Tag Archives: gospel

364-Questions for Spiritual Renewal

“Do you have sense like you need to get your life on track spiritually? Is it possible to have spiritual renewal without getting sucked into a religion, a cult, or become weird?”

In today’s podcast and post I am going to unpack five questions that will help you understand how you can find spiritual renewal within the privacy of your own soul and how to navigate a world of competing religions and truth claims.

Join me now as we see beyond the religious containers and all their propaganda, and discover how to extract the contents by following the same voice which has called all people, in all times, and in countless ways.

362-Mustard Seed and Yeast

“What does it mean that Heaven is like a mustard seed or a pinch of yeast?

Today we continue our series on Seeing Beyond the Parables with Jesus’ next parable that describes Heaven. How can heaven be a blissful kingdom that is only accessible when we die, if the point of these parables is to reveal that Heaven is here and now?

Join me now as these parables illuminate that Heaven has come, is here now, but isn’t fully baked yet. We’ll discover that Heaven is about participation, rather than a destination.

361-Wheat and Weeds

“Is it possible the meaning of the parable of the weeds has been obscured by religion?

In today’s podcast and post, we continue our series of “Seeing Beyond the Parables” with an important parable which reveals something contrary to most people’s belief about Heaven and Hell. 

Join me now as we look at the relationship between the Wheat and the Weeds, and discover that the burning of the weeds is not a threat to coerce religious behavior, but a promise of hope for all people.

360-Sowing Through Story

“Did you know the parable of the Sower is the first parable in each Gospel except John? Do you know why?

In today’s podcast and post, we backfill our series of “Seeing Beyond the Parables” with the cornerstone parable which starts them all off. I’ll list four observations which will allow us to see “the moral of the story.”

Join me now as we look at the relationship between the Sower and the soils, and extract it’s real meaning from 2000 years of Church history.

359- Ability and Twenty Years Income

“Is the parable of the talents and the minas about spirituality or diligence? Faith or Works?

In today’s podcast and post, I’m continuing my series on seeing beyond the parables. Our world sees the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer and blames this on corruption or inequity. Is this really the case? Come see how the Master wants all to enter his Joy, by why only the diligent ever will.

Join me now as we see beyond our talents and minas to discover why outer darkness is reserved for those who squander their lives.

358- 5 out of 10 Virgins

“Is the parable of the 10 virgins really about preparing for the rapture?

In today’s podcast and post, I’m making an addition to my 2018 series on the real meaning of the parables. Church history and religion have obscured this story by trapping it into a dogma on preparing for a future rapture. By doing that, we’ve missed a lot.

Join me now as we see beyond the lamps, the oil, and the bridegroom, at this amazing comparison between knowing and being known.

352- WORD

“What’s in a word?” 

We skim over countless words everyday with endless communication, but what are we really saying? In today’s podcast, post and video we will contemplate words and follow them back to their Source. 

Join me now as discover how these seemingly innocuous bits of non-empirically based reality, have latent within them, the power to make everything new.

349-PROTEST

“Is there really such a thing as a peaceful protest? Do you really think the government cares about our feelings?

In today’s post, podcast and video, I will deconstruct what is truly behind our protests, and expose the gravitational force which pulls us into political binaries. Politics is like a spinning carnival ride which forces a pledge of allegiance to the shadowy operator pushing the buttons.

Join me now as we see beyond our protests and expose the path of peace which remains largely unbelieved.

347-UNIVERSE

“Is the Universe an unintelligent, random, amalgamation of elements and time as science tells us it is? What about those who ascribe some form of spirituality to the Universe?

In today’s podcast, post and video, I will reveal how both of these perspectives end in either irrationality or idolatry.

Join me now as we see beyond our triggers, and beyond the universe, to discover how to repatriate the word “God” and why it’s the most rational and worthy term for the power which is behind, in and through everything. 

340-Famous Last Words 14-I have overcome the World

What did Jesus mean when he said “I have overcome the world.”?

Today we conclude our series entitled “Famous Last Words” with a look at Jesus last bit of advice prior to his final prayer for his disciples. We can all identify so easily with his statement that we would have trouble in this world, so why can’t we agree on what it means to overcome the world?

Join me now as Jesus offers the most liberating advice to all who will hear it and learn why his path to peace is the very opposite of religion.