Author Archives: KevenWinder

About KevenWinder

I'm bi-vocational working in biotech and also serving as an online pastor, author, and un-coach. I'm an avid mountain biker and live in Colorado.

336-Famous Last Words 11- You are NOT of the World

“What does it mean to be “…not of the world?”

In today’s podcast and post we continue our series exploring Jesus’ famous last words with a look at his statement that we are “not of the world.” Did Jesus mean we are from another planet or dimension, or is his point a bit more down to earth?

Join me now as we reveal why being over-identified with the many institutions of life is so destructive to humanity and results in the loss of our true self. Come and see beyond everything and learn why the easy solution is something most people are unlikely to consider.

335-Famous Last Words 10-No Greater Love Than This

“What is the greatest gesture of love? Is it an expensive gift? Is it a kind word? According to Jesus, it is laying your life down for your friends.

In today’s podcast and post we continue in our series of Jesus’ Famous Last Words as we look at the love which is needed to pay the ultimate price. Our world is full of people who will lay their lives down in the name of duty, or for a cause.

Join me now as we explore what is behind the kind of love that values others so much that one is willing to die for them.

334-Famous Last Words 9- I am The True Vine

“How important is it to you to keep your smartphone charged and connected? What happens to the grapes on a vine when the branch is separated from the source of life?

In today’s podcast and post I’ll use two metaphors to highlight some powerful advice that Jesus gave to his disciples right before he was crucified.

Join me now as we discover what it means for a vine to be true, authentic, or genuine, and what that means for us when we are connected to it.

333-Famous Last Words 8-The Ruler of this World is Coming

“Who is the Ruler of this World?”

Did your mind go to a political figure? Or did it go deeper? Have you grown up believing that all the corruption and evil in the world prove that it belongs to Satan? In today’s podcast and post, our series reveals that was not what Jesus meant.

Join me now as we walk with Jesus and his disciples  to the Garden and listen in to these famous last words where we will see beyond everything and discover just whose world this actually is.

332-Famous Last Words 7- The Father will send a Helper

“What makes a person ‘Spiritual?’ What do people mean when they talk about the Holy Spirit?”

In today’s podcast and post we continue in our study of Jesus’ Famous Last Words with a look at his promise: ‘I will ask the Father and He will send a Helper.’ What could this have meant to the disciples at that time, and what does it mean for us today?

Join me now as we deconstruct this promise from within the context of this passage and discover that a spiritual life is not something we possess or live to get, but something we are and a place from which we live.

331-Famous Last Words 6- Greater Works than these…

Many of us have heard Jesus’ promise that we would do greater works than he did, or that he would give us anything if we asked for it in his name. The question for us today is: Why do so few of us believe it?

In today’s podcast and post we continue our series examining Jesus’ Famous Last Words and his promise that “You shall do greater works than these…” You’ll learn the four most common ways people interpret this promise.

Join me now as we discover why all of us approach this promise like his disciples did… in uncertainty, confusion, and unbelief.

330-The Thirtieth

“Can you imagine a country which is led by a king or leader who is humble and deeply concerned over his or her failures?”

In today’s podcast and post we return to our ongoing series “Psalms Greatest Hits” with a look at the thirtieth psalm. This psalm was prepared for a large public and even political display and we find no trace of blame, media spin, propaganda, or damage control. Instead, we find a leader who longed for all his people to experience and access the same spiritual awakening as him. Join me now as we examine a short psalm with some powerful and lasting verses, which are needed now more than ever.

329-Famous Last Words 5 -I am the Way Truth and Life

How do you understand Jesus statement: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life and no one comes to the Father except by me.”?

In today’s podcast and post we examine one of the most quoted passages in the bible and reveal how Church history has got this wrong. Imagine our surprise to discover that Jesus’ claim of exclusivity is not unto the Christian religion.

Join me now as we continue our exploration of Jesus’ famous last words, as these open a portal to a dimension of seeing and understanding which brings all things together instead of dividing them into tribal religion.

328-Famous Last Words 4- My Fathers House Has Many Rooms

“What does it mean for God’s house to have many rooms?

For most of church history we’ve been told that many rooms mean that God lives in a mansion. This has spun off into everyone getting a mansion in Heaven one day. What does all this really mean?

In today’s podcast and post we continue our series examining Jesus’ famous last words. Join me now as we double click into this passage and uncover the ontological center behind these words and see the set-up which Church history has largely ignored

327-Famous Last Words 3- Love One Another

“What do you think it means to love others?”

Not only do all world religions share in common some version of the “Golden Rule,” but in every strata of human existence, there is agreement that loving others is the morally superior posture to which humanity must strive. In Today’s podcast and post we continue our look at Jesus’ last words where his disciples were admonished to love one another.

Join me now as we see beyond the world’s agreement that we should love one another, and discover that the reason we don’t, is that we can’t.