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Transforming Mission Podcast with Tim Bias & Sara Thomas

Transforming Mission Podcast with Tim Bias & Sara Thomas

Von: Tim Bias & Sara Thomas
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 Insights and resources for Christian leaders to deepen your relationship with Christ, the congregation and your local community. The church and your community need you to lead. LeaderCast covers faith topics that trip us up, hold us back, and guide us forward…all so you can lead a movement of Jesus followers.2018 -2025 Tim Bias and Sara Thomas | Transforming Mission Christentum Spiritualität
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  • Episode 397: When We Stop Seeing - The Loss of Our Humanity

    Episode 397: When We Stop Seeing - The Loss of Our Humanity
    Feb 10 2026
    This episode is part 1 of a 3 part dialogue. We begin with a quiet but dangerous shift happening in our lives and in the world around us: the gradual loss of our ability to truly see one another as human beings. What begins as small, reasonable judgments can slowly turn people into categories, stories into assumptions, and neighbors into abstractions. Through everyday examples and honest reflection, this episode explores how easily fear, certainty, efficiency, and distance can shape the way we perceive others and ourselves. As you well know, this is a podcast centered around faith. So it should come as no surprise that what we're exploring is not a political or social problem, the conversation names it as a spiritual one. At the heart of Christian faith is the incarnation, God choosing to be known through human life. When we forget that truth, we risk losing sight of the image of God in one another. The episode invites listeners to consider what is shaping their vision, how spiritual disciplines help us remain attentive and grounded, and why seeing others as children of God does not require agreement but does require dignity, care, and love. The conversation also emphasizes that accountability and compassion are not opposites. Accountability does not require cruelty, and faithfulness never asks us to erase another person's humanity. As the episode concludes, listeners are invited into a simple yet demanding practice: to remember who they are as beloved children of God and to extend that same recognition to every person they encounter. This kind of seeing may not solve every problem, but it keeps us rooted in love and faithful to who we are created to be.
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    35 Min.
  • Episode 398: God with Skin On - Jesus and the Restoration of Sight

    Episode 398: God with Skin On - Jesus and the Restoration of Sight
    Feb 10 2026

    **Episode 398: God With Skin On – Jesus and the Restoration of Sight**

    In Episode 398, Tim and Sara continue the conversation from Episode 397 by returning to the center of our faith: the incarnation. Christianity does not begin with ideas about God. It begins with God choosing to become human. God puts "skin on" and comes close, not as an abstract concept, but as presence. Vulnerable. Woundable. Near.

    This episode explores how the incarnation restores our sight. If we want to learn how to see one another again, we look at how God chose to see us, not from a distance or above, but from within human life. Jesus meets people in real places, with real stories, and he does it with attention and humility. He asks questions, slows things down, and honors dignity in a world that keeps pushing for speed and efficiency.

    Tim and Sara reflect on the story of Bartimaeus (Mark 10), where Jesus stops, turns toward the one the crowd tries to silence, and asks, "What do you want me to do for you?" Before healing, Jesus restores dignity. The episode invites us to notice God's priorities: presence before outcomes, people before efficiency, relationship before order.

    As you listen, you'll be challenged to consider what it means to live the incarnation daily. To see each day as a mission trip. To resist reducing people to what they need, what they do, or how they are perceived. Faithful discipleship is not about having all the answers. It is about being present in the way Jesus is present, becoming the human touch of God's love wherever you live, work, and play.
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    20 Min.
  • Episode 399: Learning to See Again - Love as a Way of Life

    Episode 399: Learning to See Again - Love as a Way of Life
    Feb 10 2026
    Episode 399: Learning to See Again – Love as a Way of Life In the final episode of this three-part series, Tim and Sara turn toward a simple but demanding invitation: to learn how to see again and to live love as a way of life. Building on the previous conversations about losing our ability to see one another as human and returning to the heart of the faith in the incarnation, this episode asks what it looks like to practice seeing every day, especially when it is difficult, uncomfortable, or costly. This conversation names love not as a feeling, but as a discipline that shapes how we pay attention, the stories we tell ourselves about others, and the way we speak when people are not present. Drawing from scripture and lived experience, Tim and Sara reflect on how accountability, boundaries, and truth matter, while insisting that love must always protect dignity and never give way to cruelty. Learning to see again is framed as formation, becoming people who instinctively look for the image of God rather than evidence to justify fear or certainty. Through story, scripture, and honest reflection, the episode explores how love holds communities together across difference, how perfect love casts out fear by refusing to let fear be in charge, and why choosing love often means choosing curiosity, presence, and dignity when reduction would be easier. As the series comes to a close, listeners are invited to ask a daily question: what is the most loving thing I can do here? This kind of love is not flashy or sentimental. It is faithful, practiced one encounter at a time, and it is how the world begins to change.
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    21 Min.
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