Podcasts by Thirty Seconds or Less

Setting the Frog Free from 2018-04-01T10:00:54

The truth is simple: only love will give our lives any meaning at all, any substance, love as service, love as justice, love as grace and forgiveness, love that is living in the world for others...

The Day After from 2018-03-31T10:00:53

The truth is simple: only love will give our lives any meaning at all, any substance, love as service, love as justice, love as grace and forgiveness, love that is living in the world for others...

God Knows what it Feels Like from 2018-03-30T10:00:51

A part of what we remember on Good Friday is that God suffers with us even to the point where God feels the absence of God, when Jesus says, “My father, why have you forsaken me?”  Download t...

By Example from 2018-03-29T10:00:40

On that night long ago, Jesus knew this was the last time he would be surrounded by his closest friends. These were his final hours as a free man. Soon he would be arrested, tried, and hung on a...

I Am Thirsty from 2018-03-28T10:00:32

Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.  Download the full episode

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Changed for Good from 2018-03-27T10:00:08

And if there is a God and God is not finished with us, if there is a God then the human word is not the last word. God is.  Download the full episode

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Finding God in the Silence from 2018-03-26T10:00:12

You may not hear God speaking but can you feel God moving?  Download the full episode

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The Rejects from 2018-03-25T10:00:10

We need the Jesus of Holy Week to teach us that you can never be perfect enough to avoid rejection.  Download the full episode

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The Space to Feel from 2018-03-24T10:00:09

Anger is the joyful noise that makes the ears of the powerful perk up because it is a sign that the new life is not yet here but maybe it’s just around the corner.  Download the full episode<...

Ever Before Me from 2018-03-23T10:00:07

It’s easy to deny reality when you don’t look below the surface.  Download the full episode

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The Order of Melchizedek from 2018-03-22T10:00:05

You are a child of God and by nature of being a child of God, you are a priest.  Download the full episode

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A Meditation for the Brokenhearted from 2018-03-21T10:00:04

Broken hearts don’t get fixed. They become the soil for a new heart to grow.  Download the full episode

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I Love Compost from 2018-03-20T10:00:03

Like a grain of wheat falls into a compost pile, Jesus falls into the earth. The damp and still and timeless earth. The quiet earth, accept for the faint percussion of the blind critters who tip...

Holy Moments from 2018-03-19T10:00

God is inclining us as new covenant keepers to look for these holy moments all around us.  Download the full episode

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Climbing with Zacchaeus from 2018-03-18T10:00:56

The transformation of our spiritual lives during Lent or at any other season of the year is not focused on us. God is at the center of the story. And the healing justice, the lavish generosity, ...

Lenten Time in America from 2018-03-17T10:00:38

Even as we go through this trial and suffering and our nation’s life is laid down, I invite you to look for new signs of life inspired by divine minds that are emerging. Take a moment in your ow...

A Beloved Child of God from 2018-03-16T11:49:20

What kind of discipline or habit could you live into for the rest of Lent and beyond that empowers you to dig deep into your identity as a beloved child of God?  Download the full episode

For God so Loved the World from 2018-03-15T10:00:32

“Life of the ages” and “life abundant” are two ways of saying the same thing. One isn’t after you die and the other before you die. Both are ways of describing a whole, healthy, overflowin...

Wake Up from 2018-03-14T10:00:01

The night is over and it is time to meet the day. It is time to know the deep rhythms of our soul’s distinct time, to tune into the tempos and patterns of our own communities, to pay attention t...

Praise the Lord? from 2018-03-13T10:00:41

If I’m going to attribute every stroke of luck, every gratuitous offering of grace, every open parking space divine intervention, then don’t I also have to assume that the same hand is at work, ...

Who Is This God? from 2018-03-12T11:26:17

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 t...

The Upside Down Kingdom from 2018-03-11T10:00:20

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 r...

God Hears You from 2018-03-10T11:00:47

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...

Ministry vs. Money from 2018-03-09T11:00:04

We need a theological whip where drive the arrogance out of our spirits.  Download the full episode

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Join the Movement from 2018-03-08T11:00:58

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 an...

Marked from 2018-03-07T11:00:05

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 do...

The Heavens Are Telling from 2018-03-06T11:00:18

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 ...

I Think We Have Some Work To Do from 2018-03-05T11:00:47

What do we sacrifice today for the idols that we worship? Who do we sacrifice today for the idols that we worship?

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A Season of Slow from 2018-03-04T11:00:58

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 episod...

For a Change from 2018-03-03T11:00:16

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

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