Grafted Life Ministries

10/12/2024

Join us in Kansas City next March for our first Church Formation Gathering! Details and Registration available here: https://www.graftedlife.org/events/lighter-load-deeper-life

01/26/2024

How do we define success in spiritual formation? This question and more become the focus of our conversation in the latest issue of the Grafted Life Witness. Link below.

Mark Twain said, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” When I reflect on my life, I wince at just how many times this played out for me, times I felt so deeply certain about something but was, in fact, spectacularly wro...

09/11/2023

Good afternoon, friends. We would like to invite you to our new community. It is here where we will post resources, make announcements and where you can interact. Hope to see you there!

Grafted Life Community is a Mighty Network. Join us to share your tips, tricks and stories with other members.

03/07/2023

Episode 11 of The Grafted Life Podcast is available now! This is Part 2 in our series "Exploring God's Design for Transformation" and features Michel Hendricks, author of "The Other Half of Church."
We hope you'll listen, rate, leave a review, and share with your community! (You can also listen and subscribe on your favorite podcast player.)

Michel Hendricks, co-author of The Other Half of Church, joins Adam Ormord and Debbie Swindoll for a conversation on how we are wired for relating to God and others. Sharing his personal story of encountering Jesus and his own spiritual journey, M...

03/06/2023

We are so excited to release the 10th episode of The Grafted Life Podcast! This episode is the first in a new series called "Exploring God's Design for Transformation."

Why do we learn more about God, but often we are not experiencing true spiritual transformation? Can people really change? How do people change?

Debbie Swindoll founded Grafted Life Ministries with her husband Curt, and she served as Executive Director for twelve years. Debbie has enjoyed the study of relational theology and the intersection of faith and neuroscience, often called neurotheology.

In this conversation, Adam Ormord and Debbie explore God’s design for our attachment to Him. Debbie shares one of the vignettes from the gospel of Mark where the disciples’ attachment to Jesus was revealed in their relational dynamics.

We also hear stories from the gospels where attachment to Jesus is revealed, and attachment repair takes place. In noticing the relational encounters in Scripture, we have opportunities to engage with God. By imagining ourselves in Scripture, by reading slowly and seeing what arises, we can notice our own heart attachments.

Find the The Grafted Life Podcast on your favorite podcast player or listen here:

Debbie Swindoll founded Grafted Life Ministries with her husband Curt, and she served as Executive Director for twelve years. Debbie has enjoyed the study of relational theology and the intersection of faith and neuroscience, often called neurothe...

02/27/2023

Join us THIS Saturday, March 4th at 11am CT for a conversation with Michel Hendricks! We will explore the questions: Does God interact with us on a regular basis? How does trauma play a part in hearing from Jesus? Join the discussion of how God has wired us for spiritual transformation. Registration is required and more info can be found here: https://www.graftedlife.org/events/conversation-with-michel-hendricks

02/17/2023

Join us as we have a conversation with Michel Hendricks, co-author of The Other Half of Church, about the essential nutrients for healthy relationships.

Here are a few of the questions we will explore:

Does God interact with us on a regular basis?

Is there anything in the design of the human brain that suggests the possibility of sensing God’s love and thoughts?

How does trauma play a part in hearing from Jesus?

Our time together, whether you've read Michel's book or not, will bring a refreshing clarity to the way God has wired us for transformation.

MICHEL HENDRICKS (MDiv, Denver Seminary; BS, University of Colorado) has been a teacher and trainer for more than twenty-five years, and the co-author of The Other Half of Church; Christian Community, Brain Science, and Overcoming Spiritual Stagnation. He is the former pastor of spiritual formation....

01/22/2023

Are you looking for community to explore spiritual formation? Consider joining our SF Roundtable. We meet once per month & our next meeting is February 8th. Use the link below and we will add you to the communication list and send you the Zoom link.

Hope to have you with us!

We are thrilled that you are interested in joining in a roundtable discussion about spiritual formation. As a first step we invite you to fill out the form below. Once this form is submitted you will be added to all future communications.  We also invite you to include any topics of interest, whi...