Finding Our Way

James and Larry
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"Join James and Larry on a heartfelt journey in 'Finding Our Way.' In this engaging podcast, they explore the goodness of God, the love of Christ, and the message of reconciliation. Dive into meaningful conversations about faith, God's nature, and the beauty of His grace. Tune in and be part of the ongoing conversation – the party has already started!" Larry and I ride the backroads of Louisiana or Arkansas and discuss the things Papa has been sharing with us. The show is aired on the Grace Awakening Network Channel/GAN on ROKU. And now on Amazon Fire, Android TV, and Apple TV. You can also watch...ON DEMAND at www.gantv.com or you can listen on most podcast platforms. Thanks for listening in and feel free to reach out to us at www.findingourway.co You can also find some of our stuff at https://www.youtube.com/@FindingOurWay-co "From one man he created all the nations throughout the whole earth. He decided beforehand when they should rise and fall, and he determined their boundaries. His purpose was for the nations to seek after God and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him—though he is not far from any one of us. For in him we live and move and exist. As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’" ACTS 17:26-28 NLT Listen to our theme song here...https://rss.com/podcasts/findingourway/2001173/

  1. Becoming Fully Human EP115

    3d ago

    Becoming Fully Human EP115

    From the transcript... All right, this might be good too because I’ve got a star by it: “The Word through whom all things were made enters into the very fabric of creation—human flesh—to renew it from within.” We didn’t think much about that. I mean, five years of seminary, growing up in church—we didn’t really sit with the weight of the Incarnation. There wasn’t much meditation on it. If it came up, it was mostly used as proof: He was sinless, He was perfect, the Son of God. But not much beyond that. And if I’m honest, the way it was often summarized went something like this: God became a man so He could avoid a sin nature, fulfill the law, and have a body that could die. Almost like the Incarnation was just a necessary step toward the cross—a means to an end. But when you slow down and really look again… that feels painfully small. Because what’s being said here—what the apostles are actually seeing—is something far more sweeping, far more intimate. The One through whom all things were made doesn’t just visit creation—He enters into it. Fully. Personally. Not to stand outside of it and fix it from a distance, but to renew it from within. That changes everything. It means the Incarnation isn’t just about qualification for sacrifice—it’s about union. It’s about God stepping into the depths of our humanity, not to bypass it, but to fill it. To heal it at the root. To bring it back into its true life in Him. I think of how Paul speaks in Colossians—Christ holding all things together—and then that same Christ taking on flesh. It’s as if the One who has always carried creation now carries it from the inside. And suddenly, the story isn’t just about getting us somewhere else someday—it’s about God meeting us here, in the middle of what we are, and restoring it from the inside out. There’s something deeply hopeful in that. It means nothing human is beneath His reach. Nothing in our story is outside His ability to enter, to touch, to renew. And maybe that’s what was missing before—not the truth that He is sinless or divine, but the wonder that He has drawn near this completely. That He has joined Himself to us, not temporarily, but in a way that reveals our origin and our destiny in Him. Not just God becoming a man so He could die… …but God becoming human so humanity could live.

    28 min
  2. A Flowing Fountain EP114

    May 18

    A Flowing Fountain EP114

    From the transcript... I want to talk to you about Colossians, because in Ephesians 1 it says… when you read that, what did you say? Verses 15–16—that’s where Ephesians 1 comes to mind. Yeah, verse 15–16. We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God’s original purpose in everything created. Right there. Because he keeps bringing us back to that original purpose in Ephesians 1—chosen in Him before the foundation of the world. It all started there. And now we see that fullness revealed in Christ the Creator. So He’s coming into His own creation—a creation He already has a relationship with. The apostolic vision of Jesus Christ as Creator is that He continues to uphold all things and give life to all. That’s who He is. That’s what He is. And that’s the One who becomes a man. Let that settle for a moment. The One who holds all things together steps into the very world He is holding. The Life of all life breathes our air. I’ll stay in Colossians, but let me read this. What version are you using? Same idea—I’m going to read from the Mirror Translation. Colossians 1:15: “In Him, the image and likeness of God is made visible in human form in order that everyone may recognize their true origin in Him. He is the firstborn of every creature.” Come on. There’s something deeply grounding here. Paul isn’t starting with sin—he’s starting with origin. Not with separation, but with source. Christ doesn’t arrive to begin something new in the sense of God reacting—He reveals what has always been true in the heart of God. It echoes like a quiet refrain from Ephesians: before the foundation… in Him. And it reminds me of those opening lines in John’s Gospel—“In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.” The life we’re awakening to isn’t foreign to us. It’s not imported from the outside. It’s the very life we’ve always had our being in, now unveiled in Christ. So when we look at Jesus, we’re not just seeing God—we’re seeing ourselves as we were always meant to be, held in Him from the beginning.

    28 min
  3. The Womb Of Creation EP113

    May 11

    The Womb Of Creation EP113

    From the transcript... We do the same thing. We just repeat the pattern over and over, but we're not seeing what's happening—that Jesus came to break that pattern and to give us a different way of living. But normally we gather up in our Christian circles and we justify living under what Christ came to give us. That’s right. Because we say, “We’re just down here in this old sinful world.” And in doing that, we start explaining away something less than the life Jesus came out of the tomb to give us—resurrection life. What is that life? It’s full—full of purpose, full of joy, full of hope, full of love. There are things in this world that cannot affect resurrection life, cannot defeat it, cannot hinder it. And that’s what we’re waking up to—or what we need to wake up to. It’s the life that is already in us. It’s the Spirit of Christ. He is Lord. So it’s about becoming aware and learning to live from that reality. He goes on to say, the law always ended up being used as a band-aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it. That’s a good way to think about it—it never dealt with the root. And now what the law asked for but couldn’t deliver is actually accomplished as we, instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us. That’s it. The law is about performance, earning, striving—you’ve got to do. But in Jesus, it’s grace. It’s a gift. He’s already done it. We receive it, and we learn to live in the enjoyment of it. Two completely different ways of relating, and two completely different ways of living.

    28 min
  4. The Arrival EP112

    May 4

    The Arrival EP112

    From the transcript... Oh man, that was a good breakfast. Always is. Yeah—good, steady kind of place. Nothing flashy, just consistent. Good food, good service, familiar faces. Something about sitting there, coffee in hand, not in a hurry… it does something to you. Slows things down a bit. Looks like the whole town’s out today. Oh, they’ve got a big garage sale going on—up and down the road. One of those “main to main” kind of deals. Folks scattered everywhere, tables set up, people digging through things, looking for something they didn’t even know they needed. It’s funny how that works. You see a crowd like that and it almost pulls you in—makes you wonder if there’s something out there you’re supposed to find. Maybe we stop, maybe we don’t. Maybe we just keep driving and watch it pass by. I like that old Bronco, though. Something about it—worn, but still carrying a story. You can almost feel the miles in it. You doing alright? Yeah… just getting settled. Got to be comfortable when you’re looking out the window. There’s something about that posture—just looking out, taking it in. Not trying to control anything, not trying to make something happen. Just present. Honestly, moments like that feel a lot like what we were just talking about earlier. Learning to live from what’s already been given, instead of always reaching for something else. Like sitting at the table after a good meal—you’re not striving anymore. You’re just… full.

    28 min
  5. Reflections In The Mirror EP111

    Apr 27

    Reflections In The Mirror EP111

    From the transcript... Jesus is the crescendo of God's conversation with us. He gives context and content to the authentic thought that God had in mind for mankind is voiced in him. Jesus is God's language. His name declares his mission. As savior of the world, he truly redeemed the image and likeness of the invisible God and made him apparent again in human form. The God who gave you birth is your father. Jesus is God's language. His name declares his mission. He's his savior. Yeah, Jehovah saves. The destiny of the Logos was not the printed page, but you. Yeah. Yeah. The word became flesh and dwelt in us. Among us, what the English says. But the word is in. Yeah, the Greek preposition's in. It's just a revelation of what's always been. That's where I am. I ain't going to argue with nobody about it. But you can't exist without it. Yeah. A mirror can only reflect the object. Likewise, the purpose of the page was only to reflect the message, which is Christ in you. Oh, I see it right there. That's what was hidden for ages and eternity past. What? Christ in you. That's right. If it was hidden for ages, was it always there? It had to be if it was hidden. Oh, yeah. That's such a mind-blowing, veil-lifting, light-shining, piercing-the-darkness revelation. Yeah. It was always true. We just couldn't see it. We didn't believe it. We were looking in the wrong place for it, looking in the wrong direction. We're looking out here. Had the wrong perspective. I mean, yeah. Simply put, as a human being, I can only see basically one direction. I cannot see what's behind me. So there could be, I don't know, there could be anything behind me. I can't see it. I know it's a real simple thing, but it was as if Adam turned away from God, and when he did, he could not see. He had no ability to turn back around. I don't know if that's the right way to say that or not. Well, he could. And Jesus came and turned us back around. He saw us in the darkness, wandered, failing to remember. Yeah. Well, okay. There's some language in Scripture. Though it's there, it's not in my history has never been an emphasis of things because the emphasis has always been on You're a sinner. You're judged. You're guilty. And you know it. And here's how bad it is. And here's the punishment. And here's what you need to do. And here's what you need to do. Yeah, that seemed to be the drum that got beat. And then there's the language of, like you mentioned, Eve was deceived. Yep. Okay. So there's deception language. And it's in other places in the scriptures that we're deceived, which is a different thing. I know Adam was willing in his transgression. I've had that drum beat. But how about the deception that we're under and that the whole world is under about who God is that we're deceived?

    28 min
  6. Beloved Union EP110

    Apr 20

    Beloved Union EP110

    From the transcript... Well, it's because we believe that we were far from love and that heaven had turned his face. We believe that sin had slammed the door on grace and left us feeling displaced. Yeah. But could a father, son, and spirit whose bond no dark can sever create us in communion's flame, then cast us off forever? In other words, is God out of this love relationship, face-to-face-to-face, communion with himself, wants a big family, doesn't set it up in his son? He creates us. Is He going to create us to throw us off forever? Not the Father, Son, and Spirit. Not the one I know. No, the one that we know hung on a cross and said, Father, forgive them. Yeah. Well, I keep going back to that idea that we want to make God in our image instead of realizing we're made in His image. Yep. Because this is how we do, that's how God's got to do. I'm going to run out of patience with you, so we think he's going to run out of patience. He don't run out of patience. I'm only going to be in relationship with you as long as you do like I think you ought to do. Act a certain way. Walk a certain way. Believe a certain way. If you don't, then we're not going to be friends. You're not going to be my child. Yeah. Well, and then, okay, I have to admit, in this world system, you go to work and you've got to perform in order to get paid. But that's this world system. And then we want to take this world system, created by our fallen minds, and put it upon the kingdom of God and the way God is. That's right. That he's not going to provide or bless you if you don't do some mysterious something or other. Yeah. Yeah, that's lie. Yeah. Religion. I like what it says here. The cross was not a bridge for God as if he went away. The cross revealed his great desire, love's greatest grand display. He was never separate. From us. If you go to hell, David said, I'm there. If you go into Hades, you're already there. How are you going to get away from God? The Lord told me that years ago. I mean, it's been over 23, 24 years ago when the Lord said, show me and help me understand. I can't get away from Him. I mean, really, where am I going to go?

    28 min
  7. Lifting The Veil EP109

    Apr 13

    Lifting The Veil EP109

    From the transcript... Oh, we’re finding our way through this wild life. His love shines brighter than the brightest light. 2 Corinthians 3:18—so you’re being changed into the same image. As we behold Jesus, He transforms us into what He is. We begin to awaken to the reality that we are joined to Him, one with Him, complete in Him. We’re in union—a life-giving union. But we don’t really understand what that means until we see it in Him. And that’s when transformation begins. The word there is metamorphosis. It really comes down to not only how you see, but what you see. Because how you see is like that veil—your perception. You can be veiled. And then, what are you actually looking at? One thing I’ve noticed in my own life is how my perception of people has changed. That’s where the rubber meets the road—I look at people differently. When Jesus was teaching about prayer, He gave what we call the model prayer—some call it the Lord’s Prayer: “Our Father…” In it, He says, “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us,” or some variation of that. And when He finishes, that’s the only part of the prayer He comments on. He essentially says, “If you don’t forgive others, your Heavenly Father will not forgive you.” Two things stand out to me there. First, how you understand the nature of the Father will shape how you interpret what He just said. Because some people see the Father as a legalist—a judge saying, “Oh yeah…”

    28 min
  8. Not Like Moses EP108

    Apr 6

    Not Like Moses EP108

    From the transcript... We ended up turning into a restaurant. Somebody else turned in, I turned in behind them, and then somebody was backing out in their parking spot. So it hung us out—I was sitting sideways in traffic. They stopped for me. Then I got to a four-way stop. The truck was straight across from me, but the intersection wasn’t a perfect square—it was kind of offset. The truck across from me started coming through. If he had his blinker on, I didn’t see it. I just thought he was going straight—he probably didn’t have one on. So I went right, and he laid on his horn. I mean, he was about to T-bone me. He did hit me. He wasn’t too happy with my driving. He should’ve had his blinker on… well, if he did, I didn’t see it. I don’t know. “That’s where I used to live, James.” “Really?” “We should stop and remodel that house. Take some pictures, add some commentary.” We’re at an All-Star. I remember one time right here—Sally said something to me, and I reached back and slapped her. As soon as I did it, I thought, What have I done? From that day on… And that’s how we often think God is—like He reacts to our mess the same way. “Oh yeah, I’m gonna get you.” But the more I hear my Father’s heart… the more I hear His voice… I realize I can leave all that stuff out there. Just sit down and rest in the relationship that Jesus has forged for us. Not to mention—it all started before time, in Christ. It did. And time is just revealing it. This unfolding plan of God that brings Him great delight… Yes, and much pleasure. I do love that language in Ephesians 1—the unfolding plan. It’s reconciliation. It’s a bringing back.

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"Join James and Larry on a heartfelt journey in 'Finding Our Way.' In this engaging podcast, they explore the goodness of God, the love of Christ, and the message of reconciliation. Dive into meaningful conversations about faith, God's nature, and the beauty of His grace. Tune in and be part of the ongoing conversation – the party has already started!" Larry and I ride the backroads of Louisiana or Arkansas and discuss the things Papa has been sharing with us. The show is aired on the Grace Awakening Network Channel/GAN on ROKU. And now on Amazon Fire, Android TV, and Apple TV. You can also watch...ON DEMAND at www.gantv.com or you can listen on most podcast platforms. Thanks for listening in and feel free to reach out to us at www.findingourway.co You can also find some of our stuff at https://www.youtube.com/@FindingOurWay-co "From one man he created all the nations throughout the whole earth. He decided beforehand when they should rise and fall, and he determined their boundaries. His purpose was for the nations to seek after God and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him—though he is not far from any one of us. For in him we live and move and exist. As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’" ACTS 17:26-28 NLT Listen to our theme song here...https://rss.com/podcasts/findingourway/2001173/

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  • Creator
    James and Larry
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    113
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Finding Our Way