Podcast: Download (43.7MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSSBeautiful Outlaw Chapter 17:  Letting His life fill yours.mp3 Excerpt from Participant’s Guide: If you were to choose one word to describe the movement of Jesus through his three stunning years of public action, what word would it be? The word I choose to describe Jesus is life. Pure, lush, exuberant Life. Life that proves to be unquenchable, unstoppable, indestructible. Now for a wonder of wonders—not only do you get Jesus, you get to live his life. Really. There seem to be two basic reactions when sincere folks encounter the beautiful, scandalous life of Jesus: I can’t […]

Podcast: Download (17.2MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSSBeautiful Outlaw Chapter 16:  Letting Jesus be Himself Encounters.mp3 Excerpt from Participant’s Guide: We should expect to encounter Jesus anytime, anywhere, everywhere. Such a simple and profound thought. Anytime? Anywhere? Everywhere? What does this truth stir up in you? Hope? Joy? Comfort? Fear? Anxiety? Be open to the ways Jesus wants to come to you. Don’t insist it be in exactly the way he comes to someone else. This artist is infi nitely creative. Don’t let someone else’s remarkable encounter with Jesus diminish the beauty of what you know of him. Hold fast to the treasures you […]

Beautiful Outlaw Chapter 15:  Clearing away the Religious Fog Excerpt from Participant’s Guide: The way a person gets angry and what they get angry about is a real clue to who they really are. So—what about Jesus? What really fries this gracious, humble, immensely patient man? If you will simply read the Gospels without bias, you cannot come to any other conclusion but that religion is the enemy—or in the hands of the enemy. Every hostile encounter Jesus has is with very “churchy” people. This spirit is the great enemy of our life with God, and it is this spirit that Jesus warned […]