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Neighbor Love
We weren’t born to wage culture wars, nurse division, or protect our comfortable schedules. We were designed for one core purpose: to love our neighbor. In…
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Left Behind
I am stepping into the theological deep end to confront a big word with massive implications: eschatology. For too long, the ultimate destiny of humanity has…
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Unconditional Love
I believe unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final say on reality. For too long, religious dogma has short-sheeted love, turning it into cheap…
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Love is a Vigorous Self Awareness
Today, I want to talk to you about how love lights up the inner darkness of my life. What I've learned is that doing the heavy lifting of love has required of…
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Love in the Day of Insults and Slander
Hey, hey, hey, all you beautiful people. Today I wanna talk to you about love in a day of name-calling, insults, labels, and slander. We're in a day and time…
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Love is Moral Courage
Today we are cutting straight to the heart of what real integrity looks like: love is moral courage, and moral courage is love. In modern culture and…
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Screaming for Love
Love is the only credible value of authentic spirituality. Our world around us here in the 21st century is veritably shouting and screaming for love. People…
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Cynical or Loving
Ever caught yourself yelling at someone in traffic who cannot even hear you? I have. And what I found in that moment was not just frustration. It was cynicism…
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Experience Love
In this episode, I talk about how love is the most human thing we can explore, expect, and experience. Anne Lamott said you can either practice being right or…
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Adult Conversations
In this episode, I start by making it crystal clear that I'm not here to shove doctrine or dogma down anyone's throat. I believe Christianity has fallen on…
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Love All People
Choosing to love all eight billion people on this planet is confusing and conflicting, but do it anyway. The reward is living for a higher purpose than meeting…
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The Way of Love
I am alive to love, and I am unavailable for anything less than love. The way of love is my favorite high-priority subject, serving as my North Star and my…
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Love vs Trauma
If there is one subject I want to spend the rest of my life proclaiming, unpacking, and living, it’s this: unfailing, unrelenting love. In this episode, we…
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Religious Trauma
I tackle a deeply urgent issue facing so many today: the antidote to religious trauma. Over the last quarter-century, upwards of 40 million people have walked…
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Love Revolution Pt. 2
“It is remarkable how little doctrine relates to love.”Dallas Willard once observed that doctrinal statements rarely say anything about love, and that churches…
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Love Revolution
I believe all we really need is a revolution of love. Not a sentimental love. Not a passive love. A tenacious, exuberant love that lays down the swords of…
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Injured Love
I've come to believe that an uninjured love doesn't exist. If you've chosen to love people, you've also chosen to experience disappointment, rejection…
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LOVE this World
What does it mean to love the world the way God loves the world? For years, many of us have been taught to keep this world at arm's length, as though loving it…
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Be Love
What if the most important commandment isn't a list of rules, but a single word: love? In this episode, I reflect on a powerful quote from Saint Augustine…
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Zone of Love
Fear is what actually creates a loveless life. I don't believe anybody is born to hate. We're born to love. But when we live too long in the zone of fear and…
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Go Forgiving
What if the walk of faith is actually much simpler than we've made it? In this episode, I explore one of Jesus' first instructions after the resurrection: "If…
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Rainbows and Unicorns
Love is not easy. I've spent years saying that it's a mountain climb, a marathon, and a lifelong commitment to choosing something better than hate. But in this…
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Make them one
In this episode, I’m talking about something I believe with my whole heart: spirituality rooted in love should offer a vision for the world, not spend all its…
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Biblical Love
I want to challenge you with what I believe is the greatest mountain climb in all of life: love. Not lightweight love. Not sentimental love. I’m talking about…
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We (humans) are the light of the world
This week, I want to ask you a question that has stayed with me for years. Jesus said, “You are the light of the world.” Well then, if we are the light of the…
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Beauty
On this episode, I’m inviting you to slow down with me and think about something I believe we need now more than ever, and that is the power of beauty. Not…
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Heaven on Earth
In this episode I ask a simple question: are you going to live for love, or are you going to die by hate? I grew up in a church tradition where people were…
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Love Creates
In this episode I return to the foundation of everything I am trying to do here each week. Love creates value where there might not otherwise be value. The way…
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Authentic Self
In this episode of I’m Alive to Love, I want to talk with you about something that sits right at the center of our lives. How do we arrive as our authentic…
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The Royal Rule
In this episode I’m talking about what the book of James calls the royal rule of scripture which is to love your neighbor as you love yourself. I believe that…
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Spiritual Refugees Pt. 2
On this episode, I continue my conversation about love and the spiritual refugees - the 45 million people in this nation who have stepped away from the church…
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Spiritual Refugees
I’m Bishop Randy Dean, and I’m here because I believe we are alive to love and everything else can drift into something hollow if we’re not careful. I don’t…
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Enemy Love
Today we are tackling the hardest subject of love in just two words: Enemy Love. Most of us have been trained to think that "loving our enemies" just means…
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Be Perfect
In this episode, I’m reflecting on what it really means to take a fearless and searching moral inventory of ourselves. Borrowing from the fourth step of…
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Solo - Why Love
Why Love? After seven years behind this mic and more than seven decades of living, I want to answer a simple but dangerous question: why love? Why has love…
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Solo - The Bible is Love
The Bible has been co-opted as a book of hate, and I am here to tell you that is BS. Love alone is credible. Love alone tells the truth. Whenever any lesser…
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Solo - Faith, Hope, and Love
In this episode, I strip spirituality down to what actually holds: faith, hope, and love. I’m not interested in religious performance, fear-based preaching, or…
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Solo - Love Wins
I’m a pastor of half a century, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned in fifty years, it’s that we as people of faith should be known for one thing and one…
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Solo - Love Stinks
I believe love is credible. I believe it is the only thing that truly stands the test. And if I am honest, it can stink to love people. In this episode of the…
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Solo - Live For Love Alone
I hear people ask all the time, “What is God’s purpose for my life?” and while I can’t tell you whether you should be a veterinarian or a stay-at-home dad, I…
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Solo - Soul Generated By Love
Reflecting on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I share how his writings saved me as a young teenager navigating the astronomical racial tensions of…
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Solo - The Way of Love
This world can feel like a dangerous place—not just because of those who do evil, but because of the rest of us who see it and do nothing. In this episode, we…
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Solo - Evolution of Love
In this episode, I’d like to share something I believe is essential for our time: the evolution of love. Love isn’t static—when it stands still, it stops being…
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Solo - A Love Supreme
In this episode, I’m stripping away the "bait and switch" of lesser values to focus on the highest magnetism in human existence: The Sacred Word of Love…
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Solo - A New Love
"Love is the only answer, but medieval talk about love does nothing." I’ve been sitting with those words from the mystic Thomas Merton, and they’ve hit me…
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Solo - Advent Love
Advent invites us to celebrate the multiple paths of how Love is defined by this greatest of all stories in Christmas. “For God so loved the world…that He…
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Solo - Transcendency
For six years now, this show has been a labor of love for me, a discussion of the pinnacle of life: Love, and love alone. It is the credible, supreme value for…
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Solo - Who Do You Love
In this episode, I am asking you two fundamental questions: Who do you love? And what do you love? Believe it or not, there is a lot more there than meets the…
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Solo - Practical Pieces of Love
I'm here to tell you, love is a far more sustaining human practice when it's taken into a practical work of our life. It's the heavy lifting of life the…
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Solo - Christian Institutions
I believe a hard truth: We, folks of faith, are not here to defend the institutions of Christianity, nor are we here to defend the institutionalized leaders…
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Solo - Being Right or Being Loved
This week I'm challenging us all to stop making life about being right and start making it about being loved and being loving. I believe the real issues we…
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Solo - Love Deeper Than Hell
I'm diving deep into my life’s purpose today: Preach Love hotter than any religious flame. Live Love more outrageous than any political rage. Lift Love higher…
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Special Edition: Love in a Time of Crisis (Chain of Lakes Church)
I'm sharing the message I recently delivered live at Chain of Lakes Church in Blaine, MN. We need to talk about Love in a Time of Crisis. Every one of us is…
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Solo - The Church
Welcome, beautiful people! I'm Bishop Randy Dean, and this week, I'm getting personal. I'm tackling The Church—not just a single denomination, but the entire…
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Solo - Please Say I Love You
I'm Bishop Randy Dean, the No BS Bishop, and I'm Alive to Love. I believe anything less is potential BS (Bait and Switch), and for six years, I've been calling…
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Solo - Love, Freedom from a Wounded Ego
I'm utterly convinced that love has been short sheeted and treated like a comic book version of life, when in reality, love should be seen as an Encyclopedia…
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Solo - Woe To You
In this episode, I’m talking about a direct and commanding message that Jesus gave, a message of warning: "Woe to you." But I'm challenging us to stop pointing…
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Solo - Alive to Love
I’m inviting you to breathe slow and live love in an age of violence. In this episode I talk about how “your inner world will eventually become your outer…
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Solo - Three Realities of Love
This episode, I'm laying out Three Realities of Love That Will Change Your Life. First, you'll see the world with new eyes, shedding the "us versus them"…
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Solo - Strategic Love
Love is the only value worth building on. Everything else falls apart. This episode looks at the strength, security, and strategy of love. Life is a mix of…