Conversations With God with Doug Sherman

God isn't just somewhere in the universe, He's present with you, right now, waiting for you to turn your attention to him. In this episode, Doug unpacks one of the most disorienting truths in the Bible: God is not only physically present everywhere in creation, he is relationally present with his children, attentive to everything you're feeling, thinking, and experiencing. We have a friendship wit...

What if God isn't reluctantly answering your prayers — but eagerly waiting for you to ask? In this episode of Conversation Starters with God , Doug focuses on one of the most overlooked attributes of God: his delight in helping his children. Drawing on James 1, 1 John 5:14–15, and the familiar words of "ask and you will receive," Doug makes the case that Scripture doesn't depict a God who tolerate...

Most people think of prayer as a one-way transmission — you talk, God listens. But God is by nature a communicator. John 1 calls Jesus "the Word". Communication is what He is. God is not distracted or disengaged, He's fully present and eager to be heard. Action item: Set alarms for 10am, 4pm, and 8pm. At each one, say: "Thank you, Lord, that you want to speak to me personally." Before bed, reflect...

From the beginning of the Bible to the end, the throughline is the same: God's first thought for humanity was paradise, and his last thought is the best eternity possible. This is a God who said he came to give life, and give it abundantly. Not comfort and control and worldly success, but genuine joy and peace.  The practical shift today is forward-looking. Instead of reviewing what God has done,...

Truth you don't live by isn't really truth, it's just information. If God is good, generous, and a perfect father, but you don't act like it's true, it doesn't matter.  Today's idea: God is infinitely loyal. Not mostly loyal. Not loyal when you've earned it. Infinitely, permanently loyal — never against you, always for you, every second, for all eternity.  Action item: Set alarms for 10am, 4pm, an...

Everything is a gift. The next breath, the chair you're sitting in, the red light that made you three minutes late. When you start tracing the chain of provision behind any ordinary thing, you find a thousand hands, and God behind it all. Most people move through the day cataloging what's wrong. But the secret is to see the events of your life as good gifts, and then you start building something r...

When life is hard, the natural move is to interpret difficulty as evidence that something's gone wrong. But a father who loves his kids doesn't just give them what feels good, He puts them in positions that build them up.  The God described in Romans 11 is infinite in wisdom, inscrutable in judgment, incapable of error and incapable of cruelty to his children. If that's true, then hardship looks d...

The idea we're working with today is this: the most perfect, righteous, infinitely wise being in existence — who hates sin — somehow delights in his children. He doesn't just tolerate us, He delights in us. We'll spend the rest of our lives trying to digest this statement.  The key is identity. When you come to Christ, you become a child of God, and as a child, you're perfect in His sight. Zephani...

Most people picture God as a distant force that started the universe and stepped back. But in fact, God is a real person, with thoughts, feelings, and intentions, made visible through Jesus. And if a perfect father's love is an ocean, the best human father who ever lived doesn't even fill a drop. The more you treat God as a real person you talk to, the more real He becomes to you. Today's episode...

We open our new daily series with a simple premise: talking to God throughout the day — not just quiet time in the morning or night — is what actually changes how the day feels, and grows our relationship with Jesus.  The format: a short daily teaching, an action point (something to say to God at set times during the day), and a nightly reflection on what shifted. Doug has been discipling people i...

Most Christians would say they follow Jesus, but today we're asking a harder question: can you point to any actual evidence of following? In this episode, Doug unpacks Jesus' letter to the church of Laodicea — the famous hot, cold, or lukewarm passage — and reveals why Jesus says He'd rather you be cold than lukewarm. He then walks through one of the most personal invitations in all of Scripture:...

What does an entire day spent with Jesus actually look like? In this episode, Doug walks through his own day as a series of conversations with God — from the first moment his feet hit the floor, through coffee, scripture, the drive, meetings, and lunch. He unpacks the "before, during, and after" rhythm that turns ordinary moments into touchpoints with the Lord, and shows how short, honest prayers...

You've drifted. Maybe it happened over a decade, maybe it happened this afternoon — but the passion you used to have for God has cooled, and you're not sure how you got here. In this episode, Doug makes the case that drift always traces back to one thing: the image of God you actually live by. Not the one you'd say you believe. The one you carry into traffic, into the meeting, into the moment the...

What if the entire Christian life came down to a single question you answer every moment of every day? In this episode, Doug unpacks one of Paul's most central but least talked-about ideas: in any given second, we are either God led or self led. There is no third option. Doug explains why a self led life — what Paul calls "the flesh" — is the worst life possible, even when the world tells us it's...

Most Christians experience God for about 1% of their week — a Sunday service, maybe a few minutes in the morning. Doug Sherman makes the case that this isn't the life God intended. Drawing on Brother Lawrence's Practicing the Presence of God — the most-published Christian book outside the Bible — and passages from Psalm 139, John 15, and Revelation 3:20, Doug unpacks what it looks like to live in...

What does it actually look like to have a real relationship with God — not a religious one, not a moral one, but a genuine, ongoing conversation with him? In this first episode, Doug Sherman shares the story that started it all: a 14-year-old boy on a back step in Indiana, the son of a WWII veteran with deep wounds, who looked out into the woods and saw Jesus — and said the words that would shape...