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The Cosmic Car Wash
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Добавлен 24 янв 2022
This is a podcast about the Kingdom of God and the importance of character transformation in the here and now. The name of the podcast is intentionally ironic because the truth is there is no such thing as a Cosmic Car Wash. What that means is that the Bible never teaches that we enter eternity complete and without further need of Christlike character development. Jesus' whole ministry was a demonstration of who we're created to be and how we are to demonstrate the Kingdom of God in our everyday lives. Thus the slow and painful process of discipleship is absolutely essential for students of Jesus Christ. We're not given the option of just hanging on by our fingernails until God whisks us away to our home in Heaven. Jesus is very soon going to return and reunite Heaven and Earth. Everything will be made new. Because of this, who we are now matters and what we do now matters. This is what we talk about on this podcast. Thanks for joining us!
Eden Is Inevitable
Our discussion today ranges across a spectrum from the way the Bible continues to amaze us no matter how many times we read these inspired and timeless words to how we long just to be as much with Jesus as is possible. However, where we eventually land is that Eden is inevitable. The story God has been telling since the beginning is the only way that this will all turn out. We get to choose what side of the story we end up on, but God gets the final word and that final word is nothing but good, better than anyone can imagine. Thanks for going with us on this journey. You can reach us at info@thecosmiccarwash.com if you want to hear more.
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Deserving or Desiring
Просмотров 4День назад
Somewhere I heard it said once, "In the end, people don't get what we deserve, we get what we desire." On the face of it, when considering this from the Eden perspective, the Kingdom of God viewpoint, I believe it's a true statement. But as we explore this topic further we realized it isn't so binary as it seems at first. And once we pushed into the topic further, it became clear that even God ...
Cultivating Union With Jesus
Просмотров 2814 дней назад
The Kingdom of God is not for spectators and the presence of God is not a vacation spot. Similarly, resilience doesn't happen by accident. It's our union with Jesus that restores our humanity and enables us to be a light in the darkness, that shining city on a hill Jesus spoke of. More than intimacy with Jesus, we are invited into, indeed we are made for union with Jesus. But this union must be...
God n' Stuff
Просмотров 18Месяц назад
Leaning into Jesus as much and as often as we can. Being authentically human. Living our lives like Jesus would if He were us. Jesus' thrilling and imminent return. Join us as we dive into God n' Stuff. We love talking about and living out the Kingdom of God. Of course every day we find ourselves not being fully the people that we want to be, but rather than getting DIScouraged, we are ENcourag...
Where Do We Go
Просмотров 82 месяца назад
We've each got the particular lives we lead. They include our hobbies, our jobs, our families, friends, vacations, and moments that really matter to us. And of course those look different for everyone. What we explore in this episode is how we are each tempted every single day to go to those things for the resilience, rest, and recovery that God wants us to find in Him. We're not talking about ...
What Would Job Do
Просмотров 172 месяца назад
We just finished working our way through the book of Job, one of three books from the Old Testament classified as part of Israel's wisdom literature. Like many before us, and many who will come after us, we have been reflecting on his story. His friends were the worst, God never did explain to Job why he went through everything, and in the end Job was restored from all his suffering. There's a ...
God In The Details
Просмотров 353 месяца назад
We often say in church that no problem is too big or small for God, but when it comes to actual practice, we don't think to invite Jesus into our daily routine. Or, if we think about it, we convince ourselves that He doesn't care. Maybe we've heard someone else say to God (or we've said it ourselves), "God, if you're not busy..." But that's not the God that scripture teaches and that's not the ...
The Resiliency of Renewal
Просмотров 24 месяца назад
Let's be honest, life is a lot to deal with. It has been for as long as we can remember, but especially in the last four or five years it seems like the crazy of the world has been turned up to 11. A lot of time and money are spent on ways to help us find resilience, that ability to get up again each time you get knocked down. Mindfulness, presence, serenity...all well and good. But what do you...
We Belong To God
Просмотров 124 месяца назад
As has become our style, we just had a conversation the way we do about what to do when you don't know what to do. Rick texted me as he often does just to ask, "How ya doin' friend?" The prophet Daniel wrote that in the last days, the spirit of desolation would come on everyone living on the earth. Desolation makes serving God seem like too much of a chore. It wears us out and slighly beckons u...
The Unmoved Mover
Просмотров 135 месяцев назад
It was Aristotle who first used the phrase "The Unmoved Mover." (I didn't do the Google search to learn this till after we recorded so please forgive my ignorance during this episode.) God has always been in the background, working everything together for good for everyone who loves him. He's always been a good Father, standing on the porch, waiting for His wandering children to return to Him. ...
Open Hands, Still
Просмотров 95 месяцев назад
Of all the episodes we done so far, the one that keeps coming up over and over for us is "Living With Open Hands" from April 11, 2022. So, two years later we thought it was time to revisit the topic. Basically, open hands is a way of saying and showing that we're giving everything to God. No grasping for what we think we need to live our version of the good life. No withholding any part of our ...
The Things We Throw Away
Просмотров 86 месяцев назад
Pulling on a thread from our last episode, "Fixed On Eden", today we start with Hebrews 11:40-12:1 and talk about what things we throw away (throw off, cast off...depending on which version of the Bible you're reading) and conversely, what things we embrace. There's numerous examples we can look to in Scripture of people who either threw away sin or threw away "slavery to God" (see Psalm 2. How...
Fixed On Eden
Просмотров 97 месяцев назад
Another entry into the Eden Episodes, today we're talking about what it means to live with the continual expectation that today could be "the day." Jesus said it would be much like it was in Noah's day, as people are going about their ordinary lives, doing what they've always done, He will return and culminate the age. We survey scripture and our own lives in this episode and examine the ways w...
More Warrior Poet Cabbage
Просмотров 17 месяцев назад
Sometimes you just need to do things because it's the right thing to do and not necessarily because it's all planned out from start to finish. Thus we bring you more Warrior Poet cabbage. Catching up with one another, we talk about a range of things from: - Our struggles with duplicity (and God's ensuing mercy and compassion) - The fact that the doctrine of the Rapture is fairly new and not bib...
Conversations In The Dark
Просмотров 68 месяцев назад
We've all had the experience at some time or other of being awakened in the middle of the night to racing thoughts, worries, fears, and just the general sense that things are not okay. It's more than insomnia, though it could be that too. In the last several years there has been a dramatic rise in insomnia across all demographics, but that's not specifically what we're talking about today. So w...
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good topic gentlemen
Good conversation, I thoroughly enjoyed it and you guys made some excellent points!
Cisco, thank you so much for watching and commenting! We're so happy to be able to share the life-changing things that God is showing us. We'd love to hear more what parts impacted you. Keep checking back weekly for new episodes.