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Season 2 Episode 7 In moments of subconscious reaction, we put up walls around our hearts, we seal up the doors and board up the windows, in an effort to not get hurt, as if pain all comes from the outside. But the fullness of life includes the whole spectrum and comes from a vulnerable openness to Jesus and the work of the HS in our hearts.. Shirts available at ttas.threadless.com            

Season 2 Episode 6 If this God thing is real, it’s real in the faith and in the doubts. It’s real enough to exist in the despair and the hope. But the hope only makes sense, real sense, if it’s really real. There is logic and reason behind all of the unreasonable foolishness that is the Cross of Christ and the Hope of the World. But for each of us, it’s a story, it’s a mess, it’s beautiful, and it’s for the good of your city and the glory of God. Shirts available at ttas.threadless.com          

 Season 2 Episode 5 Falling in love with a God that loved you first in a world riddled with lies and misinformation, representing God as a deity that can’t stand you, is extremely disorienting and reorienting in an incredibly unpredictable manner. Shirts available at ttas.threadless.com        

  Season 2 Episode 4 We didn’t make ourselves. No one is self-made. And there is a lot of confusion that settles into our surety. We get sure of things we should be confused about, like purpose. God knows, and when Jesus ushers in the kingdom and the age of resurrection power, he breathes on his followers, and their lives become something that no one ever would have dreamed of on their own. Shirts available at ttas.threadless.com      

  Season 2 Episode 3 There is a softness to our character that seems to bruise easily. In this life, we tend to align ourselves with the flow of the life and culture around us. We adjust in life as not to be harmed by it. But prayer to our good God that knows his creation and your place in it can chisel you, toughen you, strengthen you, and give your character a rock to build on. Shirts available at ttas.threadless.com      

Season 2 Episode 2 While God promises and demonstrates his presence, we aren’t always privileged with an earthly awareness. But in the goodness of God’s character, he gives us not what we prefer, but what we need. Remember, in His presence we are home. Shirts available at ttas.threadless.com    

Season 2 Episode 1 There is a pull, an undertow, a drift and a tide. These are all external, but we’ve also got internal vectors. We are prone to wander. Intentions are weak. Currents are strong. Assumptions are made that we are the exceptions, we are the outliers, we are made up of a different substance. We can handle it. But it is the worship and adoration of Jesus that anchors our souls. Shirts available at ttas.threadless.com    

Season 2 starts January 7th.  

This episode features Jordan Frye from Urban Rescue and their song Up From The Ashes. Also, Michael Nelder’s poetry is featured as well.  We look at the infiltration of the kingdom of heaven in our world and in our hearts. Michael Nelder’s poem from Up From The Ashes by Urban Rescue: dear God it’s hard for me to rest when everything inside beats so fast hard for me to accept love when all i’ve ever known are heart attacks and heart failures cardiac arrest You see i’m not used to being healthy just making sure everyone thinks i am but who am i? i always ask myself the question, why this fearful heart can’t accept Your reckless invitations? and maybe i’ve seen too many brave hearts get executed and i’m afraid to be next got all this pain locked inside but i don’t know how to open up my chest so just leave me to myself cause it hurts to get cut except every time that happens i self destruct i lie i hate i blame hurt everyone that i love like, what’s wrong with me? God, am i allergic to love? Your love, please help me to receive it like medicine for this low grade fever cause i’m so tired of feeling sick and tired out of control like the soul that will never be treated but i heard You love healing broken things if i step back and surrender all the pieces and You promise to give me something whole in return if all i had to give was a few mustard seeds and a little bit of faith a little bit of hope a little bit of trust i have to believe it’s enough a little bit of faith a little bit of hope a little bit of trust i have to believe it’s enough for You to start also for You to finish i’ll get out of the way while You handle Your business i’ll lose control while You handle my senses i give You all of me take away my defenses so God i’m running back to the start i won’t run anymore You won my heart   Subscribe to TTAS on iTunes and leave a review by clicking here.   Sign up for email updates and freebies by clicking here.  

This episode features Jordan Frye from Urban Rescue and their song Never Stop. It’s a dance track that makes sense if you’ve really experienced some unraveling in your life. We wade into the swampiness of shame with some help from Brené Brown, and look at the immense potential and responsibility that we have as Christians to truly be a community that is known by the way that we love one another.   Subscribe to TTAS on iTunes and leave a review by clicking here.   Sign up for email updates and freebies by clicking here.

This episode features Jordan Frye from Urban Rescue and their song Alive In You. We look at what it means to be alive in Christ, specifically in the fire, and why being alive in YOU is so much more than simply feeling alive.   Subscribe to TTAS on iTunes and leave a review by clicking here.   Sign up for email updates and freebies by clicking here.              

This episode is the conclusion of a mini-series on 1 Corinthians 16:13-14. My hope is that we will all remember that our true strength that comes from the power of Jesus in us wells up out of our weaknesses.   Subscribe to TTAS on iTunes and leave a review by clicking here.   Sign up for email updates and freebies by clicking here.            

This episode is the fourth in a mini-series on 1 Corinthians 16:13-14. I struggled to land the perfect story of courage and circled around to you and the way that your courage is shown.   Subscribe to TTAS on iTunes and leave a review by clicking here.   Sign up for email updates and freebies by clicking here.          

This episode is the third in a mini-series on 1 Corinthians 16:13-14. In it, I discuss the importance of standing firm, specifically in the faith, and how that helps us do everything in love.   Subscribe to TTAS on iTunes and leave a review by clicking here.   Sign up for email updates and freebies by clicking here.        

This episode is the second in a mini-series on 1 Corinthians 16:13-14. In it, I discuss some of the implications of the theory of when Satan shows up on earth and what that means for us being on guard.   Subscribe to TTAS on iTunes and leave a review by clicking here.   Sign up for email updates and freebies by clicking here.      

In this episode, I talk through one of my favorite chapters, 1 Corinthians 15, and the resulting exhortation that Paul gives us. I hope you are encouraged to do everything in love. The next four episodes will walk through the four preceding exhortations.   Subscribe to TTAS on iTunes and leave a review by clicking here.   Sign up for email updates and freebies by clicking here.    

In this episode, I talk through part of mewithoutYou’s song A Glass Can Only Spill What It Contains, I quote Mark Batterson on reacting like a Christian, and look at the importance of staying connected to the HS, especially as we grow in Christ. Lyrics from the song A Glass Can Only Spill What It Contains by mewithoutYou Like the peacocks wandering the walkways of the zoo Who have twice the autonomy as the giraffes and the tigers do Saying, ‘No one can stop me, no one can stop me No one clips my claws, now everyone watch me Everyone watch me, scale these outside walls’Oh, you pious and profane put away your praise and blame A glass can only spill what it contains To the perpetually plain and the incurably inane A glass can only spill what it containsWhat new mystery is this? What blessed backwardness? The Immeasurable One is held and does not resist Struck by wicked words and foolish fists of senseless men The Almighty One does not defend Listen to The Wind and the Waves by A New Normal (Justin H. Wright)   Subscribe to TTAS on iTunes and leave a review by clicking here.   Sign up for email updates and freebies by clicking here.  

In this episode of the Tie Them As Symbols podcast, I make a passionate plea to remember the cross and to live in a way that honors the sacrifice that was made for us. It’s built around Psalm 4:4-5. Buy shirts from previous episodes 11 through 13 by clicking here.   Subscribe to TTAS on iTunes and leave a review by clicking here.   Sign up for email updates and freebies by clicking here.

In this episode of the Tie Them As Symbols podcast, I talk about belief and doubt and patience and the believable and the unbelievable along with some encouragement from Psalm 40.  We contacted Jesse Lacey’s management for an interview for this podcast, but he was not available. Listen to The Waiting Room sermons by clicking here.   Subscribe to TTAS on iTunes and leave a review by clicking here.   Sign up for email updates and freebies by clicking here.            

In this episode of the Tie Them As Symbols podcast, I talk about the race, the weariness and the importance of fixing our eyes on Jesus. Subscribe to TTAS on iTunes and leave a review by clicking here.   Sign up for email updates and freebies by clicking here.