Is the Lord Among Us or Not?: From Ambivalence to Awakening
Hardship in the wilderness will do one of two things in our lives. It will infuse character into our souls or wear callouses onto our hearts—holiness or hardness.
Oct 23, 2024•20 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
But the People Were Thirsty: "I Thirst!"
Something about desperation focuses prayer. Something about prayers of desperation creates a context for divine breakthroughs.
Oct 22, 2024•21 min
To Be Kept for the Generations to Come: Take That Science!
We must be delivered from our faith in God as religion and into our faith in God as everyday life.
Oct 21, 2024•20 min
Holy Spirit Story: Inviting Others into Awakening (with Janet Wehrle)
"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.”
Oct 20, 2024•15 min
So the People Rested on the Seventh Day: Finding the Unforced Rhythms of Grace
In the midst of what could otherwise be a chaotic experience in the wilderness, God establishes structure, rhythm, and direction.
Oct 19, 2024•22 min
Some of Them Paid No Attention to Moses: Where Maggots Come From
The kingdom of God is a very different place than the kingdom of the world, and the wilderness is the place where it all gets sorted out—the wheat from the chaff.
Oct 18, 2024•20 min
The Israelites Did as They Were Told: When Enough Is Truly Enough
The pathway toward enough is found through obedience to God alone.
Oct 17, 2024•20 min
You Are Not Grumbling against Us, but against the Lord: On the Foible of Relational Triangulation
When we live in direct, right relationship with God, the way is made to live in direct, right relationship with ourselves and in direct, right relationship with one another.
Oct 16, 2024•21 min
I Will Rain Down Bread from Heaven: The Wonder of the Wilderness
Worship is the everyday reality and relationship with the provider to whom we attribute value and worth and the reception of provision, protection, and peace from this provider.
Oct 15, 2024•20 min
The Whole Community Grumbled: The Wilderness Pivot from Feelings to Longings
We must learn to make the wilderness pivot, which is the shift from wants-and-needs-driven expectations to core God-given longings.
Oct 14, 2024•20 min
Let Me Not Be Ashamed (Psalm 25)
Because of Christ’s work on the cross, we have been declared not guilty before the great tribunal of God’s judgment throne.
Oct 13, 2024•17 min
Twelve Springs and Seventy Palm Trees: How to Take a Real Rest
God knows what we need, and he knows we regularly need retreat and refreshment.
Oct 12, 2024•19 min
I Am the Lord Who Heals You: On Health, the Human Body, and the Glory of God
God cares about our bodies and our health.
Oct 11, 2024•20 min
What Are We to Drink? The Journey from Grumbling to Prayer
While it’s always easier to grumble at our leaders in the wilderness, the secret to success is crying out to God.
Oct 10, 2024•18 min
The Desert of Shur: From the Win to the Wilderness
And this is the meaning of the wilderness—the strengthening of our souls in the midst of struggle through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Oct 09, 2024•21 min
I Will Sing to the Lord: The Way Is Made by Worship
He wants our worship in the midst of the difficulty of deliverance.
Oct 08, 2024•22 min
But the Israelites Walked: When the Red Sea Parts and When It Doesn’t
Every single one of us has the opportunity every single day to help walk somebody home.
Oct 07, 2024•21 min
Holy Spirit Story: Exodus 14:14—The Lord Will Fight For You (with Nancy Smith)
"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.”
Oct 06, 2024•11 min
Holy Spirit Story: (With Susan and Jeff Murithi)
"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.”
Oct 06, 2024•14 min
Not One of Them Survived: How the Wrath of God Is the Love of God and Vice-Versa
At the cross we simultaneously behold the great mystery of Christ—the wrath of God against sin and the love of God for sinners—and we are saved.
Oct 05, 2024•24 min
During the Last Watch of the Night: On Staying Awake in the Last Days
I want to live my life at the pace of Jesus in me; in step with the Holy Spirit—awake but not anxious, alert without preoccupation.
Oct 04, 2024•20 min
The Cloud Brought Darkness to One Side and Light to the Other: The Call to Holy Imagination
Faith gives our heart and soul the vision of God.
Oct 03, 2024•20 min
Raise Your Staff and Stretch Out Your Hand: A Wake-Up Call for Our Times
So often in our praying we pleadingly ask God to act on our behalf. I often wonder if God is looking for a mode of prayer whereby we are acting on God’s behalf and at his behest.
Oct 02, 2024•23 min
The Lord Will Fight For You: The Zero Sum Game of Fear and Faith
The issue is not the size of one’s faith, but the strength of their God.
Oct 01, 2024•21 min
All Pharaoh’s Horses and Chariots, Horsemen and Troops: The (often) Protracted Battle of Divine Deliverance
Will we succumb to the slavery of building the kingdoms of this world, or will we become sons and daughters and inherit the now-and-still-coming kingdom of God?
Sep 30, 2024•22 min
Creator and Lord of History (Psalm 24)
Jesus is the victor who, after his suffering and humiliation, has been crowned with glory and honor! Today’s post is from A Meditative Journey Through the Psalms by Timothy and Julie Tennent. Most recently, he served as president of Asbury Theological Seminary among other posts he holds across the global church. Julie is a gifted musician and was one of the driving forces that helped bring to fruition the Seedbed hymnal, Our Great Redeemer’s Praise . We will share some of their writing on the Ps...
Sep 29, 2024•11 min
Tell the Israelites to Turn Back: We Need the Mind of Christ to Think the Thoughts of God
Tell the Israelites to Turn Back: We Need the Mind of Christ to Think the Thoughts of God.
Sep 28, 2024•23 min
By Day . . . in a Pillar of Cloud; and by Night in a Pillar of Fire: Nine Rules of the Road with God
By Day . . . in a Pillar of Cloud; and by Night in a Pillar of Fire: Nine Rules of the Road with God.
Sep 27, 2024•19 min
So God Led the People Around by the Desert Road: When God Takes the Long Road
So God Led the People Around by the Desert Road: When God Takes the Long Road.
Sep 26, 2024•22 min
Commemorate This Day: Jesus Is My Passover
Commemorate This Day: Jesus Is My Passover.
Sep 25, 2024•21 min
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