Guitars and Theology Podcast

Problems don't mean you lack faith. Pain might be helpful. What really brings us to God? We all have feet of clay. Is following Jesus incompatible with military service? Loyal or just complacent? Trauma can shift our worldview.

"No one takes my life from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down , and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father ." (John 10:18)

5 I was circumcised when I was eight days old. I am a pure-blooded citizen of Israel and a member of the tribe of Benjamin—a real Hebrew if there ever was one! I was a member of the Pharisees, who demand the strictest obedience to the Jewish law. 6 I was so zealous that I harshly persecuted the church. And as for righteousness, I obeyed the law without fault. 7 I once thought these things were val...

Don't stuff your tears. Don't dump your tears. Sow your tears.

This is a NO condemnation gospel.

In the midst of our pain, God doesn't merely send answers. He sends love in the flesh to be with us. This chat is about embodied pain, love, and spirituality centering on the meaning of the incarnation and the cross.

This is a guided meditation on loss and the restoration of hope based on Ezekiel 37.

At the core of our faith is forgiveness, with a view to restoring true heart to heart intimacy with God.

Here are some books that shaped my faith in Christ and why I find them helpful.

In a disposable world where we discard and replace, the gospel brings us a Father who is willing to put in the work to restore us because of our value. So what's the measure of your worth? The cross. You are worth the blood of Jesus.

Sometimes anger is the first response when hope is rebooting to come back online. This is about 2 Kings chapter 4.

"God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom." (1 Corinthians 1:21)

When we pray God does something he wouldn't have done if we hadn't prayed. In Amos 7 we see that the prophet changed God's mind. What do we need to get started? 1. A time 2. A place 3. Words The talk with a great story of an unlikely answer to prayer.

Tonight we simply laid hands on each other and asked God to fill each other with His presence, peace, and love.

Stop, look, listen, write

My friend Wayne once told me that most of us live our whole Christian life in the wilderness after we're rescued out of Egypt. We don't cross over the Jordan and enter in to the promised land. This sermon is about crossing over and entering in.

Is faith certainty or is it more like walking a path of surrender in response to the call of the beckoning mystery encoded into life itself?

The kingdom of death has no rightful claim on the kingdom of life. Yet much of the time we live from the wrong story - the facts of our life instead of the Truth.

I am chosen I am blessed I am broken I am given

We are to love and to be loved. We need love, desperately. This is not a flaw. This is God's design. Receiving healthy love gives healthy identity. Not receiving healthy love damages identity, creating so many issues that drive us in life.

What's the best part of Easter Sunday? We get him back.

When we say "Christ died to save sinners," what do we mean? What are we saved for? What are we saved from? How does his death save us? Really, this message is about God's love.

When we know whose we are, then we know who we are, and why we are. Then we finally have a stable place to stand. Who am I? I am God's dearly beloved son, who brings him great pleasure.

Psalm 104 and God's total emotional openness to his entire creation.

I can't stand those kinds of people Everyone's got problems There but for the grace of God go I There go I