Podcast Episodes

Why a Public Faith?

Episode 1259

We live in a pluralistic society, so we must ask this question: how can people be true to themselves and still get along? No matter who you are, if you care about the social fabric, that’s a huge que…

Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago

How Do I Know the Bible Is True? (Open Forum)

Episode 1258

It’s very common for people, even those who want to live the Christian life, to feel they have to check their brains at the door if they’re going to believe.

Often, we hear this basic approach to the…

Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago

Wisdom: How To Live It

Episode 1257

We live in a culture of choice. In our individualistic culture, our place and our parents and our social location don’t determine everything that we can do. We have some choices. Choices! What does t…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Wisdom: How To Get It

Episode 1256

We live in a culture in which there are more choices than there ever have been. But you can be incredibly good, moral, and knowledgeable and still make pretty stupid choices. 

Wisdom is knowing the r…

Published on 4 weeks, 2 days ago

Wisdom: What is it?

Episode 1255

There are choices everywhere, just zillions and zillions of choices. And if you don’t make good choices, it can be very destructive. Bad choices blow up on you. Every choice is like a fork in the roa…

Published on 1 month ago

True Spirituality

Episode 1254

The trouble with the Sermon on the Mount is it’s so familiar that almost nobody listens to it, almost nobody knows what it’s saying. How do we know that?

At the very end of the sermon, it says the cr…

Published on 1 month ago

The New Community

Episode 1253

There’s no one section where Jesus lays out how a relationship with him radically changes our human relationships and forms a new, deep, radical human community in Christ. It’s not in one place — it’…

Published on 1 month ago

Jesus’ Model of Spirituality

Episode 1252

When people say, “I’ve tried prayer, and it didn’t work,” what Jesus is saying is, “You used prayer, not the way I designed it, but with a false model of spirituality.”

For Jesus, the importance of p…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Treasure vs. Money

Episode 1251

If we actually take the gospel, the essential message of Jesus Christ, and we live it out, what will it look like? That’s what the Sermon on the Mount is about. 

And in this part of Jesus’ Sermon on …

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Love, Lust and Liberation

Episode 1250

On the surface, one of the most unattractive things about Christianity to our culture today is its view of sex; but if you look underneath the surface and get a better grasp on what is really taught,…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago