Podcast Episodes

A Subtle Erosion

There are few things more crucial to us than our own lives.

And there are few things we are less clear about.

This journey we are taking is hardly down the yellow brick road. Then again, that's not a b…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

The Zap View of Prayer

Christians have been told over and over that God is almighty. And indeed he is—the God of four hundred billion billion suns. We have been told he is also sovereign. And indeed he is. Perhaps out of r…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Matter of the Heart

Let’s come back to something very basic to our pursuit of God and the transformation he is always after in our lives—everything we do has a reason behind it, a motive.

Within the Christian community w…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Battle of the Flesh

There is a civil war waged between the new heart and the old nature. Romans 7–8 describes it quite well. Part of me doesn’t want to love my neighbor—not when his son just backed his car into my Jeep …

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Eden Glory

When you think of what Desolation looks like, picture a barren desert. Desolation wants to make everything a wasteland.

So what is the opposite of a wasteland?

Eden! The paradise of God, our first ho…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Behind Enemy Lines

For some reason we keep forgetting that Jesus, in the Gospels, is operating in enemy territory. We project into the Gospel stories a pastoral backdrop, the quaint charm of a Middle Eastern travel bro…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Missing the Most Important Thing

We take folks through a discipleship program whereby they master any number of Christian precepts and miss the most important thing of all, the very thing for which we were created: intimacy with God…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Answer His Call

Life has a way of wearing on a person. Under the weight of losses, pressures, failures, and endless demands, something in our souls begins to wither. Passions dry up. The zeal of a beginning turns in…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Practice All You Have Learned

Dear friends, I hope you see clearly that more of God is our greatest need, our greatest joy, our only rescue. This isn’t optional. He’s the source of the strength and resiliency we need for this hou…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Beauty and Affliction

Simone Weil was absolutely right—beauty and affliction are the only two things that can pierce our hearts. Because this is so true, we must have a measure of beauty in our lives proportionate to our …

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago