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All Episodes

Paying Ridiculous Attention to Jesus — 274 episodes

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Season 10 Episode 5 - The Shocking Kindness of Jesus... In Our Disappointments

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Season 10 Episode 4 - The Shocking Kindness of Jesus... In Our Doubts

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Season 10 Episode 3 - The Shocking Kindness of Jesus... In Our Shame

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Season 10 Episode 2 - The Shocking Kindness of Jesus... In Our Grief

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Season 10 Episode 1 - 10 Years of Paying Ridiculous Attention to Jesus

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Season 9 Episode 8 - We Already Have What We Need

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Season 9 Episode 7 - Crossing the Event Horizon

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Season 9 Episode 6 - Spirit Intimacy

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Season 9 Episode 5 - Dependence

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Season 9 Episode 4 - Our Right-Now Eternity

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Season 9 Episode 3 - You've Got All My Love

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Season 9 Episode 2 - The Light of the World

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Season 9 Episode 1 - Kindness for Broken People

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Season 8 Episode 11 - The Enemy

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Season 8 Episode 10 - What Maturity Is, and Isn't

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Season 8 Episode 9 - Deep-Fake Jesus

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Season 8 Episode 8 - Losing Our Chaff

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Season 8 Episode 7 - Peculiar People

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Season 8 Episode 6 - If It's So 'Easy,' Why Am I So Worried?

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Season 8 Episode 5 - The Relational Generosity of Jesus

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Season 8 Episode 4 - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy

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Season 8 Episode 3 - The Exclusionary Jesus

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Season 8 Episode 2 - Sitting At The Wrong End Of The Table

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Season 8 Episode 1 - The Ways of Jesus: Life Over Death

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Season 7 Episode 7 - THE WAYS OF JESUS: Why Our Weakness Is a Strength...Really!

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PRATJ Season 7 Ep 6 - THE WAYS OF JESUS: Pushing Back on Deception

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Season 7 Episode 5 - THE WAYS OF JESUS: Exercising Agency

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Season 7 Episode 4 - THE WAYS OF JESUS: The Turnaround

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Season 7 Episode 3 - JESUS IN THE REAL WORLD: Moral Compass #2

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Season 7 Episode 2 - JESUS IN THE REAL WORLD: Moral Compass #1

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Season 7 Episode 1 - JESUS IN THE REAL WORLD: New You

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Season 6 Episode 31 - JESUS IN THE REAL WORLD: Gift-Giving

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Season 6 Episode 30 - JESUS IN THE REAL WORLD: Snakes & Stones

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Season 6 Episode 29 - JESUS IN THE REAL WORLD: Ideologies

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Season 6 Episode 28 - JESUS IN THE REAL WORLD: Enemies/Schmenemies

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Season 6 Episode 27: JESUS IN THE REAL WORLD - All the Lonely People

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Season 6 Episode 26: JESUS IN THE REAL WORLD - Over-Functioning

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Season 6 Episode 25 - THE HARVEST: Abide

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Season 6 Episode 24 - THE HARVEST: Differentiation

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Season 6 Episode 23 - THE HARVEST: Redeeming Our Story

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Season 6 Episode 22 - THE HARVEST: Story & Metaphor

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Season 6 Episode 21 - THE HARVEST: Bold

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Season 6 Episode 20 - HARVEST: Delight

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Season 6 Episode 19 - THE HARVEST: Service

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Season 6 Episode 18 - THE HARVEST: Brave

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Season 6 Episode 17 - JESUS-PEOPLE: “Legion”

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Season 6 Episode 16 - JESUS-PEOPLE: The Children

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Season 6 Episode 15 - JESUS-PEOPLE: The Father

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Season 6 Episode 14 - JESUS-PEOPLE: The “Mystery Widow”

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Season 6 Episode 13 - JESUS-PEOPLE: Mr. & Mrs. Cleopas

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Season 6 Episode 12 - JESUS PEOPLE: Mary Magdalene

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Season 6 Episode 11 - JESUS-PEOPLE: The Beloved Disciple

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Season 6 Episode 10 - JESUS-PEOPLE: Nicodemus

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Season 6 Episode 9 - JESUS-PEOPLE: Judas

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Season 6 Episode 8 - BEST-OF: What Is the Meaning of Life?

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Season 6 Episode 7 - KINGDOM COME: Hurricanes

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Season 6 Episode 6 - KINGDOM COME: Miracles

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Season 6 Episode 5 - KINGDOM COME: Hope/Fear/Conviction

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Season 6 Episode 4 - KINGDOM COME: Beauty

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Season 6 Episode 3 - KINGDOM COME: Seventy-Times-Seven

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Season 6 Episode 2 - KINGDOM COME: Above All Else

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Season 6 Episode 1 - KINGDOM COME: The Antidote to Evil

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Season 5 Episode 45 - KINGDOM COME: The Point of Your Story

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Season 5 Episode 44 - KINGDOM COME: Bow Down

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Season 5 Episode 43 - KINGDOM COME: Family Traditions

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Season 5 Episode 42 - PRESENT CONCERNS: Exhaustion

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Season 5 Episode 41 - PRESENT CONCERNS: Hope Deferred

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Season 5 Episode 40 - Consider the Birds

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Season 5 Episode 39 - PRESENT CONCERNS: Good Humor

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Season 5 Episode 38 - PRESENT CONCERNS: Foolishness

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Season 5 Episode 37 - PRESENT CONCERNS: The Future

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Season 5 Episode 36 - PRESENT CONCERNS: Fear

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Season 5 Episode 35 - PRESENT CONCERNS: Division

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Season 5 Episode 34 - IN HIS IMAGE: Grow

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Season 5 Episode 33 - IN HIS IMAGE: Compassion

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Season 5 Episode 32 - IN HIS IMAGE: Pursuit

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Season 5 Episode 31 - IN HIS IMAGE: Authenticity

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Season 5 Episode 30 - IN HIS IMAGE: Presence

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Season 5 Episode 29 - IN HIS IMAGE: Relaxed

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Season 5 Episode 28 - IN HIS IMAGE: Work

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Season 5 Episode 27 - IN HIS IMAGE: Trust

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Season 5 Episode 26 - IN HIS IMAGE: Fairness vs. Justice

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Season 5 Episode 25 - IN HIS IMAGE: Hope

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Season 5 Episode 24 - IN HIS IMAGE: Passion

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Season 5 Episode 23 - IN HIS IMAGE: The Beauty of Neediness

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Season 5 Episode 22 - Foundations: Jesus the Disobedient

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Season 5 Episode 21: Some Good News

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Season 5 Episode 20 - Jesus and Racism

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Season 5 Episode 19 - Foundations: More

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Season 5 Episode 18 - Foundations: Breathe

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Season 5 Episode 17 - Foundations: Resilience

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Season 5 Episode 16 - Foundations: The Awkward In-Between

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Season 5 Episode 15 - Foundations: "Up From the Grave"

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Season 5 Episode 14 - Foundations: The Problem of Pain

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Season 5 Episode 13 - Foundations: Jesus in the Dark

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Season 5 Episode 12 - Foundations: Love=Community

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Season 5 Episode 11 - Foundations: In the Beginning

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Season 5 Episode 10 - Foundations: Yes/ No/ Maybe

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Season 5 Episode 9 - Foundations: Root to Fruit

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Season 5 Episode 8 - Foundations: Who Can Be Saved?

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Season 5 Episode 7 - Foundations: Building a Song from a Mess

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Season 5 Episode 6 - Foundations: Destroying the Works of the Devil

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Season 5 Episode 5 - Foundations: A Big Problem to Solve

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Season 5 Episode 4 - Best of PRATJ: The New-ness of You—Thorns

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Season 5 Episode 3 - The Beeline Practices: Living Out of Your True Name

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Season 5 Episode 2 - The Beeline Practices: The Sherlock Effect

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Season 5 Episode 1 - The Beeline Practices: Fighting Warped Mirrors

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Season 4 Episode 51 - Best of PRATJ: Preparing for a New Year with Jesus

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Season 4 Episode 50 - The Beeline Practices: Fearless Holiday Relationships

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Season 4 Episode 49 - The Beeline Practices: Be a Holiday "Apprecianado"

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Season 4 Episode 48 - The Beeline Practices: Where Would Jesus Be?

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Season 4 Episode 47 - Best of PRATJ: The Stress of Advent and the Pursuit of Jesus

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Season 4 Episode 46 - The Beeline Practices: Scaring Yourself for Good

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Season 4 Episode 45 - The Beeline Practices: No More Autopilot

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Season 4 Episode 44 - The Beeline Practices: Living In “Chosen Dependence”

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Season 4 Episode 43 - The Beeline Practices: Love Redefined

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Season 4 Episode 42 - The Beeline Practices: Nothing but the Truth

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Season 4 Episode 41 - The Beeline Practices: The Jesus Pushback

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Season 4 Episode 40 - The Beeline Practices: What Jesus Does & Doesn't Do

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Season 4 Episode 39 - The Beeline Practices: Remembering, Not Imagining

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Season 4 Episode 38 - The Beeline Practices: Asking "The Oprah Question"

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Season 4 Episode 37 - The Beeline Practices: Wallowing in Mud Puddles

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Season 4 Episode 36 - The Beeline Practices: Curiosity Rescued the Cat

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Season 4 Episode 35 - The Beeline Practices: "Thicker Living"

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Season 4 Episode 34 - The Beeline Practices: The Second "Prong" of Trust

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Season 4 Episode 33 - Essential Questions: Trying Hard vs. Letting Go

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Season 4 Episode 32 - Essential Questions: Will I Ever Be Enough?

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Season 4 Episode 31 - Essential Questions: What Is Right and Wrong?

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Season 4 Episode 30 - Essential Questions: What Is Love?

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Season 4 Episode 29 - Best of PRATJ: Is Harry Potter Evil?

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Season 4 Episode 28 - Best of PRATJ: The Dirty Little Secret About Christian Music

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Season 4 Episode 27 - Essential Questions: What Is Truth?

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Season 4 Episode 26 - Essential Questions: Will Everything Be Okay?

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Season 4 Episode 25 - Essential Questions: Is This All There Is?

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Season 4 Episode 24 - Essential Questions: What Is the Meaning of Life?

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Season 4 Episode 23 - Essential Questions: Why Do Bad Things Happen?

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Season 4 Episode 22 - Essential Questions: Is God Real?

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Season 4 Episode 21 - Essential Questions: What's My Purpose?

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Season 4 Episode 20 - Fully Human: Anger Mis-Management

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Season 4 Episode 19 - Fully Human: Embracing Solitude

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Season 4 Episode 18 - Fully Human: Take a Stand

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Season 4 Episode 17 - Fully Human: What You Love, Not What You Believe

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Season 4 Episode 16 - Fully Human: Living the "Thicker Life"

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Season 4 Episode 15 - Fully Human: Don't Hold Back

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Season 4 Episode 14 - Death to Life: Three Days in the Dark

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Season 4 Episode 13 - Death to Life: No Sacrifice

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Season 4 Episode 12 - Death to Life: The Bug in Your Operating System

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Season 4 Episode 11 - Death to Life: No More Death to Self

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Season 4 Episode 10 - Death to Life: Falling Towers

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Season 4 Episode 009 - Death to Life: The Seed Mentality

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Season 4 Episode 008 - The New-ness of You: The Power of Being Grateful

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Season 4 Episode 007 - The New-ness of You: Invited In

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Season 4 Episode 006 - The New-ness of You: Heart Over Head

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Season 4 Episode 005 - The New-ness of You: Brutal Honesty

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Season 4 Episode 004 - The New-ness of You: Knocked Off Your Donkey

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Season 4 Ep 003 - The New-ness of You: Transforming Friendships

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Season 4 Episode 002: The New-ness of You—Consuming Jesus

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Season 4, Episode 001: The New-ness of You—Thorns

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Season 3, Episode 53: Best of Paying Ridiculous Attention to Jesus: Having the Grit to Reset

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Season 3, Episode 52: Best of Paying Ridiculous Attention to Jesus: What is Advent?

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Season 3, Episode 51: ‘Overcoming the World’ & the Promise of Advent

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Season 3, Episode 50: Living Wide-Awake During Advent

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Season 3, Episode 49: The Stress of Advent and The Pursuit of Jesus

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Season 3, Episode 48: Turning Worship Upside-Down

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Season 3, Episode 47: Laughter, the Jesus Medicine

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Season 3 Episode 46: Craving the Sound of Silence

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Season 3, Episode 45: The Dirty Little Secret About Christian Music

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Season 3, Episode 44: Eugene Peterson Revisited

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Season 3, Episode 43: The Post-Testament Life

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Season 3, Episode 42: Fight Club, Jesus Style

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Season 3, Episode 41: The Comparison Addiction

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Season 3, Episode 40: Undressed by Jesus

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Season 3, Episode 39: Infectious Discipleship

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Season 3, Episode 38: What You Have to Do, But Can’t

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Season 3, Episode 37: Moving from Servant to Friend

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Season 3, Episode 36: Is There Danger in Discipleship?

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Season 3, Episode 35: Simplifying Discipleship with John Eldredge

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Season 3, Episode 34: Spiritual Warfare for Dummies

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Season 3, Episode 33: Is Harry Potter Evil?

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Season 3, Episode 32: “How’s Your Relationship with Satan?”

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Season 3, Episode 31: True Family

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Season 3, Episode 30: Medicine for the Marginalized

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Season 3, Episode 29: Doubt Is Our Frenemy

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Season 3, Episode 28: {Best of 2018} Why Hard Things Are Hard

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Season 3, Episode 27: Owning Our Ugly

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Season 3, Episode 26: Why Is Jesus Always So Annoyed?

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Season 3, Episode 25: The Cursing Jesus

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Season 3, Episode 24: Let’s Talk About Hell

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Season 3, Episode 23: Will Anybody Ever Really Get You?

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Season 3, Episode 22: Salvation for Everyone?

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Season 3, Episode 21: Necessary Disruptions

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Season 3, Episode 20: Unlocking the Insight of “Why Not”

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Season 3, Episode 19: What makes you...you?

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Season 3, Episode 18 – Overcoming Your Inner Critic

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Season 3, Episode 17: The Necessity of Risk

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Season 3, Episode 16- Brutal Reality, Prevailing Hope

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Season 3, Episode 15: Does sin come in shades of gray?

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Season 3, Episode 14: Does God Want to Use You?

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Season 3, Episode 13: What if Jesus gives us MORE than we can handle?

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Season 3, Episode 12: Followers Who Follow

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Season 3, Episode 11: The Right and Wrong About Right and Wrong

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Season 3, Episode 010: The Unreasonable Jesus

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Season 3, Episode 009: Is Too Much Bible Bad?

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Season 3, Episode 008: Hard is Good…Eventually

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Season 3, Episode 007: Myths, Lies, and Propaganda About Prayer

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Season 6 Episode 6- Finding Life After Lament

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Season 3, Episode 005: The Downside of Empathy

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Season 3, Episode 4: Pursuing a Life of Being You

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Season 3, Episode 003: Why Hard Things Are Hard

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Season 3, Episode 002: Having the Grit to Reset

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Season 3, Episode 001: Finding Freedom in the New Year

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Season 2, Episode 49: Best of 2017: Does Everything Happen for a Reason

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Season 2, Episode 48: (Best of 2017) What is God’s Will?

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Season 2, Episode 47: What is Advent?

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Season 2, Episode 46: Discovering your new normal in God's Kingdom

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Season 2, Episode 45: Finding Security When Jesus Doesn’t Promise Safety

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Season 2, Episode 44: What it looks like to live in a kingdom(and why it matters)

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Season 2, Episode 43: The 7 Behaviors That Make Friendship with Jesus Possible

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Season 2, Episode 42: What The Book Of Revelation Has To Do With You

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Season 2, Episode 41: Daring to Live Supernaturally

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Season 2, episode 40: Spotting Supernatural Red Flags

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Season 2, Episode 39: What the Bible Has To Do With Community

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Season 2, Episode 38: What is Supernatural?

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Season 2, Episode 37: Finding Your Unique Balance Between Busy and Rest

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Season 2, Episode 36: Every Growing Thing Changes

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Season 2, Episode 35: Childlike? or Childish?

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Season 2, Episode 34: Finding a Baggage-Free Life with Jesus

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Season 2, Episode 33: What defines you?

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Season 2, Episode 32: Living With The Invisible Rabbi

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Season 2, Episode 31: All-In Relationships

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Season 2, Episode 30: Outrageously Committed to Marriage

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Season 2, Episode 29- Jesus Was A Party Animal

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Season 2, Episode 28: Waiting on a Promise

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Season 2, Episode 27: Fighting the Cancer of Self-Doubt

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Season 2, Episode 26: Throwing Our Pearls to Pigs

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Season 2, Episode 25: The War on Sin

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Season 2 Episode 24: Dependence > Discipline

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Season 2 Episode 023: Overcoming a Culture of "Try Harder to Get Better"

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Season 2, Episode 22: How to Put Discipline In Its Place

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Season 2, Episode 21: 600 Days of 24/7 Jesus

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Season 2, Episode 20: Does Everything Happen for A Reason?

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Season 2, Episode 19: Jesus Was the Worst Self-Help Guru Ever

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Season 2, Episode 18: What if your life is wasted?

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Season 2, Episode 017: What is God's Will?

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Season 2, Episode 16: What Jesus Says About Your Body

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Season 2, Episode 15: Partnering with Jesus to Set People Free

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Season 2, Episode 014: Freedom with Sarah Bessey

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Season 2, Episode 013: When Jesus Names You

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Season 2, Episode 012: Are We Heading Toward A “Bibleless” Christianity?

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Season 2, Episode 011: Reading The Bible With a Filter

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Season 2, Episode 010: When The Bible Doesn't Meet Your Expectations

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Season 2, Episode 009: Reconciling Old Testament God vs. New Testament Jesus

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Season 2, Episode 008: Jesus & the Restoration of Intimacy—The Real Issue Behind the Porn Epidemic

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Season 2, Episode 007: Sam Worthington on How God Comforts Us

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Season 2, Episode 006: The Power of ‘Third-Level’ Listening

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Season 2, Episode 005: How Jesus Removes Our Shame: An Interview with The Shack’s Author

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Season 2, Episode 004: How to determine God's will

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Season 2, Episode 003 Following Jesus in a smartphone world

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Season 2, Episode 002 Jesus' Inaugural Address

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Season 2, Episode 001: How do you pray?

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Season 1, Episode 014: Preparing for a new year with Jesus

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Season 1, Episode 013: Defining humility with Eugene Peterson

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Season 1, Episode 012: Finding your epic purpose in life in the midst of what's to come

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Season 1, Episode 011: Playing on the playground

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Season 1, Episode 010: Craving a better soul diet

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Season 1, Episode 009 The Truth About Civility, and How Jesus Redefines Love

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Season 1, Episode 008: How to survive the 2016 election

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Season 1, Episode 007 Whatever Makes You Happy

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Season 1, Episode 006 What does it mean to hear Jesus' voice?

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Season 1, Episode 005 The thing you forgot about grace

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Season 1, Episode 004 The surprising things that impress Jesus

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Season 1, Episode 003: Who Does Jesus Say I Am?

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Season 1, Episode 002: The Unexpected Gift of Coming Up Empty

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Season 1, Episode 001: Why finding your purpose is riskier than you think