Dave Herrick on resting in God
- How do you approach God in prayer without sounding phony or feeling like you are talking into a tin can?
Dave Herrick (named on-air) describes how God has been 'turning his prayer life upside down': instead of ending the day checking plans and to-do lists, he now asks God what to do and whether he can take his rest. He recounts asking whether he could go 'play' instead of work, and how, in bouts of anxiety, peace comes not from asking God to remove the fear but from fixing his eyes on God's character. The others riff on the difficulty of prayer, self-deprecation before God, and the 'Jesus Santa' false image. Mid-segment the KTIA radio broadcast signs off while the podcast continues.
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Point one: 'it causes panic, not calm' — pushed back
- What verse comes to mind after that opener?
The article's first claim — Satan's voice causes panic while God's brings calm — gets rejected: Moses panicked, Jesus sweated blood in Gethsemane, and in the temptation of Jesus the obedient path was the anxious one.
From No. 492 · Show Me The Toes
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Justice, force, and a time for war
- What does God consider just, and where is the line for acting on behalf of justice?
Stepping back from the punch debate, the hosts frame the underlying question: what does God consider just, and where does acting on behalf of justice begin?
From No. 90 · February 27 2012
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Ponds, not wells: the peace that stays
Ben develops the ponds-vs-wells metaphor: the things people chase — money, sex, identity, emotional self-knowledge — are ponds, not deeper wells, and 'they both look the same from the surface'; you have to wade in to your waist and go 'well crap.'
From No. 603 · Found Out
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Stephen's martyrdom, hospice peace, and the book of Job
Dan, drawing on his years as a hospice chaplain, points to Stephen being stoned in Acts 7 and to the Holy Spirit-given peace he has seen in dying believers versus the anger he observed in the dying without faith: 'people die the way they live.'
From No. 556 · A Christian Mid-Life Crisis