Voices In My Head (The Rick Lee James Podcast)

Brian Zahnd is the founder and lead pastor of Word of Life Church, a non-denominational Christian congregation in Saint Joseph, Missouri. Brian and his wife, Peri, founded the church in 1981. Brian is also the author of several books, including, Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God, Water to Wine, A Farewell To Mars, Beauty Will Save the World, and Unconditional?: The Call of Jesus to Radical Forgiveness.

In his famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Puritan revivalist Jonathan Edwards shaped predominating American theology with a vision of God as angry, violent, and retributive. Three centuries later, Brian Zahnd was both mesmerized and terrified by Edwards’s wrathful God. Haunted by fear that crippled his relationship with God, Zahnd spent years praying for a divine experience of hell. What Zahnd experienced instead was the Father’s love—revealed perfectly through Jesus Christ—for all prodigal sons and daughters. In Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God, Zahnd asks important questions like: Is seeing God primarily as wrathful towards sinners true or biblical? Is fearing God a normal expected behavior? And where might the natural implications of this theological framework lead us? Thoughtfully wrestling with subjects like Old Testament genocide, the crucifixion of Jesus, eternal punishment in hell, and the final judgment in Revelation, Zanhd maintains that the summit of divine revelation for sinners is not God is wrath, but God is love.

Voices In My Head Podcast #223: Walter Brueggemann and Rick Lee James Discuss Imprecatory Psalms as Faithful Prayer, Trump, and More

Voices In My Head Podcast #222: Refugees, Racism, and Simple Worship.

Rick takes on theee topics in less than an hour, or your money back.

Ben Passmore is our guest on this episode of Voices In My Head. Ben is the creator of a groundbreaking 12 page comic called "Your Black Friend", an open letter from your black friend to you about race, racism, freindship, and alientation.

You can buy 'Your Black Friend' at at https://www.amazon.com/Your-Black-Friend-Ben-Passmore/dp/1945509031

This week is a special crossover episode with Brit Bolerjack of the Young Clergy Network, host This Nazarene Life Podcast.

We had a great conversation as we shared our stories and listen in for what God is doing in our lives and ministries. Check out her wonderful show, This Nazarene Life to hear more conversations like this one.

Voices In My Head Podcast Episode #218: The Poor You Will Always Have With You

John Wilkerson joins in on this episode of Voices In My Head to piggyback on last week's conversation about Eugene Peterson. When, if ever, should Christians boycott a person, a product, or an institution?

Voices In My Head Podcast Episode #216: Eugene Peterson Blows Up The World.

This week, world renown pastor, author, and theologian Eugene Peterson shook things up with statements on Donald Trump, Gay Marriage, and more.

I wanted to take some time Tom address the controversy and share the revision on Human Sexuality that was voted on by the Church of the Nazarene General Assembly 2017.

Buckle your safely belts as Eugene Peterson helps us engage in the prophetic  work of comforting the disturbed Andy disturbing the comfortable.