Let it Die 02.04.2021 12:04

Today we focus on areas of our lives which we've held back from God because, honestly, they're too precious to relinquish. Pastor Tim Keller often refers to the human heart as an idol factory, by which he means that we relentlessly worship the wrong things. We misplace our allegiance, our life's work, our focus, our adoration and – ultimately – the love of our hearts, on things that make us feel s...

Listen Up 26.03.2021 14:30

Despite the fact that our ears work overtime in this age in which so many are competing for our attention, this over-stimulation has actually caused us to listen less versus more and to listen worse versus better . The good news is that listening is a skill that can be learned and re-learned. It can be cultivated simply through intentional practice. Lent is an invitation to quiet ourselves, put aw...

Emptiness: Lenten Gold 17.03.2021 11:19

There's empty and then there's empty . One emptiness leads to death and the other leads to life. Today's episode focuses on a certain woman who emptied herself at the feet of Jesus and found that she was filled with more than she'd ever imagined. She carried the burden of her sin to him, but she carried so much more as well. She carried her worldly possessions, her pride, her reputation, her desi...

Step into God's Reality 12.03.2021 10:40

Lent offers us a beautiful opportunity to have our own oppressed imaginations freed so that we can live in the world of God's salvation. All of the competing realities we forge for ourselves will crush us under their weight. They aren't life-giving, they have no capacity to heal or to hold or to nourish. Those realities only take, they don't give back. God is offering an exchange of reality if we...

A Test of Heart 03.03.2021 11:36

Friend, you and I have choices to make that decide what kind of people we become. We are not unthinking, hapless beings whose destinies are predetermined and outside of our own influence. God has provided us with free will and expects us to use it for goodness and right-ness in this life. God's image implanted in us is at least partially reflected by our ability to choose, to create, and to order....

Congratulations to the Hungry! 27.02.2021 10:12

When is the last time you asked yourself what you really want? Not what you should want or what you used to want or what it seems like you want; but what your heart hungers for most of all? For many of us, we stumble from one thing to the next in life, not remembering why we started down our paths and not quite sure of where we're going. We strive for goals that seemed worthy in the beginning, onl...

Maintaining Love When You're Incompatible 12.02.2021 54:49

Romance is great. Chocolates and flowers are sweet. However, we're living in the real world and, in the real world, true love that lasts a lifetime doesn't always come in pretty packages with neat little bows atop. Join Amber and her husband, Clayton, today as they discuss how they've navigated more than two decades of incompatible marriage and all of God's gold they've found along the way.

Advent: Our Purpose-Giver 25.12.2020 7:52