Loving God: Getting at the Heart
The Loving God Podcast is a weekly exploration of the Christian life and specifically what loving God looks like. Each episode explores in a varied way the topics of how we love God or why we love God, attempting to blend our experience in life with our understanding of declaring through language our love for God.
Episodes
Ep 50 Loving God: Romans 8, Part 2
How shortsighted are we when it comes to "good"? Very, I would say.
Ep 49 Loving God: Romans 8, Part 1
"For those who love God" is a large key to our frame for understanding.
Ep 48 Loving God: The Obedience of Faith
Is your faith a "place" you constantly dwell?
Ep 47 Loving God: Injustice
Is God a just God?
Ep 46 Loving God: God Is Love
Who defines "love"?
Ep 45 Loving God: For God's Sake
We easily make the Christian life about less than it must be: it is life or death.
Ep 44 Loving God: The Feast
A feast beyond compare. We are invited. And yet, we are unworthy to be there.
Ep 43 Loving God: Knowing His Presence
We have no actual desire to visit a place that we know nothing of.
Ep 42 Loving God: Resurrection (Easter)
There is a man who has conquered death.
Ep 41 Loving God: Good Friday
If love is something to be known, how do we come to actually have a knowledge of God's love? What is it like, and how is it displayed?
Ep 40 Loving God: Terror and Love
"Terror accomplished no real obedience."
Ep 39 Loving God: True Understanding
Every person believes somewhere within that they can master the religious “system” and somehow manipulate God into what they want, ultimately gaining eternal life.
Ep 38 Loving God: Covenant and Commitment
As believers, we all know people who have seemed to truly believe at a time and yet no longer follow Jesus. For us who believe, how do we keep ourselves in the love of Christ?
Ep 37 Loving God: "The Good Man" (A short story)
In this episode I deviate from the norm with this short story of a man discovering God's love.
Ep 36 Loving God: The Dilemma of Psalm 119
The words about loving God's law in Psalm 119 seem like a stretch, at best. At worst, we just don't agree with the wording. So, what's going on in Psalm 119?
Ep 35 Loving God: The Problem of Inward Hyposcrisy
Jesus confronts hypocrisy, but is it only the Pharisees?
Ep 34 Loving God: The Cross that Cuts Our Hearts
How does a person obey the command to love God?
Ep 33 Loving God: Better than the War Horse
What is your war horse? And what's better?
Ep 32 Loving God: Praising the Praiseworthy
What is a human response to the praiseworthy, and how do we respond to God?
Ep 31 Loving God: What Does God Desire?
If God desires for us to love him from the heart, then the topic is worth some further thought (and maybe, yes definitely, a lifetime.)
Ep 30 Loving God: Trusting in God's Love
We trust what we know to be trustworthy. Have you ever thought about the words in Scripture that describe trusting in God's love?
Ep 29 Loving God: His 'Lovingkind Ones'
What most characterizes those who know God's love?
Ep 28 Loving God: Totality
What does it really look like to be "all in" in a life lived for God?
Ep 27 Loving God: My Steadfast Love
For us to call God's love "my steadfast love" is exemplified in Scripture. What does that mean?
EP 26 Loving God: Blessing of God
At its core, what does it mean to be "blessed"? How is it opposite of being "cursed"?
Ep 25 Loving God: Shouting
Does the term "festal shout" sound odd to you? Let's think about what it means.
Ep 24 Loving God: Words and the Heart
Can we deceive God with our words, and how do we possess a heart that produces true words?
Ep 23 Loving God: Is Jesus Fairest?
Words mean things, and given that they do, in this episode we explore the words "fair" and "beauty" in terms of how we know God.
Ep 22 Loving God: God's Love as Reality
Is God's love merely a concept in your mind, or it is a reality that governs everything about you?
Ep 21 Loving God: Your Experience Is not Your Knowledge of God
We all find ourselves thinking of God only in terms of our own experiences. In this way, we incredibly limit our knowledge of God.
Ep 20 Loving God: The Unanswered Prayer
We often ask God why. So does the writer of Psalm 80.
Ep 19 Loving God: Light and Salvation
Light is the most simple comparison, but the depth of its meaning is worth the effort of our minds.
Ep 18 Loving God: Fear and Confidence
Psalm 27 offers us some of the most pointed language in terms of relating to and trusting in God that we find in all of Scripture.
Ep 17 Loving God: Overcoming Self love
What does God's eternal love mean for our own problem of focusing on ourselves? Everything.
Ep 16 Loving God: Being Rescued
Have you ever been actually rescued? Spiritually, our rescue is something we simply cannot get over.
Ep 15 Loving God: All of God
What is your first thought of God? Do you teach yourself to consider all that is true of God and make this the focus of your love for him?
Ep 14 Loving God: James 1 and the Crown of Life
When everything hangs in the balance, where do you find yourself? If Jesus is all that he claims (and I certainly think he is) then recognizing the importance of our faith in him cannot be understated.
Ep 13 Loving God: Anxiety and Peace
Sleep, anxiety, and peace are the focal points of this episode. "Trusting God" is easy to speak about, but difficult for us to do every day.
Ep 12 Loving God: The Necessity of Recounting
Psalm 9 offers us a simple but deeply important practice for sharpening our faith in God and our love for him.
Ep 11 Loving God: The Thirsty Soul and Its Satisfaction
Looking at Psalm 63 and Matthew 11, this study looks at the way our souls experience a "thirst" and need something to satisfy.
Ep 10 Loving God: Soul Lifting
Psalm 25:1, like several others, challenges us with the words of lifting the soul. So, how are we to think about this?
Ep 9 Loving God: God's Astonishing and Beautiful Love
Do we actually have a right understanding of what God's love is? This episode challenges us to ask that question and seek to derive our knowledge of God's love from the correct sources.
Ep 8 Loving God: Comfort and the Friend of Sinners
How are we comforted? And, what does full comfort look like? This episode delves into both our need for comfort and a future comfort.
Ep 5 Loving God: Thinking on God's Love
Thoughts about thinking are at the core of this episode: what happens to us when we do focus our minds on God's love?
Ep 6 Loving God: Dealing With Sin
Looking at part of Psalm 51, the focus here is our sin and a God who knows us through and through. If our heart is known perfectly by God, how does this affect our thoughts of him and our worship of him?
Ep 4 Loving God: The Shema
The Shema is a title given to the words of Deuteronomy 6. The instruction contained therein that is the topic of this particular episode is the instruction to love God with all one's heart, soul, and might. Later in time, Jesus quotes these words, calling them the first and greatest commandment.
Ep 2 Loving God: Why Set Our Minds on God’s Love and Our Love for God
The question is a pertinent one: do we actually need to think about the topic of loving God?
Ep 7 Loving God: His Goodness
"Goodness" is a difficult word for us to get excited about. Here the topic gets examined, and the word gets some love.
Quotes in this episode come from John Frame, Andrew Peterson, Rich Mullins, and Helen Howard Lemmel.
Ep 3 Loving God: Loving Without God's Love
With the focus on the source of our love, the question is raised as to whether we can love without God's love.
Ep 1 Loving God: Delighting in God
In this initial episode, the topic of loving God is explored from the aspect of what we treasure and what we delight in.
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