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Hey friend! Thanks for spending time with me today! This podcast is my collection of teachings, poetry (should probably do more of that lol) and conversation starters about life and God and how those things fit together. I've been deeply impacted by the story of Jesus and want to help others discover him too! I hope that together we can experience a deeper, more real, more complex, and more transforming story. Thanks for going on the journey with me as I discover, grow, learn, and experience God's story as mine! I hope this podcast acts as a conversation. I would love for it to spark more conversations with your friends, family, and me too! So please reach out on social media @chrisjwil about how the story has impacted you. I really believe that God wants to speak life into all of our world's. Whether you do or don't believe in God, follow Jesus, or somewhere in between. This is a conversation EVERYONE is invited to, and I hope that Jesus speaks life to us all!

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God with us. Us with others.

2025/07/23

What leads to a lasting faith that actually makes a difference to the world around me? If you're a Christian or exploring faith, you've probably asked that question before. And the Bible tells us that we can know God in a way that goes beyond just knowing about him, when we experience the love of God made visible in the person of Jesus! Because the gospel can't just truth to know, it’s a love to be experienced!

A prayer to know love ...

2025/01/01

One of the simplest truths that can change everything in your life is that Jesus loves you. But so often that stops at knowing the fact, but in this passage Paul prays that it would move to experience that fills us to the fullness of God.

Encounters with Jesus

2024/07/14

Not everyone who met Jesus left changed ... that might not be what you expect at first, but it's true. We can encounter Jesus, get to church, do "God stuff" but it is the posture of our heart that either rejects Jesus or opens us to encounter Jesus in a life changing way. Jump in as we explore what a heart posture of "faith" really means and why it's the opposite of a heart that is biased, self-righteous, or cynical...

Light of the World

2023/08/07

Are you afraid of the dark? Light and dark are core to the human experience. And Jesus shows up saying, "I am the light of the world." What does he mean, and does that have anything to do with my life? When we encounter Jesus as the Light of the World we begin to move from Hiding to Revealing, from Lost to Followers, and from Fear to Courage. Let's explore John 8:12 together!

Why Camp Matters

2022/08/01

Why does so much life transformation and faith formation happen at summer camp? I think it is because God gets our attention through his word, his community, and we experience the fullness of life beyond the four walls of a church! Come hear some stories from the summer!

Living Between

2022/04/25

If Jesus really did get up from death, how do I live in that new reality? If we only talk about the resurrection on Easter, we might miss the central, radical power of the gospel to transform everything in our life! Before you watch/listen, go to www.bibleproject.com and watch the eternal life video!

The Gift

2022/02/08

There's some words that become so "churchy" that they lose their meaning. But a lot of times, "churchy" words aren't religious at all, but have powerful meaning for revealing how God meets us in real life. This week we explore the idea of grace and how it flips the whole world upsidedown through the message and life of Jesus.

Mark 5: A Renovation of the Heart

2021/11/11

This is the fifth message in a youth series, "Unexpected Jesus". This week we explore one of Jesus' main teachings on what he thought he came to do: to deal with the problem of evil by going to the heart of the problem.

Mark 4: The Turning Point

2021/11/11

This is the fourth message of our youth series, "Unexpected Jesus". This week we hit the turning point in the book of Mark as we are challenged to ask "who do I think Jesus is?" and are challenged to a different view of what it means to win in life.

Mark 3: Listening to Love

2021/11/11

This is the third message in a youth series called "Unexpected Jesus". We all have expectations of who Jesus is and what he thought he was doing, but in this series we are setting aside our expectations and letting Jesus show us who he really is! This week we explore Jesus' parables, stories with a purpose, and find out that for those who really hear, there's an invitation to a life-changing experience with the love of God.

Mark 2: Blind belief

2021/11/11

This is the second message in a youth series called Unexpected Jesus. We all have expectations about who Jesus is and what he thought he was doing, whether we are religious or not religious. But Mark wants to invite us on a journey where we drop the expections and instead really experience Jesus as the hero we really need. This week we explore 4 stories of people who had encounters with Jesus and how it changed their lives (or not). Through these people we see that faith isn't blind belief; faith is letting go of our expectations and letting Jesus be exactly what we need.

Mark 1: An Unexpected Journey

2021/11/11

It's a series! This is the first episode in a youth series called Unexpected Jesus, as we journey through Mark's gospel and ask "who is Jesus"? We all have expectations about who Jesus is and what he thought he was doing, whether we are religious or not religious. But Mark wants to invite us on a journey where we drop the expections and instead really experience Jesus as the hero we really need.

The Best Story Ever

2021/08/09

Today we explore the question, "what did Jesus think he was up to?" -- through Jesus' parable in Matthew 13:31. Because the story Jesus invites us into is the story of the king and his kingdom!

Fragile: Jesus and the experience with suffering

2021/04/22

Do you ever feel like life is falling to pieces? Or even just feel the cracks forming in the dream life you pictured you'd have. Whether it is diagnoses, depression, or disappointment, all of us will (at some point) experience what it is like to be fragile. So does that mean God has abandoned us? The message of a lot of popular Christianity is that when you believe the right things about Jesus, God will bless you. But the story the Bible tells is different. It is one where our cracks reveal a greater hope, and where the breaking becomes the place where we experience Jesus and our suffering transforms into our hope!

Know your enemy: youth message

2021/02/21

Life is a battle and it can feel overwhelming, but the battle for life isn't won by the strongest, but by the one who knows who their enemy is and where it attacks! And the power of Jesus' cross is the way to victory over the enemy.