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Jan 22, 2012 1:41 PM America/Chicago
The Song of Songs has some awfully sensual langauge in it. Spicy Language. In fact spices are mentioned over 40 times across 16 books of the Old and New Testament. Jesus himself enjoys giving sensual experiences to people. What is going on here? Is there
Jan 15, 2012 2:32 PM America/Chicago
What does Jesus mean when he says "He who has ears - let him hear?" Why does the bible talk so much about listening for God? It was God's idea to give us the gift of physical hearing in this physical world. It turns out that the kind of sonic environment
Jan 8, 2012 5:46 AM America/Chicago
How is it that something can be right in front of our face and we don't even see it? If I had been there to see Jesus when he was walking the earth - would I have noticed, or totally missed it? I don't want to miss what God is doing in the world all aroun
Dec 18, 2011 2:35 PM America/Chicago
No matter how hard we try to avoid it, we are going to wait. The question is not whether we are going to wait but how we are going to wait. Mary teaches a way to wait that redeems the time and frames our life and our waiting in the big story of the redemp
Dec 4, 2011 3:01 PM America/Chicago
Recent neuroscience research indicates there is far more going on inside us then we realize. This is why it is so hard to change our selves - we don't even have access to some of the things that are broken in us - but God does. John the Baptist shows a wa
Nov 20, 2011 2:20 PM America/Chicago
How do we read the book of our own lives? How do we read the book of Revelation? It turns out there are three questions and how we answer them will impact the course of our lives - who and where we will be five years from now. And those three questions ar
Nov 13, 2011 7:30 AM America/Chicago
Does life ever seem meaningless to you? Or, have you made some bad decisions, or are you facing some hard choices? In each of these cases what we need is wisdom - godly wisdom... and it can be found the section of the bible known as the books of wisdom. J
Nov 7, 2011 9:29 AM America/Chicago
Can you really be content in all circumstances? Why does Paul say things that seem harsh ? Have you ever been inspired to read a book of the bible based on a great quote you saw, only to find there was a lot of other stuff in the book that seemed not so g
Oct 30, 2011 6:31 AM America/Chicago
If Jesus is the ultimate revelation of God, then the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are a crucial and logical starting point for our first readings in the bible. The gospels contain both the story of Jesus' life and his teachings. It turns out th
Oct 23, 2011 3:27 PM America/Chicago
Like reading a book with a pair of glasses, we all read the bible through our presuppositions, through the conclusions we have before we even start to read it. Some glasses distort what we read while others correct a defect in us so we can actually see wh
Oct 16, 2011 8:38 AM America/Chicago
If God sent you a prophet - would you actually listen? What if he was gruff, loud, and self-confident? How can you tell a true prophet from a false one? Why do the old testament prophets have so much doom and gloom? What guidelines can help me to read the
Oct 9, 2011 4:27 PM America/Chicago
Why are there so many strange laws in the Old Testament? Do the laws of the Old Testament still apply today? We look at the TV Series LOST, and white water rafting to discover a set of basic principles that will allow you to read the Old Testament Law in
Sep 25, 2011 4:27 PM America/Chicago
In part 2 of "How to read the Bible for yourself" we realize that if you really want to know what the bible says you need to recognize that it includes many different genres - proverbs, songs, laws, history, letters - and that do justice to each we must r
Sep 13, 2011 5:17 PM America/Chicago
We dont like people invading our personal space, but the whole point of the gospel is that Jesus came to invade our lives... and save them. We look at this beloved psalm including the part no one wants to talk about. Join us as we look towards the one who
Sep 4, 2011 4:10 PM America/Chicago
Do you sometimes think 'If only I was more organized, and my house was more organized, and my schedule was more organized, then I could have some real peace and satisfaction? Maybe what is more important than being organized is what your life is organized
Aug 14, 2011 4:58 PM America/Chicago
Why are there such awful things in the bible? Today we look at one of the most difficult passages in all of scripture: "Blessed is he who seizes your babies and dashes them against the rocks!" How can the bible be the word of God if it contains a verse li
Jul 31, 2011 2:28 PM America/Chicago
What if there was a book only 22 sentences long that covered the following topics: The nature of God, the nature of human beings, what actually happened on the cross, the role of social justice in the Christian life, the role of personal morality in the C
Jul 25, 2011 4:26 AM America/Chicago
Ever have a day where nothing is going your way and then you see someone who seems to have it easy even though they are a jerk? If God is real, why isn't life fair? Why is there no justice? I think one of the reasons the Harry Potter series is so successf
Jul 3, 2011 2:58 PM America/Chicago
Ever feel like you are in a wrestling match with yourself - where part of you is trying to hold on to your faith and the other part of you is questioning the whole Christian thing? Do you know someone who has walked away from the faith? This morning we fi
Jun 20, 2011 4:13 AM America/Chicago
Imagine a life which is like a tree planted by the streams of living water. Compare that to a life like chaff where you are blown all over the place, where there is lots of motion and movement, but very little to show for it. With this podcast we begin ou
Jun 12, 2011 10:28 AM America/Chicago
What does it mean to be filled with the Holy Spirit ? What was the first Pentecost all about? When people say they are being led by the Holy Spirit - how do we know if it is true, or they are just making things up ? We look at wind surfing, running and ga
Jun 5, 2011 12:35 PM America/Chicago
When faced with difficult times or thinking about your future have you ever heard yourself say "I just want to be happy." In this sermon on the last verses of the last chapter of the book of Acts, we find discover an ancient quote from the book of Isaiah
May 29, 2011 3:39 AM America/Chicago
Should churches have standards of behavior for members, and if so, how do we decide? How should Christians handle disagreements? We look at these two very timely questions as we study Acts 15 verse by verse and discover some general principles that apply
May 15, 2011 12:23 PM America/Chicago
The picture of the early church painted in today's scripture reading is so beautiful it can actually depress us - how can our own church experience fall so short of it? But there is more going than first appears and in fact this scripture describes things