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The Five Gifts Podcast exists for Christian Leaders and Christ-followers to rediscover Christ's presence and activity in their lives and their churches.
As the season finale of The Five Gifts Podcast, Bruce Ritter and Charles Russell reflect on a core leadership reality: connection always requires energy
In this Christmas episode of The Five Gifts Podcast, Bruce and Charles explore how Galatians 4:1–7 reveals Christmas as God’s decisive move to reclaim His family from spiritual bondage.
What if the health of a church wasn’t measured by how many people it gathers—but by how many people it sends, forms, and releases? What if reproduction, not attendance, was the real metric of mission? The New Testament already gave us the book.
Bruce and Charles examine how God created us to feel, why emotions are essential for spiritual growth, and how suppressing them leads to burnout, false identity, and spiritual stagnation.
Is your church perfectly designed to produce the results it’s producing—even if it’s not producing disciples? In this powerful episode, Bruce Ritter and Charles Russell unpack the 10 major barriers that keep churches from making disciples.
This Thanksgiving, Bruce Ritter and Charles Russell invite you to slow down and partake in a feast for the soul. In this holiday episode, we explore the Disciplines of Engagement—the practices that anchor us in the presence of Jesus.
Discover how your character forms foundation of credibility, how trust multiplies your reach, and how God’s vision, not your ambition, creates lasting impact. You’ll also learn why influence is about forming Christ in other people.
True spiritual leadership does not begin with strategy. It begins with surrender. Uncover the divine process God uses to shape leaders from the inside out.
In this episode, we break down how spiritual leaders receive vision, not manufacture it. Vision is not ambition. Vision is revelation. When God speaks, we listen and obey.
Charles Russell and Bruce Ritter explore the leadership gift for the Marketplace. This episode reframes leadership as a sacred ministry in the marketplace – where vision, creativity, and stewardship advance the Kingdom of God.
What if your sermon wasn’t just a message, but a moment where God’s voice broke into people’s lives? And what if, beyond inspiration, it equipped them with clear steps to live out their faith on Monday morning?
Success begins with we, not me. The best thinking happens with others, collaboration strengthens communication, and fivefold leadership provides a built-in collaborative model for the church and marketplace.
Words only account for 7% of communication—so how do Spirit-filled leaders connect beyond words? Authentic, Spirit-led connection happens through thought, emotion, and action.
Through biblical insights, leadership reflections, and real-life illustrations, Charles and Bruce show how God’s authority is cultivated, tested, and released in everyday ministry.
The Five Gifts Podcast unpacks the New Wineskin paradigm for Spirit-filled leaders—apostolic, prophetic, pastoral, teaching, and evangelistic gifts for church renewal.
The Five Gifts Podcast exists for Christian Leaders and Christ-followers to rediscover Christ's presence and activity in their lives and their churches.
