Hidden In Plain Sight

The first question God asks Adam after his fall is “Where are you?” (Genesis 3). And the final desire of Jesus is that we would be “with Him where He is” (John 17). In this episode, we trace the Bible’s “where” storyline, from hiding in Eden to dwelling with Christ. We also identify the wound many feel today: spiritual dislocation. Then we end with a simple “Where am I?” 7 Day prayer practice and...

Bread is showing up at midnight again. In this episode, we walk line upon line through Luke 11:5–13, the parable of the Friend at Midnight, and face a humbling truth: sometimes the people we love come hungry… and we have no bread to give. But that’s not failure. It’s an invitation. With help from St. Augustine and other Early Church voices, we learn why the prayer before “Fill me” is often “Empty...

What if the fear of God isn’t fear of lightning… but fear of losing the Friend? In this episode of Philos, we step into Gethsemane and explore the difference between proximity and communion—the kiss of betrayal versus the kiss of devotion. From Matthew 15:8 (“their heart is far from Me”) to Peter’s restoration under the look of Jesus, you’ll receive a simple closing practice: The Gethsemane Rule:...

The Finished Work and the Unfinished Walk: Grace, Union, and the Theology of Excuses Jesus’ work is finished, but our walk with Him is not. In this episode, I talk about how a subtle “theology of excuses” can creep in… turning finished work and union into reasons to lay our armor on the side of the road. We’ll look at Philippians 2 and John 15, listen to the early Fathers on synergy, and explore w...

Fasting isn’t a religious add-on. It’s a road back to Eden. In this episode, we begin where the story begins... Genesis 2:17, the first boundary, the first “no,” the first invitation to trained desire. The ancient church called this asceticism. It's not self-hatred, but soul-training: learning to want God more than comfort, more than control, more than constant consumption. St. Basil the Great sai...

Hunger is the first prayer because hunger is the memory of Eden. Ecclesiastes 3:11 says, “He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart…” That means God planted something eternal inside us—a trace of where we came from and where we’re headed. The early Church often saw that “eternity” as a kind of deep memory of union with God, an inner knowing that we w...

In this episode, I share my invitation to know Jesus as friend and begin laying the Biblical foundation for this colossal claim: God has always wanted friends.“From Moses to Abraham to Jesus...There is Friendship Thread that holds the Bible together.

Following the last episode, "How to Prepare for a Friendship Sabbatical," we explain what happened on this sabbatical journey, the challenges, the takeaways; Including the one word I'm taking home with me from the mountains. Thanks, Matt Pettry He calls us friends

Before heading into the mountains for a few days alone with the Lord, I wanted to share how I prepare my heart for what I call a “Friendship Sabbatical.” It’s not a retreat where we're running from something. It’s not an event where something has to happen. It’s setting apart time and speech so I can hear the sound of God’s friendship again. In this episode, I walk you through how to enter solitud...

Baptists, Wesleyans, Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox disagree on many things, but we unanimously agree on the creeds. We need to have our hearts and minds continually renewed in the truths highlighted in the New Testament. The Apostle's Creed highlights those truths. 

"The renewal of the Church will come from a new type of monasticism which only has in common with the old an uncompromising allegiance to the Sermon on the Mount. It is high time people banded together to do this." Dietrich Bonhoeffer  

In this episode, we give a call to "Go Again" in devotion, even if we only see "the cloud the size of man's hand" over our lives. Also, we call our listeners to a clean break with over-romanticized language associated with prayer.

3 ways in which we follow Jesus into the Wilderness: 1. We take seriously getting alone with God. 2. We receive grace to overcome temptation to sin. 3. We come out of the Wilderness in the Power of the Spirit ready to do Luke 4:18.

Luke the Apostle seeks to remove our unbelief about prayer. In this episode, we look at how the Kingdom of God is "prayed" here. We look at the prayer pattern that runs right through Luke-Acts. This episode is focused on stiring you to believe for an outpouring of God's Spirit with faith.

In this episode, we explore how we can begin to develop our own practice of the Presence of God.