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In this insightful episode of the Healing the City Podcast, Pastor Eric explores the nuanced art of engaging with others during challenging circumstances, drawing inspiration from the profound wisdom found in the epistle to the Philippians Chapter 4. Viewing this topic through the lens of spiritual formation, Pastor Eric emphasizes the utmost significance of fostering virtues like active listening and empathy.  At a time when society is riddled with divisive conflict and unwavering disagreements, this podcast delivers practical guidance and valuable insight for nurturing community.

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"Healing the City" is a profound and dynamic weekly podcast that dives into the complexities of creating healthier communities. Featuring the voices and perspectives of the esteemed members of the Village Church, each episode is thoughtfully crafted to address the challenges and opportunities for meaningful change in our cities.

With a holistic approach to healing, the podcast explores a wide range of topics, from soul care and spiritual direction to mental health and community involvement. It provides listeners with insightful and thought-provoking perspectives on the issues facing our cities, as well as practical steps they can take to make a difference.

Join hosts Adrienne Crawford, Eric Cepin, Ashley Cousineau, Jessica Dennes, Michael Cousineau, Mark Crawford, and Susan Cepin as they navigate the complexities of our communities with wisdom, grace, and a deep commitment to positive change. Through their engaging discussions, listeners will be inspired to become active participants in healing the city and creating a brighter, healthier future for all.

The Village Church
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The Village Church meets at 10a and 5p on Sundays
1926 N Cloverland Ave, Tucson AZ 85712
Mail: PO Box 30790, Tucson AZ 85751

In this episode, we have the privilege of hearing the remarkable story of Michael Cousineau, who has undergone a transformative journey in his service to the Village Church. Through his deepening faith and commitment to his community, Michael was called to the role of Elder-Pastor, and in doing so, discovered a new level of purpose and fulfillment. As we listen to Michael's inspiring account, we are reminded of the vital role that spiritual leaders play in shaping our communities and healing our cities. Join us as we ponder the power of faith and the profound impact that it can have on our lives and the world around us.

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"Healing the City" is a profound and dynamic weekly podcast that dives into the complexities of creating healthier communities. Featuring the voices and perspectives of the esteemed members of the Village Church, each episode is thoughtfully crafted to address the challenges and opportunities for meaningful change in our cities.

With a holistic approach to healing, the podcast explores a wide range of topics, from soul care and spiritual direction to mental health and community involvement. It provides listeners with insightful and thought-provoking perspectives on the issues facing our cities, as well as practical steps they can take to make a difference.

Join hosts Adrienne Crawford, Eric Cepin, Ashley Cousineau, Jessica Dennes, Michael Cousineau, Mark Crawford, and Susan Cepin as they navigate the complexities of our communities with wisdom, grace, and a deep commitment to positive change. Through their engaging discussions, listeners will be inspired to become active participants in healing the city and creating a brighter, healthier future for all.

The Village Church
villagersonline@gmail.com
The Village Church meets at 10a and 5p on Sundays
1926 N Cloverland Ave, Tucson AZ 85712
Mail: PO Box 30790, Tucson AZ 85751

Hold onto your hats folks, because the Healing the City podcast episode with host Pastor Eric Cepin and guest Ron Brown is about to take you on a wild ride into the transformative power of Daniel Quinn's novel, Ishmael. Ron Brown spills the beans on how this book helped him find truth, even though he wasn't following Jesus at the time. Can you believe it?

In this episode, Ron goes all in with a summary of Ishmael and its  allegorical approach to the early parts of the Bible. You won't want to miss his  explanations on how this book helped him recognize the wisdom in the Bible and even provided a framework for him to understand his own spiritual journey.

The conversation between Pastor Eric and Ron will make your head spin with their deep dive into the themes of the novel and how they relate to our modern world. Brace yourselves for their discussion on the concept of "Mother Culture" and how society shapes our beliefs and values.  

This podcast episode is an absolute must-listen for anyone who wants to experience a mind-bending exploration of the power of literature to inspire personal growth and spiritual transformation. You'll come away with a unique perspective on the Bible and the ways in which it can provide guidance and wisdom in our lives that will leave you in awe. Don't miss it!

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"Healing the City" is a profound and dynamic weekly podcast that dives into the complexities of creating healthier communities. Featuring the voices and perspectives of the esteemed members of the Village Church, each episode is thoughtfully crafted to address the challenges and opportunities for meaningful change in our cities.

With a holistic approach to healing, the podcast explores a wide range of topics, from soul care and spiritual direction to mental health and community involvement. It provides listeners with insightful and thought-provoking perspectives on the issues facing our cities, as well as practical steps they can take to make a difference.

Join hosts Adrienne Crawford, Eric Cepin, Ashley Cousineau, Jessica Dennes, Michael Cousineau, Mark Crawford, and Susan Cepin as they navigate the complexities of our communities with wisdom, grace, and a deep commitment to positive change. Through their engaging discussions, listeners will be inspired to become active participants in healing the city and creating a brighter, healthier future for all.

The Village Church
villagersonline@gmail.com
The Village Church meets at 10a and 5p on Sundays
1926 N Cloverland Ave, Tucson AZ 85712
Mail: PO Box 30790, Tucson AZ 85751

Ron Brown, Eric Cepin, and Michael Cousineau talk about the Soul.  Do we have one!  What does science say?

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"Healing the City" is a profound and dynamic weekly podcast that dives into the complexities of creating healthier communities. Featuring the voices and perspectives of the esteemed members of the Village Church, each episode is thoughtfully crafted to address the challenges and opportunities for meaningful change in our cities.

With a holistic approach to healing, the podcast explores a wide range of topics, from soul care and spiritual direction to mental health and community involvement. It provides listeners with insightful and thought-provoking perspectives on the issues facing our cities, as well as practical steps they can take to make a difference.

Join hosts Adrienne Crawford, Eric Cepin, Ashley Cousineau, Jessica Dennes, Michael Cousineau, Mark Crawford, and Susan Cepin as they navigate the complexities of our communities with wisdom, grace, and a deep commitment to positive change. Through their engaging discussions, listeners will be inspired to become active participants in healing the city and creating a brighter, healthier future for all.

The Village Church
villagersonline@gmail.com
The Village Church meets at 10a and 5p on Sundays
1926 N Cloverland Ave, Tucson AZ 85712
Mail: PO Box 30790, Tucson AZ 85751

Ron, Eric, and Nathan discuss faith and belief.

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"Healing the City" is a profound and dynamic weekly podcast that dives into the complexities of creating healthier communities. Featuring the voices and perspectives of the esteemed members of the Village Church, each episode is thoughtfully crafted to address the challenges and opportunities for meaningful change in our cities.

With a holistic approach to healing, the podcast explores a wide range of topics, from soul care and spiritual direction to mental health and community involvement. It provides listeners with insightful and thought-provoking perspectives on the issues facing our cities, as well as practical steps they can take to make a difference.

Join hosts Adrienne Crawford, Eric Cepin, Ashley Cousineau, Jessica Dennes, Michael Cousineau, Mark Crawford, and Susan Cepin as they navigate the complexities of our communities with wisdom, grace, and a deep commitment to positive change. Through their engaging discussions, listeners will be inspired to become active participants in healing the city and creating a brighter, healthier future for all.

The Village Church
villagersonline@gmail.com
The Village Church meets at 10a and 5p on Sundays
1926 N Cloverland Ave, Tucson AZ 85712
Mail: PO Box 30790, Tucson AZ 85751

Ron Brown and Eric continue their conversation regard the historical evidence for Jesus.

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"Healing the City" is a profound and dynamic weekly podcast that dives into the complexities of creating healthier communities. Featuring the voices and perspectives of the esteemed members of the Village Church, each episode is thoughtfully crafted to address the challenges and opportunities for meaningful change in our cities.

With a holistic approach to healing, the podcast explores a wide range of topics, from soul care and spiritual direction to mental health and community involvement. It provides listeners with insightful and thought-provoking perspectives on the issues facing our cities, as well as practical steps they can take to make a difference.

Join hosts Adrienne Crawford, Eric Cepin, Ashley Cousineau, Jessica Dennes, Michael Cousineau, Mark Crawford, and Susan Cepin as they navigate the complexities of our communities with wisdom, grace, and a deep commitment to positive change. Through their engaging discussions, listeners will be inspired to become active participants in healing the city and creating a brighter, healthier future for all.

The Village Church
villagersonline@gmail.com
The Village Church meets at 10a and 5p on Sundays
1926 N Cloverland Ave, Tucson AZ 85712
Mail: PO Box 30790, Tucson AZ 85751

Ron Brown offers his thoughts on the evidence for Jesus being God. 

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"Healing the City" is a profound and dynamic weekly podcast that dives into the complexities of creating healthier communities. Featuring the voices and perspectives of the esteemed members of the Village Church, each episode is thoughtfully crafted to address the challenges and opportunities for meaningful change in our cities.

With a holistic approach to healing, the podcast explores a wide range of topics, from soul care and spiritual direction to mental health and community involvement. It provides listeners with insightful and thought-provoking perspectives on the issues facing our cities, as well as practical steps they can take to make a difference.

Join hosts Adrienne Crawford, Eric Cepin, Ashley Cousineau, Jessica Dennes, Michael Cousineau, Mark Crawford, and Susan Cepin as they navigate the complexities of our communities with wisdom, grace, and a deep commitment to positive change. Through their engaging discussions, listeners will be inspired to become active participants in healing the city and creating a brighter, healthier future for all.

The Village Church
villagersonline@gmail.com
The Village Church meets at 10a and 5p on Sundays
1926 N Cloverland Ave, Tucson AZ 85712
Mail: PO Box 30790, Tucson AZ 85751

The Case for Agnostic Atheism

I (Ron Brown) spent close to 20 years being an agnostic atheist.

• Agnostic atheism can be described as follows: it constitutes a lack of belief in God, but not any claim of certainty of knowing that there is no God. What distinguishes it from agnosticism can be summed up by the statement “Agnostic in theory, atheist in practice”. What this means is that the agnostic atheist doesn’t know that there is no God, but sees no reason to act as if there is one. Likewise, it’s conceivable that New Zealand could crumble into the ocean tomorrow, but unless we have reason/evidence that this will happen, it would be silly to rearrange our day around this conceivable possibility. 
• This, I still think, is a very strong position. As strong as any other, and quite possibly stronger.  Some people accuse atheists of arrogance, but this is actually a very humble position. 
• There are plenty of arguments that religious folk have made for the existence of God, and atheists have great responses:
  • The argument from design, or organised complexity. Any biological organism is a highly intricate, complex system. How could they be so intricate without a designer? Likewise, there’s the fine-tuning argument: that is, the Earth’s physical features lend themselves to the origination of life here. Were things even slightly different, e.g., if ice didn’t float in water, if it wasn’t a carbon-rich planet, and so forth, life as we know it could not have happened. How do we explain this lock-and-key match between the Earth and life on Earth? And then there’s the question of “why is there something rather than nothing?” and “how could something come from nothing?”

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"Healing the City" is a profound and dynamic weekly podcast that dives into the complexities of creating healthier communities. Featuring the voices and perspectives of the esteemed members of the Village Church, each episode is thoughtfully crafted to address the challenges and opportunities for meaningful change in our cities.

With a holistic approach to healing, the podcast explores a wide range of topics, from soul care and spiritual direction to mental health and community involvement. It provides listeners with insightful and thought-provoking perspectives on the issues facing our cities, as well as practical steps they can take to make a difference.

Join hosts Adrienne Crawford, Eric Cepin, Ashley Cousineau, Jessica Dennes, Michael Cousineau, Mark Crawford, and Susan Cepin as they navigate the complexities of our communities with wisdom, grace, and a deep commitment to positive change. Through their engaging discussions, listeners will be inspired to become active participants in healing the city and creating a brighter, healthier future for all.

The Village Church
villagersonline@gmail.com
The Village Church meets at 10a and 5p on Sundays
1926 N Cloverland Ave, Tucson AZ 85712
Mail: PO Box 30790, Tucson AZ 85751

Ron Brown discusses his move to Arizona and the move from Atheism to Christianity.

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"Healing the City" is a profound and dynamic weekly podcast that dives into the complexities of creating healthier communities. Featuring the voices and perspectives of the esteemed members of the Village Church, each episode is thoughtfully crafted to address the challenges and opportunities for meaningful change in our cities.

With a holistic approach to healing, the podcast explores a wide range of topics, from soul care and spiritual direction to mental health and community involvement. It provides listeners with insightful and thought-provoking perspectives on the issues facing our cities, as well as practical steps they can take to make a difference.

Join hosts Adrienne Crawford, Eric Cepin, Ashley Cousineau, Jessica Dennes, Michael Cousineau, Mark Crawford, and Susan Cepin as they navigate the complexities of our communities with wisdom, grace, and a deep commitment to positive change. Through their engaging discussions, listeners will be inspired to become active participants in healing the city and creating a brighter, healthier future for all.

The Village Church
villagersonline@gmail.com
The Village Church meets at 10a and 5p on Sundays
1926 N Cloverland Ave, Tucson AZ 85712
Mail: PO Box 30790, Tucson AZ 85751

2020-01-05 Sunday Worship Service Ron Brown - "The Rest of Your Time" We can rail and moan about the things we've lost to time, but in life, the beauty remains that we always have the rest of our time to dedicate to follow Jesus.

The human body can’t last long without water. 3 days, maybe 4. To be without it is disastrous. Yet, after just a moment speaking with Jesus, the woman at the well forgot entirely her purpose for going to the well and she forgot her life sustaining vessel to carry that water. He spoke Living Water into her dry and parched soul. The same is for us today, just reach out and touch Him.

Bethesda. Mercy. Those that lay by the pool hung every hope they had on a moment of chance. IF the waters were troubled, IF someone could carry them, and IF they could get there first they would receive the answer to their problems. They spent all their time waiting. Then and now, it’s so easy to focus so much on searching for the answer that we don’t see it’s right in front of us.

Jim celebrates victories over Cleveland, and celebrates victory over need.

Did God say to burn the Quran?

Or to read it in church?

Beware of Christian messages at school!

Tattoos in church

Church of Tattoos

Jim celebrates victories over Cleveland, and celebrates victory over need.

Did God say to burn the Quran?

Or to read it in church?

Beware of Christian messages at school!

Tattoos in church

Church of Tattoos

Guests include Tim Tebow, Ron Brown, Irving Fryar and FCA's President Les Steckel