Can I Get a Withness?
Why do our hearts long to be deeply known and genuinely present with others? This episode explores “withness,” spiritual formation, discipleship, emotional healing, and the transformative power of presence.
No Empty Chair
In seasons of suffering, uncertainty, and grief, Christmas reminds us that Jesus is Immanuel—God with us. This reflection explores trust, presence, pain, and the comfort of divine companionship.
Baby, Baby!
How do our earliest relationships shape our capacity to trust God, love others, and become more like Jesus? This episode explores attachment, intimacy, childhood formation, and the five elements of deep discipleship.
The Center of the Tootsie Pop
Modern Christianity often assumes information alone transforms people, yet deep discipleship is far more relational and experiential. In this episode, Brian Fisher explores spiritual formation, the inward journey, hidden ideas and desires, and why genuine transformation requires time, habit, community, intimacy, and instruction. Through stories, cultural reflections, and practical illustrations, this episode examines how our hearts are progressively formed into people who increasingly think, act, relate, and love like Jesus.
The Formation Gap
Modern Christianity often assumes information and formation are the same thing. In this episode, Brian Fisher explores “The Formation Gap,” why the church struggles to form people of genuine spiritual depth, and how intentional communities built around time, habit, community, intimacy, and instruction help shape us into people who increasingly think, act, relate, and love like Jesus.
The Best Prefix Ever
Brian explores how hidden fatalistic ideas shape modern Christianity and quietly work against deep discipleship. Drawing from Plato, Dallas Willard, and the teachings of Jesus, this conversation examines fear, spiritual formation, the inward journey, and why Jesus is restoring all things—not abandoning them.
The Safety Dance
Brian explores why safety and trust are essential for spiritual formation and how experiencing God’s “withness” helps us begin the inward journey toward freedom and integration.
Like a Preacher Stealin’ Hearts at a Travellin’ Show
Brian explores how unconscious ideas and desires shape our lives, relationships, and discipleship. True spiritual formation leads to inner freedom through deeper awareness of God, ourselves, and the desires hidden beneath the surface.
A Dog’s Life
Brian explores how deep discipleship requires environments of kindness, authenticity, and safety where hidden ideas and desires can be transformed through relationship rather than information alone.
The Wonder Years
What if the problem with modern Christianity isn’t a lack of biblical information, but a loss of wonder? Deep discipleship is more than accumulating knowledge and doing more religious activity. It is the intimate, transforming adventure of knowing and being known by God.