The God Journey

<div><img width="270" height="170" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.thegodjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/roots.jpg?resize=270%2C170&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-thumb-430 size-thumb-430 wp-post-image" alt="" style="margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.thegodjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/roots.jpg?resize=270%2C170&amp;ssl=1 270w, https://i0.wp.com/www.thegodjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/roots.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=270%2C170&amp;ssl=1 540w, https://i0.wp.com/www.thegodjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/roots.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=270%2C170&amp;ssl=1 810w" sizes="(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px" /></div><p>"Love fulfills the law because it fills us." After a brief conversation about a perspective shift in challenging times and sharing inexhaustible love, Kyle and Wayne discuss finding our fullness in him.  They plough through an article about desire. It turns out humans enjoy getting the thing they desire than having it. The dopamine hit that comes from procuring what's desired doesn't last long, which is why so many are almost immediately out seeking the next new thing. What if the root of our desires is for God himself? Trying to fill that desire with anything else would always fail. Finding our fullness it him would let us live with gratitude and appreciation, no matter what we possess, rather than the constant yearning and dissatisfaction.</p> <p><strong style="font-weight: 400;">Podcast Notes:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://fb.watch/DVHTh7IcmS/">The video recording of this podcast.</a></li> <li> <div><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/a-100000-new-car-wont-make-you-happy-heres-what-will-says-expert-on-psychology-of-money/ar-AA1Rzm9J">A $100,000 New Car Won't Make You Happy</a> - Article Wayne read from</div> </li> <li><em>Just Love</em>, referred to in this podcast, is a book Wayne is writing with Tobie van der Westhuizen from South Africa. We hope to have it available in February 2026.</li> <li><a href="https://www.lifestream.org/lifestream-store/">Lifestream Store</a> with 25% discount through Christmas with the promo code:  Christmas 25</li> </ul>The post <a href="https://www.thegodjourney.com/2025/12/19/the-root-of-desire-1015/">The Root of Desire (#1015)</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.thegodjourney.com">The God Journey</a>.

<div><img width="270" height="170" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.thegodjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/murmuration.jpg?resize=270%2C170&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-thumb-430 size-thumb-430 wp-post-image" alt="" style="margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.thegodjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/murmuration.jpg?resize=270%2C170&amp;ssl=1 270w, https://i0.wp.com/www.thegodjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/murmuration.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=270%2C170&amp;ssl=1 540w, https://i0.wp.com/www.thegodjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/murmuration.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=270%2C170&amp;ssl=1 810w" sizes="(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px" /></div><p>How will the bride of Christ be revealed in the world, especially since she is so fractured into thousands of denominations? Perhaps there is already a parable of that in the Creation, in the murmuration of starlings and the schools of fish. Scientists call it behavioral synchronization, but maybe it is something more. It now seems that for a brief time, starlings and fish become part of an interconnected organism. Kyle and Wayne discuss the idea of "unmanaged community" and how it reflects the organic, spiritual connections among believers. These connections, often spontaneous and unstructured, can be more authentic than human-managed communities. While we get glimpses of it now and then, perhaps the time is coming for a global "murmuration" of believers that comprise the Bride of Christ. Wouldn't that be awesome?</p> <p><strong style="font-weight: 400;">Podcast Notes:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://fb.watch/DVHTh7IcmS/">The video recording of this podcast.</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxfvseECDcs">Murmuration Video</a> - not quite the one Wayne referred to. And <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zjMsvzOsHw">here's another one with music</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zjMsvzOsHw">The Secret of Secrets</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.lifestream.org/product/finding-church/">Finding Church</a> by Wayne Jacobsen</li> <li><a href="https://www.lifestream.org/lifestream-store/">Lifestream Store</a> with 25% discount through Christmas with the promo code:  Christmas 25</li> </ul>The post <a href="https://www.thegodjourney.com/2025/12/12/the-murmuration-of-the-bride-1014/">The Murmuration of the Bride (#1014)</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.thegodjourney.com">The God Journey</a>.

<div><img width="270" height="170" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.thegodjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/suffering.jpg?resize=270%2C170&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-thumb-430 size-thumb-430 wp-post-image" alt="" style="margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.thegodjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/suffering.jpg?resize=270%2C170&amp;ssl=1 270w, https://i0.wp.com/www.thegodjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/suffering.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=270%2C170&amp;ssl=1 540w, https://i0.wp.com/www.thegodjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/suffering.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=270%2C170&amp;ssl=1 810w" sizes="(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px" /></div><p>In a world that seeks to crush us into its mold, having the space to contemplate, explore, question, and grow is a rare and delicious treat. That's where Wayne and Kyle landed today after reading an email from a listener. That thread ran through their other conversation about seeing beyond the home team/away team binary that religion throws at us and how listening to God has changed over the course of their lives. They also discuss how we can better facilitate that space for others instead of trying to cram the breath of the Spirit into a curriculum, presentation, or system.</p> <p><strong style="font-weight: 400;">Podcast Notes:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://fb.watch/DKTYNh2iaX/">The video recording of this podcast.</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.thegodjourney.com/2018/10/26/when-the-maps-run-out-655/">When the Maps Run Out</a> - the podcast Wayne referred to in this podcast.</li> <li><a href="https://www.lifestream.org/lifestream-store/">Lifestream Store</a> with 25% discount through Christmas with the promo code:  Christmas 25</li> </ul>The post <a href="https://www.thegodjourney.com/2025/12/05/finding-the-space-to-explore-1013/">Finding the Space to Explore (#1013)</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.thegodjourney.com">The God Journey</a>.

<div><img width="270" height="170" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.thegodjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/bradnwayneboney.jpg?resize=270%2C170&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-thumb-430 size-thumb-430 wp-post-image" alt="" style="margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.thegodjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/bradnwayneboney.jpg?resize=270%2C170&amp;ssl=1 270w, https://i0.wp.com/www.thegodjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/bradnwayneboney.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=270%2C170&amp;ssl=1 540w, https://i0.wp.com/www.thegodjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/bradnwayneboney.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=270%2C170&amp;ssl=1 810w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px" /></div><p>Kyle's away this week, so an old friend joins in. Brad Cummings was co-host of The God Journey for 700+ episodes, and joined us most recently on #1000. Many of you asked to have him back again, so he joins Wayne for a conversation about equipping people to engage a real presence when they give their hearts to Jesus. Instead of training them to be good Christians, might it be more valuable to help them learn to live from their hearts in growing communion with God? This is the essence of the New Covenant, not to be led by programs and rituals, but to connect to God's presence in them so that they can be drawn into the adventure of following him and find increasing freedom in his transformation.</p> <p><strong style="font-weight: 400;">Podcast Notes:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Sorry, we did not make a video of this podcast</li> <li><a href="https://www.lifestream.org/product/a-man-like-no-other/"><em>A Man Like No Other</em></a>, which Brad talks about on the podcast</li> </ul>The post <a href="https://www.thegodjourney.com/2025/11/28/engaging-god-1012/">Communing with God (#1012)</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.thegodjourney.com">The God Journey</a>.

<div><img width="270" height="170" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.thegodjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/livelovedtilt.jpg?resize=270%2C170&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-thumb-430 size-thumb-430 wp-post-image" alt="" style="margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.thegodjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/livelovedtilt.jpg?resize=270%2C170&amp;ssl=1 270w, https://i0.wp.com/www.thegodjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/livelovedtilt.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=270%2C170&amp;ssl=1 540w, https://i0.wp.com/www.thegodjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/livelovedtilt.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=270%2C170&amp;ssl=1 810w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px" /></div><p>It was a tale of two cities over consecutive weekends that got this conversation going. Wayne shares about his experience with former 2x2 members in the South, and then he went with Sara to their 50th college reunion at Oral Roberts University. As Wayne processes those experiences with Kyle, they find themselves contrasting performative Christianity to a doctrine or program and a transformational journey that comes from an ever-deepening engagement with God's love. As part of that conversation, they read through Psalm 15 as it describes the company of the just, where God wants to make his presence known.</p> <p><strong style="font-weight: 400;">Podcast Notes:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://fb.watch/Du0Qp0svSz/">The video recording of this podcast</a></li> </ul>The post <a href="https://www.thegodjourney.com/2025/11/21/performative-or-transformational-1011/">Performative or Transformational? (#1011)</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.thegodjourney.com">The God Journey</a>.