Podcast Episodes

A Deeper Experience of God

Everyone is trying to find their way to joy, and if not joy, at least happiness. That’s a good desire, by the way: It fuels our search. It keeps us moving forward. Folks who give up even wanting to b…

Published on 2 years ago

It Worked!

The angel was joined by a vast host of others—the armies of heaven—praising God and saying, “Glory to God in highest heaven, and peace on earth to those with whom God is pleased.”  (Luke 2:13–14 NLT)…

Published on 2 years ago

There Is a Larger Story

Walk into any large mall, museum, amusement park, university, or hospital, and you will typically meet at once a very large map with the famous red star and the encouraging words "You are here". Thes…

Published on 2 years ago

The Strength of My Heart

When I consider all that is at stake in this journey I am on, how vulnerable are my heart and the hearts of those I love, I am moved to fall on my face and cry out to God for the grace to remember. G…

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Transformation

As we love him, experience him, allow his life to fill ours, the personality of Jesus transforms our personalities. The timid become bold and the bold become patient and the patient become fierce and…

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Spirit of the Age

Every age has a certain spirit or mood or climate to it. Ours is busyness. We’re all running like lemmings from sunup to way past sundown. What’s with all the energy drinks? There must be dozens now.…

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No Ordinary Mission

Parents will often wonder where their toddlers learned to lie or how they came into the world so self-centered. It doesn’t need to be taught to them; it is inherent to human nature. Paul makes clear …

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The Power of Experience

The armies of Israel have drawn up against the armies of the Philistines, but not a single shot has been fired from any bow. The reason, of course, is Goliath, a mercenary of tremendous size and stre…

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His Unique Gift

They will call him Immanuel, which means “God is with us.”  (Matthew 1:23 NLT)

I was listening to a few refrains from “O Holy Night”: “A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices” and something deep in…

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The Greatest Dignity of All

He enables us to love. He gives us the greatest treasure in all creation: a heart. For he intends that we should be his intimate allies, to borrow Dan Allender's phrase, who join in the Sacred Circle…

Published on 2 years ago