PODCAST
The God Journey - 2012
Here are two brothers on a journey to discover the fullness of God’s life and want to share their journeys 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. They 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. They celebrate the adventure of growing in the life of Jesus in an ever-increasing secular society in a way that is intelligently accessible and practically relevant. The God Journey 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 fieldi
Episodes
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God’s Provision and Our Desires
In the last podcast of the year Wayne takes on a question from our comment line about whether we need to work for a living if we trust God for our finances. Is working part of the curse of the law Jesus set us free from, or is it part of how God provides for us? That opens a door to conversations...
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Jumping Off the Train
Wayne takes time to read through some wonderful listener input since the last podcast as people are learning to jump off the barreling train of the world’s expectations and religion’s demands, to engage a more incredible process of God’s transforming work. This journey is revealed not by find a...
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When Curriculum Attacks!
In a world replete with books, seminars, curriculums and classes designed to teach you how to have a relationship with God, why is it that so many people have a difficult time connecting? What if none of those things can provide a relationship with him, and in fact when we become more focused on…
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Living In More Gracious Space
Does religious thinking actually make it more difficult to know God and if so, what can we do about it? Kent Burgess of Manchester, IL joins Wayne in this podcast as they discuss that religion isn’t all that different from most of the ways the world thinks in that it drives us by fear and...
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Learning Love More Deeply
This past summer was a strange one for Wayne and Sara as God set about to do a deeper work of healing in both of them and through that process connect them more deeply than they’ve ever known. After thirty-seven years of marriage, they were caught by surprise and challenged at the very core of...
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A Journey of Growing Trust
What do you do when your thirty-years old, and the hunger you have for God is unfulfilled by the religious answers you’ve been given? That’s what faced Wayne’s father almost 55 years ago and launched this young farmer and father of four on a journey of spiritual transformation that fulfilled his...
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Relaxing In His Unfolding Will
On the last day of his three trips to Europe this summer, Wayne sits down with Silvio Viotti to process some of his experiences and their conversations helping people find their way out of religious obligation and learning to live in the love of the Father. Silvio is a friend from Vallorbe,...
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When Grace Overruns Pain
When you’re trapped in pain, you can’t imagine what grace might do to invite you out, but Paul and Janna LaFrance have lived through their own brokenness and found God’s grace more than sufficient to heal and restore them. On a recent trip to Canada, Wayne asked them to share a bit about their...
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The End of Religion
This is part two of a conversation Wayne had with Bruxy Cavey, author of The End of Religion, and Sean Davidson, a member of the staff at The Meeting House where Bruxy is the teaching pastor. They began last week talking about the reality of relationship Jesus extends to us. Now they plunge into…
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Knowing God is More Than Knowing About Him
Ever since reading The End of Religion, I’ve wanted to talk to its author, Bruxy Cavey. During a recent trip to Canada, we had the opportunity to have lunch together and record some of our conversation along with one of their newest staff members, Sean Davidson. Since the podcast went long, we’re...
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Jake Colsen Goes to Hollywood
No the break isn’t over, but I couldn’t resist the urge to share this with all of you. “So You Don’t Want to Go to Church Anymore” has been one of my flagship books that helps people wrestle with the reality of living loved in the religious environment of the 21st century. Almost a year ago, he…
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Taking A Break
Don’t worry, we’ll be back! But The God Journey will be taking a brief hiatus. Wayne explains that for many reasons he is sensing a stirring in his heart that a change is in the wind for what he’s been doing over the past seventeen years. To create the space to help sort out what that means will…
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Don’t Be a Circus Monkey
Podcast Links: Infomercial for the secrets of making your gifts a “full time ministry” Help With Kenya When you use God’s gift to seek validation for yourself, or you need to make it the source of your income, something very serious gets twisted, both in the gift and how you’ll treat others to…
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Risking the Congregation
Don Zimmermann, a long time Baptist pastor in the Phoenix area, joins Wayne to share his journey learning to live inside the love of the Father and how it has transformed his own life, his family’s life, and that of the congregation he has been involved with for multiple decades. People often ask...
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Exit Ramps to Nowhere
After listening to our recent podcast about “Living Beyond Your Transformation” one person came to the discovery that they were in a situation where they were asking others to live beyond their transformation. That takes Wayne and Brad down a wonderful track of doing to others what isn’t even...
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Rainbows And Mountain Lions
Brad and Wayne work through some of the email and blog postings from their recent podcasts on how God transforms us, especially in times of need and extremity. Too many people live with the assumption that if they are walking in God’s love that their circumstances will always be good and that God...
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What Brush Do I Paint With?
Whether it’s our angst with the institutions of organized religion, or dealing with expectations of God and others, it seems easier for us to paint with a broad brush and stand on our own principles and judgments of others. Better still to paint with a finer brush of what God is doing in us and...
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Living Beyond Our Transformation
When we lose our need to try to get God to give us what we think we need, then we’re free to live by what God gives. Brad is back and he joins Wayne for a conversation about God’s transforming process and our learning to be comfortable in it, rather than resorting to our own human attempts to…
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In the Face of Death
We could call this The Death Podcast. Wayne continues his conversation with Dave Coleman, his co-writer on So You Don’t Want to Go to Church Anymore. Dave has not only faced his own mortality in a brutal battle with cancer years ago, but as a hospice chaplain he has helped many others face their...
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Disconnecting Affection From Approval
As long as we think God’s affection for us is tied to his approval regarding our performance, we will grovel about in our shame and miss the reality of living loved. Joining Wayne this week is Dave Coleman, co-writer of So You Don’t Want to Go to Church Anymore and a long-time friend of Wayne’s....
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Living In Agreement with Father
When we truly know we are loved by a gracious Father, then we are freed to live in agreement with him, instead of using him to fulfill our own desires. During Wayne’s recent trip to Ireland, he got into a conversation with a close friend, David Rice, as they talked about the process by which God...
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The Dark Underbelly of Religious Leadership
This podcast may not be for everyone. While in Holland recently Wayne met Filip van den Eynde, a young man who had just spent 17 years serving in an charismatic, apostolic setting and was able to see behind the scenes as those who claimed to be “men of God” systematically manipulated and abused...
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Whose House Is It Anyway?
Calling a building that Christians gather in on Sunday morning “God’s house” is not a cute story we tell children; it is an abusive image that disfigures the God of the Bible and keeps people from actually engaging his reality in the places he most wants to share his life with us. Brad joins…
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With You, God Is Pleased!
Both the cruelty of the world and the conformity demands of religion teach us to live inside a shell of our own self protection and only present to others the illusion we think they want to see. Shame and fear combine to make us feel lost and isolated in the world, unable to be who God simply…
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The God With Us
As Wayne recovers from his recent trip to Russia and Holland, Brad joins him for a discussion of his trip. They talk about Wayne’s perception of the Russian people he was with, the unique challenges of their culture, and their passion to learn to live loved in a culture where only a very small...
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In Russia With Love
From St. Petersburg Russia, Wayne talks with his hosts, Michael and Susan Simpson as they share a bit of their journey that engaged a former K-State women’s basketball player to the people of Russia. They describe the current climate in Russia and what God has done to change their mission from...
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A God-Filled Nobody, Part 2
Wayne continues his conversation with John Beaumont from last week. John Beaumont is the author of A God-Filled Nobody, and numerous other books about our freedom to live in the revelation of Jesus and has traveled throughout the world encouraging others on this journey as well. Now retired he...
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A God-Filled Nobody
During Wayne’s recent trip to New Zealand, he spent a day with John Beaumont, author of A God-Filled Nobody, and numerous other books about our freedom to live in the revelation of Jesus. John is one of those pioneers whose passion for God helped unmask the conventions of religion that do more to...
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Repentance That Works
Following up on a conversation Wayne and Kent Burgess had over the weekend about repentance, and how their view of it has shifted greatly from their old days of religion, they reconnected to record some of that for others. They used to see it as wallowing in guilt and shame and making...
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Sharing Another’s Journey
The previous podcast began to explore what it means to share someone else’s journey, even if its not the journey you’d prefer them to be on. Wayne asked his wife Sara to join him for a further look at the things God has taught them in their own marriage and to answer some of the questions that...
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The Simplicity of a Loving Life
Brad is back in the podcast studio as he and Wayne sort through the last few weeks of not seeing each other and catch up a bit on Wayne’s trip to New Zealand. Sorting through the mail bag and blog posts they read one of the best blog posts ever, and then find themselves talking about living in...
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The Life of a Pilgrim, Part 2
Part 2 of Wayne’s conversation with Jack Gray, a Scottsman who has resided in New Zealand for almost 50 years. They continue their discussion from last week on the life of the church and Jack’s journey to find the church Jesus is building, rather than the one man is building. They talk about a...
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The Life of A Pilgrim
> Meet Jack Gray, a native of Scotland, surgeon in the Congo in the 1950s, doctor and hospital administrator in New Zealand, and a life-long, passionate follower of Jesus. Wayne met up with Jack during his recent visit to New Zealand, where Jack and his family have lived since 1965, and…
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The Myth of Managed Spirituality
Crawling through recent emails, Wayne and Brad share and comment from other people’s journeys and how they are being transformed in God’s life. That brings up such recent podcast topics as how we view and treat women, spiritual authority, and our attempts to change others through preaching...
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The Love of a Father
Wayne’s just back from the Fort Worth area of Texas and in sharing some of that with Brad they end up talking about finding our security and freedom in the affection of a loving Father. Unfortunately religion teaches us to live out of our heads by finding and following a set of principles or...
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Don’t Should On Me
There are two different conversations in this podcast. The first is about not shoulding on ourselves or others, spawned by a t-shirt that were given to Brad and Wayne. That doesn’t mean there aren’t wonderful ways to live that God has revealed, but that conformity through obligation is a very...
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In the Midst of Pain
Do we have to go through suffering to be shaped by God? Prompted by a question on a blog comment, Brad and Wayne talk about the tension between finding God’s presence in the midst of our troubles and difficulties, and thinking God brings suffering in our lives to teach us something. While God…
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Passive Follower or Active Participant?
Brad and Wayne couldn’t find a slot to record a podcast this week, but Wayne had some visitors in town over the weekend who are long time friends and frequent listeners to The God Journey. Watching their lives grow in joy and freedom over the last decade, Wayne gleans lessons from the journeys of...
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Your Sense of Belonging
It’s Super Bowl week in the States and a little romp about football turns into a wider discussion about God’s intervention in sport and recreation and why people get so connected to athletic teams that they go through days of depression if their favorite one loses. Could it be a result of God...
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Seeing People as People
Brad’s been listen to the relationships versus religion raps on YouTube and Wayne’s been reading Tattoos of the Heart and the two converge in a lively discussion about how we view people. Do we treat others as individuals and love as people even if broken or lost, or do we see them through the…
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Relationships First
Charlie shares a wonderful story about how this podcast has opened some doors at his work. Then Brad and Wayne interact with other emails about creating community that offers a safe environment by putting relationships first, as a family does. Too many times a genuine move of God gets curtailed…
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Living Truly
Wayne and Brad revisit the Spiral of Silence Podcast through comments and emails received about it. This time the focus is on our response to this phenomenon that makes us care more about what others think of us than we do living truly. How do we help create a safe place for ourselves and others…
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The Spiral of Silence
Wayne and Brad explore the cultural phenomenon researchers are calling the “spiral of silence” that demonstrates the truth behind the Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, “The Emperor’s new Clothes”. Simply put, people who want to avoid reprisal or isolation actually go along with the popular...
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Here are two brothers on a journey to discover the fullness of God’s life and want to share their journeys 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. They 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. They celebrate the adventure of growing in the life of Jesus in an ever-increasing secular society in a way that is intelligently accessible and practically relevant. The God Journey 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 fieldi
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