The Ferment Podcast - Conversations About Worship And Transformation
Welcome to the Ferment Podcast - Conversations about Worship and Transformation. In this wide ranging podcast our host Adam Russell sits down with thought leaders, creatives, entrepreneurs, and other innovators digging into their personal stories of spiritual transformation. Recent guests include John Mark McMillan, Daniel Grothe, World-renowed vocal coach "Mama Jan" Smith, James Duke, Carol Wimber-Wong, and many others.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 256
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2024
Dr. Charles Montgomery, Jr - Is There Blood On Our Preaching?
Dr. Charles A. Montgomery, Jr serves as a Teaching Pastor at Vineyard Church of Columbus and in 2012 took on the additional responsibility of becoming the Campus Pastor of Vineyard Columbus East Camp…
Mike O'Brien - Excellent Worship Does Not Equal Acceptable Worship
In this follow-up episode of The Ferment, Mike O’Brien and Adam Russell continue their conversation about worship team culture and development and the importance of defining excellence within your ow…
Mike O'Brien - Loving The Church Through Personal Pain
Mike O’Brien has served as a worship pastor, speaker, record producer and songwriter for over 25 years. For 18 years he served one church (Vineyard Community Church of Marietta, GA) training hundreds…
Melisa Keller - Cultivating Emotional Intelligence
Melisa Keller is the Director of Events & Project Management for Vineyard Worship. In her role, Melisa oversees Vineyard Worship Leader Retreats and Rise events, and serves as project manager for all…
Paul Anleitner - American Civil Religion - How Did We Get Here
Paul Anleitner is the Worship Pastor at the First Evangelical Free Church in Minneapolis, MN and host of the Deep Talks podcast - Exploring Theology and Meaning-Making. Prior to joining the staff at …
Eleanor Mumford - For The King And The Kingdom - The Global Legacy Of The Vineyard
Eleanor Mumford and her husband John play a significant leadership role within the Vineyard family of churches, both in the UK and overseas. They worked for two years with John Wimber at the Anaheim …
Ryan Delmore - The Journey Of An Accidental Songwriter
Ryan Delmore and his wife Sarah live on the central coast of California where they own and operate Del’s Famous Pizzeria & Italian Restaurant. A worship leader in the Vineyard church for over 25 year…
Sandra McCracken - Songwriting With A Scripture-Soaked Imagination
Sandra McCracken’s prolific contributions as a songwriter, modern-day hymn writer, and record producer have brought grace and clarity to her soulful, folk-gospel sound. Whether in a theater or in a c…
FROM THE ARCHIVES - Steve Cuss - Problems Aren’t Just Inside Us, They’re Between Us - Understand The Nature Of Chronic Anxiety
As we take our end of season break, please enjoy some of our very favorite episodes from 2020, released on Mondays and Thursdays throughout December! We will catch you back with Season 3 in January! …
FROM THE ARCHIVES - Chris Lizotte - Simplicity, Hard Won Lessons, And Being The Same Person Everywhere You Go
As we take our end of season break, please enjoy some of our very favorite episodes from 2020, released on Mondays and Thursdays throughout December! We will catch you back with Season 3 in January! …
FROM THE ARCHIVES - Matt Redman - The Throne Room of God Is Not Just A Place Of Reverence, It’s A Place Of Refuge
As we take our end of season break, please enjoy some of our very favorite episodes from 2020, released on Mondays and Thursdays throughout December! We will catch you back with Season 3 in January! …
FROM THE ARCHIVES - Black Voices in The Vineyard - Kim McNeal
As we take our end of season break, please enjoy some of our very favorite episodes from 2020, released on Mondays and Thursdays throughout December! We will catch you back with Season 3 in January! …
FROM THE ARCHIVES - Lauri Varieur - former VP of Creative_Visual for fashion brands BCBGMAXAZRIA and Donna Karan and co-lead pastor at Vineyard Fullerton - Partnering With Jesus In The World Of Fashion
As we take our end of season break, please enjoy some of our very favorite episodes from 2020, released on Mondays and Thursdays throughout December! We will catch you back with Season 3 in January! …
FROM THE ARCHIVES - Edgar King - The Vineyard Global Family and Singing in the Language of Our Hearts
As we take our end of season break, please enjoy some of our very favorite episodes from 2020, released on Mondays and Thursdays throughout December! We will catch you back with Season 3 in January! …
FROM THE ARCHIVES - Brian Doerksen - We're Exchanging Intimacy With God For Intensity
As we take our end of season break, please enjoy some of our very favorite episodes from 2020, released on Mondays and Thursdays throughout December! We will catch you back with Season 3 in January! …
FROM THE ARCHIVES - Aarti Sequeira - Hospitality and the Spiritual Dynamics of Food
As we take our end of season break, please enjoy some of our very favorite episodes from 2020, released on Mondays and Thursdays throughout December! We will catch you back with Season 3 in January! …
Plague Year In Review - Adam and Heather Russell
Welcome to the plague year(s)...we guess? In the last Ferment episode of the year, Adam and Heather review their 2020 high notes: favorite Ferment guests, favorite quarantine moments and newly acquir…
Jacob Heppner - CrossFit Games Athlete - The Benefit of Doing Hard Things Everyday
Jacob Heppner is a CrossFit Games veteran with three top-10 finishes and a career-best finish of sixth overall in 2019. Raised in an agricultural community in San Joaquin Valley, Jacob learned the va…
POLITICS! - A Mirror and An Invitation
We’ve always heard that the two things we don’t talk about at the dinner table are religion and politics, but in this episode of The Ferment we are going to talk about them both and how we navigate t…
SPECIAL REPOST - Brian Zahnd - All Politics MUST Submit to Jesus
Brian Zahnd is the lead pastor of Word of Life Church in St. Joseph, Missouri, which he founded in 1981 with his wife, Peri. He is a passionate reader, avid hiker and mountain climber, Bob Dylan afic…