Practical Faith Academy Podcast

Practical Faith Academy - Season 5, Episode 12 - Pasquale Mingarelli, Connecting to God Through Nature

Pasquale Mingarelli, Connecting to God Through Nature

The Practical Faith Academy Podcast from Cecil Taylor Ministries presents guests who have important things to say about putting your faith into practice. Cecil interviews each guest to understand their life stories and their ideas for living a seven-day practical faith.

Pasquale Mingarelli is a photographer who also serves as an author and speaker. His offering is a free daily devotion combining a nature photograph, a Bible passage, and a couple of paragraphs of devotional text. He also assembled a similar, longer form devotional book called Drawing Near to God. In this podcast, Mingarelli talks about the connection between God and nature, our creative connection to God, and tips for living a seven-day practical faith (and also tips for better photography!).

Highlights of the podcast: 

2:48 What does seven-day practical faith mean to Mingarelli

4:37 What led Mingarelli to go deeper into nature to connect with God

11:16 How are we all called to create?

13:55 How he started developing visual devotions

16:17 Mingarelli’s favorite places and subjects to photograph

21:49 His tips for taking photos

24:36 How to connect to Mingarelli’s work

 

Photographer, author, and speaker Pasquale Mingarelli’s home page is TheCreationSpeaks.com also https://visualverse.thecreationspeaks.com/, which is where you can find his daily devotion. Learn more about the devotional guide he describes on the podcast at https://visualverse.thecreationspeaks.com/about-drawing-near/. Check out his speaking and other offerings on the same site.  

I’m Cecil Taylor – award-winning author, speaker, blogger, and of course, podcaster. I’m focused on teaching Christians to live their faith and represent Jesus every day of the week. Everything I offer for your faith journey can be found at the same starting point: https://www.CecilTaylorMinistries.com. Please visit and find ways to enrich your daily walk.

For regular, free assistance for your faith journey or your parenting journey, please sign up for my free newsletters, either on the main ministry site (https://www.CecilTaylorMinistries.com) or my parenting site (https://www.UnisonParenting.com). Simply scroll down while visiting either home page to find the registration form.

• On CecilTaylorMinistries.com, I offer Ministry Connection (practical faith tips plus updates on my ministry) and Backstage Pass (an insider look at the behind-the-scenes of my life and my ministry).
• On UnisonParenting.com, I offer the Unison Parenting newsletter. I’m joined by parenting experts to provide useful tips and thoughts for parenting children of all ages.

I also offer Instant Content curriculum to small groups and adult Sunday School classes. My latest is “The Misfits of Christmas” Advent video study. Here are Misfits of Christmas links I mentioned in the podcast:

Misfits on the Cecil Taylor online store: https://store.ceciltaylorministries.com/collections/the-misfits-of-christmas

Misfits first lesson on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtH7tOLRpPc&t=444s

Misfits trailer video: https://www.ceciltaylorministries.com/the-misfits-of-christmas

For proven parenting advice that shows how you can raise high self-esteem children to mature, independent adulthood while staying aligned as parents in a harmonious family atmosphere, please visit https://www.UnisonParenting.com. That’s my parenting site, also accessible from the main site.

On the parenting site, please see a special $10 offer for my book, “Unison Parenting: The Comprehensive Guide to Navigating Christian Parenthood with One Voice.” I’m cutting out the middleman to undersell the big booksellers. I’ll ship it to you for free within the U.S., plus present you with six free bonus gifts! Either visit my parenting site or go directly to the sale at https://www.CecilTaylorAcademy.com/book.

Thanks for listening to the podcast! Please subscribe to be notified about future podcasts. You can also find dozens of prior podcasts with great guests and topics by searching for Practical Faith Academy.

Practical Faith Academy - Season 5, Episode 11 - Rachel Coggins, Ministering to Soldiers

Rachel Coggins, Ministering to Soldiers

The Practical Faith Academy Podcast from Cecil Taylor Ministries presents guests who have important things to say about putting your faith into practice. Cecil interviews each guest to understand their life stories and their ideas for living a seven-day practical faith.

Rachel Coggins is a retired chaplain, author, and non-profit leader who shares her war zone chaplain stories in the book, “Gateway to Iraq.” In this podcast, Coggins discusses what it’s like to be a military chaplain, how she helped soldiers entering and exiting war zones, and what we can learn from the faith and lives of soldiers. And she shares her own tips for living a daily, practical faith.

Highlights of the podcast:  

2:47 What does seven-day practical faith mean to Coggins

4:13 How her husband and her both became military chaplains in different service branches

8:35 How military chaplaincy is different and how the chaplain is integral to a unit and its commander

14:02 Was the emotional toll harder for soldiers entering or exiting the Iraq war zone?

17:52 How Coggins, as a female chaplain, represented both Mom and God to the troops

19:09 What we can learn from the faith journeys of military personnel

24:10 Her favorite part of her book, “Gateway to Iraq”

27:45 Coggins’ view on volunteerism’s role in Christian faith

31:48 The hardest part about putting faith into practice

32:33 Her best tip for developing and maintaining a seven-day practical faith

34:46 How to find Rachel Coggins’ books

Retired chaplain, author, and non-profit leader Rachel Coggins can be found at RachelCoggins.com. Her book, “Gateway to Iraq,” can be found at https://www.amazon.com/Gateway-Iraq-Rachel-Coggins/dp/1615790594. Her newly released book, “Exploring Turkey's Biblical Heritage,” can be found at https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Turkeys-Biblical-Heritage-Inspirational/dp/B0FTY7D8DR.

I’m Cecil Taylor – award-winning author, speaker, blogger, and of course, podcaster. I’m focused on teaching Christians to live their faith and represent Jesus every day of the week. Everything I offer for your faith journey can be found at the same starting point: https://www.CecilTaylorMinistries.com. Please visit and find ways to enrich your daily walk.

For regular, free assistance for your faith journey or your parenting journey, please sign up for my free newsletters, either on the main ministry site (https://www.CecilTaylorMinistries.com) or my parenting site (https://www.UnisonParenting.com). Simply scroll down while visiting either home page to find the registration form.

• On CecilTaylorMinistries.com, I offer Ministry Connection (practical faith tips plus updates on my ministry) and Backstage Pass (an insider look at the behind-the-scenes of my life and my ministry).
• On UnisonParenting.com, I offer the Unison Parenting newsletter. I’m joined by parenting experts to provide useful tips and thoughts for parenting children of all ages.

I also offer Instant Content curriculum to small groups and adult Sunday School classes. My latest is “The Misfits of Christmas” Advent video study. Here are Misfits of Christmas links I mentioned in the podcast:

Misfits on the Cecil Taylor online store: https://store.ceciltaylorministries.com/collections/the-misfits-of-christmas

Misfits first lesson on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtH7tOLRpPc&t=444s

Misfits trailer video: https://www.ceciltaylorministries.com/the-misfits-of-christmas

For proven parenting advice that shows how you can raise high self-esteem children to mature, independent adulthood while staying aligned as parents in a harmonious family atmosphere, please visit https://www.UnisonParenting.com. That’s my parenting site, also accessible from the main site.

On the parenting site, please see a special $10 offer for my book, “Unison Parenting: The Comprehensive Guide to Navigating Christian Parenthood with One Voice.” I’m cutting out the middleman to undersell the big booksellers. I’ll ship it to you for free within the U.S., plus present you with six free bonus gifts! Either visit my parenting site or go directly to the sale at https://www.CecilTaylorAcademy.com/book.

Thanks for listening to the podcast! Please subscribe to be notified about future podcasts. You can also find dozens of prior podcasts with great guests and topics by searching for Practical Faith Academy.

Practical Faith Academy - Season 5, Episode 10 - Jake Doberenz, Smashing Idols

Jake Doberenz, Smashing Idols

The Practical Faith Academy Podcast from Cecil Taylor Ministries presents guests who have important things to say about putting your faith into practice. Cecil interviews each guest to understand their life stories and their ideas for living a seven-day practical faith.

Jake Doberenz is a writer, speaker, and podcast producer who just wants people to focus on Jesus—not all the other stuff. He hosts Christianity Without Compromise, a show that points back to a Jesus-centric faith. Jake writes both Christian non-fiction and middle grade fiction, combining thoughtful theology with creative storytelling. He holds two degrees in Biblical and Theological Studies.

Highlights of the podcast:  

3:04 What does seven-day practical faith mean to Doberenz

4:26 How Doberenz describes his path forward in today’s society called “The Third Way”

7:35 Jake’s own journey in his beliefs to putting Jesus at the center of a faith system

8:56 What Doberenz is expressing with his podcast title, “Christianity without Compromise.”

10:13 What modern idols need smashing?

15:48 Why Christians try to fix what they perceive God isn’t fixing

19:00 The appropriate role of political action in being a follower of Jesus

25:44 The role of humility in building harmony and unity

29:26 The hardest part about putting faith into practice

30:44 His best tip for developing and maintaining a seven-day practical faith

32:51 How to follow Jake Doberenz

Podcaster and author Jake Doberenz can be found at JakeDoberenz.Substack.com. His Substack and his Friday newsletter are both entitled, “Smashing Idols.” His Tuesday podcast is called “Christianity without Compromise." You can also search for books by Jake Doberenz.

I’m Cecil Taylor – award-winning author, speaker, blogger, and of course, podcaster. I’m focused on teaching Christians to live their faith and represent Jesus every day of the week. Everything I offer for your faith journey can be found at the same starting point: https://www.CecilTaylorMinistries.com. Please visit and find ways to enrich your daily walk.

I also offer Instant Content curriculum to small groups and adult Sunday School classes. My latest is “The Misfits of Christmas” Advent video study. Here are Misfits of Christmas links I mentioned in the podcast:

Misfits on the Cecil Taylor online store: https://store.ceciltaylorministries.com/collections/the-misfits-of-christmas

Misfits first lesson on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtH7tOLRpPc&t=444s

Misfits trailer video: https://www.ceciltaylorministries.com/the-misfits-of-christmas

For proven parenting advice that shows how you can raise high self-esteem children to mature, independent adulthood while staying aligned as parents in a harmonious family atmosphere, please visit https://www.UnisonParenting.com. That’s my parenting site, also accessible from the main site.

On the parenting site, please see a special $10 offer for my book, “Unison Parenting: The Comprehensive Guide to Navigating Christian Parenthood with One Voice.” I’m cutting out the middleman to undersell the big booksellers. I’ll ship it to you for free within the U.S., plus present you with six free bonus gifts! Either visit my parenting site or go directly to the sale at https://www.CecilTaylorAcademy.com/book.

For regular, free assistance for your faith journey or your parenting journey, please sign up for my free newsletters, either on the main ministry site (https://www.CecilTaylorMinistries.com) or the parenting site (https://www.UnisonParenting.com). Simply scroll down while visiting either home page to find the registration form. Different newsletters are offered on each site.

Thanks for listening to the podcast! Please subscribe to be notified about future podcasts. You can also find dozens of prior podcasts with great guests and topics by searching for Practical Faith Academy.

Practical Faith Academy - Season 5, Episode 9 - Tanya Prince, Discerning Identity and Purpose

Tanya Prince, Discerning Identity and Purpose

The Practical Faith Academy Podcast from Cecil Taylor Ministries presents guests who have important things to say about putting your faith into practice. Cecil interviews each guest to understand their life stories and their ideas for living a seven-day practical faith.

Tanya Prince wrote the reflective journal, “Designed for Purpose: Discovering God’s Daily Direction.” On this podcast, she shares her own journey that started with divorce and career redirection but led her to accepting her identity and skills and placing them in proper perspective as she walks with God.

Highlights of the podcast: 

2:28 What does seven-day practical faith mean to Prince

3:46 How Prince’s life turned sour but led to renewed faith

9:17 How to differentiate who you are from what you do

11:44 How to turn crisis into purpose

14:10 Purpose is like a river that can carry you to different places in life

16:35 The role of experience in shaping purpose

18:28 About her journal on understanding your purpose and God’s direction

20:51 Why does an individual need faith-based coaching?

22:43 The hardest part of putting faith into practice

26:50 Prince’s best tip for developing and maintaining a seven-day practical faith

28:21 How to find Prince’s reflective journal and her coaching offer

Author and coach Tanya Prince can be found at GreenVineCoaching.com. Her reflective journal is called “Designed for Purpose: Discovering God’s Daily Direction.” It’s available wherever books are sold online. She coaches individuals one-on-one to help them discover their God-designed identity and purpose.

I’m Cecil Taylor – award-winning author, speaker, blogger, and of course, podcaster. I’m focused on teaching Christians to live their faith and represent Jesus every day of the week. Everything I offer for your faith journey can be found at the same starting point: https://www.CecilTaylorMinistries.com. Please visit and find ways to enrich your daily walk.

I also offer Instant Content curriculum to small groups and adult Sunday School classes. My latest is “The Misfits of Christmas” Advent video study. Here are Misfits of Christmas links I mentioned in the podcast:

Misfits on the Cecil Taylor online store: https://store.ceciltaylorministries.com/collections/the-misfits-of-christmas

Misfits first lesson on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtH7tOLRpPc&t=444s

Misfits trailer video: https://www.ceciltaylorministries.com/the-misfits-of-christmas

For proven parenting advice that shows how you can raise high self-esteem children to mature, independent adulthood while staying aligned as parents in a harmonious family atmosphere, please visit https://www.UnisonParenting.com. That’s my parenting site, also accessible from the main site.

On the parenting site, please see a special $10 offer for my book, “Unison Parenting: The Comprehensive Guide to Navigating Christian Parenthood with One Voice.” I’m cutting out the middleman to undersell the big booksellers. I’ll ship it to you for free within the U.S., plus present you with six free bonus gifts! Either visit my parenting site or go directly to the sale at https://www.CecilTaylorAcademy.com/book.

For regular, free assistance for your faith journey or your parenting journey, please sign up for my free newsletters, either on the main ministry site (https://www.CecilTaylorMinistries.com) or the parenting site (https://www.UnisonParenting.com). Simply scroll down while visiting either home page to find the registration form. Different newsletters are offered on each site.

Thanks for listening to the podcast! Please subscribe to be notified about future podcasts. You can also find dozens of prior podcasts with great guests and topics by searching for Practical Faith Academy.

Practical Faith Academy - Season 5, Episode 8 - Chip Waggoner, Wrestling With A Miracle

Chip Waggoner, Wrestling With A Miracle

The Practical Faith Academy Podcast from Cecil Taylor Ministries presents guests who have important things to say about putting your faith into practice. Cecil interviews each guest to understand their life stories and their ideas for living a seven-day practical faith.

Chip Waggoner is best known in the Dallas / Ft. Worth area for his decades of service as traffic reporter on Fox 4's Good Day morning show. Now Waggoner, with his family, has written the book "M.I.P. (Miracle in Progress)," the story of raising a child whose "normal" is not like ours. But it's not a health journal as much as it is a faith journey – trusting God in extreme circumstances, realizing that God’s possibilities are more than we imagine, learning to follow God through each phase, and using those experiences to be lights in the world.

In this episode of the Practical Faith Academy podcast, Waggoner sits down with an old friend, Cecil Taylor, to discuss the book and what he learned that can help us live a seven-day practical faith.

Highlights of the podcast: 

5:11  What does seven-day practical faith mean to Waggoner

7:43  What compelled Waggoner to write an honest, vulnerable book about both successes and failures as a parent of a child with unique physical challenges

11:17 Some details about his son Benjamin’s health situation

14:29 How he and his family wrestled with the idea of “What is normal?”

19:49 How Satan disrupts us, and how we can regain God’s light shining through us

24:26 The problem with judging others

27:48 How to identify the people you should trust in a crisis

30:27 The importance of having a community that walks alongside you

32:43 The hardest part about putting faith into practice

35:39 How to find Chip’s book options and upcoming appearances

Author Chip Waggoner can be found at www.ChipWaggoner.com. You can order the book as a paper copy, an ebook, or as an audiobook. Also, Chip will be conducting book signings and other events; those are shown on the site as well.

I’m Cecil Taylor – award-winning author, speaker, blogger, and of course, podcaster. I’m focused on teaching Christians to live their faith and represent Jesus every day of the week. Everything I offer for your faith journey can be found at the same starting point: https://www.CecilTaylorMinistries.com. Please visit and find ways to enrich your daily walk. I also offer Instant Content curriculum to small groups and adult Sunday School classes. My latest is The Misfits of Christmas Advent video study.

For proven parenting advice that shows how you can raise high self-esteem children to mature, independent adulthood while staying aligned as parents in a harmonious family atmosphere, please visit https://www.UnisonParenting.com. That’s my parenting site, also accessible from the main site.

On the parenting site, please see a special $10 offer for my book, “Unison Parenting: The Comprehensive Guide to Navigating Christian Parenthood with One Voice.” I’m cutting out the middleman to undersell the big booksellers. I’ll ship it to you for free within the U.S., plus present you with six free bonus gifts! Either visit my parenting site or go directly to the sale at https://www.CecilTaylorAcademy.com/book.

For regular, free assistance for your faith journey or your parenting journey, please sign up for my free newsletters, either on the main ministry site or the parenting site. Simply scroll down either home page to find the registration form.

Thanks for listening to the podcast! Please subscribe to be notified about future podcasts. You can also find dozens of prior podcasts with great guests and topics by searching for Practical Faith Academy.

Practical Faith Academy - Season 5, Episode 7 - Brandon Booth, From Theology to Trust

Brandon Booth, From Theology to Trust

The Practical Faith Academy Podcast from Cecil Taylor Ministries presents guests who have important things to say about putting your faith into practice. Cecil interviews each guest to understand their life stories and their ideas for living a seven-day practical faith.

Brandon Booth is the president of Signpost Inn Ministries and hosts the Signpost Inn podcast. Like Cecil, his focus is on living a practical, daily faith, with a focus on attending to Jesus’s loving presence. Booth sees people struggle because they know facts about God but aren’t able to experience him as real. This mirrors his own journey, so Booth shares ideas on how to move from knowing about God to truly knowing God.

Highlights of the podcast: 

3:40 What does seven-day practical faith mean to Brandon

6:12 We’re all hungry for more than what we see in life

9:30 The difference between knowing God and knowing about God

11:58 Prayer is a fancy word for conversation

15:29 How we can transform guilt and anxiety over not engaging with God into faith

20:42 How do we surrender to God’s love?

21:53 A rollercoaster analogy for fully engaging with God

25:41 How Brandon came to understand that God is real

29:11 How Satan overplays his hand with us

31:57 How to find his Signpost Inn ministry

As the president of Signpost Inn Ministries and host of the Signpost Inn podcast, Brandon Booth’s goal is to invite people into deeper relationship with Jesus as they reach a crossroads in life – and we’re always at a crossroads. One of Booth’s offerings is spiritual direction, which is one-on-one counseling that focuses your attention on Jesus’s presence. You can find everything he does by searching for Signpost Inn or visiting SignpostInn.org.

Cecil Taylor is an author, speaker, podcaster, blogger, and provider of Instant Content to churches and small groups. Sign up for his two monthly newsletters at CecilTaylorMinistries.com. Ministry Connections updates you on the ministry and gives practical faith tips. Backstage Pass takes you behind the scenes of the ministry and Cecil’s life. To thank you for registering, you’ll receive a free gift as well that rotates from time to time. Register on the Cecil Taylor Ministries home page at CecilTaylorMinistries.com through the pop-up window or the orange box.

For more free content like this podcast from Cecil Taylor Ministries, visit https://www.CecilTaylorMinistries.com/free-content.

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Cecil’s new book, “Unison Parenting”, is on sale for just $10 plus free shipping at https://www.ceciltayloracademy.com/link.php?id=3&h=19480d6cdc. In addition, you’ll receive more than $200 in free bonuses when you buy the book directly from Cecil! This offer is 60% off the price you would pay at the big bookseller sites.  Cecil’s parenting advice can be found at https://www.UnisonParenting.com, at  https://www.instagram.com/unison_parenting/ and at https://www.pinterest.com/CecilTaylorMinistries.

The Unison Parenting newsletter is a useful resource for parents of children of all ages. Author and pastor Kim Meyers shares her parenting perspective; pediatric therapist and author Ginny Cruz offers “Diaper Days” advice; and Tawny Kinslow writes about parent-child relationships. Sign up for the newsletter at https://www.UnisonParenting.com#newsletter-registration.

Cecil’s award-winning books and video studies can be found and purchased through https://www.CecilTaylorMinistries.com. Every video study’s first lesson can be seen for free via the Free Content link above by clicking on “Sample Lessons.”

Cecil’s Instant Content portfolio of books and video studies includes the following:

- “Unison Parenting: The Comprehensive Guide to Navigating Christian Parenthood with One Voice” is about Christian parenting. Cecil provides proven parenting strategies with an underlying layer of parenting in unison through all the ages and stages of a child’s life. “Unison Parenting” has been honored with the 2025 Independent Press Award for Parenting/Family and the 2025 Living Water Award for Best Nonfiction.

- “From Comfort Zone to Trust Zone” is about deepening faith. Cecil explores a dozen Bible studies of Jesus inviting people out of their comfort zones into their trust zones and how to apply these stories to our lives today.

- “The Next Thing” is about crisis responses. Cecil shares a four-part Christian model for dealing with crisis. You’ll find the model to be flexible and applicable to many crises.

- “Live Like You’re Loved” is about vibrant living. Cecil affirms the scriptural truths that God loves you, forgives you, sends you, and walks with you in eternal relationship. Then he shows how your life is transformed when you embed these truths into your daily faith and your soul.

Practical Faith Academy - Season 5, Episode 6 - Dawn Stephens, The Potter's Vessel

Dawn Stephens, The Potters Vessel

The Practical Faith Academy Podcast from Cecil Taylor Ministries presents guests who have important things to say about putting your faith into practice. Cecil interviews each guest to understand their life stories and their ideas for living a seven-day practical faith.

Dawn Stephens is the principal of Central Christian Academy in Portsmouth, VA, and the award-winning author of the “Little Pot” book series, which teaches children – and adults – about the Fruits of the Spirit and how the potter (God) can grow those fruits in our pot. Those are key themes of this episode’s discussion.

Highlights of the podcast: 

3:05 What does seven-day practical faith mean to Stephens

4:51 What the imagery of the pot means and how it relates to purpose

10:09 Seven steps to develop the Fruits of the Spirit within us

14:31 We don’t HAVE the Fruits of the Spirit; we GIVE the Fruits to others. We’re created to serve and pour into others.

18:03 Which fruit is the hardest for people to grow?

21:46 On God’s cycle of filling us and emptying us

26:52 The hardest part about putting faith into practice

28:16 Her best tip for developing and maintaining a seven-day practical faith.

30:01 How to keep in touch with Stephens’s work and access her free materials.

Author Dawn Stephens can be found at DawnStephensBooks.com, where she offers a free guide to the seven steps to growing the Fruits of the Spirit, as she discussed on the podcast. You can also check out her four-part Little Pot book series, as well as other books she has written.

Cecil Taylor is an author, speaker, podcaster, blogger, and provider of Instant Content to churches and small groups. Please register for Cecil’s free monthly newsletters on the Cecil Taylor Ministries home page. You’ll receive a free gift, which changes from time to time, and two monthly newsletters, Backstage Pass and Monthly Connection.

For more free content like this from Cecil Taylor Ministries, visit https://www.CecilTaylorMinistries.com/free-content. Scroll to the bottom of the Show Notes to learn about his Instant Content portfolio of books and small group video studies.

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Does your family have issues with parenting in unison? Find out by taking the new Parental Unity Questionnaire from Cecil Taylor Ministries. This self-assessment will allow you to determine whether you have issues and how you can improve, plus Cecil shares three tips on parenting in unison. Follow this link for the questionnaire: https://www.unisonparenting.com/request-parental-unity-questionnaire.

Cecil’s new book, “Unison Parenting”, is on sale for just $10 plus free shipping at https://www.ceciltayloracademy.com/link.php?id=3&h=19480d6cdc. In addition, you’ll receive more than $200 in free bonuses when you buy the book directly from Cecil! This offer is 60% off the price you would pay at the big bookseller sites.  Cecil’s parenting advice can be found at https://www.UnisonParenting.com, at  https://www.instagram.com/unison_parenting/ and at https://www.pinterest.com/CecilTaylorMinistries.

Cecil and three collaborators have launched the brand new Unison Parenting newsletter. Author and pastor Kim Meyers shares her parenting perspective; pediatric therapist and author Ginny Cruz offers “Diaper Days” advice; and Tawny Kinslow writes about parent-child relationships. Sign up for the newsletter at https://www.UnisonParenting.com#newsletter-registration.

Cecil’s award-winning books and video studies can be found and purchased through https://www.CecilTaylorMinistries.com. Every video study’s first lesson can be seen for free via the Free Content link above by clicking on “Sample Lessons.”

Cecil’s Instant Content portfolio of books and video studies includes:

- “Unison Parenting: The Comprehensive Guide to Navigating Christian Parenthood with One Voice” is about Christian parenting. Cecil provides proven parenting strategies with an underlying layer of parenting in unison through all the ages and stages of a child’s life. “Unison Parenting” has been honored with the 2025 Independent Press Award for Parenting/Family and the 2025 Living Water Award for Best Nonfiction.

- “From Comfort Zone to Trust Zone” is about deepening faith. Cecil explores a dozen Bible studies of Jesus inviting people out of their comfort zones into their trust zones and how to apply these stories to our lives today.

- “The Next Thing” is about crisis responses. Cecil shares a four-part Christian model for dealing with crisis. You’ll find the model to be flexible and applicable to many crises.

- “Live Like You’re Loved” is about vibrant living. Cecil affirms the scriptural truths that God loves you, forgives you, sends you, and walks with you in eternal relationship. Then he shows how your life is transformed when you embed these truths into your daily faith and your soul.

Practical Faith Academy - Season 5, Episode 5 - Larry O'Nan, Intentional Living and Giving

Larry O'Nan, Intentional Living and Giving

The Practical Faith Academy Podcast from Cecil Taylor Ministries presents guests who have important things to say about putting your faith into practice. Cecil interviews each guest to understand their life stories and their ideas for living a seven-day practical faith.

Larry O’Nan is the author of “Intentional Living and Giving,” a holistic look at the many ways in which we are stewards of God’s gifts. O’Nan’s view is that we don’t really own anything; we are simply caretakers of God’s possessions. O’Nan will get you thinking differently about your approach to each day, to your own abundance, and to your relationship with God.

Highlights of the podcast:

2:14 What does seven-day practical faith mean to O’Nan

4:22  Misconceptions about stewardship – it’s not really about money

10:14 What it looks like to transition from “getting from God” to “stewarding for God”

13:03 How his wife’s passing caused him to re-think stewardship within his life

14:38  His book’s keyword is in the title: “Intentional”

16:00 The steps to living and giving intentionally

20:28 The hardest part about putting faith into practice

22:40 How to follow O’Nan and find his book

 

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Larry O’Nan is the author of “Intentional Living and Giving: Discovering Purpose, Igniting Abundance, and Thriving as a Steward of God’s Blessing.” While his book is widely available on major booksellers and faith-based sites, you can receive a signed copy of his book at https://larryonan.com/. On that site, O’Nan also blogs and podcasts and offers small group studies of the book. His Facebook page is “Intentional Living and Giving.”

Cecil Taylor is an author, speaker, podcaster, blogger, and provider of Instant Content to churches and small groups. Please register for Cecil’s free monthly newsletters on the Cecil Taylor Ministries home page. You’ll receive a free gift, which changes from time to time, and two monthly newsletters, Backstage Pass and Monthly Connection.

For more free content like this from Cecil Taylor Ministries, visit https://www.CecilTaylorMinistries.com/free-content. Scroll to the bottom of the Show Notes to learn about his Instant Content portfolio of books and small group video studies.

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To celebrate winning the Regal Summit award for her book “Revelationship: Transformative Intimacy With Christ”, podcast guest Cathy Colver Garland (S5 E2) is giving away her book to one lucky listener. To enter the contest, please do the following:

1. Follow Cecil on Facebook by visiting https://www.facebook.com/ceciltaylorministries and clicking Follow.
2. Follow Cathy on Instagram by visiting https://www.instagram.com/gracefullgarlands/ and clicking Follow, OR by visiting https://www.threads.com/@gracefullgarlands and clicking Follow.
3. Leave a comment about this podcast episode with Larry O’Nan. If you can’t see how to leave a comment on your format, then you can leave one by clicking on the episode at https://ceciltaylorministries.podbean.com/

Three steps, but all easy-peasy, accomplished in a minute or so.

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Cecil and three collaborators have launched the brand new Unison Parenting newsletter. Author and pastor Kim Meyers shares her parenting perspective; pediatric therapist and author Ginny Cruz offers “Diaper Days” advice; and Tawny Kinslow writes about parent-child relationships. Sign up for the newsletter at https://www.UnisonParenting.com#newsletter-registration.

Cecil’s new book, “Unison Parenting”, is on sale for just $10 plus free shipping at https://www.ceciltayloracademy.com/link.php?id=3&h=19480d6cdc. In addition, you’ll receive six free bonus gifts when you buy the book directly from Cecil!

Cecil’s award-winning books and video studies can be found and purchased through https://www.CecilTaylorMinistries.com. Every video study’s first lesson can be seen for free via the Free Content link above by clicking on “Sample Lessons.”

Cecil’s Instant Content portfolio of books and video studies includes:

- “Unison Parenting: The Comprehensive Guide to Navigating Christian Parenthood with One Voice” is about Christian parenting. Cecil provides proven parenting strategies with an underlying layer of parenting in unison through all the ages and stages of a child’s life. “Unison Parenting” has been honored with the 2025 Independent Press Award for Parenting/Family and the 2025 Living Water Award for Best Nonfiction.

- “From Comfort Zone to Trust Zone” is about deepening faith. Cecil explores a dozen Bible studies of Jesus inviting people out of their comfort zones into their trust zones and how to apply these stories to our lives today.

- “The Next Thing” is about crisis responses. Cecil shares a four-part Christian model for dealing with crisis. You’ll find the model to be flexible and applicable to many crises.

- “Live Like You’re Loved” is about vibrant living. Cecil affirms the scriptural truths that God loves you, forgives you, sends you, and walks with you in eternal relationship. Then he shows how your life is transformed when you embed these truths into your daily faith and your soul.