Bill Vanderbush

The Holy Spirit is taking us through a rehabilitation by healing broken and dysfunctional views of God. We must return again and again to the face of Jesus. Every doctrine, every system, every inherited picture of God must be held up to the light of the One who is the exact representation of the Father’s nature. If it cannot survive that light, it must be refined or released.

This is not a Psalm about God’s controlling surveillance. It is a Psalm about God’s intimate, relentless, affectionate knowing. It is the song of a person who has discovered that the One who formed him in the dark is the same One who walks with him in the light. The fact that God knows you is not a threat, it's the safest place in the universe.

Matthew tells us that from this point on, Jesus taught the crowds only in parables. He is not hiding truth from the hungry. He is protecting it from the hard hearted, and at the same time giving it in a form that only the humble can receive. Parables are not riddles for the clever. They are doors for the teachable. Which one are you?

The prophets of Baal show us what worship looks like when you believe god is distant. The New Covenant shows us what worship looks like when you know the living God has made His home within you. We do not harm ourselves to get His attention. His blood has already been shed for us. We do not scream to wake Him. He lives in us as the hope of glory.

Global movements built on consistent desperation were flowing from the headship of a person who was in compromise. And that profound compromise was masked as prophetic zeal and then projected shame onto an entire generation. And what was proclaimed as spiritual hunger suddenly became a cry of guilt disguised as spiritual depth. And that culture taught hundreds of thousands of young people that perpetual desperation equals health and surrender before God. And it was wrong.

Your salvation is not primarily in believing a set of propositions about what Jesus did on the cross. Your salvation is Christ Himself. The entire sweep of His life, death, resurrection, ascension, and the outpouring of the Spirit is the objective reality into which you have been brought into by sheer grace.

The eternal Son descended so we could ascend in Him. The Bread once broken now lives unbroken in us. This is the revolution of grace, the forgotten heart of the Gospel restored. This is Christic Covenant grace where we are not striving for bread, but feasting on the Bread who has already given Himself. The life He imparts is not earned but received. It is His resurrection life flowing into ours.

The story of Genesis opens with God and a dark, formless void. Yet the apostolic witness declares, “God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.” The eternal Son, through whom all things were made, is the uncreated Radiance with no shadow of turning. So how do we hold these two realities in the same heart without breaking? In this podcast we'll explore this tension and reveal the mystery that makes it all beautiful.

Don’t rush to conclusions about what you think I’m about to say, and don’t barricade yourself behind some doctrine you brought into this podcast like a fortress. Wander some meadows with me, of a theology that dares to believe God is for us and not against us. A theology, a theophany, and a theosis that insists the story cannot end in tragedy because the Author is Love, and Love does not script a bad ending.

You don't need to fear blurry lights in the sky. You don't need to fear disclosure or cover-up or deep-state secrets or alien invasions. The worst they can do is kill the body, and even that has been swallowed up in victory. The same power that raised Christ from the dead is at work in you. The same love that reconciles the kosmos is the love that holds you this very moment.