“Every valley shall be lifted up, every mountain and hill made low . . . Then the glory of the LORD shall be revealed.” Isaiah 40:4-5
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Life’s tough--Get a helmet...or a relationship with Jesus! Join Dennis and Christine each week as they use over 3 decades of experience in church ministry and faith formation (with a little wit and wisdom!) to help listeners encounter the love of God and live well in the modern world.
The Future Is Ours © 2020 by Scott Holmes Music is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0
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In this episode, Dennis and Christine continue and wrap up their deep dive into the Beatitudes by looking at what the final four Beatitudes demand of us in regard to loving our neighbor, and their implications for us as we strive to live Gospel values and as intentional disciples of Christ Jesus in the modern world. (Christine is ecstatic that Dennis got the podcast description down to a single sentence! He'll let her have her moment.)
Thursday Jul 18, 2024
Thursday Jul 18, 2024
Thursday Jul 18, 2024
Can you name all eight Beatitudes? The Beatitudes are more than ideals, they are the way of life for disciples of Jesus Christ, and more importantly the way to eternal life, but what exactly are the Beatitudes asking of us and how do we live them in our daily life? Join Dennis and Christine as they break open the Beatitudes in this first of a two part series that does a deep dive into the most profound and detailed teaching that Jesus gave to his disciples.
Thursday Jul 11, 2024
Thursday Jul 11, 2024
Thursday Jul 11, 2024
Glamorized in Hollywood and viewed as a "boogieman" of sorts by contemporary society, Satan is often dismissed as a figment of the religious imagination, but therein lies the greatest of lies crafted by the Father of Lies! Make no mistake, the Devil is real. In this episode, Dennis and Christine expose the reality of the Devil, and wade into the many and varied names he is known by so that the Christian can come to know the enemy, recognize his hand, and prepare for spiritual battle in their fight against sin and temptation. What resources and tools are available to help us resist temptation, weather skirmishes with the enemy, and live well in the modern world? Listen and find out!
Thursday Jul 04, 2024
Thursday Jul 04, 2024
Thursday Jul 04, 2024
It seems like being kind is en vogue today, but what society means when it calls for someone to be kind is very different from the kindness that the Christian is called to live. In this episode Christine and Dennis challenge our secular understanding of kindness and present kindness as the Christian virtue and gift of the Holy Spirit that it truly is. (Christine told Dennis that his podcast descriptions need to be shorter, so that's all folks. Listen to find out more!)
Thursday Jun 27, 2024
Thursday Jun 27, 2024
Thursday Jun 27, 2024
Dennis and Christine continue to break open the Mass from the perspective of God's love and how God is loving us through the various parts of the Mass. In this episode, we delve into the Liturgy of the Eucharist, the Communion Rite, and the Concluding Rite, hoping to once again lead listeners to a new perspective on the Mass that will open their hearts and minds to the profound love God desires them to experience through the Mass and in particular the Eucharist.
Thursday Jun 20, 2024
Thursday Jun 20, 2024
Thursday Jun 20, 2024
Continuing on the heels of the previous episode, where Dennis and Christine presented the Eucharist as the supreme and most intimate encounter of God's love that we can experience this side of heaven, they now break open the Mass from the perspective of God's love and how God is loving us through the various parts of the Mass. In this, the first of two episodes, we delve into the Introductory Rites of the Mass and the Liturgy of the Word, hoping to leading listeners to a new perspective on the Mass that will open their hearts and minds to the profound love God desires them to experience through the Mass and in particular the Eucharist.
Thursday Jun 13, 2024
Thursday Jun 13, 2024
Thursday Jun 13, 2024
We all desire to be loved perfectly for who we are, and yet it's the love of another that transforms us and inspires us to be more than we are or that we think we can be for love of them. This transforming love that we yearn to experience finds its ultimate fulfillment in God, and it's through the Eucharist that we come to experience thee most intimate encounter of God's love this side of heaven, but is that our experience of the Eucharist? In this episode, Dennis and Christine break open this profound encounter of God's love, as experience in the Eucharist. Through personal experience and insight, we hope to lead listeners to a paradigm shift in how they approach and view Mass, so that they come to truly understand what God is doing to us, for us, and through us in this most intimate expression of his love, and how the Eucharist not only equips us to live well in the modern world, but is essential for us on our journey to heaven.
Thursday Jun 06, 2024
Thursday Jun 06, 2024
Thursday Jun 06, 2024
Who in your life, past or present, is in need of your forgiveness? Who in your life have you trespassed against and need to seek forgiveness from? Forgiveness is hard, but holding on to our hurts and the wrong done to us by another enslaves us to those trespasses and creates a hardness of heart that actually prevents us from experiencing the mercy of God when we trespass against him! The justice sought in our current cancel culture has no room for mercy or forgiveness, and if we’re honest, we’d have to admit that there is likely someone in our life who we have “cancelled” because of some trespass committed against us. What is the path forward that leads to true healing and true reconciliation and frees us from the prison we’ve created for ourselves? Yes, forgiveness is hard, but we must forgive anyway because forgiveness is a key component of Christ’s mission of redemption and salvation for at the heart of forgiveness is mercy, and that mercy is merely another word for God’s love. In this episode, Christine and Dennis address the nature and importance of forgiveness in living a life of discipleship, and provide some ways for listeners to soften their hearts so that forgiveness is possible and the healing they long for becomes a reality.