Episodes

  • A Full Body Tune Up

    A Full Body Tune Up
    May 29 2026

    Scripture

    Isaiah 45:15 (NIV)

    Truly you are a God who has been hiding himself, the God and Savior of Israel.





    Refrain

    God is at the depth of all things, including me.





    Quote

    Richard Rohr, from The Universal Christ

    "I doubt if you can see the image of God in your fellow humans if you cannot first see it in rudimentary forms in stones, in plants and flowers, in strange little animals, in bread and wine, and most especially cannot honor this objective divine image in yourself. It is a full-body tune-up, this spiritual journey. It really ends up being all or nothing, here and then everywhere."


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    5 mins
  • The Image Cannot Be Extinguished

    The Image Cannot Be Extinguished
    May 28 2026

    Scripture

    Ephesians 2:4–6 (NIV)

    But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions — it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.




    Refrain

    The image of God cannot be extinguished.




    Quote

    Walter Wink, from Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way

    "There is no one, and surely no entire people, in whom the image of God has been utterly extinguished. Faith in God means believing that anyone can be transformed, regardless of the past. To write off whole groups of people as intrinsically racist and violent is to accept the very same premise that upholds racist and oppressive regimes."


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  • Something in Common With All Creatures

    Something in Common With All Creatures
    May 27 2026

    Scripture

    Hebrews 4:15 (NIV)

    For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are — yet he did not sin.




    Refrain

    Christ is present in the depth of all things.




    Quote

    St. Bonaventure

    "As a human being Christ has something in common with all creatures. With the stones he shares existence, with plants he shares life, with animals he shares sensation, and with the angels he shares intelligence."


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    5 mins
  • All of Him

    All of Him
    May 26 2026

    Scripture

    Philippians 2:7 (NIV)

    Rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.




    Refrain

    Christ came for all of me.




    Quote

    Nikos Kazantzakis, from Report to Greco

    "One day the religion of Christ will take another step forward on earth. It will embrace the whole man, all of him, not just half as it does now in embracing only the soul."


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  • The Gate of Heaven Is Everywhere

    The Gate of Heaven Is Everywhere
    May 25 2026

    Scripture

    Genesis 2:15 (NIV)

    The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.




    Refrain

    The gate of heaven is everywhere.




    Quote

    Thomas Merton

    "We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and God is shining through it all the time. God manifests Himself everywhere, in everything — in people and in things and in nature and in events. The only thing is we don't see it. I have no program for this seeing. It is only given. But the gate of heaven is everywhere."


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  • The Fire I Came to Bring

    The Fire I Came to Bring
    May 22 2026

    Scripture

    Luke 12:49 (NIV)

    "I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!"





    Refrain

    The fire that refines me is taking me somewhere good.





    Quote

    Richard Rohr, from The Universal Christ

    "I am afraid many of us have failed to honor God's always unfolding future and the process of getting there, which usually includes some form of dying to the old. In practical effect, we end up resisting and opposing the very thing we want. The great irony is that we have often done this in the name of praying to God, as though God would protect us from the very process that refines us!"

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  • To Change Often

    To Change Often
    May 21 2026

    Scripture

    Romans 8:28–30 (NIV)

    And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.





    Refrain

    I am being changed into something good.





    Quote

    John Henry Newman, from An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine

    "To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."

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  • Made For Another World

    Made For Another World
    May 20 2026

    Scripture

    Ephesians 2:7–10 (NIV)

    In order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.




    Refrain

    I was made for more than I can currently see.




    Quote

    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (attributed)

    "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."

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    5 mins