Latest Reason church Podcast Episodes
Chain Reaction | Spellbound
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - November 19, 2023 23:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsHuman rights can be a buzzword in today’s world. Where did this concept originate in history? Jesus and the writers of the New Testament have more to say about this than you may think. In fact, this was their idea before it was adopted into our wider culture. Come with us as we unpack the landma...
The Pursuing God | Joshua Butler
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - November 13, 2023 22:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsSpecial Guest Joshua Butler explains that we sometimes think we have to pursue God with our religious devotion and that after we have given him our best effort he will give us his acceptance and blessing. Jesus actually says it is the exact other way around, God is the one pursuing us in his g...
First Edition | Spellbound
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - November 06, 2023 21:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsReligion can be used to oppress, manipulate, and push people to the margins. Paul was fiercely resolved to stop that from happening in Galatia. He takes them back to the beginning of the Jewish story to show that God had always planned to include all nations. Galatians 3:1-18
Amnesiac | Spellbound
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - October 31, 2023 00:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsIs Christianity racist? Paul has a showdown with Peter over his racist behavior but we see the reason behind the racism was that Peter had forgotten the message of grace. We are all prone to forget the gospel but continually remembering our acceptance in Jesus will lead us to love and accept ot...
Game of Spies | Spellbound
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - October 24, 2023 02:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsThe ancient world was full of hierarchy dividing people by both class and race. False teachers crept into the church to "spy on their freedom in Christ and make them slaves" attempting to bring in that same class system. Jesus shatters hierarchy and when we are really moved by his grace it wil...
Straight From The Source | Spellbound
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - October 16, 2023 20:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsOur screens have again been bombarded with horrific images of religious violence tearing lives apart. What causes this? Is a belief that you have the truth what divides our world and drives us to war? In Galatians 1:11-24 Paul explains how he was once a brutal religious zealot but an encounte...
Days of Future Past | Spellbound
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - October 09, 2023 19:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsIn our series "Spellbound" we look at Paul's letter to the Galatians and see that religion can be used as a tool for oppression where fear and anxiety is used to control others. Only the message of grace can break the spell. Galatians 1:1-10
Why is the Modern World so Lonely?
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - October 02, 2023 17:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsIdentity Crisis: Individual vs Communal - There has never been a greater emphasis on self-expression and individual identity than there is today. Jesse Lusko explains that this obsession with self-fulfillment has made our world deeply lonely. Looking at 1 John 4:7-13 we see a different source of...
Why is the modern world so lonely?
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - October 02, 2023 17:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsIdentity Crisis: Individual vs Communal - There has never been a greater emphasis on self-expression and individual identity than there is today. Jesse Lusko explains that this obsession with self-fulfillment has made our world deeply lonely. Looking at 1 John 4:7-13 we see a different source of...
How to Handle Suffering
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - September 25, 2023 20:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsIdentity Crisis: Fragile vs Indestructible. How do we become the kind of people who can handle difficulty? Jesse Lusko explains that when we build an identity on career, romance or money it leaves us completely vulnerable to circumstance and devastated by suffering. In Romans 8:28-39 we see t...
How to Build a Secure Identity
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - September 18, 2023 19:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsIdentity Crisis: Available vs. Unattainable - In this series we are comparing and contrasting an identity that is achieved through career, experiences, romantic relationships and other secular pursuits to an identity that is received through God's love and grace. Jesse Lusko looks at Isaiah 57:...
Counterculture Church | Launch Sunday
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - September 11, 2023 23:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsIn the founding message at Counterculture Church in Portland, Oregon, Jesse Lusko looks at the story of "the Pharisee and the Tax Collector" and explains that we may be surprised by who Jesus most often criticized. It is possible to have all the right beliefs and the right behavior but be doin...
Counterculture Church - Launch Sunday
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - September 11, 2023 23:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsIn the founding message at Counterculture Church in Portland, Oregon, Jesse Lusko looks at the story of "the Pharisee and the Tax Collector" and explains that we may be surprised by who Jesus most often criticized. It is possible to have all the right beliefs and the right behavior but be doin...
A Different Kind of Witness
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - April 17, 2023 18:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsJesus said his followers were to go to the ends of the earth as witnesses, but for many today the whole idea of evangelism is problematic. Are all conversion efforts imperialistic and wrong? If you are going to be carry the message of Jesus to world in 2023 you need the Holy Spirit to make you...
Hide & Seek
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - January 08, 2023 16:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsWhat are you seeking in 2023? You are going to seek something. Jesse Lusko teaches from Colossians 3:1-17 explaining that if you give your heart and mind to anything other than Jesus it will bring drivenness, anxiety, and anger. But if you seek Jesus above all else you will become a person o...
The Scalpel or The Chainsaw
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - September 05, 2022 17:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsKnowing the right thing is often easy, knowing the the right time and the right way to say it is hard. If we are on social media or in person using our thumbs and tongues like chainsaws we will kill the patients that we are meant to heal. Paul commands us, "to be gentle to all" and "to have no...
The Scalpel or The Chainsaw
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - September 05, 2022 17:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsKnowing the right thing is often easy, knowing the the right time and the right way to say it is hard. If we are on social media or in person using our thumbs and tongues like chainsaws we will kill the patients that we are meant to heal. Paul commands us, "to be gentle to all" and "to have no...
Low Power Mode
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - August 30, 2021 16:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsSome of us live our lives constantly in the yellow or the red, never in the green. We go for so long on empty that we barely remember what it feels like to be full. This constant hurry and worry can have a devastating effect on our mental, physical and spiritual well-being. Jesus came not to ...
Solomon Says
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - August 20, 2021 15:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsWhen the news headlines are full of Christian leaders who say one thing but do another, our disappointment can easily become total disillusionment. Fortunately, the Bible addresses these inconsistencies head on depicting failure in vivid reality. No one ever rose as high or fell as far as King ...
Atheism and building steel men
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - December 01, 2020 17:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsMany times both the believing and the non-believing are guilty of drawing caricatures of each other, constructing straw men arguments that are easy to ridicule and defeat. Biblical Christianity calls us to something higher where we engage opponents with both love and logic. The more we take ob...
Victims, Villains, and Sexual Abuse
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - September 24, 2020 18:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsSomeone that you will see today has been the victim of rape, molestation or assault. It could be the person you see in the mirror everyday or the stranger you buy groceries from. More than 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys have been traumatized in this way and the consequences are profound and deva...
Victims, Villains, and Sexual Abuse
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - September 24, 2020 18:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsSomeone that you will see today has been the victim of rape, molestation or assault. It could be the person you see in the mirror everyday or the stranger you buy groceries from. More than 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys have been traumatized in this way and the consequences are profound and deva...
Out of Sight
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - September 13, 2020 11:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsMatthew 20:29-34 - There are people in our world who are pushed to the side and kept out of sight, out of mind. When the invisible God became visible these were the people he put front and center. Preached at Cross and Anchor Conference in downtown Detroit.
Out of Sight
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - September 13, 2020 11:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsMatthew 20:29-34 - There are people in our world who are pushed to the side and kept out of sight, out of mind. When the invisible God became visible these were the people he put front and center. Preached at Cross and Anchor Conference in downtown Detroit.
Out of Sight | Matthew 20:29-34
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - September 13, 2020 11:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsMatthew 20:29-34 - There are people in our world who are pushed to the side and kept out of sight, out of mind. When the invisible God became visible these were the people he put front and center. Preached at Cross and Anchor Conference in downtown Detroit.
TikTok, Albert Camus, and the Philadelphia Eagles
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - August 27, 2020 21:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsPrior to the pandemic clinical depression and anxiety was already surging; the Washington Post reports that now 50% of Americans are experiencing depressed moods. Jim Williams of ABQ Connect interviews Jesse Lusko on how technology and ultimate meaning factor into these critically important issu...
TikTok, Albert Camus, and the Philadelphia Eagles
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - August 27, 2020 21:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsPrior to the pandemic clinical depression and anxiety was already surging; the Washington Post reports that now 50% of Americans are experiencing depressed moods. Jim Williams of ABQ Connect interviews Jesse Lusko on how technology and ultimate meaning factor into these critically important issu...
Porn in the Pandemic
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - July 14, 2020 17:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsPorn addiction has long been a pandemic in and of itself; but the Covid-19 quarantine has driven porn production and consumption to all time highs. These private sessions can seem harmless but data shows that they have devastating long term effects on the mental health of the user and perpetuate...
He can't breathe!
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - June 03, 2020 16:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsJim Williams of ABQ Connect interviews Jesse Lusko about the murder of George Floyd. Standing for justice and against racism and oppression are not sideline issues for Christians, they are a central part of following Jesus. We must allow the Bible to shape our views not the selective righteous...
The Plague and the Resurrection
Counterculture Church | Jesse Lusko - April 12, 2020 00:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 21 ratingsJim Williams of ABQ Connect interviews Jesse Lusko about how Christians faced pandemics like Coronavirus in the past and how the message of the resurrection can give us the courage to follow their example today.
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