Podcast Episodes

Turn Your Gaze Towards God

The child who cries out in the dark feels very differently when mother comes in and switches on a light. What felt so real and inevitable vanishes. Let us be careful we don’t embrace the pain in such…

Published on 10 months, 4 weeks ago

A Big Lion in a Small Cage

Emasculation happens in marriage as well. Women are often attracted to the wilder side of a man, but once having caught him they settle down to the task of domesticating him. Ironically, if he gives …

Published on 10 months, 4 weeks ago

The Miseries of a Dethroned Monarch

During a long layover at O'Hare, I studied the man who sells popcorn from a little stand in one of the terminal hallways. He sat silently on a stool as thousands of people rushed by. Occasionally, ev…

Published on 11 months ago

A Great Relief

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

[Sam]   “We live in the age of information,” says the old recording of an announcer in my he…

Published on 11 months ago

Ask For It!

Lest we overlook the obvious, let me take a moment’s pause here to suggest that in your search for more of God, do remember to ask for it.

Such a simple thought, but so helpful. Sometimes we get so ca…

Published on 11 months ago

Sleepwalking Through Life

John Spillane is a para-rescue jumper sent into the North Atlantic, into the worst storm of the twentieth century, the perfect storm, as the book and film called it, to rescue a fisherman lost at sea…

Published on 11 months ago

All is Forgiven

Let’s come back to Zacchaeus and the town harlot who crashed the party to weep at Jesus’ feet. They were, both of them, very keenly aware of their failures. They knew they had fallen way short of God…

Published on 11 months ago

Order, Protection, And Blessing

A good king brings order to the realm. God brings order out of chaos at the beginning of creation, and then he hands the project over to Adam to rule in the same way. Not as a tyrant or micro-manager…

Published on 11 months ago

Created for Mission and Adventure

After God fashioned this dazzling earth, he gave it to us. Which is a bit like giving your fifteen year old the keys to a Maserati. But, he has his ways of doing things. When God gave us the earth he…

Published on 11 months ago

To Capture Our Heart's Devotion

God and Satan each have a design, a battle plan, to capture our heart's devotion. The intimacy, beauty, and adventure of the Sacred Romance are placed and nurtured in the deepest longings of our hear…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago