Episode 9 - Recorded 4/30/2025

Prayer is more than words, it’s a way of living. This chat explores how constant prayer shows up in everyday life, from practicing patience in traffic to resisting frustration with scam calls. Along the way, the conversation turns to the strangeness of Revelation, the story of Balaam, and the warnings to the Nicolaitans. Are angels and demons too unbelievable for modern minds, or is dismissing them part of the deception? At the heart of it all is the question of discernment: how do we know what God is asking, and do we trust we have the strength to do it? Confidence grows step by step, and the refining work of prayer reminds us that God doesn’t wait for perfect before moving in our lives.

This talk attempts to trace the mystery of God’s fire and light, how resistance creates heat, how Christ’s eyes of fire in Revelation burn away what cannot last, and how love flows when we stop resisting. Along the way, they explore Paul’s possibly misunderstood words on “submission,” the difference between Hebrew’s concrete poetry and Greek abstraction, and how our language has shaped both faith and confusion.

They also reflect on A.T. Still and the birth of osteopathy, the innate wisdom of the body, and the danger of losing faith and healing to pure reductionism. Topics arise like Henrietta Lacks, and the humility to admit what we don’t know, wrestling with theodicy, faulty assumptions about suffering, and the truth that the world is wonderful and made terrible only by human choices.

The conversation keeps circling back to love as light: unseen, yet the very thing that lets us see. Healing isn’t something we send but something we rest in, letting God’s presence do what only it can.

Miracles aren’t really about healing. They’re about faith.

In this episode, Josh and Geoff talk about how God uses signs to shape hearts, build trust, and draw people closer to Him. They explore the reality of modern slavery and human trafficking, the way wealth and consumption create illusions of freedom, and how the Gospel of John is deeper than the ocean, an invitation to discover who we are in God’s story.

The conversation also turns to miracles as lessons rather than performances, hearing God with the heart instead of the brain, synchronicity that feel like fire, and the unexpected ways grief and loss can refine faith.

In this episode of Love for the Unseen God, hosts Josh and Geoff revisit their recent appearance on J Brown’s Yoga Talks Podcast to explore a provocative question: Why do we gender God? They consider the historical, cultural, and ethical implications of predominantly male imagery for God in different tradition—especially for people who may have experienced harm in religious or secular contexts.

In this continuation of their conversation on distance healing, hosts Josh and Geoff explore the mystery of prayer, presence, and God’s nearness. They reflect on how healing across distance is woven into the very fabric of faith—because every prayer is, in some sense, an act of trust beyond what we can see.

Through stories of personal experience, humor, and theological reflection from non-theologians, they wrestle with questions of discernment, pride, and what it means to receive grace rather than manufacture it.

In this episode of Love for the Unseen God, hosts Josh and Geoff reflect on the struggle between self-focus and becoming truly other-focused. They share how God uses everyday moments—whether on an airplane or in a checkout line—to draw us into love and connection.

Josh and Geoff share stories about prayer in unexpected places: a simple blessing on an airplane, or a quiet prayer in a far-off land for someone in need that actually brings relief.