Elevate with EDP
A leadership and faith podcast from E. Derrik Porter—where ministry meets education and presence becomes practice. Level up how you show up. ederrikporter.substack.com
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The Deep Dive (opens the original)
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Listen to a “Deep Dive” Audio Overview of Chapter 3! I recently ran Chapter 3 of my book, Broken Open at Rock Bottom , through Google NotebookLM to see how its AI hosts would analyze the material. I was blown away by how naturally they breakdown this chapter on the spiritual formation that happens within our grief and pain. Note: This audio overview features AI-generated hosts synthesized directly from my written chapter. 👉 Grab your copy of the full book here: This is a public episode. If you'd
A Love that Lets (opens the original)
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A clip from message, Let Down Your HairMary walked into a room carrying a year's wages in a bottle. She broke it open. She poured it out. And then she let down her hair.In a world that teaches you to love carefully — to keep a little something in reserve, just in case — Mary kept nothing back. And somebody in the room decided she had lost her mind.But the people who love radically always look a little crazy to the people who love carefully.This is a tribute to the ones who pour before it makes s
There Was No Day You Drifted (opens the original)
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No one plans to leave.You didn't wake up and decide to walk away — from God, from the discipline, from the person you said you'd become. You just got busy. You let one thing slide, and the sky didn't fall, so you let another one slide. And one day you looked up, and you couldn't name the day it happened.Because there wasn't one.This is the part of the message most of us never say out loud. Five minutes, no resolution — just the drift, named plainly. Drift is rarely rebellion. Drift is usually ne
Give Them the Room (opens the original)
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There is a moment in every generation when the baton is not passed — it is simply held by different hands. No fanfare. No formal ceremony. Just a room where the work continues, and the ones carrying it forward are not the ones who built it. I watched that moment happen on a Sunday. The pastoral leaders were away — resting, restored, removed from the weight they carry every week. And their adult children were in place . Every one of them. In place. Serving, leading, holding the line with a kind o
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