Disciple Like a Child
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There’s no getting ahead in the Christian life. Each of us is dependent, called to disciple like a child, open to life as it unfolds and trusting that God is with us, taking care of us.
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Who Do You Say I Am? Providence Podcast Episode 4
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Jesus asks his disciples, “Who do you say I am?” and it’s clear that he wants them to know him for who he is. There’s something about all of us that wants to be understood, isn’t there? Ultimately, we want to be loved, but to be loved, we also have to be known.
Read MoreBe Opened, Providence Podcast Episode 3
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This week we encounter Jesus as he heals a deaf person with the words, “Be opened.” His invitation to openness shows that the problem isn’t an illness that can be cured but a closedness that can opened. How open are you when it comes to speaking your truth? When it comes to listening to others? How open is your heart?
Read MoreTransformation Inside and Out, Providence Podcast Episode
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Jesus is calling us to alignment between our attitudes and our actions, an authentic living out of our faith. He's interested in transforming the whole of us, and if we’re open, we allow that transformation to happen, just as it happened to him.
Read MoreTo Whom Shall We Go? Providence Podcast Episode
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Whether we stay or go, God is still with us. Christ accompanies us, and we accompany Christ in the company of each other. Yes, sometimes it’s hard. But to whom else shall we go? Christ has the words of eternal life.
Read MoreSeen, Known, and Loved — Providence Podcast Summer Series
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May we journey up to the mountaintop with Jesus and his companions and encounter God too. As Jesus revealed the fullness of who he is, may we reveal the fullness of who we are before God and those closest to us. And may we each hear God proclaim that we are God’s beloved too, because we are.
Read MoreWorthy of the Call You Have Received, Providence Podcast Summer Series
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What if instead of wondering if someone is worthy, we focus on being humble, knowing that we’re not perfect either? What if we live with patience, trusting that we’re all just doing the best we can? What if we were to bear with each other in love instead of judgement? And what if we didn’t even judge our own worthiness? Because why should we? God doesn’t.
Read MoreWhat We Shall Be, Providence Podcast Summer Series
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I can’t predict the future, but if I respond wholeheartedly to life’s events, both good and challenging, I’ll continue to grow into the person God created me to be. What I shall be has not yet been revealed. I do know that when it is revealed I shall be like Christ.
Read MoreWhat Are You Looking For? Providence Podcast Summer Series
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In your heart of hearts, what do you desire? What do you want? Figure out what you desire in the depths of your heart, and you know God’s call.
Read MoreIs There a Perfect Community? Providence Podcast Summer Series
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Community is one of the best parts of our lives but also one of the hardest parts. Why is that? And if relationships are so hard, why do we keep persevering in them?
Read MoreHope Does Not Disappoint, Providence Podcast Summer Series
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God is present to the reality of who we are, even as God calls us to grow. God is certainly in our midst.
Read MoreDo You Belong? Providence Podcast Summer Series
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The more that I, and we, live and grow into the fullness of being to which God calls us, the more we belong to God and ourselves. When we belong like that, we’ll find belonging wherever we go.
Read MoreGod's Why, Providence Podcast Episode
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There’s a lot going on in this Gospel, and the quick pace makes it seem like Jesus’s life is an action-packed adventure with lots of people who need help. Are these events just part of a busy day in the life of Jesus? These encounters have much to tell us about the healing ministry of Jesus – for those in the story and for us too.
Read MoreFear and Faith, Providence Podcast Episode
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Uncertainty, difficulty, and change can make us feel disoriented, topsy-turvy, afraid, and vulnerable, not unlike being in a small boat with waves crashing around it and strong wind blowing. When you’re in a situation like this, how do you find your faith amidst the fear?
Read MoreJesus and the In Crowd, Providence Podcast Episode
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Jesus had a close-knit group of people with whom he shared deeply. What would it be like to be in the inner circle of Jesus? And what does it mean for us today to belong to the In Crowd of the Kingdom of God?
Read MoreWhoever Does the Will of God, Providence Podcast
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There’s a freedom in following God’s will, a loving freedom which we offer to each other that transcends expectations. In fact, God doesn’t have expectations of us — only invitations.
Read MoreKeeping Our Covenants, Providence Podcast Episode
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Because of God’s fidelity, we can be faithful too. And in our trying, in all of our little yesses, we grow and get better at saying yes. It’s not because of us but because God is transforming us every day.
Read MoreCome with Me, Providence Podcast Episode
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On this Providence Sunday, and always, God invites us to trust God’s love and care, to trust it so deeply that we can surrender to it. How can we do this? Because God is with us.
Read MoreFire, Wind, and Spiritual Adulting, Providence Podcast Episode
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Spiritual adulting can be hard, but it’s how we grow and learn and change. God loves us as we are but rarely leaves us alone to stay the same. God is always calling us to that edge where we have to risk and leap and trust.
Read MoreWorthy of the Call You Have Received, Providence Podcast
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What if instead of wondering if someone is worthy, we focus on being humble, knowing that we’re not perfect either? What if we live with patience, trusting that we’re all just doing the best we can? What if we were to bear with each other in love instead of judgement? And what if we didn’t even judge our own worthiness? Because why should we? God doesn’t.
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