People Growth Discipleship

Learning to Love: https://a.co/d/07ZmY8S2 

In this episode, Kevin D. Jones Sr. interviews author Kendra Dublin about her book Learning to Love, contrasting conservative theology with legalism and emphasizing growth in understanding God.

Kendra shares what she is still learning about love—especially humility, resisting pride, and freeing others as God has freed her—and discusses her top books, placing Learning to ...

Learning to Love: https://a.co/d/07ZmY8S2 

In this episode of “Learning to Love,” the speakers reflect on God’s agape love as the greatest miracle and discuss personal growth from bitterness into intentional inner work, including self-rebuke, naming emotions, and speaking life.

They explore how receiving God’s love reshapes the way correction and disagreement are handled—listening for the Spirit...

Learning to Love: https://a.co/d/07ZmY8S2 

Learning to Love: Discipleship, Rebellion, and the Hard Work of Real Love

In this episode of the “Learning to Love” conversation, the host interviews Kendra M. Dublin about what discipling believers has taught her about love beyond studying Scripture, using 1 Corinthians 13 to explain how patience, kindness, and perseverance become real when walking with people through i...

Learning to Love: https://a.co/d/07ZmY8S2 

Learning to Love: Writing Through Warfare, Vulnerability, and Meditation

In this episode, Pastor Kevin reconnects with Kendra M. Dublin to continue their conversation about her book, Learning to Love, after an earlier interview missed several questions.

They discuss how resting in God’s inseparable love anchors life through change, why Kevin wrote the foreword after hearing K...

Learning to Love: https://a.co/d/07ZmY8S2 

In this episode of the Learning to Love series, the conversation explores why love is foundational to understanding identity, emphasizing that “God is love” and that centering life on God’s love shapes character and behavior beyond feelings.

Kendra connects love to scripture’s greatest commandments and to humility as a byproduct of love that enables surrender...

Learning to Love: https://a.co/d/07ZmY8S2 

The host interviews author Kendra Dublin about her book Learning to Love, exploring when she first realized she needed to learn love and how that journey shaped her faith and life.

Kendra shares a childhood memory of the Oklahoma City bombing that exposed her lack of empathy, and explains how God used decades of growth, storms, and self-awareness to teach her compassion and wisdom i...

Learning to Love: https://a.co/d/07ZmY8S2 

In this episode of Learning to Love, Kendra M. Dublin and Sister Vicky discuss the chapter “Lovingly Separated” using Romans 1:18–19 to explain how God’s love is defined by holiness, righteousness, and justice rather than culture’s view of love.

They address the question of how a loving God relates to hell, emphasizing that God offers life through Chris...

Learning to Love: https://a.co/d/07ZmY8S2 

In this episode of Learning to Love, the hosts continue discussing drawing closer to Christ through intimacy with God, focusing on Chapter 15, “Love and Friendship,” anchored in Psalm 63:1.

Kendra reflects on longing for “something more” in 2022, how Psalm 63 led her from routine Christian disciplines into deeper meditation and extended, scheduled time with G...

Learning to Love: https://a.co/d/07ZmY8S2 

This episode continues a discussion of Kendra M. Dublin’s book Learning to Love, focusing on Chapter 11 (Brotherly Love) using Hebrews 2:11 and Chapter 12 (Adopted by Love) using Galatians 4:4–7.

The conversation highlights that Jesus is not ashamed to call believers brothers and sisters and that God became human so people could be made family, emphasizing belonging, com...

Episode 41: My Life Is Not My Own | Embrace Intimacy with the Father Who Calls You His Own | PGD

Learning to Love: https://a.co/d/07ZmY8S2 

The hosts continue discussing Kendra M. Dublin’s book Learning to Love, focusing on chapter nine, “Ambassador of Love,” which begins with scripture and includes a humorous story from Kendra’s 10th-grade year that reveals her academically gifted background, pride, ...

Learning to Love: https://a.co/d/07ZmY8S2 

This episode continues the “Learning to Love” conversation by exploring Jesus as the Rock and cornerstone—symbolizing firm foundation, salvation, rest, hope, stability, and peace—through repeated “rock” references in Psalms and the desire to have steadfast, flint-like resolve to do God’s will (Isaiah 15:1 is cited).

The discussion highlights...

Learning to Love: https://a.co/d/07ZmY8S2 

Vicki hosts a discussion with Kendra about her new book, Learning to Love: Embrace Intimacy With the Father Who Calls You His Own, focusing on chapter five (“Love bypasses rebellion”) and chapter six (“the beloved cornerstone”).

They unpack Isaiah 11:1’s image of a “shoot” from Jesse as new, vibrant life that rises from what seemed cut down,...

Learning to Love: https://a.co/d/07ZmY8S2 

In this episode, the hosts discuss how turning 40 can bring deeper wisdom, compassion, and love, especially in faith.

Kendra M. Dublin reflects on her growth from being “legalistic” at 20—while struggling with shame and nearly becoming an alcoholic—to becoming more loving by 30 after experiences like alcoholism, marriage, divorce, abuse, and ministry, and arr...

Learning to Love: https://a.co/d/07ZmY8S2 

Kendra Dublin introduces a bonus season of the People of Growth Discipleship podcast centered on her new book, “Learning to Love: Intimacy With the Father Who Calls You His Own,” and invites her friend Vicky to interview her.

They share how their friendship began at a retreat, grew through discernment, prayer, and soul-reviving conversations, and why Vicky believes the b...

Join Kendra Dublin in an enlightening discussion with Leslie James on the potential of technology in modern discipleship and ministry.

Explore how AI and other tools can bridge generational gaps, enhance spiritual growth, and make church operations more efficient.

Learn about Leslie's journey into the tech space, practical tech tools for churches, and the importance of integrating new technologies for effective ministry. Whether ...

In this episode of People Growth Discipleship, Kendra Dublin sits down with her brother, Stacy Jones, to discuss the critical issue of intergenerational discipleship in the church.

They dive into the significance of forming intentional relationships across different age groups, the I-five model for churches to adopt intergenerational ministry, and the importance of having a theology of accommodation.

Stacy shares his personal jou...

In this episode of People Growth Discipleship, Kendra Dublin is joined by her brother in Christ, Andre Ashford. They discuss their unique meeting and delve into topics of discipleship, generational leadership, and innovation within the church.

Andre shares insights on his preferred discipleship relationship, living in the era of King Solomon, and the current barriers he's working through in his spiritual journey. The conversation ...

In this episode, Kendra Dublin discusses the importance of intergenerational patience in discipleship. Reflecting on her own ministry journey, Kendra shares insights from her book 'Pathway to Patience' and elaborates on how Jesus modeled patience and humility.

She highlights the need for a structured discipleship system that evolves over time to accommodate different generations, from Gen Alpha to the Silent Generation. With a foc...