Podcast Episodes

Tuning the Instrument

So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the l…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

Choosing to Sacrifice

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

[Sam]   You know, I was really good at thinking only about myself pre-marriage, but sacrific…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

The Weight of Your Glory

Every mythic story shouts to us that in this desperate hour we have a crucial role to play. This is an Eternal Truth, and it happens to be the one we most desperately need if we are ever to understan…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

A World Made for Romance

If you learned about Eden in Sunday school, with poster board and flannel graphs, you missed something. Imagine the most beautiful scenes you have ever known on this earth — rain forests, the prairie…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

Participation of the Divine Nature

Our need for attachment, mother-love, and the assurance of abundance opens up for us new levels of joyful experience, even in passages that have been familiar to us for years: “I am the vine; you are…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

Assumptions

I’ll tip my hand to one assumption I am making. I assume that an intimate, conversational walk with God is available, and is meant to be normal. I’ll push that a step further. I assume that if you do…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

Church Is Not a Building

Church is not a building. Church is not an event that takes place on Sundays. I know, it's how we think of it. "I go to First Baptist." "We are members of St. Luke's." "Is it time to go to church?" M…

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Healing the Wound

If you wanted to learn how to heal the blind and you thought that following Christ around and watching how he did it would make things clear, you'd wind up pretty frustrated. He never does it the sam…

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Our Bodies Renewed

This moment is yours, as sure and certain as God himself. Sure as the renewal of heaven and earth. How else could we enjoy the fierce beauty of a renewed creation unless we, too, are renewed and made…

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Golden Goodness

Think about it — what daily radiance is showered upon us, what immense golden goodness. Every single day, over so much of the planet. It saturates our world, warming the earth, raising the crops in t…

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago