Love for the Unseen God

Episode 16 - Recorded 6/18/2025 A reflection on what it means to truly see what's already present—God's movement, the quiet unfolding of miracles, and the subtle shifts of awareness that only become clear when the heart opens. The conversation travels through infinity, consciousness, and the limits of perception, revealing how often the mind tries to grasp what only the heart can recognize. Stories of healing, surrender, and unexpected clarity become a lens for understanding prayer in a deeper way: how easily fear disguises itself as devotion, and how truth creates the space where grace can actually reach us. Along the way, themes of testimony, discernment, and the lifelong process of awakening weave together into a reminder that spiritual insight doesn't arrive all at once—it grows, accumulates, and slowly reveals the sacred that has been right in front of us the whole time.

Episode 15 - Recorded 06/12/2025 Welcome to a conversation about how the mind's search gives way to the heart's knowing. Like the ancient and holy ritual of immersion in the mikveh, the pool where living water enters only when a single brick is removed, this dialogue explores how we learn to remove the brick within the heart, opening it as a vessel ready to be filled once its quiet barriers are set aside. From questions about "settled science" to stories of baptism, discernment, and the fear of being unworthy, the conversation follows the movement from thought into presence. It asks what it means to know "in your knower," to listen with the body, and to recognize those rare moments when time dissolves, when you enter blessed time: the moment when Sabbath ceases to be a day and becomes a state of being, when time itself disappears in the presence of God and there is love beyond measure.

Episode 14 - Recorded 06/08/2025 The story of leaving the garden never really ended... it just changed forms. We still reach for knowledge over wisdom, control over communion, self-importance over surrender. This conversation moves through the many ways that fall continues: in science, in religion, in our own restless minds. Yet through the inversion runs a thread of mercy, and the possibility that even our confusion is the path back home. Beneath the calm surface of life, unseen currents shape everything we believe we control. This conversation traces those hidden movements—how the human mind turns faith into fear, science into certainty, and love into something to earn.  

Episode 13 - Recorded 05/25/2025 This episode moves from the fading voice of conscience to the rediscovery of something higher within everyday life. It reflects on how a culture that replaces God with ego and distraction leaves the soul searching for meaning, and how a simple inner directive — "Go make the coffee" — can become a doorway back to peace. Through stories of silence, humility, the conversation explores the difference between believing in the sacred and living it. What begins as a discussion of the mind's need for moral grounding unfolds into a meditation on awe, presence, and the quiet holiness hidden in daily acts: the passion of ordinary living. It's a conversation about finding God in the silence, and about learning that the passion of spiritual life may be nothing other than the passion of living itself.

Episode 12 - Recorded 5/21/2025 This conversation explores what it means to hear God not in thunder or fire, but in the quiet voice within.  How does one move from belief as a mental construct to faith as a living experience of the heart. Topics explored range from surrender, humility, and the practice of "getting out of your own way," to how letting go of control opens space for divine presence to move. There are stories of pain, awakening, and unexpected grace, glimpsing how even suffering can become a doorway to peace. There is a gentle invitation to listen to the whisper that has been speaking all along.

Episode 11 - Recorded 5/15/2025 Have you experienced a heart-based knowing that reveals truth beyond the mind's reach? This discussion attempts to touch into this question and more. For example, what might the purpose of stopping one's mind actually be? What might it mean to share faith without proselytizing? Without demanding another's experience of God be just like yours? There is discussion around how true spiritual transformation comes not from argument but from the quiet radiance of peace and love. Geoff tells a story of a missionary who spent decades in India without a single conversion, illustrating that one's role is, at most, to "introduce" others to God, not to sell Him. There is exploration on the topics of wealth, intention, energy, and the ways people sense authenticity. The episode concludes with a reflection on fear-based religion, particularly the invention of eternal hell, and a call back to the mystics' experience of love as the ultimate truth.

Episode 10 - Recorded 4/30/2025   This discussion explores one of life's hardest questions: Why does a loving God allow suffering? From Job's ancient trials to the temptations of Jesus on the temple, the problem of evil, the role of free will, and how suffering becomes a test of faith. Along the way, they reflect on mindfulness, miracles, and Revelation as a coded message of hope challenging the idea that we live in hell, and instead pointing toward discernment, love, and resilience.

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.

Episode 8 - Recorded 4/23/2025 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.

Episode 7 - Recorded 4/23/2025 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, synchronicities that feel like fire, and the unexpected ways grief and loss can refine faith.