Gospel Mindfulness

Welcome to Gospel Mindfulness, a podcast created to awaken you to the realities of who God is and how he makes a difference in the simple moments of every day. Your co-hosts are Betsy Hart and Geoff Ziegler. https://trinityhinsdale.com Email questions to questions@trinityhinsdale.com

The Spirit of Generosity 06/04/2020

The Spirit of Generosity Giving freely, sacrificially, and without hesitation—that is a kind of generosity most of us expect only from family. When the Spirit is at work, the church becomes family. Image Credit: Floris van Dyck /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/14693774

Loving in Community 05/27/2020

Loving in Community What holds the church together? Common interests? Affection? A welcoming atmosphere? Or is it something deeper; something entirely outside of the self; something that propels us outward even as we draw closer together? /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/14583311

Overcoming Evil With Good (Part 2) 05/20/2020

Overcoming Evil With Good (Part 2) Episode 54: Is the desire for justice legitimate? What about vengeance? What role does wrath have in our picture of God? How can love and wrath coexist, and good ultimately overcome evil? /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/14492381

Overcoming Evil With Good (Part 1) 05/13/2020

Overcoming Evil With Good (Part 1) Episode 53: The desire for revenge is as natural as it is unhelpful. Evil begets evil, and often in the name of justice. But only in God can we find true justice, and only in Christ do we find perfect peace. Image credit: Gavin Hamilton, Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/14397194

Fervent in the Spirit 05/06/2020

Fervent in the Spirit Episode 52: People are hard to love, and loving people that are hard to love is exhausting. When loving feels like work, and it often does, where can we find the energy to love? Paul suggests that it is found in love Himself. Image credit: Ontley on Wikimedia Commons /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/14303120

Let Love Be Genuine 04/29/2020

Let Love Be Genuine Episode 51: Most of us are nice people most of the time. We treat people with respect and avoid causing offense, but is that love? The Bible invites us to consider the deeper motivations of our hearts and let niceness give way to genuine love. /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/14174903

Coming Home 04/01/2020

Coming Home Episode 50: One of the signs of a truly gospel-shaped community is hospitality and welcome, particularly towards those for whom it is most difficult. It is a hospitality born from a deep understanding of the radical welcome of God. Image credit: Manel Sallem on Wikimedia Commons /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/13792604

The Dividing Wall 03/25/2020

The Dividing Wall Episode 49: There is no pride of place in God's kingdom. No one deserves a seat at God's table. The extent to which we can truly ask the question, "why me?", is the extent to which we can begin to understand the generous, lavish hospitality of God. Image credit: Jeanne Boleyn on Wikimedia Commons /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/13690769

Meeting at the Well 03/18/2020

Meeting at the Well Episode 48: Betrayal is one of the worst experiences any of us can ever go through. For most relationships, it marks the end. It is easy to assume, perhaps subconsciously, that the same would be true of our relationship with God. Yet God's love is so great that he pursues even those who willfully abandon him—and seeks to bring them home. Image credit: Bernard Gagnon on Wikimedia Commons /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/13593338

God's Unfaithful Spouse 03/11/2020

God's Unfaithful Spouse Episode 47: Marriage has always provided fertile soil for metaphors of God's love for his people. Loyalty, fidelity, selflessness; all of these describe God's love. The book of Hosea describes God's jealousy, and it does so through a very unlikely marriage. /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/13503920

Loving God, Loving Others 03/04/2020

Loving God, Loving Others Episode 46: Loving others can be scary, and not without cause. Community can overwhelm, disappoint, and destroy, not least because the community can become too important. God calls us to love him first, and in so loving him, to find freedom in loving others. Image credit: Rembrandt van Rijn /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/13404062

Loving the Body 02/26/2020

Loving the Body Who serves who in the church? Despite the tremendous importance of personal growth in holiness, the Apostle Paul invites us to consider that we were primarily redeemed for one another. Image credit: IDuke on English Wikipedia /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/13304342

Love Casts Out Fear 02/19/2020

Love Casts Out Fear True love is hard to believe. Most of our relationships are subtly based on transactions, even with those we love, and ultimately rooted in fear. God's love takes us by surprise and, at times, offends us. But it is only in the love of God that we find the freedom to love likewise. /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/13211801

Wrestling with Love 02/12/2020

Wrestling with Love Real love can be annoying, real love can be difficult, real love can hurt. Real love comes from God, in humble submission to the work of his Spirit—and despite our natural inclinations, is well worth the struggle. Image by /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/13103096

The Greatest Pursuit 02/05/2020

The Greatest Pursuit Most of us aspire to greatness in one sense or another. We discipline our bodies, our minds, our schedules. We go without sleep, we go without comfort, all for the sake of some worthy goal. But how many of us aspire to grow in love? /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/12972212

Humbled and Forgiven - Exodus 40 - Episode 041 07/03/2019

Humbled and Forgiven - Exodus 40 - Episode 041 The greatest feelings of dependence and humility often come through times of great suffering. Though we are brought low, God's ultimate goal is to make us whole. It is only by truly seeing the magnitude of our need and the depth of our own sin that we find true rest in God's forgiveness. As Luther wrote, "Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly, for he is victorious over sin, death, and the world" (LW 48:281-282). Thank you for listening to season 2! Gospel Mindfulness will return in the Fall with a new series on seven big questions people have about God, the Bible, and Christianity. *Modified image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/10382918

Following the Leader 06/26/2019

Following the Leader All of us follow someone or something, and that something, if it isn't God, is probably a tyrant. *Modified image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/10250654

Choose Your Own God - Exodus 32 - Episode 039 06/19/2019

Choose Your Own God - Exodus 32 - Episode 039 The freedom the choose. It is one of those natural rights that needs no argument in the modern day, perhaps especially in the domain of religion. But when given the choice of who or what to worship, what do we choose? In all likelihood, we pick a bigger, better version of what appears uncannily like ourselves. *Modified photo by succo from Pixabay /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/10187087

Created in Our Image - Exodus 32 - Episode 038 06/12/2019

Created in Our Image - Exodus 32 - Episode 038 Idolatry is more than bowing down before statues. It is the making of a god in our own image and on our own terms. An idol can be physical or, more often than not, a creation of the heart. *Modified photo by Sam Valadi /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/10128907

A Beautiful God 06/05/2019

A Beautiful God God is a God of beauty, order, and light. The evidence for this is all around us, just there is also evidence of something dark in the world and in ourselves. But God is at work in and for his people—a holy people, called to be a light in this world. /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/10051871

God With Us - Exodus 25 - Episode 036 05/29/2019

God With Us - Exodus 25 - Episode 036 What does it mean for God to dwell with his people? For one thing, it means that God has extended himself in relationship to us, redeeming and reorienting our lives towards the original Edenic order. Photo by just_a_cheeseburger /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/9960224

A Heart for Truth - Exodus 20 - Episode 035 05/22/2019

A Heart for Truth - Exodus 20 - Episode 035 Truth has fallen on hard times in the modern world. Echo chambers abound, and all of us, if we're honest, love to talk more than listen. To represent God well, however, means to represent him and to represent others well. It is to care deeply for truth. Painting by Gilbert Stuart /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/9874814

Loving God's Image - Exodus 20 - Episode 034 05/15/2019

Loving God's Image - Exodus 20 - Episode 034 People can be difficult, frustrating, mean, or even cruel. They can seem impossible to love. Yet God has created all of us in his image and those who love him love his image in others. Painting by Vincent Van Gogh /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/9785714

Bearing God's Name - Exodus 20 - Episode 033 05/08/2019

Bearing God's Name - Exodus 20 - Episode 033 What does it mean to take the Lord's name in vain? Is it avoiding coarse language? Perhaps, but it is so much more. For better or for worse, Christians are God's mouths and hands to one another and to a watching world. Graphic by Eviatar Bach /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/9696692

Worshiping the Right God - Exodus 20 - Episode 032 05/01/2019

Worshiping the Right God - Exodus 20 - Episode 032 Whether we realize it or not, one of the most important things about ourselves, the thing that makes us who we are, is what we give ourselves to in worship. All of us worship something, but God created us to worship Him. Photo by Petr Kratochvil /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/9600845

The God Who Draws Near - Exodus 19 - Episode 031 04/24/2019

The God Who Draws Near - Exodus 19 - Episode 031 God can be terrifying. He is holy after all. But he is also a God of compassion. He is a God who does not leave us in our sin but comes down to us, that we might be brought to him. Painting by Benjamin West /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/9509024

A Consuming Fire - Exodus 19 - Episode 030 04/17/2019

A Consuming Fire - Exodus 19 - Episode 030 Holy, awesome, terrifying. The image of God presented in the Bible is not always the image of God we want or imagine. Nevertheless, Scripture has made it plain that in his presence no evil, no matter how small, can or will stand. Painting by Benjamin West /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/9426995

Manna in the Wilderness - Exodus 16 - Episode 029 04/10/2019

Manna in the Wilderness - Exodus 16 - Episode 029 God desires for us to trust and rest in him alone. It is what we were created for. It is also very difficult. Paradoxically, sometimes it takes a season of trial to begin to learn God's goodness, faithfulness, kindness, and rest. Painting by Jean-François Millet /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/9337583

Bread from Heaven - Exodus 16 - Episode 028 04/03/2019

Bread from Heaven - Exodus 16 - Episode 028 Complaining. All of us do it, and when we complain, the temptation is always to forget God. (Painting by J.E. Gray, 1846) /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/9238679

The Blood of the Lamb 03/27/2019

The Blood of the Lamb Many of us would love a fresh start—an undo button for life. Our identities are often wrapped up in the things which cause us the deepest shame. It seems inescapable, but Jesus the Lamb of God offers us hope. Painting by Jan van Eyck. /episode/index/show/trinityhinsdale/id/9158834

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