Our job, before doing anything, is to pray with and for the people. I wonder what it must have felt like to be Moses. Moses was also running from bondage to freedom. Moses was also susceptible to serpent bites. But he displays a certain level of calm in this passage. Moses doesn’t try to rush... The post Who Is This God? appeared first on Thirty Seconds or Less.

This is the upside down kingdom. We must come to the end of ourselves. We must be cracked open to our own sin and the pain of the world in order to begin to allow God’s kingdom to enter in, to redeem us, to redeem the world. It begins with that undoing.  Download the... The post The Upside Down Kingdom appeared first on Thirty Seconds or Less.

So what will we pray today? Will we pray with our hands, our feet, our breathing? Will we pray with our most colorful language or in the silence of this train ride?  Download the full episode The post God Hears You appeared first on Thirty Seconds or Less.

We need a theological whip where drive the arrogance out of our spirits.  Download the full episode The post Ministry vs. Money appeared first on Thirty Seconds or Less.

Will we in this century, not yet two decades old, beat swords into plowshares? Banish the bullets and silence the deafening roar of handguns and AK-whatevers? Will the color of our skins and the content of varying cultures continue to divide? Will our unity, which is of God, find expression in our fractured lives of faith?... The post Join the Movement appeared first on Thirty Seconds or Less.

The one I follow, Jesus, Immanuel, is marked as a radical lover of the lowly, marked as a revolutionary threat to power and ultimately, because of these things, marked like a tree for cutting down with that crude orange plastic ribbon./blockquote  Download the full episode The post Marked appeared first on Thirty Seconds or Less.

What would it mean for us to shut out all the words, even for just, say, fifteen minutes a day this Lent? To listen only to the heavens? To immerse ourselves in silence? To tune our ears to the still small voice inside each one of us?  Download the full episode The post The Heavens Are Telling appeared first on Thirty Seconds or Less.

What do we sacrifice today for the idols that we worship? Who do we sacrifice today for the idols that we worship? The post I Think We Have Some Work To Do appeared first on Thirty Seconds or Less.

It is here, in the healing of our souls, that we must begin. For in order to heal the brokenness of our world, we must first tend to the brokenness in our own lives.  Download the full episode The post A Season of Slow appeared first on Thirty Seconds or Less.

Perhaps all of our talk about prayer and sacrifice and following Jesus is nothing more theological than a simple call to change.  Download the full episode The post For a Change appeared first on Thirty Seconds or Less.