Podcast Episodes

The True You

“What people think of me” is a very powerful motivator. It is still shaping us more than we’d like to admit. It shapes our theology, our politics, our values.

Do any of us go through one entire day be…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Someone to Fight For

There is nothing so inspiring to a man as a beautiful woman. She’ll make you want to charge the castle, slay the giant, leap across the parapets. Or maybe, hit a home run.

A man wants to be the hero t…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

The Crown of Creation

God sets his own image on the earth. He creates a being like himself. He creates a son. The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and …

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Selective Morality

I knew a man who was fired from his job at a Christian high school because one of the church elders saw him purchasing cigarettes at the local grocery store. They canned him, even though he was the b…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

The One Minute Pause

I have a practice that has become an absolute lifesaver: The One Minute Pause.

I simply take sixty seconds to be still and let everything go.

As I enter the pause, I begin with release. I let it all go…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

This Is Our Future

It's the great company at the party in Titanic that brings such happy tears. It's the boys making it safely home in Apollo 13. It's Maximus reunited with his family. So the fellowship finds Gandalf a…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

We Must Slow Down

We cannot control what God, the Romancer, is up to, but there is a posture we can take. There is an openness to this stage that will enable us to recognize and receive the wooing. So let me ask—are y…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

The Heart of God Is Good

The coming of Jesus of Nazareth was like the opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan. A dangerous mission, a great invasion, a daring raid into enemy territory, to save the free world, but also to save…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Made Perfect

Just as we are now like the earthly man, we will someday be like the heavenly man. (1 Corinthians 15:49 NLT)

You’ll be made perfect. Finally, the totality of your being will be saturated only with goo…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

God is Meant to be Our All

“The sorrows of our lives are in great part his weaning process. We give our hearts over to so many things other than God. We look to so many other things for life. I know I do. Especially the very g…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago