Lifestream.org Podcast

Imagine you laying back in your easier chair or being caught in an exasperating commute to work and me sitting right beside you reading to you from https://www.lifestream.org/content/finding-church. OK, that doesn't even sound fun to me. I wo

Engage 24: The Adventure Of A Lifetime

Dec 31st, 2013 6m 46s

The final episode makes it clear that we haven’t arrived yet, but merely stand on the edge of the most amazing adventure available to us—how can we explore the vastness of God’s love and character not only in this age, but also for all eternity

Engage #23: That Your Joy Might Be Full

Dec 20th, 2013 6m 46s

Everything God does in our lives is so that his joy might be in us and that our joy might be full. He makes a way for us to be at home in him and he disciplines us so that we can find the fruitfulness and fulfillment of his life instead of bei

Engage #22: Tuning To God's Frequency

Dec 4th, 2013 6m 3s

Many of us were taught to find security in the approval of others, monetary success, religious activity and belonging to the right group. What if those aren’t the best signals to follow? It may seem difficult to separate the static of the wor

Engage #21: The Only Thing That Counts

Nov 21st, 2013 6m 3s

We find our way into the simplicity of following him as we ignore the obligations and expectations that others can put on us and live in the confidence that there’s only one thing that matters to God—that whatever we do is the fruit of a growin

What's Going On Around Here?

Nov 11th, 2013 31m 41s

Let me take this opportunity to share some of what's going on around here these days. First, for those in the San Diego area, I'm headed that way this weekend and will be gathering with people from the area who want to discuss the relational j

Engage #20: Letting God Win Our Trust

Nov 6th, 2013 6m 32s

Faith is not a tool we’re supposed to produce to manipulate God to do what we want. God wins us into faith by showing us who he is and how he is working in our lives. The more we grow to trust him the less we’ll react to trouble by trying to sa

Engage #19: Life In the Spirit

Oct 23rd, 2013 6m 43s

You do not learn to live this life in Jesus by wrapping your head around a different set of principles. You actually grow to understand this life as you respond to the Spirit guiding you into his truth. Over time the draw of the Spirit will b

Engage #18: One Step At a Time

Oct 10th, 2013 6m 53s

Few of us really live in the moment, where God is most easily seen. At times we live in the past by our regrets or by trying to recapture some past experience with him. Sometimes we live absorbed in the future with anxieties about what might h

Engage #17: A Life of Love

Sep 25th, 2013 6m 19s

Jesus invites us into a kingdom that thrives in love. Learning to live in the reality of his love for us and sharing that love with others, leads us away from the tyranny of always having to have our own way. Then instead of seeking what we w

Engage #14: NATO Living

Sep 11th, 2013 5m 37s

Our trust in God is undermined every time we try to win God to our agenda and measure his love for us based on our own expectations. If we can live not attached to the outcomes we desire, we’ll discover that he knows best about everything and

Engage 15: What About Sin?

Aug 28th, 2013 6m 9s

Religion is a shame-management system that only increases our captivity as we try to be better for God. The reason God forgave our sin in Christ, is so that we can come to know him without the shame of our failures and by doing so become trans

Engage #14: What About the Bible?

Aug 15th, 2013 6m 17s

The Bible was never meant to be a rule book filled with condemnation, but the story of humanity coming to understand God’s nature over thousands of years. Learn to read it that way and it will be a valuable resource of insight and wisdom into

Engage #13: A Quiet Place

Aug 2nd, 2013 6m 1s

Just blazing through a noisy and demanding world will not make it easy for us to know him. He is found in the quiet of our hearts and sometimes a quiet place can help us settle into his reality. Engage is our unfolding video series designed t

Engage #12: When God Seems Distant

Jul 17th, 2013 6m 20s

Sometimes despite our most ardent prayers, God seems distant. But he’s not. He’s always making himself known, it’s just that we may be looking in all the wrong places for him. Engage is our unfolding video series designed to equip and encour

Engage #11: Sharing Your Journey

Jul 3rd, 2013 4m 46s

It is Jesus' joy to knit each of us into the family he is building in the earth. As you learn to follow him he will bring others into your life that can share the converstions that will encourage each other to live in him more deeply rather th

Engage #10: The Freedom To Fail

Jun 19th, 2013 5m 44s

Learning to follow Jesus is a process in which you'll make your share of mistakes. Unless you give up the illusion of trying to be perfect, you’ll never have the freedom to discover the joy of learning to live in him. Engage is our unfolding

Engage #9: Praying for Real

Jun 6th, 2013 5m 12s

Prayer is not trying to get God to do what we want, but communicating with him about the issues and circumstances that concern us. It doesn’t happen in a prescribed period each day, but becomes a never-ending conversation where he lets us in o

Engage #8: Following Him Not an It

May 21st, 2013 5m 11s

Jesus didn’t invite us to follow his rules or traditions about him, he called us to follow him and we do that by learning recognize how he speaks to us.Engage is our unfolding video series designed to equip and encourage people to explore thei

Engage #7: Relaxing Into His Reality

May 1st, 2013 5m 6s

Living in God’s reality doesn’t come by trying to get the things we want from him, but learning to receive what he is already giving us.Engage is our unfolding video series designed to equip and encourage people to explore their own relation

Engage #6: Becoming an Active Learner

Apr 17th, 2013 3m 48s

We are used to being spoon-fed what others think we ought to know about God. Until we take responsibility for our own journey, we’ll never learn to look to him to teach us. Engage is our unfolding video series designed to equip and encourage

Engage #5: With Him Not For Him

Apr 13th, 2013 6m

If you constantly find yourself doing things for God, then learn to stop. God does not need you to get his attention or affection, but to simply learn to walk with him.Engage is our unfolding video series designed to equip and encourage peop

Engage #4: Surrender

Mar 20th, 2013 8m 3s

When you’re convinced enough that God is, you’ll want to learn that surrendering to his desires for you over your own agenda for your own life, is the way to open the door for this relationship to grow and deepen.Engage is our unfolding video

Engage #3: How Do You See Him?

Mar 8th, 2013 6m 2s

Engage is our new video series designed to equip and encourage people to explore their own relationship with God. We debuted the first one two weeks ago and will add a new video every two weeks on Wednesday. Of course the most important part of