Thousands of people left Summit Church within a year. A big part of the Christian community in Orlando was left to figure out how to move forward. Difficult questions needed real answers. Their Pastor was gone. In the end, was anything that Isaac used to teach even real or worth following anymore? What does trust look like for those who are trying to honestly face real life?

After finding out that Isaac Hunter resigned, people all over the city of Orlando were left with tons of questions. What happened? What went wrong?

The idea of a calling from God can be really challenging to face. As the days turned into weeks where Isaac's behavior became more strange, it led to deeper questions. Was Isaac ever really called to be the Pastor of Summit Church? If he was, what does that mean for all of us?

We're deep in Fantasyland.

Ten years ago, our hometown of Orlando, FL was a bedrock of contagious Christianity. Young people all over the city were experiencing God with a love that felt like it could spill out and bless the whole world. Churches were growing, and one church in particular had a vision not unlike that of Walt Disney himself. The call of God inspired the founders of Summit Church to see an entire city transformed, and they had the momentum and the power of God moving among them in a way where nothing seemed impossible...

Today, however, Orlando has become a Christian ghost town among local Millennials, a city of Lost Magic. Join us as we explore the most obvious question, "What happened here?"

Welcome to Fantasyland.

Walt Disney made an academy award winning film that they worked hard to pull from the shelves. Only rare copies of VHS are left, and they have intentionally never released it on DVD... Do you know what that film is? There's even a ride in the Magic Kingdom based on the film. This episode is an exploration of the things we hide. Companies hide, institutions hide, churches and pastors hide, and even we hide. What is the impact of hiding?

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Singer//Songwriter John Mark McMillan took time off his latest tour to present us with an approach that helps cut through challenges in conversations that are hard about the faith. Tune in for thought provoking, inspiring, and super interesting insights from an artist who has integrity, grit, and loads of talent.

JMM has a new Christmas Album out called Smile in the Mystery. Grab a copy here:

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When Walt Disney showed up on the scene, Orlando, FL was changed forever. He had a vision of building the perfect city, but how does it fall short of The Kingdom that Jesus came to build?

Today, tens of millions of people come to our hometown looking for the happiest place on earth, but for the locals, life in the Magic Kingdom is surprisingly lonely and disenchanted.

We pick our story back up in Frontierland, to explore the makings of a Magic Kingdom.

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Ted Talk about Beauty: https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_seymour_how_beauty_feels

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Recorded at Central Florida Studios
Executive Producers Ed Holtz and Steve Douglass

To fully live, you need to understand the story of where you live. In this episode, we become nostalgic as we explore some of the lesser known facts about our city and its people.

What makes Orlando so magical? Tune in and find out.

NOTES:
Jeremy's Most Cinematic Animated Scene Ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-coYU-INP3E

Orlando's Old City Hall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy-OKLuMikk

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To start the next season we decided to get started off right, with some sensory deprivation. Follow our journey into clarity... or was it?

Research proves that getting way outside of your comfort zone with friends can reorient your perceptions about life and change your core belief systems, so Jeremy had an idea... What if we found the cheapest possible plane tickets to a foreign country and spend 24 hours there trying to live fully alive to the experiences and people God brings our way? This week on our summer bonus episode we spend 24 hours in a very unique country. Join us as we discover what living fully present in unfamiliar territory can do to our brains, our friendships, and our daily lives.

A few surprise guests crowd around the table in our new studio to help us recap our favorite moments from season one of the Live Alive Podcast.

The new Live Alive studio is being built so we took the show to a popular park in Orlando. Dana Roquemore, founder of The Dinner Party Project makes an appearance. She explains all about an epic road trip she is about to embark on to bring hundreds of people together around dinner tables. Listen 'till the end to catch our run in with some interesting strangers.

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