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“There’s even more to ‘grace.’” 9/5/08. Is it possible we’re stilling framing the idea of grace within an Old Covenant mentality? Is there more Jesus is offering us than pardon?

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Special Guest, Jim Robbins — interviewed on Family Room Media’s weekly podcast. 8/20/08. Topic: Jim’s new book, Recover Your Good Heart. The promise of the Gospel goes beyond forgiveness to the promise of a new heart. God must rescue people at the level of the heart. This is why you already have a new goodness, new power and new desires. — Thanks to Bob, Dave and Loren at Family Room Media.

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“Rescuing the Heart” - 10/29/07

Jim reads excerpts from his upcoming book, Recover Your Good Heart. Is the Church really giving people the cure we claim to have? Or, are we busy managing externals?

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” A Better Way to Relate to God - part two - Better Assumptions” 9/6/07

Many of us have been taught to relate to God with wrong assumptions — particularly assumptions about the heart (will, spirit) of a Christian. For example, are we really “Just sinners, saved by grace?” Are we really “prone to wander?” Jim continues to explore some more accurate, hopeful assumptions Christians can have about their heart as they relate to God.
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“A Better Way to Relate to God” - part one 8/26/07

Assumptions will either kill or bring life. Like medical doctors, church leaders operate under certain assumptions about people’s central disease, as well as the presumed cure they need. What if we’ve got that course of treatment wrong? (If we were really getting the cure/treatment right, our churches would be filled with healed and whole individuals — not perfectly, but substantially. And that’s not what we see.)
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“What Have You Been Told?” 3/22/07

Many Christians have been told that the heart is “deceitfully wicked.” (Jeremiah 17:9) Is this true of Christians as well? Do you believe that your heart if still dark, disobedient and not to be trusted?
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“Your Stories-Guest Interview-Keith Stanton”
These are excerpts from an interview I did with a good friend, Keith Stanton, in which we describes his journey to faith and subsequent disillusionment with simplistic believing and easy answers after more than twenty years. His journey moves from external religious props to internal security. Note especially what the church’s message was to Keith about the nature of his heart - even after having become a Christian.