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ReGenesis

ReGenesis

By: First Place Ministries | Rolland Wright
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Have you ever wanted a do-over? Through Yeshua, God didn't just forgive you — He made you completely new. New identity. New mission. New spiritual authority. That's Ekklesia. ReGenesis is a weekly Spirit-filled podcast from First Place Ministries hosted by Rolland and Caliatra Wright — covering Ekklesia, Christian discipleship, deliverance ministry, and divine healing for believers ready to walk in their true identity in Christ. New episodes weekly. Subscribe and step into who you already are. First Place Ministries | Colossians 1:18bFirst Place Ministries | Rolland Wright Christianity Spirituality
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  • Tim Kurtz Pt. 1: Leaving Church, Becoming Ekklesia

    Tim Kurtz Pt. 1: Leaving Church, Becoming Ekklesia
    Jun 18 2026

    Pastor Tim Kurtz grew up so close to his childhood church the back door was a hundred feet from the parsonage. He was licensed in ministry, planted a work, and was on his way to building the next charismatic megachurch when the Ruach started tampering with him. In this archive conversation, host Rolland Wright sits down with Tim — author of Leaving Church, Becoming Ekklesia — for the long version of a story most believers have never heard told this honestly. The moment the lights came on. The seven primary covenants. The four-hundred-year windows from Egypt to Malachi to King James. And why the translators rendered Ekklesia as church 115 times and as assembly exactly once. Two pastors, two long walks out of institutional church, one shared conviction. Part 2 follows next week.You'll hear:

    • Tim's childhood as a "church kid" next door to the parsonage

    • His 1987 sense of being called to start a work, and the two-year notice he gave his pastor

    • The 1992 launch of John 3:16 Ministries — and what the Ruach kept tampering with

    • Care groups, control, and why the house-church movement didn't go far enough

    • The book footnote where the word Ekklesia changed everything

    • The seven primary covenants of Scripture, traced from Eden to the New Covenant

    • The four-hundred-year windows — Egypt, the Malachi-to-Matthew silence, and now King James to today

    • Why King James translated Ekklesia as church 115 times and as assembly exactly once

    • Rolland and Tim on doulos — and the translation choice to soften slave into servant

    • A shaking of earth and heaven — and how to know heaven is being shaken

    • Two pastors, two long walks out of institutional church, one shared conviction


    Scripture referenced: Matthew 16:18, Acts 19, Galatians 3, Ephesians 3, Hebrews 12, Romans 6, Genesis 1–11, Luke 3, Matthew 1, Malachi-to-Matthew (the silent four hundred years)


    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 Resources — Pastor Tim Kurtz

    Leaving Church, Becoming Ekklesia by Tim Kurtz - https://a.co/d/0cmYF0rC

    No Longer Church As Usual by Tim Kurtz - https://a.co/d/0iA1adAm

    Tim Kurtz's ministry website - https://theekklesiacenter.org/


    Also mentioned in this episode:

    • Bondslave — forthcoming book from Rolland Wright

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

    • New American Standard Bible and the Lockman Foundation

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    Coming Next Tuesday

    Do You Fast? The Fast God Wants — Rolland returns with a solo teaching on Isaiah 58 and the fast that actually moves heaven.


    Coming Next ThursdayTim Kurtz Pt. 2: Ekklesia Center — the conversation continues, moving from theology into practice.
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    32 mins
  • A New Economy pt. 2: Joyfully Plundered — The Acts 2 Walk-Out

    A New Economy pt. 2: Joyfully Plundered — The Acts 2 Walk-Out
    Jun 16 2026

    Part 1 named the system being built around us. Part 2 names what the Ekklesia is being called to in the middle of it.


    Host Rolland Wright anchors the teaching in Hebrews 10 — the early believers joyfully accepted the plundering of their possessions because their inheritance was elsewhere. From there, the conversation moves through CERN and the Large Hadron Collider, the spiritual character of what's being built underground in Switzerland, and the question that decides everything: what mindset survives when the system around you turns?


    The center of the teaching is Acts 2:42–47. Rolland walks the text line by line and corrects a misread that has cost the body of Messiah dearly: this was not communism. It was the Ruach ha-Kodesh prompting a people who had been depraved the day before. The Acts 2 economy is not a political system. It is a Spirit-filled people. Ownership to managership. Acquisition to distribution. Hoarding to giving.


    He closes with Yeshua's question to Peter, now put to every listener: who do you say He is, and are we who He says we are?


    Ideas worth wrestling with, testing against Scripture, and bringing before God in prayer.


    You'll hear:

    • Picking up Part 1: persecution, the diaspora, and the seizing of property
    • Hebrews 10:32–39 — joyfully accepting the plundering of possessions
    • CERN, the Large Hadron Collider, and what's happening underground in Switzerland
    • The 2017 CERN opening ceremony and what Rolland saw in it
    • Elon Musk's "demonic technology" quote in context
    • The Hebrews 10 mindset as a discipline, not a feeling
    • Why capitalism is not God's system — even where it is better than the options
    • Why socialism is not God's system either
    • Ownership to managership. Acquisition to distribution. Hoarding to giving.
    • Acts 2:42–47 — the text walked through line by line
    • Why Acts 2 was not communism, but the Ruach moving on a depraved people
    • 1 John 2:15–17 — do not love the world or the things in the world
    • Spiritual family vs. biological family
    • The apostles as martyrs to a man, save John and the one who denied
    • The entrepreneur's built-in ministry — to customers, vendors, employees
    • Closing question: who do you say He is, and are we who He says we are?


    Scripture referenced: Hebrews 10:32–39, Acts 2:42–47, 1 John 2:15–17, Matthew 16:13–18, Genesis 11


    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:

    • Zeitgeist 2025 by Tom Horn
    • CERN — Home.CERN
    • The Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary entry on Hebrews
    • TLV (Tree of Life Version) — the Scripture translation Rolland uses in teaching


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    Coming Up Next:

    Rolland sits down with another guest living the Ekklesia lifestyle.
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    29 mins
  • From Brokenness to Revival: Chris & Mary Marendish — Word of Freedom Ministries

    From Brokenness to Revival: Chris & Mary Marendish — Word of Freedom Ministries
    Jun 11 2026
    Chris had a moment with God in Richmond, Virginia that broke him open. Mary came through addiction, depression, and a rescue she did not engineer. Today they lead Word of Freedom Ministries — feeding Vancouver's homeless, planting a church, and teaching what it means to walk Spirit-led after unlearning the religion that almost cost them everything.In this Thursday interview, host Rolland Wright sits down with Chris and Mary Marendish — founders of Word of Freedom Ministries — for a wide-ranging conversation about brokenness, conversion, marriage, and the kind of faith that gets forged when religion runs out of answers.Chris opens with the pivotal moment of his life: a crisis in Richmond, Virginia where the presence of God met him in a way he had never experienced and could not explain away afterward. Mary walks through her own story — addiction, depression, and a divine intervention that came when she had no way of reaching for it herself. Together they share how those individual stories converged into a shared mission: planting Word of Freedom Ministries and serving the homeless community of Vancouver.The conversation moves through what it means to live a Spirit-led life after years of religious tradition that no longer fits. The Marendishes are candid about the cost of unlearning — the friendships, the assumptions, the habits — and equally honest about what they have found on the other side. They talk about church planting, finding spiritual giftings, and what it has looked like to sustain outreach through seasons of chaos, including the years of COVID-19.Chris also discusses his book Limiting the Limitless God, and the conviction at the heart of both his teaching and Rolland's: that the book of Acts is the acts of the Ruach ha-Kodesh, and that the same Spirit is still at work in ordinary believers willing to be sent.This episode closes with a prayer of blessing and commissioning for the Marendishes' ministry. If you are in a season of unlearning, or wondering whether God really meets people at the bottom, this conversation is for you.You'll hear:Chris's pivotal encounter with God in Richmond, VirginiaMary's journey through addiction, depression, and divine interventionThe founding of Word of Freedom MinistriesFeeding and ministering to Vancouver's homeless communityThe transition from religious tradition to Spirit-led lifeChurch planting and what they are building nextFinding spiritual giftings and serving with purposeActs as the acts of the Ruach ha-Kodesh — still moving through ordinary peopleSustaining ministry through chaos and the years of COVIDChris's book Limiting the Limitless GodA prayer of blessing over their workScripture themes: the book of Acts, walking by the Spirit (Galatians 5), the harvest is plentiful (Matthew 9), the least of these (Matthew 25)ResourcesEkklesia 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/ChaplaincaliatraGuest Resources — Chris & Mary MarendishWord of Freedom Ministries — http://www.wordoffreedomministries.comLimiting the Limitless God by Chris Marendish —https://a.co/d/0c1Hu0HIYouTube - youtube.com/@wordoffreedomministriesTelegram - t.me/WordofFreedomInstagram - instagram.com/word_of_freedomFacebook - facebook.com/wordoffreedomministriesFollow First Place MinistriesConnect : FacebookListen: Spotify | YouTube | Rumble | iHeartRadio | Amazon MusicComing Up NextRolland returns with the next solo teaching in the Ekklesia Series.
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    35 mins
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