Life is too short to waste time on faked-up relationships that diminish you as a person. Kyle and Wayne first explore this idea considering whether there are any bad choices one can make that puts them beyond love's reach. Then they consider a new podcast looking into the recent Jerry Falwell, Jr and the scandals at Liberty University, before wrestling with the frustration of God not making himself known in the way someone might expect him to do so. Finally, In a recent training on Clifton's Strength Finders, Kyle came across the description of a Relator, which he thought applied to Wayne. That draws them into a conversation about how learning to live loved transforms our hearts to make more room for people and to value sincerity in our relationships.

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The quest for certainty makes you a sitting duck for those who want to deceive you. The Spirit of God offers us an outrageous adventure of learning to follow him even in the uncertainties of life, and yet we often find ourselves craving the false security of being more certain than our grasp of truth warrants and more drawn to people who offer pat answers than learning how to ride the wings of the Spirit and watch him transform us. That expresses itself in so many ways as Wayne and Kyle talk about theological reasoning, the quest for a king, the recent Rise and Fall of Mars Hill podcasts, and dealing with demonic influences. In each, we are confronted with the constant choice to be led by the Spirit or fall victim to someone trying to take his place in our hearts.

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Kyle and Wayne are just completing three days together in Michigan as they sit down to reminisce about the people they met and the lessons that touched their hearts. They talk about the futility of human effort to accomplish the work of God in the human heart and how God reaches out with touches of his love to invite us closer into his life. They also talk about what we pursue in life, using the story of two iconic women who happened to die in the same year—Princess Diana and Mother Theresa. The world today beckons us to seek the fame and fortune of achieving some kind of celebrity status, which is available to so few when Jesus encouraged us to be servants of all, something any of us can do. If you want your life to influence others, can it best be accomplished by serving in obscurity or seeking the limelight?

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When our journey brings us to the place of giving up our illusions about our own ability to control the outcome of our circumstances, the impulse to provide for ourselves, and resisting the fear of feeling vulnerable, we can feel like we've been left on a cliff's edge. But it is precisely at that moment that we are most receptive to what God is doing in us and around us. When he becomes the source of our comfort, instead of the circumstances we want, there's where we will see his leading and have the courage to follow him. When we make it about ourselves and our needs, we will easily miss out. This is a process and Kyle and Wayne take a look at it through the emails of some of our listeners and share how important it is to have God-sensitive voices helping us process some of the more difficult choices we may have to make.

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Wayne was a guest this week on The Daron Earlewine Podcast, and the conversation was so rich in summing up the last few months of his journey that they both agreed to simulcast it on The God Journey as well. In this wide-ranging conversation they talk about healing and death, the gentle nudges by which God leads us, life moving at the speed of relationships, love is not something you can earn, looking at our circumstances through God's eyes, days of reckoning, and how we can develop a language of healing in a divided world.

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Kyle and Wayne begin with contemplating the question, "Does love let people suffer consequences for bad choices, or will it always intervene to mitigate them?" But they quickly turn to a conversation about what peple believe versus what is actually true. Truth is the gravity of his kingdom, not belief. What we believe only matters when it aligns with what's actually true. That's the journey for all of us, letting God untwist our speculations, misunderstandings, and illusions, so that we become more and more oriented to what's true about God, ourselves and the world he's placed us in. And, since none of us knows all truth, how do we hold our beliefs with the humility that allows us to keep growing and keep discovering?

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Wayne's back from his first God Journey trip since COVID began and Kyle wants the details. If there was a theme to this trip it was to flow with God through the unplanned, spontaneous opportunities that arise in the moment, rather than sticking to the plan Wayne had in mind. One of the recurring themes that kept cropping up is how often we are guided in prayer by our desire to keep our comfort zones intact, and yet God's truth often invites us out of our circumstantial comfort and convenience into the sweeter outcomes God has in mind. To follow him there, we need to have enough relationship with him to trust his love and be at rest in his work and purpose.

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What do you do when the religion you were raised with is in conflict with the drawing of Jesus in your heart? It's happening to more and more people, and those who go on to fruitful journeys are able to separate between the brokenness in religion from the reality and presence of God. Kyle and Wayne begin by reading emails from recent podcasts that extend their conversation about vaccines, hiddenness, and trespassing, before talking about those who are finding a genuine faith beyond the failures or fruitlessness of their religious engagement.

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How are these days not the birth pangs for the end of the age?  With the fall of Kabul in Afghanistan, the wildfires in the U.S. And Europe. a devastating plague, political animosity, wars and rumors of wars, and irresponsible spending by government leaders, what makes us think society can just go on without a reckoning for its excesses and deceptions?  Scripture seems to show us that God has days of patience, where he forebears with human weaknesses as he beckons us back to himself, and when those fail, we also know God orders times of reckoning where we reap the painful consequences of our waywardness, in hopes that painful times will turn our heart back to the Father. Wayne and Kyle discuss whether or not we are entering just such a season, whether it is the final time or not, and why this is a great time to let God invite you deeper into his love.

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Luis, from My Friend Luis, returns to the God Journey to talk about the impact the podcast has had on his life and his continued healing from the trauma of the night his father died. He and Wayne talk about why it is so hard to see Jesus in the painful stretches of our journey and how he wants us to view life from a different perspective. Jesus is the one who can keep us through pain, and yet pain is one thing that often keeps us from Jesus. Our expectations about what God should do, often keep us from seeing the very things he is doing to be triumph in the midst of our tragedies. They also discuss Rapha, his place in Luis' story, and how our tendency to idolize the supernatural often prevents us from experiencing it.

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