The Spacious Room

Wounded And On The Run: Interview with Leonie Schlosser

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today I'm chatting with my good friend, Leonie Schlosser about overcoming church hurts and wounding. Leonie shares some of her struggles about feeling...

'How To Find God In Your Mess' With Generosity Guy, Kieran Johnson

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How do you find God in your mess? Today, in my Wounded And On The Run Conversations, we are unpacking how you can heal from the deep wounding which co...

The Narrative Of An Anti-Hero

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

So, you've been going along quite nicely in your leadership walk and then all of a sudden, BOOM! God asks you to do something. However, you're not kee...

Be Prepared To Take A Stand

18 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Excited about this week's Leaders Talk episode as I'm chatting with my dear friend, Ivana McNeil. Wife, mother, and campus pastor, Ivana shares her ha...

Let Others Hear Your Song

04 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Joining me in the Spacious Room Leaders Talk this week is my good friend, Leonie Schlosser. Wife, mother, and worship leader, she has learned to let o...

The Importance Of Being In God's Presence

21 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How does the importance of being in God's presence help you to delegate well and avoid burnout as a leader? This week's Leaders Talk Episode on the Sp...

But We Tell A Different Story...

07 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kicking off the Spacious Room leaders talk podcasts for 2024, is my dear husband, Philip Parker. From leadership in the Royal Navy, to the market plac...

Then There Was The Voice Of God

25 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We pray and we listen. We position overselves to hear the voice of God. We feel His presence when He speaks to our void, vacant spaces. He takes us on...

Ten Degrees

04 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Understand that the vision you carry, the blueprint for seeing your dream come to pass is your prized possession. Sharing this prized possession with ...

Unhurried,Uncomplicated,Undone.

05 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Where do you need to stop striving and doing things in your own strength? Spending some unhurried, uncomplicated time with God causes you to become un...

It Won't Hurt Forever

22 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, I talk about pain. When we get real with God, it won't hurt forever and the pain from our wounds will evenually be healed into sil...

Where I Sit

09 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I'm sure there is a big diffrence where you sit and where I sit.  Nevertheless, God's word and His presence meets us both, right where we're at, when...

Coming Up For Air

24 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"How do you come up with the ideas?" This is the most asked question I get asked as a writer. Trying to be cutting-edge, innovative, and inspiring is ...

The Lies You Tell Yourself

10 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever shared a struggle with someone and while you're sharing you suddenly hear the words coming from your own lips are the lies you've been t...

Resolute Resolve

27 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What have you started to rebuild but stopped the 'great work' out of fear and discouragement?  Plans and proposals aren't what gets the enemy rattled...

The Habit Of Hiding

13 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We can develop a habit of hiding from others rather than a habit of hiding in God. But what happens when you've been singled out by God and He says, ...

Taking Matters Into Our Own Hands

30 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do we stick with the strategic strategy of God in our prayers and wait on His perfect timing. or do we take matters into our own hands?  You see, the...

Chasing Donkeys

17 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Feel like you've missed the memo on your calling? Tired of getting distracted and confused as to where to go in the next phase of your journey? Perhap...

Internal Posture

02 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our posture is important to God. If our external posture has been bent out of shape becasue of all our try-hard, people-pleasing, performance-based st...

Restoring Our Joy

18 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Feeling flat today? A little joyless and unmotivated?  Well, on today's episode, I share three ways that will help restore your joy. Three top tips t...

Miracle In Motion

04 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

To set a miracle in motion we sometimes need the right person, the right place, and the right time to all come into alinement. Offering to water ten t...

Fire In My Bones

21 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Struggling with doubt? Allowing that inner critic to gnaw away at your confidence and have the last say on your calling? Don't worry, you're not alone...

Brick By Brick: How A Wise Woman Builds Her House

08 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In Proverbs 14:1 it says that a wise woman builds her house but a foolish one tears it down.  But how does a wise woman build her house ? Brick by Br...

Your Biggest Fan

23 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When we view God as our biggest fan we become the centre of attention and not Him. If we continue in this thinking then a disconnection of the lines i...

Special BONUS BIRTHDAY Episode

23 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As a gift to you, dear listener, I have released this special BONUS BIRTHDAY Episode of the Spacious Room to celebrate my birthday this week! In this ...

An Open Heart Opens Your Passion

09 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As the saying goes, ‘Practice makes perfect’ but practice can never make anything perfect. We live in a flawed, imperfect world and practice and p...

Clearing Out The Clutter

26 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The trouble with us doing all the clearing out is we cannot keep it up. Clearing out every piece of clutter, each thing we believe is collateral damag...

Putting The Cart Before The Horse

12 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Trusting. With all our controlling, managing, and fixing we view God as an uncontrolled, untameable, wild horse that we need to break in so we can tru...

Making The Invisible Visible

26 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Remember those ‘Magic Eye’ pictures that were all the rage back in the 1990s? The optical illusion caused people to go cross-eyed while staring bl...

Somewhere You’ve Not Been Before

12 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

She Has A Plan

29 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

‘She has plan’ could perhaps be the title for the whole of Proverbs 31. Reading about this truly excellent woman can get women all stressed and an...

The Sound Of Bells

15 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bells ringing out are a representation to celebrate endings and new beginnings. The sound of bells has been a long-held tradition to ring in the new y...

Busyness Gives Us Nothing

01 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes we just have to stop thinking and doing so much busyness and just go where our heart leads us, back into the stillness and quietness that re...

Girl, Dig Your Heels In!

18 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Joy is possibly one of the most understated emotions that we are equipped with in our spiritual weaponry as it is far more powerful than we first beli...

A War To Wage And A Kingdom To Win

05 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When there is a war to wage and a kingdom to win, each woman brings the same thing to the battle, a feminine heart. I know what you’re thinking, how...

Filling My Cup Again And Again

20 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How often are we willing to go into the desolate wastelands to pray when we become popular? How many times has the backcountry beckoned us to come awa...

Next Courageous Step

13 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What does your next courageous step look like? It’s different for everyone but the chasm we must cross still looks the same - Scary. That enormous g...

The Good Part

06 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The posture of a bull elk when he’s polishing his antlers is one of distraction. His whole focus is to shine up his antlers to impress. With their e...

Owning Our Stories

30 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Wounds make us hide our true selves, and if we don’t allow Jesus to deal with them properly then we can’t live out an authentic life. The great ne...

Unfamiliar Sounds

23 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Did you know that an elk’s anklebones make a distinct sound when they walk?  These sounds are the primary means of communication and engagement wi...

Wallowing In Mud

17 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Did you know that elks like to wallow in mud?  A wallowing hole is created by a bull elk finding a pool of water, digging into the ground with his ho...

Turn Your Wounds Into Victorious Scars

09 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Blood trailing is when a bow hunter or a rifle hunter will track an elk, wound it, and then chase it through the forest until he finds it and kills it...

The Oil Of Gilead

02 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

My friend and I were having coffee together a couple of weeks ago and during the conversation, she said, “I cannot wait to hold your new book in my ...

Purpose, Mission and Responsibility

25 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kings and Queens can be seen as being born into a privileged life, however, according to the Apostle Paul, we as believers are destined to be adopted ...

I Will Live Unafraid!

18 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I will live unafraid. Hmmm, it says it right there at the end of Psalm 4, the poetry of God reminding the ones who feel afraid, anxious, out of contro...

An Ordinary Sight For An Extraordinary Message

11 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

 “What do you see?” asks God to the reluctant prophet, Jeremiah. Jeremiah tells God that he sees an ordinary almond tree. This ordinary sight sta...

Moved With Compassion

04 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What is it that moves you with compassion? What motivates you enough to see God do something great through you? What do you feel creates a motion that...

A Spacious Room

28 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Psalm 31:7-8 reminds us that God hasn’t handed us over. ‘I will be glad and rejoice in your love, for you saw my affliction and knew the anguish o...

To The Moon And Back

21 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The gravity of God’s love for us goes far beyond the moon and back because He gave His only Son so we could have the hope of our salvation. Amazingl...

Properly Loved

14 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How can we properly love again? Eden is lost, gone, stolen from us. The garden we once communed in with God was exposed to a lie that turned our joy, ...

Fished All Night

07 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Luke chapter 5, we read about Peter, who had fished all night and didn’t catch a thing. So, Jesus asks to borrow Peter’s boat as a pulpit so he...

Clear Your Plate

31 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Remember when you were a kid and your mum told you that if you didn’t clear your plate you wouldn’t get dessert? And remember that feeling of smug...

The Scarlet Thread Pt 2

24 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Last week I shared in The Scarlet Thread Part One, how the shameful wounds from our past can cause us to feel unqualified from having any kind of re...

The Scarlet Thread Pt 1

17 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We tend to view the great heroes of the Bible as people whom we’ll never measure up to because we feel too broken, too wounded, and too damaged to e...

It’ll Be Pretty When We Get There

10 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why is it we believe that Jesus waits for us to have it altogether before we feel worthy enough to tell others about Him? Why do we fall for the lies ...

An Ocean Between The Past And Present

03 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ever wonder what Moses was thinking when he realised there was an ocean between the past of Egypt and the future of the Promised Land? We need to unde...

Gracefully Broken

26 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Gracefully broken. Sounds poetic, right? But what if being gracefully broken means that we have to go through the testing fire first? A fire that prov...

The Red Blanket Strategy Of Discontent

19 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The word ‘matador’ means ‘killer’ and the enemy is in the business of stealing, killing, and destroying your purpose and calling (John 10:10)....

Connection In the Flow

12 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Numbing the connection to our feelings of self-worth and status with our busyness can be a way of avoiding the pain and discomfort that endlessly circ...

This Is How I Fight My Battles Part 2

05 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Last week I shared in, This Is How I Fight My Battles – Part 1  how worship is a powerful weapon when we are struggling with fear, doubt, and worri...

This Is How I Fight My Battles Part 1

29 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Acts chapter 16, we find Paul, and Silas. Deemed as rebel-rousing troublemakers by the Roman officials, these worshippers have been flogged and are...

Unshaken And Unshakeable

23 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

All our lives tell a story to pass on to future generations. Remembering what God has brought you through, every trial, every struggle, and every d...

A Different Kind Of Person

15 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A cupbearer was a high-ranking official whose job it was to taste the wine that was going to be served to the royal table just incase it was poisoned....

Grace In Bloom

08 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Someone once said, “I can no longer go on basing my faith on what’s right for others or what feels good. I must find out once and for all what God...

The Turning Point

02 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever had an “aha” moment when you look back and you remember that it wasn’t necessarily always the big, grand decisions you made that l...

Sudden Stops Are Sometimes Neccessary

01 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Have you stopped trusting God with your future? To be completely honest with you, I had stopped trusting God the other week. I found myself questionin...

Without Restraint

18 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Can you believe that the creativity of our mighty God saw us in His mind's eye even before He created us from the dust of the ground and the rib from ...

Even When We Cannot See

10 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I today's episode, I share the story of Samson and how he positioned himself before God, even though he had no strength, even though he couldn't (lite...

The Volume Of A Quiet Achiever

03 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, I share two epic stories found in the Old Testament that started out quietly. Each story involves the volume of a courageous women...

Be True To Yourself

27 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Endless quotes on Pinterest tell us to, “Be true to yourself” but what does that mean? In Genesis 1:27 we are reminded that we are created in Go...

The Invitation.

20 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to my 100th episode! You are invited... And in this week's special 100th celebration episode I share the power of an invitation.  Invitation'...

There Is No Plan B

13 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

So, you've decided this year you're going to throw caution to the wind. say to hell with fear and follow God with the plan for your life? Wonderful! ...

Don’t Let Your Dogged Determination Get Derailed

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

So, you've answered the call to adventure, stepped out in faith and told fear to go take a hike? But the steep and winding path toward your dream that...

Big Enough For The Dreams And Plans God Has For You

27 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's episode I share that whatever dreams and plans God has placed in your heart, know that you're big enough to fulfil them. Fear whispers ...

Fill Your Flask With Anointing Oil

20 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, if we are to learn anything in the passage of 1 Samuel 16:1, it's this; we need to live expectantly as believers and look toward t...

A Better Tomorrow

13 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why does Jesus say in Matthew 6:34 that we are not to worry about tomorrow? Because when we worry about all our tomorrows and not allow them to take c...

Playing Games

06 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The ironic thing about playing games is that when we're playing, we cannot allow ourselves to become vulnerable enough to admit that we didn't read th...

Then There Was The Voice Of God

30 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We pray and we listen. We position ourselves to hear the voice of God. When we let the voice of God build our dreams, they take on new contours and cu...

Follow The Last Instruction

23 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How close are you to God right now? Close enough to hear His voice in the breeze? Don't let fear keep you in the cave, take a walk up the mountainside...

Ours For The Taking

16 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, I share how it can be sad when mindsets and beliefs seal the door to the wonderful mysteries of God. Fear can lock up treasures th...

A Dangerous Business

09 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I can so relate to J.R.R.Tolkien's character, Bilbo Baggins of Bag-End. This unlikely hero preferred the snug comforts of a safe existence rather than...

Fight The Good Fight

02 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, I share how the drain of navigating a pandemic for almost two years to the restrictions that have followed and the disappointments...

But Then Something Happened...

26 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever been in a conversation with a true storyteller at a Christmas party?  They seem to arrest everyone's attention when they throw into the...

Disappointed Disciples

19 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We build our walls so it keeps Him out. Walls made from bricks of all our disappointments. They say that time heals all wounds. Right? I used to belie...

Forging The Sword

12 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Your dream will not come to pass without some Spiritual warfare. Taking back the ground that the enemy has claimed will require the lump of metal whic...

Stick To The Plan

05 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, I share how there are no guarantees in this life. But, regardless of how messy, dishevelled, or mistaken ridden the plan looks, Go...

Missing Our Cue

28 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

God has been preparing you for something. And this world needs you; we need you and certainly, God needs you to stop missing your cue. Because isn't i...

Maybe This, Maybe That, Maybe Both? - Following The Steps Toward Your Dream.

21 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As the saying goes, "hard work never killed anyone but why take the risk?"  You may smile, but success does not come unless we decide to prioritise t...

Your Path, Your Mandate, Your Story

14 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Why is it that we feel we have to wait for three angelic visitations before we even dare to step into our dreams and act on the command God impressed ...

Now We Do It Together

07 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

And just like that, it happens... In today's episode, I share how we need to stop running away from God and choose to commit to His plan rather than o...

Heavenly Motion

31 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This season of lockdowns and restrictions has brought with it some challenges and frustrations.  In today's episode, I share how it can be so easy fo...

Pearls Of Great Price

24 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The serpent had one goal in mind, to plant the grit of a half-truth into man's thinking that would change the relationship between himself and God. In...

Courageous Confidence

17 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ever find when we face difficulties and we're feeling overwhelmed we tend to pray for relief? In today's episode, I share how John and Peter didn't pr...

Love Always Chooses The Best

10 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, I share how even though we find ourselves living in a fallen world, it is still our primary mission to represent a God who is love...

Travel Poster Faith

03 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This September marks a milestone for our family. It's been 20 years since we grasped the promise of a better life the travel posters offered, thus pro...

Has Lockdown Turned Us Into Workaholics?

26 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As we stay safe in the confines of our homes during lockdown, have you noticed that our routines have gotten all out of whack? No longer can we be tru...

All Manna Of Heartbreaks

19 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What next step is God wanting you to take right now? Experience reminds you that the last time you decided to leave the play-it-safer bench and step u...

Time To Abandon How You See Yourself

12 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Do you know that every time you look in the mirror, you're seeing a reversed version of yourself? I know, this mind-blowing piece of useless informati...

Don"t Apologise For It

05 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sorry, sorry, sorry... Let's face it, we all have a past, right? But if you keep looking back your vision for a better future will become so distorted...

Redemption's Kiss

22 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Whenever I read about the woman who had suffered 12 years from a condition that left her unclean and an outcast in Mark chapter 5, I become emotional....