🎙️Jesus Company Episode 5/5: The Counterfeit of the Mud

Series: The Stodge of the Soul Subtitle: Discerning Holy Identification from Worldly Conformity

In the final episode of The Stodge of the Soul, we confront one of the most subtle distortions in modern spiritual culture: the idea that shared brokenness is the highest form of Christian authenticity. When relatability replaces transformation, the Church slowly loses i...

🎙️ Episode 4: The Release of the Humble Intercessor

Series: The Stodge of the Soul Subtitle: Stepping Out of the "Fixer" Role and into the Mercy of Christ

Episode Summary: Intercession is not a burden; it is a release. When we stop trying to be the "fixer" and start standing in the flow of what Jesus has already finished, the "stodge" vanishes. Today, we move from the cry of Abel to the better word of Jesus.

Key Scripture (C...

🎙️ Episode 3: The Radical Alteration of Sympathy

Series: The Stodge of the Soul Subtitle: From Righteous Indignation to Spiritual Identification

Episode Summary: To break through the "stodge," we must experience a radical shift in our sympathies. Most of us operate on "natural sympathy," but the intercessor must operate on "spiritual identification"—viewing people through the lens of the Cross rather than our own moral stan...

🎙️ Episode 2: The "Stodge" of Spiritual Stubbornness

Series: The Stodge of the Soul Subtitle: How Our Own "Goodness" Becomes a Wall to Prayer

Episode Summary: We often blame our obvious sins for why our prayers aren't answered, but Oswald Chambers suggests something more radical: the "stodge" is often produced by our virtues. When we think a part of us doesn't need the Atonement, we become spiritually stubborn.

Key Scripture...

🎙️ Episode 1: The Royalty of the New Nature

Series: The Stodge of the Soul Subtitle: Understanding the Incorruptible Seed within the Believer

Episode Summary: In the series premiere, we explore a staggering truth that cuts to the heart of the arrogance often found in our spiritual communities. Why do our prayers feel heavy and ineffective? Before we can address the "stodge" (s-t-o-d-g-e)—that thick, spiritual muck that hind...

🎙️ The Great Social Drift

When Liberty Becomes Lifestyle and Salt Loses Its Savor 🔥🌊

In Part 2 of this series, we pull back the lens to 50,000 feet and examine something bigger than one king… bigger than one church… bigger than one generation.

This is about Social Drift.

Drift rarely begins with rebellion.

More often… it begins with comfort. 😳

What happens when the Church becomes so focused on being relevan...

🎙️ The “Mostly” Obedient Life

Right in the Main… But What About the Particulars? 🔍🔥

What if the greatest threat to your spiritual life isn’t rebellion… but respectability? 👀

In today’s episode, we dig into the sobering story of King Asa—a leader whose spiritual résumé looked impressive on the surface… revival, reform, courage, passion… and yet Scripture inserts one haunting word:

“But…”

He was right in the main…

…bu...

❓Ever feel like your spiritual life is a bit... stale?crunchy?🥪

In this episode, we’re digging under the backseat of our spiritual lives to find out why we often feel dry, anxious, and disconnected. Taking a cue from a hilarious (and slightly gross) true story involving a four-door GMC pickup truck and a half-eaten Quarter Pounder with Cheese 🍔, we explore a powerful truth from Charles Spurgeon: *“Past experiences are doubtful foo...

When life drains you—physically, mentally, and spiritually—what do you hold onto?

This episode is for anyone running on empty. No hype, no pressure—just four anchors to help you steady your mind, refocus your faith, and take the next step forward. 🙏

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🔑 4 Anchors for Exhausted Seasons

💪 1. Grace meets you in weakness

📖 2 Corinthians 12:9

God doesn’t wait for your strength—He works through your weakness.

➡️ Try this: Me...

🚨 FEELING DRAINED? THIS ONE’S FOR YOU. 🚨

The Great Escape: Breaking the Spiral of Self-Consciousness 🌀

In this episode, Kenny tackles the "crushing" weight of modern life—from the pre-Y2K simplicity we've lost to the constant surveillance of "payola" politics and inept leadership. We explore why society forces us into a "spiral of consciousness," where we stop living and start watching ourselves live, leading to an epidemic of depression and the "horror of emptin...

Episode Title: Throwback: What in the World is gwot.rocks? (Season 2, Episode 7) 🚀

Description: We’re going back to where it all began! 🕰️ As we migrate to our new Jesus Company home, we’re revisiting the foundational episode that started a movement of hope in an agitated world.

Recorded in August 2019, this episode is a startling reminder that while the world's pressures have intensified, the "Secret of Contentment" is more powerf...

🎙️ Podcast Title: Coachella, Empty Streets, and the Hunger for Real Community (#28)

📍 Subtitle: 3rd Spaces

This is just one idea of a thousand to put 3rd spaces to work toward encouraging, true, safe, fellowship. The world is starving for real connection.

🔥 What would make 125,000 people stand in desert heat, fight traffic, and pay hundreds just to gather?

Simple: belonging.

In this episode, we explore the deep huma...

Most people think their struggle is what happened to them—but Scripture reveals something deeper: it’s what we do with it afterward.

In this episode, we confront rumination—the cycle of replaying wounds, offenses, and painful moments—and why it quietly robs believers of peace, clarity, and spiritual strength.

Drawing from both psychological insight and biblical truth, this teaching exposes how repetitive thought patterns form, why th...

The tomb is empty.

Jesus is alive.

But what happens when you weren’t there to see it?

What happens when others believe… and you’re not so sure?

In this episode, you step into what we’re calling the “first Thursday”—not a day Scripture names, but the moment when doubt begins to rise after the resurrection.

📖 John 20:24 tells us Thomas wasn’t in the room when Jesus first appeared.

He missed the moment.

He missed the evidence.

And when other...

The stone was rolled away.

The tomb was empty.

Jesus Christ had risen from the dead.

But then… "Monday" came.

What happens after the greatest event in human history? What does the resurrection mean when the moment has passed—and real life keeps moving?

📖 As it says in Matthew 28:6,

“He is not here. For he has risen, just as he said.”

The victory was already won…

But the disciples weren’t celebrating yet.

📖 John 20:19 reveals a surprising ...

📱 🎧 SHOW NOTES

🔥 One Thing | The Focus of the Cross

As we move toward Easter, everything comes back to one moment… one act… one decision.

This episode centers on the foundation of Jesus Company:

✝️ Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.

📖 Scripture teaches that through one man—Adam—sin entered the world (Romans 5:12), bringing separation, death, and fragmentation to all humanity.

But what was broken… God determi...

🔥 Consolidation | A Word for This Season

There are seasons when the right move is not to build more…

…but to pull things in.

To simplify.

To tighten.

To bring everything back into focus.

🧭 This episode is a brief 50,000-foot introduction to a new series launching next week—one that explores a timely and deeply biblical theme:

Consolidation

📖 Throughout Scripture, a clear pattern emerges:

➡️ “One thing is necessary” (Luke 10:42)

➡️ “Lay...

Jesus Company Podcast- Season 1/Episode 22

Title: Take Heed to Your Ways

Key Verse: “I will take heed to my ways.” — Psalms 39:1

This episode is a companion to our Ecclesiastes reflection, offering a modern, practical take on vigilance, prayer, and guarding your heart in a chaotic world. Inspired by a powerful evening devotion from Charles Spurgeon, we explore how Scripture guides us to watch our steps in every situation and navigate...