Podcast Episodes

In the End

In the end, it doesn't matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living. For out of this wellspring of our soul flow all true caring and all mea…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Guard Your Heart

Above all else, guard your heart. We usually hear this with a sense of "Keep an eye on that heart of yours," in the way you'd warn a deputy watching over some dangerous outlaw, or a bad dog the neigh…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Where Sadness and Joy Kiss

The renewal of all things is meant to be the center of our view of the world, our hopes, and our tangible expectations as we plan our lives going forward. The phrase bucket list comes from the expres…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Where is Adam?

God gives Adam some instructions on the care of creation and his role in the unfolding story. It's pretty basic, and very generous (see Gen. 2:16-17). But notice what God doesn't tell Adam. There is …

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

The Fear of Man

Why did Nicodemus visit Jesus at night? Fear of what his peers would do if they found out. He wasn’t alone in this; John says that “many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pha…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Our God Speaks

I realize that many dear followers of Christ have been taught that God only speaks to his sons and daughters through the Bible. The irony of that theology is this: that’s not what the Bible teaches! …

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Interfering With Our Lives

I love the story of a certain man whom Jesus interfered with, much to his initial chagrin. Remember when Jesus met the man possessed with many demons in Luke 8?

So they arrived in the region of the G…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

When "Goodness" Misses the Point

Now, you wouldn’t think that morality would ever become popular in the world, but there is a certain kind of “goodness” that is actually quite hip these days. Issues such as the size of your carbon f…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Freely and Lightly

You can’t save the world. You can’t even carry it.

“Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?” (Luke 12:25…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

I Can Handle This

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

[John]   Do you feel that you can handle life? A woman? Your finances? Crisis when it hits? …

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago