Podcast Episodes

Integrity

Episode 1249

Do you understand what your heart is really like? In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus is saying that the reason we’re inauthentic or hiding from other people is because we’re actually being inauthentic…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Love in the Neighborhood

Episode 1248

As soon as you hear the word relationships, right away you say, “Ah, relationships,” and you think of friendship or romance. But the main purpose of the Sermon on the Mount is to talk about our relat…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Let Nothing Move You (Easter)

Episode 1247

What is the meaning of the resurrection of Jesus?

In 1 Corinthians 15, there are three basic things Paul says about the resurrection as he answers three questions.

We must confront these three questi…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Inside Out Kingdom

Episode 1246

Christianity is utterly different from religion.

At the end of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says there are two paths—one that leads to life and one that leads to destruction. And here’s what the sc…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Upside Down Kingdom

Episode 1245

Every other revolutionary who ever lived was really only trying to rework or reshuffle the same old kingdom. Except Jesus.

A kingdom always has three things. It has a pattern of values, a power to im…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Work & Grace: The Spiritual Music of John Coltrane (Open Forum)

Episode 1244

What can the music of John Coltrane tell us about the relationship of  art to God, and of our own work in general to God?

We can all learn quite a lot from Coltrane, actually. And what we can see in …

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

The Search for Achievement

Episode 1243

In Ecclesiastes, the author takes the position of a practical secularist. And he asks, “If this life is all there is, then is life meaningless?”

The writer says if this life is all there is, if there…

Published on 2 months ago

Work and Rest

Episode 1242

Today’s sermon comes from a series on the life of Jesus described in the gospel of Luke. Luke gives us many of Jesus’ teachings on what it means to be a disciple. In short, a disciple is one who appl…

Published on 2 months ago

Work Wholeheartedly

Episode 1241

Consider how much of your time, how much of your life, is built around your work. Yet, so many of the books and materials that look at what it means to live as Christians only focus on our evenings a…

Published on 2 months ago

Educators Forum: The Gospel Changes Everything

Episode 1240

Some of you may know I was actually a teacher at graduate school seminary for five years. Then I said, “Get me back in the ministry,” where there is no grading papers and no one knows whether people …

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago