Podcast Episodes

God’s Timing

Until 1967, units of time were scientifically measured by astronomical patterns: the spin of the earth and its revolution around the sun. But over th…

5 hours ago

Sitting with the Suffering

“Daddy, my head hurts.” “Daddy, I’m so cold.” “Daddy, can you rub my feet?”

A high fever, chills, and body aches recently descended cruelly upon my t…

1 day, 5 hours ago

The Cost of Commitment

A group of twenty-two Christian leaders traveled half a day to secretly meet and learn from a pastor who came from another country. If caught, the pa…

2 days, 5 hours ago

Rebellion and Return

The Wild One is a 1953 movie starring Marlon Brando as Johnny Strabler, a troubled, brooding leader of a motorcycle gang. In one scene, a young woman…

3 days, 5 hours ago

The Hope Jesus Brings

It began with an email a grieving father sent to me. He had lost his daughter Alyssa—a college junior—in a car accident, and he needed to hear from s…

4 days, 5 hours ago

True Satisfaction in God

Thirty years ago, I participated in an activity at an unemployment workshop that I still remember today. My fellow laid-off co-workers and I were ask…

5 days, 5 hours ago

God’s Loving Deeds

They sit side by side on Ball Street in my city—the Grand Ideas Garden and the county jail. My friend Joann loved both places. She loved to sit in th…

6 days, 5 hours ago

One in Christ

In January 1967, the town of Winneconne discovered it had been mistakenly omitted from the official Wisconsin state road map, costing the town vital …

1 week ago

God’s Goodness

“Oh no!” That was my response upon opening a beehive and discovering the colony had suddenly died. It had been a thriving hive with lots of honey. I’…

1 week, 1 day ago

Strength from Struggle

Jess was getting on in years when he first heard the children’s folktale about the boy and the butterfly. Right away, he understood the story’s lesso…

1 week, 2 days ago