Oct 7, 2026 · 1 hr · 12 segments
Before you ever say a word, you're already communicating. Your body occupies space. Your face, posture, voice, movement, and presence are communicating something to the people around you. And long…
Pepper SweeneyHostThis is all part of this, uh, season on belonging to become, and we are tracking with one verse in John's gospel-
... as we pay attention to what does it mean for us to be, to fully become as we fully belong.
How are those two things, yeah, continually in conversation with one another? And as, how do we d- become more deeply, um...
How do we b- be- how do we more deeply belong to people? And how do we, uh, more deeply...
A- and as such, how do we then b- therefore more deeply become? And, uh, we are now in the part of the ver- we, we've s- you know, Jesus opens with, "These things I have spoken to you," and w- last episode we talked about these things and how all these things that He's talked about is not just what's in that one conversation with His disciples, but it's all the things of s- of this text of scripture, which is, what does it mean for us to be in this large story-
... that God is telling and is inviting us to join our stories with Him, bring in alignment to our stories with Him, which is not easy, uh, for me to do.
But today we're, we're focusing on these things I have spo- these three words, I have sp- Jesus says, "I have spoken." And the, the first thing I want us to pay attention to is that it's the I.
I have spoken, and this, uh, this is gonna be a two-part episode, and this first part is really gonna focus on the I part, the I have spoken.
How many times have we been in a conversation with somebody and we say like, "Gosh, well, I don't, I don't wanna upset people." People.
In our confessional communities, this comes up a lot, where, you know, someone is, is...
They're, they're encountering something within themselves, and they're, and they're, "I'm afraid to say this, 'cause I'm, I'm, I'm afraid I might upset somebody." Somebody.
This is all part of this, uh, season on belonging to become, and we are tracking with one verse in John's gospel-
... as we pay attention to what does it mean for us to be, to fully become as we fully belong.
How are those two things, yeah, continually in conversation with one another? And as, how do we d- become more deeply, um...
How do we b- be- how do we more deeply belong to people? And how do we, uh, more deeply...
A- and as such, how do we then b- therefore more deeply become? And, uh, we are now in the part of the ver- we, we've s- you know, Jesus opens with, "These things I have spoken to you," and w- last episode we talked about these things and how all these things that He's talked about is not just what's in that one conversation with His disciples, but it's all the things of s- of this text of scripture, which is, what does it mean for us to be in this large story-
... that God is telling and is inviting us to join our stories with Him, bring in alignment to our stories with Him, which is not easy, uh, for me to do.
But today we're, we're focusing on these things I have spo- these three words, I have sp- Jesus says, "I have spoken." And the, the first thing I want us to pay attention to is that it's the I.
I have spoken, and this, uh, this is gonna be a two-part episode, and this first part is really gonna focus on the I part, the I have spoken.
How many times have we been in a conversation with somebody and we say like, "Gosh, well, I don't, I don't wanna upset people." People.
In our confessional communities, this comes up a lot, where, you know, someone is, is...
They're, they're encountering something within themselves, and they're, and they're, "I'm afraid to say this, 'cause I'm, I'm, I'm afraid I might upset somebody." Somebody.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.
