The God Journey

Episodes

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  With You, God Is Pleased!

  5/25/2012

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  Both the cruelty of the world and the conformity demands of religion teach us to live inside a shell of our own self protection and only present to others the illusion we think they want to see. Shame and fear combine to make us feel lost and isolated in the world, unable to be who [...]

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  The God With Us

  5/18/2012

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  As Wayne recovers from his recent trip to Russia and Holland, Brad joins him for a discussion of his trip. They talk about Wayne’s perception of the Russian people he was with, the unique challenges of their culture, and their passion to learn to live loved in a culture where only a very small slice [...]

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  In Russia With Love

  5/11/2012

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  From St. Petersburg Russia, Wayne talks with his hosts, Michael and Susan Simpson as they share a bit of their journey that engaged a former K-State women’s basketball player to the people of Russia. They describe the current climate in Russia and what God has done to change their mission from trying to engage people [...]

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  A God-Filled Nobody, Part 2

  5/4/2012

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  Wayne continues his conversation with John Beaumont from last week. John Beaumont is the author of A God-Filled Nobody, and numerous other books about our freedom to live in the revelation of Jesus and has traveled throughout the world encouraging others on this journey as well. Now retired he lives in Rotorura, New Zealand. In [...]

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  A God-Filled Nobody

  4/27/2012

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  During Wayne’s recent trip to New Zealand, he spent a day with John Beaumont, author of A God-Filled Nobody, and numerous other books about our freedom to live in the revelation of Jesus. John is one of those pioneers whose passion for God helped unmask the conventions of religion that do more to restrict our [...]

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  Repentance That Works

  4/20/2012

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  Following up on a conversation Wayne and Kent Burgess had over the weekend about repentance, and how their view of it has shifted greatly from their old days of religion, they reconnected to record some of that for others. They used to see it as wallowing in guilt and shame and making well-intentioned, though impossible, [...]

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  Sharing Another’s Journey

  4/13/2012

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  The previous podcast began to explore what it means to share someone else’s journey, even if its not the journey you’d prefer them to be on. Wayne asked his wife Sara to join him for a further look at the things God has taught them in their own marriage and to answer some of the [...]

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  The Simplicity of a Loving Life

  4/6/2012

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  Brad is back in the podcast studio as he and Wayne sort through the last few weeks of not seeing each other and catch up a bit on Wayne’s trip to New Zealand. Sorting through the mail bag and blog posts they read one of the best blog posts ever, and then find themselves talking [...]

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  The Life of a Pilgrim, Part 2

  3/30/2012

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  Part 2 of Wayne’s conversation with Jack Gray, a Scottsman who has resided in New Zealand for almost 50 years. They continue their discussion from last week on the life of the church and Jack’s journey to find the church Jesus is building, rather than the one man is building. They talk about a Swiss [...]

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  The Life of A Pilgrim

  3/23/2012

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  Meet Jack Gray, a native of Scotland, surgeon in the Congo in the 1950s, doctor and hospital administrator in New Zealand, and a life-long, passionate follower of Jesus. Wayne met up with Jack during his recent visit to New Zealand, where Jack and his family have lived since 1965, and encouraged him to reflect over [...]

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  The God Journey #353

  3/16/2012

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  Just because something is wonderful and God-filled does that mean we should expect it to be permanent? This is our 353rd podcast and the completion of our seventh year sharing our conversations with the world. As Wayne and Brad take a look back and celebrate the incredible journey they have had together over those years, [...]

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  The Myth of Managed Spirituality

  3/9/2012

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  Crawling through recent emails, Wayne and Brad share and comment from other people’s journeys and how they are being transformed in God’s life. That brings up such recent podcast topics as how we view and treat women, spiritual authority, and our attempts to change others through preaching principles are destined to fail. For centuries our [...]

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  The Love of a Father

  3/2/2012

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  Wayne’s just back from the Fort Worth area of Texas and in sharing some of that with Brad they end up talking about finding our security and freedom in the affection of a loving Father. Unfortunately religion teaches us to live out of our heads by finding and following a set of principles or doctrines [...]

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  Don’t Should On Me

  2/24/2012

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  There are two different conversations in this podcast. The first is about not shoulding on ourselves or others, spawned by a t-shirt that were given to Brad and Wayne. That doesn’t mean there aren’t wonderful ways to live that God has revealed, but that conformity through obligation is a very different process than God uses [...]

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  In the Midst of Pain

  2/17/2012

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  Do we have to go through suffering to be shaped by God? Prompted by a question on a blog comment, Brad and Wayne talk about the tension between finding God’s presence in the midst of our troubles and difficulties, and thinking God brings suffering in our lives to teach us something. While God does not [...]

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  Passive Follower or Active Participant?

  2/10/2012

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  Brad and Wayne couldn’t find a slot to record a podcast this week, but Wayne had some visitors in town over the weekend who are long time friends and frequent listeners to The God Journey. Watching their lives grow in joy and freedom over the last decade, Wayne gleans lessons from the journeys of Kevin [...]

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  Your Sense of Belonging

  2/3/2012

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  It’s Super Bowl week in the States and a little romp about football turns into a wider discussion about God’s intervention in sport and recreation and why people get so connected to athletic teams that they go through days of depression if their favorite one loses. Could it be a result of God wiring us [...]

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  Seeing People as People

  1/27/2012

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  Brad’s been listen to the relationships versus religion raps on YouTube and Wayne’s been reading Tattoos of the Heart and the two converge in a lively discussion about how we view people. Do we treat others as individuals and love as people even if broken or lost, or do we see them through the grid [...]

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  Relationships First

  1/20/2012

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  Charlie shares a wonderful story about how this podcast has opened some doors at his work. Then Brad and Wayne interact with other emails about creating community that offers a safe environment by putting relationships first, as a family does. Too many times a genuine move of God gets curtailed by those who seek to [...]

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  Living Truly

  1/13/2012

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  Wayne and Brad revisit the Spiral of Silence Podcast through comments and emails received about it. This time the focus is on our response to this phenomenon that makes us care more about what others think of us than we do living truly. How do we help create a safe place for ourselves and others [...]