Podcast Episodes

Hitting Your Full Stride

We haven’t yet seen anyone in their true glory. Including you.

Yes, Mozart did start writing symphonies as a child, and Picasso could draw before he could talk. But most human beings are profoundly t…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

To Recapture Your Heart

And then the long story of God's pursuit of humanity begins. Satan wanted center stage: He wanted to be the main character, he wanted to be the point. His plan now is to ruin the Sacred Romance, to g…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

A Dangerous Story

This is a world at war. We live in a far more dramatic, far more dangerous story than we ever imagined. The reason we love The Chronicles of Narnia or Star Wars or The Matrix or The Lord of the Rings…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Madman and the Family Silver

I am sitting on the beach this evening, watching the swells roll in toward me. Each wave builds as it approaches, ascending, taking shape, deep greens below sweeping upward into translucent aquamarin…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

An Identity We Received

Identity is not something that falls on us out of the sky. For better or for worse, identity is bestowed. We are who we are in relation to others. But far more important, we draw our identity from ou…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Honor Wounds

You will be wounded. Just because this battle is spiritual doesn't mean it's not real; it is, and the wounds a man can take are in some ways more ugly than those that come in a firefight. To lose a l…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Eyes of the Heart

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Suspended Over Pits

When we were young, most of us loved adventure. There is something about the unknown that draws us, which is why we like stories so much. But I like to leave the theater at the end of the play, knowi…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Quietness of Our Hearts

God is not “out there somewhere” in some dramatic way, waiting to commune with us by earthquake or fire or signs in the sky. Instead, he desires to talk with us in the quietness of our own heart thro…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Death Is Never Natural

In the years that followed the Fall and our exile from Eden, mankind got worse and worse. Cain killed Abel; Lamech threatened to kill everybody else. The wickedness of the human heart seemed out of c…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago