Podcast Episodes

The Thief Wants It All

Any movement toward freedom and life, any movement toward God or others, will be opposed.Marriage, friendship, beauty, rest—the thief wants it all.

So, it becomes the devil’s business to keep the Chr…

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

Separate Journeys: Head and Heart

The sense of being part of some bigger story, a purposeful adventure that is the Christian life, begins to drain away again after those first-love years in spite of everything we can do to stop it. I…

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

To Mother

As large as the role is that our mothers play, the word mother is more powerful when used as a verb than as a noun. All women are not mothers, but all women are called to mother. To mother is to nurt…

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

A Source of Wisdom

Mothers teach, counsel, and guide. “Do not forsake your mother’s teaching” (Proverbs 1:8). Mothers comfort. “As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you” (Isaiah 66:13). Mothers are a sourc…

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

Grace

The human soul is a place of profound mysteries. God is a person of infinite creativity. He can do this any way he wants. Sometimes he goes straight for the wound or the brokenness. Having had that h…

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

Intentionally Holding on to the Truth

We lose the Story every day. It is continually being stolen from us by the Evil One—the ultimate desconstructionist. He twists and spins and pulls apart the truth until the fragments we have left are…

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

The Tale You’ve Fallen Into

And now? Now we are living somewhere toward the end of Act Three. We have a future, but this tale is not over yet — not by a long shot. We now live between the battle for Helm’s Deep and the Battle o…

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

God of All Hope

Somewhere along the way we all lose heart in marriage. We all do. It happens to the best of us. As Dan Fogelberg sang,

Joy at the start
Fear in the journey,
Joy in the coming home
A part of the heart …

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Kingdom Ferocity

As Jesus steps out from behind those thirty years of almost total obscurity into the task set before him, both men and demons begin to feel his fierce intention:

He went down to Capernaum, a town in G…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Hidden Motivation

I can be a very driven man; I set very high standards; I push myself hard. There are certain “rewards” that come along with this way of living: I get a lot done; I can be successful. But that drivenn…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago