Podcast Episodes

Prayer Isn't Just a Band-Aid

I never assume I know what the new prayer need before me requires. If someone asks me, “Pray that my mother and my father reconcile,” I don’t simply start praying that. For one thing, I do not know w…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Undoing of Evil

Satan has an ace up his sleeve — even if his captives want out of the POW camp, he has a legal claim to them. A claim that can be broken only by blood. These prisoners can be ransomed, but only at a …

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Directly Resist the Enemy

You will be tested. Like Jesus’ desert trial, the enemy comes, probing the perimeter. He knows your story, knows where the weak spots are. But this is our training. This is the spiritual equivalent o…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

It Appears Sensible To Opt Out

At one point in the long, arduous campaign of delivering to Judah the bad news of coming judgment and futile calls for repentance, Jeremiah explodes with thoughts that have apparently been building i…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Ready for Anything, Anywhere

Today’s Daily Reading is an excerpt from Morgan Snyder's book “Becoming a King”

Whatever else we observe about the life of Jesus, we know this to be true: at every moment, Jesus modeled what it looks …

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Our Pictures of Love

The crisis of hope that afflicts the church today is a crisis of imagination. Catholic philosopher Peter Kreeft writes: Medieval imagery (which is almost totally biblical imagery) of light, jewels, s…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

A Little Bit of Clarity

What exactly are you perfectly clear on these days? How about your life — why have things gone the way they have? Where was God in all that? And do you know what you ought to do next, with a deep, se…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Take Refuge

Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life. Rescue me from my enemies, Lord, for I hide myself in …

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Desire and Hope

Once we come to accept that we can never find or hang on to the life we have been seeking, what then? As Dallas Willard writes, it matters for all the world to know that life is ahead of us.

I meet ma…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

The Allure of Holiness

If you want to turn your children off to Jesus, ignore holiness (or choose the technical rule-keeping impostor). Be a jerk and then insist the family pray at mealtimes; let them see you lie to your b…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago