Half Truths - Part 2: God Won’t Give You More Than You Can Handle ???

Week 2 of a 5 week series on “Half Truths”, or what I call, “Bumper Sticker Christianity,” debunking common Christian cliche’s that tend to do more harm than good.

This week we are looking at the saying, “God won’t give you more than you can handle?”

Join us as we explore how this saying takes the biblical text out of context and creates significant problems in people’s understanding of God when things are indeed more than they can handle.

The truth: God helps us handle everything we’ve been given. God’s grace is sufficient for us.

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Podcast Intro recorded by Ariana Sefa

Half Truths - Part 1: Everything Happens for a Reason ???

This week begins a 5 week series on “Half Truths”, or what I call, “Bumper Sticker Christianity,” debunking common Christian cliche’s that tend to do more harm than good.

This week we begin with the famous line, “Everything Happens for a Reason”, exploring the nature of God’s will, especially when it comes to suffering and evil.

How do we make sense of pain and suffering in a world where a good God is presumably in charge?

Join me as we reflect on the truth that not everything happens for a reason, but God can make meaning out of everything that happens.

Podcast Intro recorded by Ariana Sefa

“It’s Complicated - Family as a Means of Grace” - Part 6

Spiritual growth isn’t about building something new, or adding more to our lives. It’s a stripping away of everything in us that’s not of God. The Spirit’s work in us is not to sculpt a masterpiece out of a human shaped pile of garbage and sin. Instead, the Spirt gently restores us to the image of God that we were always made to reflect.

We work hard to build protective barriers around our fragile lives and hearts. What if in our striving for self-preservation, we are actually resisting grace? What if the Spirit is simply trying to uncover the firm foundation God has already laid for us?

What might God be gently washing away in your life — not to destroy, but to restore?

Podcast Intro recorded by Ariana Sefa