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The Living Room Podcast
The Living Room Podcast is where we have conversations about house church, micro-church, and what it looks like living the everyday mission of Christ. If you are wanting to learn more about planting a house church or micro-church, or looking for resources to help you connect with other house church and micro-church leaders, you can find us in The Living Room at www.living-church.com. The Living Room is a ministry of Living Church existing to network, encourage, and equip house church and…
Episodes
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Episode #45: Sending Is Discipleship: The Call to Raise Up and Release Others
In this episode, Mark welcomes back Jeremy Ellis into the Living Room. Jeremy is an elder and house church pastor in Northern Kentucky with Living Church…
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Episode #44: Sending as a Discipleship Practice
This episode continues our series sharing recordings from the main sessions during the first ever LC Equip Conference hosted and led by Living Church in April…
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Episode #43: Sharing Mission Stories | Chris & Betsy Costanza
In this episode, Mark welcomes Chris & Betsy Costanza into the Living Room. The Costanzas have been pastoring and leading a house church in Cincinnati, OH for…
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Episode #42: Sharing Mission as a Discipleship Practice
This episode continues sharing recordings from the main sessions during the first ever LC Equip Conference hosted and led by Living Church in April 2025. The…
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Episode #41: Real Life Examples for Sharing Life
In today's episode, Mark shares practical ways to live the discipleship practice of Sharing Life. If you or your church community is struggling to find ways to…
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Episode #40: Sharing Life as a Discipleship Practice
This episode continues our start to 2026 sharing recordings of the main sessions from the first ever LC Equip Conference hosted and led by Living Church last…
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Episode #39: A Life That Leads (Interview with Josh Benadum)
A Life That Leads is a new leadership book that hits different than most! Today in the Living Room Mark welcomes back Josh Benadum to the podcast. Josh is a…
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Episode #38: Practical Rhythms for Sharing Scripture
In today's episode, Mark welcomes his friend Chris Conlin into the Living Room. Chris is the new Executive Director of Equipping Ministries International, and…
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Episode 37: Sharing Scripture as a Discipleship Practice
Welcome to 2026! We're excited to start this new year sharing recordings of the main sessions from the first ever LC Equip Conference last April. The theme of…
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Episode #36: Jesus & The Golden Girls
In this episode, Mark shares an update about a Bible study he and his wife have been leading for several months at a local coffee shop. The Bible study is with…
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Episode #36: Your Church Is Just A Crowd If...
Is your church a church, or is it possibly just a crowd? Mark sits alone again in the Living Room. In this episode he shares a recent and raw experience from…
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Episode #35: The Struggle of Quality vs. Quantity
Do you struggle with the tension and frustration of wanting to see more new disciples of Jesus being made, but not seeing it happen? So which is it, quality or…
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Episode #34: Cell Mates (An Interview with Joel Comiskey)
It's a joy to have Joel Comiskey join Mark in The Living Room for this episode of The Living Room Podcast. Joel is the founder Joel Comiskey Group which…
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Episode #33: Knocking Down Doors: A Church Conference Where Vulnerability & Unity Lead To A Renewed Sense Of Belonging
Elena, Micah, & Sharree join Mark in this episode of The Living Room Podcast. As members of three different house churches , listen in as they share their…
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Inside the Minds behind the LC EQUIP Conference
In this episode of The Living Room Podcast, Joseph Dickens gets inside the minds of several house church pastors from Living Church as they share personal take…
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Episode 31: You're invited...
In this episode, Living Church (LC) House Church Pastor, Elder, and Staff member Kyle Ackerson joins Mark in the Living Room. Together they discuss the first…
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Episode #30: Growing Up House Church (Girls Edition)
Joining Mark in the Living Room today are his two daughters Aislinn (18) and Kate (16) who have grown up in the house church context. In this episode Aislinn…
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Episode #29: TIME for Everything
In today's episode, we welcome back Jeremy Ellis into The Living Room. Jeremy shares the struggles and advantages to being co-vocational, and how he navigates…
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BONUS MINI-EPISODE: "What does financial giving look like in a church of house churches?"
BONUS MINI-EPISODE. As soon as the last episode (see Episode #28) finished, Mark thought of a question to ask Andy Wiedeman, our previous guest, so they hit…
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Episode #28: Is it possible to change traditional church, and is there hope?
Let's welcome Andy Wiedemann to the Living Room Podcast! Andy is a pastor in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. In today's episode Andy shares his unique experience…
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Episode #27: "Church Weirdos" (A Roundtable Conversation with the Living Church House Church Pastors)
In today's episode the Living Church house church pastors share their thoughts and take aways from attending the recent Microchurch Conference in Kansas City…
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Episode #26: Relationship Billionaires
It's a joy to welcome Josh Benadum into The Living Room Podcast world. In today's episode, Josh shares his thoughts, wisdom, and experience from over 12 years…
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Episode #25: Uh-oh! Jesus just said a four letter word!
No interview. No guest. It's only Mark in the Living Room for this episode. Listen in as he shares something God has been teaching him recently about living…
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Episode #24: Workin' It: How to Leverage Your Work for Mission
Today's episode took place in our monthly virtual Living Room conversation. In this conversation we discussed, "How do we leverage our work and vocation for…
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Episode #22: This is Us (w/ Jedidiah Smith)
In the Living Room today is Jedidiah Smith from Missouri. Jedidiah is planting an organic house church in their local neighborhood and community. In this…
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Episode 21: Lessons from Wang Yi & Chinese House Churches (An Interview with Hannah Nation)
In the Living Room today is Hannah Nation. Hannah is Managing Editor for The Center for House Church Theology, a ministry amplifying the voice of the house…
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Episode #20: Everyday Mission as Hospitality, Sports, & Amtrak
Today's episode is from the virtual Living Room which is a monthly conversation that takes place between house church and micro church leaders from around the…
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Episode #19: QUESTION MARK | Leading & Multiplying Leaders
In today's episode Joseph Dickens interviews Mark about leading and multiplying leaders. They discuss what leadership meetings look like for their house church…
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Episode #18: Realities of House Church - The Challenge & Reward
Bobby & Amanda Sammons see house church from a unique view. Most of our other episodes have been interviews of those who are starting, pastoring or leading a…
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Episode #17: Tucking in the Neighborhood
Mark joins Jason & Izzy Tucker in their Living Room for today's episode. The Tuckers have been in the house church journey for the past 8-9 years. In this…
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Episode #16: Why House Church?
Today's episode is an excerpt from a recent lecture Mark gave to students at the Russell School of Ministry in Florence, KY. The lecture involves answering the…
The Living Room PodcastEpisode #15: LIVNU with Lennie
In the Living Room today is Lennie McKinney IV. Lennie is planting LIVNU, an organic house church movement in Akron, OH, which they started in 2020 during…
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Episode #14: Mom on a Mission
We're back! It's been a bit since our last episode, but we're excited to be back ready to share with you more episodes of the The Living Room Podcast. In…
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Episode #13: Growing Up House Church
Joining Mark in the Living Room today are his two sons Grant (22 yrs) and Luke (19 yrs). Grant and Luke share experiences and perspective growing up as kids…
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Episode #12: Leaving it all Behind
Today in the Living Room are Steve & Mary Klotz. Steve & Mary share life with our network and family of house churches in Cincinnati, OH. In this episode they…
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Episode #11: QUESTION MARK | 4 Practices of a House Church (Part Two)
Today’s Question Mark episode is Part 2 of Episode #10 where Mark unpacks the 4 disciple making practices of house church lived and expected in the Living…
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Episode #10: QUESTION MARK | 4 Practices of a House Church (Part One)
Question Mark episodes are where Mark sits in the podcast hot seat being interviewed answering questions on house church, micro-church, and living the everyday…
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Episode #9: Lessons from a “Front Yard” Family
Abe and Kenzie Chaney join Mark in the Living Room today. Abe has been involved with house church for 13 years. Kenzie has been sharing life in house church…
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Episode #8: Living Room Network Leaders Roundtable
In this episode our Living Room Network of church leaders discuss how to keep you from taking on a ministry idea or ministry vision the Spirit is clearly…
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Episode #7: Dads & Discipleship (A Father's Day Special)
Joining Mark in The Living Room are Martin Jones and Hanson Pampuinath. The three of them discuss dads and discipleship. Martin has three adult children and…
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Episode #6: Old Man with a New Mission.
In the Living Room today is Martin Jones. Martin is in his sixties and planting an organic church in a city he's never lived in before. In this episode Martin…
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Episode #5: Living Jesus' Mission is the Difference between Off Brand Oreos & Real Oreos
In this episode we welcome Matt Wallin and Sarah Sanborn into the Living Room. Matt and Sarah are in their twenties. Matt works with college students. Sarah is…
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Episode #4: Young, Married, Introverted, and On Mission
Mark invites Joseph & Hannah Dickens into the Living Room. Joseph and Hannah have been married three years. In this episode they share how Jesus' mission of…
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Episode #3: Question Mark | Mark's Story
Mark welcomes his good friend Joseph Dickens into the Living Room to lead this first of many "Question Mark" episodes. In these episodes Joseph takes the role…
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Episode #1: What do Discipleship and House Church / Micro Church look like?
Welcome to The Living Room Podcast! In this very first episode of The Living Room Podcast Mark invites House Church Pastor Kyle Ackerson into the Living Room…
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Episode #2: The Importance of House Church or Micro Churches being Connected
In this episode Mark invites House Church Pastor Jeremy Ellis into the Living Room. Jeremy pastors a house church in Northern Kentucky and shares his journey…