Creating The Future with Brent Simpson

24. How to Create Great Organizational Culture. The Story of True Builders.

Peter Drucker famously said "Culture eats strategy for breakfast."
Brent recently spoke for a True Builders company meeting and discovered an incredible culture within this rapidly growing company. So Brent wanted to interview them to share their secrets with other organizational leaders.
Business leaders and entrepreneurs will benefit greatly from todays podcast as we learn both strategy and culture from True Builders founders, Isaac Turpin and Mark Lever, and hear their story growth, success, and the accompanying challenges.

To learn more about True Builders: https://www.true-builders.com/
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23. Ministry Leadership Gold: A Conversation with Pastor Johnnie Wilson

Johnnie Wilson is an icon in youth ministry in the church world. He served as youth pastor (& now Executive Pastor) at Faith Assembly in Orlando, Florida, for more than 20 years and ministered to about 1,700 students each week. He now serves as Executive Pastor and is watching the church continue in a growth posture.

This interview and conversation was recorded live at a ministers event in central Florida.

To learn more about Johnnie Wilson: https://faithassembly.org/ 

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22. Exploring the Creative Process with documentary Maker Bob Rose

Have you ever wondered what the creative process was for movie and documentary makers? In this episode of Creating the Future we will explore the story of how Bob Rose became a filmmaker and what inspires his created process. 

 

To learn more about Bob Rose and Instaband: https://instabandmovie.com/ 

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21. Harvard and Hardship: How Angel Everett overcame the Imposter Syndrome to Graduate Harvard Law School

Many successful people secretly struggle with the Imposter Syndrome. It can be very difficult to silence that inner critic who constantly reminds you that you're not as good as people think you are. In episode 21 of Creating the Future hear the testimony of Angel Everett who defeated this inner imposter to graduate from one of the most prestigious law schools on the world.

For more information about Angel Everett, or Harvard and Hardship: https://www.harvardandhardshipllc.com/ 

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20. Letter from a Birmingham Jail

On April 3^rd, 1963 the Birmingham, Alabama civil rights campaign began with coordinated marches and sit-ins against racism and racial segregation in Birmingham.

 

On April 10^th, Birmingham Judge W. A. Jenkins Jr. issued an injunction against "parading, demonstrating, boycotting, trespassing and picketing." Leaders of the civil rights campaign quickly announced they would disobey the ruling.

 

Therefore, on April 12, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested, along with many other marchers.  

 

A friend was able to smuggle him in a newspaper from April 12, which contained "A Call for Unity", a statement by eight Alabama clergymen against King and his methods.

 

The letter affected Rev. King deeply, and from his cell he began to write a response to the “A Call to Unity” clergymen.

 

He began writing his response on the margins of the newspaper, then on scraps of writing paper supplied by friends, and then it was concluded on a pad the attorneys were allowed to leave him.

 

This response became known as a “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” and was eventually published in June of 1963 in several magazines.

 

It became a seminal work of Rev. King and has gone on to become one of the most important letters in the Civil Rights Movement.

 

It is for this reason, that we at Arise Church decided to resurrect this old letter in the voices of some of our members. As Rev. King wrote, we must all continually strive to “Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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19. What is Post-Christian? An Arise Leadership talk.

What is Post-Christian? What does it mean, where is it going and how should The Church respond?
This is a teaching done live for the staff at Arise Church. 

 

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18. The amazing true story of Cuban refugee Marisel Lorenzo

Why would someone risk their life to escape communism? 
Hear firsthand the amazing story of Marisel Lorenzo, and find out why and how she made the incredibly daring trip from communist Cuba to the free United States.

 

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17. The Spiritual Battle for America. A conversation with Pastor Eugene Davis

America is in desperate need of people who can see beyond the physical world and engage the spiritual world through prayer.
In this episode we discuss the real spiritual warfare happening over our nation and how we can wage war in the heavenlies through prayer.

For more information about Pastor Eugene Davis and Living Faith Church: https://www.lflive.org/ 

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16. Let's talk about Black Live Matter with Kingsley Grant

Welcome to episode 16 where we talk about Black Lives Matter!

Many years ago, the LGBTQ movement leached itself onto the civil right movement. Virtually every black person I know is irritated by this fact. However, irritated or not, LGBTQ has become the new black. And that is why we MUST be able to differentiate from Black Lives Matter affirmation from the Black Lives Matter organization/movement.

Let me be clear: We must affirm that Black Lives Matter - Where there is racism, injustice, and police brutality, we must fight together to heal our nation’s wrongs.

But here’s the think, the Black Lives matter organization is anti-Christian, anti-family, and is trying to pave the way for the LGBTQ community.

If you don’t believe me, just read this from their “about us” portion of their website.

“We are guided by the fact that all Black lives matter, regardless of actual or perceived sexual identity, gender identity, gender expression, economic status, ability, disability, religious beliefs or disbeliefs, immigration status, or location. We make space for transgender brothers and sisters to participate and lead. We are self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift Black trans folk, especially Black trans women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence…. We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure… We foster a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking.”

“We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure” – the male/female mom/dad family is not Western, it’s everywhere across the globe… and when disrupted, we end up with chaos. If you’ve never see the statistics of kids growing up in two parent compared to one parent homes, then look them up. It’s abundantly clear, kids do better in two parent, mom and dad, (nuclear family) homes.

Clearly, BLM is not just about dismantling white privilege, but “heterosexual privilege.” BLM is a movement that's moving far beyond many realize.

Hate speech is ambiguous. It is hard to define. Obvious hate speech, which is purposely derogatory and/or inflammatory, and should never be tolerated about anyone made in the image of God.

But now hate speech has gone, and is going, way beyond that. Now anyone who dares to disagree with me is hating me… or worse, hate speech has become anyone who ever said something I don’t like.

The truly frightening thing about this is that on the back of the BLM truck is the LGBTQ agenda. Where BLM goes, LGBTQ goes.

So as BLM fights to tear down statues, monuments and institutions (sometimes there’s a cause for this) that are deemed offensive, our LGBTQ friends will soon be right behind them ready to “dismantle cisgender privilege” and freeing us from the “tight grip of heteronormative thinking”… and where is the most obvious place to start? The Church.

Anyone who doesn’t agree with my LGBTQ friends agenda will be seen as the enemy and be deemed as haters full of hate speech. Therefore, Churches that teach that the practices of the LGBTQ community is sin will need to be shut down. Even lovingly saying they are wrong will be hatred that needs to eradicated… and thus The Church, as we know it in America will be in a battle for survival against a culture dead-set on removing “homophobia.”

It's crazy how some who demand tolerance are so intolerant.

Let him who has ears listen! Be forewarned, THIS is not far away… Months, not years.

Some will scoff at this and think I’m crazy.
Some will think I’m homophobic and should shut up… which helps make my point.
Others will wake up and recognize the warning signs.

We must affirm black lives and fight for justice together. However, we must also denounce the Black Lives Matter organization/movement. A poison that helps one day but kills the next is the most dangerous, because we are tempted to share it with another. Any good that it does, will quickly be replaced by its evil agenda.

For more info on Kingsley Grant: https://www.kingsleygrant.com/

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15. Bringing Clarity to our Confusing World. A Conversation with Dr. Michael Brown

We are obviously in a unique season in the history of America, and it would be easy to become lost and confused amidst the traffic of politics, pandemics, and racial tension. 
In this episode of Creating the Future Dr. Michael Brown brings some clarity to our incredibly confusing world.

A few of the topics we cover are: How this period is like the 1960's and how it's a trajectory moment in American history, the difference between the Black Lives Matter affirmation and the organization, and what is God doing behind the scenes during this unique season.

This conversation was originally recorded for Arise Church viewers.

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To learn more about Dr. Michael Brown click here.

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