Guitars and Theology Podcast

In a disposable world where we discard and replace, the gospel brings us a Father who is willing to put in the work to restore us because of our value.So what's the measure of your worth? The cross. You are worth the blood of Jesus.

Sometimes anger is the first response when hope is rebooting to come back online.This is about 2 Kings chapter 4.

"God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom." (1 Corinthians 1:21)

When we pray God does something he wouldn't have done if we hadn't prayed.In Amos 7 we see that the prophet changed God's mind.What do we need to get started?1. A time2. A place3. WordsThe talk with a great story of an unlikely answer to prayer.

Tonight we simply laid hands on each other and asked God to fill each other with His presence, peace, and love.

Stop, look, listen, write

My friend Wayne once told me that most of us live our whole Christian life in the wilderness after we're rescued out of Egypt. We don't cross over the Jordan and enter in to the promised land. This sermon is about crossing over and entering in.

Is faith certainty or is it more like walking a path of surrender in response to the call of the beckoning mystery encoded into life itself?

The kingdom of death has no rightful claim on the kingdom of life. Yet much of the time we live from the wrong story - the facts of our life instead of the Truth.

I am chosenI am blessedI am brokenI am given

We are to love and to be loved. We need love, desperately.This is not a flaw. This is God's design.Receiving healthy love gives healthy identity. Not receiving healthy love damages identity, creating so many issues that drive us in life.

What's the best part of Easter Sunday? We get him back.

When we say "Christ died to save sinners," what do we mean?What are we saved for?What are we saved from?How does his death save us?Really, this message is about God's love.

When we know whose we are, then we know who we are, and why we are. Then we finally have a stable place to stand.Who am I? I am God's dearly beloved son, who brings him great pleasure.

Psalm 104 and God's total emotional openness to his entire creation.

I can't stand those kinds of peopleEveryone's got problemsThere but for the grace of God go IThere go I

This chat is about going through hard things in a way that helps God access our depths. It's really a talk about intimacy with God.

1 From the depths of despair, O Lord,    I call for your help.2 Hear my cry, O Lord.    Pay attention to my prayer.3 Lord, if you kept a record of our sins,    who, O Lord, could ever survive?4 But you offer forgiveness,    that we might learn to fear you.5 I am counting on the Lord;    yes, I am counting on him.    I have put my hope in his word.6 I long for the Lord    more than sentries long for the dawn,    yes, more than sentries long for the dawn.7 O Israel, hope in the Lord;    for with the Lord there is unfailing love.    His redemption overflows.8 He himself will redeem Israel    from every kind of sin.

Psalm 91 Those who live in the shelter of the Most High    will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty.2 This I declare about the Lord:He alone is my refuge, my place of safety;    he is my God, and I trust him.3 For he will rescue you from every trap    and protect you from deadly disease.4 He will cover you with his feathers.    He will shelter you with his wings.    His faithful promises are your armor and protection.

God, according to Deuteronomy 4:24, is "a devouring fire," yet he invites us to draw near. Let's explore this theme!