Fourthstream - Finding Hope

This episode explores God's original design for family, rooted in Psalm 127 and Psalm 128, and how redemption restores what was lost.

In this episode:

• The influence of your upbringing and family dynamics
• God's purpose for home and family from the beginning
• Psalm 127: God as builder, protector, and provider
• Psalm 128: blessing, fruitfulness, and generational impact
• The role of parents, marriage, and children in God's design
• What it means to walk in reverence and alignment with God

A reflective look at how God restores and builds homes that reflect His kingdom.

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What does it mean to live with true kingdom character? This episode contrasts earthly wisdom with wisdom from above and explores how Christ's character forms within us and flows outward.

In this episode:

• Wisdom from above vs earthly, natural, demonic (James 3)
• Character as lived, not just believed
• The "one another" life: love, serve, bear, encourage
• Peace as the evidence of spiritual maturity
• Transformation from inside out

Kingdom character is not self-improvement—it's Christ formed within us.

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What does real community actually look like? In this episode, we explore Jesus' prayer in John 17, where He reveals the foundation of true community—oneness with the Father that leads to meaningful connection with others.

Isolation is common today, but Scripture shows that authentic community grows from truth, shared faith, and a deep relationship with God.

In this episode:

• What Jesus' prayer in John 17 reveals about community

• Why truth is essential: no truth, no community

• How oneness with the Father leads to unity with others

• Recognizing people in our lives as gifts from God

• The "one another" commands that shape kingdom relationships

• Why healthy community flows King → Kingdom → Church

Jesus models a relationship with the Father that becomes the blueprint for how believers experience real connection—with God and with one another.

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How Does Spirit Happen for Me?

How does the Holy Spirit become real and active in your life? This episode explores what Scripture teaches about embracing Jesus, receiving the Spirit, and learning to live by His power.

In this episode:

One God, three persons — understanding the Trinity

Why John 14.6 defines the starting point

Receiving the Spirit as the pledge of our inheritance (Ephesians 1)

The Spirit's intercession in Romans 8.26

"Not by might… but by My Spirit" — Zechariah 4.6

A clear, Scripture-rooted foundation for spiritual growth and real transformation.

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🎧 Do I Know God?

A personal and searching question. In this episode, we reflect on what it truly means to know God—not just in theory, but in heart, action, and honor.

In this episode:

• The connection between knowing God, hearing His voice, and pleasing Him

• Why humility (Matthew 5) is the doorway to a pure heart

• The role of honor in the two great commandments (Matthew 22.37-40)

• Faith and works in James 2

• Building life on the rock (Matthew 7.24-27)

• Four reflection questions to examine your own pursuit

Knowing God is not a moment—it's a lifelong quest of honor, obedience, and love.

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Is Jesus My Healer?

Jesus healed in the Gospels—but does He still heal today? In this episode, we explore what it means to call Jesus my healer—personally, spiritually, and relationally.

In this conversation:

• Jesus' authority to heal in the Gospels

• Emotional and spiritual healing through relationship

• Freedom from bondage (John 8)

• Entering through the Shepherd (John 10)

• The healing thread of Isaiah 61 & Luke 4

• "Two or more" and the pathway to freedom (Matthew 18)

• God's declaration: "I am your healer" (Exodus 15.26)

• Living with eyes fixed above

Healing is not only historical—it is relational, present, and rooted in Christ's ongoing intercession at the Father's right hand.

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It is one thing to know ABOUT someone but we go much deeper when we connect through personal knowledge and shared experiences. What are the keys to finding personal connection with God? Is it indeed possible to "hear God's voice" as some people talk about? Are we truly able to walk side by side with God?

This is key:

"Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." Matthew 11:28-30

Knowing God is both easy and complex. The more we choose to honor Him the deeper our relationship with Him becomes. By walking side by side with Jesus we find connectivity with our Father.

The Bible appears to indicate that honor, transparency, and fluidity in sharing myself with Him is huge. Our connectivity grows as we choose to honor Him more than we choose to honor ourselves. Easier said than done. And yet this is exactly what Jesus showed and taught us. The more focused we are on honoring Him the more truthful and transparent we become. Think about it. It is kind of dumb to try to hide things from the One Who sees everything. If we choose honor and transparency, we live in a fluid relationship with God. Everything to learn. Nothing to lose. An endless life process of spiritual growth.

We are meant to mature in our faith: "When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love." 1 Corinthians 13:11-13

Pursuit of personal connectivity results in spiritual maturity: "Concerning him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil." Hebrews 5:11-14

Can you see the thread?

Jesus spent much time explaining this connectivity to His disciples. To know and follow Jesus is to re-connect with our Father. Honor was everything to Jesus. Transparency with His Father was His complete pursuit. When this becomes a back and forth fluidity we can know we are hearing the Voice of God - just as Jesus did.

Then Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know Me and know where I am from; and I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know. I know Him, because I am from Him, and He sent Me." John 7:28,29

To think about:

What is the difference between "knowing about" and finding connectivity?

What is the nature of personal knowledge that comes through friendship?

In what ways is it possible for us to share experiences with the Father?

How deep is your desire for honor?

In what ways are you open to being transparent with God, and what brings this about for you?

What are the fruits of connectivity? (Things like Acceptance, Confidence, Peace of mind, and Reassurance.)

Is there any reason this should not be a clear choice for one who is serious about God?

Dave and Burnadette

Related Links (this is deep): From Jesus Centric Series Kingdom Connectivity: The Ultimate Connectivity With Our King

God Treasure is Kingdom Treasure

After teaching His incredibly transferable Kingdom parables (the Sower, the Wheat and the Weeds, the Seed, the Leaven, the Hidden Treasure, the Costly Pearl, and the Dragnet) Jesus makes a curious statement and asks His disciples a question in Matthew 13:51-52.

"Have you understood all these things?" They said to Him, "Yes." And Jesus said to them, "Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a head of a household, who brings out of his treasure things new and old."

Let's give this some careful thought as we encounter what the God Story says about treasure.

Jesus is crystal clear regarding the perishable and imperishable (Matthew 6:19-24)

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

He then includes a Light and Darkness metaphor:

"The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth." Is He saying that wealth is evil? No. It appears He is once again is commenting on what shows honor.

√ What is capturing your heart? It is very difficult to avoid the concerns of this life, but quite important to keep "a clear eye" with regard to earthly treasures.

√ How do we allow Jesus and His Kingdom to captivate our hearts so that we can be good for the mission of the Kingdom church?

√ Paul talks about making use of the world but not making full use of it. Where do you land on this?

"But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none; and those who weep, as though they did not weep; and those who rejoice, as though they did not rejoice; and those who buy, as though they did not possess; and those who use the world, as though they did not make full use of it; for the form of this world is passing away." 1 Corinthians 7:29-31

The Treasure Process

"But godliness actually is a means of great gain when accompanied by contentment. For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either. If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content. But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs and pains." 1 Timothy 6:6-10

If Jesus has all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden within Himself (Colossians 2:3) - then knowing Him is everything. We exchange what our world can only offer temporarily for the Kingdom circle: Pure Heart, Know God, Do Kindness, Grow Life. These are the treasures which will travel with us into the life to come!

This is interesting: "By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking to the reward." Hebrews 11:24-26

It seems to us that God Treasure is our greatest value. Dave and Burnadette

More: On the Kingdom Parables The Kingdom Circle

To our Fourthstream Friends!

It seems timely to dive once again into the Turbulence and Imperfection which appear to be chasing the human family. You can find our book on this subject under Fourthstream.com/Learning/Books.

Clarity from Chaos

Several weeks ago we were rear-ended by a semi on I-80 traveling to share Jesus things at an awesome conference in Cedar Rapids, where we were to speak in the hearing of many serious-minded young men and women. In one moment our entire world turned over. Focus and clarity of purpose were consumed by chaos. Yet our lives appeared to have been spared by the careful, surgical, hand of God. At one point our doctor remarked "did the trucker even slow down at all?" Our car was totaled, all three of us were beaten up, and each with no apparent broken bones or major lacerations (we were told this in the ER in Grinnell). Lots of pain.

In those cold minutes waiting for the ambulances to arrive (30 minutes?) we were communicating our gratefulness and concerns to each other. My son stepped up, my wife held to faith, and I moaned. It was so surreal I had difficulty processing - I really had never experienced such force trauma in all my life experiences. Burney found my heavy coat and put it over me as window and windshield glass fell everywhere. Then we needed to wait. Air bags spent and flapping in the winter wind.

Here is the part I wanted to share with you.

I have never had a near death experience, but as I sat there everything became very white. As I remarked about this (in my blurry, painful, frosty mind fog) I looked over at my son John and told him that his jeans had snow all over them - that they were shining. He and Burney were quiet. Then from the back seat "are you dying?" I responded with the words "I am not sure." And then it hit my heart - it did not matter. My soul was settled. I was ready to take the final steps of this life and move on. Her next words "I love you" were perhaps the last thing I would hear on this earth.

Life is so complicated: birth, growing up, living it all out, and preparing for a final exit. I wanted to let you know that above the pain and fear I felt peace. Jesus is not only the King of the earth, He is MY King. And now I have been given more days to attempt to honor Him from my heart and with the works of my hands. Faith often unfolds in the midst of trouble, right?

So it looks like yet another faith pivot in my life. Deep inside I am both grateful to be alive and longing to move forward. Thanks for being our friends - praying for us - and joining us in the path of Jesus faithfulness. We will see what this next phase entails!

Here is the idea.

"We live within a great paradox. While we work hard to control the circumstances and issues of our lives there are many things which are dictated by realities. These things are not insignificant in their power to impact our peace of mind and our contentment - about where we have come, who we are, and where we feel we are headed.

More often than not life has delivered us some kind of turbulence – even chaos. Imperfection resides everywhere, and pain and uncertainty surrounds us in the form of challenges and disappointments – even within our most cherished hopes and dreams. This unpredictable mix reaches out to cover the end of our journeys as well: what exactly does happen when I die?

It is easy to get stuck on the questions "why me?" or "what did I do wrong?" The God Story reality is that turbulence and imperfection are everywhere. We have no good choice but to look Up.

Worth reasoning through in a very personal way, Dave and Burnadette and John

PURITY IN HONOR AND SURVIVAL AND VICTORY IN LIFEWARNING - THIS IS A LONG AND INVOLVED CONVERSATION - BUT WORTH YOUR TIME!

"I am in my early 70's. Much has changed in the realm of what is pure and what is impure during my lifetime. But then, of course, information has exploded (Daniel 12:4).

We struggle like never before when it comes to our sexuality, our intimacy, and our oneness as a man and a woman. You know this. Those with open eyes understand. There are several anchors in God's Word which are able to help deliver us from being consumed by impurity and lust. This is tricky. But take the time to reason through this for your own welfare - and for those you love.

While this can look different for a man or a woman, we are both offered the opportunity to honor God and one another through our purity choices. This has little to do with being religious and much more with being spiritually free.

1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 contains the most focused discussion of honor for God through purity - though the subject is woven throughout the God Story. From it we learn that:

√ It is God's heart for us to be "set apart" in our purity (sanctified) √ Our purity is not merely an issue of body but involves our mind, conscience, heart, and soul. We are apparently "called to this." (intergenerational apology?) √ Sexual purity means we will "possess our vessels" in honor and choose to abstain from immorality. It is not difficult in the Biblical corpus to define purity vs immorality. (open any book of the Bible) √ Setting aside "lustful passions" we are to subject this part of us to honor - both to God and our choices not to "transgress or defraud others." We are "hijacked to this" √ The Holy Spirit given to us when we believe in Jesus allows us to "go over and above" what has become our most natural entrapment.

This is neither a man problem or a woman problem. Let's take a look at the uphill challenge we face.

#1 The Roots of Human Destruction "If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it." - Genesis 4:7 There are relatively very few people at this point in the world. Cain and Abel have much to reveal to us about the new trajectory of man and womankind.

Several textual questions: - What is our countenance? - What does it mean for it to be lifted up? - What does it mean to "do well?" - What does crouching at the door imply/look like? - Why does sin desire me? - How do I "master" it?

#2 The Reality of God's Plan for Purity So here is a mind blower. As you read do not make the mistake I have before where I have thought this is only directed toward a male. Not so. It is for us both. "Drink water from your own cistern and fresh water from your own well. Should your springs be dispersed abroad, streams of water in the streets? Let them be yours alone and not for strangers with you. Let your fountain (digging flow) be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth. As a loving life encounter and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times; be exhilarated always with her love. For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteress and embrace the bosom of a "calamitous one" not belonging to you?

For the ways of a man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He watches all his paths. His own iniquities will capture the wicked, and he will be held with the cords of his sin. He will die for lack of instruction, and in the greatness of his folly he will go astray." Proverbs 5:15-23

Several textual questions:

- What fountain is being discussed here? - What does exhilaration look like over a day? A year? A decade? Into your 70's and beyond? - What makes a man or woman invite the calamity of adultery into our lives, and what is the scope of this upon a heart, mind, and conscious? - How much importance/focus does God place upon our purity and why? What is His goal for us?

#3 The Partnership of Intimacy Burnadette and I have been partners for over 50 years. We married selfish, but because we have mutually submitted to Jesus we have found oneness. It is a choice, according to Paul - the unmarried one - which belongs to us both. Here is one of the trickiest passages about intimacy. "The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control." - 1 Corinthians 7:3

Some people see this as unenlightened - even neanderthal.

Several textual questions:- What duty is described here? - How does this happen when men and women are so different? - Why the conversation about authority - and why here? - What is the ultimate goal within our hard work in our sexuality (pun intended)?

#4 The Roots of Porn and Immorality - The sons of God and the daughters of men in Genesis 6:1-7. "Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. Then the Lord said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years." The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. The Lord said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them. But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord."

√ What was the impact upon the seed of Adam (our gene pool - our mind pool? our heart pool?) Is there any doubt that these are angels? √ What was God's response to the condition of those who were to bear His image? √ Why is Noah so key and where does he fit into our lives?

The strategies of Satan in opposing God and His people: exploitation and spiritual death. "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly." John 10:10 "Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour." 1 Peter 5:8

Confuse. Consume. Divide. Conquer. Devour. Impurity has ancient roots of dishonor toward our Creator. Sexual sin consumes the God-life in us. We overcome personal impurity by overcoming satan's influence in our lives, and dismantling strongholds and lofty things (2 Corinthians 10:3-6).

THIS IS AS OLD AS THE GARDEN STORY

The spirit of Asherah is represented in a Phoenician goddess. One of three: Asherah, Astarte, and Anath - she is emblematic of the choice of any human to replace our Creator with a seductive idol. She is the phallic invitation - note her historic images highlighting her breasts and vagina. Sexual impurity is idolatry and brings many levels of bondage. "She" is destructive and holds people captive and harms and robs everyone who chooses her. She literally drains life from relationships. We are so desensitized to her work we have developed many takes on who she is and what harm and control she exerts when we give our hearts over to her. She must be overcome by God-strength and spiritual warfare (more later).

The Spirit of Jezebel is clear from the Biblical character of the same name. Read about Elijah, Ahab, and Jezebel (1 Kings 16:31; 18-21; 2 Kings 9) and Revelation 2:20. She is manipulative, self-serving, wicked and seductive, and a flesh and blood example of how a person can be a linchpin for evil (prophets of Baal). That any one person can be this evil is telling. Jezebel goes way beyond seduction to slavery. When the spirit of Jezebel is ignored or embraced the descent is inevitable. Can you see her activity and presence in these last 50 years (and beyond)?

Babylon the Whore is summarized in Revelation 17:1-7: "Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come here, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth committed acts of immorality, and those who dwell on the earth were made drunk with the wine of her immorality." And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her immorality, and on her forehead a name was written, a mystery, "Babylon the great, mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth." And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered greatly. And the angel said to me, "Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns."

In Jordan Peterson's book "We Who Wrestle With God" we ran across this quote and thought it was very insightful into the warfare where we find ourselves against the "whore of Babylon." It helps us with perspective on the roots - and the solution to our dilemma of impurity.

"The key to understanding the nature of the feminine descent into chaos in the biblical text is to be found in identification of the common, uniting and context-establishing theme of habitation in Babylon—the degenerate city that also happens to be the habitation of the matriarch of all whores: "And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon, the Great, The Mother of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth" (Revelation 17:4-5). It is all the people who inhabit the great but false edifice who become unable to communicate, after all—men, and women with them. What happens when the patriarchal degenerates, and loses its unity; when it cheapens itself, and becomes sinful? The matriarchal loses its higher purposes, as well, fracturing and regressing, making itself subject to the twin forces of power and hedonism that inevitably rise up when the God who, properly reigns above dies, however temporarily.

"The Whore of Babylon is the spirit that makes herself present—even worshiped—when women employ the power of sexual seductiveness as a tool of manipulation and advance and for the purposes of immediate hedonistic self-gratification. This—the degeneration of femininity into commoditized sex—is an inevitable consequence of moral failure on the masculine side, even though it is not something only to be laid at the feet of men. The proclivity for this to occur is an analog to the temptations of the Luciferian intellect.

The immense sexual attractiveness of healthy, beautiful women is a gift or talent that, like intelligence, can go terribly wrong. This is much more likely to occur, of course, when the male community has abandoned its responsibility, not least to abide by the sacred dictates of monogamy—to substitute for that casual pleasure and worship of the power that makes such pleasure at least temporarily more available (albeit only to a few, however unsustainably and unreliably, in the final analysis, even to them). This is not to understate the complicity of women: the temptation to flaunt and profit by what is attractive regardless of consequences, future and social, is a clear and prominent hallmark of female manipulativeness and immaturity. The Dark Triad or Tetrad traits described previously in relation to men predict also, for example, feminine proclivity to trade sex for desired resources (money, most directly) or to avoid the productive and generative responsibility of marriage and motherhood. The "brutish form" referred to is the true identity lurking behind the mask of shallow sexual attractiveness monetized in the present world so often, and in so many diverse forms—all produced, distributed, and purchased by the technological sons of Cain. The full domain of such sin and the all-encompassing span of its nature is revealed within the relevant texts, as well, in other complex manners. First is the association between Babylon and harlotry, per se, which we have already alluded to:

The denigration and exploitation of women (by others and by themselves), particularly on the sexual front, is linked in the biblical corpus and then more explicitly by commentators with the rise of the prideful and technocratic spirit of Babel. This may well be something necessary to reflect upon in a time when technology has allied itself with prostitution in a manner so widespread and pervasive that it is a kind of perverse miracle. Some twenty-five percent of total web traffic involves the dissemination of pornographic material. This is certainly the technologically mediated subjugation of the feminine to the hedonistic and narrowly economic and, more deeply, the alliance of the prostitute (or her virtual equivalents) with the terrible spirit of arrogant irresponsibility characterizing the builders of the eternal Babylon. It was the possibility of broad access to pornographic material that was even one of the driving factors for both the development and widespread instantaneous and enthusiastic adoption of the world wide web.

So why do YOU think immorality is so powerful and invasive into humanity?

STRATEGIC CONVERSATIONS TO COME:

#5 How do we overcome and be victorious in something so prevalent?

We must dive more deeply into:

√ Understanding and engaging in spiritual warfare (and the evil one's current strategies) √ The pursuit of transparency and a clear conscience √ Courageous spiritual confrontation of satan's schemes √ Prayer for protection for my wife and myself and my kids and grands √ Using the sword of the Spirit and the shield of faith for true knowledge and open eyes

We will never be free from this temptation while in these bodies. Yet there is a WAY to "master it."

What a complicated challenge. We get it. In Yet in Jesus we can find victory. Dave and Burnadette

More: Disarming Impurity Pure Heart Finding Hope in This