Loving God: Getting at the Heart

Ep 50 Loving God: Romans 8, Part 2 04.07.2025 9:31 ↓

How shortsighted are we when it comes to "good"? Very, I would say.

Ep 49 Loving God: Romans 8, Part 1 03.07.2025 7:13 ↓

"For those who love God" is a large key to our frame for understanding.

Ep 48 Loving God: The Obedience of Faith 02.07.2025 7:35 ↓

Is your faith a "place" you constantly dwell?

Ep 47 Loving God: Injustice 28.06.2025 8:25 ↓

Is God a just God?

Ep 46 Loving God: God Is Love 27.06.2025 9:22 ↓

Who defines "love"?

Ep 45 Loving God: For God's Sake 14.06.2025 8:45 ↓

We easily make the Christian life about less than it must be: it is life or death.

Ep 44 Loving God: The Feast 06.05.2025 8:00 ↓

A feast beyond compare. We are invited. And yet, we are unworthy to be there.

Ep 43 Loving God: Knowing His Presence 05.05.2025 6:21 ↓

We have no actual desire to visit a place that we know nothing of.

Ep 42 Loving God: Resurrection (Easter) 30.04.2025 7:36 ↓

There is a man who has conquered death.

Ep 41 Loving God: Good Friday 29.04.2025 6:28 ↓

If love is something to be known, how do we come to actually have a knowledge of God's love? What is it like, and how is it displayed?

Ep 40 Loving God: Terror and Love 28.04.2025 7:35 ↓

"Terror accomplished no real obedience."

Ep 39 Loving God: True Understanding 24.04.2025 7:01 ↓

Every person believes somewhere within that they can master the religious “system” and somehow manipulate God into what they want, ultimately gaining eternal life. 

Ep 38 Loving God: Covenant and Commitment 23.04.2025 8:55 ↓

As believers, we all know people who have seemed to truly believe at a time and yet no longer follow Jesus. For us who believe, how do we keep ourselves in the love of Christ?

Ep 37 Loving God: "The Good Man" (A short story) 22.04.2025 9:47 ↓

In this episode I deviate from the norm with this short story of a man discovering God's love.

Ep 36 Loving God: The Dilemma of Psalm 119 21.04.2025 9:47 ↓

The words about loving God's law in Psalm 119 seem like a stretch, at best. At worst, we just don't agree with the wording. So, what's going on in Psalm 119?

Ep 35 Loving God: The Problem of Inward Hyposcrisy 19.04.2025 6:44 ↓

Jesus confronts hypocrisy, but is it only the Pharisees?

Ep 34 Loving God: The Cross that Cuts Our Hearts 18.04.2025 9:38 ↓

How does a person obey the command to love God?

Ep 33 Loving God: Better than the War Horse 17.04.2025 9:38 ↓

What is your war horse? And what's better?

Ep 32 Loving God: Praising the Praiseworthy 16.04.2025 9:38 ↓

What is a human response to the praiseworthy, and how do we respond to God?

Ep 31 Loving God: What Does God Desire? 03.01.2025 7:36 ↓

If God desires for us to love him from the heart, then the topic is worth some further thought (and maybe, yes definitely, a lifetime.)

Ep 30 Loving God: Trusting in God's Love 02.01.2025 8:37 ↓

We trust what we know to be trustworthy. Have you ever thought about the words in Scripture that describe trusting in God's love?

Ep 29 Loving God: His 'Lovingkind Ones' 01.01.2025 9:40 ↓

What most characterizes those who know God's love?

Ep 28 Loving God: Totality 31.12.2024 8:10 ↓

What does it really look like to be "all in" in a life lived for God?

Ep 27 Loving God: My Steadfast Love 28.12.2024 7:10 ↓

For us to call God's love "my steadfast love" is exemplified in Scripture. What does that mean?

EP 26 Loving God: Blessing of God 27.12.2024 8:40 ↓

At its core, what does it mean to be "blessed"? How is it opposite of being "cursed"?