When You're Still Living Like a Servant Instead of a Son - Galatians 4:7

When the Trouble Won't Go Away - John 16:33

Jesus ends his last conversation with his disciples in the upper room with a sentence that holds both sides of reality at once. He does not deny the trouble. He holds it alongside something larger. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monoingles.substack.com/subscribe [https://monoingles.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

When You Need to Remember What Jesus Actually Came to Give - John 10:10

There is a version of the Christian life that has been reduced to restriction. A list of things not permitted. A thinning of life rather than an expanding of it. So it is worth sitting with what Jesus actually said he came to give. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monoingles.substack.com/subscribe [https://monoingles.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

When You Are Scared to Hope Again - Romans 5:5

Hope is one of the most fragile things we carry. We have hoped before and been let down. And so Paul's claim lands with surprising force — this hope does not disappoint. And the reason why changes everything. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monoingles.substack.com/subscribe [https://monoingles.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

When You Feel Like You're the Only Thing Holding It Together - Colossians 1:17

There are moments when everything feels as though it might come apart. Not always dramatically. Sometimes just the quiet accumulation of things that are not resolved. Paul places one of the most extraordinary statements in the New Testament right into that feeling. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monoingles.substack.com/subscribe [https://monoingles.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

When You Need to Be Sent Into the Day With God's Blessing - Numbers 6:24

These are among the oldest words in the Bible. Older than most of the psalms. Older than the prophets. Three thousand years of use in worship, and still they land with the same weight. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monoingles.substack.com/subscribe [https://monoingles.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]