The Secret to Loving Jesus More

The Disciples Journal

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🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Have you ever felt like your relationship with God has lost its passion? Join me, Darren Starks, host of The Disciples Journal, as we kick off a new series focused on making Jesus your first love again. In this episode, I share my heartfelt journey of rediscovery—how a change in mindset from 'doing the right things' to 'having the right heart' transformed my walk with Him. Learn how to engage in spiritual disciplines with genuine devotion and set the tone of your heart through worship. Let's reconnect with Jesus in a transformative way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are you looking for an experience that will grow your teenager's faith, increase their leadership skills,
0:04.3	and teach them the discernment to engage with the world all around them, all while taking them on the adventure of a lifetime?
0:09.7	I mean, who isn't looking for that?
0:11.2	If your teenager loves fun, adventure, and wants to grow in their faith in leadership this summer,
0:15.8	then send them to Excel's summer leadership camp.
0:18.7	Excels summer leadership camp is a 12-day experience for passionate young leaders looking to discover God's truth,
0:23.6	to discern wisely and live wholeheartedly.
0:26.6	Your teenager will embark on a transformative journey in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where they'll build lasting friendships in the context of community.
0:32.6	Embark on thrilling adventures like camping, rock climbing, whitewater rafting, and they will receive expert training and certifications and categories like CPR and Wilderness First Aid.
0:42.3	Each aspect of the camp is woven together to help them learn to discover truth, to discern wisely, and take godly action in the context of real life situations.
0:50.3	To learn more or begin an application, go to theexcelcamp.org. That's theexcelcamp.org.
0:57.5	Hurry because summer is just around the corner.
1:03.6	Yo, what's up? Welcome back to the Disciples Journal. I'm your host, Darren Starks,
1:08.5	and this is where you learn to walk with Jesus every single day.
1:12.1	So I am extremely excited because we are starting a new series, and really our first series for this show, for the month of March.
1:24.0	And I don't necessarily have a specific name for this series, but it can be summed up in
1:30.7	the simple idea of making Jesus your first love again. And you may have been at a place in your
1:38.4	walk with God previously where that was the case, where he was everything. Your whole world revolved around him he had your heart
1:46.8	passion attention in every way but you may have fallen away from that or you may be someone who
1:53.2	has not necessarily stepped into that yet where you feel this urgency passion or vigor toward God and pursuing him wholeheartedly.
2:04.5	That's what I want to get into during this series, is what does it look like to really love God
2:11.3	with all of your heart, soul, and mind as the word commands us to do.
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