The Surge Podcast

How do we navigate a world where people are constantly harming us?  

Text is James 2:8-13. We zero in on the importance of playing the mercy we’ve been shown in Christ forward to others who don’t dese…

Isn’t it normal and right to have favorite food, favorite teams, favorite clothes, and favorite people?  

Text is James 12:1-9. It’s all about the horrors of favoritism. God doesn’t play favorites: he…

What impresses God and what doesn’t?      

James 1:26-27 is the text. God hates external piety with a poisonous tongue, angry bickering over lesser theology, rituals devoid of spiritual reality, man-…

Can being a Christian improve your luck?  

When we say someone is “lucky” what we usually mean is that they are fortunate. The biblical term for that is “blessed.” James 1:21-25 gives us some great in…

If the bible is ok with expressing righteous anger, why am I getting called out for my temper?  

It’s about tempering our temper. We’re to be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger. Too ofte…

Why do I do things sometimes that, in hindsight, are clearly counter to my own best interests?  

It’s all about temptation.  Bottom line:  when we screw up, we’ve got no one to blame but ourselves. It…

Is my net worth really just the value of the stuff I own?

James, writing to a dispersed community of Christians who have lost most everything, encourages them to find their vet worth is what God says…

Habakkuk 3

Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in th…

Why Doesn’t God Do Something? Habakkuk 1:1-17

We see injustice, or evil, or sickness, or a society gone wrong, a holocaust or an orphan and we ask the question - where is God? Why does He allow this …