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Redemption's Table with Robert Barge

Redemption's Table with Robert Barge

Redemption's Table

Welcome to Redemption’s Table – a fresh ingredient podcast. Every week I will sit down to this table with a Special Guest, share a restaurant meal or cup of coffee or an ice cream cone, and engage in a recorded podcast conversation, on site, with redemption as the main course. You’re invited to join in on this flavorful adventure that will accentuate the reality of redemption in the lives of everyday people like you and me. A reality that, I believe, finds its ultimate expression in Jesus of Nazareth, Who is the “not-so-secret ingredient” to the redemption we all seek.

165 - Parable for the American Christian
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  • 165 - Parable for the American Christian

    Welcome to a different kind of Redemption's Table.  Normally our episodes are for everybody, but today's story is particularly addressed to American Christians.  It's a sojourn to a forgotten place that begins with a forgotten harvest - and harvest and Thanksgiving usually go hand in hand.

     

    The vision begins in a field of corn in a high mountain meadow.  A harvest has come and gone, and not a single ear has been picked.  Such neglect raises curiosity.  How can this be?  Suddenly, a man dressed as a Mexican peasant emerges from the parched stalks and a mysterious journey begins.  

     

    Every American Christian needs to consider the questions raised by today's imaginative parable that was first shared 25 years ago.  

     

    Special thank you to my good friend Jeff Gore - a singer-songwriter who has been involved in cowboy ministry before there ever was such a thing as a cowboy church.  His songs "We Gather Together to Pray" and "Who's Gonna Tell Them" are used by permission.   

     

    https://www.youtube.com/@jeffgorecowboyandgospelmus4434

    Thu, 21 Nov 2024 - 35min
  • 164 - Hourglass

    Have you ever been to a place where past, present, and future come together before you?  Where you can reflect on the expanse of what has already swept by and ponder the volume of all that is yet to come?  Have you ever stood on the brink of a waterfall?  A waterfall is nature's hourglass.

     

    Host Robert Barge has stood on the brink of Lower Falls of the Yellowstone twice in his lifetime.  Once around 1972; again in 2024.  Approximately 53 years and 8 trillion, 357 billion, 40 million gallons of water has plummeted 308 feet over the top of Yellowstone's tallest waterfall in between those two visits.  And time and water have volumes to speak to anyone with ears to hear and hearts to respond.

     

    Join us for a whimsical Table that encourages everyone to take note of the hourglass moments of life so that we may be prepared to receive the rich and creative lessons they hold.

     

    Featuring "Fly" by Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors (Used by Permission through Musicbed).

    Thu, 14 Nov 2024 - 18min
  • 163 - Soul's a Camera

    You are a human GoPro and your soul is recording every nanosecond of your life!  To some degree, you're taking it all in.  Your internal audio and video recorders are receiving data at an incredible shutter speed.  And even though your memory capacity is enormous, you can't recall it all, but it is amazing how much your soul does remember.

     

    Welcome to a fun Table episode.  Let your mind imagine some of the photographs your soul has taken.  Discover how to live your life like an Easter Egg Hunt.  And let gratitude help you catch more of the treasure of "the good and perfect gift variety" pouring down upon each of us every day from our Father of heavenly lights!

     

    Your soul is taking photos even with the lens cap on, but the wider you open your aperture, the more the light gets in.

     

    Special thanks today to Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors who inspired today's Table in a big way with their song "Soul's a Camera" (Used by Permission through Musicbed).

    Thu, 07 Nov 2024 - 17min
  • 162 - Ranger Pete of the Yellowstone

    I first met Peter Scott when I walked into his place of business in Montgomery Alabama almost 10 years ago. His office wall was filled with photographs he had taken from Yellowstone National Park.  We struck up a conversation and became fast friends.  

     

    Pete worked in Yellowstone back during his college days.  He has since visited our first National Park multiple times and spent decades studying this incredibly diverse place.  Now, Ranger Pete is quick to tell you he's not an actual Park Ranger, but he does have intimate, first-hand knowledge of Yellowstone and he loves sharing the wonder he has found in this very special place where our creator God has some spectacular artwork on display.

     

    Pete and I both spent time in Yellowstone this fall on separate trips.  And it's an honor to bring him to this wild conversation recorded live at El Taco Shop Restaurant in Montgomery.  Pete had the Pollo Loco and I had the best Sincronizada I've ever tasted. 


    https://rangerpete.org

     

    Featuring "Let's Go Outside - Campfire Version" by The National Parks (Used by Permission through Musicbed).

    Mon, 28 Oct 2024 - 37min
  • 161 - The 3-Day Effect

    There's a phenomenon that takes place within us when we spend three days in the great outdoors.  It's called "the 3-day effect."  Three days in nature can reset our brains.  And after those three days, our ability to problem solve goes up, our inductive reasoning goes up, and we become more creative.  When we step out of life as we know it and into life as we were meant to live it, it changes us.  And whenever I vacation in the wilderness, I always know when "the 3-day effect" kicks in.  It's that noticeable.  

     

    Last month I spent eight days in Yellowstone National Park.  "The 3-Day Effect" prompted me to write the following entry in my journal:

                "Dying is a hard process.

                Staying dead is a hard process.

                And when the third day comes, you don't will yourself back to life.

                Only the resurrection can do that."


    Featuring "Waiting For Lightning" by The National Parks (Used by Permission through Musicbed).

    Thu, 24 Oct 2024 - 22min
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