Category Archives: Beyond Everything Radio

447-Sarah McCammon-The Exvangelicals (Interview)

Today is a special podcast where I interview Sarah McCammon, a political correspondent for NPR and author of the New York Times Bestseller, “The Exvangelicals.” Join us in our discussion about her experiences writing the book and becoming an Evangelical and what that has meant for her and so many people. We riff about the subtitle, church culture, religion, and the common things which make people leave the church. Sarah’s book resonates with so many people because she has done the journalistic work to support her claims and more than that, has lived in and through the tensions that this stirring within has brought about. In invite you to grab a copy of her book and check out this interview.

446-The Annihilation of the Self

This is a special addition for my podcast audience. It’s a free flowing stream of contemplative observations surround the discovery of our True Self. It serves to fortify frameworks we’ve discovered in between Romans 9 and 10. I hope you’ll receive this in the heart of love and service in which it is intended. We can find our true self, not by addition or subtraction, but by complete annihilation, by vanishing into God.

445- Rome 22: Ending Religion Is Highly Offensive

“Ever wonder why people get so offended? The more over-identified a person is with something, the more offended they will be if you question it.

Today we continue our series in Romans examining the Rock of Offense. The scandal of the New Testament is that it doesn’t put us into a religion, but delivers us from all of them. 

Join me now as we discover why the bible says that Christ is the end of religion, and why that is so offensive to us.

444-Rome 21: Chosen and Hated

“What does it mean to be Chosen by God? Does God really hate some people?

In today’s podcast and post we examine the chapter in the Bible that is responsible for more church splits, and arguments than any other, only this time it will be different.

Join me now as we take an unflinching look at Paul’s course in Theology, and discover that it’s not a threat as much as it is a validation of who we are in God.

443-Rome 20: God is FOR Us…

“What does it mean when Paul says: “God is FOR us.” And why does religion insist God is only for those on his team?

In today’s podcast and post we continue our series in Romans examining one of the most encouraging passages in scripture, and how religion has shrunk it’s big message, constraining it into a backward framework.

Join me now as I do my best to bring to you the scale and proportion of this Good News, so that we can all possess these words of Life.

442-Rome 19: Groanings Beyond Comparison

“Why is delaying gratification so difficult, but also so beneficial to our lives?” Why do so many of us choose a tiny bit of good now, instead of an in-comprehendible amount of good later?

In today’s podcast and post we continue our series in Romans with another layer in chapter 8.  Paul illuminates a way to think and live that is so much bigger than religion.

Join me now as we compare Paul’s definition of salvation to that of modern religion, and ask ourselves why we would ever settle for a personal transaction, when we are offered a cosmic transformation?

441-One Hundred Nineteen: Daleth

“What does it mean to bow? What does it mean to lower oneself?

In today’s podcast and post we return to our series entitled Psalms Greatest Hits, with part 4 of Psalm 119: Daleth. 

Join me now as I compare how the Psalmist approaches suffering to that of our modern world. We’ll learn that strength for life is not gained in avoidance, or through altering our chemistry or circumstances, but by clinging to the words of God in and through our suffering.

440-Rome 18: The Amazon Boxes Keep Coming

“What does it mean to be “In Christ.” Popular preachers tell us that it means we have been converted to the Christian religion, or that we belong to the correct Christian church, but Paul has another idea…

In today’s podcast and post we continue in our series in Romans with another section of chapter eight, where Paul makes a distinction about what it means to be “in Christ.”

Join me now as Paul reveals how his Christology can free all comers from the limitations of both Plato and religion.

439-The Gospel of Instagram

In this special edition podcast, I riff on my experience on Instagram where I observed pastors railing at each other about who has the correct Gospel. I share some of my experiences with a few different versions of the Gospel that have surfaced in Evangelicalism along with my experience so far on how I have come to understand it. In the end, I hope this rant serves you and gives all comers a new perspective, and a bit more thirst to explore what the Gospel looks like in their lives.

438-Rome 17: Setting The Mind

“What does it mean to set our minds on something? And why doesn’t our world consider this a spiritual practice?

In today’s podcast and post, we continue our series in Romans, considering Paul’s admonishment against setting our minds on the things of the flesh. 

Join me now as we discover that the battle between our flesh and spirit is not for the appearance of moral superiority, but is the very means by which all things will be renewed.