Sat, 30 May 2026 12:10:08 -0400 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2200675 en-us © 2026 The Pressure Is Off ⎮ Podcast by Arnt Jakob Holvik yes f282ee1c-6359-5de2-bc42-3071b9f7e570 Arnt Jakob Holvik episodic false Many people as of today seem to strive under much daily stress and a feeling of simply trying to survive. If this is YOU, then this podcast was made for you. An ancient Rabbi and Messiah once said: "Come to Me you who are weary and who carry heavy loads, and I will give you REST". The man´s name is Jesus (Hebrew: Yeshua), and in this podcast we journey into His way to rest in a very real way. Welcome to the good news of a life where ´The Pressure Is Off´!

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Arnt Jakob Holvik https://storage.buzzsprout.com/lwqb4857lij0fai52pfyk4tbpbm1?.jpg FLIGHT MODE: How to possibly handle my iphone! The smartphone can be both a blessing and a real threat to your spiritual life and psychological well-being, But what if you put it in flight mode as your default mode?!

]]> The smartphone can be both a blessing and a real threat to your spiritual life and psychological well-being, But what if you put it in flight mode as your default mode?!

]]> Buzzsprout-18014599 Wed, 15 Oct 2025 07:22:13 +0200 783 2 1 full false How can I BECOME FREE or deliver someone else from evil spirits? Jesus wants to set us free, and He has given us the tools and the authority of His Name to both become free ourselves and to deliver others. This podcast episode gets first into the practicals of what the ´groundwork´ is that we and others can & need to do ourselves & then secondly how to identify & expel the evil spirits with Jesus´help so that freedom can come!

]]> Jesus wants to set us free, and He has given us the tools and the authority of His Name to both become free ourselves and to deliver others. This podcast episode gets first into the practicals of what the ´groundwork´ is that we and others can & need to do ourselves & then secondly how to identify & expel the evil spirits with Jesus´help so that freedom can come!

]]> Arnt Jakob Holvik Buzzsprout-16848184 Mon, 24 Mar 2025 07:54:09 +0100 1292 1 19 full false How can I know if I need SPIRITUAL DELIVERANCE? Our western culture doesn't speak much about the spiritual problems people have in their lives, how they are negatively affected by those spirits, and how they can get help. Therefore I want to speak about my experience of helping people in this area on this podcast. As you probably know, a big part of Jesus´way of serving people was to deliver them from evil spirits. In a similar way He can & wants to help you if this is a need in your life! Let's start with the question: "How can I know if I need spiritual deliverance?"

]]> Our western culture doesn't speak much about the spiritual problems people have in their lives, how they are negatively affected by those spirits, and how they can get help. Therefore I want to speak about my experience of helping people in this area on this podcast. As you probably know, a big part of Jesus´way of serving people was to deliver them from evil spirits. In a similar way He can & wants to help you if this is a need in your life! Let's start with the question: "How can I know if I need spiritual deliverance?"

]]> Arnt Jakob Holvik Buzzsprout-16814113 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:15:14 +0100 1341 1 18 full false Exit Self-Centredness. Exit Depression. Live for someone else than you. Getting out of your box of self-centredness is the fastest way out of negative emotions, insecurities and fears. Learn to live for something greater than yourself, and break free from depression into love, peace & joy.

]]> Getting out of your box of self-centredness is the fastest way out of negative emotions, insecurities and fears. Learn to live for something greater than yourself, and break free from depression into love, peace & joy.

]]> Arnt Jakob Holvik Buzzsprout-16551802 Mon, 03 Feb 2025 09:17:04 +0100 596 1 17 full false THE SECRET TO LIVING IS GIVING There is a great way of living life that is so simple and yet a road not travelled by many in our society & including Christian circles today. Giving is the way of life Jesus taught and showed, and has to do with the motivation of your heart and what you seek first in life. It will completely change your life if you decide to embrace it!

]]> There is a great way of living life that is so simple and yet a road not travelled by many in our society & including Christian circles today. Giving is the way of life Jesus taught and showed, and has to do with the motivation of your heart and what you seek first in life. It will completely change your life if you decide to embrace it!

]]> Arnt Jakob Holvik Buzzsprout-16285290 Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:19:20 +0100 820 1 16 full false EYES SET ON Our family is back from serving in the Middle East, and in this episode I want to set the focus where it belongs: on Jesus! What your eyes is set on in life will determine your life. 

]]> Our family is back from serving in the Middle East, and in this episode I want to set the focus where it belongs: on Jesus! What your eyes is set on in life will determine your life. 

]]> Arnt Jakob Holvik Buzzsprout-16090212 Tue, 12 Nov 2024 08:20:24 +0100 525 1 15 full false The life-transforming Morning Routine of Jesus Step into the place where Jesus had much of his secret: solitude in the morning with his Father. In this episode we get very practical and personal on what this morning routine of Jesus can look like in your life and what a mysterious transformation it will bring.

]]> Step into the place where Jesus had much of his secret: solitude in the morning with his Father. In this episode we get very practical and personal on what this morning routine of Jesus can look like in your life and what a mysterious transformation it will bring.

]]> Arnt Jakob Holvik Buzzsprout-16017596 Wed, 30 Oct 2024 11:25:44 +0100 469 1 14 full false Life flows in the low places: Fighting the victim mentality This episode for all of us who get easily offended

]]> This episode for all of us who get easily offended

]]> Arnt Jakob Holvik Buzzsprout-15023167 Tue, 07 May 2024 09:10:37 +0200 451 1 13 full false DAVID´S STORY: An Interview of how God can change a fear-driven life into a life of Joy & Contentment in Him David Perez Arago grew up in church, but found much of his life driven by fear of people and their recognition, rather than being content and happy as God´s son. Listen to the fascinating story of how God got to the root of the identiy issue and changed David´s life and in effect his family relationships and the newly planted church community. 

]]> David Perez Arago grew up in church, but found much of his life driven by fear of people and their recognition, rather than being content and happy as God´s son. Listen to the fascinating story of how God got to the root of the identiy issue and changed David´s life and in effect his family relationships and the newly planted church community. 

]]> Arnt Jakob Holvik Buzzsprout-14811556 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 08:35:26 +0200 1804 1 12 full false ONE AREA OF MY LIFE ISN´T WORKING. How can I change it!? : The inside and outside solution. Is there anything I can do to bring change to an area in my life which is ´stuck´ & where I feel hopeless? - Yes there is..!

]]> Is there anything I can do to bring change to an area in my life which is ´stuck´ & where I feel hopeless? - Yes there is..!

]]> Arnt Jakob Holvik Buzzsprout-14736169 Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:05:49 +0100 1026 1 11 full false JESUS APPEARED BY MY HOSPITAL BED: THIS IS WHAT HE TOLD ME Sometimes Jesus shows up to teach us important things when we are at the end of ourselves. In this episode I share some of my personal experiences of what Jesus taught me in the hospital.

]]> Sometimes Jesus shows up to teach us important things when we are at the end of ourselves. In this episode I share some of my personal experiences of what Jesus taught me in the hospital.

]]> Arnt Jakob Holvik Buzzsprout-14665823 Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:26:40 +0100 670 1 10 full false THE TEN & THE TWO: A story of two completely different outcomes This time one story from the bible and one from our family´s life: Learn from Joshua and Caleb, and from my wife Liva, - how to get into your ´Promised Land´

]]> This time one story from the bible and one from our family´s life: Learn from Joshua and Caleb, and from my wife Liva, - how to get into your ´Promised Land´

]]> Arnt Jakob Holvik Buzzsprout-14441439 Mon, 05 Feb 2024 13:50:06 +0100 816 1 9 full false Storm on the Outside - Peace on the Inside The key to learn from Jesus is to live with peace and trust in the middle of the storms that break in life. Everyone faces storms, but the storm doesn´t have to become your inner reality. Learn how to have peace on the inside, even when there´s a storm breaking on the outside.

]]> The key to learn from Jesus is to live with peace and trust in the middle of the storms that break in life. Everyone faces storms, but the storm doesn´t have to become your inner reality. Learn how to have peace on the inside, even when there´s a storm breaking on the outside.

]]> Arnt Jakob Holvik Buzzsprout-14027199 Fri, 24 Nov 2023 08:52:36 +0100 896 1 8 full false "Do not worry about anything..!" The practical message from the bible that seems ´too-good-to-be-true´. The Good News is better than you think ;)

]]> The practical message from the bible that seems ´too-good-to-be-true´. The Good News is better than you think ;)

]]> Arnt Jakob Holvik Buzzsprout-13617633 Tue, 19 Sep 2023 12:21:33 +0200 728 1 7 full false Get back to Prayer! Prayer is crucial, - but still so many of us tend to slide away from it in the midst of full working days, leaving us relying on only our own efforts. Why is it so, and how can you get back into prayer to God?!

]]> Prayer is crucial, - but still so many of us tend to slide away from it in the midst of full working days, leaving us relying on only our own efforts. Why is it so, and how can you get back into prayer to God?!

]]> Arnt Jakob Holvik Buzzsprout-13489453 Tue, 29 Aug 2023 11:25:14 +0200 666 6 full false CELEBRATING FAILURE: The key thing to learn from the Start-up community! The business start-up environment has a most empowering way of being honest about failures and celebrating those failures as steps of faith in direction of what you are called to do and achieve. Your failures or mistakes along the way does not mean that you are a failure. They are your brave stepping stones towards what God called you to do. 

]]> The business start-up environment has a most empowering way of being honest about failures and celebrating those failures as steps of faith in direction of what you are called to do and achieve. Your failures or mistakes along the way does not mean that you are a failure. They are your brave stepping stones towards what God called you to do. 

]]> Arnt Jakob Holvik Buzzsprout-13400944 Mon, 14 Aug 2023 08:12:12 +0200 597 1 5 full false The Stage is set: Performance Christianity Performance Christianity is a strange and tiring phenomenon. But what if the Stage could be set with only your own Father in the room?

]]> Performance Christianity is a strange and tiring phenomenon. But what if the Stage could be set with only your own Father in the room?

]]> Arnt Jakob Holvik Buzzsprout-13192111 Mon, 10 Jul 2023 09:19:12 +0200 538 1 4 full false WHEN JOHN WIMBER CRIED A LOT: From Church Growth Strategy to Freedom Listen to hear how God stopped Vineyard leader John Wimber´s church growth career, and brought him into a more fruitful life & ministry as a Christian leader. 

]]> Listen to hear how God stopped Vineyard leader John Wimber´s church growth career, and brought him into a more fruitful life & ministry as a Christian leader. 

]]> Arnt Jakob Holvik Buzzsprout-13107280 Mon, 26 Jun 2023 09:45:55 +0200 770 1 3 full false TOTAL TRUST In this episode I share how my wife helped me out of inner turmoil and into peace by trusting God, and how you can exit your inner turmoil and get to peace in the same way.

]]> In this episode I share how my wife helped me out of inner turmoil and into peace by trusting God, and how you can exit your inner turmoil and get to peace in the same way.

]]> Arnt Jakob Holvik Buzzsprout-13021943 Mon, 12 Jun 2023 10:43:40 +0200 328 1 2 full false "Sink or Swim" How do I deal with the "sink or swim" life experience of being a Christian Leader?!

]]> How do I deal with the "sink or swim" life experience of being a Christian Leader?!

]]> Arnt Jakob Holvik Buzzsprout-12994079 Wed, 07 Jun 2023 07:58:50 +0200 509 1 2 full false Podcast Introduction: «A life where the pressure’s off?» In this episode the following question is raised: «Is there a way out of this ‘survival mode’ that I experience in my daily life? Or is stress, worries, burdens and striving just how life is for eveybody?»

]]> In this episode the following question is raised: «Is there a way out of this ‘survival mode’ that I experience in my daily life? Or is stress, worries, burdens and striving just how life is for eveybody?»

]]> Arnt Jakob Holvik Buzzsprout-12978802 Mon, 05 Jun 2023 09:00:00 +0200 250 1 1 full false