PODCAST
The God Journey - 2009
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.
Episodes
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Merry Christmas
Wayne and Brad pass on their Christmas greetings to The God Journey crowd as they take a couple of weeks off from recording to find some rest, refreshing and joy with family as well. We’ll be back on January 8, 2010. If you’ve listened well to us you’ll be able to thrive in this season without…
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A Journey for the Hungry
Brad is back from Nashville and Wayne from Brazil. They have lots of catching up to do and Wayne shares some of his experiences with brothers and sisters in Brazil. They also share some letters from other listeners, which causes them to contemplate a question too often ignored. Is the Bible is...
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Expectancy and Expectations
What’s the difference between living with an expectancy in God’s unfolding purpose in our lives, and trying to get God to fulfill our expectations for our own convenience or for the ministry we want to have? A question Brad poses to Wayne opens up a dialog about what kind of expectancy they live…
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How Organized Does The Church Have To Be?
Wayne and Brad continue the discussion they began last week about the quest for expressions of church that allow authentic community to grow and flourish. To add to the discussion they read from a book review in Christianity Today about Why Churchless Christianity Doesn’t Work and from an…
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Pastor Crap
After celebrating a bit of thanksgiving with some listener letters, Wayne and Brad look some news stories talking about the demands and dysfunctions of being a pastor in the 21st century. Have we created a position ripe for disaster, both for the person who tries to fill that role and the...
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Compassionate Eyes
Brad breaks the rules. What happened in Vegas, doesn”t stay in Vegas. Having just returned from a business seminar in Las Vegas he tells about a fresh work of grace in his heart that God revealed to him while he was there. That leads to a discussion with Wayne about how lost we can be in our own...
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You Might Want to Read It Again
Wayne is back from South Africa and shares insights of his trip with Brad, especially how people are learning to break free of the fear of appeasement and are learning to live loved by the Father. Also included is a brief interview with Stephan Vosloo to update how their journey has gone since...
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Living Freely in God’s Love
Brad and Wayne interviewed Darin last week on the release of his newest book, The Misunderstood God: The Lies Religion Teaches About God. They held him over for a second week to find out more about his personal life, what makes him tick and where his passions are in encouraging the body of…
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The Misunderstood God
Wayne and Brad have enjoyed a growing relationship with Darin Hufford and are now helping him bring his newest book to print through Windblown Media. <a...
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The Tyranny of Our Wants
Wayne is off to South Africa and before he left he started a discussion with Brad about our endless fascination with speculation and controversy, in sports as well as in theology and human relationships. And those keep us from living in the adventure of learning to discern him and follow him in...
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Get Off the Dock
If we’re ever going to sail in the joy and freedom of this journey, we have to learn again how to live out of hearts where God interacts with our Spirit, rather than trying to live out of intellect and emotions. That’s not to say our intellect or emotions are unimportant, but both have the…
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A Family Without Fences
Who are real pastors and elders among the Body of Christ today? That’s not where Brad and Wayne start their discussion, but it is where it ends. A letter from a senior pastor to a former member of his church launches a discussion about those who seek control over others by fear and intimidation...
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Flourishing in Trials
What did Jesus mean when he promised his followers abundant life? We’ve been taught that it means a life of ease and our selected list of creature comforts. But does it? Through the letters of a few of their listeners Wayne and Brad dive into this topic with a daughter disaffected from her…
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Walking Alongside
One of the great freedoms of living loved is no longer feeling the compulsion to manipulate others to see what you see. When you find that grace you can now be alongside someone in a way that reflects how God does it with us and that opens doors into the deeper kinds of conversations that…
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Bo’s Café
Wayne and Brad were in Denver with the authors of the newly-released novel Bo’s Café, John Lynch, Bill Thrall, and Bruce McNicol. This amazing story chronicles a young man whose life is being torn apart by his own anger, and confronts the reality of grace that unfolds in a way that takes him by...
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Hear, Trust, Follow
If you don't relax, you're still trying. Brad and Wayne spend some time dipping into the ol' mail bag and find some fascinating stories from people who are transitioning from thinking religiously to learning to live relationally. People share some great insights and passionate moments as they are...
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Certainly Not!
How can we communicate with others our heart-felt passions, even political positions, without destroying our relationship with them? Recent comments about the health care debate in the States brought a host of responses from listeners, many of which wanted to divide up sides and diminish those…
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Our Work or His?
How do we know the difference between God asking us to labor alongside him in some task, and employing the arm of flesh to try to do something for God? Wayne and Brad wade into those waters as they talk about the futility of flesh, but the power of cooperating with God in those things he wants to...
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Faith In Uncertainty
The people who seem to enjoy the journey they most are those who have learned the secret of enjoying God’s grace in the face of uncertainty, not those who try to remove uncertainty from their lives. Wayne and Brad dip into the old mailbox as they discuss our attempts to manipulate life and even…
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What Really Needs To Change
Brad comes back from vacation a bit riled up about what lies behind our national rancor over nationalized health care and Wayne quotes a few of dead guys from stuff he’s been reading lately to shed some perspective on the brokenness of our culture and our human attempts to remedy it. Our…
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The Wonder of Real Community
Wayne and Brad catch up with some listener email and find themselves contemplating the wonder of real community when followers of Jesus find each other and encourage each other to live in the light, without manipulating or trying to fix each other. They talk about the power of fear to sidetrack...
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The Gospel as Commodity?
Wayne and Brad are back from the International Christian Retailing Show with some questions and concerns about the intersection of the gospel and economics in our day. Fed by a listener’s question about whether we making the gospel a commodity by hiring pastors to teach what we want to hear…
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Living Authentically In a Two-Faced World
Wayne and Brad are in Denver with the authors of Truefaced: Trust God and Others With Who You Really Are, Bill Thrall, Bruce McNicol and John Lynch, for a conversation about the wonder of living in grace-based relationships. We all seek a safe place where we can be known for who we are and loved…
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Relaxing Into His Love
Some listener feedback from the parenting podcasts start Brad and Wayne off by revisiting that topic, but they soon push on with other listener email to discuss how it is that people learn to live inside of the Father’s love. Learning to live loved is not a doctrine we have to be convinced of…
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Honest to God
Wayne’s read a new book and can’t resist sharing it with Brad. Though not a Christian title, per se, Mistakes Were Made (but not by me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts, is an exploration of how human relationships are destroyed by our own need to be right....
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Rightly Treasuring What Matters
Finally Brad and Wayne have a chance to catch up with all the email and traveling they’ve been doing over the past few months. They begin by rehashing some of the conversation about parenting in the previous two podcasts, then talk about some of the lessons and joys in their travels, the joy of...
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Loving on Purpose: Parenting and So Much More #2
Danny and Sheri Silk are back for part two of their discussion with Wayne and Brad about the challenges and joys of raising children in grace. Danny is author of Loving or Kids on Purpose and they talk about some of the specific questions sent in by many of our listeners about discipline,...
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Loving on Purpose: Parenting and So Much More #1
In this special edition of The God Journey, Wayne and Brad are joined by Danny and Sheri Silk as they share about the challenges and joys of raising children in grace. Danny is author of Loving or Kids on Purpose and they talk about some of the specific questions sent in by many of our listeners...
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Commitment, Marriage, and Church Life
Wayne is back from vacation and Brad has skipped town, so Wayne’s wife, Sara, joins him for a listener question about the role of commitment in marriage and church life. How important is commitment to a growing relationship? Do people check out of relationships too easily, instead of growing...
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Living Beyond the Recipe
Sara brings in a plateful of her fresh-out-of-the-oven, famous chocolate chip cookies and Wayne and Brad enjoy the feast while talking about the difference between the truth of a recipe and tasting the reality of what the recipe makes. If we focus on the recipe as an end in itself, we get caught…
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Reading Scripture With New Eyes
A request from a reader asking Brad and Wayne to help them read Scripture without the religious glasses that lead to distorting the simple story of God’s love and redemption, spark a discussion about reading the Bible through the lens of Jesus Christ and embracing its value. Also they hear from a...
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The Fragrance of Father
With a plethora of Christianity-related stories in the news, Brad and Wayne find themselves talking about Obama’s Notre Dame speech on abortion, the evangelical support for torture and how God makes himself known in our culture. Why don’t believers live more with the fragrance of Father as they...
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Losing Your Religion
Following up on their discussion of ultimate reconciliation with letters from readers, Brad and Wayne find themselves focusing on the problems a religious mindset creates for those who want to live on the simple relational journey of knowing Christ Jesus. They talk about theological precision,...
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Ultimate Reconciliation? The Hell With It!
Wayne and Brad plow through a potpourri of topics that listeners have recently asked about. They start with a delightful story about how God’s gifts can frustrate us in the early stages, but only because God is preparing for the growth he is working in us. They talk about spiritual warfare and…
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He Is With You!
Wayne is back from a delightful trip to Indiana and plowing through the mailbag with Brad they find some interesting letters about holiness and the parenting book they talked about in the previous podcast. Throughout they keep coming back to a familiar theme—everything we can access in this age...
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Parenting In Grace
Wayne has found a new book on parenting in grace and can’t wait to share it with Brad. Loving our Kids on Purpose by Danny Silk not only gives a framework for parenting children, whether they are toddlers or adults, but it also gives some wonderful insights into how God disciplines his children…
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The Grace-Full Life
The mailbag is full as Wayne and Brad come back from Easter. And what letters they are, too, as people share from their own journeys the surprising changes they are recognizing in themselves as a result of living loved and loving others. Finding freedom from changing others allows us to love them...
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What Really Happened At The Cross?
On this Good Friday Brad and Wayne talk about a growing doctrinal feud over the crucifixion of Jesus. Those who advocate for the view often called penal substitution, see the cross as God expending his wrath on the Son as a stand-in for the punishment we deserved and by doing so satisfying his...
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No Need For Actors
Following up their “Is Christianity Collapsing“, Brad and Wayne discuss an interesting column written by Tom Ehrich, an Episcopal priest, entitled Saying No to Sundays. It offers an honest and generous look at those who no longer find the Sunday morning ritual a part of their connection to the…
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Is Christianity Collapsing?
Who’s in? Who’s out? Who cares? Christianity has been all over the news lately as many are predicting the impending collapse of Christianity as we know it. People are leaving institutions in droves; fewer people identify themselves as Christians, pastors and parishoners are leaving congregations…
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Finding Community
Brad and Wayne discuss David Wilkerson’s open letter of impending calamity on the United States that is making the rounds these days and then take a humorous look at how our own efforts to know God better might look to God. Then they settle into a discussion about the changes in relationship that...
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Thoughts on Structure
A trip through the mail bag lends us the voices of a solider in Afghanistan, a young girl in Canada, an honest man California and a congregation in Tennessee, as they sort through their God Journeys. And then Brad and Wayne take on one of their most often-asked questions: “Are you saying there is...
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Kindness and Severity
After some reader feedback from our No Man (or Woman) is an Island podcast, Brad and Wayne find themselves in a discussion base on Romans 11:22 about the kindness and severity of God. Many people misunderstand the reality of the loving Father as just a God who is nice all the time. What about…
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The Grace of God’s Doing
Wayne and Brad follow-up on last week’s podcast about ‘Stop Doing’ by delving further into Romans (10:9-10, and 12:1-4) and incorporating some of the Forum discussion about the disciplines, especially fasting. What is the difference between doing something in an attempt to earn a relationship, or...
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Stop Doing!
Wayne and Brad are back from New York City and share from their experiences there as well as plow through the email that has come in from recent podcasts. One of the recurring themes revolves around the classic question: I want to learn to live loved, but what do I do? Their musings take them to...
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No Man Is An Island
Brad and Wayne read through some excerpts from Thomas Merton’s No Man Is An Island, which were quoted on Wayne’s Blog a couple of weeks ago. In these stirring passages Merton talks about our fears that no one will love us and how they rob us of the beauty of relationships because we can no longer...
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The Adventure of Hearing Him
Trying to follow God through the opportunities and unfolding circumstances of our lives can be confusing. It can also be incredibly frustrating when you think you know what God wants you to do, but have no clear means as to fulfill it. Brad and Wayne talk about the adventure of learning to listen...
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Consider It Joy
The Bible offers strange language to those who live in the midst of suffering: “Consider it all joy.” But isn’t it far easier to consider it all yukky and even wonder whether or not God truly loves us? Wayne and Brad talk about their times of suffering and how to let God work in such times in…
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Living Together in Grace
Wayne has moved and is a bit overwhelmed with a fried hard drive and a not a little torqued by ongoing government sell-out to the Wall Street bankers. Brad helps him through all of that and through some listener email they focus on how brothers and sisters can share life together with grace. It...
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Behind Door Number Three
Brad and Wayne continue the discussion on left-handed power, interacting with some of the comments posted on The God Journey Forum. How do you live without the quest for power, can easily make you a sitting duck for those who will exploit those who live in such freedom? The true joys of Christian...
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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.
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