Podcast Episodes

Core vs. Corps

Lately, the surge is toward “justice Christianity” — intervening to prevent human trafficking or slavery, caring for indigenous cultures or for the planet itself. And it is right and it is wrong. My …

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Joy

Why don’t I wake with a joyful heart? Joy was just here. Where did it go?

I began to realize that what I’ve done for most of my life is resign myself to this idea: I’m really not going to have any las…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Glorious Ruins

We are not what we were meant to be, and we know it. If, when passing a stranger on the street, we happen to meet eyes, we quickly avert our glance. Cramped into the awkward community of an elevator,…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Buyer's Remorse

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

[Sam]   Our adolescent culture really does play into our confusion; with so many answers sup…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Sure, I'll Pray For You

I’ve come to the place where I have had to stop telling people, “I’ll pray for you.”

I simply know that despite my good intentions — and these promises are almost always spoken with good intent — I k…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Pressure or a Free Heart?

The only person that can satisfy the aching abyss of the human heart is Jesus Christ. 

—Oswald Chambers 

I hate Valentines Day. There, I said it.

Most of the guys reading this just thought, Yes! I can…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

God As Lover

John Wesley was thirty-five when he experienced the now famous "warming" of his heart — not his mind — toward Christ, and knew in that moment he had become not merely a Christian, but something more …

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Understanding The Feminine Heart

There are three desires that I have found essential to a woman’s heart, which are not entirely different from a man’s and yet they remain distinctly feminine. Not every woman wants a battle to fight,…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Love in Action

His ability to live with all these qualities we’ve seen, in such a way that no one quality dominates—as is so often the case in our personalities—eclipsing the richness of the others. To live in such…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

The Root of Joy

The reason a woman wants a beauty to unveil, the reason she asks, Do you delight in me? is simply that God does as well. God is captivating beauty. As David prays, “One thing I ask of the LORD, this …

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago