On Our Way Home

Send us Fan Mail There is always a GAP between who we say we are and who we truly are. So how can we fix that problem?  It definitely starts with Jesus and believing the Gospel, but then WHAT?   Listen and watch and Lynnea and Ryan discuss how to allow Jesus to change us from the inside out, rather on trying to fix our outsides without the Holy Spirit's work and power. Sometimes we place too...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when we stop praising God and giving Him gratitude?  Things start going wrong.  Things move from bad to worse and we can even end up in a place where God says to us, "I'm going to let you go your own way." One of the hardest things that we can experience in life is receiving the natural consequences of our bad decisions. God doesn't give up on us. ...

Send us Fan Mail What do you want to be when you grow up?   Or now that you are grown, what do you wish you were able to be? How about being a Gospel-Centered Person?  What is a Gospel-Centered Person?  Join Joel and Ryan as they discuss Romans 1:8-17, ESPECIALLY verses 16-17! The Gospel is Jesus: His Words, His Works, His Actions, and His LIFE given for our sins on the Cross and His RISING from t...

Send us Fan Mail What does the Bible say about ME?  Who does the Bible say I am?   What is my true identity? In Romans 1, Paul clearly tells the church at Rome and us, who he was in Christ.  And we find that we are equally a slave of Christ, sent on Jesus' mission, and set apart for the Gospel. But what does that mean for us today? How can we take steps to be more of who God says we are?  Lis...

Send us Fan Mail Life is meant to be enjoyed.  Especially if you're YOUNGER because LIFE is God's gift to us.  But right now in our culture, life is hard, confusing, and depressing.   Instead of living lives CONNECTED, we're isolated.  BUT God has a plan for us to sow seeds of service and love for His Kingdom being generous like HE is. How well do you know 18-25 year-olds?  And how...

Send us Fan Mail The longer we walk by faith with Jesus, the more we know that life with Jesus is all about the BASICS. Entering through the NARROW WAY and staying on the narrow way is best.  The amazing thing is that this narrow way isn't RESTRICTIVE, but is like a funnel getting wider and wider as you move out. Life with Jesus is all about greater FREEDOM.  Life lived for self is greater bo...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus' teaching is amazing.  He taught as someone who had authority, because is the ONE with ultimate authority. Reminding ourselves of some of the life impacting parts of the Sermon on the Mount is really good to do.  I may not be doing what I know is good. Knowing is good but DOING is best.  Watch and listen to Joel and Ryan as they wrap up the Sermon on the Mount.    Ask G...

Send us Fan Mail So...How is your prayer relationship with God right now?  Would you say you're growing in your desire to talk with God and listen to Him? Our prayer life with our Heavenly Father is so important to our every day opportunities and challenges we face.  We would not want to lose focus and start drifting so that our desire to pray is lacking and our time in prayer is cold. Need a...

Send us Fan Mail We are made by God to connect with others in the Body of Christ.  When we're saved through faith we are brought into God's family as brothers and sisters. But the enemy was us to be too BUSY, too LAZY, or too STUBBORN to PRIORITIZE time to CONNECT! Listen and watch this episode of On OUR Way Home and rediscover why we need each other to stay on track in our relationship...

Send us Fan Mail Fearing God is ESSENTIAL for REAL LIFE!  But what does it really mean to FEAR GOD and how can we LIVE LIKE THAT? Join Joel and Ryan as they discuss the WRAP UP to the series, Searching for Purpose from Solomon's book of Ecclesiastes. Our God is truly AWESOME in the way that He gives new life to sinful people through faith in JESUS CHRIST.  God is also a JUST JUDGE who takes c...

Send us Fan Mail God wants us to be active WITH HIM in reaching the world with the GOSPEL and helping other followers of Jesus grow closer to Him.  But how can we do that well? Today, Faith, Lynnea, and Ryan discuss Ecclesiastes 11 and how God wants us to trust Him as we SOW SEEDS, pick up our cross, and surrender our lives to Jesus and His plan for us. And by the way...what do 18-25 year olds thi...

Send us Fan Mail It's so easy to be foolish.  But what if you think that being a fool couldn't happen to you? Is it possible to be a fool and not even realize that you are?  What are the behaviors we need to avoid and where do we start to begin to make changes if we realize that we have some actions and attitudes that need to change? Joel and Ryan work through Ecclesiastes 10 and discove...

Send us Fan Mail All LIFE is valuable and has meaning.  All life is good.  When we pass away all of life's simple good little things are over.  So what should our response be? We should be thankful to be a LIVE DOG rather than a DEAD LION!  What? There are several statements like this one from Solomon in Ecclesiastes 9 that Joel and Ryan will be working through today.  Take a few minutes to e...

Send us Fan Mail A person's WISDOM brightens the face, Solomon says.  Are we allowing God's Wisdom to penetrate our heart, reach our mouth, and finally produce a smile of contentment? Our relationship with God's Wisdom is ongoing and never a settled situation.  Our humility in Christ should help us realize that there will be always a need for us to follow Jesus and avoid the dangers...

Send us Fan Mail We all want to be respected and to have a NAME that is known and valued.  But more than having a Name that makes us look good, we should want a NAME that makes God look GREAT! Join Joel and Ryan today as they discuss Ecclesiastes 7 and other passages of Scripture to see how God's work to save us from our sins gives us a name we could never earn.  God's work to make us mo...

Send us Fan Mail What is WORSHIP?  Is it an event that we attend or something more than that?   And how can we make sure that we're ready for WORSHIP, especially if LIFE is Worship as Jason and Ryan discuss on today's podcast from Ecclesiastes chapters 5 and 6. Jesus created us and saved us through His death on the cross and His resurrection.  Living our life in gratitude to Jesus for wh...

Send us Fan Mail One is the loneliest number!  No one wants to be lonely and yet we can often find ourselves disconnected and alone as we face the challenges of life. There are reasons why we struggle with our connections with others and Joel and Ryan will discuss Ecclesiastes chapter 4 to discover what Solomon has to say to us about the importance of connection. We are made for relationship with...

Send us Fan Mail How can we ENSURE that we're investing our LIVES in what will LAST?   And WHERE are you investing your time day by day, week by week? Time FLIES!  And in discussing Ecclesiastes chapter 3, Joel and Ryan discover how God wants us to use our time for Him and His Kingdom without being overly controlling or just flowing whichever way the day seems to take us. Would you like to us...

Send us Fan Mail How would you describe the way that you PRAISE GOD?  And why does this matter? We were able to take a refreshing break at a Worship Conference called Sing! 2022 in Nashville!  WOW!  We all rediscovered the transformative power of corporate PRAISE! We all need to work.  We all need to rest.  And we all need to PRAISE!  This conference helped us in so many ways as a staff with our s...

Send us Fan Mail WHEN and HOW does Pleasure+Work+Wisdom= ZERO?  Isn't Solomon and the book of Ecclesiastes just taking a pessimistic, negative view of life? OR is there something MORE than we need to learn about life under the sun? Join Anna, Garrick, and Ryan as they discuss Ecclesiastes chapter 2 and discover WHEN and HOW life DOES have meaning and when it doesn't. We all look for MEAN...

Send us Fan Mail Solomon said that life was meaningless.  Work can be and so can Wisdom, according to the World's wisest man.  But was he right?  Isn't there hope and meaning to be found? We are starting a NEW SERIES of discussions in the book of Ecclesiastes, dealing the topics that Solomon, the preacher, brings to our attention. Jason and Ryan talk through Ecclesiastes chapter 1 and di...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus' teaching had REAL AUTHORITY.  The crowd that heard the Sermon on the Mount was ASTONISHED at His teaching.  It was different than the teaching of the religious leaders.  Jesus' teaching could and should change your life.  If you came to believe in Him. While Joel and Ryan discuss some truths that keeps impacting them from Jesus' Sermon, we still will love to...

Send us Fan Mail There are dangers to living the Christian life.  And Jesus warns us about these very real dangers that we will all face in Matt. 7: 15-23. Joel and Ryan talk about how to be aware of FALSE TEACHERS and FALSE TEACHING as well as avoiding the temptations that come from trying to live a life based on WORKS.  It's easy to get caught up  in BOASTING about WE have done, instead of...

Send us Fan Mail It's too easy to be focused on ME.  And it's too easy to want to go the EASY way rather than the HARD way when it comes to living life. Jesus calls us to HIS narrow way, which is the way of LIFE.  And a life that is lived treating others the way that we would want them to treat us.  In other words, Jesus calls His followers to live a life of LOVE like He did. But we don&...

Send us Fan Mail God is Good.  Period.  But sometimes we doubt His Goodness.  And doubting can have a negative impact on our prayer relationship with God.  Prayer shouldn't be our last resort but our FIRST RESPONSE. So how can we KEEP ON PRAYING?  How can being active in praising God, active in reading and applying and obeying Scripture help us to KEEP ON PRAYING? Jason and Ryan talk through...