Beyond Scripture 🙏🏻

Juan Leon

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/oraciones-mas-podero What if the biggest questions about God… were never fully answered? 📖 This podcast dives deep into the mysteries of the Bible, exploring the questions many think—but few dare to ask. From the nature of Jesus to the reality of suffering, from faith to doubt… nothing is off-limits. ⚡ Here, we go beyond tradition, beyond assumptions, and beyond surface-level beliefs—seeking truth with honesty, depth, and courage. 🙏 Whether you’re a believer, a skeptic, or somewhere in between… this is your space to think, question, and discover.

  1. 5月21日

    The One Who Knew Everything and Came Anyway

    Most of us have a version of ourselves that we have never shown anyone. Not the version we present at work, or at church, or at family gatherings where the lighting is good and the conversation stays at a comfortable depth. Not the version that appears in photographs or in the stories we tell about ourselves to people we want to impress. I mean the version that lives below all of that. The one that knows the full inventory. The one that remembers not just the mistakes that were made by accident but the ones that were made deliberately — the choices that cannot be explained away as ignorance or immaturity, the decisions that were made in full clarity and pursued anyway. The version that carries the specific weight of being known completely — and that believes, at some level it has never been able to fully argue itself out of, that if the people around you ever saw the whole picture, the relationship would not survive it.

    16 分鐘

  2. 5月20日

    The Four Who Tore the Roof

    There are moments in a life when you cannot get yourself to Jesus. Not because the distance is too great. Not because the theology is too complicated. Not because the faith is entirely gone. But because the condition you are in has made movement impossible. The paralysis is real — and I do not mean only the physical kind. There is a paralysis of grief that pins a person to a bed they cannot rise from no matter how sincerely they want to. There is a paralysis of depression that makes the simplest act of reaching feel like a feat of engineering that the body and mind refuse to cooperate with. There is a paralysis of accumulated failure — the specific immobility of someone who has tried so many times, in so many directions, to get somewhere better, and has landed in the same place so consistently that the trying itself has begun to feel like a form of cruelty they are inflicting on themselves. The mat is real. The ceiling is real. The crowd between you and the door is real. And you are lying there knowing that the one thing that could change everything is in the same room as your impossibility, and you cannot close the distance between them.

    15 分鐘

  3. 5月19日

    The Weight of the Unopened Letter

    There is something that happens to a person when they receive a word they were not ready to receive. Not a difficult word. Not a harsh word. Not a correction or a rebuke or a piece of news that requires grief. I mean a good word. A word of promise. A word that arrives with the full weight of divine intention behind it and lands in the life of someone who, for reasons that are entirely understandable given what they have been through, cannot hold it. Cannot process it. Cannot integrate it into the story they have been living because the story they have been living has not left room for this kind of word to make sense. And so what happens — quietly, without drama, without any conscious decision to reject what was offered — is that the word gets set aside. It gets stored somewhere. It lives in the memory as a thing that was said but not yet inhabited, a promise that was given but not yet claimed, a letter that arrived and was acknowledged but never fully opened.

    15 分鐘

  4. 5月16日

    Nobody Asked Him To

    There is a kind of grief that has stopped asking. It is important to distinguish this from the grief that is still in conversation with God — still crying out, still wrestling, still bringing the weight of what is broken to the place where it might be addressed. That grief is loud and it is honest and it is, in its own painful way, still alive to the possibility that something could change. What I want to talk about today is a different kind. The grief that has gone quiet. The grief that has done the interior calculation — has counted the number of times it asked and was not answered, has measured the distance between what was prayed and what arrived, has looked at the landscape of its own loss with a clarity that is indistinguishable from despair — and has concluded, not in anger but in exhaustion, that the asking is no longer something it can sustain. It has not stopped believing, exactly. It has simply stopped expecting. It has learned to carry the loss without bringing it anywhere, because bringing it somewhere requires a hope that the years have quietly used up.

    15 分鐘

  5. 5月15日

    What the Fig Tree Knew

    There is a season in every life when you are producing leaves but not fruit. And the terrifying thing about that season is how convincing the leaves are. They are real leaves. Green, full, properly shaped, arranged on the branches in exactly the way leaves are supposed to be arranged. From a distance — from the distance at which most people view your life — everything looks healthy. Everything looks alive. The canopy is full and the branches are strong and the tree is doing what trees are supposed to do, which is stand in its place and look like a tree. And so people pass by and nod and move on, because there is nothing about the exterior that signals a problem. The problem is invisible from the outside. It is only visible up close. It is only visible to someone who comes near enough to actually look for fruit. The story of the fig tree in Mark chapter eleven is one of the most unsettling moments in the entire Gospel narrative. Not because of what Jesus did — though what He did is startling enough — but because of what the tree's condition reveals about the particular kind of spiritual failure that is hardest to diagnose and hardest to address. Not the failure of collapse. Not the failure of open rebellion. Not the failure that announces itself through visible damage or broken branches or a tree that is clearly dying. The failure of a tree that looks exactly right from a distance and has nothing to offer when you get close.

    14 分鐘

  6. 5月8日

    The Posture of the Long Defeat

    There is a way that long suffering changes the body before it changes anything else. Not just the physical body — though it does that too, in ways that are visible and measurable and impossible to argue with. I mean the body of the self. The posture of the interior. The angle at which a person has learned to hold themselves in relation to the world after enough years of carrying something that was never supposed to be permanent but has been permanent so long that the distinction between the condition and the person has become genuinely difficult to locate. You look for where the suffering ends and the self begins and the border has dissolved. You cannot tell anymore what you would be like without it, because you have been shaped by it for so long that the shape feels original. The bent feels like the spine.

    18 分鐘

  7. 5月6日

    The Man Who Climbed to Watch

    There is a particular kind of longing that has learned to disguise itself as detachment. It is not the longing that presses through crowds or cries out from roadsides or tears open rooftops. It is quieter than that and, in its own way, more complicated. It is the longing of a person who wants something deeply but has constructed around that wanting a set of reasons — intelligent, well-sourced, entirely defensible reasons — for why full participation in the thing they want is not available to them. Not because the desire is gone. But because the history is too tangled, the reputation is too established, the distance between who they are and who they would need to be to walk through the front door is too great and too public and too well known to everyone in the vicinity for the front door to feel like a realistic option. And so they watch. They position themselves at a careful, elevated remove from the thing they most want and they tell themselves that watching is enough. That proximity without participation is a reasonable substitute for the real thing. That the view from the tree is almost as good as the ground.

    17 分鐘

  8. 4月30日

    The Man Who Refused to Unsee

    Not during it. Not before it. After. When the extraordinary thing has happened and the dust has settled and the people around you have had time to process what occurred — and some of them have decided, for reasons that have everything to do with their own interests and very little to do with your experience, that it would be more convenient for everyone if you would quietly walk back what happened. Soften it. Qualify it. Introduce enough doubt into your own testimony that the people who are threatened by it can exhale and return to the version of reality they were comfortable with before your life became inconvenient evidence of something they cannot control.

    16 分鐘
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https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/oraciones-mas-podero What if the biggest questions about God… were never fully answered? 📖 This podcast dives deep into the mysteries of the Bible, exploring the questions many think—but few dare to ask. From the nature of Jesus to the reality of suffering, from faith to doubt… nothing is off-limits. ⚡ Here, we go beyond tradition, beyond assumptions, and beyond surface-level beliefs—seeking truth with honesty, depth, and courage. 🙏 Whether you’re a believer, a skeptic, or somewhere in between… this is your space to think, question, and discover.

資訊

  • 創作者
    Juan Leon
  • 活躍年代
    2025年 - 2026年
  • 集數
    25
  • 年齡分級
    兒少適宜
  • 版權
    © Juan Leon
  • 節目網站
    Beyond Scripture 🙏🏻
  • 提供者
    Juan Leon pajuelo

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