In the final episode of, “Love School,” we play with some visual representations of what an unrenewed mind looks like, what union with God looks like, and how our true identity and life purpose can be blind spots. We also talk about some practical ways to transcend the old man, reckon ourselves dead, and live
In part 3 of, “Love School,” we examine the doctrine of inclusion, the timelessness of God, and the programmed judgment we all have. These, combined with 1 John 3 in the Mirror translation, help us understand what Jesus accomplished on the cross and how it leads to a life of unconditional love. What Jesus did
In part 2 of, “Love School,” we examine the parable of the prodigal son to really get a picture of what keeps us from receiving the Father’s unconditional love. Both sons, like most of us, were living under the illusion of separation from their father. Both were operating out of self-righteousness, independence, and judgment. The
God’s love, His core nature, gets muddled up by religion, sin-consciousness, and our focus on what is wrong instead of what is right. Religion is based in judgment, in the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But love isn’t judgment-based, it’s judgment-free. Love is the ruling force of the universe. It’s unconditional, and
In the final episode of, “Union Police,” we talk about the old man who died with Christ, and yet all too often feels very much alive. Why is that? What do we do when we experience emotions like anxiety or anger? Aren’t we supposed to not feel negative emotions now that we are a new
In part 3 of, “Union Police,” we talk about how our self- and sin-consciousness frame our perception and experience of reality, and how the Gospel is the death of self-consciousness because it is the end of sin (therefore the end of sin-consciousness). Yet, many of us haven’t heard the Gospel as good news, because we
Many Christians think of eternal life as something we get after we die, but in part 2 of, “Union Police,” we examine how Jesus defines eternal life and the right-now-reality of it. In John 17:3, Jesus says, “Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you
The foundation of my ministry is our union with God, which is how I got the nickname, ‘the union police.’ So, in this series, “Union Police,” we really dig into the reality of our union with Jesus and what it actually means. When you read Scripture and see the world through the lens of our
The final episode of, “The Language of the Heart,” is all about feelings and how to let them go. Our feelings, or emotions, are just energy in motion and are a normal part of being human. However, the typical ways people react to their emotions (not the healthy ways) include: Suppressing/Denying/Ignoring – trying to control
In “The Language of the Heart,” part 3, we see how the parable of the sower demonstrates human perception, the condition of the heart, and our ability to receive. Then we tie a little brain science into it! In this episode: The process of the human mind to take facts, assign meaning to them, and