23: Practicing Silence With Guest Kevin Cain - a podcast by DYM Podcast Network

In this episode, James' Senior Pastor and book author Kevin Cain helps us understand the spiritual discipline of silence. Drawing from his own experience, Kevin shares how practicing silence helps us learn how to break away with God from the noise and speed of the crowd so that we can learn to live in the stillness of body, mouth, and mind with God and within the crowd.

Connect with Pastor Kevin Cain of Kingdom A Community Church of Westover, WV.
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/pastorkevincain/
Early Will I Rise: Follow and be encouraged as Pastor Kevin brings daily meditations from God's Word. - https://www.pastorkevincain.com/earlywillirise

Check out Pastor Kevin Cain's books:

As She is Dying - https://amzn.to/3uueRa2. (My note on this book: This will be your go to book on ministering to families in the midst of their grief).

Book Synopsis: Ask any Appalachian the question, "When is Appalachia most beautiful?" Every Appalachian will answer, "During autumn, when the leaves of Appalachia's trees are dying." Appalachians believe the beauty of their landscape is almost heaven. With the honor of officiating nearly 1000 funerals, Pastor Kevin Cain offers life in the midst of death.

In As She Is Dying, Kevin Cain writes, "I have given my life to bring hope to a people who have little reason to hope. Maybe Appalachians have allowed our hills' majesty and grandeur to blind us from coal dust and addiction. Yet, I do see hope. I see hope in what is dying. I see hope in what is dead. I see hope in what remains. Yes, death has the keen ability to either clear up, cover up or stir up. Still, sometimes we must descend in order to turn into the clouds. As She Is Dying is a book about death that offers stories of life. In these pages, you will find a little bit of wisdom, some stories of hope, and the eulogizing words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart which I trust have been acceptable in the sight of my strength and my Redeemer. Somehow and somewhere in death, hope must be discovered. Maybe, through the literal metaphor of Appalachians' deaths, you can see life. Some were reconciled long before their deaths. Some were reconciled just prior to their deaths. And, others were reconciled in the midst of death. There is hope for all...hope's breath, even in death."

The Humility of Being Found - https://amzn.to/36EvUOB

Book Synopsis: The need to be rescued is somewhat about personal incompleteness and mostly about God, who desires to have loving communion with creation. Spiritual rescue follows a simple pattern: Messiah is lovingly sent to rescue; each has a tendency to fight against the Rescuer; personal humility is a statement of faithful surrender and the key to being found; the greatest journey of rescue is Jesus Messiah’s upper room to empty tomb victory over sin and death; now rescued, the individual’s only responsibility is to bear the Christ Who bears our wounds. Such is the journey to rescue.

Books mentioned in this podcast:
- Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander - https://amzn.to/3D6Fvde.
- Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God - https://amzn.to/37MZguD.
- Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution, Updated and Expanded: Living as an Ordinary - - Radical - https://amzn.to/3izdXUl.
- Edward Dobson, The Year of Living like Jesus: My Journey of Discovering What Jesus Would - Really Do - https://amzn.to/3tErJeU.
- Andy Freeman & Pete Greig, Punk Monk: New Monasticism and the Ancient Art of Breathing https://amzn.to/3wIi1d0.

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