Real Life Christianity with Deacon John Lozano

You are Important! 17.01.2023 23:24 ↓

What questions do truth and grace ask us? 

What is revealed to infants 17.12.2022 8:04 ↓

What wisdom do infants possess that we can learn?

Advent.... The Fullness of Grace and Truth 11.12.2022 19:42 ↓

Deacon John explores the relationship between Grace and Truth. What is Grace without Truth or Truth without Grace?

Our talents and our goodness 03.12.2022 12:12 ↓

Are our talents just things we are good at? Or is there a deeper connection between our talents and the goodness of who we are? 

Jesus’s Zeal will consume him 16.11.2022 9:24 ↓

In today's story, a depiction of the model disciple invites the zealousness of Jesus. 

According to scripture, was Jesus cursed? 10.11.2022 8:19 ↓

What an odd church we have. Images everywhere of a man being tortured and executed through a means of state sponsored terrorism... And we sing hymns about it. 

When do we rest? 05.11.2022 10:43 ↓

Life is unfair, and don't we sometimes think it's particularly unfair when injustice and suffering happen to those who have faith? 

A tale of two prayers 24.10.2022 15:40 ↓

A good person and a bad person pray and Jesus throws the outcome upside down.  

The relationship that takes priority over all 10.10.2022 7:28 ↓

Deacon John tackles a very difficult gospel reading in which Jesus seemingly is very callous. 

Caravaggio brilliantly captures our wavering... 27.09.2022 8:25 ↓

Deacon John unpacks his favorite painting within the context of today's gospel

Humility is not being a doormat 14.09.2022 14:29 ↓

On the feast of St Augustine we ask, how is humility truth? How does humility correlate with being full alive?

God sees in us what we don’t see 31.08.2022 8:07 ↓

How do we see each other? What would a community look like if we saw each other the way Jesus saw Nathaniel?

The one thing no one wants to talk about 16.08.2022 16:49 ↓

A Gospel passage that Deacon John did not want to preach about... Jesus' cutting words about Greed. For many modern day readers, has Greed become institutionalized? How is Greed linked to fear and what is it's solution?

Praying to our ”Pop Pop” 01.08.2022 16:34 ↓

Deacon John opens up about his past conceptions of God and how his understanding of God has evolved.    

Where is the judgement? 21.07.2022 7:55 ↓

Imagine a scene wherein we meet God in the flesh, what is our reaction? What is his? 

A really good conspiracy... 30.06.2022 7:05 ↓

When it comes to Divine mercy, there is nowhere to run, nowhere to escape to and that's a very very good thing.

Do not be afraid of that place in you... 22.06.2022 7:46 ↓

Do we look good or do we need a Savior?

One foot in the boat and one foot on the dock... 15.06.2022 12:23 ↓

A Love that is daring, vital and burning is leaving the dock, and yet a straddling between options is behavioral of us all. 

The unknowable/knowable God 30.05.2022 16:47 ↓

Join Deacon John as he explores the intersection between a complete mystery that can be intimately known.

We are hurt and scared of Love 23.05.2022 9:29 ↓

Deacon John reveals a concept that he has had trouble wrapping his mind and heart around for years. A message simple enough for a child and deep enough to drown in.

The God who goes through locked doors 29.04.2022 16:59 ↓

What fundamental question do we ask that the readers of Luke's Gospel also ask? 

The three most important words in our faith 22.04.2022 11:04 ↓

Where do we meet this Risen Jesus? This fundamental question is as relevant to first century Christians as it is to us today. 

A perfect, free love we often don’t understand 07.04.2022 29:00 ↓

A father and his two sons in a story we all know. Deacon John explores this story from an uncommon angle. 

God ”needs us?” Really? 09.03.2022 9:14 ↓

What does it mean to move from the Ego Drama to the Theo Drama?