Finding Our Way

From the transcript... He was a judge, all this kind of stuff. And Jesus says, yeah. He said, you've heard that. That's conclusion of the Old Testament. Then he said, but I say to you. He establishes a new order. The king steps up and says, yeah, that's what you've heard. That's where you've been until now. But now I'm just going to tell you how it really is. Then he says, I say to you, love your...

From the transcript... Myself, in particular, I feel like my theology and beliefs—not just biblical, but beliefs in life in general—I’ve always been in a flux, you know, because I’m experiencing life and hopefully I’m learning better. Yeah, that’s… but that’s always been the way. I think sometimes we think when we’re children going to school and we’re learning, there’s an illusion that when I get...

From the transcript... See that vintage cap I got? That thing had to be made in the ’80s. Zach got two big old bags of caps that this guy from Cotton Valley had collected over the years. That was one of them. I don’t like the way this cap wears. Yeah? But that’s not the reason I’m wearing it. You’re just rubbing it in—2019 national champions. You’re just rubbing it in. It gets kind of flat on your...

From the transcript... Here’s your text with all timestamps and markers removed: Is the spiritual union another union? A union in addition to our carnal union with Christ? Or is it a sharing in the one and only union between God and man brought out in Jesus Christ? This is a very important question, for if the spiritual union is an additional union, then our salvation depends not only on the finis...

From the transcript... In Ephesians 1 and 7, since we're now joined to Christ, we've been given the treasures of redemption by His blood—the total cancellation of our sins—all because of the cascading riches of His grace. Okay, the total cancellation of sins. Sounds like John the Baptist: “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.” Well, you know John preached that, but do we re...

From the transcript... Yeah, I was taught that He chose those whom He foreknew. He knew who was going to believe—that was His foreknowledge. Therefore, He chose those. I’m just telling you what I was taught. I’ve heard that before. Yeah, that’s an Arminian view of it. Yeah, it was a twisted Arminian view. But that’s so skewed. Well, I’m just saying—the whole conversation was that it’s because of H...

From the transcript... It’s like—we read through all these translations. We started with the New King James, of course, and I was raised on the old King James. That language, and the discussions I heard about these verses, shaped a whole lot of my original belief system. But as time has gone on, and I’ve studied and followed the Lord, I began to change what I was originally taught or believed abou...

From the transcript... I got William Barclay. I like William Barclay. Barclay’s good. Barclay’s good. Let me read it. I wasn’t going to, but—well, no, no, no, I got it. There was a reason I brought it. You’ve got to hear what he says. Ephesians 1 (William Barclay Translation) This is a letter from Paul, who became an apostle of Jesus Christ because God willed it so. To God’s consecrated people in...

From the transcript... We got a beautiful day. It’s nice and shady right here. So I want to read it out of the New King James. Are you going to read more than one translation? Yeah. But you’re going to start with the New King James? Yeah. Okay. You want me to read one? Because that’s what everybody’s used to. Read them first 11 verses. In the New King James? That’s what that is. Oh, I thought you...

From the transcript... I can remember when I was eight years old. I can remember going back—I don’t know if you remember Whisperer Pines Church—go back behind the baptististry, behind the choir loft back there, Sunday school. Step in that little hallway, that first room to the right. Sitting in a chair there beside my mama, and Brother Leon was on his knees, squatting before me, talking to me abou...

In this episode Larry and James talk about the victory of Jesus in history. From the transcript... But the Lord orchestrated the events of getting this book to print. The title of it is Before Time, Our Origin in Christ. My good friend Andrew Maui helped me put this together and got me started down that road. And the Lord just, boom, put it out there. even try it wasn't even anything i was it was...

In this episode Larry and James continue the conversation about hope. From the transcript... I hope you're having a wonderful day. Enjoying all that Papa has for you today. I wanted to take this time to ask you to join me in celebrating. Man, I like to celebrate. I just celebrated. Ha! Woo! I just celebrated my birthday here. This is the first part of this month. I almost told you how old I am. I'...

In this episode James and Larry meander around the concept of hope. From the transcript... I just wanted to jump in here and say thanks for tuning in. Hope you're being blessed by our conversations. Ask you to reach out to us. I'd like to hear from you. Finding our way. You can find where the show is, all of our podcasts, YouTube, everything's there. We've got a little blog. There's a place that s...

In this episode Larry and James share various experiences and thoughts regarding validation. From the transcript... I'm just saying, there's the wide open spaces—fields of grace. Ooh, living in my Father's face. I'm telling you, son, mess around here and I'll get on pace with the Holy Ghost and say something. Tapped into your poetic self. Yeah, yeah. We'll be dancing. Anyway, we can walk down thro...

In this episode Larry and James discuss the purpose of God and His goodness displayed. From the transcript... I was thinking about that passage you read earlier when Jesus was baptized. I don't even know what I can say about it, other than the Father, verbally to John the Baptist and those who could hear, said, This is my beloved Son, in whom—or in Him—I am well pleased. That's Jesus’ beginning, a...

In this episode Larry and James talk about King Jesus. From the transcript... I think we're good. So you don't want that book? What book? That book. No. I'm good. We are ready to go. Do we have… What were we going to talk about? Oh, I don't know. Oh, I was just going to say, I did… coming down, I… listened to that guy and talked to Ronnie. I ain't got nothing. I mean, we're going to start this day...

In this episode Larry and James discuss ultimate reality and the life that is ours now. From the transcript... Yeah, think about it. I'm going to read these two verses. Remember I told you I was reading Ephesians when I wrote this. I'm going to read these two verses and you tell me what it says that we have to do so that we can somehow or another get in on that. Every spiritual blessing in the hea...

In this episode Larry and James talk about our now new relationship to God. From the transcript...We’ve got a freedom in Christ. We don’t know what to do with our freedom. We’ll get a reset. We don’t know what to do with the reset. Everything I ever thought about how it was has been wrong. I’m having to relearn it all, and some of that’s been a slow wrangle. How do you operate without a hierarchy...

In this episode Larry and James discuss life in the kingdom of God. From the transcript...Unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away, their minds were hardened. For until this day, the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ, the law. I see wha...

In this episode Larry and James talk about living life in the kingdom of God, NOW! From the transcript... I am fascinated by the number of things that come up in our mind when we do stuff like that. Contrary to what we're attempting to do, it seems to be all the reasons why you can't. Oh, yeah. Which is adversarial thoughts. Mm-hmm. You can use that phrase. Yep. Yep. When the truth is, everything...

In this episode Larry and James discuss living life in relationship to our Father. From the transcript... Well, for me, when I even hear what's the metrics of relationship, I just stiffen and bristle. Yeah, it's rules. Yeah. It's a law of language. But I don't know how to have conversations that don't end up there or that doesn't use those terms. I guess that's what Jesus said. A good teacher, he...

From the transcript... Well, for me, when I even hear "what's the metrics of relationship," I just stiffen and bristle. Yeah, it's rules. Yeah. It’s a law kind of language. But I don't know how to have conversations that don't end up there, or that don’t use those terms. I guess that's what Jesus said—a good teacher brings out of his treasure things old and new. I’ve got a lot of that old law lang...

From the transcript... So, I grew up talking about this self-giving God. Yeah. Eternally dead to the possibility of choosing anything other. How do we learn to walk in that, to walk with Him? Well, one, we're just now waking into the fact that that's who He really is. And then two, we realize that we're made in that same image. But because He's given us this agency of choice… yeah. Am I going to a...

In this episode Larry and James talk about the nature of love. From the transcript... Well, yeah, he was talking about, like, God's—primal self. Yeah, that's the way he said it. Here we go. Let's see. A self desires to please itself, to express itself, and so on. How does God, the primal self, do that? Yeah. He says here—yeah, that's his words—by the begetting of his Son to be the object of his lo...

In this episode Larry and James discuss the celebration that has already started! From the transcript... Matthew 7, 24: Therefore, whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock. That's a conclusion to the Sermon on the Mount. He hears and does. We're talking about hearing—learning to hear from God. We've got to talk about doing wh...