Podcast Episodes

Breaking the Stronghold

The Ephesians passage warns about spiritual strongholds created in our lives when we let “the sun go down” on something. Note that in this case that something isn’t necessarily sin. Paul says, “in yo…

Published on 1 week, 3 days ago

First Things First

Doing things for God is not the same thing as loving God.

Jesus loves the poor — so, movements have arisen that make service to the poor the main thing. Even though Jesus never said that being poor wa…

Published on 1 week, 4 days ago

Giving God Your Attention

Down through the ages, followers of Christ have believed that to be able to give God our attention as a regular practice was a very important thing. After vividly recounting the many challenges of fa…

Published on 1 week, 5 days ago

Love Is Chosen

Any parent or lover knows this: love is chosen. You cannot, in the end, force anyone to love you.

So if you are writing a story where love is the meaning, where love is the highest and best of all, wh…

Published on 1 week, 6 days ago

Our Longing for Love

I know I’m not alone in having a hard time believing in the love of God for me (we think he loves everyone else), or receiving the love of God, or letting it catch my heart up into life and joy, or, …

Published on 2 weeks ago

An Invasion

What we call “Christianity” is an invasion.

The Kingdom of God is advancing into the kingdom of darkness, a campaign to ransom people and the earth God intended us to rule. For the Son of Man came to…

Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago

Made Perfect

You have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to countless thousands of angels in a joyful gathering. You have come to the assembly of God’s firstborn childr…

Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Let Hope Rise

Our hope is meant to be the anchor of our souls, to keep us steady in the middle of the storms of life. It is set firmly within the truth that Jesus is trustworthy. He has promised us that He is retu…

Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Earth's Healing

God heals the earth, and he heals us. We are restored to one another. The earth waits for our healing, and we wait for the earth’s healing. I believe our healing brings about something of the healing…

Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago

Have You Asked for His Opinion?

The book “Killing Lions” is a conversation between John and Sam Eldredge about the trials young men face.

[John]   Paralysis (masquerading as “confusion”) haunts every man when a looming decision wi…

Published on 2 weeks, 5 days ago