Conversations With God with Doug Sherman

You've drifted. Maybe it happened over a decade, maybe it happened this afternoon — but the passion you used to have for God has cooled, and you're not sure how you got here. In this episode, Doug makes the case that drift always traces back to one thing: the image of God you actually live by. Not the one you'd say you believe. The one you carry into traffic, into the meeting, into the moment the bill comes in higher than expected. A small God leads to a small life, and every spiritual problem you have can be traced to a lie you've quietly accepted about who He is. In this episode, Doug walks through how to reset that image — always kind and never cruel, always faithful and never failing, always present and never distant — and the simple daily practice that rebuilds it from the inside out: letting your words lead your heart through appreciation and adoration, before, during, and after the moments of your day. The trajectory of your whole life is determined by one thing. This episode is about getting it right.

What if the entire Christian life came down to a single question you answer every moment of every day? In this episode, Doug unpacks one of Paul's most central but least talked-about ideas: in any given second, we are either God led or self led. There is no third option. Doug explains why a self led life — what Paul calls "the flesh" — is the worst life possible, even when the world tells us it's freedom. He walks through what it actually looks like to live God led in the middle of an ordinary day: at your desk, in your car, in conversation with your spouse. He shares the simple practice that transformed one man's marriage in two weeks, why repentance isn't a step backward, and why the goal is progress, not perfection. Whether you've been a Christian for a day or five decades, this is the framework Doug believes is one of the most revolutionary truths in scripture for anyone who wants to take their relationship with God to a new level. Learn more at conversationswithgod.org