Podcast Episodes

The Whole Box of Chocolates

Everything in you may be saying, “But you don’t understand. I want to eat that whole box of chocolates (or sleep with my boyfriend, or let my anger really fly). That’s what really seems like life to …

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Goes on Ahead of Them

“I tell you the truth, the man who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. The man who enters by the gate is the shepherd of his sheep. The…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Nothing is Lost

Let me take you back now to the last cup of tea, Luke’s parting, and the ending of our family’s childhood era. It was the Saturday of his high school graduation. We had been through two others before…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Some Larger Way

The Road goes ever on and on
 Down from the door where it began.
 Now far ahead the Road has gone,
 And I must follow, if I can,
 Pursuing it with eager feet,
 Until it joins some larger way. (J. R. R. To…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Standing On My Own

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

[Sam]  One of the best feelings I had as a young man was cutting the ties I had to you and Mom…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Restoration

Look at the life of Jesus. Notice what he did. When Jesus touched the blind, they could see; all the beauty of the world opened before them. When he touched the deaf, they were able to hear; for the …

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Our Fiery Ordeal

Flames are licking all around us, aren’t they? All the time. Saint Peter describes our life here on this earth as a “fiery ordeal” (1 Peter 4:12). Tragedies and heartache and pressures and illnesses …

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

God Through All Creation

The secret of happiness is this: God is the love you are longing for. 

We live in a love story. We are created for romance and we have an insatiable capacity for it. Now, God gave us such a heart; it…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

He's Out For Your Best

Jesus kept coming back to this central issue, over and over, driving at it in his teachings, his parables, his penetrating questions. If you look again, through the lens that most of us feel fundamen…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

We Have Lost Our Story

And here's where we run into a problem.

For most of us, life feels like a movie we've arrived at forty-five minutes late.

Something important seems to be going on ... maybe. I mean, good things do happ…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago