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89 | Bart Hansen - Maturing Adventure [Explicit]
“If your life with God doesn’t have a regular dose of adventure,” Padre says, “It’s not going to sustain the masculine soul.” That’s all well and good, but what if you live in the city? What if you have young kids? What if any one of a hundred what-ifs make adventure difficult? To answer that question, we snagged Bart Hansen, of the Ransomed Heart team. Bart has built rockets, parasails, and airplanes, flown all over the west, and done some of the craziest things we’ve ever heard. But it turns out none of those things define his life of adventure. Nope. Instead, Bart uses three categories to explore adventure as it relates to the life of the heart: Casual, Crucial and Epic Adventure. Casual adventures are everyday outings. Crucial adventures involve the maturation of the soul. Epic adventures hinge upon the risk of love. It turns out we need all three. From swim training in a snow storm to pursuing irritating neighbors to loving the woman in your life, this is an episode everyone needs.
A Captivating Invitation
Wild at Heart has a special announcement regarding our April 2019 Captivating event that women and men will want to hear. Discover more in this conversation featuring Stasi Eldredge, Stacey Burton, and Allen Arnold.
88 | When Information Becomes Action
We've touched on learning before, and this isn't a repeat episode. Recently a young man asked us how we learn things, as in, how we gain skills or information that actually effects our daily lives. Which is really the point of all that information out there, isn't it? Here's the excerpt from the poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay from the episode: "Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour, Rains from the sky a meteoric shower Of facts . . . they lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill Is daily spun, but there exists no loom To weave it into fabric."
Restoration Year
What do you want to be different this year? John and Allen share how to discover God's unique "theme" or advance words for you in 2019.
87 | "I Trust You"
Our identities are shaped by our stories, by the messages we receive from those around us, and by the scripts we seem doomed to live out. But out identity as we know it may not be who we really, truly, are. What we speak over others and over ourselves has immense power, and so much more so when we speak statements of identity. What are the statements you believe about yourself? What if you could exchange your script for a new, better, more hopeful one? What if everyone you knew said, "I trust you"? What would you live like then?
A Christmas Prayer
It can feel impossible during Christmas week to maintain the rhythms that bring us life. To draw us back to God, John and Craig offer a powerful prayer of Christmas mercies and blessings.
86 | Wookie Jones: Risk and risk and risk... the freelance life
Wookie is a designer, coffee shop owner, New Hampshire-based motorcycle rider. He’s a fascinating young dude with a penchant for risk and plenty of insight into which scooter to buy. We roped him in for a few reasons. When you see a guy who owns a coffee shop, works freelance, and maintains a stable of sweet bikes, its hard to imagine how all that happened. We wanted to know the story. What would the established freelancer tell the young freelancer? How do you manage risk when you have so many irons in the fire? And how do you keep your love of motorcycles alive when you’ve got a wife and house and kids? As Wookie admits, the story is messy, but there are always takeaways, and the lessons are invaluable.
Characters of the Christmas Story
In Part 3 of this 2014 Advent series, John Eldredge and Craig McConnell reveal how the mostly ordinary people of the Christmas Story offer extraordinary glimpses into how God's Kingdom works.
God's Wild, Wonderful Ways
In part two of this 2014 podcast series, John and Craig discuss how God's ways are not our ways – whether in the first Christmas story or the story we're living this Christmas.
85 | Dating; Our Stories not Our Posture
Sam, Blaine, and Luke sit down to tell some stories from their experiences in dating from high school, into college, and eventually into marriage. This is not meant to be the official posture of And Sons on dating, but a round table where other's stories and experiences can help by way of understanding our own stories. What are the messages your story with dating is telling you, and what are the agreements you might be making over your future? The reference for the purity movement mentioned in the episode is from a lecture at Fuller, but the source is work by Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers. Her book is "Sex, God, and the Conservative Church". This episode is not about Dr. Sellers book, nor was the conversation guided by it.
84 | Advent, Folks, or, The Final Words of Prophet Jeremiah
It’s Advent, folks. The beginning of the year. The reorientation to our revolution. Sure, advent is a time of preparation, too, but it’s also a time of doubling down on our story, of circling up to raise a glass to the Kingdom of God and remind ourselves of the urgency of our hour. It’s hard to say it better than folks have said it for centuries - “When the Church celebrates the liturgy of Advent each year, she makes present this ancient expectancy of the Messiah, for by sharing in the long preparation for the Savior’s first coming, the faithful renew their ardent desire for his second coming…the Church unites herself to his desire.”
The Disruptive Invitation
As we revisit this Christmas series from 2014, John Eldredge and Craig McConnell invite us to see the "holidays" as holy days this Advent season.
83 | A New (and Old... and Daily) Hope
What are you hoping for? What are you thinking about on a daily basis that brings expectation and anticipation? We all know the story of the Christian hope, it's on t-shirts and tattoos and hallmark cards. How often are we framing our days based on it though, and how often is the world's version taking over?
Initiating Boys – Part 4
In this final installment, John and Morgan respond to questions from listeners and provide practical ways for women and men to help boys on this journey of initiation.
82 | Work Life Play - The Creative Habits of And Sons
In this episode, we flip the script. Aaron McHugh, of Work Life Play, interviews the And Sons team (Sam and Blaine) to talk about creative work. How does And Sons keep moving dreams down the field and projects out the door? In brief, years of trial and error. But there’s more to it than that. From the personal challenges of work to basic creative habits, this is an episode on how to ship. Here’ the copy from Work Life Play: Today’s interview is with Blaine and Sam Eldredge with And Son’s Magazine. We talk about their eight-year dream of creating a print magazine, the power of transformation v.s. entertainment, masculinity as a lens by which we can view everything else, in defense of millennials, the joy of words, vulnerability and going first, the temptation to quit, brotherhood and hearing God’s voice. Love Work Life Play? Find Aaron McHugh over at aaronmchugh.com, and subscribe to the Work Life Play podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
Initiating Boys – Part 3
John and Morgan share stories about the power of initiating boys in the everyday, informal, unscripted moments of life.