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Van City Church Audio — 501 episodes
Healing & Speaking in Tongues
Power & Prophecy
The Wave Finally Breaks
Up-river to the Sea
Born Reaching
Holy Saturday
Good Friday
Maundy Thursday
Holy Week 2026: Holy Wednesday
Holy Tuesday
Holy Monday
Palm Sunday
Where Power Goes to Die
Sex, money, priorities, and speech.
And Without Unity, Nothing
None of Us Should Be Here
When the Barrier Falls
The Champion
Predestined
The Terrace
Salvation by Faith (and Allegiance) Alone
The Last Enemy to be Destroyed
When the Snake Lost Its Head
Save Me O God!
Through the Dark Channel
Prisoners of Hope
Far From Home, But Not Alone
Enslaved
The Curse
Do Justice / Love Mercy
All Relationships—The Rest of Creation
All Relationships—God, Others, and Self
What is Justice?
To Guard the Outpost
No Longer Saints or Devils
Homeownership & Giant Spiders
What Binds the Broken People?
How to Suffer Q&A
Life is Absurd.
The Glory of Suffering
How to Suffer
The Chaos Dragon
The Doors of the Sea
The Gift of Brokenness
On Cathedrals and Chaos (Extended)
The End of Self-Help
Confession
Jonah
The Worm
The Ridiculous Judgment
The Sea Monster
Just Another Tomb
Gut Punch
Forever Again
God the Spirit
God the Son
God the Father
Dinosaur Bones and a Divine Dance Party
Easter Sunday
Holy Saturday
Good Friday
Holy Thursday
Holy Wednesday
Holy Tuesday
Holy Monday
Philadelphia
Dead Inside
The Jealous Lover
Subtle Tyranny
Even to the Point of Death
You’ve Forgotten Your First Love
Ash Wednesday 2025
Blessed are the Abused and Ill-Treated
Blessed are the Frustratingly Undivided
Blessed are the Childlike Believers
Blessed are the Misery-Hearted
Blessed are the Screw-Ups and the Screwed-Over
Blessed are the Powerless
Blessed are the Aggrieved
Blessed are the Spiritual Nobodies
The First Good News in a Long Time
The Stories We Tell Ourselves
A Christmas Story
Mother
Advent Devotional: Week 3
Just a Glimmer, Then Darkness Again
Book Review: A Christmas Carol
Week 2
Graves into Gardens
Advent Devotional: Week 1
A Baptism and a Funeral
The Other Side
Book Review: Interior Freedom
The Wrecking Ball
The Wall
The One Who Never Left
The Wounded Healer
The One Who Wandered
Inner Healing Prayer
The Perfectionist
The Failure
Encountering God's Love Through Prayer
The Most Important Thing
Go ahead! Throw your vote away!
Holier Than Thou
…And the city officials were thrown into turmoil.
The Now and Not Yet Family
The Question
The Courage to Be
The Furious Longing of God
The Gravitational Pull
A Conversation with Keana
The Contenders
Checking in with Van City Youth
False
Book Review: A Praying Life
The Entire Letter at a Glance
I Dream of Genealogies
"Ruth"
A Garden of Suffering
Man With No Name
A Conversation with Scott
What Happens in the Dark
The Fear of Not Enough
How (Not)To Read The Bible
Made to Suffer
The Story of Tim
A Story About a Story
A Conversation with Lexi
Five Stories
Oaks of Righteousness
Keep Asking
Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs
A Conversation with Cam
Broken Fingers
Imaginative Prayer Practice
How to Prophesy
Books!
The Voice of Kindness
Come Out Of Hiding
Healing
Being a Witness
Witness
A Prayer Meditation on The Lord’s Prayer
The Wait is Over
A Conversation About Worship
Closer
Rule of Life Epilogue
Easter Sunday
Holy Saturday
Good Friday
Holy Thursday
Holy Wednesday
Holy Tuesday
Holy Monday
Palm Sunday
The Church Rule of Life
To Reject Excess and Embrace Simplicity
To Defy Consumerism and Embrace Family
To Reject Aimlessness and Embrace Purpose
To Defy Compromise and Embrace Orthodoxy
To Live for Something and Not Something Else
The Death of Christian Art Q&A
The Spiritual Discipline of Art Appreciation
What is “Christian” Art?
All the R-Rated Content the Bible has to Offer!
The Death of Christian Art
Forget and Remember
What Qualifies as a Christmas Movie
The Shell Hole
The Terrible Cost of Christmas
Always Winter, Never Christmas
An Empty Chair
Pray.
Simplicity, Sweatshops, and Justice
The Things You (Actually) Care About
The Raven and the Vow
Who is fit to lead?
The Overlooked Demographic
The Greatest Disease
Community as Gift
An Alternative Family
The Story of Van City
Veils
You Can’t Go In
God Killer
The Name of God
All is Lost
Robes, Skulls, and Icons
Getting the Slavery out of Israel
To Split the Sea of Suffering
The Destroyer
Plague Vendor
I Ran Until I Couldn’t
The Fear of God
There’s Only One Story, Really
In Spirit and in Truth
The Spirit Speaks through Creation
God in the Wild
Waiting for Missing R’s
Stuff the Spirit Does
Intimacy Beyond the Fracture
Hearing God Through the Scriptures
The Written Word
The Living Sacrifice
The Body: Never Die
The Body: Dying
The Mind: A Heaven of Hell, A Hell of Heaven
Serpent Stories
What do you want?
Gender
Sexuality
Formation
The Future
Church
Scripture
”God”
How can this be?
Better than we’d dare to hope
Evil reigns. Or does it?
The Darkness That Is Us
The Messiah Who Saves and Judges
The Darkness at Christmas
Epilogue: The Metamorphosis
Why be here at all?
The Code
Return to Rat Park
Snake Oil, Subscribers, and Church
Destroyer of the gods
Deconversion is the New Conversion
The Agony and Ecstasy of Giving
Escaping the Pit
James
Between Two Realities
Here’s to No Guarantees!
Show Me Your Friends
The Scorpion and the Frog
Firestarter
Chris Pratt, if You’re Listening…
Forgetting Your Own Face
The Terrible Fate of the Upstairs Man
Hell Razer: The Joy of Suffering
Things Change
Epilogue: The Story Has Always Been Love
Memento Mori
The Cursed Self
The Person I Love the Least
Give us Barabbas! A Lamentation of Gun Violence in America
Father of Lies
The Rope That Ties Us
Know Yourself: When Jesus Appears so will You
How Am I Not Myself?
Dying With Your Head on a Chair
Peter is Dead. Long Live Grace!
Prologue: You, Together, Are that Temple
No New Kind of Story
From Holy Monday to the Harrowing of Hell
A Cynic’s Guide to Worship
But the one who prophesies…
Power(less)
Epilogue: How to be (and Stay) Orthodox
No Signs, Nor Wonders, At All
Who Leads the Church?
I Believe in the Holy Church, the Communion of Saints
The Problem with Everything
A Book You Can’t Get Rid Of
Right and Wrong Things About God
The Death and Rediscovery of Doctrine and Belief
The Calendar Ends in Death
The Long Winter Breaks
World Full of Hell
And the Darkness Will Be No More
The Christmas Paradox
Staring Into Darkness
The Code
It is not good for the man to be alone
Where Are You?
WWJDIHWY?
A Decidedly Narrow View of the Whole World
Overthinking, Exploitation, and other ways Not to Preach the Gospel
What does it mean to be saved?
Hospitality
What is the Gospel?
The shame of it all
Letters are Like That
An Ode to Powerlessness
On Becoming an Alternative Society (Part 2)
On Becoming an Alternative Society
Why not become all flame?
Shadows
You Were Dead
On Lacking Nothing
Contend
You are going to suffer.
Born Screaming
Yes. So I could be with you.
New Creation is Here
Hearing Your Monastery Bells
Grateful Enough to Show Up
To Bless or Curse
Don’t Take Summer Personally
The Advocate
A Mission for Failures
Simplicity of Pleasure
You Will Die Empty-Handed
How to End Christianity
The Ironic Death of God
The Affliction of Wealth
Sin Is Not Ended by Multiplying Words
Simplicity & Contentment
A Luxury Suite in France
When We No Longer Need More
A Mess of Our Own Making
Time Traveling Vikings and the Power of Silence
The Remorse that Ruins
Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
The Awful Rock is the Diamond
The Swords We Wield to Defend Jesus and the Ears we Sever by Wielding Them
The End of Hell
Where Faith in Mankind Comes to an End
The Christmas Axe
Is the Good Lord Deaf?
The Church of the Agony
The Awfulness of People
Eat This Body, Drink This Blood
In America, Not of America
When Our Enemies Are No More
I Voted for Kodos
A Question of Masters
Who Am I?
Make a Plan, Let it Go
Where Willpower Goes to Die
A New Creation: Goodness and Faithfulness
God is Patient, God is Kind
Anxiety and the Chaos Monster
Joy as an Act of Resistance
Apocalypse of Selfishness
Change is Like Death
Love and Politics
Destruction of Goats
Legacy of Dirt
Resolve
Epilogue: The Long Road
Enemy
White
The Daily Office: Praying for Our City
The Daily Office: Juneteenth and the Exodus
The Daily Office: Prayer and Political Rulers
The Daily Office: Praying Against Spiritual Forces of Racism
Race & Justice with Mark Strong
The Daily Office: Heal Our Land
The Daily Office: The Hope for Freedom
The Daily Office: Injustice, Empty Religion, and Destruction
The Daily Office: White Complicity and the Failure of Compassion
The Daily Office: Racism’s Marring of Honor and Glory
The Cries of the Oppressed
The Daily Office: Bring Injustice to Ruin
The Daily Office: The Generational Sin of Racism
The Daily Office: Empathy for the Oppressed
The Daily Office: Lamenting Racial Injustice
The Rapture, Conspiracy, and the End of the World
The Daily Office: Defy the god of Racism
The Daily Office: Colossians 2v13-15
The Daily Office: Colossians 2v6-12
I Have Seven Bad Things to Say About You
The Daily Office: The Christian Response to Conspiracy Is Not What You Think
The Daily Office: A Garden From Suffering
Putting the Bible to Memory
The Daily Office: Colossians 2v1-5
The Daily Office: Colossians 1v24-29
The Problem of Authority
The Daily office: Colossians 1v21-23
The Daily Office: Colossians 1v15-20
The Daily Office: Colossians 1v12b-14
The Daily Office: Lectio Divina
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The Daily Office: The Pause
The Daily Office: Colossians 1v9-12a
Political Cartoons & Rattlesnake Worship
You Are Not In Control
The Daily Office: The Jesus Prayer
The Daily Office: Colossians 1v3-8
The Daily Office: Colossians 1v1-2
The Daily Office: Fixed Hour Prayer
The Daily Office: The Good Shepherd
The Daily Office: Practicing Grief
The Daily Office: The Nine Minutes
The Daily Office: Power Down
Look! I Was Dead!
The Daily Office: A Rhythm for Connection
The Daily Office: Going for a Walk
The Daily Office: Morning Rhythm
The Daily Office: Sitting in Worship
The Daily Office: A Sacred Rhythm of Sacred Words
This is Our Wilderness
The Repurposing of Our Suffering
The Daily Office: Listening Prayer
The Daily Office: Centering Prayer
The Daily Office: Imaginative Prayer
The Daily Office: The Spiritual Discipline of Worship
The Daily Office: Imaginative Prayer - Be Clean
The Daily Office: Psalm 23
The Daily Office: Taking Account of the Good
The Daily Office: The Examination of Consciousness
The Daily Office: To Fast as Mourning
The End of Existential Dread
The Daily Office: A Litany Against Fear
How to Spot Fake Leaders
Conform, Deny, Dismiss
The Curse of the Fruitless Tree
What Was Jesus Like?
Epilogue: Do Not Befriend the Devouring Lion
To Live By a Code
Arise
Satan in the Smartphone
Dimensions of the Rule
A Rule of Life
A Special Twist of Paradox
Hope and Pain in the Same Place
On the Discipline of Spirit-Filled Worship
Does God want to heal people?
Speaking in Tongues
Eagerly desire all of it (especially prophecy)
Hearing the Holy Spirit
How is Jesus “with” us?
“But you will receive power…”
To Give Ourselves Away
To Defy the Pandering Masses
To Destroy the False Self
To Practice the Way of Jesus
It’s a trap!
Mercy (But Also Judgment)
Go and Point Out Their Fault
Formation Through Imperfect Community
Integrity and Flakiness
Honor and Contempt
A Controversial Notion of Family
The Only Way to Follow Jesus
Sometimes it’s Better to Drown
Our Identity in a Complicated World
The Secret of Power
Transfigured
But how will the king rule? (2 of 2)
But who will be king? (1 of 2)
When You Try and When You Stop Trying
First Half/Second Half
Where You Do Not Want to Go
And at the End: Love
Purgation and Beyond
Crowds, Signs, Bread, and the Process of Apprenticeship
The Story of Resurrection
What Jesus Learns From a Pagan
The Heart is a Sewer
Watch Me Sink
A Gift From Poverty
Severed Heads and Phony Kings
The Inevitability of Rejection
Parabolic, Part 2
Parabolic, Part 1
Spiritual Warfare Q&A, Part 2
Spiritual Warfare Q&A, Part 1
Signs, Pagans, and Blood
Sabbath as Rest
Sabbath & Your Humanity
Sabbath as Rebellion
Sabbath as Rhythm
Sabbath as Resistance
Everyone is going to have to die.
Remember...
Goodbye, Cruel World!
(Do Not) Do What You Want, Pt. II
(Do Not) Do What You Want
Sawing Down the Serpent Tree
When Passion Wanes
God of Evil
The Devil and Culture
Planted
Interdimensional Evil
Father of Lies (Part II)
Father of Lies
More and More
Faithfulness as an Act of Rebellion
Brood of Vipers
A Problem With Tradition
The Dinner Table as The Altar
A Brief History of the Bread and the Cup
Proclaiming the Lord's Death
The Secret Of The Easy Yoke
When Jesus Isn't Who You Thought He'd Be
Do Not Fear
The Spiritual Discipline of Celebration
Church Around a Table
Everyone Will Hate You
And now, o’ reader, what about your faith?
The Suffocating Quarantine
Justice and Injustice
Neighbor
A Secret Weapon
The Heavy Load of Faith
The Chaos Miracles
Outsiders and Second Thoughts