{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"New Life Downtown","title":"Arriving, Pt. 15: \"The Narrow Road\"","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/d667ae7c\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1217,"description":"[NOTE: Due to technical issues, the podcast starts about 10-minutes in, with Pastor Glenn Packiam interviewing an artist about Makoto Fujimura's \"Golden Sea\".]\nWe live in a day where \"freedom\" is interpreted as \"life without restraints.\" Yet, in light of God's arriving Kingdom, Jesus calls us to follow Him along a narrow road. Far from being a description of a popular hell and a sparse heaven, the wide and narrow roads contrast a life of ease with a life of difficulty. Drawing on illustrations from art, music, and marriage, Pastor Glenn helps us see that accepting the necessary constraints for the sake of a desired outcome is something we find many areas of life. What Jesus invites us into is much more than a life of constraints, however; he bids us, \"Come and die.\" But this \"death\" is itself the beginning of abundant life; it is the \"wonderful exchange\", where we trade our nothing-ness for His everything.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/8sXMLuD3R2IQOTKHBEQPYeovO30TgmjLAsmEORJEjEc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE0MzAyLzE2MDAx/MDU4NTgtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}