Podcast Episodes

Pause, and Notice

You don't need to travel far to find beauty. God has strewn beauty across the globe in such generous portions we have only to stop and notice, paying…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Turn Your Gaze Towards God

The child who cries out in the dark feels very differently when mother comes in and switches on a light. What felt so real and inevitable vanishes. L…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

A Big Lion in a Small Cage

Emasculation happens in marriage as well. Women are often attracted to the wilder side of a man, but once having caught him they settle down to the t…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Miseries of a Dethroned Monarch

During a long layover at O'Hare, I studied the man who sells popcorn from a little stand in one of the terminal hallways. He sat silently on a stool …

1 month, 3 weeks ago

A Great Relief

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

[Sam]   “We live in the age of information…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Ask For It!

Lest we overlook the obvious, let me take a moment’s pause here to suggest that in your search for more of God, do remember to ask for it.

Such a simp…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Sleepwalking Through Life

John Spillane is a para-rescue jumper sent into the North Atlantic, into the worst storm of the twentieth century, the perfect storm, as the book and…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

All is Forgiven

Let’s come back to Zacchaeus and the town harlot who crashed the party to weep at Jesus’ feet. They were, both of them, very keenly aware of their fa…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Order, Protection, And Blessing

A good king brings order to the realm. God brings order out of chaos at the beginning of creation, and then he hands the project over to Adam to rule…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Created for Mission and Adventure

After God fashioned this dazzling earth, he gave it to us. Which is a bit like giving your fifteen year old the keys to a Maserati. But, he has his w…

2 months ago