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Word of Life Church Podcast — 799 episodes
Under the Fig Tree
Under the Oaks
Mercy, Not Religion
The Forgotten God
Between Pentecost and Parousia
Let God Arise…Blessed Be God!
Paul At the Pentagon
Let Not Your Hearts Be Troubled
A Rich and Satisfying Life
Exiles At the End of the Ages
Peace, Peace, Peace
Three Marys on Easter
The Three Marys
I, Lazarus
Shine On You
Saving the World
Devil's Bargain
Behold the Beauty of the Lord
The Ruins Restored
The Kind of Christianity Christ Blesses
A Light In Dark Places
Four O'Clock in the Afternoon
The Tenderness of Christ
"This Light from the Child in the Darkness"
Incarnation Is Salvation
The Spirit of Prophecy
Messiah As He Is
The Root of Jesse
Mount Messiah
Exiles In Babylon
Children of the Resurrection
The Word of Life
The Story of Job - Part 3
The Story of Job - Part 2
The Story of Job - Part 1
In the Time of Tears
The Four Sides of Faith
A Strange Parable, A Curious Grace
Holy Cross
Sweet Sounds of Heaven
Beautiful Things
Imago Interlude
Shelter from the Storm
Joy
Good Old Days
Crazy Train
Why I Cannot Despair
Dirt Road Blues
Fall Like Lightning
What Spirit Are You Of?
Receive the Holy Spirit
Like Father Like Son
The Holy Experience of God
CHRIST: Fulfilling Scripture, Filling the Cosmos
The Third Appearance
Long Road Away From What Was
Some Doubted. So What?
Astonished Ecstasy
Believing Thomas
While It Was Still Dark...
Palm Sunday: Greatness Redefined
The Fragrance of Eternal Life
Two Sons and the Father's House
Chop It Down!
March On Jerusalem
The Grand Inquisitor
The Light of Tabor
The Perfection of Mercy
No Easy Alliance
Called Beyond the Crowd
The Prophet In His Hometown
JESUS: The Fullfillment of Scripture
Cana of Galilee
Baptizing the Waters
The Logos In Adolescence
A Light for Revelation
Sore Afraid
An Anthem for A New Age
The Mother of God
The Last and Greatest of the Old Testament Prophets
You Tell Me
"All Will Be Thrown Down"
My Soul Waits for the Lord
A Tale Told By An Idiot
Being Bartimaeus
The Uncontainable Christ
The Faith of Abraham
Riders In the Chariot
Recalled To Life
Live Like A Narnian
Bread in the Hands of Jesus
Wounded Healers
Finding God In The Music | 90's Edition: Until The End Of The World
Finding God In The Music | 90's Edition: Losing My Religion
Finding God In The Music | 90's Edition: Come As You Are
Finding God In The Music | 90's Edition: Shine
Finding God In The Music | 90's Edition: One Of Us
God's Neighboring Presence
The Gospel as Rebirth
The Gospel as Tragedy
The Gospel as Comedy
The Gospel as Voyage and Return
The Gospel as the Quest
The Gospel as Rags to Riches
The Gospel as Overcoming the Monster
Lord of the Story
The Circle of Divine Love
The Very First Church
Christ of the Tanakh
The Uncontrollable Mystery
Pastures of Peace
Freed from the Chains of the Fear of Death
Why Are You Frightened?
A Doorway into a New Life
The Wood Between the Worlds: The Center That Holds
BZ Basement Tapes - Episode 8 - The Harrowing of Hell
The Wood Between the Worlds: God Revealed In Death
BZ Basement Tapes - Episode 7 - One Ring to Rule Them All
BZ Basement Tapes - Episode 6 - The Lamb upon the Throne
BZ Basement Tapes - Episode 5 - Three Tress on the Low Sky
BZ Basement Tapes - Episode 4 - A Grotesque Beauty
The Wood Between the Worlds: A Grotesque Beauty
BZ Basement Tapes - Episode 3 - God on the Gallows
The Wood Between the Worlds: A Love Supreme
BZ Basement Tapes - Episode 2 - God Revealed in Death
The Wood Between the Worlds
BZ Basement Tapes - Episode 1 - The Wood Between The Worlds
Ash Wednesday: The Road of Discipleship
The Telos of the Old Testament
Everyone Is Searching
The Fame of Jesus
The Risk of Becoming
Heaven Opened
Epiphany: By Another Road
Christmas Eve Homily
Paths of Unseen Existences
Beautiful (In Time)
Finding God In The Music | 2023: Monsters
Eastertide 2023: Help From The Sanctuary
Eastertide 2023: A Lovely Coda
Lent 2023: The Third Temptation
Epiphany 2023: Anger Issues
The Anticipated Christ: Here Is Your God
The Abolition of Death
Where There Is No War
Beloved But Hard To Believe It
Memorial Stones
The Truth Comes From Above
Finding God In The Music: Sanctuary
Finding God In The Music: Quiet Town
Finding God In The Music: Unconditional (Lookout Kid)
Finding God In The Music: Waiting On A War
Finding God In The Music: A Hero's Death
Everyday Mystics
Go And Do
The Fall of the Satan
What Kind of Spirit?
Demons
Trinity Sunday: Dazzle Gradually
Pentecost: The Experience of God
Eastertide: The Healing of the Nations
Eastertide: The Darkness Will Not Endure
Eastertide: The Road Away From God
Eastertide: Shining In the Light
Eastertide: Showings
Eastertide: Is Easter Incredible?
Easter 2022: Christ Pantocrator
Good Friday: The Singularity of Good Friday
Jesus the Healer: A Temple for All
Jesus the Healer: To Harm or Heal?
Jesus the Healer: Hope For The Harassed and Helpless
Jesus the Healer: Ultimate Healing
Jesus the Healer: Bringing the Sick to Jesus
Jesus The Healer: The Faith of Friends
Ash Wednesday: Into the Ashes
Epiphany: Mystics on the Mountains
Epiphany: The Politics of Heaven
Epiphany: Hence Comes the Healer
Epiphany: Depart From Me
Epiphany: Hometown Jesus
Epiphany: Praying The Psalms
Epiphany: Vintage Christianity
Epiphany: Water and Flame
Christmas 2021: The Rising Star
The Season Of Advent: Where the Word Enters the World
A World Full of Blessings
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2
Higher Love - Steve Winwood
Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears
Strangers In A Strange Land: The Faithfulness of Daniel
What Does This Mean? An Easter Look at the Cross: The Death That Conquers Death
What Does This Mean? A Lenten Look at the Cross: The Axis of Love That Re-founds the World
What Does This Mean?: A Lenten Look at the Cross: The Eternal Moment of Forgiveness
Songs of Messiah: The Light Shines In the Darkness
Songs of Messiah: Simeon's Song
In The Beginning: Finding Jesus In Genesis: Isaac
In The Beginning: Finding Jesus In Genesis: Abraham
In The Beginning: Finding Jesus In Genesis: Noah
In The Beginning: Finding Jesus In Genesis: Adam
In The Beginning: Finding Jesus In Genesis: Creation
Finding God In the Music: John Brown
Finding God In the Music: Call Me Rose
Finding God In the Music: Wooden Heart
Finding God In the Music: Woodstock
Finding God In The Music: You Were There
Finding God In The Music: The Logical Song - Supertramp
No Ordinary Time: A New Hope
No Ordinary Time: What To Do On the Worst Day of Your Life
No Ordinary Time: The God Who Speaks
No Ordinary Time: For the Weary and Worn
No Ordinary Time: The Word From Heaven
No Ordinary Time: Scandalous Joy
No Ordinary Time: Return of the Exiles
No Ordinary Time: No Ordinary Time
The Eternal Church
The Only Foundation
A Tale of Two Psalms
The Way To The Father's House
Living the 23rd Psalm A Conversation with Brian & Peri Zahnd
New Eyes and Burning Hearts
Not Abandoned To Hades
The Resurrection of the Dead Ones
The Lenten Journey: A Palm Sunday Promise
The Lenten Journey: "Now Is My Soul Troubled"
The Lenten Journey: Love In the Time of Coronavirus
Th Lenten Journey: At the Well...Again
The Lenten Journey: The Brightness of Jesus
The Lenten Journey: Suddenly Angels
The Lenten Journey: Journey To The Center of Salvation
From Secret Place To Public Space
Salt & Light
MONEY: The Apostles and Money
MONEY: Jesus and Money
The Prophets and Money
MONEY: Moses and Money
Celebrating Christmas with Isaiah: The Portent of the Magi
Celebrating Christmas with Isaiah: On the Fifth Day of Christmas
Waiting for Christmas with Isaiah: Deep as Hell, High as Heaven
Waiting for Christmas with Isaiah: Here is Your God
Waiting for Christmas with Isaiah: When the Lion Lays Down with the Lamb
Waiting For Christmas With Isaiah: In the Light of Christ
Job: A Blameless Victim Part 3
Job: A Blameless Victim Part 2
Job: A Blameless Victim Part 1
Anniversary Sunday: A Long Obedience In the Same Direction
We Are Family
I Am Chosen
I Am a Worshiper
I Am Called
I Am Peaceful
I Am Content
I Am Loved
Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan
Jesus Just Left Chicago - ZZ Top
Peace Train - Cat Stevens
Heart of Gold - Neil Young
Shine A Light - The Rolling Stones
Revolution - The Beatles
All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Let Justice Roll Down
Quartet: The Gospel In Four Movements LUKE
Is Christianity A Religion?
PENTECOST SUNDAY: The Dreams I Dream
Eastertide: Jesus Gets a Promotion
EASTERTIDE: The Crystal City On the Shores of the Lake of Fire
EASTERTIDE: The Newness From Above
EASTERTIDE: The Global Nation of the Lamb
EASTERTIDE: Surprised By Jesus
EASTERTIDE: We're All Thomas Now
Jesus On the Other Side
Good Friday: Three Crosses
Behold Your King
Jesus And The Homecoming
The Apocalyptic Christ
What Was Jesus' Goal?
Jesus and the Devil's Good Ideas
Not Like Moses
Enemy Love from Above
The Sermon On The Plain
Jesus Only Calls Sinners
The Stories Prophets Tell
Reading The Bible With Jesus
L'Chaim!
A New Humanity
Return of the Magi
The Boy Jesus
The Second Half of Human History
When God Lives Among Us
Prepare the Way, Prepare to Change
No Shame For Those Who Wait
In the Days of the Righteous King
Exile On Main Street
How Lonely Sits the City
A Prophet for the End Times
My Soul Follows Hard After Thee
Mercy As Sure As The Morning
You're Being Followed
The Pilgrim's Way
No Man is an Island
Four Practices for Resurrection People
A Mystic Or Nothing At All
My Back Pages
There Is A Light
This Wild Darkness
Saving Grace
Oh Joy Begin
Love Never
ROME!
Why The First Christians Were Persecuted
Missional Imagination
"THEY are IN?!"
Plenary Session 6: Brian & Peri Zahnd - Leading A Church Beyond Easy-Cheesy-Cotton-Candy-Christiani
Plenary Session 7: Panel Discussion
Brad Jersak & Derek Vreeland: Unwrathing the Cross: Redeeming the Atonement from an Ugly Gospel
Joe Beach: 90 Miles an Hour Down a Dead End Street: Evangelicals’ Impossible Bible
Peri Zahnd: Meeting God On Mount St. Scholastica: An Introduction to the Rich Tradition of Spiritual
Plenary Session 3: Brad Jersak
Plenary Session 4: Mercy Aiken
Plenary Session 5: Brian Zahnd - Second Half of Life Churches
Scott Erickson: Spiritual Formation Through Image Making, Contemplation, and Working With Creatives
Opening Plenary Session: Brian Zahnd - Am I Here All Alone?
Plenary Session 2: Jonathan Martin
You Say You Want A Revolution...
A Revolution of Inclusion
Everybody Must Get Stoned
There Must Be Some Way Out of Here
A Jesus-Centered Bible
The Dark Night Of Unknowing
Don't Freak Out About Doubt
The End Is The Beginning
Lies We Believe About God: A Conversation with Wm. Paul Young
Soil With A Soul
The Contemplative Alternative
A Life That We Can Live
The Eighth Day
Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground
The Singularity of Good Friday
A Royal Waste of Time
Getting Down To Brass Tacks
When The Whip Comes Down
There's Always Some Dude On A Horse
Of Wolves and Lambs
Cristine Eckhardt's Story
Forgiveness That Transcends Tragedy
Stories of Forgiveness: Todd Norris's Story
No Future Without Forgiveness
Candy Draper's Story
Why Forgive?
Stories of Forgiveness: Glen and Heather Taylor
The Sunflower
In the Time of Tyrant Kings
Christmas Saves the World
If This Is God...
Enfleshing the Holy
A Burning and Shining Lamp
Anticipating the Day (When God Will Act)
The Kingdom Prepared for You
Feel the Falseness
The Crux of Discipleship
36th Anniversary: Love Alone Is Credible
Beyond the Wittenberg Door
Who Are You?
Blowin' In the Wind
What About the Book of Revelation? Q&A
What About the Book of Revelation?
What About Hell? Q&A
What About Hell?
What About the Violence of the Cross? Q&A
What About the Violence of the Cross?
What About Old Testament Violence? Q&A
What about Old Testament Violence?
What about the Wrath of God? Q&A
What About the Wrath of God?
Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God Q&A
Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God
Broken Halos
Us and Them
Way Down We Go
Trusty and True
Everything Now
Out of the Pit
Harps On Willows
The Prayer Book of Jesus
Saved By Religion
Brother Sun and Sister Moon
The Dark Night of the Soul
Friendship with God
The Uncommon Trinity
Get On Board!
All Your Anxiety
The Apocalypse: A Revelation of the Ascended Christ
Christ of Heaven and Hell
Jesus, Master of Life
The Way of Jesus
The Wound That Heals The World
Recognizing Jesus
Ransomed from the Rat Race
An Open Life of Endless Possibilities
Flooding the World with Forgiveness
Not Abandoned
Why Are You Weeping?
What Does This Mean?
Who Is This?
Paradise Found
Lazarus, Raskolnikov, and You
Jesus and the Tenth Commandment
For Judgment I Came
The Call To Trust
Things Fall Apart
Saint Patrick
Jesus By Night
The Wisdom of God
When the Devil Met Jesus
The Sermon on the Mount and Caesar's Sword
Beyond A Theology of Terror
The End of Recycled Revenge
The Divine Unfolding
What Are People For?
Holy Ground
Genuine Jesus People
The Face of God
The Declaration of Blessedness
Rethink Everything
A Liturgy for Evening Prayer
Followers of the Lamb
The Shock of Beauty
Through the Waters of Baptism
Kingdom-minded Simplicity
The Revolution Begins
A Government of Peace and Goodwill
God With Us (More Than We Can Imagine)
God Will Come
Godspeed
The Healing of Harms
The House of Fear / The House of Love
War Is Over (If You Want It)
The Way to Paradise
By His Wounds
The Way
Portrayed as Crucified
Buen Camino
Sticks and Stones
An Apocalyptic Story
Love One Another
The Storied People of God
Who Cares?
Fireside Storytellers
The Revolutionary Cross
The Intersection of Stories
An Anchor for the Soul
The Devil is in the Details
Blessed us. Loved us. Chose us.
The Stories We Tell
One Last Sentence
How To Survive A Shipwreck
Hands & Feet
A Pilgrim's Journey
How Much A Dollar Cost
A Celebration of Creation
Stressed Out
What's So
Mercy Please
River
Spirits
Dusty Trails
I Will Be There
Burn the Witch
Her Mercy
How Jesus Changes the World
The Parable of the Trees
Choose Your Own Adventure
The Life of a Great Sinner
Transaction or Transformation?
Touching the Void
Lament for the Land
Rollin' and Tumblin'
It's OK to be Patriotic but...
The Man From Kursi
Her Beautiful Countenance?
To Hell And Back
Powerlessness
The Story of Simeon Bachos
When Religion Is Good For You
Ruth: A Love Story
When The Bible Is Bad For You
The Face of God
The Burning Bush
The Glory of Ordinary Time
We Have Come To Mount Zion
The Spirit of Advocacy
The Comforter Has Come
The All In All Christ
An Eschatology of Hope
Rescuing Revelation
The Journey: Justice
A Beautiful Life
The Journey: Community
The Four Practices
The Journey: Worship
Is God Dead? / Didymus the Empiricist
The Journey
When The Scales Fall From Our Eyes
The Gardener
The Garden
A Throne On Which No King Has Ever Sat
Job: A Blameless Victim
The Beauty and Necessity of Extravagant Worship
By Your Wounds Heal Us
Love Isn't Fair
Walking With Jesus
Tragedies and Catastrophes
Grace
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem
Patience
Evil and the Justice of God
Why Lent?
Speaking of Exodus
Jubilee For Everybody
Silence
Jesus and Jubilee
Echoes
Water To Wine
Walls of Wounds
Original Blessing
Where Is He?
A New Way of Knowing God
Losing Jesus
Hope and Horror in the House of Bread
Joy and Peace Or Else
Keep Christ In Christians
The Path of Peace
O Bethlehem
Waiting For A Just Kingdom
Vengeance is Mine
The Christian Mind
Bruised, yet not Broken
Misguided Hope
God Is Not A Monster
Forty Years
Pilgrim's Progress: Part 3
Blind Man at the Gate
Pilgrim's Progress: Part 2
I'm Not Just Spiritual, I'm Religious
Pilgrim's Progress: Part 1
Room At The Table
Zechariah: Prophet of the Comeback
Isaiah of the Exile: Your God is Coming
Sacred Dreaming in a Secular Age
Jeremiah: A Tragedy
Jonah: A Comedy (2015)
Isaiah of Jerusalem: "God Is With Us"
A Disorienting Story
Hosea: Prostitutes and Prophets
Living Peaceably in a 9/11 World
Amos: The Mad Farmer of Tekoa
Song for Someone
War in the Mind
Sing All Our Cares Away
The Thief and The Friend
Brother
Us For Them
The Waterfall
Mercy
Don't Wanna Fight
There is No End to Love
The Madness of More
See the Kingdom
Every Grain of Sand
The Fringe
Holy Humdrum
Covenant Faithfulness
Perfect Theology
Real Presence
Closing The Book On Vengeance
"He Will Deliver Us Again"
Stephen: A Life of Prayer
Jesus Takes the Blame
Written in the Dust
Sinai and Tabor
The Language of Prayer
Sitting With Jesus
Jesus Restores All Things
Christ of the Cosmos
Babylon Undone
Armageddon or New Jerusalem?
Come, Creator Spirit
Love Minus Zero / No Limit
Worship One God
Abiding In the Mystery of Jesus
Good News for the Excluded
The Good Shepherd
Kingdom and the Unity of the Church
On the Road and In the Bread
Rumors of Shalom
Revelations of the "Show Me" Disciple
Jerusalem, Jerusalem
A Cathedral of Astonishment
Eloi, Eloi, Lema Sabachthani?
Peace Donkey On Palm Sunday
A Christian Perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Axis of Love
The Beautiful Catastrophe
A Long Obedience in the Same Direction
Jesus the Prophet
People of the Cross
Tomorrow They Crucify Me
At the End of the Rope
Jesus and his Temptations
The Sickness of Sin
Jesus is What God Has to Say
Love Never Ends
Church As Banquet
Kingdom Come!
A Moveable Feast
The King's Table
The Feast of Liberation
Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down
Ch-ch-ch-ch Changes
Into The Great Unknown
The Cross As Counter-Script
Under The Fig Tree
Responding to the Love of God
The Baptism of Jesus
Rebelling Against Secularism
By Another Way
Cohesive, Contemplative, Alternative
Enlightened By Jesus
The Greatest Wonder of All
Further Up and Further In
Mary's Song (A Revolutionary Carol)
A Way In The Desert
The Risk of God
Wake Up!
The City of The Lamb
Climbing Into The Story
The War of the Lamb
The Prerogative of Beauty
The Anthem of the Lamb
Saving the Old Testament
Patience With God
All The Saints
The End of Beastly Empire
The Daily Office and the Lion's Den
A Turn To the Contemplative
Where You Do Not Want To Go
The Handwriting's on the Wall
Way And Truth And Life
The Insanity of Empire
Love Alone Is Credible
Dreams and Nightmares
“O You of Little Faith”
Which Name, Which Table?
Walking On Water
Exodus To Exile
Is Christ Divided?
Modern Man
Never Went To Church
Ain't No Reason
Dweller By A Dark Stream
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Square One
Jerusalem
Exodus
Invisible
Jesus, Friend of Sinners
Bringing Things Back Together
A Gospel-Shaped Life
Lily, Allen, and The King of Hearts
Contemplation and The Way of Peace
"Kill! Kill!"
A Table, Not A Desk
Two Mule Loads of Earth
Hagar's Story
Anthem of the Lamb
Issac Speaks
Game of Thrones
Bread On The Table
Three Dreams
On The Journey
Goliath's Head
A Farewell To Mars
Between The Ages
Finding the Spirit at Work
What About Doubt?
Do You Love The Truth?
Don't Be Afraid
Sticks and Stones
Seeing Jesus, Being Jesus
The Beautiful Face of Jesus
Transfigured From Glory To Glory
The Death of Death
A New Empire
God Is Dead
Sympathy For The Devil... or Pilate
The Failure of Jesus
Lamb of God (The Last Scapegoat)
How Did Jesus Understand His Death?
A Beautiful Gospel
Going With The Grain of Love
Death of the Monster God
The Faithfulness of Jesus
Who Killed Jesus?
Preaching Jesus
The Crucified God
Ghosts On the Mountain
Echos of Lost Footsteps
My Problem With the Bible
Don't Waste My Time
Doing Life with One Another
God's Good Earth
Unless You Love
A Contemplative Breakthrough
Your True Self
Knowing God, Knowing Yourself
Spiritual Openness
Mending and Tending Your Sacred Soul
Imago Dei
The Healing of Harms
Our Sacred Text
The Chosen Race
Our Sacramental Faith
An Elephant Named Nicodemus
The Icon of God
God As Artist
The Life We've Lost
The Healing Sunrise
Sinners In the Hands of a Loving God
Christ Is The New Day
Repeat the Sounding Joy
Bubble-Wrapped Crucifix
The World Re-Imagined
The Great Goat and The Slain Lamb
The Jesus Trail
The King Jesus Gospel
Let The Children Come
Seeing The Kingdom
Making Disciples of the Jesus Way
Immersed
Enter The Mystery
Your True Self
Authentic People / Authentic Church
A Tapestry of Grace
A Temple for the Imperfect
Paul's Thorn
Quietness and Trust
Peter's Tears
The Useful God
Jacob's Limp
Breaking Badly
A Gospel Culture
The Suffering God
The Night of Unknowing
God On Trial
A Eucharistic People
Schooled In Denial
The Society of Jesus
Pain Is The Price of Admission
Show Me The Place
Hold On
Wing$
Mercy
Demons
The Whole Night Sky
I Will Wait
Society
Dear God 2.0
Blowin' In The Wind
A Contemplative Breakthrough
Second Genesis
The Defeat of Death
Hardship as The Pathway to Peace
Jesus vs. Karma
No More Monster God
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night…
God’s Attitude Toward You
The Beauty of the Infinite
Substance and Evidence
Jesus At Work
Spiritual Openness
The Logos of Life
Temple to Table
Water To Wine
Jesus Is What God Has To Say
Windbag Speeches
One New Humanity
It's All A Gift
What Really Matters
Hello, New Creation!
Hello, New Creation!
The Fight We're In - Part 2
Baptized Into Newness of Life
The Fight We're In - Part 1
Jerusalem to Rome
The Crucified God
Faith and Family In Tension
Raising Christian Kids
A Sermon to Change the World
The Mystery of Mary
The Birth of John the Baptist