Simon Peter
On the way to the villages around this city, away from the noise of Jerusalem, Jesus turned reflective and posed a question to his disciples: “Who do people say I am?”
Mar 22, 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
The Jews in the Temple Courts
Jesus was claiming so much more, that he was of the very nature, the very essence, of God and, therefore, divine.
Mar 21, 2025•19 min
The Jews
Jesus, given his divine nature, as affirmed in the first chapter of John’s gospel, is marked by nothing less than eternity.
Mar 20, 2025•21 min
One of the Teachers of the Law
Precisely because God is one, and no other, devotion to the Most High requires all that we are, whatever faculties, capacities, or talents that we possess.
Mar 19, 2025•22 min
The Pharisees Again
Jesus came to call those who were mindful of their own sin, who were well aware of falling short of the glory of God, and who were, therefore, painfully conscious of their genuine need for redemption.
Mar 18, 2025•24 min
Simon, the Pharisee
The truth is that we are all in God’s debt and that debt is undoubtedly broad and wide—once we begin to understand just who God is.
Mar 17, 2025•15 min
I Have Come to Do Your Will (Psalm 40)
It is at his baptism that Jesus publicly accepted a mission and a journey which would lead to all the great redemptive acts which we later commemorate.
Mar 16, 2025•13 min
The Teachers of the Law
Heavenly Father, thank you that your Son has both the authority to forgive sins as well as the desire to heal us of sickness.
Mar 15, 2025•16 min
The Pharisees
Help us to celebrate truth wherever we find it, promote goodness in every opportunity, and behold beauty as you designed it.
Mar 14, 2025•20 min
The Scribes
Jesus’s actions through the Spirit of God brought about the kingdom of God, not as some imagining, but in reality.
Mar 13, 2025•13 min
The Family of Jesus
God of Israel, in whom there is neither Jew nor Gentile, slave nor free, male nor female—thank you for welcoming me into your family and claiming me as your own.
Mar 12, 2025•11 min
Hometown Folk
Holy God, I trade mere familiarity with you for intimacy with you.
Mar 11, 2025•16 min
The Devil
Neither power nor riches, neither kingdoms nor splendor, can ever take the place of the enormous good, beyond imagining, that is God.
Mar 10, 2025•16 min
Gaining Perspective (Psalm 39)
The voice and expression of the Psalms is so much more varied than what we typically experience during worship in church.
Mar 09, 2025•15 min
John the Baptist
Baptizing with the Holy Spirit, communicating the very presence of the Most High to the hearts and minds of those who are baptized, now that’s something only God can do.
Mar 08, 2025•10 min
Herod the Great
The Almighty is an evocative God, the one who calls forth, who addresses those in relation to him to follow in obedience the divine will and design.
Mar 07, 2025•11 min
Simeon
Wherever Jesus is, there is light, revelation, and unveiling.
Mar 06, 2025•12 min
The True Light
[Jesus], and [Jesus] alone, is the true light that illuminates all of humanity whether he is celebrated or not or even recognized or not.
Mar 05, 2025•11 min
Jesus Prayer #9: The Real Lord's Prayer (Part 3)
Might Jesus be saying he will take care of expanding his kingdom in the world if we will focus on seeking his kingdom within our relationships in the body of Christ?
Mar 04, 2025•17 min
Jesus Prayer #9: The Real Lord's Prayer (Part 2)
The impulse of false holiness is to protect oneself from the world. The instincts of true holiness is to trust God for protection in the world.
Mar 03, 2025•21 min
Holy Spirit Story: "BAFFLED" (with Kevin Adams)
"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.”
Mar 02, 2025•15 min
Jesus Prayer #9: The Real Lord's Prayer (Part 1)
We need to make the shift from the whole idea of a better prayer life to the consuming reality of a life of prayer.
Mar 01, 2025•22 min
Jesus Prayer #8: The Abandonment Prayer
Though you are tired, weak, and utterly incapable of facing the looming crosses ahead, you are a champion by the grace of God and the cross of Jesus.
Feb 28, 2025•21 min
Jesus Prayer #7: The Forsakenness Prayer
Forsakenness is a real experience and it can be occasioned by very real conditions. To be forsaken by God, however, is not possible.
Feb 27, 2025•22 min
Jesus Prayer #6: The Forgiveness Prayer
Unforgiveness creates a barrier not only in our relationships with other people, but in our relationship with God. In fact, according to Jesus, our peace with God depends on our peace with other people.
Feb 26, 2025•22 min
Jesus Prayer #5: The Gethsemane Prayer
It is more common to hear people lift up their hopes in their prayers. Jesus begins by lifting up his faith.
Feb 25, 2025•21 min
Jesus Prayer #4: The Prayer for Glory (Part 3)
Our crosses come to us in those places where the ways of the kingdom clash with the ways of the world and call on us to make difficult decisions.
Feb 24, 2025•21 min
The Grammar of Repentance (Psalm 38)
The penitential psalms are the basic grammar of the repentant life, which should be one of the deepest marks or badges of the Christian life.
Feb 23, 2025•12 min
Jesus Prayer #4: The Prayer for Glory (Part 2)
In the largest way and with the fewest words, the cross is the weight of the glory of the love of God for the whole world, beginning with me.
Feb 22, 2025•21 min
Jesus Prayer #4: The Prayer for Glory (Part 1)
The secret to life, according to Jesus, is to die before you die.
Feb 21, 2025•22 min
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