In the early 2000s, a double offense wounded Rolland Wright deeply and forced him to admit he had never really learned to forgive. This Ekklesia Series teaching is his honest word on the freedom on the other side of letting go. He walks the life of Joseph — pit to prison to second over Egypt — and the line that anchors it all: you meant it for evil, but God meant it for good. Scripture doesn’t wait for an apology; bitterness is free rent we keep paying; and in the Lord’s Prayer our own forgiveness is tied to our forgiving. From Peter’s seven to Yeshua’s seventy times seven, Rolland presses the question — how can we do less? — and closes at the cross: Father, forgive them. The Ruach ha-Kodesh gives the power. Go and forgive.

YOU’LL HEAR

● The double offense that showed Rolland he had never mastered forgiveness

● R.T. Kendall’s Total Forgiveness — the right book at the right moment

● The life of Joseph: from the pit to second over Egypt

● “You meant it for evil, but God meant it for good”

● Why Scripture doesn’t wait for an apology

● Bitterness as free rent — who it actually damages

● The Lord’s Prayer, and the two verses right after it (Matthew 6)

● Forgiveness that is conditioned on our forgiving

● Peter’s seven, and Yeshua’s seventy times seven (Matthew 18)

● Both offended and offender — Rolland on the record

● A Holocaust survivor, Unbroken, and the cross

● The Ruach ha-Kodesh gives the power to forgive

SCRIPTURE REFERENCED

Genesis 37–50 (Joseph — “you meant it for evil, but God meant it for good”), Matthew 6:9–15 (the Lord’s Prayer; forgive us our debts, and if you forgive others), Matthew 18:21–22 (seventy times seven), Luke 23:34 (Father, forgive them)

RESOURCES

● Ekklesia Declared! — https://a.co/d/0fkrigsy

● Ekklesia Infused! — https://a.co/d/0gdii5A0

● Choose Life — https://a.co/d/069OtMTN

● Choose Life Workbook — https://a.co/d/06vseuNH

● First Place Ministries Website — https://www.firstplaceministries.com

● Support the Ministry via PayPal — https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=82WSYT9FXJ9CY

● Connect with Caliatra — https://www.facebook.com/Chaplaincaliatra

● Total Forgiveness by R.T. Kendall — the book that anchors this teaching

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

● R.T. Kendall — Total Forgiveness (a Rolland favorite)

● Unbroken — the story of Louis Zamperini

● The Passion of the Christ (Mel Gibson)

● TLV (Tree of Life Version) — the Scripture translation Rolland uses (an interview with its publisher is a standing prayer request)

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Brian Handy was so terrified of public speaking that he swore it off for good until he met Yeshua and couldn’t stop telling people. In the first episode of a new ReGenesis segment, Taking It 2 The Streets, Rolland Wright sits down with a street evangelist who takes the gospel where most believers never would: the Tenderloin, Houston’s bars, homeless shelters, and the trains. Brian tells of being pulled into a car and warned to stop preaching — and being back the next week — and traces his training under Larry Rosenbaum’s SOS San Francisco and Ray Comfort’s Way of the Master. Sixteen years in, he still funds the tracts and Bibles himself and prays for one thing above all: boldness, and more laborers for the harvest. Find him on Facebook (Brian Handy) and at livingwaters.com.YOU’LL HEAR

Rolland Wright calls this one a personal word, not just a teaching. Born once into a family we did not choose, Yeshua said we can be born again into a forever family. In this Ekklesia Series teaching, Rolland walks the difference between teaching and discipleship, the new life Adonai introduced at Pentecost, and the honest reality of rebellion and reconciliation in our own homes — including the ache of a disenfranchised son and his own prodigal road back to his father. Faith, he says, is still a personal choice, the one he calls our real bar mitzvah. He closes on why he wrote Choose Life for his own children, the danger of living on the wrong end of the spoon, and an invitation to pray for every prodigal still on the road home.

YOU’LL HEAR

● Why the Great Commission is “make disciples,” not “teach” — and why the difference matters

● How Yeshua discipled by demonstration, then sent the emissaries to do the same

● What “new” really means — and the new family Adonai introduced at Pentecost

● Born once into a bloodline, born again into a forever family

● The bar mitzvah as a picture of the personal choice every believer has to make

● Rebellion named for what Scripture calls it — and why it runs through families in the last days

● Rolland’s own story: the disenfranchisement of a son, and his own prodigal road home

● The prodigal son in Luke 15 — and the father who did not beg him to stay

● Why faith is still a personal choice, with no guarantee for our children

● Choose Life, written for his own kids, and “the wrong end of the spoon”

● Sitting at the feet of the Ruach ha-Kodesh as your true mentor

● Luke 8:21 and the forever family — plus a prayer initiative for every prodigal

SCRIPTURE REFERENCEDMatthew 28:19 (make disciples of all nations), John 3 (you must be born again), Luke 15:11–32 (the prodigal son), 2 Timothy 3 (a form of godliness denying its power), Matthew 16:15–16 (who do you say that I am?), Luke 8:21 (My mother and My brothers), 1 Samuel 15:23 (rebellion as the sin of witchcraft)

RESOURCES

● Ekklesia Declared! — https://a.co/d/0fkrigsy

● Ekklesia Infused! — https://a.co/d/0gdii5A0

● Choose Life — https://a.co/d/069OtMTN

● Choose Life Workbook — https://a.co/d/06vseuNH

● First Place Ministries Website — https://www.firstplaceministries.com

● Support the Ministry via PayPal — https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=82WSYT9FXJ9CY

● Connect with Caliatra — https://www.facebook.com/Chaplaincaliatra

● Northwest Tribunal — register your interest to pray — https://www.firstplaceministries.com

● Choose Life & the Choose Life Workbook — Rolland’s 20-year Bible-study system (a video companion is in development)

● Dr. Tom Schlueter — Texas Apostolic Prayer Network (heard earlier this season)

● The Northwest Tribunal — First Place Ministries’ new prayer initiative (see Resources to register interest)

● TLV (Tree of Life Version) — the Scripture translation Rolland uses

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The first employee Gary McReynolds ever hired, he met at an altar call in a county jail — a former bank executive everyone had written off. Today that man owns his own business.

In Part 2, Gary turns from his story to yours, and the message is three words: stop stepping over people. The veterinarian who lost everything. The meth cook now serving as a minister. The mother bonded out of jail whose daughter just turned three. Gary breaks down what actually works — discipleship over recovery talk — why the nine-month program is free by design, and how Market Street Coffee funds it all. Then he opens the door: come for a week, get in the trenches, and build it where you live. You’re one person away.

YOU’LL HEAR

● “I’d like to join you — how much does it pay?” and the real cost of building something that lasts

● The jail-cell salvation that became his first hire — a Wells Fargo executive turned prodigal

● The veterinarian, and learning to see the person God is highlighting in the room

● Thousands through a nine-month residential program — from bank robbers to a girl with three DUIs in a week

● The young woman who’d never been inside a church, and where she’d ended up by 19

● The real numbers: 50% who finish, 80% who stay connected to the body

● Why it’s free by design — no Medicaid, no crisis-bed dollars, income they create themselves

● James, cooking meth in a bathtub two years ago and now serving as an associate minister

● Predestined — seeing people the way God made them, not the way sin left them

● Inside the nine months: 5:30 wake-ups, Proverbs, chores, and Phase Two

● Why 85% of the staff came up through the program

● Mission trips around the world vs. the motel across the railroad tracks

● Market Street Coffee — the $7 cup that bridges two demographics and funds Hannah’s Home

● You’re one person away — the open invitation to come learn the model and build it yourself

SCRIPTURE REFERENCEDLuke 10:25–37 (the Good Samaritan — the man already in the inn), Matthew 9:37–38 (the harvest is plentiful, the workers few), John 4:35 (lift up your eyes — the fields are white), Romans 8:29–30 (foreknown and predestined)

RESOURCES

● Ekklesia Declared! — https://a.co/d/0fkrigsy

● Ekklesia Infused! — https://a.co/d/0gdii5A0

● Choose Life — https://a.co/d/069OtMTN

● Choose Life Workbook — https://a.co/d/06vseuNH

● First Place Ministries Website — https://www.firstplaceministries.com

● Support the Ministry via PayPal — https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=82WSYT9FXJ9CY

● Connect with Caliatra — https://www.facebook.com/Chaplaincaliatra

● GUEST — Regenesis Recovery Center (Gary McReynolds) — https://www.regenesislife.org

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

● Gary McReynolds — Regenesis Recovery Center (RegenesisLife.org)

● Market Street Coffee — the ministry’s coffee shop on Market Street

● Hannah’s Home — residential home for women and mothers

● TLV (Tree of Life Version) — the Scripture translation Rolland uses

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At nine, Gary McReynolds earned his first dollar on a paper route and told his mother he’d give a million away. Eighteen years into Regenesis Recovery Center, more than three million a year now moves through his ministry to the people most of the city steps over. In Part 1, Rolland Wright traces the whole arc — steel-country Ohio, the Jesus Movement, and the teenage question that shaped everything: how do you fund a gospel for people who can’t fill an offering plate? From a driveway Easter service to nine homes and Hannah’s Home, this is the origin story of a church without walls — and the hard word underneath it: our communities aren’t indifferent to the church. They’re offended at it.

YOU’LL HEAR

● The paper-route promise: a nine-year-old’s first dollar and a vow to give a million away

● Growing up in the Jesus Movement in Ohio steel country

● The question that shaped everything — how do you fund a gospel for people who can’t fill an offering plate?

● Old Mary, the widow he drove to church, and where a heart for the overlooked begins

● 2008: a thrift store, a men’s home, and a school bus full of kids from the projects

● The chaplaincy nobody else in town would take

● 140 churches, one letter, and the three that answered

● The Catholic hall that burned down and the Easter service held in a driveway

● Taking over the city’s Easter in the Park on six weeks’ notice — and growing it to 2,000 kids

● Hannah’s Home, a mother bonded out of jail, and a little girl named Emiline

● The hard word — our communities are offended at the church

● The Hole in Our Gospel and the sin of omission

SCRIPTURE REFERENCED

Matthew 25:31–46 (the least of these), Isaiah 58 (the fast Adonai chooses), Acts 2:42–47 (the New Community with everything in common), Matthew 5:23–24 (leave your gift at the altar and be reconciled)

RESOURCES

● Ekklesia Declared! — https://a.co/d/0fkrigsy

● Ekklesia Infused! — https://a.co/d/0gdii5A0

● Choose Life — https://a.co/d/069OtMTN

● Choose Life Workbook — https://a.co/d/06vseuNH

● First Place Ministries Website — https://www.firstplaceministries.com

● Support the Ministry via PayPal — https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=82WSYT9FXJ9CY

● Connect with Caliatra — https://www.facebook.com/Chaplaincaliatra

● GUEST — Regenesis Recovery Center (Gary McReynolds) — https://www.regenesislife.org

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

● Gary McReynolds — Regenesis Recovery Center (RegenesisLife.org)

● The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns (former president/CEO of World Vision U.S., Federal Way, WA)

● Keith Green

● Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship

● The “available vessels” teaching (see Notes for Publishing — speaker attribution to confirm)

● TLV (Tree of Life Version) — the Scripture translation Rolland uses

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Adonai has spoken audibly to human ears only a handful of times in Scripture. One of those times was on the Mount of Transfiguration. The message was five words. This is My beloved Son. Then three more. Listen to Him. Host Rolland Wright asks the question the modern church has largely stopped asking. Are we? In this Tuesday solo teaching, Rolland walks Matthew 17 and the specific instructions Yeshua gave that get quoted often but obeyed rarely. Sell what you have. Deny yourself. Love your enemies. Forgive. He walks the shift from Kingdom Christianity to consumer Christianity. He closes with a story about a coat, a homeless man, and the wife who found him weeks later to say my husband loved you. Not sermons. Not programs. A coat, a conversation, and a life quietly changed. Are you listening?

You'll hear:

• The Mount of Transfiguration and the audible voice from the cloud
• This is My beloved Son. Listen to Him. — the command from the Father
• The resistance most believers feel when asked whether we are actually listening
• The Great Commission as a command, not a slogan
• The shift from Kingdom-of-Heaven Christianity to consumer Christianity
• Sermons rated by how they make us feel
• Worship songs measured by how much they move us
• The customer replacing the disciple
• The specific instructions Yeshua gave that get quoted rarely obeyed — sell, give, deny, follow, love enemies, forgive
• The cost of discipleship versus the comfort of attendance
• Rolland's encounter with a homeless couple
• The coat, the conversation, and the wife who found him weeks later
• My husband loved you — and what that means
• The Ekklesia lifestyle as daily obedience, not Sunday commitment

Scripture referenced: Matthew 17:1–8 (the Transfiguration), Matthew 28:18–20 (the Great Commission), Matthew 6 (do not store up treasures, do not worry, forgive as you have been forgiven), Luke 9:23 (deny yourself, take up your cross), Matthew 5:44 (love your enemies), Acts 28 (Paul on Malta and the healing that opened the whole island)

Resources

Ekklesia Declared! — https://a.co/d/0fkrigsyEkklesia Infused! — https://a.co/d/0gdii5A0Choose Life — https://a.co/d/069OtMTNChoose Life Workbook — https://a.co/d/06vseuNHFirst Place Ministries Website — https://www.firstplaceministries.comSupport the Ministry via PayPal — https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=82WSYT9FXJ9CYConnect with Caliatra — https://www.facebook.com/Chaplaincaliatra

Mentioned in this episode:

• TLV (Tree of Life Version) — the Scripture translation Rolland uses

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Coming Thursday

Gary McReynolds Pt. 2 — the second half of the conversation with the founder of ReGenesis Recovery Center, including the men's disciple house Gary and Christy are opening.

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Our Forever Family — Rolland returns with the next solo teaching in the Ekklesia Series.

Watch a room of toddlers with a pile of toys. There is always the one toy. And whoever has it says the same word every child in every language eventually learns. Mine. Host Rolland Wright says most of us never grew out of it. And Acts 2 shows us what a community actually looks like when they finally do. In this teaching, Rolland walks Acts 2:42–47 line by line and asks the honest question: how much of the toddler instinct is still shaping the way we as adults hold what Adonai has given us? He walks the cultural conditioning of consumerism and contrasts it with the Acts 2 pattern of open-handed community. Not communism. What Rolland calls common-ism — a Spirit-formed practice. And the truth that reframes everything: we are not owners. We are managers of what Adonai entrusts to us.

You have left the faith. There is a conversation many believers walking out of institutional church have had, and most of them have not known how to answer. In this episode, host Rolland Wright continues the fresh conversation with Pastor Tim Kurtz, author of Leaving Church, Becoming Ekklesia. Tim opens with a personal story about his mother that he has since repented of. He walks his Boots on the Ground initiative — a systematic training on Ephesians 4 that turns believers from hearers into doers. They open Malachi 3, Matthew 15, and the corban tradition Yeshua confronted. And they sit with 2 Timothy 3 and the man in the mirror. Tim closes with three things: study to show yourself approved, pray for the people who cannot yet see, live it. The doing is the answer.

You'll hear:

• Tim's personal story about lashing out at his mother — and the repentance that followed
• Why the answer to the you've left the faith conversation is not defensive
• Boots on the Ground — Tim's systematic training on Ephesians 4
• The Bible class where Tim asked, what is the work of ministry?
• Working the sound system, folding bulletins, and the machine Paul never imagined
• Malachi 3 and the honor commandment
• Matthew 15 — Yeshua confronting the corban tradition
• How the corban mindset still operates in modern religious life
• 2 Timothy 3 and the last-days list — and the man in the mirror
• The three things Tim wants listeners to hold onto — study, pray, live
• A mutual prayer over the audience
• How to reach Tim if you want to engage further

Scripture referenced: Ephesians 4, Malachi 3, Matthew 15, 2 Timothy 3, Acts 2, Romans 12, Hebrews 10

Resources

Ekklesia Declared! — https://a.co/d/0fkrigsyEkklesia Infused! — https://a.co/d/0gdii5A0Choose Life — https://a.co/d/069OtMTNChoose Life Workbook — https://a.co/d/06vseuNHFirst Place Ministries Website — https://www.firstplaceministries.comSupport the Ministry via PayPal — https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=82WSYT9FXJ9CYConnect with Caliatra — https://www.facebook.com/Chaplaincaliatra

Guest Resources — Pastor Tim Kurtz

Leaving Church, Becoming Ekklesia by Tim Kurtz - https://a.co/d/0cmYF0rCNo Longer Church As Usual by Tim Kurtz - https://a.co/d/0iA1adAmTim Kurtz's ministry website - https://theekklesiacenter.org/Follow ReGenesis

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Rolland returns with the next solo teaching in the Ekklesia Series.