Podcast Episodes

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…

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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, 7 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, 7 months ago

Not Our Destiny

Sometimes we feel hopeless to ever change simply because our personal history is filled with our failed attempts to change. Where was that angel who …

2 years, 7 months ago

A Journey Towards Heaven

Where do we go from here? "This life," wrote Jonathan Edwards, "ought to be spent by us only as a journey towards heaven." That's the only story wort…

2 years, 7 months ago

Nakedness Indeed

The deeper reason we fear our own glory is that once we let others see it, they will have seen the truest us, and that is nakedness indeed. We can re…

2 years, 7 months ago

Union With God

Believing in God is not the same thing as union with God. Doing various God — activities is not the same as union with God. Obeying God isn’t necessa…

2 years, 7 months ago

Do Not Give Way to Fear

Do not give way to fear. (1 Peter 3:6)

The reason we fear to step out is because we know that it might not go well (is that an understatement?). We h…

2 years, 7 months ago

We Need Life

Christianity is often presented as essentially the transfer of a body of knowledge. We learn about where the Philistines were from, and how much a dr…

2 years, 7 months ago

Beauty That Cannot Be Captured

We long for beauty, and when the biblical writers speak of heaven, they use the most beautiful imagery they can. You can almost hear the agony of the…

2 years, 7 months ago