This week on Rock Talk, we continue our series Vaughn & Friends with Pastors John Stone of the North Platte Berean Church and Pastor Jeremy Rinke of Harvest Christian Fellowship in North Platte.  They share with Vaughn their pandemic and post-pandemic experiences, navigating the political and social pitfalls of pandemic church pastorship, and their prayers for the city of North Platte and its community of believers.  

This week in our series "Vaughn & Friends" Pastor Vaughn is sharing the mic with Pastor John Sexson of the Lone Star Cowboy Church of North Platte.  Listen in as they discuss reaching the lost in the local area, pandemic pastoring, and living out your faith 7 days a week.  You don't want to miss this episode of Rock Talk!

Welcome back to Rock Talk!  Over the next few weeks, Pastor Vaughn will be sharing the podcast with several pastors from the North Platte area to discuss how they have weathered the pandemic, their hopes and prayers for the community, and what the local church needs to do to continue leading people to Jesus.  This week we kick things off with Pastor Geoff Safford from Bethel Church and Pastor Dave Cumming from New Life Church's North Platte Campus.  Listen in as they discuss growth in a time of pandemic, multi-generational leaders, and the spiritual future of North Platte.

Welcome Back!  After a few weeks break due to a new baby (!) we are back with a special episode of Rock Talk for Mother's Day.This week, we are letting you in for the special Sunday roundtable discussion of four mothers in different stages of motherhood, and how they navigate parenting every day.  You don't want to miss it!

This week, Pastor Vaughn's special guest is Dianne Wilson:  one of the senior pastors at Newport Church in Newport Beach, California, and the founding director of The Imagine Foundation, a charity whose goal is to encourage participants to develop healthy self-esteem, to value their identity, to focus on increasing their resilience and to discover a sense of belonging.  She is also a best-selling author and lifestyle course curriculum creator.In the next hour, they discuss how they daily choose to live a life not filled with stress, hustle and grind, but a life that allows margin for all that God would have them do.  Be ready for a rollercoaster ride through life's ups and downs,  including travel around the world, learning to say "no" so that you can say "yes," and embracing the boundaries that allow for a fulfilling, blessed life!

This week, we dive into the struggles of finding silence and solitude to be with God in our modern, busy lives.  Whether you are a stay-at-home mom with little ones always vying for your attention, or you are a passionate hard-driving businessperson, doing what you love and enjoying the hustle and bustle of everyday life; God has called us to withdraw - to "go to the wilderness" and be alone with him.  What does that look like in your life?  What can we do to create space for God's voice on the daily?  Take a listen as Pastor Vaughn and Jill share their best practices to find Silence and Solitude.

This week, Pastor Vaughn is going solo to dive deeper into the subject of having a Rule of Life.  What IS a Rule of Life and what does it look like?  How can establishing a Rule of Life for you and your family help to create space in our busy world to be with Jesus, become like Jesus, and do what Jesus did - to live "to the full" (John 10:10)?Be sure to have a pen and paper handy if you can and take notes as we go deep into this week's message!!

In a world where it seems the only way to get ahead is to "hustle," "grind," and sacrifice your evenings and weekends, Jesus has a better way.  This week, Pastor Vaughn and his wife Jill discuss the effect that learning about the way Jesus lived his life and reading The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer has changed them. Not only are we needing to slow down and prioritize our downtime, but how are we choosing when to say Yes?  How do we know when maybe we just need to take a bath?

Sabbath is a commandment from the Lord, but why do we have a hard time honoring it? Is there a correlation between burnout and the lack of rest? If so, then there must be a way to combat burnout and take ourselves to a place of Sabbath that is honoring to Jesus and restorative to us. Dr. Tyson Lambertson is our guest this week on Rock Talk as he gives a personal look at burnout, what causes it, and how to come out on the other side with joy. gratitude, and rest. 

With all that has happened in the past year, stress and frustration are everywhere.  And no one knows that as well as pastors.  In fact, studies are predicting that 1 in 3 pastors will step down from their positions before the pandemic ends.  This week we are talking to Pastor James Trippett from the Parkview Nazarene Church in North Platte about the stress of shepherding a congregation through a global crisis, and the every day stresses of leading, laundry, and lawn maintenance.