribunals: God's Strategy for the Ekklesia to Govern (Dr. Schlueter) Analyze and Execute: God's Strategy for the Ekklesia (Dr. Schlueter)

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Coming Next Tuesday

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

At four in the morning, after two weeks of a cough that kept doubling him over, Rolland heard the Ruach ha-Kodesh say four words: Call forth the name. What happened next is a testimony — and the practical theology behind it might be the most important shift the modern church has missed.

Part 1 set the foundation: deliverance is the beginning, not the end. Part 2 puts the boots on.

Host Rolland Wright opens with the testimony he hinted at in Part 1 — a late-night encounter with a respiratory infirmity he believes was a spiritual attack disguised as COVID-era pneumonia. He shares exactly what the Ruach ha-Kodesh told him to do, what he did, and what happened. He went to the ER the next morning not because he was still sick, but to confirm what he already knew. The lungs were clear.

From that testimony, Rolland teaches the practical theology behind the moment: that Yeshua gave His followers real authority — authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, authority over every power of the enemy, authority to lay hands on the sick and see them recover. He walks through Luke 10:19, Mark 16:17–18, and Acts 1:8, and asks the question most churches are afraid to ask: why aren't we doing the things Yeshua said we would do?

He also opens a teaching he says he'll return to in a future book — the difference between servant and slave in Paul's writings, and why the Greek word doulos means something stronger than English Bibles often carry. To be a bondslave of Yeshua is not lesser language. It's purchase language. Paid in blood.

Rolland closes with a vision of Ekklesia that goes beyond the pew. Believers who understand they belong to Yeshua — and act like it — in mayors' offices, on school boards, in nursing rooms, in business, in everyday life. The signs are supposed to follow.

This is the second half of a teaching pair worth listening to back-to-back. Part 1 built the framework. Part 2 lives in it.

You'll hear:

• The full COVID/pneumonia testimony — what the Ruach said, what Rolland did, and the ER confirmation the next morning
• More healings since: gout, a generational curse, a marriage shift
• Luke 10:19 — authority to trample on serpents, scorpions, and every power of the enemy
• Mark 16:17–18 — the signs that follow those who believe
• Acts 1:8 — power, not just witness
• Why the 70 were sent out to do more than evangelize
• The convergence of attacks during the COVID years — and why it wasn't just one thing
• Doulos in Paul's writings, and why "bondservant" softens what Scripture actually said
• Romans 6 — slaves of darkness, then slaves of righteousness
• A vision of Ekklesia in business, government, schools, and everyday life
• Ephesians 6 and the sword of the Spirit
• A preview of upcoming guests Michael W. Smith (Hardcore Christianity) and Chet Swearingen

Scripture referenced: Luke 10:19, Mark 16:17–18, Acts 1:8, Romans 6, Ephesians 6, 1 Peter 5:8

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:

Outro song: We Are United (Soldiers of the Light) — Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir

Coming soon: Michael W. Smith — Hardcore Christianity / Arizona Healing and Deliverance Center

Coming soon: Chet Swearingen — revivalist

Forthcoming book from Rolland Wright: Bondslave

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Coming Next Thursday

Rolland sits down with another guest living the Ekklesia lifestyle.

What if prayer was never meant to be passive? In this conversation, Dr. Tom Schlueter walks through a vision of Ekklesia where the prayers of God's people become one of the most active forces on earth — and where the book of Acts is exactly what its name says: the acts of the Holy Spirit, still moving through believers today.

In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, host Rolland Wright sits down with Dr. Tom Schlueter of the Texas Apostolic Prayer Network for a wide-ranging discussion on the meaning of Ekklesia and the place of prayer in the life of the believer.

Dr. Schlueter shares his own journey — from a Lutheran heritage to a deeper search into what Yeshua actually meant when He used the word Ekklesia in Matthew 16. The conversation moves through the priesthood of all believers, the corporate identity of God's people, and a central conviction that sits at the heart of Rolland's own teaching: that the book of Acts is the acts of the Ruach ha-Kodesh moving through ordinary people, and that the same Spirit is still at work.

Much of this episode is about prayer — and specifically the shift from passive, routine prayer to prayer that is intentional, expectant, and aligned with the heart of God. Dr. Schlueter and Rolland discuss how communal and corporate prayer can shape communities, and how the early Ekklesia modeled a kind of intercession that the modern body has largely forgotten.

This is a meaty, far-reaching conversation that touches on spiritual authority, cultural influence, and how networks of intercessors are being built today. Listeners will encounter ideas worth wrestling with, testing against Scripture, and bringing before God in prayer. Part 2 continues the conversation.

This episode also connects directly to a prayer initiative First Place Ministries is planning for the fall. To learn more, register, or get involved, visit firstplaceministries.com.

You'll hear:

• Dr. Schlueter's journey from Lutheran heritage to a deeper study of Ekklesia
• What Yeshua meant when He used the word Ekklesia in Matthew 16
• The priesthood of all believers and the corporate identity of God's people (Exodus 19:6)
• The shift from passive prayer to intentional, expectant intercession
• How communal and corporate prayer can shape and transform communities
• Acts as the acts of the Ruach ha-Kodesh — still moving through believers
• Building networks of intercessors through covenant relationships
• Matthew 16:18 and the authority Yeshua gave His followers
• A preview of the fall prayer initiative from First Place Ministries

Scripture referenced: Matthew 16:18, Exodus 19:6, the book of Acts

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.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 — Dr. Tom SchlueterTexas Apostolic Prayer NetworkTribunals: God's Strategy for Ekklesia to Govern (Dr. Schlueter)Analyze and Execute: God's Strategy for the Ekklesia to Govern (Dr. Schlueter)

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Coming SoonPart 2 of the conversation with Dr. Tom Schlueter.