Podcast Episodes

Memory, Imagination, and a Passion for Glory

Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead and keeps desire alive. And meantime? In the meantime we need one more item for our journey. To appreciate what it may be, we have to step back an…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

Power of His Life

Before we go any farther in our search, I need to make the offer of Christianity clear: There is a way to be good again. The hope of Christianity is that we get to live life like Jesus. That beautifu…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

Relief vs. Restoration

I'm simply sitting on my back porch. Warm summer evening, cool breeze, beautiful sky now turning that deep navy blue just before dark.
That's when the carnival started.

Some agitated place in me starte…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

No Shortcuts

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

Since the beginning of time, every age has faced unprecedented battles. Today’s Western world lives and breathes a gospel …

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

Our Coming Renewal

Oh that I once past changing were

Fast in thy paradise, where no flower can wither.

(George Herbert)

I think of the woman I helped in the grocery store last week. She was only in her thirties, I’m guess…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

Take Some Time, Peter

After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?” “Yes, he does,” he replied. When Peter ca…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

Your True Glory

Anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!  (2 Corinthians 5:17 NLT)

We haven’t yet seen anyone in their true glory. Including you. Yes, Mozart w…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

You, My Friend, Have an Enemy

I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God,
 and I expelled you, O guardian cherub,
 from among the fiery stones. (Ezekiel 28:16)

So evil entered the Story.

I am staggered by the level of naïveté that…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

An Internal Revolution

Jesus’ freedom is a difficult thing to teach on for many reasons; let me name two. First, there are certain types who will hear this and find it an excuse to live as they please. Many characters in o…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

A Mystery

By “mystery” we don’t mean “forever beyond your knowing,” but “something to be explored.”

“It is the glory of God to conceal a matter,” says the book of Proverbs, “to search out a matter is the glory …

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago