Root Issues

In this episode, we discuss the context of John chapter 3, where Lord Jesus explains to Nicodemus what does it mean to be born again.

In this episode, we explain why is important for us to rest into the love of the Father God, and how do we remain in it.

In this episode, we discuss the mystery behind praying to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

In this episode, we discuss about the unexpected moments where God reveals Himself in our lives, and how to recognise that.

In this episode, we dive deep into the theology behind John the Baptist.

In this episode, we dive together into the mystery of time and how God uses time to fulfill His plan into our lives, while we are living in faithfulness.

Augustine once admitted that he knew perfectly well what time was until somebody asked him to explain it, and most of us live in the same condition, carried along by something we cannot define and cannot escape. Even those who believe nothing at all are still held inside this timeline, which is perhaps why we return to the subject again and again, in our philosophy and in our films, and why a man like Christopher Nolan can say he is obsessed with it.

We answer questions such as:

Is time a fixed four-dimensional block in which every moment already exists, or does it truly move forward, one second at a time?

If the future does not yet exist, how can God possibly know what is going to happen?

Does God's foreknowledge destroy human freedom, or is certainty something different from necessity?

Can anything we do bring God's plan closer, or hurry it along?

What does it mean that God does not erase the past but redeems it?

What are we supposed to do in the long interval between the promise and its fulfillment?

How do we live faithfully when we cannot see, and do not understand, what God is doing right now?

Paul describes the body in which we live as a tent, and he does so not as an insult but as an accurate account of something built for a season rather than for permanence. In this episode of the Root Issues Podcast we work through 2 Corinthians 5 and consider what it means to inhabit a temporary dwelling without holding it in contempt and without grasping it too tightly.

The chapter does not begin abruptly, for Paul has just been speaking of treasure carried in vessels of clay and of an outer self that is steadily wearing away, and it is from that point that he takes up the image of the tent, declaring that should this earthly tent be taken down there is already a building from God prepared for us, a house not made by human hands and eternal in the heavens.

In this episode, we discuss the true meaning behind the first sign of Lord Jesus at the wedding in Cana of Galilee.

What do you do with a heart that won't settle down? In this episode of the Root Issues Podcast, we sit in John 14 and talk about troubled hearts, the seasons of life we didn't choose, and the one thing Jesus points to when everything else is shifting.

The timing of this chapter matters. Jesus has just told His friends He's leaving. He's told Peter he'll deny Him before morning. These men are watching the season they've lived in for three years come to an end, and they have no idea what replaces it. That's when Jesus says: don't let your hearts be troubled.

It's worth noticing that He isn't speaking from a distance. Earlier in this same gospel, John uses that exact word for Jesus Himself — troubled at Lazarus' tomb, troubled in spirit at the table. He knows what He's asking of them.

And He says it twice. The phrase opens the chapter and closes it, wrapping everything in between: a place prepared, the way, the truth, the life, and a peace He describes as unlike anything the world hands out.

In this episode we talk about:

• Why the season you're in shapes what you're able to hear
• The difference between a troubled heart and a faithless one
• What Jesus actually offers instead of an explanation
• Why "let not your hearts be troubled" is a command and not just comfort
• How to hold on to something steady when the season keeps changing

If Jesus came to dwell with us, the question isn't whether He's near. It's whether we've opened the door. In this episode of the Root Issues Podcast, we work through John 1:14-18 and four ways we actually welcome Jesus into our lives.

John writes that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. The word he chooses there is worth sitting with — it literally means to pitch a tent, and it's the same picture Israel knew from the wilderness, when God's presence settled in the tabernacle in the middle of the camp. John is saying that presence has moved in again, this time in a person.

And then he adds something staggering: we have seen his glory. Moses once asked to see God's glory and was allowed only a glimpse. John says they watched it walk around, full of grace and truth.

The four ways we welcome Him:

1. Acknowledge Him — recognizing who has actually shown up
2. Move toward Him — closing the distance rather than admiring from across the room
3. See His Glory — learning to notice what's been in front of us
4. Discover new motivations — letting nearness change what drives us