Finding Our Way

In this episode Larry and James continue the conversation about hope. From the transcript... I hope you're having a wonderful day. Enjoying all that Papa has for you today. I wanted to take this time to ask you to join me in celebrating. Man, I like to celebrate. I just celebrated. Ha! Woo! I just celebrated my birthday here. This is the first part of this month. I almost told you how old I am. I'...

In this episode James and Larry meander around the concept of hope. From the transcript... I just wanted to jump in here and say thanks for tuning in. Hope you're being blessed by our conversations. Ask you to reach out to us. I'd like to hear from you. Finding our way. You can find where the show is, all of our podcasts, YouTube, everything's there. We've got a little blog. There's a place that s...

In this episode Larry and James share various experiences and thoughts regarding validation. From the transcript... I'm just saying, there's the wide open spaces—fields of grace. Ooh, living in my Father's face. I'm telling you, son, mess around here and I'll get on pace with the Holy Ghost and say something. Tapped into your poetic self. Yeah, yeah. We'll be dancing. Anyway, we can walk down thro...

In this episode Larry and James discuss the purpose of God and His goodness displayed. From the transcript... I was thinking about that passage you read earlier when Jesus was baptized. I don't even know what I can say about it, other than the Father, verbally to John the Baptist and those who could hear, said, This is my beloved Son, in whom—or in Him—I am well pleased. That's Jesus’ beginning, a...

In this episode Larry and James talk about King Jesus. From the transcript... I think we're good. So you don't want that book? What book? That book. No. I'm good. We are ready to go. Do we have… What were we going to talk about? Oh, I don't know. Oh, I was just going to say, I did… coming down, I… listened to that guy and talked to Ronnie. I ain't got nothing. I mean, we're going to start this day...

In this episode Larry and James discuss ultimate reality and the life that is ours now. From the transcript... Yeah, think about it. I'm going to read these two verses. Remember I told you I was reading Ephesians when I wrote this. I'm going to read these two verses and you tell me what it says that we have to do so that we can somehow or another get in on that. Every spiritual blessing in the hea...

In this episode Larry and James talk about our now new relationship to God. From the transcript...We’ve got a freedom in Christ. We don’t know what to do with our freedom. We’ll get a reset. We don’t know what to do with the reset. Everything I ever thought about how it was has been wrong. I’m having to relearn it all, and some of that’s been a slow wrangle. How do you operate without a hierarchy...

In this episode Larry and James discuss life in the kingdom of God. From the transcript...Unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away, their minds were hardened. For until this day, the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ, the law. I see wha...

In this episode Larry and James talk about living life in the kingdom of God, NOW! From the transcript... I am fascinated by the number of things that come up in our mind when we do stuff like that. Contrary to what we're attempting to do, it seems to be all the reasons why you can't. Oh, yeah. Which is adversarial thoughts. Mm-hmm. You can use that phrase. Yep. Yep. When the truth is, everything...

In this episode Larry and James discuss living life in relationship to our Father. From the transcript... Well, for me, when I even hear what's the metrics of relationship, I just stiffen and bristle. Yeah, it's rules. Yeah. It's a law of language. But I don't know how to have conversations that don't end up there or that doesn't use those terms. I guess that's what Jesus said. A good teacher, he...

From the transcript... Well, for me, when I even hear "what's the metrics of relationship," I just stiffen and bristle. Yeah, it's rules. Yeah. It’s a law kind of language. But I don't know how to have conversations that don't end up there, or that don’t use those terms. I guess that's what Jesus said—a good teacher brings out of his treasure things old and new. I’ve got a lot of that old law lang...

From the transcript... So, I grew up talking about this self-giving God. Yeah. Eternally dead to the possibility of choosing anything other. How do we learn to walk in that, to walk with Him? Well, one, we're just now waking into the fact that that's who He really is. And then two, we realize that we're made in that same image. But because He's given us this agency of choice… yeah. Am I going to a...

In this episode Larry and James talk about the nature of love. From the transcript... Well, yeah, he was talking about, like, God's—primal self. Yeah, that's the way he said it. Here we go. Let's see. A self desires to please itself, to express itself, and so on. How does God, the primal self, do that? Yeah. He says here—yeah, that's his words—by the begetting of his Son to be the object of his lo...

In this episode Larry and James discuss the celebration that has already started! From the transcript... Matthew 7, 24: Therefore, whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock. That's a conclusion to the Sermon on the Mount. He hears and does. We're talking about hearing—learning to hear from God. We've got to talk about doing wh...

In this episode Larry and James rehearse the different understandings of certain words. From the transcript... That's so wonderful. That's all you ever record. I think I told you when I was out in Atlanta. Of course, I went with Herb everywhere, my co-pastor, because he was from there. And it took me, and I always prided myself in kind of having my bearings, being able to get around, know where I'...

Larry and James talk about the wonder of that which is ours in Christ! From the transcript... It's our life. We're one. Our union with Him. I'm going to just string these three verses together. I know I read two of them earlier, but probably all three of them. Read them all over again. Yeah. He says, Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death...

Larry and James take a trip down memory lane. From the transcript... Because there's some folks out there that's acting like they're not new. But when you tell them, share with them the good news of what God has done in Christ — not counting their sin against them, but reconciling — they then can come into and begin to experience the newness of that life. Yeah. That they're already included in. Ye...

In this episode Larry and James rehearse the goodness of the Good News as it is seen in Jesus! From the transcript... I think about the old classic sitcom about the Clampetts and, you know, finding the gold. And I'm just a Clampett kind of a Christian in the sense of—got this wealth, but I'm just an old country boy trying to learn how to live with this cement pond. It's such a strange way of livin...

In this episode James and Larry discuss the reality of the all inclusiveness of the work of Christ and how it includes everyone! From the transcript... Yeah, I was going to say something about death has been defeated because Jesus has conquered it. Yeah, he came out of the tomb, didn't he? He did. So the reign of death is over. Death is defeated. It's a last enemy for us. I'm remembering that scri...

In this episode Larry and James discuss the wonder and beauty of life in Jesus. From the transcript... I like how you always turn the recorder on right here in this good bottom. So I'm like looking out over here in the bottoms looking for a place to go hunting as if I was going to go hunting. You get mad because I'm looking out the window instead of talking to you. You can look out the window. Oh,...

In this episode James and Larry discuss living in light of the goodness of God. From the transcript... One time when I was a teenage boy, I was old enough to drive, and I was all excited because it was Friday night. I hadn't been driving long. I was getting to go out on a Friday night, and that particular night, my parents were going out of town, actually to an Amway meeting back in the day, and t...

In this episode Larry and James talk about the implications of our death with Christ. From the transcript... Sharing in his death by our baptism means that we were co -buried with him so that when the Father's glory raised Christ from the dead, we were also raised with him. We have been co -resurrected with him so that we could be empowered to walk in the freshness of new life for since we are per...

In this episode Larry and James discuss how that God's justice is merciful. From the transcript... I think I might tell you a story about that horse. I told you a little bit the other day, but I want to tell you the story today. All right. What's this horse's name? Dusty. A horse named Dusty. Yep. Okay. Is this a true story? Yeah. Okay. I don't tell any other kind. I'm just asking for clarificatio...

In this Episode Larry and James talk about the mercy and Justice of our Father. From the transcript... In the little neighborhood I grew up in. Horses and dogs hunting rabbits, squirrels, coons, deer. I used to have some good rabbit dogs, beagles. Man, that was fun hunting rabbits. You ever hunted rabbits? We hunted rabbits some, not a lot. Wonderful thing about a rabbit. When your dog strikes, if...

In this episode Larry and James discuss the mercy of God and how it is just. From the transcript... When I was a teenage boy, I was old enough to drive. And I was all excited because it was Friday night. I had been driving long. I was getting to go out on a Friday night. And that particular night, my parents were going out of town, actually to an Amway meeting back in the day. And they were going...