Podcast Episodes

Unbelievable

This is the world [God] has made. This is the world that is still going on. And he doesn't walk away from the mess we've made of it. Now he lives, almost cheerfully, certainly heroically, in a dynami…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

A Heart Can Be Pure

According to the Scriptures, the heart can be troubled, wounded, pierced, grieved, even broken. How well we all know that. Thankfully, it can also be cheerful, glad, merry, joyful, rejoicing. The hea…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

What Will You Do In Heaven?

What will we do in heaven? The Sunday comics picture saints lying about on clouds, strumming harps. It hardly takes your breath away. The fact that most Christians have a gut sense that earth is more…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Reward

The biblical canon ends with Jesus making this final statement:

Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done. (Revelation 22:12)

Reward,…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Triumph and Victory

Warfare prayer is not a “back-up” category when all else fails. It is not a specialty form of prayer for the uniquely called or gifted. Yes — there are some who become “experts” in this field, just a…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

We Have a Crucial Role to Play

In this desperate hour we have a crucial role to play. Of all the Eternal Truths we don't believe, this is the one we doubt most of all. Our days are not extraordinary. They are filled with the munda…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

A Model We Can Follow

What Jesus primarily models for us is how to draw our life from the Father. This passage from Philippians — one of the earliest hymns of the faith — says that Jesus more than humbled himself when he …

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

You're His Priority

I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far – I will find you. —Nathaniel to Cora in The Last of the Mohicans

One of my favorite games growing up was "kidnapped and rescued." I kno…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

He Is Our Defender

Mary broke the neck of the jar open and slowly poured some of the perfume on Jesus’s head and then poured the rest on his feet. Then she did something extremely intimate and scandalous. She unbound h…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

What Makes Them Heroes?

That strength so essential to men is also what makes them heroes. If a neighborhood is safe, it's because of the strength of men. Slavery was stopped by the strength of men, at a terrible price to th…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago