Awesome Books About God and Jesus with Uncle Colby

Uncle Colby reads and discusses chapter 21 from Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love. Chapter 21 continues to describe the 8th of Julian's 16 visions. In chapter 21, Julian explains that we are all on the cross co-suffering with Jesus. Uncle Colby discusses what this means for our interactions with our sisters and brothers.

Uncle Colby reads and discusses chapter 20 from Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love. Chapter 20 continues to describe the 8th of Julian's 16 visions. In chapter 20, Julian explains that Jesus willingly absorbed all our pain, suffering and sorry, and that He will one day transform all our pain into eternal joy.

Uncle Colby reads and discusses chapter 19 from Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love. Chapter 19 continues to describe the 8th of Julian's 16 visions. In chapter 19, Julian describes how she chose to keep her gaze upon the Cross and thereby chose Jesus as her heaven. Uncle Colby discusses what it might mean to choose Jesus as our heaven.

Uncle Colby reads and discusses chapter 18 from Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love. Chapter 18 continues to describe the 8th of Julian's 16 visions. In chapter 18, Julian describes how all of creation suffered with Christ during His passion. This tees up a discussion about the call of the Christian to enter into suffering with Christ and with all fellow believers as Christ renews and r...

Uncle Colby reads and discusses chapter 17 from Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love. Chapter 17 continues to describe the 8th of Julian's 16 visions. In chapter 17, Julian offers more details about the suffering she witnessed during the Lord's Passion. Uncle Colby spends most of the episode dissecting the statement that hell is the pain of despair. Note to listeners: this episode discus...

Uncle Colby reads and discusses chapter 16 from Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love. Chapter 16 describes the 8th of Julian's 16 visions. In chapter 16, Julian offers more details about the suffering she witnessed during the Lord's Passion. From this springboard, Uncle Colby explores the idea of the All Vulnerable God.

Special guest Kelly Russell sits down with Uncle Colby to discuss Revelations of Divine Love and to offer her insights on chapter 15. Kelly and Colby talk about the paradox of parallel feelings of pain and peace and what it means to be held securely by God in grace and in grief.

Uncle Colby reads and discusses chapter 14 from Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love. Chapter 14 describes the 6th of Julian's 16 visions. In chapter 14, Julian explains that God offers His eternal gratitude to anyone who spends even a single day in His service. Uncle Colby explores the beautiful truth that God isn't interested in shaming us for the service we don't rende...

Uncle Colby reads and discusses chapter 13 from Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love. Chapter 13 describes the 5th of Julian's 16 visions. In chapter 13, Julian explains that there is no anger in God. Uncle Colby does a deep dive on this profound assertion.

Uncle Colby reads and discusses chapter 12 from Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love. Chapter 12 describes the 4th of Julian's 16 visions. In chapter 12, Julian describes the profuse bleeding from the back of Christ during the Passion and explains that Christ's blood washes us from sin and breaks down the doors of Hell to secure our escape.

Uncle Colby reads and discusses chapter 11 from Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love. Chapter 11 describes the 3rd of Julian's 16 visions. In chapter 11, Julian explains that God is the doer of all that is done. Uncle Colby drills down deeply to discuss what this means and why we can trust God no matter what is happening to or around us.

Uncle Colby reads and discusses chapter 10 from Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love. Chapter 10 describes the 2nd of Julian's 16 visions. In chapter 10, Julian explains God is intent on restoring all of us to the likeness of Jesus. She also celebrates the importance of searching for God, even if we don't always find Him.

Uncle Colby reads and discusses chapter 9 from Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love. Chapter 9 continues to expound on the first of Julian's 16 visions. In chapter 9, Julian explains that the human soul contains all of creation. She talks about the importance of being united in love with our fellow believers. And she illuminates the omni-channel approach that God takes when tryin...

Uncle Colby reads and discusses chapter 8 from Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love. Chapter 8 continues to expound on the first of Julian's 16 visions. In chapter 8, Julian describes six elements of understanding she took form the first of her 16 visions. Among the treasures in this episode is the truth that everything looks tiny when compared to God. Julian also sees that God c...

Uncle Colby reads and discusses chapter 7 from Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love. Chapter 7 continues to expound on the first of Julian's 16 visions. In chapter 7, Julian begins to describe the suffering she saw Jesus endure, which leads to a discussion of how much more painful it is to witness the suffering of our loved ones than it is to suffer ourselves. Uncle Colby also ex...

Uncle Colby reads and discusses chapter 6 from Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love. Chapter 6 continues to expound on the first of Julian's 16 visions. Uncle Colby explores some of the beautiful, mind-blowing ideas she presents. He discusses Julian's observation that God has NO spite towards any of his creations. He also explores the topic of prayer. Rather than being a time...

Uncle Colby reads and discusses chapter 5 from Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love. Chapter 5 continues to expound on the first of Julian's 16 visions. Uncle Colby explores some of the beautiful, mind-blowing ideas she presents. He discusses the idea that God's love embraces and protects us as if it is the skin of our souls. He talks about the fact that God's love is the...

Uncle Colby reads and discusses chapters 3 and 4 from Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love. Chapter 3 outlines the physical illness that took Julian to the brink of death and the miraculous beginnings of her 16 visions as a priest held the Crucifix in front of her. Chapter 4 recounts the initial parts of the first of her 16 visions, including God as the eternal source of love and joy...

Uncle Colby reads and comments on chapter 2 from Revelations of Divine Love. In this chapter, Julian of Norwich explains that she carried three wishes in her heart preceding the visions that God showed her. Among those three wishes was an intense desire to see the Passion of Christ and to know more intimately the pains He experienced. In his commentary, Uncle Colby explores the importance of our p...

Uncle Colby reads and discusses chapter 1 from Revelations of Divine Love. In this short chapter, Julian of Norwich provides an overview of the 16 visions God showed her that are described and explained in the remainder of the book. Among the many tantalizing nuggets in chapter 1, we find this: "...we are all, every single one of us, kept perfectly secure in love during both the good times an...

Uncle Colby explains the basic framework and reasons for the podcast. In season 1 of the podcast, Uncle Colby will guide listeners through a study of the book Revelations of Divine Love written by Julian of Norwich. He explains in this first episode how Julian can help people find greater peace and develop a healthier understanding of and relationship with God. He shares a bit about his own spirit...