I Still Believe in a Person Called Hope
Hope is not a good feeling about the future—that's just being hopeful. Hope is the person who holds the future.
Jan 13, 2025•19 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
Changing Gravity (Psalm 32)
There will come a day when we are delivered not only from the guilt and power of sin, but even the presence of sin.
Jan 12, 2025•10 min
Holy Spirit Story: My Long Journey with God's Word (w/ Carolyn Berry)
"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 11, 2025•14 min
Trust Falls and Trust Fails
Trust isn't built by falling. Trust is learned by leaning.
Jan 10, 2025•22 min
3-2-1- Be Still and Know That I Am God . . .
We must learn to go into the refuge-room of the presence of God, shut the door, lay down our weakness, and rise up in God's strength.
Jan 09, 2025•22 min
Very Early in the Morning . . . Jesus
Our lives consist not in the big decisions and banner events dotting our calendars but in the little things we consistently do day after day after day.
Jan 08, 2025•19 min
Speak, Lord, for Your Servant Is Listening . . .
It is one thing for the Word of the Lord to be bound in our Bibles and yet another for the Word to be unleashed in our lives.
Jan 07, 2025•21 min
The Bible Creed
We do not worship a book and yet without this book we know next to nothing about the God we do worship.
Jan 06, 2025•20 min
The Suffering Servant Calling, “Abba, Father!” (Psalm 31)
It is fitting that at the very moment Jesus was, quite literally, shedding his blood for us, he addressed God as Father, thereby modeling for us the new and living way that was being opened to all of us through the gospel.
Jan 05, 2025•13 min
Holy Spirit Story: My Father, the King, Takes Care of Me (with Kathy Agee)
"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 04, 2025•14 min
What Word Are You Standing on Today?
What word are you standing on today?
Jan 03, 2025•20 min
This Is Why It Is Said—Wake Up, Sleeper!
The substance of the Christian life: Consecration. Transformation. Demonstration.
Jan 02, 2025•22 min
New Year—New Word
The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.
Jan 01, 2025•20 min
Magi Moments: Prophetic Skipping Stones
A prophecy can touch down again and again, at different times and places, to different people in different circumstances, and each time, it can breathe the life of God afresh into the people in need.
Dec 31, 2024•18 min
Magi Moments: I Offer My Body to You
When it came to holy things, I had been taught that, at best, my body was some kind of container to house my spirit and, at worst, it was evil. It never dawned on me that my body could have any role to play in discerning spiritual things.
Dec 30, 2024•15 min
Magi Moments: Seeing More Than Seeing
Why does Jesus keep looking up? I think it's because he's looking to see the Father's heart about the person or situation. I think it is something we can learn to do too.
Dec 29, 2024•11 min
Magi Moments: Eagerly Discerning God's Thoughts
And while it is true God sometimes speaks in what appears to us, at least, in an audible voice, this is not the norm. He more often puts a picture, thought, or impression in our minds.
Dec 28, 2024•12 min
Magi Moments: Eagerly Desire the Gifts of the Spirit
Our heart is the center of our being, our will, motives, and desires. So the question is, What is it that you are eagerly desiring?
Dec 27, 2024•11 min
Magi Moments: Follow the Star
God often simply wants to communicate with us because he loves us. He wants to encourage us, comfort us, and strengthen us. In this way, prophetic ministry is a love language to us, for us, and through us.
Dec 26, 2024•15 min
It Is God's Dark
To know this story of Christmas is to know that darkness need not be a worry any longer because light has come.
Dec 25, 2024•7 min
Hearers, Believers, and Preachers
We can attend Christmas Eve services for every single year we’re alive, yet if Christ is never born in our hearts, we’ve missed the story completely.
Dec 24, 2024•7 min
Worth the Wait
At just the right moment, through the birth of Jesus, we’re reminded that the good news of God’s plan and redemption has come into our story.
Dec 23, 2024•8 min
Here's Your Sign
For a lamb to be worthy of sacrifice in the temple, there were certain conditions that had to be met. The lamb had to be spotless and unblemished.
Dec 22, 2024•7 min
Big Things, Little Package
Where are we looking to find our hope and assurance amidst the uncertainties and storms we see raging in the world?
Dec 21, 2024•10 min
Drop the Blanket
Security and comfort aren’t always found in what we’re holding on to; it’s found in what’s holding us—the good news of this Christmas story, Immanuel, Christ with us.
Dec 20, 2024•7 min
The Wonder in the Working
Perhaps you feel unseen, overlooked, and stained from whatever sin that’s still sticking to you, or maybe you have been given a label from the world. Hear this: you have value.
Dec 19, 2024•8 min
GPS: God's Positioning System
God of wonder, just as a GPS guides our earthly journey, we thank you for being our Divine Navigator, leading us on the path of righteousness.
Dec 18, 2024•8 min
Herod the (Not So) Great
When you realize the length God has gone to reach you through the gift of Jesus, it’s more about what he desires to do within you and through you that matters most.
Dec 17, 2024•8 min
Light Will Guide You Home
That is the power of light; it helps us find our way in the darkness.
Dec 16, 2024•7 min
The Wonder in the Searching
God is not a God who plays hide-and-seek with his creation. The season of Advent serves as a reminder for us all that no matter how lost or on the outside we may feel, not only have we already been found, he’s with us this very moment.
Dec 15, 2024•8 min