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We’re (sort of) continuing our newest series today on healing with a sermon I recently preached at First Trinity Presbyterian Church. I’m on vacation but I didn’t want to leave y’all hanging.  It’s all about a story from Numbers that, to me at least, proves how important it is that we heal and heal from our wounds. I hope you’ve enjoyed the start to this new series. Tell someone about it and if yo...

We’re continuing our newest series today on healing with a short story with a big message from the Gospel of Mark. I hope you’ve enjoyed the start to this new series. Tell someone about it and if you like it, leave a review wherever you listen. Thanks for listening! Don’t forget to leave a rating or a review of God Knows Where wherever you listen and help others find the show by sharing it with th...

We’re continuing our newest series today on healing with a look at a story that almost has too much healing for one story. But then again, can there ever be too much healing? Especially today? I hope you’ve enjoyed the start to this new series. Tell someone about it and if you like it, leave a review wherever you listen. Thanks for listening! Don’t forget to leave a rating or a review of God Knows...

Let's start our conversation about healing with an incredibly simple question Jesus asks: "Do you want to be made well?" It's a great questions but it's not where I thought we'd start until I realized there was nowhere else we could begin. Thanks for listening! Don’t forget to leave a rating or a review of God Knows Where wherever you listen and help others find the s...

As much as we're crying out for rest, I think we're clamoring even more for healing. Too often, I've found we're searching for healing from wounds caused by the one place we're supposed find wholeness: The Church. Of the 26 different stories of healing from Jesus that appear 48 times across the four gospels, it's hard to find a single one where Jesus isn't respon...

The way we read the stories in our tradition matters. And there's one story that we read (or don't) out of order to how it was intended. If we think about it in order it can help us remember how important sabbath is for us and everything around us. Hope you enjoy! Thanks for listening! Don’t forget to leave a rating or a review of God Knows Where wherever you listen and help others find...

We’re sticking with Jesus today in what I’d argue is the most beautiful example of why Sabbath exists that we have in our tradition. And it comes in the face of the worst interpretation I can think of. Hope you enjoy! Thanks for listening! Don’t forget to leave a rating or a review of God Knows Where wherever you listen and help others find the show by sharing it with them. Follow God Knows Where:...

We’ve got two stories today, one from Exodus and one from Jesus, about the thing that makes it hardest for us to rest: worry. Take from me, a professional worrier, I think we all need these stories to remind us that we can rest because we have enough.  Thanks for listening! Don’t forget to leave a rating or a review of God Knows Where wherever you listen and help others find the show by sharing it...

As we continue looking at slowing down. Regrounding. At Sabbath, we’re going to do what I think you all may have thought we’d look at last week and go back to the beginning. To the first Sabbath. Because I think we’ve been reading it incorrectly… hope you enjoy! Thanks for listening! Don’t forget to leave a rating or a review of God Knows Where wherever you listen and help others find the show by...

We’re back today with an all new episode looking at sabbath! I don’t know about you but the last of month of the year was an absolute sprint for me. So here at the beginning of the year, I want to look at slowing down and returning to a more stable pace of life. We’re not going to start our look at Sabbath on the seventh day, that first day God rested, but many, many years later on a day when the...

The society we live in throws relentless demands upon us every day. Demands on our time. Demands on our minds. Demands on our bodies. And too often we don’t know how to fight back, so we give in, giving up our time and our minds and our bodies to these demands and leaving little to no time for anything else, especially finding the rhythm and renewal we can only find with God. But our tradition tea...

One year ago today, the first episodes of God Knows Where were published and what a year it's been! Today, we're revisiting not the most listened to or best or most tlaked about episode of God Knows Where, but one I think we all need to remember as the days are still short and January can feel like it goes on forever... New episodes all about sabbath coming to you soon! Follow God Knows...

Today, we're revisiting the most listened to episode of God Knows Where. I think when you listen to it again (or for the first time...) you'll see why more folks listened to this episode than any other. It's all about how we choose to respond when someone asks us for help. People asked Jesus for help all the time and his response was consistent regardless of the request. What might...

Merry Christmas! Hope you and yours had a wonderful day yesterday. As I spend time with my family here’s my take on what the Christmas story is all about. Enjoy! DON'T FORGET! You can leave us a rating or review wherever you're listening to the show! And tell a friend about God Knows Where too! Follow God Knows Where: Instagram Facebook Follow Good Faith Media: Facebook Instagram Scriptu...

As we're winding ever closer Christmas and we're still #drawingoutadvent over on the Premium Feed,  here's another story of folks who are coming or going home on their way to Bethlehem. These shepherds in today's story, though, don't stay home once they get there...they've got sheep to graze. For what it’s worth, these stories figure prominently into Drawing Out Adven...

As we continue to wind our way to Christmas and we #drawoutadvent over on the Premium Feed, we'll keep looking at stories of folks who are coming or going home on their way to Bethlehem. Last week it was Elizabeth. This week it's Mary and Joseph. I know. I know. We're skipping ahead of where we are on Drawing Out Advent...so if you want to go slower, make sure you follow the links b...

As we wind our way to Christmas and we #drawoutadvent over on the Premium Feed, we'll keep looking at stories of folks who are coming or going home on their way to Bethlehem. Last week it was Zechariah. This week it's Elizabeth. For what it’s worth, these stories figure prominently into Drawing Out Advent , the series I’ve created with Adam Trest and Thomas Steinwinder for this season. G...

Today's episode of Drawing Out Advent is all about those folks who were waiting and hoping all those years ago and how they expected God’s messiah to come as a powerful ruler, a king, a mighty warrior who would free them and lead them out of the darkness and into a brighter future, but then God did something completely unexpected. Watch Adam Trest continue to draw out the Christmas story HERE...

We’ll begin our story, like Luke’s, with people just like you and me who assumed a lot about who God was and what God was doing in the world. Many assumed that God would soon send someone, a messiah, and as the years passed and one never came, they could have lost hope. But they didn't. Their hope swelled. Watch Adam Trest continue to draw out the Christmas story HERE . Don't miss out on...

Today’s episode is a bridge in many ways. It’s one more story, the last story we’ll look at it in this series of ones we overlook and avoid for a while, and it brings us nicely into the season of Advent. It’s the story of Zechariah learning he’ll soon be the father of John the Baptist. And for what it’s worth, it’s a story that will figure prominently into Drawing Out Advent , the series I’ve crea...

Today's episode of Drawing Out Advent is all about where the Christmas story begins and why the way it's told helps us remember why it matters. Watch Adam Trest begin to draw out the Christmas story HERE . Drawing Out Advent, a production of God Knows Where , is written and produced by Brett Harris with video and illustrations by Adam Trest and original music by Thomas Steinwinder . Supp...

For years my family has used an Advent calendar to mark the days leading up to Christmas. Some have been simple countdowns and others brought to you by Lego, but we’ve always struggled to find a telling of the Christmas story to spark a conversation with our boys at the breakfast or dinner table. So I decided, I’d write one. And I want to share it with you. I want to draw this story out, one littl...

We’re starting to wind down this series on the stories we avoid, the scriptures we don’t read in Church, and we’re staying with John’s gospel. The closing verses of it to be exact for the snark filled and strangely pointed conversation between Jesus and Peter. If you listened to last week’s episode, you know I teased more about the upcoming Advent project I’m putting together with my friends Adam...

We’re turning back to the gospels today to a story I have absolutely no idea why we don't read in Church. The Gospel of John in particular for a little conversation between Jesus and his disciples with profound meaning for how we navigate the seasons of life. It’s going to be a bit shorter than normal (I don’t hear you complaining about that…), and there’s a reason. I wanted to take some time...

As we continue walking trough stories we never read in church, we’re going to wander through Ezra’s story today. It was surprising to me to see this book never comes up in the lectionary. Let me know what you think and if you start tapping the steering wheel or singing along to today’s pop culture reference. You've Never Read This," is a new series from God Knows Where looking at stories...