In this podcast we'll consider what was meant when the writers of the gospels said Jesus is preparing a place, what was meant when Paul writes that he would come exactly as he left, and how to take a view of the world that doesn't end with fire, murder, escape and general pessimism.

What if the only literal resurrection that resulted from Tim Lahaye’s books is Kirk Cameron’s career? In part three of Ending the End Times we’ll consider a couple more verses and how to responsibly interpret them especially in regard to the image in Matthew of sudden disappearances of a man and woman and how they’ve […]

If you’ve ever sat through a Revelation sermon or seminar and walked away feeling like you just watched a two hour c rated conspiracy documentary on Netflix, wondered why Jesus would come a second time to murder and destroy the planet and the inhabitants of it or how EVERY eye would see him descending like […]

For many people they’ve grown up in a religious system that told them some day the world would end in fire and destruction as Jesus floated down on clouds to carry away the good people to heaven leaving behind wreckage and misery, death and despair. For some people this worked as long as they were […]

Who is the person of Jesus? Was he a demigod who came to the earth to die in place of man to satisfy his Zeus- like father? Was he more of a mixture of various rabbinical voices and teachings in Judaism written to give hope and meaning to a specific people or was he simply […]

Wow, episode 78 really blew up! It seems many people have MANY opinions concerning short term mission trips. Some find them extremely dangerous and uncompelling while others are amazed they would ever be questioned. So today I’d like to take a few minutes and consider why “sharing the gospel” overseas may be more destructive than […]

For many of us we were never taught how to deal with our anger. Our religious systems taught us to simply ignore it or worse minimize it out of existence. Today I want to invite you to be angry, to allow yourselves to feel the emotions and learn to use that energy in constructive ways […]

Today I answer a great question posed to me online a couple months ago. The question is, “Can someone have faith without belief?” This question was so good I wanted to chew on it a bit; and after some chewing, I thought it was time! So today we’ll consider this question and wherever it lands […]

I believe our political and religious colonialism has to be left behind— we have to learn to overcome these mindsets especially in regard to oversea short term church mission trips. Join me today as we discuss the dangers of voluntourism, how it affects local economies overseas, and what we can potentially do differently to be […]

There are hundreds of verse pulled from the narrative of the Bible that are often used as weaponized missiles directed at people who see the world differently than others. They’ll often pull the verse from its original context and strip it of its real beauty in an attempt to control behaviors or protect ideologies. Today […]