Being Podcast Matt Volkens

Hey There!Welcome to the Being Podcast. Today's podcast is a Monday Meditation. Monday Meditations will be a second release weekly on Mondays and will feature different focus areas than the Thursday Scripture meditation.Today we'll be focusing on the fact that you have value. Thomas Merton said "Prayer does not blind us to the world, but it transforms our vision of the world, and makes us see it, all men, and all the history of mankind, in the light of God." Invite Go...

Hey There!Welcome to the Being Podcast. Today's podcast is a Monday Meditation. Monday Meditations will be a second release weekly on Mondays and will feature different focus areas than the Thursday Scripture meditation.Today we'll be focusing on the fact that you have value. Thomas Merton said "What am I? I am myself a word spoken by God. Can God speak a word that does not have any meaning?” You are made in the image of God, with the breath of God. ...

Hello!Welcome to the Being Podcast. Today we're continuing through Season 4: Love! 1 John 4:8 says that our God is love. Not loving, not super duper good at love, he is love in it’s essence. Love Is unable to exist without the literal adhesion to our God’s character. We can be desensitized to the word love, over this next season we’ll be allowing God and the literal presence of love to reactivate our attentions by giving focusing and meditating on some of the mos...

Hey There!Welcome to the Being Podcast. Today's podcast is a Monday Meditation. Monday Meditations will be a second release weekly on Mondays and will feature different focus areas than the Thursday Scripture meditation.Today we'll be focusing on letting go of expectations. Sometimes we hold onto pressure and stress that no one put on us but ourselves. Sometimes we have to just let go of those expectations. Life happens. That's okay. You can find more ...

Hello!Welcome to the Being Podcast. Today we're continuing through Season 4: Love! 1 John 4:8 says that our God is love. Not loving, not super duper good at love, he is love in it’s essence. Love Is unable to exist without the literal adhesion to our God’s character. We can be desensitized to the word love, over this next season we’ll be allowing God and the literal presence of love to reactivate our attentions by giving focusing and meditating on some of the mos...

Hey There!Welcome to the Being Podcast. Today's podcast is a Monday Meditation. Monday Meditations will be a second release weekly on Mondays and will feature different focus areas than the Thursday Scripture meditation.Today we'll be trying to "fix our thoughts". Philippians 4:8 calls us to fix our thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. This week we'll try do...