The Lord Our Father
God’s infinite, eternal, omnipotent being recognizes and accommodates, to some degree, our frail, finite, temporal, and limited nature as a human on this planet.
Feb 12, 2025•9 min
The Wake-Up Call
The Wake-Up Call is a daily encouragement to shake off the slumber of our busy lives and turn our eyes toward Jesus. Each morning our community gathers around a Scripture, a reflection, a prayer, and a few short questions, inviting us to reorient our lives around the love of Jesus that transforms our hearts, homes, churches, and cities.
Episodes
The Lord of Sovereignty
Trying to locate the limit of God’s removal of our sins, would be like trying to locate the west by heading east—it can never be found.
Feb 11, 2025•9 min
The Lord of Righteousness
Righteousness is built, bit by painstaking bit, over many choices, over many directions, over much time.
Feb 10, 2025•12 min
The Worldview of the Wicked (Psalm 36)
The contours of the wicked should contrast sharply with the character of those who live under the covenant with God.
Feb 09, 2025•10 min
Holy Spirit Story: The Bird Can't Find the Sky (with Bonnie Crandall)
"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Feb 08, 2025•14 min
The Lord of Faithfulness
And this is what his unfailing love does for us: it stands between us and any accuser that we face, whether internal or external.
Feb 07, 2025•8 min
The Lord Who Heals
Each day we lean into the solid, trustworthy nature of God to pull us through inevitable trials and suffering.
Feb 06, 2025•10 min
The Lord Who Forgives
As Jesus pronounced upon his last breath on the cross, “It is finished.” His work was done and he became free to retire to somewhere he loves: our hearts.
Feb 05, 2025•8 min
The Lord of Compassion and Mercy
Who we believe God to be often reveals more about us than about God.
Feb 04, 2025•10 min
I Am Who I Am
Let this desire to know him and be known by him become, like the psalmist declares, an offering of total praise and total worship.
Feb 03, 2025•12 min
How God Overthrows the Wicked (Psalm 35)
The Psalms cannot imagine a world where the people of God do not see themselves engaged in conflict of some sort.
Feb 02, 2025•14 min
Holy Spirit Story: "I Know That I Know That I Know!" (With Mary Wilkerson)
"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Feb 01, 2025•15 min
How Do You Bible? Part 4: Rehearse
Only when we actually do God's Word does it become enfleshed in our own lives.
Jan 31, 2025•20 min
How Do You Bible? Part 3: Research
I read the Bible in order to search for and grasp the revealed wisdom of God.
Jan 30, 2025•22 min
How Shall We Bible? Part 2: Rememberize
Memorization requires brain activity; rememberizing requires soul engagement.
Jan 29, 2025•21 min
How Shall We Bible? Part 1
Delighting in the Word of God leads to the deepest desire of our hearts in its outcome.
Jan 28, 2025•22 min
Meet Lucy—My Super Anxious, Non-Designer Dog
Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
Jan 27, 2025•22 min
The Blessedness of the Righteous (Psalm 34)
God is our refuge and protector even in the fiercest trial.
Jan 26, 2025•14 min
Holy Spirit Story: When Cancer Is Cured by the Stripes of Jesus (w/ Jan de Chambrier)
"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Jan 25, 2025•15 min
Disco Ball
When we turn our eyes upon Jesus, beholding him, he takes the veil away.
Jan 24, 2025•21 min
Jawbreakers
The rule of God's immeasurably-more-than-all-we-ask-or-imagine-according-to-his-power-that-is-at-work—is done within us.
Jan 23, 2025•22 min
The Plans
When our quest shifts from trying to know the plans to seeking the one who says "I know," we discover the one who holds the plans is the plan.
Jan 22, 2025•23 min
The Catastrophic Epiphany of the Word of God
If we forget who we are and who we belong to, we will quickly lose our way in the wilderness of this world.
Jan 21, 2025•21 min
How Do We Punch the Devil?
GRACE IS WORKING FOR ME!
Jan 20, 2025•21 min
The Power and the Purpose of God (Psalm 33)
If you feel powerless today, or that the purposes of God are somehow being thwarted in the world, then take heart. God is in control of human history.
Jan 19, 2025•10 min
Holy Spirit Story: Put Me In, Coach! (with Ray S. Hughes)
"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Jan 18, 2025•10 min
Self-Help Jesus (Part 2)
Pruning is the long, slow, steady path by which we learn the way to do our work through his working.
Jan 17, 2025•18 min
Self-Help Jesus (Part 1)
JESUS IS LIFE!
Jan 16, 2025•20 min
What Are We?
I AM AN UNBELIEVABLE, INCONCEIVABLE, UNREPEATABLE MIRACLE OF GOD.
Jan 15, 2025•21 min
The Fruit of the Spirit
Jesus Christ is in us. He is the secret to the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
Jan 14, 2025•22 min