PODCAST
The God Journey - 2006
The God Journey is co-hosted by Wayne Jacobsen and Brad Cummings and is designed to facilitate an ever-expanding conversation with folks who are thinking outside the box of organized religion. Our primary desire is to encourage people on their spiritual journey by providing insightful commentary on Scriptures, current events and cultural trends, as well as fielding questions related to the challenging spiritual issues of real life. We are two brothers on a journey to discover the fullness of God's life and want to share that journey with you. As former pastors, authors and counselors, Brad and Wayne offer an engaging mix of wisdom, humor and compassion for those sorting out who God is and what it means to follow him. We'll talk freely about the failures of religion and the fallacies of secularism in our culture in an open, accessible dialogue that will be equally helpful, enlightening and entertaining to believers and nonbelievers alike. We will deal with the present day challenges
Episodes
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Looking Back… 2007 - The Quest for Significance
Second up in a couple of re-runs from this past year—Meet Jake Colsen with Dave Coleman joining us in the studio. We hope you’re all having a blessed holiday break and look forward to being back with a new podcast next week!
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Giving Up the Burden To Convince Others
In this their last podcast of 2006, Brad and Wayne talk about overcoming the need to convince others of the truth as we see it. Since the Holy Spirit is the one who convicts of sin, and of righteousness and and of judgment, it is not our job to do so and when we try we actually push people…
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Following Principles Or A Person
Wayne’s participation in a recent Brian McLaren conference starts a discussion with Brad regarding McLaren’s teachings, the Emergent conversation in general and a new book on the scene entitled, Chasing Francis. Join them as they contemplate whether or not this life in Christ is about following...
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How Real Is Intimacy?
Wayne and Brad follow-up their recent podcast on “Greed, Grace and Giving” by responding to comments they received from listeners. That, coupled with a recent letter asking how real is this ‘intimate relationship with Jesus’ supposed to be, leads to a discussion about the reality of God’s…
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Greed, Grace and Giving
Appropriate for the upcoming holiday season, Brad and Wayne share two wonderful productions from friends of theirs as they find themselves contemplating greed, grace and giving. First up is the hilarious song, “Stuff” by Sean Dietrich, a good friend who regularly follows this podcast and...
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Gratefully Disillusioned
When our religious constructs fail, what do when the illusion comes tumbling down? As Wayne and Brad see regularly, that is a scary time for many people. So, do we grab the duct tape and patch the illusion back together, or do we risk embracing the truth of what we’ve seen and go on a journey…
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Just Who Do We Think He Is?
Is God a distant observer of human history, or intimately involved in the affairs of people? Is he angry at our failures or compassionate for our struggle? These are the questions a new study seeks to answer. American Piety in the 21st Century is a new study conducted by Baylor University to...
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When You Can’t Play the Game Any Longer
Allegations of drug use and sexual trysts against one of America’s well-known mega-church pastors and political advocate for religious conservatism combines with some experiences Wayne had on his recent trip to New England to provoke a discussion with Brad on what happens when we can no longer…
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Battling Depression
What do believers do when they find themselves facing depression? This topic began with questions from some of our listeners both in personal conversations and on the forum. How can we help brothers and sisters who battle deep-seated depression and can’t seem to find their way out of it?...
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Being Gracious With Others’ Journey
Wayne’s return from Texas spawns a discussion about dealing with others’ journey out of a gracious heart. Quoting from some recent engagements listeners have had with pastors from the congregations they have left or are considering leaving, Brad and Wayne talk about how we can be generous with...
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Giftedness Outside the Box
So many people currently thinking outside the box of organized religion used used to be very active in traditional leadership roles in the congregational format. What happens to those gifts such as teaching, music, leading or counseling when we are no longer engaged with the Sunday morning...
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Giving Up Our Dividing Lines
A letter from a listener who found community in a place she least expected prompts Brad and Wayne to a discussion about how we think about other brothers and sisters. We often classify them in ways that lead to stereotypes and false assumptions that often make us feel superior to them instead of...
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Moving On
The important part of being on a journey, is to keep moving. But isn’t it so easy to pitch our tents in the pits of frustration, or even the mountain tops of glory, and miss out on Jesus inviting us to the next stage of our journey? Brad and Wayne begin with some follow-up questions from an…
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What You Wanted to Know…
Everything you wanted to know about Brad and Wayne is contained in this little podcast. O.K., probably not everything, but they take the time to answer the questions sent in by many of their faithful listeners. They didn’t see their own questions in advance, so what you get is the honest answer…
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Celebrating the Uniqueness of Your Journey
Discouragement almost always arises whenever we compare our own journey to someone else’s. The drive for certain outcomes and the false notion that God wants to wave a magic wand over us and fix our difficulties in an instant sidetracks from the simple trust and peace of following him every day....
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Passion for What?
Following up their discussion about the fear and anger that are so easily exploited in the Christian community, Brad and Wayne find themselves probing spiritual passion. How does our passion for Jesus find expression in ways that lead us more deeply to embrace what is on his heart, rather than…
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When the Church Leaves the Building
The boys from Family Room Media are back to talk about their ongoing journey discovering life outside the box of organized religion. We first met David Fredrickson a year and a half ago as he shared how their traditional congregation in Sacramento, California decentralized itself out of existence...
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Why Are Evangelicals So Angry?
With religious-based violence devouring our planet, why would such a broad consortium of evangelical leaders use the langue of war to rally believers to have impact in the world? A four-page advertisement in the current issue of Christianity Today heralds a ‘Wake Up Call” and a “Call to Arms” as…
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A Woman’s Identity - Part 1
They’re back! Some of you have asked to have our wives back and discuss a bit more about women and identity issues through motherhood and beyond. On this podcast we bring back Brad’s wife, Kelly, (pictured at left with Taylor) to talk about the challenges and insights she has gained as the mother...
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Expectations that Ruin the Journey
There’s nothing that will ruin a relationship faster than disappointed expectations in someone else. This problem is magnified infinitely when that someone else is God. So many believers we meet on this journey have gotten sidetracked by their disappointed expectations in God’s work in their…
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The Dreams Religion Kills
Brad and Wayne follow up their previous podcast “When Dreams Die”, with some listener reaction. Trying to serve God through the grid of our religious effort is a road littered with disillusions and broken dreams. After investing so much in that which bore so little fruit, what do we do with the...
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Sexual Brokenness
Listener responses to an earlier podcast on The Effeminacy of Religion, lead Brad and Wayne to discuss a bit more the sexual brokenness and temptation that is so prevalent in our age. How do we deal with the sexual images in our culture in the freedom and life of Jesus? WARNING: This discussion...
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Finding Friendships
A recent column in Time called You Gotta Have Friends reported on a recent study that said our society is becoming increasingly lonely. In the last 20 years Americans report a one-third drop in the number of friendships with whom they can share ‘important matters.’ Brad and Wayne talk about the...
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Books That Have Touched Our Lives
Many on our Forum have been sharing the books that have been helpful to them on their spiritual journeys. So, for your summer reading pleasure, Brad and Wayne weigh in on the books that have encouraged them and helped shape their spiritual passions. While certainly lot all-inclusive, it does cut…
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Mammon, Systems and Tithing
We’ve had a lot of comment on our forum about our original ‘God and Mammon’ podcast and questions about tithing. Brad and Wayne just couldn’t resist, so they jumped in again to this tangled web of how much money influences our religious systems and what they think the Bible teaches about tithing...
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The Effeminacy of Religion
WARNING: This is an explicit discussion of sexual issues in religion, from the passivity it requires of men and women and how it neglects sexual brokenness and temptation. This results in so many people living lost in their struggles instead of being transformed by his life. Sometimes hilarious…
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Walking With the Man Christ Jesus
Brad and Wayne had so much feedback from their previous podcast, that they thought it best to continue their discussion about our relationship with Jesus as our older brother in Father’s house. Sharing from their own experiences, they hope to help listeners either begin or deepen their own...
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The Man Christ Jesus
You’re not going to believe this one! A comment about the DaVinci Code movie takes Brad and Wayne into a discussion about the humanity of Jesus and how an over-exaggeration of his deity, at the expense of his humanity, robs us of a meaningful relationship Jesus wants us to have with him as our...
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Are You A Christian?
No, this is not a test to see if you qualify. A recent essay in Time spured a conversation about the term ‘Christian’ what it has come to mean in our world. Are you comfortable being called a Christian, or does that identify you with things that don’t speak of your faith or your spiritual…
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Where Is the Power?
This question came up in the Forum and it is one that Brad and Wayne have struggled with throughout their own journeys. Clearly, the life of God is not just a matter of words and principles; it is a kingdom of power where people are healed, broken hearts mended, and captive people delivered.…
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Hell In the Hallway
Certainly God wants to bring us into the fullness of his life, but the process of getting there is not without difficulty and pain. Jumping off listener comments from last week’s podcast, Brad and Wayne talk further about how God uses the brutal realities of our conflicted age to invite us...
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When Dreams Die…
One of the most gut-wrenching seasons in this journey is when God allows our dreams to die so that he can free us from the tyranny of our own agendas to live in his glory. Of course, we often don’t have a clue that this is what he’s doing, we our overwhelming feelings of disappointment,...
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Singles and the Journey
Wayne and Brad begin by responding comments on the forum from their last podcast on spiritual warfare, then begin a discussion about singles and some of the challenges they face on the journey in answer to a recent email. What came out of it is the joy of living in agenda-free relationships...
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What About Spiritual Warfare?
Just how much does God want his people involved in spiritual warfare? For the last decade or more prayer walks, intercession in a city’s high places, and discerning and rebuking principalities over a region have become quite a fad in the body of Christ, especially among Charismatic groups. Are...
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Laying It All Down in Dublin
Add this story to the stories of Ladysmith, South Africa, Fairlee, New Zealand and Sacramento, CA, where a group of people find that the institution they were creating was not what God wanted and how he lead them to do something about it. Meet Collin Langran and David Rice of Dublin who helped…
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One Woman’s View Of the Journey
Many of you have asked to hear more about this journey from a woman’s perspective. Recently Wayne spent some time in Washington, CD with Mike and Lynette Woods of Wellington, New Zealand. Mike is currently attached to the Education Ministry at the New Zealand Embassy while Lynette encourages…
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What One Little Prayer Can Do!
We often hear from those who think the church can only have impact on society through its massive institutions. How can believer simply networked together have any effect on what’s going on in the world today. Well we have an incredible story for you. In a recent trip to Washington, DC, Wayne met…
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The Quest for Significance
Paul Young of Gresham, Oregon joins Brad and Wayne for a discussion on the drive for significance that twists and distorts our journey. By appealing to our deep sense of shame and manipulating our desire to do something great for God, this unquenchable thirst takes our best intentions and uses…
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Meet Jake Colsen
For the last four years Wayne has been working with Dave Coleman writing an Internet book entitled So You Don’t Want to Go to Church Anymore under the penname Jake Colsen. The book has now been released in print and Brad uses that opportunity to interview Wayne and Dave about how they wrote the...
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Relational Leadership
For most people who have only seen leadership in the body of Christ implemented in institutional environments, it is difficult to see them any other way. A recent article about house churches in Time magazine and some discussion in our Forums drew Brad and Wayne back to this critical area. What…
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Lights! Camera! Action!
A recent meeting of some fellow-believers active in the filmmaking industry gave Brad and Wayne an opportunity to host a free-ranging discussion on movies, in general and movies directed at Christians in particular. They discuss what the future might hold for believers in this media and how it…
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Blessed Are the Peacemakers
Muslim riots over a cartoon in a Danish newspaper and the controversy over Bono’s spirituality and his campaign to help with hunger and AIDs in Africa provide the launch point for Wayne and Brad to discuss how believers can engage the world with the life of Jesus. Too often we are drawn into…
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A Death Worth Dying
Interaction with many of our listeners on the Forum to the ‘It’s About Jesus’ podcast collided with experiences from Wayne’s recent trip to the St. Louis area to create the perfect storm for further dialog about what it means to connect with Jesus in a way that fulfills God’s desire for our…
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What About Worship?
People outside the walls of traditional congregational life often say that they miss the worship most. What they mean, of course, is the corporate expression of singing and praise. But is that worship? Brad and Wayne explore what worship really means and how that can become a daily part of our...
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It’s About Jesus!
This journey is not about house church, relational church, institutional church or anything else! It’s about Jesus–first, foremost and always! The early Christians did not promote a gospel, a ritual, or a set of principles, but the person of Jesus Christ, knowable by all who want to follow him....
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Suffering and the Journey
As much as we might hope that following Jesus ensures a pain-free life, reality constantly argues against it. As does Jesus himself, when he warned us that we would face troubles as long as we are in this world. Some of the most difficult questions we face concern how we reconcile God’s love for…
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Removing the Clutter
Some wonderful postings on The God Journey Forums gives Brad and Wayne an opportunity to re-visit some of the topics covered in recent podcasts, including more on recognizing God’s voice and the conflict between those who are in and out of traditional congregations. Through the contributions of...
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Then Angst Between Innies and Outies
Christianity Today’s current review of George Barna’s book, Revolution, highlights the misunderstanding and increasing polarization between those who see the church only as a traditional congregation and those looking for more relational expressions of body life. Wayne and Brad wade into the...
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Learning to Listen
The idea that God speaks to normal people in the course of their daily lives is still a controversial concept among Christians. Wayne and Brad often refer to God’s leading as a significant factor in their relationship with God and their journey. In this podcast they discuss how a daily, ongoing...
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The God Journey is co-hosted by Wayne Jacobsen and Brad Cummings and is designed to facilitate an ever-expanding conversation with folks who are thinking outside the box of organized religion. Our primary desire is to encourage people on their spiritual journey by providing insightful commentary on Scriptures, current events and cultural trends, as well as fielding questions related to the challenging spiritual issues of real life. We are two brothers on a journey to discover the fullness of God's life and want to share that journey with you. As former pastors, authors and counselors, Brad and Wayne offer an engaging mix of wisdom, humor and compassion for those sorting out who God is and what it means to follow him. We'll talk freely about the failures of religion and the fallacies of secularism in our culture in an open, accessible dialogue that will be equally helpful, enlightening and entertaining to believers and nonbelievers alike. We will deal with the present day challenges
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