Episodes
6 days ago
Romans Part 12 Paul Makes His Arguments
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My prayer is that you might come to know that your experience of God's love is real and it is powerful and it is something that no one can ever separate you from. Because the Spirit is within you, even NOW - offering God's righteousness for you to trust. Paul wants us to understand his arguments, but more than that, he wants us to encounter God.
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Abraham Part 2 Abram Went
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God is gracious, God is forgiving, God welcomes us back every single time, but if we start to assume that the ends justify the means, that our privilege, however we got it, who ever we took it from, is some how God's will for us. Then we have drastically misinterpreted the story. Mature faith is about you and God in concert.
Friday Apr 12, 2024
Romans Part 11 The Law That Requires Faith
Friday Apr 12, 2024
Friday Apr 12, 2024
Here's what I think Paul would say to you. "Work hard and don't give up. Put your trust in the fact that you are already loved far more deeply that you can possibly imagine. Once you can allow that to sink somewhere deep into your bones and live from that acceptance, it will inevitably find its way out through your life given enough time. Because that is the Law that requires Faith!"
Friday Apr 12, 2024
Abraham Part 1 Your Yes Needs a No
Friday Apr 12, 2024
Friday Apr 12, 2024
Here God could have very easily come to Abram and said "Go to the place I will show you, trust me, have faith, do it." But, the first thing that God says to Abram when he pulls him out of this place of waiting is "Leave behind what you know so that I can take you somewhere new."
Friday Apr 05, 2024
Holy Week 2024 Sunday Morning He Is Risen
Friday Apr 05, 2024
Friday Apr 05, 2024
Resurrection Day Jesus is Tempted, betrayed, condemned, mocked, given His cross, stripped naked, nailed to the cross, he dies and is buried. The morning begins with tears but....He is RISEN!
Friday Apr 05, 2024
Friday Apr 05, 2024
Holy Week 2024 Sunday Evening
Friday Apr 05, 2024
Friday Apr 05, 2024
When we choose control over trust and we give in to power instead of being vulnerable and open, then we miss the point of Palm Sunday. Any spirituality, even one that promotes peace and love and yet makes room for violence and power in pursuit of it's goals will devolve into the game of power that Jesus refuses to play on Palm Sunday.
Friday Apr 05, 2024
Holy Week 2024 Sunday Morning Parable of the Hard Man
Friday Apr 05, 2024
Friday Apr 05, 2024
Jesus seems to say, Yes, you need to plan, but the only thing you can ever really plan for is the fact that you will fall asleep, you will miss read the signs, in fact, you will only ever get into God's party because of the grace of God.
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Romans Part 10 At One Ment
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Friday Mar 22, 2024
For Paul, salvation is not just a transaction between you and God, where you believe the right things and he saves you because of it. For Paul, salvation is a dynamic relationship where you come to understand that God is faithful to you, and you learn to trust in him because you believe that he is faithful.
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Parables of Grace Part 9 The 10 Lepers and Vultures
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Death is all of the resurrection we can now know - the rest is faith! Wherever the corpses are, this old vulture's going to find them and raise them up!