The Oldest Lie | Inside Out Ep. 2

The Oldest Lie | Inside Out Ep. 2

You've tried. Sincerely. More than once. And something keeps drifting back to exactly where it was. It's not a discipline problem. It's a direction problem — and the direction was set a long time before you ever chose it. This is Episode 2 of Inside Out — a twelve-episode series for the person exhausted by the gap between what they know and how they live, and for the person who has watched that exhaustion in others and kept a careful distance. In this episode: • The first recorded question in human history — and why it was aimed at a belief, not a behavior • Why behavior modification, willpower, and accountability cannot reach the root • The Scotch Thistle — and what it reveals about surface treatments vs. root removal • A single Greek word Jesus used to dismantle an entire system's logic • The encounter practice from Chapter 2, led in real time The companion to this episode is Chapter 2 of the Inside Out Study Guide at TEDtalking.life. Next episode: Reasonable Reality

The Hamster Wheel | Inside Out Ep. 1

You've tried. You've recommitted. You've drifted. And you're exhausted. What if the method you've been using to change was never designed to reach the place where change actually happens — not because you failed it, but because of what it is? This is Episode 1 of Inside Out — a twelve-episode series for the person exhausted by the gap between what they know and how they live, and for the person who has watched that exhaustion in others and kept a careful distance. In this episode: • Why the cycle of try, drift, recommit, repeat is not a moral failure — it's a structural one • The most dramatic case study in Scripture of a man with a flawless religious résumé who didn't know God • What Paul actually said about his credentials — and the Greek word most translations quietly soften • Why information has never produced transformation, and what does • A guided four-step encounter practice to close The companion to this episode is Chapter 1 of the Inside Out Study Guide at TEDtalking.life. Next episode → The Oldest Lie

REVEALING THE FATHER: 12 - The Call to Come Home

You started this series with a question — maybe one you’d carried for years: Is there a gap between what I know about God and what I actually experience of Him? This is the final episode. And it asks the hardest question of all twelve: After everything you’ve encountered — is there still something held back? In this episode: → Why hiding is a reflex, not just a choice — and why information alone was never going to reach something that old → The four hiding patterns most believers carry into the final episode: shame, grief, unbelief, habitual distance → Genesis 3:9 — why “Where are you?” is invitation, not accusation → Luke 15:20–24 — the Father who interrupted the apology with a celebration → Matthew 11:28 and Revelation 3:20 — the invitation still standing at the door of that last guarded corner → A culminating guided encounter: bringing that last held-back thing into the Father’s arms — all the way This episode includes the deepest encounter of the series. If you can, find a quiet place. Give it everything you have. This is not a conclusion. It is a homecoming. 📖 Full study with guides: https://tedtalking.life/revealing-the-father 🌐 Website: https://TEDtalking.life

REVEALING THE FATHER: 11 - Becoming a Revealer of the Father

You've seen the Father's true face. You've had false images dismantled and replaced with truth. You've been loved, healed, held, and restored. Now what? Jesus answers that question — and it turns everything outward. In this episode: → Why revealing the Father is not a program or performance — it's an overflow → What Jesus meant by "As the Father sent Me, even so I am sending you" — the same mission, not a smaller version → Why God makes His appeal to the world through you — now, as you are, not after you have it all together → The sobering truth of 2 Corinthians 3: people who never open a Bible are already reading your life → A guided encounter to receive your commission from Jesus and bring the specific person He places on your heart into His hands This episode includes a 10-minute guided encounter. Find a quiet place — and come ready to think about someone specific. 📖 Full study with guides: https://tedtalking.life/revealing-the-father 🌐 Website: https://TEDtalking.life

REVEALING THE FATHER: 10 - Abiding in the Father's Presence

You've had real encounters with God. Something opened. Something changed. And then Tuesday came — and the distance crept back in. Not rebellion. Not doubt. Just the quiet drift that happens when encounter doesn't have something to hold it in place. Jesus called that something *abiding*. And it is not a discipline reserved for monks, mystics, or people with uncluttered mornings. It is available to you — right now, in the ordinary, noisy, back-to-back life you actually have. In this episode: → Why encounters reset instead of accumulate — and the one shift that changes everything → What the Greek word *meno* actually means: not a visit, but moving in → Why "pray without ceasing" is a posture, not a performance — and what it looks like on a Wednesday afternoon → What Brother Lawrence — washing dishes in a noisy monastery kitchen — discovered about continuous presence → A guided encounter to bring your specific pattern of drift to Jesus and receive what remaining actually looks like in your life This episode includes a 10-minute guided encounter. Find a quiet place — and then let what you find there follow you back into the noise. 📖 Full study with guides: https://tedtalking.life/revealing-the-father 🌐 Website: https://TEDtalking.life