People have been telling me to do a podcast for years. So, a few weeks ago I finally launched, Plain Talk. If you haven’t already heard it, check it out here! In celebration of the launch of Plain Talk, I am giving away a bunch of great stuff to a lucky winner… • Free copy of Beyond an Angry God… • Free copy of Divine Invitation… […]
003) A Sense of Separation.
The greatest roadblock that keeps us from experiencing Divine Love is the sense of separation. Many of us believe that God is out there while we are here. But what if I told you that there has never been a moment when the Creator has been distant from us? *Update: Previous to 8:23am PST, Sept 19 episode 002 played. It has been corrected. *Listen […]
002) Spirituality is a Journey.
I consider myself a recovering legalistic. That’s because I grew up in a religious system that served a god that I no longer believe in. I no longer believe that god is angry, judgemental, and rigid. What I have found to be the truth about God from what I grew up believing is as different as if I completely changed religions. In this episode […]
001) What You See is What You Get. (Podcast Episode #1!)
For years, people have suggested that I start a podcast. I always wanted to, but just I never did…until now! I don’t believe in the same God that I did 25 years ago. That god is a judgemental and an angry god. He was a bookkeeper who scrutinized every action and every thought. He was so angry in fact, that he sent his son […]
Faith is a Person.
Many people see faith as a sort of currency we spend with God to get what we want or need from Him. The more of it you have, the bigger things you can buy. Many have blamed themselves for not having enough faith when things didn’t turn out the way they had prayed and hoped they would. In one church, I was told that […]
Christ Died For ALL.
What happened at the cross? The obvious thing that most people mention first is that Jesus put away the sins humanity had committed against God. But if that were all Jesus had done, we would still have a big problem. Sins were the symptom of a deeper problem—man’s utter confusion about God’s identity and about his own. That darkened understanding came from Adam. It […]
Pure Love
If I handed you a glass of water and told you it was pure, you would assume nothing else was in the glass but pure water. If the glass contained anything other than water, even in small traces, I wouldn’t be honest calling it pure water. Is God pure love or not? Of course He is. If anything that contradicts love were present in […]
Can God Look at Sin?
The idea that God the Father can’t look upon sin is simply wrong. It leads to an insulting conclusion about Jesus, who is God the Son. He lived in this world in the very midst of sin. He not only looked upon it but even rushed toward people trapped in sin! He saw sin as a fatal disease that needed to be cured, not a […]
Did God Abandon Jesus?
Most of us have been told that God abandoned Jesus on the cross but did He really? Despite being told differently and having only half-verses shown to us from the Bible that would suggest otherwise, the Father of Jesus did not abandon Him at the cross. If the Father separated Himself from the Son when Jesus became sin for us, what happened to the […]
The First Thing God Showed Us About Himself.
God is a triune God. He exists as three in one. Understanding the Trinity is more important than many Christians realize. Why does it matter that He is triune? It matters because as three in one, our God is first and foremost relational. In the eternal realm, the Father, Son, and Spirit have always existed and forever will exist in a circle of intimate […]