You can, and must, do difficult things in order to die without regret. But He gives grace.
Listen to "Die / Endure / Don't Deny (Hard Things)," the final episode of THE BETTER SONG with Jeff & Steph now.
At the heart of the "song of all songs", and in the center of the Gospel of the Kingdom, is the city of Jerusalem. Your destiny is woven in with her destiny—but everything hinges on the day she sings again "as in the days of her youth," the very day when God Himself will rejoice with singing over her. In the meantime, this "song" protects your heart from the accusations shot like flaming arrows against her—and your—eternal security. Best to begin singing it now.
Listen to "& There They Both Will Sing," Episode 6 of THE BETTER SONG, with Jeff & Steph now.
Perhaps the crux of the story, and certainly a critical feature of the Song of Solomon, is learning to believe what God says about you—to quit arguing with Him about it. If we can receive the better word that washes us, we'll live more like we're meant to. Listen to "God & the Better Wine," Episode 5 of THE BETTER SONG with Jeff & Steph now.
The impetus and inspiration for BALLADS OF THE SONG OF SOLOMON songs like "The Door," "Wild Wind," "Foxes, Weeds, and Jealousy," and more. What is the process He leads us through to bring us to "Death Without Regret"? Listen to "When Jesus Kills Your Pet Sin," Episode 4 of THE BETTER SONG with Jeff and Steph now.
Sometimes His pursuit feels like you're in a little bit of a prison. But that's in the script.
Listen to Episode 3 of THE BETTER SONG, "Hedged In Behind & Before," with Jeff & Steph now.
Perhaps the most audacious lyric in BALLADS OF THE SONG OF SOLOMON, "Jesus, we are gonna dance or fight tonight" raised more than a few eyebrows. Find out why we included it in "Wild Wind," and why it's such a valuable part of our own processes of formation and maturity in God. Listen to Episode 2 of THE BETTER SONG with Jeff and Steph now.
THE BETTER BEAUTIFUL returns with a miniseason swimming through the Gospel of the Kingdom in light of the Song of Solomon, and vice verse. Join Jeff & Steph for the first of seven episodes of THE BETTER SONG. Listen to "The Gospel in Solomon's Song" now, and browse the BALLADS OF THE SONG OF SOLOMON resource library for more.
Jeff and Steph conclude THE BETTER DEATH miniseason looking "Beyond the Cross." Listen now.
Jeff and Steph discuss the paradox of the Cross in this episode of THE BETTER DEATH, our Lenten Meditation approaching Resurrection Sunday.
Jeff & Steph discuss the triumph of the Cross as seen in Colossians 2:15:
"And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in the cross."
Join us for this week's episode of THE BETTER DEATH, a Lenten meditation approaching Resurrection Sunday.
Join Jeff Henderson for this week's meditation on the judgment of the Cross, beginning with John 12:31:
"Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out."
"And when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to Myself."
Meditate on these words of Jesus and the magnetism of His Cross with us this week for our second of seven conversations through Lent.
We begin THE BETTER DEATH, a meditative lingering through this Lent season. Jeff and Steph discuss 1 Corinthians 1:23-24. Listen to "The Scandal of the Cross" now.
We reach the end of the Galatian road in our final episode of THE BETTER FREEDOM. Listen to the season finale, "Courage, Cowardice, and the Cross (Gal. 6:11-18)" now here in the FAI App.
We finish riding Paul's train of thought in this passage and reflect upon the fatigue of doing good works, and bearing good fruit—why it is tiresome, and why we should keep going anyway. Join Jeff and Steph for this week's conversation in Galatians, for one of the final episodes of THE BETTER FREEDOM.
Listen to "The Abject Fatigue of Good Fruit (Gal. 6:6-10)" now here in the FAI App.
As we near the end of Paul's letter to the churches of Galatia, this week's text includes 6:6-10. Jeff and Steph discuss the individual and corporate imperative to live with generosity, and the broader principle of reaping what you sow—and the inability to reap what you haven't sown then demonstrating God's invincibility. "He cannot be mocked." But He also won't leave you hanging if you trust Him, even with something simple like a tank of gas.
Join Jeff and Steph for this week's episode of THE BETTER FREEDOM: "You Cannot Reap What You Do Not Sow (Gal. 6:6-10)." Listen now in the FAI App.
If bearing the fruit of the Spirit looks like bearing the burden of someone "caught" or buckling, and doing so in a spirit of gentleness, the counter-attack of the flesh looks like your pride swelling with the ego of your good deeds. Paul effectively warns us to check ourselves before we wreck ourselves, and "stand alone together."
Listen to this week's episode of THE BETTER FREEDOM with Jeff & Steph now.
"Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." This mighty admonition on the heels of last week's conversation on the "gentle hand of restoration" is not for the faint of heart, but is a beautiful privilege and burden of its own merit for everyone in the Body of Jesus.
Jeff and Steph discuss Galatians 6:2 in this week's episode of THE BETTER FREEDOM, our ongoing season of THE BETTER BEAUTIFUL devoted to the book of Galatians. Listen now in the FAI App.
Perhaps the most offensive and beautiful passage in all of Galatians is the subject of this week's episode: what to do with a member of our faith family when they get "caught" in a transgression. "WWJD?" may well lead us all to scratch our heads in wonder, but "blessed is he who is not offended because of [Jesus]," and there is gold to mine in these hills.
Join Jeff & Steph for the latest episode of THE BETTER FREEDOM. Listen to "The Gentle Hand of Restoration (Gal. 6:1-3)" now in the FAI App.
The narrow way that leads to life is the path of the Spirit that bears the fruit of the Spirit in our interior lives. This week, Jeff and Steph push past the Sunday School familiarity with this passage and Stephanie shares how this always reminds her of the time she discovered she has a crippling fear of heights.
Listen to the latest episode of THE BETTER FREEDOM now.