Podcast Episodes

How Sin Makes Us Addicts

Episode 1295

Even when we feel vaguely guilty for things in our past, or when we feel outraged by what we see other people doing, we have trouble talking about sin and evil. In our society, we’ve been taught that…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

How Sin Makes Us Vandals

Episode 1294

The story in Judges 17 is not interesting. It’s a bunch of trivial people doing kind of dumb, weird things. Micah robs his mother, but then he gives the money back. Then his mother cheats God. Then M…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

The Judgment on Sin

Episode 1292

When people see the evidence of great evils and atrocities, they automatically turn into philosophers. They start to ask the metaphysical questions. How could this have happened?

Why doesn’t God do s…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Wrath: The Case of Esau

Episode 1291

The story of Jacob and Esau is a great example of how anger works out in a family situation. 

Esau and Jacob were twins, and Esau was the oldest. When their father is fooled into giving Jacob the bir…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Greed: The Case of the Rich Young Ruler

Episode 1290

The rich young ruler looked like he had it made. He’s characterized by moral excellence and he’s financially wealthy. He’s got it so together that he even admits he doesn’t have it all together—that …

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Lust: The Case of Joseph

Episode 1289

Joseph’s career was going along fairly well. He’d risen from servanthood to becoming, in a sense, the Chief Operating Officer of a huge estate. And then sex came. He wasn’t even looking for it, but i…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Gluttony: The Case of Achan

Episode 1288

In the Middle Ages, theologians said there are different forms of gluttony—that you can eat and drink excessively, sumptuously, daintily, or impulsively. Technically, gluttony means to eat and drink …

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Envy: The Case of Israel

Episode 1287

There’s a sickness in us. We are cruel to each other in ways we cannot seem to heal. We have an inveterate kind of unhappiness in our hearts we can’t seem to put out. 

For the last hundred years, the…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Duplicity: The Case of Peter

Episode 1286

After he broke his promise to Jesus, Peter wept bitterly. Peter was an absolutely broken man in the profoundest possible way, and yet within weeks he was poised as the leader of a new movement, about…

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Pride: The Case of Nebuchadnezzar

Episode 1285

In sixth century B.C., Nebuchadnezzar was the absolute monarch of the Babylonian empire. He’d built maybe the most incredible city in history. He was at the pinnacle of power, and his life fell apart…

Published on 2 months ago