Podcast Episodes

The Longing to Belong

Whatever else it means to be human, we know beyond doubt that it means to be relational. Aren’t the greatest joys and memories of your life associate…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

A Fear of Passion?

Dare we forget King David? Yes, his passions got him in a heap of trouble—and gave us our book of worship, the Psalms. Sure, Peter was a hotheaded di…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

Carrying Others

Worry is only one of a hundred things that burden our souls. Genuine concern is just as dangerous, maybe more so because it’s grounded in something n…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

A Glory We Were Meant For

The poet Yeats wrote,

If I make the lashes dark
 And the eyes more bright
 And the lips more scarlet,
 Or ask if all be right
 From mirror after mirror
 No…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

Failure is Ripe with Goodness

God drops things in our laps at just the right time. He puts barriers in our paths that look like roadblocks but are really gifts in disguise, beckon…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

The Stream of Healing

For this people's heart has become calloused;
 they hardly hear with their ears,
 and they have closed their eyes.
 Otherwise they might see with their …

9 months, 3 weeks ago

Dignity of Causation

One of the most crippling convictions held by believers today is the idea that everything that happens is the will of God. It is a poisonous belief t…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

Vanity Fair

"Don't be afraid of embracing the disappointment you feel, old or new. Don't be scared of the unreasonable joy either. They're the highway markers ho…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

Famished Craving

Something is happening to the human heart. You need to understand what it is if you would make sense of any of this. 

Human beings are by nature rave…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

A Place Prepared for You

There is the joy of having someone save a place for us. We walk into a crowded room at church or at a dinner party and someone across the way waves u…

9 months, 3 weeks ago