Have you ever felt like God told you to do something, like, right now?

Not eventually.

Not after you understand why.

But right now.

In this episode, I share how timely obedience opened a door I never imagined.

Topics:

• A different kind of quitting
• Thirty years at one church
• Leave "right now”
• What leaving “right now” made room for
• Quitting is not always giving up

Croga had suffered long enough.

When the King finally rescued him, Croga was free.

But someone else wasn’t.

So Croga begged, “Put me back.”

What could possibly be worth going back for?

Would I be willing to do that?

Topics:

• “By all means save one”
• Building common ground and friendships
• Free to do anything, choosing to serve
• Croga and “one more”
• Are we serious about one more?
• Croga in TheDraw
• “Put me back”
• I want to be more like Croga

Do you view God as generous or stingy?

In this episode, I’m wrestling with whether I really see God as the God of More, or the God of less.

Not just the God who gives more.

But the God who is himself...

More.

Topics:

• God of More
• Don, David, and 2 Samuel 12
• Abundant life and a God who isn’t stingy
• Ask, seek, and find
• What more am I really looking for?
• God of More in the books
• Daily bread and the living bread
• Do I really want more of God?

What if God’s greatest adventure is not creation?

Not the story of salvation in the abstract?

What if it’s the ADVENTURE of getting to know each of us individually and intimately?

In this episode, I wrestle with whether every one of us can say:

“I’m God’s greatest adventure.”

Topics:

• Out on a limb
• God wants to know us intimately
• Did God talk about you before He created the world?
• Each one of us is God’s greatest adventure
• Why the podcast title starts with “Me”
• Choice is a huge adventure

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

One God. Three persons.

That idea is beautiful, weird, and hard to wrap my head around.

In this episode, I share how I've tried to explore the nature of God in The Onu Adventures, and why I don’t think God is afraid of my questions.

I don't think I'll ever truly understand or explain the Trinity.

But I still feel God invites us all to try.

Happy Birthday, Gairwuh!

Topics:

• The Onu and the Trinity
• Otec, Odigo, Telios, and the God of One
• Not defending the Trinity, trying to process it
• Isaiah’s titles for the coming Christ
• Jesus and the Father in relationship
• Odigo and the Holy Spirit
• Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in salvation
• God writes His name on us
• Still struggling with one God and three persons

Would you believe God held a Hidden Council with himself before he created the world?

In this episode, I look at a few Scriptures that challenged me to contemplate this idea, then trace how they eventually led to the writing of Dezsma.

Topics:

• A misplaced idea
• Discovering William Barclay
• Ephesians 1 and The Hidden Council
• Chosen in Christ before time began
• The mystery God made known
• A council of the three parts of God
• A decision that took a long time
• The Hidden Council in Job
• Was there another way?

Growing up, my parents were highly invested in our “small” community, and our local church was a huge part of that.

Sunday School, worship, prayer meeting, testimonies, Bible study, all of these helped foster my love of Scripture and provided a firm foundation for asking deep, spiritual questions.

This episode is a small homage to that world, my parents, and their impact on me and The Onu Adventures.

Topics:

• My parents, church, and community
• Bathed in Scripture
• Why Sunday School mattered
• Teaching verse by verse
• Questions, gaps, and weird things in Scripture

This is where the podcast begins.

In this prologue, I talk about how the podcast connects to The Onu Adventures, why I started recording these conversations, and how a possible fourth book sparked this effort.

While the books provide the starting point, the larger purpose is to grapple with Scripture and questions that keep pulling us toward God.

Topics:

• Feeling led, not ordered
• Scripture behind the story
• Turning the books back into conversation
• If this were an Onu book
• A fellow grappler