Awestruck Podcast is a hero’s journey to the center of you. Have you ever been awestruck? We were meant to live in this transformed state of attention, not just long for it or experience it rarely. It is the real. It is what makes you real. To be spellbound, captivated, filled with wonder, held in aesthetic arrest, awestruck. It is in this state of wonder that we find our ability to find ourselves. To be real. And to accept real truth that transforms us into everything we long to be.
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Garish, your caricature Perish the fair at your Ceaseless libations and Peace-less privations Absent, your poets While present - all-know-its Whose knowing is depth-less Ne'er sensing the breathless All wonders surceasing Misunders e’er fleecing You of your true nature For what? Nomenclature Flatlander, look up. Definitions took up And away founts …
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You brought music back into the house. I had forgotten. These are the words spoken by Captain Von Trapp in the 1965 musical The Sound of Music. He utters them to Fralein Maria moments after his miraculous transformation from angry and militant to warm and joyous. And it all happened because he heard his children singing in the house - singing he ha…
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“The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.” — Psalm 19:1Por Awestruck Church
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“What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?” — Psalm 8:4Por Awestruck Church
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“For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” — 1 Corinthians 5:18 “Blown Away” words and music by Matt Crocker, Aodhan King & Joel Houston © 2022 Hillsong Music Publishing Australia CCLI: 7193473Por Awestruck Church
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“Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.” — Luke 14:27 (NOTE: There is no recording of the service from Sept. 30, as that was a worship service with no sermon.)Por Awestruck Church
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“As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive.” — Genesis 50:20Por Awestruck Church
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“When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint.” — Genesis 32:25Por Awestruck Church
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“Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, ‘To your offspring I will give this land.’ So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.” — Genesis 12:7Por Awestruck Church
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“Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.” — Genesis 19:15Por Awestruck Church
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“Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked.” Genesis 3:7aPor Awestruck Church
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“And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.” Genesis 1:31Por Awestruck Church
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“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.” — Matthew 5:9Por Awestruck Church
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Discovery begets truth. Begets transformation. And discovery begins with exploration. The impulse to explore has largely been stunted in our time by the erroneous assumption nothing remains to explore. We’ve mapped the earth. We have GPS systems to tell us exactly where we are at any given time. We’ve been to the moon. We’ve sent probes to Mars and…
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“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” Matthew 5:8Por Awestruck Church
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“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.” Matthew 5:6Por Awestruck Church
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“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.” Matthew 5:5Por Awestruck Church
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“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” Mt. 5:4Por Awestruck Church
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“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Mt 5:3Por Awestruck Church
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Doubt is mostly viewed as a negative trait or as even as the opposite of faith. We think this way largely because we imagine doubt and faith in still life, or rigidly defined - devoid of motion. Such attempts at crystallization lose sight of the inner dynamics and play when we struggle with doubt. When we doubt, a number of forces arise within us: …
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We have unwittingly exchanged the active experience of being alive in the present for living in a dank library filled with atomized facts that we read not with just our eyes, but with our whole physical bodies. We willingly plug ourselves into a matrix of technology and information that, given the right combination, can summon fleeting fulfillment …
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Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, not light them for themselves; for if our virtues did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike as if we had them not. William Shakespeare Such words capture the essence of a latent power within us, awaiting the spark of purpose to ignite. From our first breath, we are cradled in potential, but our world orbits…
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To see is to discern with clarity what is… C.S. Lewis addressed what he saw as the oncoming blindness to what is in his book The Abolition of Man. Plato before him had said the same. The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are p…
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Acceptance - we yearn for it in our inmost being. We long for others to accept us as we are, and yet we are terrified that who we are - which includes our shortcomings, our fears, our secret stories of horror, the terrible things we have thought and done - will repel others and deny us the very acceptance we seek. And so we don costumes, adapting s…
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Our modern way of thinking has created a false dichotomy between truth and experience. We have become obsessed with the reduction of truth into facts: atomic sentences and numbers and equations that we can use as a periodic table of elements. But this obsession holds no real power. No matter how well you know that two parts hydrogen and one part ox…
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Our quest for peace - contentment, rest, fulfillment - is, paradoxically, most often filled with frustration, anger, exhaustion, and even rage. Make more money, acquire necessary things, secure fulfilling relationships, and fulfill sensual desires. Over and over again, great obstacles present themselves. Storms arise. Obstacles roll over us. People…
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Without conscious and concerted effort, our focus will always be on ourselves. What we want. What we need. What we'll do to get what we want and need. This focus reveals our purpose - which, if we are honest, is to bend the world and all that is in it in our favor. We desire to be seen and to be valued, and with this focus we devise actions that wi…
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What gives? The sun gives light and warmth. A mother gives milk and hugs and nurture. Birdsong brings smiles. The forest offers solace. The moon and the stars above give a sense of awe and perspective below. Friends provide comfort. Children bring joy. Trees bear fruit. Sheep provide wool. What takes? Light pollution takes away the splendor of the …
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To attain what we desire most, we mistakenly believe that we must move forward, acquire more, learn much, guard relentlessly, achieve fame, win awards, and stockpile power. And yet, our true desires are never met by our effort, ingenuity, or winsome charisma. Our true desires - the ones that emanate from the ground of our being and refuse to quiet …
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Desire is a divine gift that stirs the soul, prompting us to pursue its fulfillment. Yet we often corrupt divine desire by conflation and control. We conflate love with lust, which drives us to see the other as a utilitarian object to fulfill lustful desire rather than a divine being with which to seek meaningful presence. We conflate joy with happ…
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We long to be seen and celebrated for that which is deeply good and worthwhile in us, and we long for a love that is strong enough to contain our frailty and sinfulness. Something in us knows such love is a transforming power. - Ruth Haley Barton When Adam and Eve hid from God amidst the trees of the Garden of Eden, clad with fig leaves sewn by tre…
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