479-Fix Your Faith 6: Freedom From Religion

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“When I use the title ‘freedom from religion’ do you assume I’m suggesting we leave get rid of these institutions?”

In today’s podcast and post I’ll discuss the next institutional authority that must be subverted if we truly desire freedom in our lives. The only way to fix our faith is to accurately define religion and then become free of its name.

Join me now as I reveal why the religious industrial complex should never have become big business, and why freedom from religion is the only path to reform the Church and restore its power and message.

478-Fix Your Faith 5: Friends and Vocation

“Have you ever asked: “Is this all there is?” Have you ever felt like life is an exhausting treadmill from which you cannot get off, or one on which you fear getting on?

In today’s podcast and post, we explore the institutional authorities of our friends and vocations. I’ll reveal why we can’t just “Pick the right job” and everything will work out. 

Join me now as I explain why so many people are imprisoned by friends and vocation, and how we can subvert this authority with a new name, and begin healing our lives.

477-Fix Your Faith 4: Slipping Through Family

“Is it true when people say: “Family is the most important thing.” Should our focus really be on our family?”

In today’s podcast and post we explore the authority of our family of origin. We’ll unpack how some families don’t really know their members and how they can be an impediment to freedom.

Join me now as we discover that the path to personal change, lasting freedom, and having a close, integrated family, is first to subvert authority of our family.

476-Fix Your Faith 3: The Perfect Prayer

“Do you still think of prayer as a ritual in a religious service, or a way to ask God for stuff? Do you ever feel like you just need a few minutes of silence to gain your bearings in life?  If so, you’re not alone.”

In today’s podcast and post I add another layer to our discussion on prayer, by looking closer at our need to get away and hide sometimes.

Join me now as offer you the world’s most perfect prayer, and why religion doesn’t teach it, and why we all struggle to perceive it.

475-Fix Your Faith 2: Our Prayer Life Sucks

“How would you describe your “prayer life?” Do you essentially pray the same thing every time? Are you inconsistent or are your prayers just a list of requests?

In today’s podcast and post we continue our series entitled “Fix Your Faith” by following Christ’s example of withdrawing from people to pray in secret. We’ll learn why prayer is not a ritual that we use for requests, but something much deeper.

Join me now as we fix our prayer life by looking closer at those moments when we think we are talking to ourselves, and extend that conversation into the entirety of life.

474- Fix Your Faith 1: Meet Satan

“When you face a decision point in life, how do you know how to make the right choice? What if you discover that you had already made a dire mistake, but it didn’t seem like a big deal at the time?

Today we launch our series entitled; “Fix Your Faith” with a journey back in life to the point where we surveyed the kingdoms of the world and picked a life to strive after. Without realizing it, many of our lives got derailed and we don’t even know it?

Join me now as we go back into that place where we think we are totally alone, and examine that person who wants to make a name for themselves.

473-One Hundred Nineteen: WAW

“If I were to offer you a life-hack that would re-orient you in such a way, that you would live the rest of your life in freedom and experience an optimal amount of peace and success, would you be willing to follow it?”

In today’s podcast and post we launch our New Year with just such a life hack. It is found in our next installment from our Psalms Greatest Hits series, where we are focusing on Psalm 119.

Join me now as the Psalmist shows us a blueprint for opportunity, vision, and success that most of the world simply ignores.

472-Reflecting on 2024

“Have you ever wondered about this online ministry? How many people are tuning in? How has it grown, or what am I trying to do?

In today’s podcast and post I share some of the statistics and highlights from 2024 and I address the foundational purpose for the work I do, and why it can be polarizing.

Join me now as I reflect on 2024 and why I’m really looking forward to 2025.

471-Awaken to Deep Love: A Christmas Contemplation

“Has your holiday preparation obscured the love you and your family are supposed to experience?  Or is this season a painful reminder that a deeper love and connection is clearly missing?

In today’s podcast and post I offer a brief contemplative exercise that can clue us into some ways to access a much deeper experience with love this season.

Join me now as I prime your attention for some very subtle observations which can grow into a truly meaningful Christmas.

470-Time Extraction: Advent in the Next Five Minutes

“If I told you that the Kingdom of God would be fully present to all of us within the next five minutes, how many of you would be skeptical?

In today’s podcast and post I conclude my Advent series by extracting the layer of time from our discussion of the Kingdom of God. I’ll show how the promised Kingdom not only started 2000 years ago, but fully present here and now, and why it’s Yelp reviews are so poor.

Join me now as I prove precisely why receiving the Kingdom is so difficult, and why we prefer the fictional heaven of religion instead.