The Dirt Road with Jansen

ALL ROADS ALLOW U-TURNS

The Dirt Road with Jansen, Roads Series, Episode 2

How do you let go of your past? Especially when the past has darkness in it. Or hurt. Or pain you would rather not look at.

In this episode, I take you down another road. The road to Damascus. In Acts chapter 9, a brilliant, educated man named Saul is hunting down the followers of Jesus, with letters in his hand that give him permission to do it. Then a light stops him cold, and Jesus asks him one question. "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"

That question was an invitation. And Paul said yes.

Here is what I love about Paul. He never tries to erase his past. He brings it up again and again in his letters. Not to relive it. To point to the mercy that met him in it.

IN THIS EPISODE

• Why the word persecute carries two ideas, and what that shows us about the heart

• What a demon is really doing when it clocks in for work in the morning (1 Timothy 4:1)

• Why every question from Jesus is an invitation, not a command

• How Paul saw Ananias coming while he was still blind

• Why letting go of your past is about receiving mercy, not working harder

• How to receive grace on purpose at Mass and in confession

SCRIPTURE

Acts 9:1 to 19

1 Timothy 4:1

1 Timothy 1:13 and 14

FREE COMPANION GUIDE

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DISCIPLESHIP DELIVERANCE

I call my approach Discipleship Deliverance. Heavy on the discipleship part. It is not about naming a demon and casting it out. It is about learning to see your story the way the Holy Spirit sees it. Learn more at DiscipleshipDeliverance.com

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Keep walking. You are not walking this one alone.

I'll see you on the dirt road.

Jansen

Every road starts somewhere, and this one starts on gravel, dust on your boots, the sun still low, and no idea yet what's waiting around the bend.

In this first episode, Jansen opens the door to why he named this show The Dirt Road, and what it means to walk a faith that isn't polished, isn't performed, and isn't finished. This isn't a show about deliverance as a stage moment. It's about the long, ordinary, footstep-by-footstep obedience of actually staying on the road with Jesus, including naming the quiet resistance that keeps so many of us circling instead of moving forward.

Pull up a chair. This is the first mile.