Lift Up Your Hearts Podcast

Send us Fan Mail The first public outing with the Disciples and Jesus performs a miracle. What would that do to your faith? Did you need anymore more evidence? What's going on in your heart after you just started to follow Jesus?  Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail The Baptism of Jesus was for you and for me that would could partake in His very life and to make us sons and daughters through our Baptism.  Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail Are you seeking? Am I seeking? Or am I missing it? Contemplate with me as we journey with the "Wise Men" on the way to Jesus. Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail What would it feel like to lose Jesus for 3 days? or what would it be like to be his step dad for 30 years? Join me as I pray about all of these questions.  Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail Merry Christmas. This is one of my favorite passages to contemplate. The Angels announce, for the first time in history, to shepherds the Good News.  Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail Ever wonder what the journey was like for Mary when she heard the news of Jesus and then traveled to her cousin Elizabeth? And then what went through her heart when she hears the joy that Elizabeth has when she sees her. Come with me as I pray through these journeys.  Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail Even those who have no fruits of goodness are open to what John the Baptist has to offer. They even ask what they must do to change their ways. What must I do to change my ways and inherit the kingdom? Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail John the Baptist is given a mission by God to prepare the way for His Son Jesus and what does he do? Cleaver preaching? Incredible wisdom that no-one has ever heard? No, forgiveness of sins.  Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail Jesus addresses the disciples during Holy Week about a reality that we all experience. Our hearts become dull or drowsy from the anxieties of daily life.  Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail Pilot struggles with Jesus being a king and what type of kingdom he is about. what if you were there to hear this conversation?  Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail Jesus tells of a great urgency and the signs of his second coming. Are you ready? Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail Today Jesus helps me examine my life while He teaches, but I have to let Him. Do I really give everything or do I give out of my extras for Him? Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail Jesus is tested by the leaders and His answer quiets all the testing. Meditate with me this week.  Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail You are stuck, blind and in need of healing. You cry out to Jesus in desperation. He hears your cry and calls you to Him. He asks you what you want Him to do for you. What do you say? how does it feel? How does he embrace you? Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail This week the Sons of Thunder do something that the other disciples get pretty upset about. But what does Jesus do? How does he react? Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail This podcast is an example of why I do this type of prayer. I need to dive in to see what the Lord has in store for me. And He never disappoints. Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail I can really relate to this passage, but it might not be for the reasons that you think. Jesus asks a question that he knows is the answer and the disciples, seeming too ashamed, are silent. I've been there, caught red handed in my shame. Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail You are on a walk with Jesus and your buddies and He turns to you and says "Who do you say that I am?" What do you say? Who is He to you today? A regular question about everyone else is a demanding question from Jesus.  Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail I always want a protocol for life and a hack to make something easier, but that isn't always the case with God. Just accepting His love is a struggle. I think I can figure it out instead of just receive it. Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail Jesus challenges not only the Pharisees, but the disciples seem challenged by this teaching. Does it challenge you? How do you react when Jesus challenges you? Weekly readings commentary from Dr. Peter Kraft https://bookstore.wordonfire.org/products/food-for-the-soul-cycle-b Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail Peter gives me confidence today. What is your reaction when you hear something convicting from Jesus or anyone else? Walk away? Do you have the same reaction as Peter? Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail Jesus says some radical things this week. What. is going on in your own. heart. as you hear them? Do you believe immediately? Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail When sin comes into the world it wasn't God who started hiding from man, but it was man who started hiding from God. The same is true today with me. Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail The crowds seem to be a little dense in this scripture passage. What would it feel like if you were one of the disciples who were also frustrated with their lack of faith and then you turn to see Jesus and remember all the times He was patient and merciful with you in your lack of faith?  Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday r...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus multiplies a small amount of bread and fish to feed five thousand, but what did it mean for just one family? What did it mean for the disciples to witness? What did it mean for those who hadn't eaten in weeks and were looking to Jesus for a sign of hope? Books on how to pray by Fr. Timothy Gallagher: Meditation and Contemplation: An Ignatian Guide to Praying with Script...