Guitars and Theology Podcast

This chat is about going through hard things in a way that helps God access our depths. It's really a talk about intimacy with God.

1  From the depths of despair, O Lord,     I call for your help. 2  Hear my cry, O Lord.     Pay attention to my prayer. 3  Lord, if you kept a record of our sins,     who, O Lord, could ever survive? 4  But you offer forgiveness,     that we might learn to fear you. 5  I am counting on th...

Psalm 91  Those who live in the shelter of the Most High     will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty. 2  This I declare about the Lord: He alone is my refuge, my place of safety;     he is my God, and I trust him. 3  For he will rescue you from every trap     and protect you from deadly disease. 4  He will co...

God, according to Deuteronomy 4:24, is "a devouring fire," yet he invites us to draw near. Let's explore this theme!

When we don't press in to know the Lord, we starve inside. We need to get in touch with our hunger and thirst for God... "I have food to eat that you don't know about...My food is to do the will of Him who sent me." (John 4:32, 34)

This chat was really about surrender and relationship with Jesus. Jeremiah 2:13 “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water." Colossians 2:3 "Christ, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." Acts 4:13 "When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realiz...

This Wednesday Whiteboard is about a voice crying in the wilderness: John the Baptist. But it's also about us. It's about how we are likewise called to come away and find ourselves in God. "And now, by God's grace, I shall become myself." (Kierkegaard)

Vague and generic isn't very powerful. But when we get specific and deal with the nitty gritty, that's when we make headway. Why? Because God is in the details!

So we did. Kind of. And other stuff too.

A short thought on Genesis 41:52, "God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering."

I told this story from 2nd grade to the kids on the way home from school this afternoon.

This very story-driven autobiographical chat is about the reality of God being better than I dared hope. It's based on Psalm 37:4 which invites us to delight in the Lord and he will give us our heart's desires.

It is hard to swim upstream.

And also, what is a good main priority for 2024?

This chat was from Isaiah 9 and 40.

If we don't understand grace, I don't think we will fall in love with God.

This is a chat from the first half of Ephesians 4 about what God is up to in the church. Where we're headed, and how we will get there.

Are supernatural encounters with God few, far between, and inexplicable? Or is God more available, and do we play a part in the equation?

This talk is about a concept Paul expresses repeatedly in 2 Corinthians chapter 10, namely, that of a metron. Did you know you have a metron? Do you know what it is? Are you being faithful in it? How would you discover it? Does it change throughout your life?

In this one, we open up some thorny questions about various causes of illness found in the Bible... We want to avoid all-or-nothing thinking such as thinking ALL sickness, "must be God teaching me a lesson," or "the devil messing with me." While both of those CAN occur, there are many causes of illness in a fallen world. My main takeaway is that Jesus viewed brokenness in the world not as an oppor...

Linda - What scripture are you standing on? Carolyn - Just a tiny bit of faith is enough. Kim - God gives us keys, learn to use them. Cheryl - Tell the whole story, not just the wins. Marc - Know your identity in Christ. Carl - God is about healing the whole person. Stan - No matter what, God is good and I'm all in.

This is a chill conversation with Jacob, who leads the worship band. He's really open and we're a bit random.

"Hey, pastor! When are we gonna get to do the stuff?" "What stuff?" "The stuff Jesus did." "Oh, no we don't do the stuff. He did it. We just study it." "Well that doesn't seem right." It ain't right.

Do we forget? How is forgiveness different from excusing? Is it all at once or as needed? How does forgiveness relate to grief process? AND MORE...

This was last night's "Wednesday Whiteboard" time. I included the prayers so that people might go back and listen again if that's helpful, but I removed anything I felt was not for public consumption.