Podcast Episodes

Spirit Sighs

I had my own tin-foil-brain, fried-soul kind of day. My rescue didn't take place until I had thrashed through most of the calamity. It was the kind o…

2 years, 5 months ago

What Will We Cling To?

Life is a journey of the heart that requires the mind—not the other way around. The church sometimes gets this backward and makes knowing the right t…

2 years, 5 months ago

Loving Others

Love your neighbor, Jesus urged, as you love yourself. (Which, as C. S. Lewis pointed out, is a pretty sick command if we are to hate ourselves.) How…

2 years, 5 months ago

Validation

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

[Sam]  I know so many of us long for words…

2 years, 5 months ago

What Do I Pray?

What do I pray, Lord? What is this about?

Pause. This is a really, really helpful place to begin — to ask God what to pray. I don’t know what’s going…

2 years, 5 months ago

We Are Made For Love

I thought of Jesus’ warning about the end of the age, how as times grow dark and people feel more keenly pressed, love will grow rare. “Nation will r…

2 years, 5 months ago

Until

But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful…

2 years, 5 months ago

Fully Human

I cannot say this more emphatically—life affected Jesus. “We have spread so many ashes over the historical Jesus that we scarcely feel the glow of Hi…

2 years, 5 months ago

Needful of God

We value independence. Mobility. Self-sufficiency. Yay. But we are a dependent people. Dependent on air, food, water. Needful of others. Needful of G…

2 years, 5 months ago

Passivity

One of the saddest of all the sad stories in the history of the people of God comes shortly after the dramatic exodus from Egypt, as they stand on th…

2 years, 5 months ago