Renewing Everyday Podcast by Renew.org

Christmas continues to be where heaven meets earth, continent meets continent, and even where historic enemies meet and become brothers and sisters. Christmas continues to be “good news of great joy that will be for all the people” (Luke 2:10).

The popular follow-up series to The Karate Kid teaches the surprising power of training one person well. 

HOME - Family devotions, bedtime prayers, the memory verses--do they matter in the long run? In this episode, Joanne Kraft answers by telling a story. 

SPIRITUALITY - Have you been living in survival mode, just trying to make it through the day? What can calm our fight-or-flight restlessness and allow us to begin really seeing each other? 

SPIRITUALITY - How do we grow out of apathy toward grace and grow into a gratitude which doesn't feel forced? 

SPIRITUALITY - Do you want your life to be defined by worldly pursuits or by Christian love? One of the foundations of being able to love big is to be able to see your sin as sinful. 

SPIRITUALITY - Jesus-style love is a stubborn love is most definitely not the kind of love that comes naturally. Here's the first of four short prayers that help fuel this kind of love. 

MIND - Moral and intellectual betrayal from Christians makes for unbelievers more often than we would like to admit. 

MIND - What is science's relationship with the God of the Bible? 

MIND - We are told that God should fix our problem of evil...sort of. It's kind of like God is being told, "Please," and then, in the next breath, "No thanks." 

CULTURE - What wisdom could Jesus' parable of the wheat and tares speak into a polarized election year? Quite a lot actually, explains Dr. Michael Patterson in this episode of Renewing Everyday. 

SPIRITUALITY - Some people have trouble seeing love in anything God does, whereas some people see God's love everywhere.

SPIRITUALITY - It turns out that faith can grow exponentially when you're in jail without a Bible. 

RELATIONSHIPS - In a post-Christian culture, people leave Jesus and can even feel morally superior for doing so. What do we do with the agonizing anxiety we feel for people whom the church has loved and lost? 

SPIRITUALITY - Was Satan throwing away his third temptation when he offered Jesus all the kingdoms in the world? Or was there something to the offer which would have been tempting? 

CULTURE - An inland hurricane in Iowa? Yep, and the aftermath is a perfect picture of the 2020 human. 

SPIRITUALITY - Jesus promised trouble. Did He say that in order to depress His followers? Actually, it was meant to give us peace for the future...

RELATIONSHIPS - In this episode by David Young, we learn how Christians are often at their best during times like these. 

CULTURE - It should make us sad seeing something sacred and beautiful melted down into something that is valuable only for its political purposes.

RELATIONSHIPS - Isn't it sad to see Christian friendships implode because of political divisions? Here are 2 questions which could save your friendships and help preserve unity. 

HOME - Fidget spinners were seen as social, fun, and good. Yet they've gone out of style. Could your kid's faith do the same thing? 

RELATIONSHIPS - One would think that social media would be the perfect cure for loneliness, but it isn't working out that way. Loneliness is rising and its effects are devastating. In this post, Jon Sherwood gives an idea which could redeem our screen time.  

CULTURE - There have always been Bible words that have been taboo. The ones we have trouble saying today are very different from the ones they had trouble saying in Bible times. 

CULTURE - There are two very different definitions for the everyday word love. To discover which definition you use, listen to this story of a hard-earned "I Love NY" mug. 

HOME - Most Christian families are missing an everyday practice that we find throughout Scripture, as well as practiced during historic periods of revival. 

RELATIONSHIPS - It's easy to feel paralyzed in times like these--wondering, What can I do? The good news is that Jesus has given us the tools we need to bring healing in this cultural moment. 

RELATIONSHIPS - There’s a glimmer of good news in having multiple problems all at once. 

RELATIONSHIPS - You can be for someone what Ravi Zacharias was for me when I was grading grammar books one afternoon. 

HOME - Kids and adults alike can have trouble fitting together in our minds the idea of a loving heavenly Father who is kind and gentle with the idea of a God who destroys His creation in a flood. How can the same God do both? 

HOME - Have you ever noticed how kids ask the toughest questions? So...where did God come from? In the Bible, He's just always there. But is there a way to explain this without feeling like you're talking in circles? 

MIND - Jesus died on the cross for our sins. Therefore (fill-in-the-blank)? If the only message you get is that God loves us, you might be missing something major. 

RELATIONSHIPS - Is it possible to follow social distancing guidelines but at the same time to avoid isolation? In this post by Dave Clayton, lead minister of Ethos Church, we are encouraged to use this season to go deeper into Jesus-centered relationships. 

RELATIONSHIPS - How do you help someone who has experienced the worst that life has to offer? Learn from a disciple maker who helps young women who have accumulated layer after layer of trauma. 

SPIRITUALITY - For Jesus, did it feel like a set price that automatically covers everything, or did Jesus feel the full cost of each and every one of my sins? 

HOME - My guess is you don't want all this extra family time to go to waste. Here's an idea which could renew your family time and redirect future generations. 

RELATIONSHIPS - With mortality on a lot of people's minds, you may find yourself given an unanticipated opportunity to share the gospel. What will you say? 

SPIRITUALITY - Each day brings plenty of anxieties. What do we do with all of them? In this post by Angel Maldonado, lead minister of The Path Church, we discover that the Bible gives us a very doable plan for dealing with our anxieties. 

MIND - Why doesn't God make it easier for us to figure out the answers to life's important questions? It seems that God must have a different set of goalposts than just getting us to know the things that God knows. There must be something in the process of wrestling and wondering and waiting that matures us.

RELATIONSHIPS - In a culture of outrage, what's the best way to persuade people of important truth? 

SPIRITUALITY - Loving God doesn't come naturally. Jesus knew that loving God can be difficult. So He gave us a very doable and helpful way to grow in our love for God. 

MIND - It's one of the most clearly false statements you'll ever hear. Inside the statement, you will find literally thousands of contradictions. Yet many people believe it. Why? 

HOME - The 3 types of marriages you can build plus a way to renew your marriage. 

RELATIONSHIPS - There is no higher calling than to be an everyday disciple maker. And it can involve steps as simple as drawing a map of a neighborhood, making lists for the dashboard, and doing breakfast with a friend. 

CULTURE - Let's look at some summaries of Christianity which fit nicely into the genre of "bad plot summaries." 

SPIRITUALITY - What in your life isn't helping you along as much as it's trying to boss you around? 

CULTURE - Far from being an indicator of lesser intelligence, here's what a foreign accent should be seen as...

RELATIONSHIPS - In an assisted living facility, it’s not uncommon for people to feel hopeless. But it’s the simple acts of kindness which make all the difference.

MIND - You may not get asked for a square circle, but you will be asked for something just as impossible. 

HOME - May all your trash be taken away, never to be seen again...

CULTURE - Don't let your Christmas turn out like the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special.  

CULTURE - It's a great meme, but how does it do as a model for how you interact with people?