Color & Emotion
in pursuit of whole-hearted endurance
Episodes
46 episodes since 2023
Episode 45 :: An Invitation To Emotional Regulation
Some thoughts on learning to relieve ourselves of emotional waste; seeing moments of malaise as invitations to rest in the presence of the Prince of Peace. "Now repent of your sins and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped awa...
September 06, 2024
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Episode 44: Sweet Sleep
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction - with the comfort with which we our...
September 04, 2024
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Episode 43: Anger & Echolocation
Life will always be more powerful than death.Love will always be more powerful than hate. Light will always be more powerful than darkness. « stream the Sweet Sleep Melodies {instrumental lullaby album} for free here:
August 31, 2024
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Episode 42
1 Corinthians 10:12 - 13 says, " If you think you are standing strong, be careful not to fall. The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you ...
August 12, 2024
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Episode 41: The Guardrails of Discernment
"But God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: 'The Lord knows those who are his,' and, 'Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.' • 2 Timothy 2:19"You have been believers so long now that you ought to be ...
July 25, 2024
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Episode 40: Every Day Offerings of Beauty & Light
We have the opportunity to reflect and reciprocate the hospitality of our Creator by making intentional arrangements to meet with Him ... a few thoughts from the start of a study on the lifestyle of the levitical priesthood. Refere...
July 04, 2024
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Episode 39: Inspiration & Self-Control
"Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain...
June 23, 2024
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Episode 38: Are you entertained?
How will we spend our redeemed time and restored energy? If we can't be bothered to engage with God and in scripture unless it's a production, we need to repent and get our life together, lol. The Word of God does not need to be enhanced ...
June 02, 2024
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Episode 37: Oaks of Righteousness
God is never unfaithful, but I have often been impatient and unthankful ... thoughts on delight in God as a permanent heart posture and a necessary component of endurance; the faithfulness of God to continually transform us into enduring oaks o...
May 19, 2024
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Episode 36: The Crux of The Covenants
Imagine an environment where everyone willingly gives God their whole hearts and undivided attention. God's original design, which was restored and reiterated in Jesus' sacrifice is that He would have a people who have no conscious...
May 17, 2024
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Episode 35: My God Will Hear Me
...some thoughts on the sufficiency of God and His Word to sustain us ... the passages that inspired My God Will Hear Me :: Psalm 73, Micah 7:7-8{Lyrics}HA...
May 07, 2024
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Episode 34: Honor & Education
Some thoughts on honor as generational blessing and protection. Where there is honor, there is also humility and where there is humility there is love and there is compassion; so rather than wanting to be right as our first priority, we will wa...
April 28, 2024
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Episode 33: Dates & Potatoes
Thoughts on the glories and messiness and awkwardness of spring; learning to discern our personal seasons. The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house of the Lord; they ...
April 14, 2024
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Episode 32: Myrrh & Aloe
Walking through the lyrics of a passover song. Thoughts on commemorating holy days in ways that don't conform to this world. Myrrh & Aloe :: DARKNESS SPILLED LIKE INK, THEY SAY BLOOD SOAKED THE EARTH AND ...
April 07, 2024
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Episode 31: Photographs & Prose (2020)
... really just a promo of already-released content. Episode 30: at Dusk opens with the glorious context that was my life at the start of 2020 when this song was written. You can also take a look at
March 10, 2024
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Episode 30: at Dusk
… a little more insight into the trials of various kinds that became the backdrop of ‘at Dusk;’ thoughts on the glory of physically, literally walking with God :-) Love Offeri...
March 10, 2024
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Episode 29: Unhurried Love
" … what sort of people out {we} to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming Day of The Lord …" a chat through the lyrics of track No. 6 on my recently released album,
March 09, 2024
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Episode 28: Number of Days
The lyric story and scriptures that inspired track No. 5 on my upcoming release, 'at Dusk' :: a scripture-inspired song-prayer ... for the wisdom to know when to press in and when t...
February 25, 2024
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Episode 27: Alleluia, Elohim
... scripture songs as the thoughts of God; the verses that inspired track No. 4 on my upcoming album, ‘at Dusk,’. So stoked to share the music with you all on February 29!! ...
February 18, 2024
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Episode 26: Like Math (Butterfly Wings)
Once upon my twenties, 92 years worth of timely and encouraging wisdom met with me at the base of a big rock in Berkeley. This weekend on the podcast, I’m sharing the experience that inspired track No. 3 on
February 11, 2024
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Episode 25: Be Brave
** Correction** Psalm 92 says: “there is no unrighteousness in Him."{I mis-spoke when reading the verse.}The song story for track #2 on my upcoming album,
February 04, 2024
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Episode 24: The Priesthood
A survey of the scriptural and contemplative landscape that inspired Rebekkah The Band's upcoming release, at Dusk; and a deep dive into the lyrics of the first track on the album:...
January 27, 2024
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Episode 23: Rebekkah The Ramble
A vague and meandering half-history of Rebekkah The Band and her logo, caffeinated by 28 ounces of seasonal Ube latte from my friendly, neighborhood unionized coffee shop, and f...
January 21, 2024
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Episode 22: Expectation & Delight
Some thoughts on perfectionism as the root of emotional hypochondria: perfectionism has a way of crying ‘crisis,’ and accusing you of dysfunction when all you are experiencing is the messiness embedded in the human condition.
January 12, 2024
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Episode 21: Endurance & Light
Suffering teaches us not to lean on our own understanding if we will let it. As light, we are called to illuminate darkness; as children of God we are called to walk in love; but we can't just waltz all willy-nilly into darkness wearing nothing...
December 22, 2023
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