From Babylon, With Love
Religion & Spirituality
About
From Babylon, With Love is a podcast ministry of Zoe Church, San Juan Capistrano. Our desire is to help Christians of any background craft a deeper Christian life for a post-Christian world. We understand the role of Christians and the Christian Church to be neither imperialist nor sectarian, neither triumphalist nor fearful, neither domineering nor withdrawn. Rather, we believe Christ has called us to be in the world, not of the world, for the sake of the world. To be faithful witnesses to Christ in the places he has called us, we believe we need to deepen our understanding of Christianity, deepen our approach to the Scripture and the basic practices of the Christian life, deepen our understanding of church history, deepen our capacity to think more critically and carefully about our own traditions and the world around us, and deepen our ability to enjoy what is true, what is good, and what is beautiful. From Babylon, With Love aims to make a small contribution to those lofty end
Episodes
- Think on These Things | Phil. 3:17-4:13
- Of Gods and Sheep | John 10:22-42
- We Need the Good Shepherd | John 10:1-21
- The Blind Will See | John 9
- Seeing Treasure | Matthew 6:19-24
- Whom the Son Sets Free | John 8:31-59
- Seeing in the Dark | Easter Message
- Shadow and Light | John 8:12-36
- Tune My Heart | John 7
- The Test | John 6
- The Father’s Son | John 5:16-47
- Deeper Still | John 4:43-5:15
- Hope for Samerica | John 4:1-42
- Clarity is King | John 3:22-36
- (Armchair Sermon!) You Must be Born Again | John 3:1-21
- The Tipping Point | John 2:13-25
- When the Wine Runs Out | John 2:1-12
- Come and See | John 1:19-51
- Coming Home | John 1:1-18
- A Sharpened Life | An Introduction to John’s Gospel
John 20:30-31
- Christmastide | “Peace on Earth”
- “Everlasting Father” | Christmas Eve Bootleg
Is. 9:6.
- “Hope in the Dark” | For Unto Us a Child is Born, p.1
Isaiah 8:19 – 9:7
- Advent | Love’s Final Sharpening (The Sheep and the Goats)
Matthew 25: 31-46.
- Advent | Faithful Servants (The Parable of the Talents)
Matthew 25:14-30
- Advent | “Look! Look!” (The Parable of the Ten Virgins)
Matthew 25:1-13
- The King’s Chapel | Hidden Treasure
Matthew 13:34-35; 44-46.
- The Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds | The Field of the World
Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43.
- The Parable of the Sower | The Good Soil
- The Parable of the Sower | The Strangled Heart
Matthew 13:1-23.
- The Parable of the Sower | The Shallow Heart
Matt. 13:1-23
- The Parable of the Sower | The Illiterate Heart
Matthew 13:1-23
- The King’s Chapel: Trogon
Jn. 5:35-40; Jn. 6:53-58; Jn. 8:31-32; Matt. 28:16-20; Acts 2:42-47.
- The King’s Chapel: Bread
Jn. 6:25-69
- The King’s Chapel: Blood & Soil
Eph. 2
- The King’s Chapel: The Pastor
2 Timothy 1:6-14; 2:14-17; 3:1-14
- The King’s Chapel: The Priesthood
1 Cor. 12, 1 Peter 2
- The King’s Chapel: Roll Call
Rom. 16:1-16
- The King’s Chapel: A Cultivated Life
Philippians 4:8-9
- The King’s Chapel: An Integrated Life
1 Thess. 4:1-12; Romans 2:16
- The King’s Chapel: The Holy Rebellion
Romans 12:1-2; Colossians 1:9-14. The Ninth Week of Pentecost.
- A Sermon from the First Gathering of The King’s Chapel: A Trial of Kings
Well, my friends, our regularly unscheduled podcast is being interrupted with the first sermon from a new church some of my friends and I have just started in the Costa Mesa/Newport Beach area called The King’s Chapel. Sermons from The Kin…
- On Temptation: How to Be Unlucky, Ch. 4
With some sadness, Laura and I announce in this episode the impending end of the podcast…! But we also manage to tackle another chapter of Joshua Gibbs’ book, How to Be Unlucky, as we head out the door. Much love to my patient peoples. Let…
- On Mortality and Maturity: How to Be Unlucky, Ch. 2
We’re back with our second installment of podding through Joshua Gibbs’s book How to Be Unlucky! Join Laura and I as we talk about what it means to pursue maturity.
- On Actually Being Good: How to Be Unlucky, Ch.1
In our first episode on Joshua Gibbs’s book, How to be Unlucky, Laura and I tackle the place of goodness and the conversation around goodness in the life of Christian adults.
- “Along for the Ride”: (Finally) Kicking off Season 5!
Well, I have never been accused of being punctual, but it’s here! Join myself and my intrepid (long-suffering) co-host, Laura Hashimov, as we recap our summer and chart the pod path forward for this new season. It’s good to be back. Put yo…
- Season 4 Farewell: In the Grand Canyon at Sundown
God bless Zak Salazar.
- The Roots of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, P. 2: A Primer on the Silmarillion
Lore! Lore! LORE! And some hot takes on the Rings of Power! The Only Dan Bellum brings us into the world of the Silmarillion, Tolkien’s sweeping epic myth-history of Middle Earth which undergirds the better-known stories of The Hobbit, The…
- The Roots of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, P. 1: Languages & the Shape of Faerie Stories
Pour yourself a nice cup of coffee or tea, my friends, stir the fire, put your feet up–it’s time to return to the reading room. From time to time on the pod, we like to dive more deeply into a particular author or work of literature, and t…
- Why House Church? | An Apologia for Small-Scale Ministry
On this episode, Laura takes over the hosting duties as she interviews me about my reasons for leading Zoe Church to be a house church. My hope and prayer, whether you find yourself agreeing or disagreeing with my argument, is that Christi…