Bill Vanderbush

Reclaiming the Citadel of Your Soul

Every one of us has been given three powerful servants. You can ignore them but you can't get rid of them entirely. They were never meant to be our masters. They were meant to minister to you and serve you. Yet in many Christian lives they have staged a rebellion and now sit on the throne that belongs to Christ alone. In this podcast you'll learn three key areas of life that we all must learn to govern well.

The Slapstick of Salvation

God spends all of history chasing us with the balloon of grace and the styrofoam baseball bat of a vindicating judgment. If you really grab ahold of the grace of God, you'll discover that he really ruins all of our religious trauma with joy. And so he refuses to let our fear define him anywhere else than in our own twisted imaginations.

Undignified

David’s life, worship, and tabernacle all point to Jesus—the greater David who brings the Ark (God’s presence) into human hearts through His cross, opening Zion’s eternal glory to all who trust Him.

The Greatest Mystery of the Gospel

The greatest mystery of the gospel isn’t just that Jesus died for you. It’s that He lives in you. You’re not running after a God who's avoiding you. He’s made His home in you. Paul’s not pointing to a distant heaven. He’s revealing that heaven’s reality is already inside you because of the cross. This is why Paul’s so important today. He shows us that union with God isn’t a future hope. Iit’s your now reality.

When Christ Sat Down

The incarnation is the time and place in all of eternity where God and man meet, and find union in Christ. Jesus reveals God as Father, and unveils the truth of not only who God is, but the truth of who we are as his sons and daughters. So the revelation of God as Father unveils our identity. If you don't see God as Father, you'll never truly know your identity. So now, when we come to God, do we come in the law-based ideology of approaching God, in the style of the Levitical priesthood of the Old Covenant? I think a lot of people do, but the invitation is for us to know God through the mediation of our great high priest, who is Jesus Christ, according to a completely different order than the Old Covenant.