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The Teachable Heart — 1000 episodes
Clouded by Grief
Fateful, but not Wrong
Come and See. Go and Tell.
He, Not I
Worship, Service, and Doubt
Crushed (by a) Pineapple
The Closing Door
Noah's Other Role
Worthy of the Shirt?
Naaman's But
Same Man, Different Circumstances
In, Not Of
Well, That's Stupid!
Humble Casting
Wicked, NOT the Musical
A Fight for the Foundations
Cultivate Something Better
Despair or Belief?
God or Family?
A Place to Call Home
Clothing or Candy?
More or Less Serious?
My Stay
Well, Look Who's Here!
Oh, the Irony!
They Watched and Learned
Suffering Savior
A Strange(r) Admission
Glimpses
Addition or Multiplication
Clinging To
Rapid Descent
The Delay
Peace and Holiness
Faith, Not Perfection!
Rejoice with Those Who Rejoice
Noah's Faith-filled Ark
Earnestly Seeking
Dark Days, Pleasing Ways
Fully Convinced
For Good
Bloody Footprints
A 300-Year Walk
Abel to Speak
Smash Burgers
Entry is Greater Than Greatness
Silly and Senseless
Broken Crayons
Unique Tests
Go to the Ant!
Trusting in Times of Trouble
Polluted and Poisonous "Peace"
In Just a Little While
Joyfully Accepted
Compassion Out of Hardship
Enduring the Hard Battle
Roads to Nowhere
Deny. Carry. Follow.
What Could be Worse?
Tires, Jireh, and Raah
Belief and Obedience
The "Too Good" News?
Even the Things We Do Well
The Storm or The Cross?
More than Legislation
Imperfect Examples
Mercy with Fear
Snatched from the Fire
Those Who Doubt
Count the Cost
How Could it Happen?
Skip Rope, not Church!
Loving Margins
Provoked!
Perfect, Yet Improving
Broken Things
Building, Praying, Waiting
Verbs and Participles
First Things First
Bingo and Bluey
Blind Bartimaeous
Caught in the Middle
The Two Johns (Not Toilets)
The House of Mourning
Too Quickly Forgotten
Count Them, Name Them
His Glory and My Good
By Life and By Lip
Are Hearts to be Followed or Led?
Avenging the Hard Foul
Eagerly Waiting
Three Tenses
Two "Inconvenient Truths"
Perfected and Purified Conscience
The Courage of Lil' Joe
Ice the Orchids
Neutral You Cannot Be
The Response
More than One Verse?
Intercession that Hits the Mark!
Fenn's Treasure
It Just Doesn't Matter?
The Abominable Savedman
Beggars with a Choice
The Guarantor
A Curse Without a Cause
The "S" Word
Locked Doors
Acceptable to God
Obsolete
Acceptable and Adorned
From Porn Star to Preacher
Mixed (Up) Worship
Awards or Rewards?
A Loving Invitation
Way to Go, Einstein!
It's Not Personal
Retract and Repent
Milk and Honey Without God
Job: More than Just Patient
Make it Well
All Things
Godly Grasshoppers
More than Shamrocks and Leprachauns
A Foolish Spectacle
The Greater Need
Active Assurance
Better and Faithful
A Few Good Men
So Who was Sothenes
The Sieve of Scripture
Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are!
Able, But Not Obligated
Better Things
The Relying Remnant
G.O.A.T.
The Scalpel and the Ax
Whose Image?
Prayers, Cries, and Tears
Freed for a Purpose
Closer Than You Think!
Milk or Meat?
The Unseen Ripple Effect
When You Can't Go Onward, Look Upward!
Think Twice, then Twice Again
Melchizedek: The Man. The Mystery.
Watcher or Worrier?
Citizens of Another City
Throwing Elbows
Same Throne, Different Outcomes
Take Action!
Alive and Active
Chocolate and a 4 Year-Old's Faith
A Child's Pace
God's Word or "Wrinkled Wives"
Having the Hard Conversations
Beware the Algorithm
Something's Missing
Temporary Separation, Permanent Reunion
Foundational and Finished
Changing Circumstances, Unchanging God
Going Through the Motions
Hope Scrolling
Even There!
Given and Permitted
Property Of...
Encouragement: The Urgent and Constant Need
Snapshots and Movies
No Wheel or Sail
Hope for This Life Too!
Our Confident Hope
Cut or Cut Off
Hope and the Different Story
The Benefits of Gratitude
A Faulty Presumption
Completion of a Pleasure
Falling Out of Forgiveness
The Tenderness of a Child
The Original Blame Game
A Close Shave
Steadfastness, Strength, and Submission
The Lift Up
The Penalty and the Appeasement
Consider This
Tempered by Mercy
Terrible Circumstances, Great Attitude
Sharpened by the "Hell Cat"?
The Redundancy of a Difficult Marriage
Where We Look
Budget or Trust?
Things Beyond
Willing and Able
Migdal Eder
Shepherds and Kings
Cantique de Noel
Silent and Holy
The Accidental Classic
Go Tell it on the Mountain
Her Virginity Matters
Self or Savior?
Hymn #254
Exceedingly Great Joy!
Muddy the Waters
Dem Dry Bones
Common Places and Times
S.D.G.
A Change in Plans
Handmade in Heaven
Pay Attention
Take (Joseph's) Courage
Still Good?
Calloused or Compassionate?
Cultural Assumptions
No More "Black Fridays"
Eccentric?
Forever the Same
Hard as Flint
Don't Give Up!
Upheld
Heir and Creator
He Speaks!
Peace in the Storm
Resting Faith
Worthless Things
Starter Marriage
Pleading for Perspective
Refuse or Reconcile?
Killer Forgiveness
The Children's Chocolate
Urgently Forgiven, Quickly Restored
Whose Voice?
Copper Cauldrons and Clay Jars
Bearing Intense Suffering
The Forfeiture
First and Foremost
A Crisis of Meaning
Shooting the Messenger
Caring and Sharing
What's Up?
The Question When We Question
Too Much You?
Work At and Worth With
What Kind of Wisdom?
Shameful or Worth Celebrating?
The Power to...?
The Noble Stand
The World's Agenda
The Statue Within
Unshakable Kingdom
Forgive and Forget
Because You Prayed
185,000 to One
Pulled From the Sea
All Things?
The Land of the Living
Sweat in Peace or Bleed in War
Faith, Fear, and Folly
Despicable Me?
Proper Procedure and Time
Heartache and Hope
Blind Spots
Matthew's Mugging
Mal-aligned
Failure to Warn?
Pity, Plants, and People
Love and Sleep
A New Heart or a New Hat?
Wise and Winsome
Marvelous Silence
Right Back at It!
To Speak or Not to Speak?
Firm in Faith and Love
Do You Do Well?
God's Maddening Mercy
The Prize of Christianity
Oh Pipe Down!
Georgium Sidus
Shield the Eyes, Guard the Heart
Moved or Changed
The Holy Reminder
The Screen Sabbath
Weaker than You Think
He Did Not Know
The Second Edict
Times Like These
The "Out Crowd"
Because of Me
Comfortable Disobedience
Perfect Prayers
Following and Fishing
The Chair
Study, Obey, Teach
Learn, Earn, and Return
Victorious Surrender
The Twelve, Three, and One
Walkin' Robin!
Grace that Gives Life
Peace in this House
He is Enough
When We Don’t Know What to Do
Even So
Managing Expectations
Curiosity that Can Kill
Mold Juice
All I Can Do?
Punching the Ticket
Highway 278
Pride Goes Before Purging
The Third Cup
Better Not to be Born?
If Only They Would Listen!
The Difference One Can Make
The Case for Christ (according to ChatGPT)
Not all the Same!
The Product
Danger and Duty
The Next One
God of the Gastrolith
Blessing, not Pleading
Not Everything but Something!
Today's Burdens, Tomorrow's Beauty
Your Past, God's Purpose
Just Now!
He Didn't Tell a Soul
The Dayenu
Getting Even or Ahead?
One Long Thank You
Is Everything All Right?
Safe in Shunem
Personal Hunger and Thirst
Joint Custody?
Releasing the Flood
Be Like Barry
SPAM into Ham
Redeemed from Every Distress
Anger in Aisle 9!
Sound-a-Likes
When Opposition Knocks
God's Pleasure, Your Purpose
Busy, Busy House
Paneled Houses and Petrified Hearts
Individuals and Groups
Defense Against Deception
Logical, Reasonable Thomas
Fill in the Detestable Blank
To the Rescue?
Strengthened in the Lord
In This Way
Something Worse
In Greater Numbers
Too Important to Rush
Publius Maximus
When Fear Threatens, Remember
Foolish or Sensible?
Honored and Supplied
React or Respond?
The Most Important Transaction
Leaven and Heaven
What Would They Prefer?
A Decade and a Day
Wheat and Tares and Calgon
When 1 + 1 = 3
Gathering Wood and Modeling Christ
Exactly as He Said
Leave a Little Jesus
A Hard Teaching
Combating our Default
The Rainbow or the Rain?
When Praise and Pride Collide
Driving Jackson
1000 Years From Now
Hope Lost, Hope Found
The Junk Drawer of the Heart
The Memory of Margraten
Pressure and Plans
Under Rowers
Help Always Found
Possible, but Not Guaranteed!
On the Curve?
Cling to Him!
Kind and Caring
The Bold Request
Belong and Serve
Who Bends?
Careless Words
The (Never Really) Lost T-Shirt!
Our Faith, God's Ink
The Loyalty Program
Pre-Collision Braking
Out-Love Your Neighbors
I Did It!
The Help
Razors, Angels, and Dreams
Second Family
The Faith of a Thief
Kicking Against the Goads
Bookend Motivators
The Purchase Price
From the Pub to the Pulpit
What's So Good About Friday?
Our Greatest Delight
The Joy of the Lord
Dig Deep or Drift Away
Borrowed Attitude
Beware the Best?
Amazing Faith
Confirmed by Silence
The Garden of Your Heart
Now What?
Unspeakable Tragedy, Unwavering Love
As _________ as it Gets
Just Try Harder!
New Customers Only?
Sin's Three Options
Pure Desire
Unseen Service
Generous Giving, Glorifying Living
Cubits and Pomegranates
How Far?
Men Enshrine, God Remembers
Only God will Satisfy
The Answer and the Need
Post Less. Pray More.
The Goat for Azazel
The Humble Governor
The Curious Critic
Showing Others the Way
Would a Sign Help?
Clear Before God and Men
Iron, Ice Cream, and Marshmallows
Help the Grievers, Grieve
Many Hands, One Mind
I'm Crushed!
Still, Patient, and Peaceful
The Crowd or the King
The God Stream
Listen then Do
The Young are Restless
Dismissed!
The Planks and the Specks
The Engine and the Caboose
The Questions and The Answer
The Box and the Cover
Fleeting Thought or Meditation?
Guilty but Free
The Good Life or the Good One?
The Presentation or the Power?
The Platform of Persecution
Play it Safe
Exits and Entryways
Exodus and Exegesis
Lighting Up the Room
Counsel that Aligns
Avoid the Rush
Walk Off Home Runs
Let My People Go
Fruitful in Suffering
Near and Over
Is, Has Done, Will Do
Our Gusto or God's Glory?
Never Too Old
Chance or Change
M.T.C.
Pray and Go
Lost Sheep or Enemies
Suffering and Success
Done Differently
Your Assignment
What Shall I Do?
Your Name and Your Pain
Saints, Servants, and Saints
Narrow Roads and Runways
Even the Philistines?
New Day's Resolution
The Arrest that Rescued
Well, I Suppose...
Take Heart; He's Calling You
Waiting or Delaying
Empty Cupboards, Full Hearts
Planes, Trailers, and Automobiles
I'm Ready
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
The Coming Storm
When Caring (for Others) is Hard
Journey to Writing, Part 3 - Full Circle
Journey to Writing, Part 2 - The Reluctant Sub
The Journey to Writing, Part 1
Let Other Dogs Eat
Leave Them Weeping
Most High or Lip Service?
Confronting Complacency
A Tranquil Heart in a New Year
Requirements of God
Bicycles and Blessings
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Cantique de Noel
The First Noel
I Heard the Bells. Peace and Pain
Breakfast is on Me
Commended
Angels We Have Heard on High
Big Man, Bigger Heart
Go Tell It On the Mountain
Our "Want To"
Jesus, Joyce, and Jail
Wonderful Road Signs
Carol of the Bells
Trusting in Treasure?
What's Number One?
Capture and Recapture
Me Time or We Time?
Three Piece Suit and Toothbrush
Content in Weakness?
It Takes a Tribe
Of Greater Worth
Compelled to Go
"Unprofessional" Thankfulness
569,400 Hours
Three Strikes
Movin' On!
No Shrinking
Humble and Heartfelt Service
Hope in Lamenting
Reconcile the Unreconciled
Before and After
The Fine Print
Make some Mayo!
That's Disgusting!
Burn or Turn?
Worse? When? How?
Kindness that Comforts
Talking and Teaching
Reward, Punishment, or Gift?
Special Announcement, Volume 5!
To Respond or Not Respond - That is the Question!
Rages, Rashes, and Regrets
Caught Up in the Confusion
Turn the Face
Drawn by Compassion
Standing Firm During Uncertainty
Following the Faultless
Pulled Aside
The Dictator
AK-47 or the Love of Christ?
Redirected
Hands, Hearts, and Hurricanes
Godly Boasting
Stop, Look, and Listen
Dulcis Gallio
Higher Ways, Better Thoughts
Forgetting God and Fearing Men
God Will Make Clear
The Teacher's Classroom
Vulnerability Assessment
Welcome or Walls?
Balanced Love
A Path or a Posture?
If God Wills
After the Hereafter
No More Sighing
Forgive as Forgiven
Masquerades and Itchy Ears
The Home Trifecta
No Small Roles
From Ashes to Beauty
Overcoming Fear
Whispers vs. Rock-n-Roll
Too Many Irons
The Age of Rage
Gateway to Blessing
When, Not If
Met vs. Found
Bellies and Souls
Three Types of Giving
Restoration Before Blessing
Resting When it Rains
Our Virtual Ventilator
More Mordecai's
Scum of the Earth
Hands, Feet, and Eyes
Wives' Tales and Millstones
Love Your (Political) Enemies
Willing and Doing
Knowing and Applying
Rich or Poor?
Into the Marketplace
Idol Conversation
Trail or Consequences
A Lesson in Comforting
Rash Words
At That Hour
A Self-Reported Penalty
WHOA! How Did I End up Here?
Belly Chambers
Just Whiffle After Work
Spider Webs and Sidewalks
On the Tip of the Tongue
Highway and Home Hypnosis
But is it True?
Beautiful Walls on Fractured Foundations
Great or First?
A Shrug of the Shoulders
An Introduction
The Recipe
52 Days
Headline News
The Adjective or the Noun?
Belief and Unbelief
When Opinions Divide
Covering the Spectrum
Answer to the Cry
Into the Spotlight
The Psalmist and the Stones
No Provision
Your What and Your Why
Fear and Faces
Flooded Fellowship
Gratitude Expressed
PB&J, Part 3
PB&J, Part 2
PB&J, Part 1
Perfection? Nailed It!
His Footsteps, Our Pathway
Seeds of Silence
Within Our Shadows
Two Tickets to Mars, Please!
Turned Upside Down
The Need to Be Near
Character Counts
He Runs to the Battle
With Gladness (And Broken Bones)
T-Shirt Turnaround
Three Sieves
The Strength to Surrender
Fables and Fish Guts
Follow Me
Carry Your Cross
Curious or Committed?
The Up
Get Behind Me!
Rockin' that Rocking Chair!
We Need a DONE!
The Pursuing Savior
Never Really Lived
I'm Melting!
Finding Hope When Hopeless
Largeness of Heart
Skilled Craftsmen
Passive Parents, Wayward Kids
Remembering Second Place
The Perfect Bond
24-Karat Friendship
Our Greatest Need
Giving or Trading?
Eyes on the Cross
The Good You Can
Commended and Fulfilled
Suitable and Sufficient
The Personal Touch
A Crumb from Christ
A Multitude of Tender Mercies
An Unnatural Response
Strengthened Through Suffering
Strange Travel Plans
A Real Stand Up Guy
A Sign
Schizo
Speak Boldly
Contradicted and Attacked
Weeping and Walls
I Did Not Speak Out
Quality Questioning
The Better Success
Uncommon Commitment
Wedding Gift or Marriage Gift?
Accompanied by Action
Judged Unworthy
Under-Rowers
Share the Shame?
Restore and Nourish
Learning vs. Living
Sifted or Strengthened?
Life's Wall Calendar
God's Waiting Room
Hearing (More) Voices
Undisturbed, Unsuspecting, and Unprepared
Measuring Success
Broken Boats and Burned Abodes
Carefully-Chosen Friends
Excuses, Excuses!
Snorkeling vs. Scuba Diving
Open Hands
Uninhibited Praise
Meaning in a Material World
Blind, Happy, and Content
Below the Waterline!
A Righteous Root
Bible Buffet
Victim to Violinist!
Deceitful or Delightful?
Praying Un-Expectantly!
Switching Wishes Night and Day
The Long Way Home
It's Good for the Soul!
Worms and Worship
Love Pursues
Third String Surgeon
That Very Night!
For Our Prosperity and Preservation
The Search for Logos
Be Winsome to Win Some
Our Stronghold and Our Strength
Fabulous Famine Finances
Full of What?
Hallowed be Whose Name?
Sub Specie Aeternitatis
Honor Them with T-I-M-E
The "Inner-Stances"
Forget to Hate
Nursing a Grudge
Caring for the Caregivers
Confident Certainty
A Light in the Darkness
The In Between Days
What's So Good About Friday?
Real Men Do/Don't Cry?
An Isolated Rest
Weakness Rewired
Seeds of Evil
Rubies, Wallets, and Wisdom
Tradition or Truth?
Led with the Eye
Doomscrolling
No Thing Too Difficult
Shore to Boat
The White Tower
The Overlooked Forgiveness
The Times Call For...
The Inviting Bride
Doubt or Disbelief?
The Ticking
A Different Story
High Walls and Open Gates
The Ricky Hill Story
In His Presence
Responding to Critics
Ask Questions
The Shortest Fight
Access and Life
Charity
Deeds or Intentions?
The CSS Georgia
"V" Formation
Chosen Instrument
The Jesus We Say We Love
At the Ready
God Cares About the Details
Safe in this World
The Hope Dealer
The Joy of His Presence
A "Yes" Face
Wisdom and Virtue
The Economy of Forgiveness
A Memorial Before God
In Silence
A Name Nobody Knows
The Greatest Need
Stereos and Real Treasure
Faith and Trust
In the Gap
Skunk vs. Pig!
The Teachable Heart is Going to Jail!
He Claimed Her
First Option or Last Resort?
Three Rings
Meaning and Purpose
Lousy Leaven
Life-Giving Words
The Greatest Threat
Two Dinners
Seven Degrees
True and Peaceful
Right Things, Wrong Reasons
Neglected Engines
The "Snowden Rule"
When "Word" is a Name
Fingerprints in the Clay
Our Shield and Buckler
He Cares!
Love Lingers
A Different Testimony
Whose Brand?
Tapped In or Tapped Out
The Transaction
Hope and Joy
Rewrite Your Obituary
Different but Not Distant
Rabbits Don't Fly!
Grandma "Timeout"
Good and Irritated!
Never Satisfied
Seek Humility
Prayers and Decisions
Somebody Great
Light in My Darkness
Silent and Holy
Into Tomorrow
God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
Make His Face Shine
Page 6
The Miserable Miser
Adeste, Fideles
Doors of Hope
As Expected?
In the Boat and Above the Storm
Detestable Prayers? Really?
Sow the Wind
Purifying Pools
10,000 Listens
Our Righteous Home
Excuses or Preparations?
Hardness of Heart
Omission
Support Your Faith
The Seeds We Plant
Of Course!
Be There
The Phantom
Inosculation
Circling the Ads
Fellow Imitators
He Sees, Hears, and Cares
Seen the Second Time
By Force or By Faith?
The Unspoken Message
When Weary
ANC Headphones
Reasonable and Logical
The Value of Giving
Stubborn for God
Breached Cities
Go Wherever
Beauty from Ashes
Silence the Messenger
Here I Am!
Yours, Ours, Mine
When Afraid, Obey
A Clogged Heart
Good Shame?
The One-Two Punch
They Rejoiced
A Slippery Slope
A Healthy Split
Growing Pains
A Bulwark of Truth
Climbing Stairs
You May Know
Fall in Fear or Stand in Faith
Life Through Surrender
Metal Detectors and Rejoicing Angels
An Inside Knob
Hot Soup and Indebted Ears
Blocks of Wood
Surnamed by God
Into the Marketplace
Too Many Dishes
Stark Contrast
Machashabah
All Paths
Defeating Discouragement
No Hint
What Wrong?
Driven Pegs
Bulging Walls
Do WHAT Again?
Nicknamed
Unpacked
Relational Drain-O
Better Than This?
Solving the Wrong Problems
Sound the Alarm!
Knowledge Balanced by Love
HANDS OFF!!!
Opportunity Amid Opposition
A New Name
Cracks in the Foundation
A "Zero" in Ziklag
The Choice
Dominos for the Downcast
Better than Peanuts
Spiritual Before Physical
Nearer or Not?
Formed for a Future
Be a Brick Layer
A Season of Refreshment
Look at Us!
Set in Their Ways
Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are!
Hangin' with Haman
Thimbles and Waterfalls
The Door or Roof?
Added for a Purpose
Don't Doubt in the Dark
Fear is Not Always Bad
Better Than This
At the Right Hand
Two Loves
Lessening the Load
Broken to be Rebuilt
Always Before Me
Fierce Seed
Study. Apply. Teach.
Understandable But Not Excusable
No Strings
The 42
The Pollutions
Holy Dominos
Unknown Servants
The Heart-Knower
Xenolalia
The Registry
A Lasting Legacy
Different Callings
Two Prayed
Offense Taken
Pebbles
Into and Out of the Heart
Repelling Pretense
Nothing Left to See Here
The Ones He Chooses and Uses
At the Ready
Eyes of the Storm
Not Ours to Know
The Great Flood
So Far as We Are Able
Who's at the Center?
Our Primary View
Childlike Conviction
Joy in Giving
The Imagined Wall
Two-Person Costume
Didn't Mean To!
The Spiral of Silence
The Flood
A Few Coffee Grounds
Greatness and Goodness
The Snare
What are You Doing Here?
A Time for THAT?
Surprising Judges
Angered or Provoked?
The Setting Sun
Synergy
Advise Then Cheer
Remember Me?
Green Light, Red Light
Move Toward or Shrink Away?
The Exception
It "Musth" Stop!
Do Not Repeat
Taking Off the Mask
Without a Word
Weary and Discouraged
The Murky Invitation
The Right Analytics
Conscience: Friend or Foe?
Chosen Instruments
Pleasant and Persuasive
Hot, Cold, or Lukewarm?
Resting in His Knowledge
Honoring Correction
Nesting or Flying?
The Rolling Stones (No, NOT Them)
Prepared
Mislabeled
Empathy or Apathy?
Whose Job is It?
The Other Name
Walled Off or Set Free?
The Saving and Starting Point
Our Daily Work
Manhole Cover?
Love That's Hard to See
Renter or Owner?
Ponder or Pour?
Keep Worship Central
God's Arithmetic
Stop Here Yourself
Tranquil Mind or Rotten Bones?
So Fast!
Showing and Flowing
The Horizon of Blamelessness
Intentions or Plans?
Old and Sappy
His Creation and Possession
Clinging to the Coves
Head of the Class
Gladness in Proportion
Magic, Medicine, or Something Else?
Christ, the Caduceus