Gospel Rant

Movement #5. Christian men and woman are longing for real intimacy—we are tired of fake it til you make it, or your role is this and my role is this—just do it, or there are no roles, that should work. Worthy of ongoing dialogue, but the priority is that we, both sexes need healing. On paper, I get it. In the bed and in the heart, they are not working. The SOS shows us why.  “Sex can’t be intimate if you feel like you don’t matter.” The Great Sex Rescue, p. 28 Movement 5 is parallel to Movement 3. It is brilliant poetry. But we get to see an aspect of the Queen that she can no longer keep hidden. When the King Groom finds her, she cannot be vulnerable. She can’t be loved. She can’t love. She can’t have great sex. She can have intercourse—sure, but not the intimacy and closeness that she wants. The watchmen on the wall will not let her.  You can give her a book to read about intimacy, about sex, about true love. But she can’t. She needs a transforming power that rewires her beat up brain.  Point? This is where

Are you tired of just intercourse? Wouldn't you rather intimacy? Looking at Movement 5, the parallel to Movement 3 of the Song of Songs.  The Queen’s problem is not that she is crazy, or disrespectful, or unsubmissive. She needs healing. From year 1, her midbrain has been beat up by disappointing relationships. When the King finds her, and me and you, she cannot be loved, or love in return. There is only one power fstat can begin to heal her issues. The Song shows us what that looks like.Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

We are in Movement #3 of the Song of Songs. The Queen is so messed up and needy when God finds her, finds me today, that she triggers, emotionally dysregulates and runs away from his arms— to the city. It is irrational, it is self-destructive, it is counter everything that she wants and yet, her midbrain is in charge. Do we do that? Have you ever gone through an entire worship service check out? Distant. Hardly plugged in? God is there with you, loving you with all of the love in the universe. The Spirit is in your inner-being and you are largely oblivious. Maybe for a day or week, or month or even years. There is no ’sex’ in that city, only intercourse. Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

What do women want? You do not become whole through legislation. You do not become whole by muscling through insecurities. Even counseling has limitations of what it can do. Women, you want the same thing that men want. Significance, security and belonging. But…nothing has hurt you more than your searching for significance, security and belonging.  We are on Movement 3 of the 7 movement Song of Songs. Somethings don’t change. The Queen bride is alone again and longing for something—she is not even sure what that ‘something is.’ Someone called it a nagging murmur of discontent. Do you know what that is? Sure you do. She thinks she knows, but when the King arrives, her reactionary behavior kicks in and she blows it. More shame, more sense of failure, more reactionary behavior.Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Special Gospel Rant interview with neurofeedback expert Shari Johansson with Grey Matters Neurofeedback. VERY IMPORTANT!! She will be talking about LONG COVID. Did you know that 26 million people in the US are suffering from this by-product of Covid-19, some unaware. Symptoms? Fatigue, Headaches, Attention Disorder, Anxiety, Depression, Sleep Disorder, Chronic pain, Neuropathy, Brain fog/Memory, Mood, Cognitive decline...Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

The pursuing lover groom finds his bride hiding behind a protective lattice work house. Her subconscious imagines that it is a character house. He sees it as a coffin. What is going on in her subconscious to build such a stultifying boundary? The winter rains. Dangerous, overwhelming, and they can pop up in a moment. She has the scars. Women, you are 2-3 times more likely to develop PTSD symptoms than men. Anxiety, sleep issues, weight gain, difficulty trusting others. The winter rains are real. Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Special Gospel Rant interview with neurofeedback expert Shari Johansson with Grey Matters Neurofeedback. VERY IMPORTANT!!  When we do interviews we will post them mid-week. Regular Gospel Rant continue to be posted on Sundays. This could help you or someone you love. In the second interview she will share what she has learned about Long Covid. Did you know that 26 million people in the US are suffering from this by-product of Covid-19, some unaware. Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Shame sucks! It’s not all your fault. This world drains our soul dry at times, in seasons. Movement 2 is about that. When the King-Groom finds his bride, she is hiding behind a protective lattice-work house. Her subconscious imagines that it is a character house. He sees it as a coffin. What might help? You’ll see. Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

You may be very surprised. This is so important to understand. For mass shooters who are aged K-12 this number rises to 92%. For college students who do mass shootings,  the numbers hit 100%. What is it? Is it something that can be changed by legislation? By enforcement of existing laws? Specific gun laws? Check it out.Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

The Song of Songs Novella is an interpretive screenplay of the Song of Songs. In this podcast, Dr. Bill will read Movement #1. Sit back, kick your shoes off and relax. Just let the words walk over you. Let us know what you think. Bill@gospel-app.com. The Song of Song’s Novella is available on Amazon. Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

This is one of those stunning moments in the Bible. The Groom looks at his unlikely Bride and exclaims this to her. It would have taken her breath away. It is a summary of the Gospel. If we could only hear the Spirit, he just might be whispering this to us as well. It is life changing. It is unbelievable. Want to know what it means? Check it out. Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

What does God, the King see when he gazes into the beat-up weary eyes of the Queen? We know that whatever he sees, it does not reduce his love for her at all. That is the gospel. The King loves beat-up, shamed, sinners, the impure, the rejected and isolated.    But what does he see? We are going to use Attachment theory models to help us better understand her struggles to experience his love for her.They are also ours. Make sure that you FOLLOW the podcast wherever you listen to them. Give us a review on Apple Podcast, or Podchaser. Thanks ahead of time.Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Are you aware that we are tragically shaming an entire generation of young women, teenagers, in our churches and youth groups. If they have had sex (whatever we mean by that, or our girls thinks it means), they are stigmas in the eyes of God and bad. Linda Kay Klein, author of "Pure", describes it this way, "The purity message is not about sex. Rather, it is about us: who we are, who we are expected to be, and who it is said we will become if we fail to meet those expectations. This is the language of shame.” The Song of Songs pushes against the consequences of such a message. There is a powerful love that can begin to heal the shame. There is a God who truly does love the unlovable, who loves the shamed, even the impure. We can show such a beat-up woman how to enter that embrace—as she is. Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

This podcast is an important one-and-out message that could just change your life. D. Martyn Lloyd Jones said, “Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself? Take those thoughts that come to you the moment you wake up in the morning. You have not originated them, but they are talking to you, they bring back the problems of yesterday, etc. Somebody is talking. Who is talking to you? Your self is talking to you. Now this man’s treatment [in Psalm 42] was this: instead of allowing this self to talk to him, he starts talking to himself. “Why art thou cast down, O my soul?” he asks. His soul had been depressing him, crushing him. So he stands up and says, “Self, listen for moment, I will speak to you.” I agree—BUT...for we Christians, there are not just two options, either Stop Listening and start talking. There is a third. We can talk the gospel to our midbrain. That is what we are all about. What does gospel-talking t

In this podcast, we being to look at the Song of Songs text. The first four verses represent a poetic prologue, on the one hand, but practically, they are the after-story of the Queen. Here’s is what the queen looks like after being transformed by the love of the King. There is no greater presentation of the gospel of the love of God for the unlovable than the Song of Songs. We are in desperate need of such a transforming love—not just for Heaven, but even today, tomorrow and the next day. This is a picture of what the love of the King can do to even one so traumatized as the Queen. Make sure you follow and give us a good review. Thanks ahead of time. Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Here are two other important reasons why I think that this “Prophetic Marriage Gospel” approach best fits with the important Old Testament book. We will look at how the Jews have traditionally used the Song. Also, we will take a look at how contemporaries have heard the Song of Songs. Have you heard of the Love Songs of Shu Sin? Well you should. Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

I have three reasons why I think that this “Prophetic Marriage Gospel” approach best fits with the important Old Testament book. We will look at the first one. The metaphor of God marrying an unworthy bride is one of the most common metaphors of God’s salvation and redemption in the Old and New Testaments. Why have we overlooked it in this case? Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Is there a godly eros? Now we are going to start stepping on toes. But the answer is ‘yes’. Eros, intimate love—that includes but does not require physical sex— was not created after the Fall. It was around from the beginning. You may be surprisedSupport The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

There are a dozen ways to interpret the Song of Songs, but they fall into two broad camps. While they share many differences, they also share a common underlying philosophy that is borrowed from the Ancient Greeks and Romans—not the Bible. Curious???? Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Per the CDC, 42% of teenagers are experiencing persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness. That is up 50% from 2011. Nearly 60% of women and 70% of LGBTQ+. We can blame some of that decline on Covid. But I am suggesting that most of it is due to an increasing sense of celestial loneliness. This is why the Song of Songs is so relevant and critical. We are in a crisis of isolation and sadness. Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.