Lift Up Your Hearts Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Ever have doubts about who Jesus is? Does the evidence convince you? It seems like Jesus' own disciples and his cousin had questions and wondered the same thing.  Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail John the Baptists doesn't hold back when he confronts the Jewish leaders. What would it feel like if you were there that day? Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail How should we prepare? what should we do? Pray with me today to answer these questions with Jesus Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail Today we celebrate Jesus Christ, King of the Universe and to celebrate it we read of his crucifixion. Dive further into this contemplation with your full imagination in the loving gaze of the father. Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail I hear a lot of Christians talk about how #blessed they are and I wonder how that sentiment would be heard from Jesus when he talks about being persecuted because of His name.  Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail With everything the disciples had seen I can only conclude that they were uniquely zeroed in on everything Jesus said this day. Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail This Sunday Jesus convicts again with a story that, if we are honest, humbles us.  Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail What would it feel like to be healed from isolation? Isolation from family, friends and even worshiping. Jesus heals you and do you move on or go back to him and give thanks? Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail Jesus addresses the crowd with a parable about a rich man and a poor man and the afterlife. Contemplate that story with me. Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail What was going on in the heart of Nicodemus? What does on in your heart when you hear that Jesus loves you so much he was willing to die for you? Does it actually strike you as much as it should? Do you contemplate it day and night? Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail Ever wonder if some of Jesus' disciples or followers were annoyed with Him? How would you deal with it? Does that ever happen to you today? Contemplate these realities with me today.  Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail One of Jesus's followers asks a hard question and gets and even harder answer (in my opinion). How would this feel if you asked this question from Jesus? What would it be like if he said he didn't even know where you come from? Prayerfully explore this with me. Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail Jesus makes Peter the rock, but I bet Peter didn't always feel like a rock before or even always after his name was change. But Jesus still called and equipped him, not to be perfect, but to be himself and to be faithful and to get back up again. What would this feel like if you were Peter?  Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus rebukes Martha and says that Mary has chosen the better part. Let's dive further into the lessons we might glean from this and see what moves in our hearts.  Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail Jesus leaving touches a very human part of us and I think we naturally want Him to stay. Dive in with me as one of the disciples to contemplate this reality. Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail Imagine being publicly shamed in your worst moment? but it doesn't have to end there. It is at the feet of Jesus. What does he write in the ground for you? How does he lift you up? Where do you go from there?  Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail Jesus changes our view that we bring to the relationship with the Father. It is not servitude, but relationship. Any good father knows this feeling and Jesus reminds us. Contemplate this parable with me today. Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail What happens in your heart when Jesus is transfigured before you? Do you need any more evidence of his divinity?  Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail Jesus didn't shield himself from our suffering. He is a God that knows our pains and our agonies more than we do. What does that mean for you? Does it mean anything? What would be going on in your heart as he tells you this story? Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail Imagine Jesus is in your living room and starts to talk about not being a hypocrite. Does it feel like he is talking about you? What else is going through your heart? Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail What does it feel like when Jesus bothers your conscience? When he points out something that you aren't living up to his radical standard. Or when you think you are bing a "good guy", but then Jesus takes it to another level. Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail Jesus comes down to stand on the same plain as you and looks you in the eyes and says..."blessed are the poor..." What does your heart do when you hear those words? Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail Are you sick of doing it your way? Are you ready to say yes to his radical plan? Simon and his companions have toiled their own way all night and Jesus comes in and asks to do it again, but this time it is with Him. Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings. 

Send us Fan Mail There is so much more going on in this story. I want to focus in on the life of Simeon and what kind of life he would have to live in order to hear the Holy Spirit, act on it, see something no one else saw and be bold enough to pick up a seemingly random baby in the Temple that day. Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday reading...

Send us Fan Mail If you were a friend of Jesus and he came back to town proclaiming to be a prophet or more what would you do? Would accept this new Jesus or Reject him?  Support the show Join me again next week as we engage our imagination to explore the Sunday readings.