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The Wake-Up Call — 1000 episodes
A Holy Spirit Moment in a Coffee Shop (with Katharine Guerrero)
The Kind of Place Where Miracles Don't Happen
On Becoming the Kind of People Who Don't Give Up on People
Ending The Wait with Randy Simpkins | Wake-Up Call Conversations
Who Needs the Weather Channel When You've Got Jesus?
The Critical Difference between Being Responsible for Others and Responsive to Them
Why There Is No Such Thing as Secular
When Revival Becomes Awakening: The Age of the Spirit
The Mark Pizza Challenge (Part 2)
The Mark Pizza Challenge (Part 1)
All the Things: You Are Ready for This!
Your Church Is a Kingdom Outpost
Healing Knows No Distance
What You Have, Freely Give
Sometimes It Takes Pressure to Light a Match
Healed People Become a Testimony
When to Say "Your Faith Has Healed You"
Kingdom 101: Keep It Real
Kingdom 101: Reconcile People to God
Kingdom 101: See the Vulnerable, Poor, and Weak
Hearing God's Voice, Part 5: Sails Up!
Hearing God's Voice, Part 4: The Heart Is the Start
Hearing God's Voice, Part 3: Take Your Time
Jesus and Our Tech-Filled Lives with Andy Crouch | Wake-Up Call Conversations
Hearing God's Voice, Part 2: Learn to Obey
Hearing God's Voice, Part 1: Learn to Listen First
You Get to Play: Spiritual Gifts Are for Everyone
Come, Holy Spirit: We Need Power to Be Witnesses
Apprentices of Jesus: Abide and Act
Apprentices of Jesus: Witnesses Are Disciples on Fire
Apprentices of Jesus: You Will Do Greater Works Than These
Apprentices of Jesus: Walking with Our Rabbi
Can Women Lead in Church? with Carolyn Moore | Wake-Up Call Conversations
Jesus Was Gentle and Humble of Heart; We Can Be Too
Jesus Washed Feet; We Can Too
Jesus Served Others; We Can Too
Jesus Loved the Poor and Did Justice; We Can Too
Jesus Forgave Sins; We Can Too
Jesus Showed Compassion; We Can Too
Jesus Gave Words of Knowledge; We Can Too
Jesus Discerned Spirits; We Can Too
Jesus Cast Out Demons; We Can Too
Jesus Raised the Dead; We Can Too
Jesus Healed the Sick; We Can Too
Jesus Undid the Works of the Evil One; We Can Too
Jesus Did What He Saw the Father Doing; We Can Too
What Did Jesus Actually Do?
Strength In Suffering with Shelbi Shutt - Wake-Up Call Conversations
Faith Is Spelled R.I.S.K.
The Kingdom of God Has Come—And Is Coming!
The Kingdom of God Is the Presence of God's Future
The Kingdom of God Is Now and Not Yet
The Kingdom of God Has Been Inaugurated by Jesus
The Kingdom of God Has Come Near
What Is the Kingdom of God?
All the Things: "May I Pray for You?"
All the Things: "When Do We Get to Do the Stuff"?
All the Things: Do What Jesus Does—with Him
The Two Questions of the Day of Pentecost
On Prayer: Taking off the Training Wheels and Riding the Bike (Part 3)
On Prayer: Taking off the Training Wheels and Riding the Bike (Part 2)
On Prayer: Taking off the Training Wheels and Riding the Bike (Part 1)
The Book of James with Luann Riley - Wake-Up Call Conversations
The Grace and Peace of Puzzle Work
Thanks, Tychicus
One Little Word Shall Fell Him
And Though This World with Devils Filled . . .
The Surprising Way of Becoming Strong in the Lord
On Telling the Impossible Story to Impossible Situations
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 Wilt
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