Podcast Episodes

Risking Coming Home as a Son

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

The first doorway we must travel through on our path toward becoming a…

2 years ago

Through the Easy and the Hard

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. —Henri J. M. Nouwen 

When I was young, I thought that followin…

2 years ago

Waiting

To wait is to learn the spiritual grace of detachment, the freedom of desire. Not the absence of desire, but desire at rest. St. John of the Cross la…

2 years ago

Paradise Lost

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from…

2 years, 1 month ago

Core vs. Corps

Lately, the surge is toward “justice Christianity” — intervening to prevent human trafficking or slavery, caring for indigenous cultures or for the p…

2 years, 1 month 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 …

2 years, 1 month 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. …

2 years, 1 month 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…

2 years, 1 month 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 promis…

2 years, 1 month 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…

2 years, 1 month ago