This week we will look at several categories of common tools and methods we use in survival mode. These tools aren't necessarily bad in themselves, but they provide unfulfilling and oftentimes misleading substitutes for what God offers through the life of faith. 

In this first session we will define survival and contrast it with the life the Jesus invites his followers into. 

What are the consequences of a reality based on a relational God who has made relational beings? This chat discusses three relational environments every person interacts with, and how they affect each other.

In this second part of our exploration of what it means to be human, we look at relationship and communication as essential elements of humanity. We also take the analogy of the divine dance and apply it to how humans can dance with God. 

Starting from Genesis 1:26, Dan and I try to unpack the significance of being made in God's "image and likeness". 

Exploring further into the mystery of God, Dan and I discuss "relationship", "love", and "unity" as they relate to the Trinity. We also explore the age-old metaphor of perichoresis, the divine dance, and what it shows us about the nature of God.

I have invited my friend Dan Lanning to join me for a 6-part series as we discuss some "new fundamentals" that are not really new. In this talk we play with the mysterious nature of God as both Trinity and One.

For many Jesus-followers, the spiritual life has been romanticized as a life filled with emotional ecstasy (if you do it right). But is that the teaching and the history that has come to us over the centuries? Are the emotions the deepest and truest part of our selves, or is there something more central to being a spiritual human?

The grace of being, which gives the freedom from having to justify ourselves, leads to a grace of doing. This is where we get to actively work with God for good. But most of this work is not what we think it is...

Grace is not just unmerited favor. It is the energy of God working on our behalf to help us in the good we want to do. But how do we access it, and can we grow in it?