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The After Church — 101 episodes

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Does Location Matter? Why the Disciples Emphasized Both Vocation and Location

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The Impossible Swim: How Grace Makes Our Resumes Useless

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Power and Worth: How Christ Models Life for Both the Weak and the Strong

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If/Then: The Implications of Easter

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Life is a Team Sport: How The Church Goes Together From Gory to Glory

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Surprise! Why We Shouldn't Be Shocked By Trials

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Love Makes You Alive: Our Gospel Mission to Rescue Zombies

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The North Wind and the Son: A Call to Shine Brightly in Order to Win People

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Purpose Leading to Pleasure: Why We Can't Throw Up God's Gifts

10

Honor the Emperor: How to Trust in Eternal Justice When the Dow is Up 50k

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Messengers of the Miracle: Why Our Calling Is Larger Than Us

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Eat With Your Shoes On: Why Saints Must Stay Ready

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From Gory to Glory: Faithfulness in a Faithless World

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Nourished by doing his will: How Holy Life Fills our Hunger

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Whatever We Got: How God Uses Lunchables to Nourish the Squad

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Nourish: Feeding the True Cravings of the Soul

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5 Easy Steps: Why You Can't DIY a Faithful Life

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Unto us a Child: A Better Story than the Christmas Truce

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Mexican Fishermen and Why Abundance is Just Enough Over and Over

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Indescribable Intelligence: Why God's Omniscience Should Fuel our Faith

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The Optical Illusion of Suffering: Why We Must Fight to See Truth

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The Word is a Telescope: How to Rightly See God and People

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No Hope in Meritocracy: Why God Doesn't Use the Star System

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Steady As a Rock: How Faith Remains Firm in Sunlight and Storms

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Flying by Instrument: How Faith Flies Us Through Storms

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A Terrorist Like Me: Gospel, Grace and Mission

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Righteous Lot? Why Grace-covered sin is better than morally-cloaked falsehood

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A Turning Point: Where the Church is Called to Obey in a Cultural Moment

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Wreck it Jacob: How God is Good, even though we never can be

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Celebrity Endorsement: Why God's Grip Changes our Value

31

The Slaughtering God: Why Genocide in the Bible Isn't What it Seems

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The After Church GO: How we’re called to “Catch ‘em all” for Jesus

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A Heart Only A Mother Could Love

34

Use the Force, Luke: Said No Bible Verse Ever

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The Power to Raise: How the Resurrection Extends to us All

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Poems and Treasures: Why Jesus is the Solution to the Cipher

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Ministers vs Mountains: How What We View is Sometimes More Important Than What We Do

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A Life Full of Evidence: The Proof of an Excellent Exile

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Help! I Work For Idiots! How Excellent Exiles Stay Steady in Broken Systems

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The Emperor's New Groove: How Grace Destroys Before it Rebuilds

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What Is the Origin of Life? How to Find Our Story in THE Story

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Omniscient Narration: How Joy Keeps Us From Grumbling

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Selfish Ambition vs Living Water: Why You Can't Have Both

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Wells in Malawi: How Trial and Sacrifice Give Water To Everyone

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Running on Empty: Why Only Living Water Can Keep us Filled

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Fools Gold: How God Extracts the Good Stuff from the Pyrite

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Increasing by Decreasing: How God Makes us Greater by Cutting us Down

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Rocks to Riches: Why the Best Stuff Always Takes the Longest

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The War for Worthfulness, and Why Fighting the Right Enemy is Essential

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Dementors of Worthfulness: How to Use Power to Feed Others instead of Consuming Them

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Go Go Power Rangers: How Unity in the Body Contributes to our Worthfulness

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The Simple Joy of Rube Goldberg, and What it Should Mean for Your Self-Esteem

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But God: How Grace Removes the Scarlet Letter

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Predestination and McDuck Money: Why You are Filled With All the Possible Worth

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Healing That Courts Can't Give: Why You Need The Healer, Not Cash

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I See Tree People: Why Healing is Slow, Intimate and Weird

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Baby Elephant Syndrome: Why You Need To Ask Jesus to Heal Your Abnormal Brokenness

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Camping on Purpose: Why the God of Fire is So Much Better than Fyre

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Loud Noises: How God Uses Sound to Signal His Presence

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Happy Anniversary, God! Feasting to Celebrate His Promise and His Presence

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Buying Mom a House: What Our Sacrifices Say About Our Trust

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Astronaut Food and Ice Cube Trays: Why We Eat Unleavened Bread With Our Shoes On

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The First Supper: Why Every Sight Line Points to Jesus

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Resting and Feasting: Why You Need a Kit Kat (Or Just a Break)

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Messy Hope in the Midst of the Mist: A Final Lament

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Messy Hope in the Midst of the Mist: A Final Lament

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The Faces of Sin: How Lament Is Both a Mourning and a Warning

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The Gospel of Lament: How Truth Turns us Upward

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Beckoning God into the Hurt: What Lament Offers the Victims of Sin

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Cries in the Orphanage: Why Lament Means Weeping to a Good Father

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Holy Holy Holy: Why God's Holiness Brings all the Yankees to the Sandlot

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Just the Messenger: Why God Sent Shepherds to the Lamb

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War of the Worlds: Why the Incarnation Was a Wartime Invasion

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Aslan is Coming: Why The Word Became Flesh

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Method Acting: Why the Best Characters Are Played 24/7

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"Some of them:" How the Gospel Spreads Through the Nameless

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Whole Team Winning: Shared Mission, Shared Joy

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No One Talks About it, And How We Can Change That

79

Trust in the Not-Yet

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The Idol of Purity: Why Serving God is impossible Without Knowing God

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Faith or Presumption? Why Getting the Object Right is So Vital

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I'm Not OK: Why Doubting Your Doubts Doesn't Do Enough

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Is God Ok With Sister Wives? What Scripture Says About Polygamy

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Talking out of your... donkey

85

Saint Paul's Leaked Emails: Are They As Bad As They Seem?

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Better than Braco: Why Gazing at God's Greatness is Good for the Gospel

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Something About Weed: Jesus' Warning About Bad Fruit

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Abide: This is How We Bear Fruit

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The Next Right Thing: How The Weary Keep Walking

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Not Today, Rosie Ruiz: Why Shortcuts Cut Short Spiritual Growth

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Faith Like Potatoes: Why You Need to Get Used to Slow and Steady

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The Way of the Warrior: Finding Our Life in Our Death

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The largest picture ever taken: a small glimpse of God's power

94

Humble Toward the Hecklers: How Jesus Hushed the True Enemy

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Replant: How an Occupied Heart Keeps the Squatters Out

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Stockholm Sin-drome: How to Truly Be Set Free From Captivity

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Epic Collapse on the 18th Hole: How Repentance Keeps You From Being Jean Van De Velde

98

Living as a Hero, Dying as a Villain: Why Two-Faced Righteousness Breeds Death

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Who Am I Even Dating? Only God Knows

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Deadly Photo Op: Why The Church Needs More Than Your Staged Appearance

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Achan, Ravi, Us: Why Secret Sin Must Be Uprooted