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A podcast about God, family, and life. Join Jonathan each week for real conversations and practical insights to inspire your everyday pursuit of what truly matters.
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Visit us online: www.theaveragepursuit.com
Support The Average Pursuit: https://buymeacoffee.com/theaveragepursuit
Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The.Average.Pursuit
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Average audio length:
11 minutes
English
United States
78 episodes
since Jan. 22, 2025
episodic
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Four words stopped me in the middle of an ordinary week and wouldn’t let go. Not “what am I doing” as in the schedule — I know the schedule, you know yours too. It’s the question underneath it: what am I doing it for?
This episode isn’t me on a hill talking down to anybody. This week the word of G…
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What If Church Is More Than a Weekly Gathering?
What if the church feels smaller to us because we have forgotten the size of the story it belongs to?
In this episode, Jonathan continues the question from the previous conversation: What if there’s more to church than what we’re currently experiencin…
What if there’s more to church than what we’re currently experiencing?
In this episode, Jonathan explores a question that has been stirring in his heart: What if church is meant to be more than a weekly gathering? What if it’s a glimpse of something greater - a foretaste of the Kingdom of God and …
Recorded from Raleigh during chaplaincy training with the NC State Highway Patrol.
In Luke 10:38–42, Martha is busy, sincere, and missing the one thing. We sit with her tension and ask why the same thing happens to us — why we can be loud, faithful, and still distracted from the only voice that mat…
A show for the average believer, pursuing Christ faithfully, in ordinary life.
Hosted by Jon — a bi-vocational pastor who lives most of his week the same way you do: working a job, raising a family, showing up for people, trying to follow Jesus in the unglamorous middle of it all. This isn’t a podc…
After months of silence, The Average Pursuit is back.
This episode isn’t a comeback announcement. It’s a re-entry - honest, unhurried, and grounded in the one thing the silence kept teaching: that waiting on God is not the opposite of pursuing Him. It’s part of how the pursuit gets shaped.
Jon open…
In this episode, Jonathan Sheppard explores the critical moment in a believer's life when faith transitions from mere belief to active movement. He emphasizes the dangers of remaining stagnant on the 'shore' of faith, where comfort and safety can lead to delayed obedience and a slow fading of convi…
In this conversation, Jonathan Sheppard explores the theme of spiritual refinement through the metaphor of fire, as introduced by John the Baptist. He discusses the process of exposing impurities, entering the fire of trials, and emerging transformed. The conversation emphasizes the importance of a…
In this conversation, Jonathan Sheppard explores the theme of spiritual refinement through the metaphor of fire, as introduced by John the Baptist. He discusses the process of exposing impurities, entering the fire of trials, and emerging transformed. The conversation emphasizes the importance of a…
As we step into a new year, this episode is a pause — not a pivot.
The Average Pursuit is continuing with weekly episodes, but we’re also adding new tools designed to help listeners move from inspiration to lived faithfulness.
In this episode, Jonathan explains:
What is not changing about the pod…
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