How Do We Love One Another? Providence Podcast Episode
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God’s call to us is clear; we are to love one another. But what does that look like as we each follow that call in our lives?
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Surviving the Time of Great Distress, Providence Podcast Episode
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God cared for the first Christians in their time of distress, and God is caring for us too. We, too, will navigate through it, and as we’re dealing with it all, why not give ourselves over to the comfort of God’s care?
Read More“Do you love me? Follow me.” Providence Podcast Episode
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Our times are uncertain and institutions are deconstructing, and we don’t know what’s going to happen, but God has called us into mission. Christ is still saying to each one of us every day: "Do you love me? Follow me.”
Read MoreFear, Doubt, and Transformation, Providence Podcast Episode
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I’ve heard it said that questioning is okay but doubting is wrong, but I think doubting is okay too. God doesn’t seem to mind when we doubt. In fact, doubt can be an opening for God to come closer and show us God’s love and care; it can be a means to transformation.
Read MoreDarkness and Light, Providence Podcast Episode
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Darkness and light are neither good nor bad; they’re both parts of the whole. We can’t consider suffering apart from resurrection, and we can only enter into resurrection joy while bearing the experience of suffering. Are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death and resurrection? Christ is with us in darkness and light.
Read MoreGod Has Not Abandoned Us, Providence Podcast
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Maybe we, too, need to move through this time of disintegration. As things unravel and one struggle after another emerges, it can feel disconcerting and frightening. But that doesn’t mean God has abandoned us. We are living into this story, the beauty and the heartbreak and the love and betrayal. Jesus’s story is our story too.
Read MoreGod Makes All Things New, Providence Podcast Episode
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Not only does transformation always come, whether I want it to or not, but God’s love is in that movement, whether I see it or not. And God invites me to see it. “See, I am doing something new! Now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?”
Read MoreGod's Big Wasteful Love, Providence Podcast Episode 31
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What if we stopped worrying about worthiness? God, with great pleasure, wastes God’s big, crazy love on us, like a giant waterfall. What if we were to simply receive God’s abundant love and mercy?
Read MoreHow Shall We Serve? Providence Podcast Episode
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In this special episode, we’ll be talking about service and advocacy – the gifts of volunteering and how to follow a call to get involved, whether that’s full time or just the little bit of time you have to give. We’ll talk about how to deal with overwhelm and burnout, how to figure out what direction to move in, and how service can connect you with a community of other people.
Read MoreWe Can't Stay on the Mountain, Providence Podcast
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We stay open to what comes, enjoying the heights, living into the depths, and being present to where God is moment by moment, even when the ground is just . . . level.
Read MoreBe with Us, God Providence Podcast
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The story of Jesus’s temptation in the desert is an affirmation of God’s presence with him – and with us. How do you trust that God is with you, especially during times of struggle and temptation?
Read MoreGood Fruit, Bad Fruit, Providence Podcast
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We each have the ability to produce good fruit, to act out of the goodness – the God-ness – inside of us, but we also have it in us to act out of what’s not of God. Our decisions to do good, to move in the direction of the Spirit (or not) reflects who we are. How do we choose to bear good fruit?
Read MoreGod Is Good, Providence Podcast
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We are lavishly loved and blessed. What we put out into the world may have a cause and effect dynamic, or it may not. However, the more good we do, the more we become people who do good, and the more we become magnanimous, like God is.
Read MoreBlessed, Providence Podcast
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Living into the Kingdom of God does not bring wealth and glory, which Christ confirms in the Beatitudes. However, working toward this Kingdom has its own blessings. How do you root yourself in God’s wisdom, and what does that look like in your life?
Read MoreFishing for People, Providence Podcast
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Jesus says, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching people.” What does it mean to fish for people? And, looking at your own spiritual life, what does it mean to be caught by God?
Read MoreAmazing, Providence Podcast
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What is your capacity to be amazed by God? And after you’ve had a moving spiritual experience, and things fade back to ordinariness – what then?
Read MoreThe Spirit of God Is Upon Me, Providence Podcast
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As Jesus proclaims the word of God to the people of his hometown, the scripture he reads is fulfilled in their hearing, but they don’t want to hear it. How often do we listen to God, especially when God calls us to grow? And to what is God calling you right now?
Read MoreDifferent Gifts, Same Spirit, Providence Podcast
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“There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit.” We tend to use this reading from First Corinthians to affirm community and unity in diversity, and that it does. However, when we think about real life in communities and families, how does a diversity of gifts manifest? Do we really affirm the gifts in each person? And do we appreciate our own gifts?
Read MoreYou Are God's Beloved, Providence Podcast Episode
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Why is it easier to believe in our brokenness than our belovedness? Doubts and fears are part of the human experience, but so is being loved. How do we normalize living as God’s Beloved?
Read MoreRise Up! Providence Podcast Episode
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What a promising proclamation: Our light has come! Emmanuel is with us! Rise up from any hopelessness, anxiety, despair, from anything that binds you. Rise up! The glory of God has come, and that glory shines on you.
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