House of Good Courage

11/07/2023

Want to see something in a whole new way? Listen to this podcast about psalm 23. It is much more fascinating and interesting than you think.

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Listen to this episode from The Good Courage Podcast on Spotify. Psalm 23 is one of those songs that we only use at funerals. It is far bigger, wider, and interesting than just being a sweet, treacly poem we read to ourselves to make ourselves feel better. In this text, we'll hear about redemption,...

10/23/2023

Here are some thoughts on a fun passage in Exodus where Moses has a great conversation with some shrubbery.

Listen to this episode from The Good Courage Podcast on Spotify. Let's look at another story from the Hebrew scriptures, the burning bush! We'll walk with Moses as he asks the questions we all ask ourselves. We'll remember signs are all around us, we can't do this alone, and we are the ones we are l...

08/01/2023

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The defining problem driving people out is ... just how American life works in the 21st century.

07/21/2023

God I wait but God I can't wait... right?! Thinking about what to do when you are not where you were but not where you are going yet. We talk about pruning and how waiting sucks, Moravians and vines, being an Enneagram 7, and I have my own personal revelation at the end.

We are in an interesting season of the church. The pandemic has sped up the decline of religious communities across the western European North American landscape. Perhaps this is a good thing. What we might want to do is to work out the problem and try to go back to where we came from but perhaps we...

06/20/2023

A few thoughts on boasting, having two honeymoons, khavod, and why pain is not proof of God hates us but a promise God will be with us.

In this short podcast, I share a few thoughts on one of my favorite texts, Paul's letter to the Romans, in chapter 5, where he talks about boasting in suffering. So many critiques of God are based on the idea that God is some sort of omnipotent, holy goalie, whose job is to manipulate the world so t...

06/19/2023

Because God is love, and to deny love is to deny God, and because I love these humans, and because when you love, this is the highest law. Period. Happy day my sweet friends. I will always be there for you. And happy people.

06/15/2023

Ep 15: What is prayer? In this podcast Jay shares some thoughts about how his own prayer life has evolved from a talking at God with a wishlist and into a listening to God that connects him to the divine presence.

In this part three of our Holy Spirit and spiritual life series, we look at prayer and what it is we are doing when we say we are praying. In this episode, Jay shares three ways in which he uses, wrote prayers, the Lord's, prayer, and centering prayer to focus on the divine presence. Email: TheHouse...

06/02/2023

What is worship and when did I get so judgey?

This is the second of our three part series exploring the Holy Spirit as the presence of God and how we seek this in our worship and our prayer. In this episode we explore what we're doing when we were ship and what it looks like to practice the presence of the divine. We'll talk about hymns we hate...

05/25/2023

Is it God or a bad burrito? Exploring what we mean by the "Holy Spirit"

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The Good Courage podcast is a podcast for a jesus-leaning but not jesus-exclusive gathering of ex-angelicals, spiritually independent, church refugees who desire to walk through the messy work of life and faith together.

05/11/2023

Ever feel like you are connected to something bigger, a greater sense of the universe while in nature? There's a reason for that.

Being in nature has profound effects emotionally and mentally but is also a place to engage our spirituality. For years the western mindset pooh poohed an engagement with nature and creation as at best too woo-woo and at worst heretical. But a new movement is emerging where people are rediscovering....

05/03/2023

Taking a small swing here at what we mean when we use "Father" when we talk about God and how we need to be careful and thoughtful in the language we use for the divine.

What do we do with gendered words for God such as Father and pronouns such as he/him? Relationships we have with fathers is VERY complicated, just look at season two of ted Lasso. So what are we unknowingly giving as attributes to God when we use "Father"? In this episode we talk about how complicat...

04/27/2023

What happens when we stop arguing about whether Jonah was swallowed by a fish and just listen to a story, you discover the real radical message is that God is deeply compassionate, even to those we don't think God should be.

In this episode we take a look at the parable of Jonah and discover that it is far more than whales. We'll talk about what happens when you spend more time worrying about whether something happened and instead focus on what the story is trying to tell us. Email: [email protected] When....