Podcast Episodes

Your First Hope

When our hopes are in their proper places, attached to the right things, not only do we flourish better as human beings, but we are rescued from a th…

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An Invitation to Desire

This may come as a surprise to you: Christianity is not an invitation to become a moral person. It is not a program for getting us in line or for ref…

3 years, 2 months ago

What Is God Up To?

Several years ago I went through one of the most painful trials of my professional life. The story involves a colleague whom I will call Dave, a man …

3 years, 2 months ago

Have a Story Worth Telling

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

[John]   I was watching a remarkable documen…

3 years, 2 months ago

Reason and Emotion

The mind takes in and processes information. But it remains, for the most part, indifferent. It is your mind that tells you it is now 2:00 A.M. and y…

3 years, 2 months ago

The Self Life

Talking about the Self Life is a difficult thing to do, because there are teachings that sound very righteous and holy, which basically say that anyt…

3 years, 2 months ago

Re-Created You

And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven like a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. I heard a loud shout…

3 years, 2 months ago

What Would You Like To Do First?

Christ is not joking when he says that we shall inherit the kingdom prepared for us and we shall reign with him forever. We will take the position fo…

3 years, 2 months ago

Intended for Pleasure

But doesn't Christianity condemn desire — the Puritans and all that? Not at all. Quite the contrary. Christianity takes desire seriously — far more s…

3 years, 2 months ago

The Wife of the Lamb

It all begins with a couple. Not some hero standing alone against the rising tide of the world. A marriage. A man and a woman, given to one another a…

3 years, 2 months ago