All Episodes

The Secret to Extraordinary Parenting

Why Love Is Blind but Marriage Is an Eye-Opener (Part 3 of 3)

Why Love Is Blind and Marriage Is an Eye-Opener (Part 2 of 3)

Why Love Is Blind and Marriage Is an Eye-Opener (Part 1 of 3)

Addicted to the Holy Spirit

The Least Asked Most Important Question of Our Time

On the Personal Devastation and Communal Decimation of Sexual Sin

The Real Problem with Acceptable Pornography

Until the Pattern Is a Person, It Remains a Puzzle

What Are You (Really) Angry About?

On Shifting the Center of Gravity in Your Life

The Junior-High Beast Within

Will the Real Me Please Come Forth?

What are "All The Things" Jesus Did? with Dan Walt

How Behavior Management Stunts Your Growth

The Two Groups Down at the Church

The Challenge of Growing Up as a Grown-Up

Calling All Apostles, Prophets, and Evangelists

Why Down Is the New Up

One Body, Twenty-Something-Thousand Denominations?

Discipleship to Jesus Outside of Relationship Is Not Discipleship

Are You Filled with the Fullness of God?

Why Love Must Become More Than We Thought It Was

Are You Aware of Your Inner Being?

On the Difference Between Information and Revelation

From Amazing Grace to Astonishing Grace

On Building Fireplaces

Those Walls of Hostility

On Picking Up Our Pieces and Making Our Own Puzzle

On Starting a Jigsaw Puzzle at the Center

J. D. Walt - New Room Pastor's Retreat Opening Talk

On Starting Downton Abbey at Season Six

Why We Must Understand the Real Problem

Meet the Fellowship of the Holy Discontents

Would the Real Seekers Please Stand Up?

Only Two Kinds of People

Why God's Plan Is Not for My Life

Are You Adopted?

Why Do We Think Spiritual Blessings Are Immaterial?

Why the Bible Was Not Written for the World

On the Difference between Living for Jesus and Living from Jesus

An Easter Postcript—One Last Question

Transformational Question 3

The Good Friday Question: Is This for Looking At?

Receiving Jesus: The New-Creation Life

Why I Am Not the Change Agent

From My Old-Creation Self to My New-Creation Life

Why the Change Is an Exchange

Sixth Sunday of Lent

What Is This Change and How Do We Participate?

Transformational Question 2

The Measuring Stick of Transformational Growth

The Most Excellent Way to Measure What Matters Most

You Had One Job . . .

From Self-Improvement to Real Transformation

Fifth Sunday of Lent

Staying Out of the Performance-Evaluation Ditch

Growth Is a Game of Degrees and Inches

On the Difference between Winners and Losers

The Behind-the-Scenes History of the Wake-Up Call

Transformational Question 1

The Power of Transformational Questions

The Flux Capacitor

Fourth Sunday of Lent

What Are We?

Jesus Likes You

Presence & Power - with Brenna Bullock | Wake-Up Call Conversations

Receiving the Deep Approval of God

His Baptism Is My Baptism Too

From Priorities to Priority

From Many Things to One Thing

Third Sunday of Lent

Commitment vs. Consecration

Consecration Is the Doorway to Transformation

How Do I "Be Transformed"?

Why Not Be Completely Changed into Fire?

What Happens on Transfiguration Mountain?

More to This Life

Second Sunday of Lent

For the Love of a Krispy Kreme Doughnut

From Information to Revelation

The Shining One - Mark McGovern | Wake-Up Call Conversations

It's Your Turn

From Believing in God to Believing God

The Question of All Questions

We Sin Because We Are Sinners

First Sunday of Lent

On Metastatic Sin Cancer

I Have Cancer and You Do Too

On Pulling the Fire Alarm at Church

Welcome to the Forty Days of Lent

Mardi Gras Is Cancelled

The Gospel Starts with Leviticus

Why Is Moses Locked Out?

Prayer Is Like Spiritual Incense

The Boring Part Becomes the Best Part

Skincare on Sinai

The Gifts of the Spirit - Jon Thompson | Wake Up Call Conversations

Stand in the Gap for Someone Today

The Spiritual Gift of Carpentry?

A Pastor Should Have Bloody Ears, Thumbs, and Toes

Do This in Church Today!

The Boy Scouts Had It Right

How to Make a Portable Eden

Weird Old Testament Laws?

Spiritual Parenting - Rickie Moore | Wake-Up Call Conversations

How to Be a Spiritual Umbrella

What's Freedom For?

God Is Sweeter Than the Sweetest Treat

What If They Advertised Manna at the Super Bowl?

A Letter to Our Daughters

Does Money Matter Too Much?

It's Not What You Know. It's Not Who You Know Either.

Why Methodism? - Ryan Barnett | Wake-Up Call Conversations

The Danger of Counterfeit Repentance

Have You Ever Been Fabrezed?

Don't Trust People Who Tout Their Own Wisdom

The Way to Burn Your Enemies

On the Houses That Build Us

The Secret to Reading Really, Really Well

The Surprising Truth about True Humility

Understanding Your Calling Through the Seasons of Life - Rich Wilson | Wake-Up Call Conversations

Why Horses Are Never Enough

The Mark of a True Friend

When We Help the Poor, We Worship God (and Vice Versa)

Humble Yourself or Be Humiliated Later—Your Choice

Why We Settle for Gold-Plated Instead of Solid Gold

The Secret to Great Planning

The Surprising Foundation for the Spiritual Life

Why What You Are Angry About Is Not Why You Are Angry

The Smallest Biggest Truth about Money

Why the Cause of Your Anxiety Is Not the Cause

The "One Other Person" Confidentiality Crusher Principle

A Lesson in Wisdom from Chick-fil-A on the Power of Words

Becoming a Shovel-Ready Person

I Am Here To . . .

What is Jesus Asking Us in Lent? - J. D. Walt & Dan Wilt | Wake-Up Call Conversations

Cover Less Ground More Slowly

From Quiet Time to All the Time

The Singular Truth Underlying All Wisdom

Becoming Fixated—in a Good Way

Becoming Surrendered: Why Nothing Is Better Than Something

Wisdom Calls for an All-In Mentality

The Beginning of Wisdom

Wake Up to Recognition and Mission

Wake Up to Presence

Wake Up to Trust

Wake Up to Mercy

Wake Up to Living Water

Wake Up to Desire

Simeon's Song

God with Us

Love Comes First

Challenging Our Success Metrics

The Maximum Amount

Remaining in Love

What Is Love?

The Angel's Song

The Great Morning Revolution - Tara Beth Leach | Wake-Up Call Conversations

Bringing God Joy

More than a Passing Glance

The Holiness Highway

Best When Enjoyed Together

Away from God, toward Idols

Away from God, toward Idols

The Angel's Song

Zechariah's Song

In the Soil of Pain and Shame

Worship - Sterling Allen | Wake-Up Call Conversations

When God Delights in Helping Us

Breaking the Cycle

Moving from Results to Communion

Moving from Results to Communion

How to Survive an Invasion

Mary's Song

Look in Both Directions

Groaning to Glory

The Sermon on the Mount - Rich Villodas | Wake-Up Call Conversations

Waiting Well

Our Own Part in the Story

It's Time to Wake Up!

Welcome to Jesus. An Invitation.

Can We Chat a Minute?

The Book of JesUS—The Great Gospelling Adventure of Life

Breathgiving and Breathtaking

What is Advent? - Ben Witherington | Wake-Up Call Conversations

The Difference Between Respectable and Respect

The Right Side of History Is the Side of the Truth?

Why Unity Is Overrated and What Is Better

How to Become a Friend of Jesus

The Most Winsome Word of the Gospel: Abide

How to Do the Greater Things of Jesus

When Washing Feet Is More Than Washing Feet

Love Goes First - Andrew Forrest | Wake-Up Call Conversations

One Seed. Many Seeds. Be the Seed.

The Bigger Problem Behind All Our Big Problems

Does Jesus Talk to You?

From Bad Karma to Amazing Grace: Why Do Good Things Happen to Bad People?

The Problem with Religious Lawyers

Jesus Asking: Is Anyone Thirsty?

On Seeing the Signs and Missing the Sign

Jesus Asking: Do You Want To Get Well?

Jesus and the Basket of Deplorables

The Prison of a Good Reputation

Where the Wine Never Runs Out

God Is Jesus

When Our Hopes Blind Us to Our Hope

Down with No Kings; up with One King (Wake-Up Call Session with Chris Tomlin)

How Far Can You Throw a Rock?

The Secret of Breakthrough Generosity

How to Practice for the Return of Jesus

The Wee Little Man with the Massive Heart

Why Love's the Only House Big Enough for All the Pain in the World

How to Become the One in a Thousand

What Was the Homeless Guy's Name?

The Big Problem with the Prodigal Son

Are You Too Busy? Here's the Antidote

The Kingdom of God At Starbucks (It's the Little Things . . . Part 2)

It's the Little Things . . . (Part One)

Love Is a Battlefield: On the Practice of Prayer and the Power of God

Down with "Othering"; Up with "Neighboring"

The Daily Invitation of Jesus

On Mental Illness, Demonology, and the Unstoppable Love of Jesus

Three Ways of Reading the Bible. Which One Are You?

Bringing the Golden Rule Back to the Gold Standard

Fishing Stories

On the Power of Today

How the Wilderness Stings Until it Sings

How God Gets Us Where He Wants Us . . . (and a special session with Chris Tomlin)

The Greatest Consecration of Faith in the Bible

On the Death and Resurrection of Faith

Are You Defensive? Or Do You Just Need to Be Right?

Do You Get the Lord's Supper?

What Word Does Jesus Say to You and Everyone?

On More Faith in our Politics and Less Politics in our Faith

Where's the Beef? . . . I Mean, the Fruit?

How Rule Followers Get It Wrong

I Believe. Help My Unbelief.

Why the Movement Is Bigger Than the Miracle. Because the Movement Is the Miracle.

Utterly Overwhelmed with Amazement and Astonishment at Jesus

Why It Takes Two to Sow the Kingdom

The Five Words of Jesus That Change Everything

On the Miracle of Seeds

Why Jesus Wants You—But Do You Want Him?

Are You a Friend Like This? Do You Have a Friend Like This?

Why the Gospel Is Jesus Christ

Why the Resurrection Is the Gospel

How Sin Kills God and How God Kills Sin

How To Worshipfully Waste Your Life On Jesus

The End of the World as We Know It

The End Is Coming. Could It Be Today?

What Would Make Jesus Yell at You?

What Is the Main Thing?

What Makes Jesus Mad

Jesus Saves: Session #2 with Chris Tomlin

The Big Problem with Being a Good Person

Jesus and the G.O.A.T.

How Do People Really Change, Really?

Jesus Asking: The Question of All Questions

That Time Jesus Lifted Up A Broken Mom

The Master Class On Walking on Water

The Superpower of the Single Seed

The Question Jesus Asks The Most. It Will Surprise You.

How to Heal Our Broken Heart from a Broken Image of God

The Four Things Jesus Said We Must Do That We Rarely Do

The Surprising First Prayer Request of Jesus

The Little Word That Leads to Great Awakening

The Whole Point of the Point

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

"And He Opened His Mouth"

How to Eat the Bread of Your Belovedness

Are You Working for Approval or from Approval?

The Six Words to Always Remember and Never Forget

Fly-Over Country?

The Anatomy of the Enemy (Psalm 64)

Holy Spirit Story: Animo and Victor (with Will Deeds)

But Encourage One Another RECAP

It's Today Again

Jesus Is Changing My Life

Why the Glass Is Not Half Empty Nor Half Full—There Is No Glass

Approaching Ascent #19

Remembering, Even in the Dark (Psalm 63)

Holy Spirit Story: Stained (with Betsy Parrish)

Hey! I Know the Will of God for You

Joy Is the Bonfire to Our Brokenness

The Tiniest Most Powerful Pivot Word in the Bible

Descent #17 (Part Two)

Descent #17 (Part One)

The Two Comings of God (Psalm 62)

Holy Spirit Story: Airport Provisions (with Brent Parker)

The Time Habakkuk and James Met Up at the Bottom of the World and Did a Fist Bump

Show Me the Hoop-om-on-ay'

On Letting Perseverance Finish Its Work

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger?

This Is a Test

The Rock That Is Higher than I (Psalm 61)

Holy Spirit Story: Softball Surprise (with Marc O'Neal)

Jesus Sonders

Pressing Past the Motions into the Meeting with God

Presencing the Person of Jesus

How to Pass the Test While Failing the Course

The Word of God and The Comedy of Errors

The Interruption of God's Word (Psalm 60)

Holy Spirit Story: Homeless Hope (with Sue Volle)

Growling in the Word of God

On Mouthing the Word of God

Stop Working for Jesus

His Name Is My Name Too

New Jersey

Cursing Our Enemies? (Psalm 59)

Holy Spirit Story: Waffle House of Encouragement (with Anna Grace Legband)

From A-shakening to Awakening

Why We Must Become Encouragers

Why We Must Stop Trying to Take the Hill

Broken Heart to Hardened Heart to Broken Heart to Healed Heart

Why Discouragement Means Death

Living for the Last Headline (Psalm 58)

Holy Spirit Story: Church Camp (with Brad Dush)

On Faithfulness, Failure, Forgiveness, and the Fallout

On Having a Different Spirit

The Love of God and the Love of Moses

For His Name's Sake

Why to Love God Means to Fear God

God’s Love and Faithfulness in Trials (Psalm 57)

Holy Spirit Story: The Generous Encouragement of the Holy Spirit (with Pam Cowart)

How Encouragers Win Even When They Lose

Encouragement Is Not the Cure for Discouragement but the Immunization

The Problem with Grasshoppers and Giants

On the Essential Practice of Preemptive Obedience

Exploring the Unpredictable Life of the Promises of God

The Future Invades the Present! (Psalm 56)

Holy Spirit Story: Your Servant Is Listening (with Ethan Goodnight)

The Seductive Hell of a Predictable Situation

Has Anybody Got a Trumpet?

How the Gift of Assurance Works

This Is a Story about God

The Battle for Our Whole Hearts

The Scope of God's Redemption (Psalm 55)

Holy Spirit Story: Good Grief! Beauty from Ashes in Just One Day (with Jan)

Thoughts on Fleecing God

How to Know if You Are Doing Something Right

Aspiring to Tolerance and Inclusivity or Full of Grace and Truth?

The Story of Two Altars

Revolution Begins with Reform at the Home Office

Looking Back at Our Lives from the Future (Psalm 54)

Holy Spirit Story: They Came to Go Fishing (with Joe Sieber)

Change of Life Begins with Change of Heart

Unlearning Strengths; Embracing Weaknesses

From the Back Row of the Balcony to the Front at the Altar

Why It Will Take Courage to Become an Encourager

The Movement from Timidity to Temerity

The Folly of Atheism (Psalm 53)

Holy Spirit Story: The Nordstrom Mishap (with Katharine Guerrero)

The Journey from Me to We and Why It Matters

On the Difference between Believing in God and Believing God

The Most Dangerous Place on Earth

Getting Beyond Our Bumper Sticker Theology

Encourage One Another Daily, as Long as It Is Called "Today"

God’s Covenant Love (Psalm 52)

Why the Last Words Are the Most Important Words

Could the New Testament Be Wrong?

Getting On with the Gospel

Why We've Gotten Eternal Life Wrong

Why Discipleship Is Not Preparation for Eternal Life

On Playing the God Card

Repentance and Restoration (Psalm 51)

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury . . .

Why Trouble Is Not a Problem

The Most Important Word in the Bible

We Hate Because He First Hated Us

The Opposite of Love Is Fear, Not Hate

The Difference between Certainty and Clarity

Words and Actions in the Life of Faith (Psalm 50)

Pathways to Progress in Faith

For the Love of a Hundred-Dollar Bill

What in the World Is the World?

Put Your Leaders to the Test

How Condemnation Works and Why It Loses

Why You Shouldn't Trust Your Conscience

Seeing Life from the Perspective of Eternity (Psalm 49)

People Need Help, Not Pity

Why the Rest of the Gospel Is the Best of the Gospel

Are You Saved? How Do You Know?

Aiming for Eternal Life Now

Something Better Than the Concentrate Approach to Faith

Sinning Is Not Inevitable

God, the Mighty Fortress (Psalm 48)

Believing You Can Hit the Target

Why Attention Is More Important Than Activity

How to Spot a Counterfeit

The Simplicity of Abiding in the Gospel

The Exclusive-Inclusive Gospel of Jesus Christ

Do You Have the Anointing?

The Universal Rule and Reign of God (Psalm 47)

The Greatest Danger to the Church Still

Why Pornography Is Not the Problem

The Way of Salvation Is a Sin-Defeating Journey

Love Is Not a Subjective Feeling

Love Cannot Be Taught

Love Is Not Soft

God Sets Things Right (Psalm 46)

The Game-Changing Question of Easter

Sin Reframed

Dealing with the Biggest "If" in Life

The Antidote to Self-Deception

The Seduction of the Middle

I Believe John

His Holy One Did Not See Decay! (Psalm 16)

Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus

Jesus (Part Two)

Jesus (Part One)

The Chief Priests, Teachers of the Law, and Elders (Part Two)

The Chief Priests, Teachers of the Law, and Elders (Part One)

The Chief Priests and Their Officials

The Marriage of Heaven and Earth (Psalm 45)

The Governor's Soldiers

Barabbas

Herod Antipas

Pilate

Peter

Caiaphas, the Chief Priests, and the Sanhedrin

When Faith Is Not Enough (Psalm 44)

Judas

Sinners

Jesus and the Apostles

The Crowd

Disciples Then and Now (Part Three)

Disciples Then and Now (Part Two)

Taking the Long View (Psalm 42) and The Source of All Hope (Psalm 43)

Disciples Then and Now (Part One)

Herod Antipas

The Crowd in the Temple Courts

Jesus

Chief Priests, Teachers of the Law, and Elders

The Sanhedrin

On the Night in Which He Was Betrayed (Psalm 41)

Simon Peter

The Jews in the Temple Courts

The Jews

One of the Teachers of the Law

The Pharisees Again

Simon, the Pharisee

I Have Come to Do Your Will (Psalm 40)

The Teachers of the Law

The Pharisees

The Scribes

The Family of Jesus

Hometown Folk

The Devil

Gaining Perspective (Psalm 39)

John the Baptist

Herod the Great

Simeon

The True Light

Jesus Prayer #9: The Real Lord's Prayer (Part 3)

Jesus Prayer #9: The Real Lord's Prayer (Part 2)

Holy Spirit Story: "BAFFLED" (with Kevin Adams)

Jesus Prayer #9: The Real Lord's Prayer (Part 1)

Jesus Prayer #8: The Abandonment Prayer

Jesus Prayer #7: The Forsakenness Prayer

Jesus Prayer #6: The Forgiveness Prayer

Jesus Prayer #5: The Gethsemane Prayer

Jesus Prayer #4: The Prayer for Glory (Part 3)

The Grammar of Repentance (Psalm 38)

Jesus Prayer #4: The Prayer for Glory (Part 2)

Jesus Prayer #4: The Prayer for Glory (Part 1)

Jesus Prayer #3: Lazarus Come Forth!

Jesus Prayer #2: Fifty-Three Words

Jesus Prayer #1: The Prayer of Great Reversal

Lord, Teach Us To Pray—The Prayer Curriculum of the Ages

Delight Yourself in the Lord (Psalm 37)

Holy Spirit Story: How the Holy Spirit Brightened Smiles Through a Dentist (with Van Haywood)

The Lord in You

The Lord Eternal

The Lord Our Father

The Lord of Sovereignty

The Lord of Righteousness

The Worldview of the Wicked (Psalm 36)

Holy Spirit Story: The Bird Can't Find the Sky (with Bonnie Crandall)

The Lord of Faithfulness

The Lord Who Heals

The Lord Who Forgives

The Lord of Compassion and Mercy

I Am Who I Am

How God Overthrows the Wicked (Psalm 35)

Holy Spirit Story: "I Know That I Know That I Know!" (With Mary Wilkerson)

How Do You Bible? Part 4: Rehearse

How Do You Bible? Part 3: Research

How Shall We Bible? Part 2: Rememberize

How Shall We Bible? Part 1

Meet Lucy—My Super Anxious, Non-Designer Dog

The Blessedness of the Righteous (Psalm 34)

Holy Spirit Story: When Cancer Is Cured by the Stripes of Jesus (w/ Jan de Chambrier)

Disco Ball

Jawbreakers

The Plans

The Catastrophic Epiphany of the Word of God

How Do We Punch the Devil?

The Power and the Purpose of God (Psalm 33)

Holy Spirit Story: Put Me In, Coach! (with Ray S. Hughes)

Self-Help Jesus (Part 2)

Self-Help Jesus (Part 1)

What Are We?

The Fruit of the Spirit

I Still Believe in a Person Called Hope

Changing Gravity (Psalm 32)

Holy Spirit Story: My Long Journey with God's Word (w/ Carolyn Berry)

Trust Falls and Trust Fails

3-2-1- Be Still and Know That I Am God . . .

Very Early in the Morning . . . Jesus

Speak, Lord, for Your Servant Is Listening . . .

The Bible Creed

The Suffering Servant Calling, “Abba, Father!” (Psalm 31)

Holy Spirit Story: My Father, the King, Takes Care of Me (with Kathy Agee)

What Word Are You Standing on Today?

This Is Why It Is Said—Wake Up, Sleeper!

New Year—New Word

Magi Moments: Prophetic Skipping Stones

Magi Moments: I Offer My Body to You

Magi Moments: Seeing More Than Seeing

Magi Moments: Eagerly Discerning God's Thoughts

Magi Moments: Eagerly Desire the Gifts of the Spirit

Magi Moments: Follow the Star

It Is God's Dark

Hearers, Believers, and Preachers

Worth the Wait

Here's Your Sign

Big Things, Little Package

Drop the Blanket

The Wonder in the Working

GPS: God's Positioning System

Herod the (Not So) Great

Light Will Guide You Home

The Wonder in the Searching

Deep Darkness and a Great Light

Stressors

Synchronized Heartbeats

Patience in the Developing

Potholes to Gardens

Angel Greetings 101

The Wonder in the Watching

Origin Story

Sing Out Loud, Sing Out Strong

A Super-Spreader Event

I Doubt It

The Wonder in the Waiting

Kids Get It

Ponder This

The Glory of the Lord Filled the Tabernacle: Back to Plan A

So All the Work on the Tabernacle . . . Was Completed: The Long and Winding Road of Deliverance

His Face Was Radiant: The Two Letters That Changed Everything

Be Careful . . . Write Down These Words: It's All About Worship

Moses Bowed to the Ground at Once and Worshiped: How Might God Experience Your Worship?

The Lord, the Lord, the Compassionate and Gracious God: On the True Nature of the God of Heaven and Earth

God’s Triumph over Death (Psalm 30)

Now Show Me Your Glory: The Journey from Hiding to Hiddenness

Because I Am Pleased with You and I Know You by Name: Moving from Resignation to Surrender

Now Moses Used to Take a Tent: On Becoming a Tent of Meeting

But I Will Not Go with You: The Seven Worst Words in the Bible

Perhaps I Can Make Atonement for Your Sin: What Sin Really Is

And They Are a Stiff-Necked People: On Loving People Anyway

The Voice of the Lord (Psalm 29)

Moses Was so Long in Coming Down: When People Take Control

BEHOLD, I Have Chosen Bezalel: The Holiness of Art and Artists

So I Will Consecrate: Waking Up to the Presence of God

Make the Tabernacle with Ten Curtains: Why Those Curtains are to Die For!

You Are to Receive the Offering for Me: On the Difference between Fund-Raising and Fund-Receiving

We Will Do Everything the Lord Has Said: Paving the Road to Hell (and Heaven)

The Place Where Perfect Justice and Mercy Meet (Psalm 28)

Little by Little I Will Drive Them Out: Learning the Landscape of Salvation and Deliverance

However, If It Is Not Done Intentionally: The Lord Is in the Details

Make an Altar of Earth: Eight Learnings from the Wilderness So Far

They Trembled with Fear: On Fearing God without Being Afraid of God

You Shall Not: The Heart of the Matter

Honor Your Father and Your Mother: Flipping the Honor Script

The Light of Salvation (Psalm 27)

Remember the Sabbath Day: From Religious Observance to Relationship Revival

And God Spoke All These Words: On Delighting in the Law of God

Then Moses Led the People out of the Camp to Meet with God: The Only Thing that Will Have Mattered

Go to the People and Consecrate Them: The Holiness of God and Casual Religion

They Came to the Desert of Sinai: The Reason for It All

The Work Is Too Heavy for You: Can You Receive Help?

Living in a Righteousness Orientation (Psalm 26)

I, Your Father-in-Law Jethro, Am Coming to You: Monotheism in the Land of Polytheism

Moses Built an Altar: So Will I

As Long as Moses Held Up His Hands: Onward Christian Soldiers

Is the Lord Among Us or Not?: From Ambivalence to Awakening

But the People Were Thirsty: "I Thirst!"

To Be Kept for the Generations to Come: Take That Science!

Holy Spirit Story: Inviting Others into Awakening (with Janet Wehrle)

So the People Rested on the Seventh Day: Finding the Unforced Rhythms of Grace

Some of Them Paid No Attention to Moses: Where Maggots Come From

The Israelites Did as They Were Told: When Enough Is Truly Enough

You Are Not Grumbling against Us, but against the Lord: On the Foible of Relational Triangulation

I Will Rain Down Bread from Heaven: The Wonder of the Wilderness

The Whole Community Grumbled: The Wilderness Pivot from Feelings to Longings

Let Me Not Be Ashamed (Psalm 25)

Twelve Springs and Seventy Palm Trees: How to Take a Real Rest

I Am the Lord Who Heals You: On Health, the Human Body, and the Glory of God

What Are We to Drink? The Journey from Grumbling to Prayer

The Desert of Shur: From the Win to the Wilderness

I Will Sing to the Lord: The Way Is Made by Worship

But the Israelites Walked: When the Red Sea Parts and When It Doesn’t

Holy Spirit Story: (With Susan and Jeff Murithi)

Holy Spirit Story: Exodus 14:14—The Lord Will Fight For You (with Nancy Smith)

Not One of Them Survived: How the Wrath of God Is the Love of God and Vice-Versa

During the Last Watch of the Night: On Staying Awake in the Last Days

The Cloud Brought Darkness to One Side and Light to the Other: The Call to Holy Imagination

Raise Your Staff and Stretch Out Your Hand: A Wake-Up Call for Our Times

The Lord Will Fight For You: The Zero Sum Game of Fear and Faith

All Pharaoh’s Horses and Chariots, Horsemen and Troops: The (often) Protracted Battle of Divine Deliverance

Creator and Lord of History (Psalm 24)

Tell the Israelites to Turn Back: We Need the Mind of Christ to Think the Thoughts of God

By Day . . . in a Pillar of Cloud; and by Night in a Pillar of Fire: Nine Rules of the Road with God

So God Led the People Around by the Desert Road: When God Takes the Long Road

Commemorate This Day: Jesus Is My Passover

It Was a Night of Watching by the Lord: On Creating New Space for Prayer

The Lord Makes a Distinction: On Judgment and Mercy

The Good Shepherd (Psalm 23)

Just as the Lord Had Said: What Does Real Repentance Look Like?

I Will Harden Pharaoh’s Heart—On Sovereignty, Freedom, and the Will of God

I Am the Lord—Learning to Speak the Word of God

Let My People Go! The Decree and the Deliverance

So He May Worship Me . . . The Movement from Penultimate to Ultimate

Now Go; I Will Help You: The Utter Sufficiency of God

The Cross of Christ (Psalm 22)

I AM WHO I AM—Welcome to Ontology 101

I Will Be with You—The Word of All Words of God

From Here I Am to Who Am I?

So Now, Go. Welcome to the Elder Awakening

Take Off Your Shoes . . .

The Bush Was on Fire . . . It Did Not Burn Up

The Final Victory of the Messianic King (Psalm 21)

Between the Far Side of the Wilderness and the Mountain of God

On The Journey from Wasteland to Graceland

How to Get From Wasteland Wandering to Wilderness Walking

The Way Back to Plan A—From Weak Resignation to Deep Surrender

Plan B vs. Plan C and the Fallacy of Lesser Evils

Plan B?

Trusting in the Name of the Lord (Psalm 20)

Holy Spirit Story: “The Doctor is Never Going to Believe This” (with Joan Fischer)

Whatever They Do

The Power of Good Poetry

From Walking . . . to Standing . . . to Sitting

Blessed Is the One

Welcome to the Story

God’s Revelation to Us (Psalm 19)

Holy Spirit Story: Encountering the Holy Spirit on Our Wedding Anniversary (With Susan and Jeff Murithi)

It’s Time To Turn the Page to Acts 29

You’re the God of This City!

Some Thoughts on Castor and Pollux

On Everyday Supernatural Discipleship for Everyday People

On Amazing Grace and Learning to Travel Outside of Karma

The True Nature of Our Struggle (Psalm 18)

Holy Spirit Story: A Present-Day Miracle Story from Cuba (with Debbie Mak)

Can You See What Is Written on Your Shield?

Some Thoughts On Praying Before Meals in Public

On The Difference Between a Real Leader and the Person in Charge

The Perilous Power of Perfect Storms

Why Your Story Matters More Than You Think

The Confident Prayer of the Righteous (Psalm 17)

Holy Spirit Story: The Miracle at Self-Checkout (with Mike Cowart)

Do You Really Believe the Eternal Implications of the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

The Vision Is Jesus

About Those Who Kick Against the Goads

What Are You For?

On Forging a Faith That Runs Deeper Than My Experience

His Holy One Did Not See Decay! (Psalm 16)

Holy Spirit Story: How I Hear the Holy Spirit (with Katie Zettle)

God Gets Us Where He Wants Us—No Matter the Machinations

What We Say vs. What They Hear

On Religious Disputes and a “Dead Man Named Jesus”

On Google-Earthing Your Life

What Looks Like a Big Story Now Felt Like a Small Story Then

The Moral Framework of the Universe (Psalm 15)

Holy Spirit Story: The Miracle of Jesus’s Presence (with Deborah von Brecht)

On Underdogs, Overlords, the Great Reversal and the Final Scoreboard

If We Don’t Get the Big Story Right We Will Get Our Small Stories Wrong

Why Faith and Worry Can’t Coexist

The Truth About Hard Times

On Resolving Conflicts Internally, Civilly, and Righteously

The Foolishness of Atheism (Psalm 14)

Holy Spirit Story: The Power of Jesus in Unthinkable Tragedy (with Paul and Lisa Ellis)

The Power of the Cross: Completely Vulnerable, Perfectly Protected, Utterly Invincible

Why Your Resume Matters to God’s Kingdom, Just Not Like You May Think

Keep Up Your Courage! The Lord Is Near

Why Religion and Politics Don’t Make for Nice Company

On Calling Your Own Fouls and When an Apology Is Not an Apology

How Long, O Lord? (Psalm 13)

Holy Spirit Story: When the Holy Spirit Speaks (with Nicey T. Eller)

Living on the Winning Side of Losing

On Keeping a Holy Spirit Journal of the Soul

The Word That Changes Everything

On the Difference Between Knowledge and Knowing and the Problem of Zeal

The Gospel According to Duo Lingo

He Will Arise (Psalm 12)

Holy Spirit Story: He Restored My Soul (with Joe)

When Your Life Becomes a Case Study for the Scriptures

Jerusalem—The Treacherous Place Where Apostles and Prophets Go to Die

The Day I Became an Amateur Martyr

Why the Secret to Life Is to Die before You’re Dead

Philoxenia: A Watchword for Our Time

The Eyes of the Lord (Psalm 11)

Holy Spirit Story: The Altar Is Open (with Hannah Perry)

When Leaving Is the Only Way Home

The Compassion of Sound Doctrine

The Glory of Suffering Love

The Eutychus Opportunity

The Top Five Essentials of Every Single Day

Life Perspectives (Psalm 10)

Holy Spirit Story: When Eight Other Tabs Are Open (with Andrew Roth)

Why Loud and Proud Won’t Get It Done

The Danger of a God Who Is No God at All

Why Counterfeits Are More Dangerous Than Competitors

The Power of a Persistent Conversation

Did You Receive the Holy Spirit When You Believed?

The End of the Wicked (Psalm 9)

Holy Spirit Story: The Power to Bless in the Midst of a Mess (with Rebecca Beard)

My Life as Apollos—A Spiritual Autobiography

D. V.—An Old Way to Start Closing Your Letters

Why Micro Is the New Mega

What Does Your Shield Say?

On the Gospel of Necessary Endings

The Mystery of God Entering His Own Creation (Psalm 8)

Holy Spirit Story: Hidden (with Shelley Johnson)

The Implausibility of the Gospel and Why It Is Not a Problem

Why Outrage Must Become Lament

Open-Minded. Narrow-Minded. Closed-Minded. Right-Minded. Like-Minded.

From Domesticated Church to Awakening Church

Are You in the Fishing Business?

God the Judge (Psalm 7)

Holy Spirit Story: When God Speaks (w/ Keith Wasserman)

A Higher Vision Than the American (or, Insert Your Country Here) Dream

The Problem With Problem-Free Prosperity

On Preemptive Obedience and Proactive Repentance

When the Holy Spirit Blocks The Way

Recovering the Lost Art of Spiritual Parenting

Holy Spirit Story: The Power of a N.U.D.G.E. (w/ Misti Coker)

When It’s Time To Sing Happy Trails and Part Ways

Why We Perish for Lack of Vision

Clarity Is Kindness

Why We Don’t Interpret Scripture by Culture

The Gospel Is Jesus Plus Nothing

To Know This Love

The Spirit of Union and Love

In Christ We Set Our Hearts and Minds on Things Above

In Christ We Have Been Brought to Fullness

In Christ Our Love Abounds

In Christ We Become Mature

In Christ We Are Seated in Heavenly Places

In Christ Faith Is Expressed Through Love

In Christ You Are a Child of God

In Christ You Have a New Identity

In Christ We are Reconciled and Reconcilers

In Christ You Are a New Creation

In Christ God’s Promises are Fulfilled

In Christ We Learn the Way of Love (Part Seven)

In Christ We Learn the Way of Love (Part Six)

In Christ We Learn the Way of Love (Part Five)

In Christ We Learn the Way of Love (Part Four)

In Christ We Learn the Way of Love (Part Three)

In Christ We Learn the Way of Love (Part Two)

In Christ We Learn the Way of Love (Part One)

In Christ Our Bodies Are the Temple of the Spirit

In Christ We Have a New Way of Life

In Christ We Are Sanctified

In Christ We Are One Body

In Christ We Are Free

United with the Resurrected Jesus

Inseparable

The Letters of Union and Love

If You Know, You Know

A New Command

Apprentices of Jesus

For God So Loved He Gave

Review Day in the School of Union and Love

Jesus Makes the Father’s Love Known to Us

That All of Them May Be One (Part Two)

That All of Them May Be One (Part One)

As I Have Loved You

Abiding in the Vine

Jesus Invites Us to His In-Crowd

Witnesses of Union and Love

The Apostle of Union and Love (Part Two)

The Apostle of Union and Love (Part One)

In Christ Jesus

Immeasurably More

All the Fullness of God

Experiencing Love

Rooted and Established in Love

Union with Christ

The Prayer of Union and Love

Altar’d

Account Access

Credit Rating

Sticks and Stones

Grudge Match

Does Not Meet Expectations

Cost of Discipleship

Pay Up

For Shame

Excuses, Excuses

Mind over Matter

Reverse Course

Cracked Pots

Pinned!

Oops!

Celebration!

Give It Away

Solemn Vow

Busy Bees

Just Because

Marking the Moments

If

We’re All in This Together

Blind Faith

Enough

Who’s on First?

Best Thing Since Sliced . . .

A Fork in the Road

First and Foremost

Who Is Will?

Commit to the Next Generation

Recovering Perfectionist

Combat the Enemy

Carry Your Cross

The Whole Kit and Caboodle

The Chicken or the Pig

Forever Changed

Are We There Yet?

Captain Obvious

Promises, Promises

CTRL + ALT + DEL

The Sacrifice

Head Space

Space, the Final Frontier

Fan the Flame

Let’s Make an Altar

Being Made New

Now or Later?

Bread and Seed

Holy Spirit Story: Fighting Cancer with Scripture

Think High, Go Low

It’s Time to Respond

When the Presence of God Meets the Mission of God

Listen to Me!

The Question God Cares About

Holy Spirit Story: How My New Wineskin Journey of Fasting Began

The Economy of God’s Love

An Invitation

On the Statistics and the Score

Remember the Game!

On Fasting, Feasting, and the Fellowship of the Holy Spirit

Holy Spirit Story: What a Great Awakening Community Looks Like

Walking the Fasting Road from Judea to Galilee

New Wineskins, New Wine, and a New Kind of Fasting

The Fasting of the Friends of the Bridegroom

According to His Power that Is at Work Within Us

When Fasting Is an Adventure in Missing the Point

Holy Spirit Story: The Prayer Room at 110 South Third Street

Why a Prayer Room Matters

The Prayer to Crush Casual Prayer

The Prayer to Create Space for Prayer

Prayer and Knowing That God Knows You

On Praying for Results

Holy Spirit Story: The Great Adventure of a House of Prayer

The Prayer of Transformation

The Prayer of Consecration

The Prayer of Attention

The Prayer of Humble Approach

What Is Prayer?

An Invitation to Awakening

The Song of Creation

Wisdom in the Flesh

Spreading the Joy

Death and Resurrection

Jesus and the Temple

Incarnation

Awareness and Spiritual Practice

Simeon’s Ecstasy

Border Crossing

The One of Peace

Ripple Effect

Revelation

Small Moments

Christmas Eve

Where Is God?

Five Minutes BC

Rebellion

Once and Future Kingdom

Remembering the Future

The Way

Look Again

Daddy King

Yahweh Remembers

A Borrowed Song

Clay Pots, Trumpets, and a Child Is Born

Broken Branches

Don’t Forget the Fire

Love Local (Go Small and Go Home)

Joy to the World (Or, How to Write a Better Song)

Blessed Is the Peacemaker

The Singer

You Are Spoken For

Hope Is Always

The Center of the Story

Christmas, Come Down

Let There Be Light

The Protagonist

RECAP Acts: You Had One Job . . .

RECAP Acts: The Comprehensive, Confounding Mystery of Prayer and Faith

RECAP Acts: The Power of a Transformed Life

RECAP Acts: Now Stephen . . . Opposition Arose

RECAP Acts: They Understood the Assignment

RECAP Acts: How the Church Becomes the Church Again

RECAP Acts: The Acts of Jesus Continued . . .

RECAP Acts: Your Backyard Is Much Larger Than You Ever Imagined

RECAP Acts: When the Day of Pentecost Came . . .

RECAP Acts: Where in the World Is Jesus?

RECAP Acts: Why Not Be Completely Changed Into Fire?

Cares of This Life

Holy Spirit Story: The Supernatural in the Ordinary

They Tried to Bury Us

Things Present nor Things to Come

Holy Spirit Story: The Neighbor Three Houses Down

No Angels Can Separate You

Holy Spirit Story: Zambian Woman Meets American Ghanaian on a Bus in London

Holy Spirit Story: Wrecked by the Reckless Love of God

Holy Spirit Story: When a Good Vision Becomes a God Vision

The Great Actor of Acts

The Two Favorite Words of Jesus

Damascus Road Experience or Slow Burning Conversion or . . . ?

Death Becomes Life

Holy Spirit Story: How God Uses the Building Materials of Our Lives to Build into Others

What Can Stand in the Way of My Being Baptized?

How the Holy Spirit Makes Assignments

On Better Methods vs. Better People

Believing in Jesus but Not Receiving the Holy Spirit

A Check-Up: How Is Your Confidence in Jesus?

The One Place the Devil Cannot Enter

Holy Spirit Story: The Confirmation of the Word of God

Holy Spirit Story: Spiritual Parenting on a College Campus

Holy Spirit Story: The Asbury Outpouring—A Miracle Story

My Response to His Ability

Holy Spirit Story: The Prodigal Father

I Have Overcome the World

Holy Spirit Story: Dirty Kroger and My Big Fail

Holy Spirit Story: Seven Pastors in the Sanctuary of the Spirit

Holy Spirit Story: I Want the Holy Spirit

RECAP: On Keeping the Cart Behind the Horse

RECAP: Yes, David, This Is for Looking At

RECAP: Welcome to the Second Half of the Gospel

RECAP: The Day It Started Changing For Me

RECAP: On the Difference Between Knowing What We Believe and Knowing Who We Believe

RECAP: Jesus Paid It All

RECAP: The Burning Bush of the New Testament

In All These Things

A Holy Spirit Story: Jesus, Librarian of My Life

Now to Him . . .

Romans 16:19 Says . . .

A Closing Zinger

Love Always Has a Name

Phoebe Was a Rockstar

The First Lie

A Holy Spirit Story: The Warrior Princess

The Bond of a Band vs. The Rope of Sand

Ask Me about My Band

From Shepherding to Fishing

Unus Christianus—Nullus Christianus: One Christian—No Christian

Awakening Rides on the Rails of Friendship

In Accordance with Immutable Laws

A Holy Spirit Story: God Provides

Yes, Our Relationships Are the Mission

Sometimes When You Are Right You Are Wrong

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

When the Conflict Is Not about the Conflict and What It Is Really About

Sweat the Small Stuff—And It’s All Small Stuff

No Fears, Just Faith

A Holy Spirit Story: Coincidence or God-Incidence?

Stop Hitting the Snooze Bar!

On the Problem with the Speed Limit and the Problem with Me

On Theology and Taxes

On Jesus, His Church, and the Government

Why We Must Pay Our Taxes

He Breaks the Power of Canceled Sin

A Holy Spirit Story: The Miracle of Adoption

On Keeping the Cart Behind the Horse

From Functional Religion to Transcendent Faith

Why the Mind Must Lead the Heart in the Matter of Transformation

The Visionary View of the Mercy of God

The Jesus Manifesto

Two Laws

A Holy Spirit Story: Born Again at Vacation Bible School

On Lighting Fires in the Sky

Why God Is Not Fair and Why That Is a Good Thing

Halftime with the Apostle Paul

The Cheer I Can’t Stop Chanting

The Apostle Paul: Converted or Completed?