Podcasts by The God Journey
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When We Seek Our Own Protection (#923) from 2023-12-08T14:30:02
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Charismatic Revival Fury (#922) from 2023-12-01T14:30:13
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When Aspiration Becomes Expectation (#921) from 2023-11-24T14:30:21
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A Diversified Web of Support (#920) from 2023-11-17T14:30:55
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Sex in the Dark (#919) from 2023-11-10T14:06:55
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When Following Him Isn’t Easy (#917) from 2023-11-03T13:30:20
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The Relentless Pursuit of Whole Heartedness (#917) from 2023-10-27T13:30:27
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Your Redemption Story (#916) from 2023-10-20T13:30:14
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Self-Serving Sacrifice (#915) from 2023-10-13T13:30:47
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The Gap Between Aspiration and Capacity (#914) from 2023-10-06T13:30:25
The Problem with Christian Nationalism (#913) from 2023-09-29T13:30:16
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The Good Kind of Hangover (#912) from 2023-09-22T13:30:27
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Let’s Talk More About Sin (#911) from 2023-09-15T13:30:24
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Everything is Better in the Light (#910) from 2023-09-08T13:30:22
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Overwhelmed by Evil (#909) from 2023-09-01T13:30:27
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Did We Get Sin Wrong? Part V (#908) from 2023-08-25T14:00:28
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The End of the World (#907) from 2023-08-18T14:00:57
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Did We Get Sin Wrong? Part 4 (#906) from 2023-08-11T14:00:34
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Did We Get Sin Wrong? Part 3 (#905) from 2023-08-04T14:00:44
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Did We Get Sin Wrong? Part 2 (#904) from 2023-07-28T14:00:06
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Did We Get Sin Wrong? (#903) from 2023-07-21T14:00:51
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“I Don’t Believe You”(#902) from 2023-07-14T14:00:39
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Religious Bullies (#901) from 2023-07-07T14:00:10
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Mercy, Vengeance, and Justice (#900) from 2023-06-30T14:00:21
How Much Is Too Much? (#899) from 2023-06-23T14:00:13
As Long as It Takes (#898) from 2023-06-16T14:00:34
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The Loneliness Epidemic (#897) from 2023-06-09T14:00:36
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The God-Shaped Life: A Bold Humility (#896) from 2023-06-02T14:00:36
Transformational Love #1 (#844) from 2022-04-08T14:00:03
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Restoring Innocence (#843) from 2022-04-01T14:00:52
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De-Personalizing Faith (#842) from 2022-03-25T14:00:50
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Do Christians Resent God? (#841) from 2022-03-18T14:00:52
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Seeing God in the Moment (#840) from 2022-03-11T15:00:09
Jenga-Tower Theology (#839) from 2022-03-04T15:00:42
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Following the Bread Crumbs (#838) from 2022-02-25T15:00:04
The Scandal of Particularity (#837) from 2022-02-18T15:00:52
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Living to Pleasure (#836) from 2022-02-11T15:04:34
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A Safe Place to Help Others (#835) from 2022-02-04T15:00:13
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Navigating Uncertainty (#834) from 2022-01-28T15:00:56
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For the Love o’God (#833) from 2022-01-21T15:00:23
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Mary’s Story (#832) from 2022-01-14T15:00:09
Overcoming the Matrix (#831) from 2022-01-07T15:00:50
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GJ Classic: Love, Rest, Play from 2021-12-31T15:00:55
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GJ Classic: Gaze with Me from 2021-12-24T15:00:57
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Recovering Mystery (#830) from 2021-12-17T15:00:17
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Holding Space In Father’s Work (#830) from 2021-12-10T15:00:42
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Family Holiday Drama (#829) from 2021-12-03T15:00:23
Religiously Transmitted Fears (#828) from 2021-11-26T15:00:19
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Will Institutions Always Fail? (#827) from 2021-11-19T15:00:56
Falling Into Place (#826) from 2021-11-12T15:00:39
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Humility Will Take You Far (#825) from 2021-11-05T14:00:15
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Healing from Childhood Trauma (#824) from 2021-10-29T14:00:13
Excruciatingly Beautiful (#823) from 2021-10-22T14:00:15
When Relationships Get Tricky (#822) from 2021-10-15T14:00:11
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Strong Man or Wild Goose? (#821) from 2021-10-08T14:00:37
The quest for certainty makes you a sitting duck for those who want to deceive you. The Spirit of God offers us an outrageous adventure of learning to follow him even in the uncertainties of life, ...
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Where Aspirations Lead Us (#820) from 2021-10-01T14:00:19
Kyle and Wayne are just completing three days together in Michigan as they sit down to reminisce about the people they met and the lessons that touched their hearts. They talk about the futility of...
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At the Cliff’s Edge (#819) from 2021-09-24T14:00:59
When our journey brings us to the place of giving up our illusions about our own ability to control the outcome of our circumstances, the impulse to provide for ourselves, and resisting the fear of...
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Seeing What God Sees from 2021-09-17T14:00:50
Wayne was a guest this week on The Daron Earlewine Podcast, and the conversation was so rich in summing up the last few months of his journey that they both agreed to simulcast it on The God Journe...
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Seeing What God Sees (#818) from 2021-09-17T14:00:50
Wayne was a guest this week on The Daron Earlewine Podcast, and the conversation was so rich in summing up the last few months of his journey that they both agreed to simulcast it on The God Journe...
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Believing Illusions (#817) from 2021-09-10T14:00:34
Kyle and Wayne begin with contemplating the question, "Does love let people suffer consequences for bad choices, or will it always intervene to mitigate them?" But they quickly turn to a conversati...
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Sweeter Outcomes (#816) from 2021-09-03T14:00:36
Wayne's back from his first God Journey trip since COVID began and Kyle wants the details. If there was a theme to this trip it was to flow with God through the unplanned, spontaneous opportunities...
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When Our Safe Boxes Aren’t Safe (#815) from 2021-08-27T14:00:55
What do you do when the religion you were raised with is in conflict with the drawing of Jesus in your heart? It's happening to more and more people, and those who go on to fruitful journeys are ab...
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Days of Reckoning (#814) from 2021-08-20T14:00:01
How are these days not the birth pangs for the end of the age? With the fall of Kabul in Afghanistan, the wildfires in the U.S. And Europe. a devastating plague, political animosity, wars and rumo...
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The Beauty of Selflessness (#813) from 2021-08-13T14:00:26
Luis, from My Friend Luis, returns to the God Journey to talk about the impact the podcast has had on his life and his continued healing from the trauma of the...
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Forgive Us Our Trespasses (#812) from 2021-08-06T14:00:43
Have you ever been the victim of religious trespassing, where someone is trying to force something on you for your own good? Have you ever done it to someone else? Most of us have. It is the natu...
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Masculinity and Femininity (#811) from 2021-07-30T14:00:06
How much of our gender confusion today results from warped stereotypes of masculinity and femininity? Tessa Van Wade, the author of Listen
Prostituting Your Passion (#810) from 2021-07-23T14:00:04
Burn-out may be the result of turning something lovely God gives us to bless others and turning it into a vocation so that it primarily serves me. After a brief conversation about Hebrews 10 and Ch...
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The Church Jesus Modeled (#809) from 2021-07-16T14:00:36
Wayne and Kyle begin where they left off last week, if our models of "planting churches" continue to have a build-up a body count of passionate men and women shipwrecked on their own insecurities a...
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When Charisma Outruns Character (#808) from 2021-07-09T14:00:13
"Their ability rose them to prominence before their character was ready for it." A new podcast by Christianity today called Listen
Vows, Sex and Marriage (#807) from 2021-07-02T14:00:40
Can the commitment of marriage actually destroy the spontaneity and thrill of romance? That's a question Kyle gets from some of his younger clients and he poses the question to Wayne. That leads th...
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Riding the Wind of the Spirit (#806) from 2021-06-25T14:00:32
How do people learn to live inside of God's reality, sensitive to what the Spirit is doing around them instead of being left to their own wisdom or a set of ineffective religious platitudes? A lett...
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When Our Structures Crumble (#805) from 2021-06-18T14:00:31
As the wind of the Spirit shifts in these days, it should not be a surprise to see some of the beloved castles we have built out of our own insecurity, crumble as he invites us deeper into a life o...
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Normalizing Evil (#804) from 2021-06-11T14:00:41
How do ordinary people—going about their everyday lives—become complicit actors in systems that perpetuate evil? Wayne's been reflecting on the news coverage about the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 a...
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Out of the Shadows (#803) from 2021-06-04T14:00:10
What happens when you discover the world is bigger than you thought it was and you are not the person you've been told you are? Everyone on a transformational journey has those moments when they c...
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At Rest in the Father’s Delight (#802) from 2021-05-21T14:00:19
Life changes completely the day we come to rest in the reality God is for us not against us no matter what we've done. And then we know that the ugliest and most painful circumstances we face can b...
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Untainted Wonder (#801) from 2021-05-14T14:00:41
Kyle sat through a baby dedication on Mother's Day and what the parents were told in that setting pegged his yuck meter. How are we going to keep kids untainted by religious performance if some pas...
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His Glory Revealed (#800) from 2021-05-07T14:00:20
In celebration of The God Journey's 800th podcast, Wayne spends a few moments reflecting on the journey of the past sixteen years. Then he dips deeply into the email bag to engage a host of emails ...
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God’s Call to a New Generation (#799) from 2021-04-30T14:00:45
What if God wants to raise up a new generation of men and women who've not been tainted by religious obligation to reveal his glory in the world? After Wayne shares a bit about his weekend in Amar...
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Are We Headed for a Race War? (#798) from 2021-04-23T14:00:26
Unfortunately, we don't often recognize unfairness when we benefit from it. Generosity, however, will allow us to see it when affects others we care about. As Kyle and Wayne recorded this podcast, ...
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Love. Rest. Play. (#797) from 2021-04-16T14:00:32
What if the best demeanor to be sensitive to God and his work in the world is by living in the reality of his love, at rest in his work, and in childlike playfulness with our Father? That's exactl...
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Settled in His Spirit (#796) from 2021-04-09T14:00:52
Wayne's back from a visit to the Sierras to spend Easter with his Father with a fresh stirring in his heart, so he drags Kyle into it with him. It seems the wind of the Spirit has shifted a bit, an...
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Courage in the Face of Uncertainty (#795) from 2021-04-02T14:00:56
Wayne is undergoing a renaissance in his prayer life while Kyle is excited about launching a new coaching service in adulting for younger people. All of it leads to a delightful conversation discus...
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How Did We Make God So Boring? (#794) from 2021-03-26T14:00:57
Have Americans channeled their inner hunger for the transcendent God into their political ideology? The Atlantic Monthly thinks so. In their April Issue, Listen
When Why No Longer Matters (#793) from 2021-03-19T14:00:25
Wayne's been having trouble praying through some of the Psalms recently seeing how ego-centric many of their requests were, and he invites Kyle into this part of his journey. From their limited van...
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Gaze With Me (#792) from 2021-03-12T15:00:53
"Don't gaze at me, gaze with me." That seemed to be God's invitation to a group Wayne was praying with a few weeks ago. The ramifications of that have gone deep into his prayer life, not just with ...
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Finding Confidence in the True (#791) from 2021-03-05T16:00:03
Kyle wants to probe a bit more into Wayne's podcast from last week about how we know what's true. How can a younger generation affirm the truth of the Scriptures when they are often so distorted an...
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Finding Confidence in What’s True (#791) from 2021-03-05T15:00:03
Kyle wants to probe a bit more into Wayne's podcast from last week about how we know what's true. How can a younger generation affirm the truth of the Scriptures when they are often so distorted an...
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What Is True and How Do You Know? (#790) from 2021-02-26T15:00:38
"What helps you most to know God is real and that this journey you are on is not just what you tell yourself to feel better?" That question was posed to Wayne this week in an email and he answers i...
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When Fear Steers Our Course (#789) from 2021-02-19T15:00:03
When you live out of fear you miss so much of what God is doing around you. Fear motivates us to find a narrative that provides comfort, even if it's a false comfort. That's a danger for all of us ...
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The Stinky Has Gone Mad (#788) from 2021-02-12T15:00:32
Wayne premiere's the first episode of his new, limited-series podcast, My Friend Luis. After living four years in the United States on an expired visa, Luis re...
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A Celebration of Friendship (#787) from 2021-02-05T15:00:54
It's as unlikely a friendship as one might imagine—a man from Mexico who crossed the border illegally as a twenty-one-year-old and the son of a white, Republican farmer from Central California. The...
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All You Need Is Within You (#786) from 2021-01-29T15:00:08
How does Wayne handle the anger and accusations that a few people have launched at him following his recent thoughts about delusion? That's what Kyle wants to know and it launches their conversati...
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The Journey into Love (#785) from 2021-01-22T15:00:16
As promised, Kyle and Wayne revisit the two podcasts they aired at the end of last year with Stephan Vosloo of South Africa about what God has taught him about living in the depths of Father's love...
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Symptoms of Delusion (#784) from 2021-01-15T15:00:45
A word of warning: this podcast is not for those of you who celebrated what happened in our nation's capital last week. At the request of a listener, Kyle and Wayne take a look at the delusion that...
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Live Loved Free Full (#783) from 2021-01-08T15:00:20
Live Loved Free Full is Wayne's latest book, and it has just dropped into the world. It contains a year's worth of daily refle...
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Free of the Prison of Self (#782) from 2020-12-18T15:00:28
On this last podcast of 2020, Wayne finishes his conversation with his friend Stephan Vosloo from Ladysmith, South Africa, and what he has learned about letting Father's love lead him out of the pr...
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Becoming One with Love (#781) from 2020-12-11T15:00:11
"We are slowly embracing the kind of sacrificial other-centered love that let us leave positions and privileges and entitlements and become one with the brokenness in us and around us and a way tha...
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An Opportunity to Grow (#780) from 2020-12-04T16:00:10
In a crisis, some people seek safety and comfort by holding tighter to the way they've always done things while others find it a great opportunity to learn and grow to see what new insights God mig...
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Hope for Healing in a Divided World (#779) from 2020-11-27T16:00:10
Celebrating the one-year anniversary of their collaboration on a book called A Language of Healing for a P...
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Finding Our Way Through 2020 (#778) from 2020-11-20T16:00:48
What a tumultuous year this has been in ways we could have never foreseen! By popular request, Wayne's daughter, Julie, joins her dad today to talk through how her family is sorting out the twists...
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Spiritually Safe Relationships (#778) from 2020-11-13T16:00:06
Whether it is someone claiming to speak in God's name, or a friend to lean on in times of crisis, finding safe relationships is critical to keep your heart soft before the Lord. Kyle Rice and Tracy...
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What Do You Feel When You See Me? (#776) from 2020-11-06T16:00:49
"Father am I alright? What do you feel when you see me?" Those questions come from a listener in Germany about patterns in his life that got planted at a very young age. Kyle Rice and Tracy Levinso...
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Problems with Power (#775) from 2020-10-30T15:00:08
Power has always been difficult for humans to navigate without doing great harm. Wayne and Kyle dive into a recent study by researcher Brené Brown about power. Her research identified four kinds of...
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The Doors Discomfort Opens (#774) from 2020-10-23T16:00:19
Whether it's a new puppy or a turning point in our journey, most of life's greatest joys lie beyond our discomfort. Yet, when push comes to shove we will choose the path of least resistance thinkin...
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Don’t Be Anyone’s Tool (#773) from 2020-10-16T16:00:50
Use the tool, don't become the tool. A new documentary from Netfilx exposes how social media and search engines are actively working to addict us to their devices and destroying the fabric of our c...
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The Fruit of Self-Control (#772) from 2020-10-09T16:00:53
A funny thing happened to Kyle and Wayne on their way to talk about the new Netflix Documentary, The Social Dilemma; they got distracted by a conversation about self-control as a fruit of the Spiri...
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Further Conversations in He Loves Me (#771) from 2020-10-02T16:00:47
Wayne continues his discussion with the Jeff Andrechyn's book group about He Loves Me that we began last week. They continue to talk about the Fatherhood of God, but also how we live that out when ...
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