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08 – Strategy and Process/How to Flourish Going Forward
Session 8: Strategy and Process/How to Flourish Going Forward – Join friends and comrades John Eldredge and Dan Allender for a live recording of a dynamic, two-day conference (over 8 sessions) for men and women filled with wisdom for healing the soul.With nearly 60 years of collective experience engaging the core wars of the heart, John and Dan will bring to life the ways in which understanding your story and accessing the presence of Jesus can provide an unparalleled opportunity for lasting change. Restoration of the Heart is an experience for those who are seeking restoration, and those who help bring it to others.
05 – Trauma's Impact
Session 5: Trauma's Impact – Join friends and comrades John Eldredge and Dan Allender for a live recording of a dynamic, two-day conference (over 8 sessions) for men and women filled with wisdom for healing the soul.With nearly 60 years of collective experience engaging the core wars of the heart, John and Dan will bring to life the ways in which understanding your story and accessing the presence of Jesus can provide an unparalleled opportunity for lasting change. Restoration of the Heart is an experience for those who are seeking restoration, and those who help bring it to others.
105 | Heroism and Immortality
Well, we saw Avengers Endgame. So this podcast's got spoilers, but it gives us the opportunity to talk about heroes, heroism, and what our cultural moment is doing with the two. Buckle up for archetypes of the hero, the human heart and how to live in view of the formation of virtue. From Faulkner: "The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. He must learn them again. He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed – love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. Until he does so, he labors under a curse. He writes not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity or compassion."
Breaking Soul Ties
This fifth episode of the Spiritual Warfare series features a 2015 conversation with John, Stasi, and Craig McConnell describing how to identity and break free from the unhealthy bonds of soul ties.
104 | Chaos, Initiation, and Atmosphere
Allen Arnold joins Sam and Blaine in the studio this week to talk about the presence of Chaos in our lives, and the ways that God approaches it.
Spiritual Beings
Most believers are confused by the range of spiritual beings who populate the cosmos. Jesus wasn't. Discover the biblical foundation for these unseen players in the battle between good and evil.
38 – Rise AND Rest – 4/24/2019
God moves mountains through imperfect people. That's really good news for all of us. Join Stasi as she mines from the book of Esther treasures that apply to our lives today. Video ClipsFriday Night Lights - Season 1, Episode 1. - 42:01 to (Start of credits)Anna & The King - 24:42 to 25:06 spliced with 32:05 to 33:26 Worship Set from April 2019New Wine - (4:03) (Hillsong Worship; There is More)Confident - (5:40) (Steffany Gretzinger; Blackout)Beautiful Jesus - (6:32) (Jonathan David & Melissa Helser; Beautiful Surrender)You are All I Need- (5:31) (Dara Maclean; Wanted)Take Courage - (4:01) (Kristene Dimarco; Where His Light Was)King of My Heart - (6:34) (Sarah McMillan; King of My Heart)Build My Life - (8:12) (House Fires; House Fires III)Throne Room Song - (7:54) (People & Songs; Throne Room Song)Resurrecting - (7:47) (Elevation Worship; Here As In Heaven)
103 | Dr. Tremper Longman III - Old Testament Controversies
Dr. Tremper Longman III is the man when it comes to ancient Near Eastern studies. Meaning, he’s written more than 30 books on the Old Testament and its world, he’s one of the main translators of the New Living Translation of the Bible, he’s consulted on numerous popular translations, and he’s spent a career helping folks understand what the heck is going on. As in, how do we develop hermeneutics, aka reading strategies? How do we read the Bible for genre? How do we read the Bible as a coherent narrative revealing a single good God? He’s got a new book coming out on the Old Testament (Confronting Old Testament Controversies), diving in to creation accounts, divine violence, history and conquest, and sexuality. We sat down to talk a bit about it.
You Have An Enemy
Part three of the Warfare series reveals how Satan, fallen angels and foul spirits wage war on God and his followers - and how to win those spiritual battles.
102 | Understanding Escape
It’s rankled the And Sons team a while: it seems like VR presents a real threat of escaping reality, in a negative sense, but haven’t folks found ways to escape reality anyway? Sports, books, hobbies, films, dirt bikes, all that? The question is, is there a difference between escaping from reality and escaping into reality, that is, allowing a larger reality to frame your experience? You talk about these things on a Monday morning so we sat down for a realtime conversation on the topic. We’re supposed to live in such a way that we’re not fried, not on empty, not always reaching for last-minute soul-caffeination. We’re supposed to escape. And we do. But is it working? When you ask your friends how they’re doing, do you know anybody who rarely says “Tired”? So. Let’s evaluate practices of medication and soul care. In brief: we’ve got to return to human nature, to fortifying out understanding of what people are for, generally, and how they thrive, usually. And we have to have a good understanding of our season. And we’ve got to ask God - What practice, rhythm, routine would you like me to take up? This isn’t a buzz kill. You’ll like what God’s calling you to. Pardon the obvious but really. You’ll like the life God is leading you into. Because we’re already escaping. But are we escaping in the right way, at the right times, often enough, getting the results we need? Are we experiencing goodness in our lives more often? Also in this conversation: the staging of the Old Testament, the reader’s imagination, uncovering addiction, and some thoughts on the fact everybody medicates. It’s the soul, so it’s a wandering conversation.
The Victory of Jesus Christ
In Part 2 of this series, discover a deeper understanding of spiritual warfare - and how breakthrough is possible.
The Shift to With
The Shift to With—By Allen Arnold What does it look like to pursue your identity and creativity actively and intimately with God? In The Shift to With, Allen Arnold provides a roadmap for experiencing bigger dreams, greater freedom and truer success in the very areas that make you come alive. In this teaching session, Allen reveals how we all spend our days either in the Orphan Realm or the Freedom Realm. Though few realize it, this impacts every aspect of how we live, love, and create. Discover how to make the foundational shift from a life of independence and self-reliance to a life wholly dependent on God—an unscripted life of expectancy, intimacy, and imagination as a Son or Daughter with God. For more, visit WithAllen.com
101 | Dr. Charles Stone: Holy Noticing : Christian Mindfulness and How to Love Your Life More
Dr. Charles Stone has been a student of the brain for a dog’s age and written on neuroscience across fields. It turns out, understanding human nature, physiology included, outlines a path into practices that promote make your life better. We know: not exactly a surprise but it got us thinking. Anyway, it turns out mindfulness, or being present to God in your moment, is a Christian discipline with roots reaching back millennia. In our conversation, Dr. Stone outlined a mindfulness practice that produces practical relief like happiness, gratitude, an experience of the presence of God, empathy, etc, as well as complex stuff like cognitive reserve, new neurological defaults, and a diminished fear response. One more thing. Get this: in a brain study on nuns, researchers found that nuns experienced Alzheimers and dementia about as often as other people. Surprise surprise. BUT: you wouldn’t know. The nuns didn’t show symptom of either. That’s because they had healthy brains, cultivated through practices like mindfulness and contemplative prayer and statio. When parts of their brains stopped working, other parts took over. It’s called having strong cognitive reserve, and the point is, take care of your brain now, and you’ll thank us later.
Spiritual Warfare: A Biblical Foundation
Spiritual warfare is a confusing, lightning rod topic for many Christians. In this new multi-part series, John and Morgan ground it in Scripture, dispel myths, and explain what it is—and isn't.
100 | Decade by Decade by Decade
For our 100th episode and Sam's 30th birthday, we reflect back on what small, daily, choices made in the days can look like over time. And the reverse: to not look at a single moment and miss all the choices that led to it.
A Lost Treasure
What does the thought of the return of Jesus provoke in you? John and Allen discuss this massive lost treasure of the gospels.