Christian Meditation for A Bigger Lif...
Christian Meditation can help refocus your mind and recalibrate your body to get the stress, anxiety and anger out of your heart and out of your body. Spend about 23 minutes to "be still" with God as each episode uses a different biblical image to experience God's presence and promises in a way that brings relaxation and renewal. Look for new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.
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Do You Have a Wandering Life? | Psalm 107:1-16
Your life is a constant conversion with God, even if you don’t know it. This is why even atheists refer to God when cursing or complaining. The reason for this constant life-long conversation with God is that everyone is created by God and lives inside...
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Finding Security in Jesus as Your Perfect Media...
The weird thing about the Christian life is that the more you are walking in the light and the truth of God’s word, the more you are aware of your sin. You’re more aware that your sinfulness sinks its roots in your life far deeper than you realize. It ...
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The Importance of Discerning Accusation vs Conv...
Too often we confuse the accusations in our head with the conviction of the Holy Spirit. That’s a big mistake. And that’s the subject of this episode.We are setting up a base camp here in Psalm 106 for a little while because it touches on a lot of re...
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Do You See You Vertically? | Psalm 106
Most dysfunctions and problems in life stem from only seeing yourself from an horizontal point of view. What others think of you and say to you has way too much say in how you see yourself. Define your identity. But you can’t live the bigger and better...
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Having Worth While Being Unworthy | Psalm 106
One of the most important ways to see yourself is having an amazing worth to God. You were “https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%206%3A20&version=NIV (bought with a price),” the New Testament says. And that price was God him...
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You Won’t Last With God Without Believing These...
You’re wanting to walk with God and live into his bigger and better story for your life. That’s why you’re coming to this podcast. And that already says a lot about you. It seems so complicated sometimes though. But it really doesn’t have to be. It can...
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Do You Forget to Remember? | Psalm 106
Could it really be as simple as that? That your greatest hindrance to living your life in the bigger and better story of all that God is for you in Christ is your forgetting to remember? That’s what we see in Psalm 106, and we see it with the disciples...
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How Honest Confession Can Free You | Psalm 106
We live in a cultural narrative that focuses on therapy (healing) more than reality. But an honest diagnosis of reality is always your best therapy. That’s counterintuitive. We don’t like thinking about our sin because it makes us feel bad about oursel...
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Saying Hallelujah | Psalm 106:1-5
Psalm 106 starts with that ancient Hebrew word, Hallelujah. Why? What are you actually saying whenever you say that? And how can the first five verses in this psalm help you say it in a way that turns your life more right-side-up?Like this podcast? L...
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Feeling More Secure In Your Relationship with G...
What makes your relationship with God secure? What’s your security based on? Your level of faith? Your level of obedience? Or is it something more sure than either of those? Psalm 105 gives us the answer, and the language and phrases in this Psalm will...
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Meditating on God in Creation | Psalm 104
Nothing will lift up your soul more than God-exalting worship. You were created to derive your glory and identity from God’s glory and identity. And whenever you disassociate your existence from the worship of God, you are disconnected in some way even...
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Why You Need to Speak to Yourself in Worship | ...
Nothing will lift up your soul more than God-exalting worship. You were created to derive your glory and identity from God’s glory and identity. And whenever you disassociate your existence from the worship of God, you are disconnected in some way even...
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Sometimes You Just Need to Complain | Psalm 102
Sometimes your life is not exactly under blue skies. Things are miserable and you’re not doing well. That’s OK. In fact, God has given us Psalms in the Bible to express exactly that. Which is encouraging to think. God wants us to complain to him. That’...
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Revive Your Story By Looking Through A Better W...
Something is always narrating your life. And most of the time a false narrative is screaming at you to find a better life in its story. Your life is being narrated by the windows you’re looking through. And Psalm 101 is an important window to look thro...
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The Uncomfortable Claim in God’s Name | Exodus ...
We're missing something big about God when we miss God's name, when we don't understand the importance of God's name, when God's name doesn't come to our mind when we think about God. When Moses asked God to show him his glory, God basically said “No, ...
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Experiencing God’s Glory In His Name| Exodus 33-34
When Moses asked God to show him his glory, God basically said “No, it would kill you right now because you’re too sinful. But I’ll do the next best thing. I’ll proclaim to you my name.” This side of our coming resurrection, the closest thing we have t...
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Do You Pray Using God’s Name? | Exodus 3:14-15
Who is God? What comes to your mind when you think of God? Author A. W. Tozer said it this way in his book, Knowledge of the Holy: “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” Let me state it differently, wh...
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Why You Really Do Want to Embrace Thankfulness ...
A sobering reality in the Bible is the importance of having a heart of gratitude and thanksgiving rather than complaining. It's always surprised me how one of the “big” sins in the Bible is grumbling. Complaining. And one of the pillars of a biblical f...
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Keeping Yourself Inside this Amazing Story | Ps...
What always amazes me in the Psalms is how they consistently and poetically capture the bigger story this world is in. All throughout the Psalms, God is giving us a glimpse of the future, and it strengthens my faith to see how the Bible has always been...
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The Power of Music Part 2 - House Worship Recor...
In our last episode we discussed Psalm 98 about the power of singing and music in worship. God has created this universe, and created music to be a powerful expression of beauty, goodness, truth, and transcendence. Music is grounded in who God is. So y...
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The Power of Music - Interview with Scott Johns...
When we actually pay attention to what the Bible says about singing and music, we discover that music is a powerful force in God’s universe. When we worship through song, something happens in us that doesn’t happen through mere words spoken or heard. I...
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Our Conflicted Reaction That God is Holy | Psal...
When you worship God as holy, it brings a kind of fear that also brings a kind of joy. There’s a reason why Jesus told us in the Lord’s Prayer that the first thing you’re to pray for is that you would see and experience God’s name as holy (“Hallowed be...
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Light and Life and Joy from Right Worship | Psa...
The battle line in our lives is always at our worship. As human beings created for living in God’s glory and love, we are always worshiping. Worship is when we ascribe the highest worth and worth-it-ness to someone or something in our hearts and minds....
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A Meditation on Jesus as the I AM | John 6:20
We learn from the order of The Lord’s Prayer that Jesus saw prayer as worship. And one significant key to learning to worship in Spirit and truth (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%204%3A23-24&version=NIV (John 4:23-24)) without ima...
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When Jesus says, I AM | John 6:60-69
What does it mean when Jesus says, I AM? Like in John 6:20, he stands on the waves in the middle of the Sea of Galilee and says, “I AM, don’t be afraid.” In the Bible, the seas represented the unknown, chaos, evil. And Jesus stands on top of all that a...
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