The Crowbar Massage Podcast
Forays into Culture, Politics, and Religion meant to provoke you to think deeper, expand your understanding, and better equip you to engage the world around and within you. It's commentary like an Eastern bloc massage, Olga is there to help you, but sometimes it hurts.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 40
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Leviathan in Job 41
A dramatic reading of one of the most cryptic beasts in the Bible. Many speculate on just what or who Leviathan is but in this reading, I just wanted to let the text be heard for itself…
Wardens of the West
Don't listen to the 'Bad Report' about the land. There are attitudes that influence your actions in this hour. Men today need to be stirred by voices like Caleb and Joshua of Israel, B…
Don't make it difficult to turn to God
My thoughts on being a pastoral presence with those who are turning to God, particularly LGBTQIA individuals. A look at Acts 15 and the implications on helpful and meaningful ministry w…
Dante on Sexual Sin: Part 3
In Dante's Divine Comedy there are people in hell and heaven who were involved in heterosexual and homosexual sin. Understanding what the Bible teaches about sexual sin is critical to l…
Dante's Inferno Canto 15: On homosexuality part 2
In this podcast I look at Act 10 and Acts 15 and how the Apostle's had to figure out how to handle all these pagans getting filled with the Holy Spirit and getting baptized. What now? H…
Dante's Inferno Canto 15: On Homosexuality part 1
Dante deals with homosexuality in The Inferno and Purgatory in surprising ways. In this episode I explore how his discussion about the sin, punishment and purification of sexual sin is …
Escaping the Siren: encouraging words from Dante on dealing with lust and temptation
In Purgatorio Canto 19 there is a profound and provocative dream that Dante has that I think provides a lot of help to anyone struggling with the sins of the flesh, temptations, pornogr…
Dante's Inferno Canto 6
We make our way into the 3rd level of the Inferno and we encounter the mythic beast Cerberus who's an embodiment of the multi-headed sin of gluttony. Join me as we explore the many ways…
Dante's Inferno Canto 5
The second level of Hell is for those given to the sin of incontinence...no, it's not that, its the old world idea of those who have a 'lack of self-restraint' or allow their reason to …
Dante's Inferno Canto 4: The Nobel Castle
Canto 4: I discuss the opening lines of the Canto that describe Dante's physical experience of the supernatural world. We dig into the citizens of the 'rim' of Hell or Limbo where the "…
Dante's Inferno Canto 3: The Choice of not Choosing
The Sad Souls that we encounter just pass the Gates of Hell are those who were neither Rebels or Faithful. We live in an era where indecision is the preferred decision, the mushy middle…
Dante's Inferno Canto 2: The Hero's Journey: Refusal of the Call
Everyone who is called to some kind of adventure, challenge, change or new endeavor will wrestle with courage. Many come to this point and talk themselves out of following through on th…
Dante's Inferno: Canto 1
Dante is lost in the dark wood of his midlife. He's facing beasts that want to devour him and he's in deep need of a help. So begins the epic journey of the Inferno. A poem that confoun…
Parenting Prodigals
LeeElla and I share our story about the challenges and opportunities discovered in parenting prodigal children. With the recent surrender of our eldest son to Jesus, we thought we would…
A Blessed Defeat: the testimony of Frederick and Jules coming back to Jesus
"Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat." -C.S. Lewis
Keys to your Prison
This is a sermon I preached at the Union Gospel Mission Men's Shelter on April 11th, 2023. Aaron LeBlanc gives the intro reading. There's some significant keys to experiencing the freed…
JWC Podcast: Alliances
Sermon Supplement: King Solomon's Alliances and how we get out of step with the Holy Spirit in our lives.
Baptized, Filled or Full of the Holy Spirit?
There's a lot of confusion about the work of the Holy Spirit in the Church and a lot of it comes from failing to talk about the work of the Spirit in biblically clear ways. In this epis…