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Welcome to our new God’s Love for the Unlovable and Gospel Rant series and format. We are calling the series Vagabond Diaries. We want it to be fun, informative, and life-changing—something that you would find valuable to pass on to others and laugh and cry together a bit.   Meet Randall, a good Jew who goes to hear this new itinerant Rabbi on a nearby hillside and it tosses his life upside down. But does he really understand what he was hearing? Do we?  Enjoy! Love feedback, Bill@gospel-app.com. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE or FOLLOW. Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Welcome to our new God’s Love for the Unlovable and Gospel Rant series and format. We are calling the series Vagabond Diaries. We want it to be fun, informative, and life-changing—something that you would find valuable to pass on to others and laugh and cry together a bit.   Today’s Diary is about Yuri, a retired gruff former Russian spy. He has questions for his former nemesis.  Enjoy! Love feedback, Bill@gospel-app.com. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE or FOLLOW. Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Welcome to our new God’s Love for the Unlovable and Gospel Rant series  Vagabond Diaries. We want it to be fun, informative, and life-changing—something that you would find valuable to pass on to others and laugh and cry together a bit.   In today’s Vagabond Diary, we will join breaking news for a Heavenly press conference. We did this a while ago, and thought it would be a good time for an update. Have some fun. Welcome to God’s Love for the Unlovable and Gospel Rant.Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Welcome to God’s Love for the Unlovable and Gospel Rant series and format,  Vagabond Diaries. In the last Rant I shared something special and valuable to you in your Christian walk. I said that ever since the Fall, humanity, all sexes, races, all socioeconomic category, whether you’ve had an easy life or hard, each us is born with a deep relentless drive for one thing. It is how we are made. It is how God wired us. We each long for father. By this I am not referring to a a physical paterfamilias, rather that connection, that space, that feeling that you are in an embrace where you are cherished, appreciated, adored, where someone finds you lovable, lovely and loved, where you know, just know that someone has your back. Those connections are very hard to come by. Ultimately this longing for father can only be satisfied in the embrace of Jesus himself—ultimately in heaven. Truth is that he feels that toward you right now, but your midbrain has been so abused, terrorized and wiring fried b

Welcome to God’s Love for the Unlovable and Gospel Rant series and format,  Vagabond Diaries. Today I want to share something special and I hope very valuable to you in your Christian walk. Did you know that ever since the Fall, humanity, all sexes, races, all socioeconomic category, whether you’ve had an easy life or hard, each us is born with a deep relentless drive for one thing. It is how we are made. It is how God wired us. You will see why in a moment. Unless and until that is satisfied, every day, we will subconsciously at least keep looking for it, be dissatisfied, and more than likely try to get the itch scratched by other counterfeits. Curious? This rant is an excerpt from my latest Tween fantasy book, hot off the press June 2, called The tale of the Orphan Magician. It is the longest and most gutsy book in the entire Kingdom Quest series to-date. Kingdom Quest philosophy is inspired by CS Lewis and his extremely popular and life changing series Chronicles of Narnia. Even though Chr

Welcome to our new God’s Love for the Unlovable and Gospel Rant series and format. We are calling the series Vagabond Diaries. We want it to be fun, informative, and life-changing—something that you would find valuable to pass on to others and laugh and cry together a bit.   Great new yarn about a mysterious woman evangelist in today’s Afghanistan. How do you think her message about the love of God for the unlovable, unloved, and the unlovely will go over with the Taliban?  Enjoy! Love feedback, Bill@gospel-app.com. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE or FOLLOW. Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Welcome to our new God’s Love for the Unlovable and Gospel Rant series and format. We are calling the series Vagabond Diaries. We want it to be fun, informative, and life-changing—something that you would find valuable to pass on to others and laugh and cry together a bit.   Some believe that the oldest manuscript in the Bible is the book of Job. Have you ever read it? It is highly sophisticated ancient Hebrew poetry. The story it tells is frightening and wonderful. What if it would have happened in modern Mexico City? Have fun. In today’s Vagabond Diary, meet Daniela, the daughter of a godly man, Javier. She has quite a story to tell. I hope you enjoy it.  Pass it on.  Enjoy! Love feedback, Bill@gospel-app.com. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE or FOLLOW. Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Welcome to our new God’s Love for the Unlovable and Gospel Rant series and format. We are calling the series Vagabond Diaries. We want it to be fun, informative, and life-changing—something that you would find valuable to pass on to others and laugh and cry together a bit.   Have you heard the story of Hosea? What God commanded him to do? It is strange and troubling. What if it happened again in a modern urban context? You may need to sit down for this one. In today’s Vagabond Diary, meet Booker, a creative play on the life of the Old Testament prophet Hosea. I hope you enjoy it.  Pass it on.  Enjoy! Love feedback, Bill@gospel-app.com. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE or FOLLOW.   Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Welcome to our new God’s Love for the Unlovable and Gospel Rant series and format,  Vagabond Diaries.  I hope that this is a special treat for you. I am in the process of preparing a new workshop for Christian parents called Parent Tips from Middle Earth. I am unpacking the young readers, books of CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien in particular to find things that could help parents in this day and age. You may be surprised how insightful they were. I have spoken and written about it often, but now I am shaping an on-line course. I need feedback from you. Bill@gospel-app.com.   I am convinced that if they were here in your living room, parents, today, they would be pleading with you to get your kids to read more good books. But what are ‘good’ books? I am going to tell you.  In this third show, I will talk about what makes a good fantasy book.  Enjoy Welcome to God’s Love for the Unlovable and Gospel Rant.  Love feedback, Bill@gospel-app.com. PLEASE

Welcome to our new God’s Love for the Unlovable and Gospel Rant series and format,  Vagabond Diaries.    I hope that this is a special treat for you. I am in the process of preparing a new workshop for Christian parents called Parent Tips from Middle Earth. I am unpacking the young readers' books of CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien in particular to find things that could help parents in this day and age. You may be surprised how insightful they were. I have spoken and written about it often, but now I am shaping an on-line course. I need feedback from you. Bill@gospel-app.com.  We will get into neuroscience and attachment theory, but for the most part it is unadulterated gospel through the lenses of these two greats. I am convinced that if they were here in your living room, parents, today, they would be pleading with you to get your kids to read more good books. But what are ‘good’ books? I am going to tell you. For the next three Gospel Rants we will look at the first thre

Welcome to our new God’s Love for the Unlovable and Gospel Rant series and format,  Vagabond Diaries.  I hope that this is a special treat for you. I am in the process of preparing a new workshop for Christian parents called Parent Tips from Middle Earth. I am unpacking the young readers' books of CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien in particular to find things that could help parents in this day and age. You may be surprised how insightful they were. I have spoken and written about it often, but now I am shaping an on-line course. I need feedback from you. Bill@gospel-app.com.  We will get into neuroscience and attachment theory, but for the most part it is unadulterated gospel through the lenses of these two greats. I am convinced that if they were here in your living room, parents, today, they would be pleading with you to get your kids to read more good books. But what are ‘good’ books? I am going to tell you. For the next three Gospel Rants we will look at the first three of se

Welcome to our new God’s Love for the Unlovable and Gospel Rant series and format. We are calling the series Vagabond Diaries. We want it to be fun, informative, and life-changing—something that you would find valuable to pass on to others and laugh and cry together a bit.    In today’s Vagabond Diary, meet Sarah, a modern sketch on one of Jesus’ most favorite healing. I hope you enjoy it.      Enjoy! Love feedback, Bill@gospel-app.com. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE or FOLLOW. Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Welcome to our new God’s Love for the Unlovable and Gospel Rant series and format. We are calling the series Vagabond Diaries. We want it to be fun, informative, and life-changing—something that you would find valuable to pass on to others and laugh and cry together a bit.   In today’s Vagabond Diary, meet Beth, a modern take on Elizabeth in the New Testament. I hope you enjoy it.    Enjoy! Love feedback, Bill@gospel-app.com. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE or FOLLOW. Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Today’s Vagabond Diary, is another excerpt from my recently published book for women, women’s groups, and book clubs Dance Daughters of the Most High! Book 2. As you may have heard, it looks at seven largely underappreciated, misunderstood, and overlooked women in the Old Testament. This lady certainly fits those categories. Meet Huldah. Few people remember her name or role, but it was off the charts important to Israel and us today equally.  Without her, Judah’s valuable societal and religious revival in the 7th century BCE would have been a confusing mess, perhaps even a non-starter. How can I say this more emphatically? Huldah provided the missing voice of God.  My point, Huldah was a true hero and model for Jews and Christians of all times, but more to the point, an enough-heroine for women of all times. To quote William E. Phipps, “A woman was the first to declare Scripture holy.”   Welcome to God’s Love for the Unlovable and Gospel Rant.  &nbs

Today’s Vagabond Diary, is another excerpt from my recently published book for women, women’s groups and book clubs Dance Daughters of the Most High! Book 2. As you may have heard, it looks at seven largely underappreciated, misunderstood, and overlooked women in the Old Testament. This lady certainly fits those categories. Meet Rebekah.  Why is she included in this book on overlooked, misunderstood, and unappreciated women in the Old Testament? She has hardly been overlooked. Few women are more recognizable by any Christian than her. Most of us have heard about the romantic courtship and marriage to Isaac, an ancient Hallmark movie. It is the longest chapter in Genesis.  But then Isaac and Rebekah’s story takes a sharp and ugly turn when she conspires to scam and defraud 132-year-old Isaac for an official blessing for her favorite son, Jacob, whose name ironically means deceiver.  For that reason, many modern Christians hesitate to honor her and the part she plays in the stor

Today’s Vagabond Diary, is an excerpt from my recently published book for women, women’s groups and book clubs Dance Daughters of the Most High! Book 2. As you may have heard, it looks at seven largely underappreciated, misunderstood, and overlooked women in the Old Testament. This lady certainly fits those categories. Meet Tamar. This woman’s story is not widely publicized in Christian circles. There are certain reasons, but are they good ones?  You certainly won’t hear about her in children’s church or on ‘visitation’ Sunday. Honestly, it is a bit of an embarrassment to modern Christians. It feels more like modern reality TV than the high bar for behavior we expect in the lives of Biblical characters, especially the Jewish patriarchs. To make a long story short, Judah slept with his daughter-in-law Tamar, the same Judah who was the famous forefather of King David and Jesus. Then, in the understatement of the ages, he declares,  “She is

Welcome to our new God’s Love for the Unlovable and Gospel Rant series and format. We are calling the series Vagabond Diaries. We want it to be fun, informative, and life-changing—something that you would find valuable to pass on to others and laugh and cry together a bit.   In today’s Vagabond Diary, meet James, a creative play on the Good Samaritan parable. I hope you enjoy it.    Enjoy! Love feedback, Bill@gospel-app.com. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE or FOLLOW. Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Welcome to our new God’s Love for the Unlovable and Gospel Rant series and format. We are calling the series Vagabond Diaries. We want it to be fun, informative, and life-changing—something that you would find valuable to pass on to others and laugh and cry together a bit. Instead of dealing with biblical topics from a scholarly perspective, we are going to shift to telling biblical stories in a new way, insightful ways—we hope--that are both foundationally biblical, relevant, and entertaining. This week we are going to go all the way back to the 1960s, black and white TV for a show for children. Do you remember Leave it to Beaver? Leave It to Beaver is an American television sitcom that follows the misadventures of a suburban boy, Beaver, his family and his friends.  It ran in B&W from 1957 to 1963. You can still watch it on YouTube.  Welcome to God’s Love for the Unlovable and Gospel Rant.   Enjoy! Love feedback, Bill@gospel-app.com. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIK

Vagabond Diaries #18: Bernard  Vagabond Diaries Welcome Back to our new Gospel Rant series called Vagabond Diaries. We are finding fun and creative ways to proclaim the love of God for the unlovable, the unloved, and the unlovely. To accomplish that, we will use every trick in the book: story, drama, satire, comedy, mystery, and even a fun visit to a counselor’s couch to help unpack some biblical truth and application.  You’ll see what I mean. This week, I want to present to you an allegory, a Christian allegory, or more to the point an allegory of Jesus. It's a fresh approach to the singular gospel of Jesus, enjoy.   Enjoy! Love feedback, Bill@gospel-app.com. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE or FOLLOW. Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Welcome to our new God’s Love for the Unlovable and Gospel Rant series and format. We are calling the series Vagabond Diaries. We want it to be fun, informative, and life-changing—something that you would find valuable to pass on to others and laugh and cry together a bit.  This is perhaps the longest and hardest VD I have created to date. I hope it will lead to a great deal of discussion and soul-searching. Let’s get right into it.  In today’s Vagabond Diary, meet intransient and angry Hank as he faces his final judge Jesus.   Enjoy! Love feedback, Bill@gospel-app.com. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE or FOLLOW. Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.