Podcasts by Word of Life Church Podcast

Plenary Session 3: Brad Jersak (Audio) from 2018-06-29T06:25:34

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Plenary Session 2: Jonathan Martin (Audio) from 2018-06-28T09:43:40

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Opening Plenary Session: Brian Zahnd - Am I Here All Alone? (Audio) from 2018-06-28T02:34:49

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You Say You Want A Revolution... (Audio) from 2018-06-24T10:32:49

In Acts 9 we meet a man who was always zealous for God, who always wanted a revolution, who always wanted to change the world; but after he met Jesus he had to rethink how the world is to be change...

A Revolution of Inclusion (Audio) from 2018-06-17T11:47:55

Hierarchies and strategies of exclusion belong to the old order that died with Christ. In the new order of the risen Christ, revolutionary inclusion and equality reign. Ethnic hierarchies, economic...

Everybody Must Get Stoned (Audio) from 2018-06-10T11:47:54

From Stephen and James, Peter and Paul, Polycarp and Perpetua in the early church, to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jim Eliot, Oscar Romero, and the Coptic martyrs in modern times, the church has always had...

There Must Be Some Way Out of Here (Audio) from 2018-06-03T11:47:54

On the day of Pentecost Peter preached the gospel to people who belonged to a religion that had become corrupted by its compromised allegiance to a materialistic and militaristic empire. So Peter’s...

A Jesus-Centered Bible (Audio) from 2018-05-27T11:47:55

The Bible becomes an obstacle for some people when they are in a serious season of doubt or a process of spiritual deconstruction. Some choose to throw the Bible out and others simply walk away fro...

The Dark Night Of Unknowing (Audio) from 2018-05-20T11:47:54

In the Bible the new day doesn’t begin at sunrise or at midnight, but at sunset. Thus, for example, the Jewish Sabbath begins at sundown on Friday. In the Jewish way of thinking each new day begins...

Don't Freak Out About Doubt (Audio) from 2018-05-13T11:47:55

"Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me." –Frederick ...

The End Is The Beginning (Audio) from 2018-05-06T12:19:25

At the center of Christian faith is not a belief system or a book, but a person—Jesus Christ. We confess Christ as the incarnate Word of God who saves the world through his death, burial, and resur...

Lies We Believe About God: A Conversation with Wm. Paul Young (Audio) from 2018-04-29T07:24:19

What we think and say about God affects us more than we know. If we believe lies about God, those lies begin to run rampant and do damage to our souls.Today, we will turn our attention to the one t...

Soil With A Soul (Audio) from 2018-04-22T10:12:20

Soil is miracle ground — it’s the matrix of all life on earth. As the second account of creation in Genesis tell us, all life comes “out of the ground” — plants, animals, and humans. We did not fal...

The Contemplative Alternative (Audio) from 2018-04-15T04:06:34

"It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience: how a human being becomes evil and how a human being becomes g...

A Life That We Can Live (Audio) from 2018-04-08T19:14:31

The truth can change a man In the wisdom of his days It whispers soft but constantly You cannot live this way –The Call, “When”   In the madness of modernity how do we cultivate the practices of pr...

The Eighth Day (Audio) from 2018-04-01T04:06:35

"On the third day the friends of Christ coming at day-break to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; the world had died in the nig...

Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground (Audio) from 2018-03-30T13:20:24

In 1977 NASA launched the Voyager spacecraft, and for forty years it has continued its long journey into interstellar space. Today Voyager is more than thirteen billion miles from home. Aboard Voya...

The Singularity of Good Friday (Audio) from 2018-03-25T06:23:10

At the cross the sin of the world coalesced into a singularity where it was both borne and forgiven by God in Christ. The structures of sin (“the sin of the world”) that entangles and implicates al...

A Place Called Gethsemane (Audio) from 2018-03-18T06:23:10

Gethsemane means "oil press" and it's in the garden of Gethsemane that the Anointed (the Christ) comes under immense pressure. It's in Gethsemane that we most clearly see the humanity of Jesus as h...

A Royal Waste of Time (Audio) from 2018-03-11T06:15:50

When Jesus was in the home of Simon the leper on Wednesday during his last week, a woman poured a bottle of costly perfume on him while he sat at the table after dinner. The group around the table ...

Getting Down To Brass Tacks (Audio) from 2018-03-04T19:44:16

On Jesus’ last Tuesday, he speaks to us with unfiltered clarity. The temple and it’s systems which perpetuate injustice has walked the way which leads to destruction. As the end of Jesus’ life draw...

When The Whip Comes Down (Audio) from 2018-02-25T20:53:46

On Monday of the final week before his death Jesus interrupted the operations of the Temple by driving out the sacrificial animals with a whip and flipping over the tables of the money changers. We...

There's Always Some Dude On A Horse (Audio) from 2018-02-18T06:33:24

There's always some dude on a horse. The most famous dude on a horse is Alexander the Great (356–323 BC). Even his horse is famous—the warhorse Bucephalus (355–326 BC). At the same time when Alexan...

Of Wolves and Lambs (Audio) from 2018-02-11T07:21:36

Jesus came as a fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy where the wolf and lamb come to eat together. The mission of Jesus is revolutionary because Jesus wants to save both the oppressed and the oppressor...

Christine Eckhardt's Story (Audio) from 2018-02-07T21:56:46

Cristine Eckhardt's Story of Forgiveness

Forgiveness That Transcends Tragedy (Audio) from 2018-02-04T21:56:46

What Jesus calls us to in the Kingdom of God is not a religiously modified version of the self-preservation and self-promotion value systems that govern the empires of men. What Jesus calls us to i...

Stories of Forgiveness: Todd Norris's Story (Audio) from 2018-01-31T22:03:29

Todd Norris's story of forgiveness

No Future Without Forgiveness (Audio) from 2018-01-28T06:02:26

We must dare to believe in Jesus’ radical ideas of enemy-love and endless-forgiveness, because without this kind of love and this kind of forgiveness, there is no future. The future you look for, t...

Stories of Forgiveness: Candy Draper's Story (Audio) from 2018-01-24T06:45:40

The Story of Candy Draper

Why Forgive? (Audio) from 2018-01-21T10:18:30

When we choose to forgive those who harm us, instead of perpetuating the cycle of revenge, we become a living imitation of Jesus Christ. As we do this we help flood a world hell-bent on paybacks wi...

Stories of Forgiveness: Glen and Heather Taylor (Audio) from 2018-01-17T13:59:31

Hear the Story of Forgiveness featuring Glen and Heather Taylor

The Sunflower (Audio) from 2018-01-14T14:21:59

If Christianity is to be a compelling and relevant voice in the 21st Century, we need a fresh message—not a new innovation or novel interpretation, but a return to our roots. And if Christianity is...

In the Time of Tyrant Kings (Audio) from 2018-01-07T13:19:42

The Epiphany text begins with these words: “In the time of King Herod.” Most of history has been “in the time of King Herod.” And if not the time of Herod, then the time of Pharaoh, the time of Neb...

Christmas Saves the World (Audio) from 2017-12-31T22:22:52

In singing his prophetic song over the infant Jesus, Simeon drew upon a verse from one of Isaiah’s Servant Songs. The Servant Songs (Isaiah 49–52) were prophetic poems written in the sixth century ...

If This Is God... (Audio) from 2017-12-24T23:41:44

This is what Christians confess about Christmas: Emmanuel (God with us) joined humanity, not by swooping down from the celestial heavens in a golden chariot, but by being born—born in a stable, wra...

Enfleshing the Holy (Audio) from 2017-12-17T11:25:22

It was through a young, poor Jewish maiden named Miriam (Mary) living in the backwater Galilean village of Nazareth during the Roman occupation of the first century, that the Eternal Logos, the Wor...

A Burning and Shining Lamp (Audio) from 2017-12-10T09:59:19

John the Baptist was a burning and shining lamp—but he wasn’t the dawn of the new day. John doesn’t belong to the new day—John belongs to the end of the long night. John is not the sun of righteous...

Anticipating the Day (When God Will Act) (Audio) from 2017-12-03T12:16:56

In the birth of the baby born in Bethlehem in the days of King Herod we find the fulcrum of every human hope and every diabolical fear. What the poets and prophets hoped and prayed for, and what th...

The Kingdom Prepared for You (Audio) from 2017-11-26T12:16:57

Those who treat the unlucky souls who have fallen into the cracks of society as worthy of dignity and respect, compassion and provision, are seen by Jesus as co-conspirators in his Kingdom. The Kin...

Feel the Falseness (Audio) from 2017-11-19T12:43:44

“The first precondition of being called a spiritual leader is to perceive and feel the falsehood that is prevailing in society, and then to dedicate one’s life to a struggle against that falsehood....

The Crux of Discipleship (Audio) from 2017-11-12T07:42:27

“How can we live in the midst of a world marked by fear, hatred, and violence, and not be destroyed by it? To live in the world without belonging to the world summarizes the essence of the spiritua...

36th Anniversary: Love Alone Is Credible (Audio) from 2017-11-06T00:00:35

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