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The World – Part 1
This powerful new series reveals the subtle and blatant ways we try to create a world where (we think) we don't need God. In this first of six sessions, John, Morgan, and Allen discuss how a life of comfort and convenience compromises the soul.
52 | Fathering and Patience
In this episode, Sam and Blaine revisit fathering a year and a half into the game. It turns out, fathering is like most relationships, only more so. It requires a few skills everyone should have, like a method for developing patience, a thorough understanding of repentance, and the ability to pick out strands of joy in the middle of otherwise encompassing work. Sam and Blaine talk through these and other practices, as well as some basic tenants of the relational soul, like the fact relationship comes from sabbath, and the inclination of the heart to seek comfort when what it needs is intimacy.
Sorrow to Joy
Stasi Eldredge reveals the key to unlocking joy in our lives, especially during seasons of loss and despair.
51 | The Stories Our Culture is Telling, and What That Reveals
From fiction to film to television, cultures across time have been creating a narrative for the public. National identities, hopes and dreams for the future, ways of placing ourselves in history, all are woven into the simple and complex stories that we tell. What stories are we telling ourselves these days, and what does that reveal about our culture now?
5 Agreements That Are Killing Millennials – Part 2
John, Sam, and Blaine identify three more false realities that millennials need to break free from in the second half of this series.
50 | Income, Wealth, and Contentment
You've probably made some assumptions by the title alone, but this episode is around conversations that we seem to keep having. "If only I made a little more... then I would be happy" seems to be a sentiment that, if not always spoken aloud, creeps in and tries to give the verdict on our lives. Happiness, contentment, joy, hope... these are all attributes that take cultivation, rather than waiting around for them to appear because the time is right.
5 Agreements That Are Killing Millennials – Part 1
Discover five toxic social and personal agreements millennials make in the first of this two-part conversation with John, Sam, and Blaine.
49 | Sam Ainslie: The Soul at Work
Sometimes the easiest sages to miss are the ones already in your life—we work hard to avoid that mistake, and today we sat down with Sam Ainslie of the RH staff to talk about work. A career, specifically, and how to keep your heart alive in varied seasons of a working life. This conversation also dives into work stress (how much is too much), direction (do you really need to know where you’re going) and purpose (can you develop a vocation inside a career?).
The Emotional Life of Jesus
As we enter Easter week, John shares thoughts on the playful, disruptive, extravagant personality of Jesus from Scripture and his book Beautiful Outlaw.
30 – Sorrow to Joy – 3/21/2018
3/21/2018: Sorrow to Joy – Join Stasi as she shares about the victory Jesus has won for us and the key to unlocking joy in our lives in every season of life. Though one of Jesus’ names is the Man of Sorrows – let us not forget that even as he suffered for the cause of Love – it was the joy that was set before him that propelled him forward. He is the Man of Sorrows, yes, but he also the God of Joy. In the midst of the sorrows of our lives – in the midst of our travails, our trials and our celebrations, we too can have hope because everlasting joy is our inheritance and our future is assured. Video Clips Used1. https://youtu.be/0HUf68gFGEE Worship Set from March 2018Joy Will Come - (5:11) (Desperation Band; Light Up the World)I Am No Victim - (4:42) (Kristene Dimarco; I Am No Victim)Your Word (Live) - (7:00) (Hillsong Worship; Let There Be Light)Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)- (8:56) (Hillsong United; Zion)So Will I (100 Billion X) - (6:51) (Hillsong United; Wonder)You are Mine (Live) - (5:24) (Mosaic MSC; Glory & Wonder)It Is Well (Live) - (6:25) (Bethel Music; You Make Me Brave)Forever (Live) - (6:50) (Kari Jobe; Majestic)What a Beautiful Name - (5:41) (Hillsong Worship; Let There Be Light)
48 | Male Friendship: In the Studio with Alex and Morgan
What do two decades of friendship look like? How is it even possible these days, with travel, life changes, and the difficulties of keeping in touch with friends? Alex Burton and Morgan Snyder join Blaine and Sam in the studio to talk about male friendship, what works, what hurts, and some practical reorientations on how we should be thinking about ourselves and building a close group around us.
Consecrating Empathy – Part 2
In the second half of the conversation, John, Allen and Alex dive into practical ways to protect your heart as you care for the needs of others.
47 | Five Agreements that are Killing Millennials (Part 2)
In Part 2, Padre joins Sam and Blaine to finish their conversation on social and personal agreements that are killing millennials, and what is possible by breaking them.
Consecrating Empathy – Part 1
The needs around us can be overwhelming – from world news and local events to family issues. John, Allen, and Alex discuss what it means to give everything and everyone to God ... including our empathy.
46 | Five Agreements that are Killing Millennials (Part 1)
"I fear the worst has happened. You are losing heart, may have already lost it altogether." This weeks conversation with Padre centers around one of the articles written in the Winter '18 issue of And Sons, which we hope conveys the posture of love that it was offered from, rather than some assumed condemnation. As Padre writes: "I believe this loss of heart, now sweeping an entire generation, is deeply linked to some core beliefs that have crept in. I call them “agreements” because they are ideas which have secured a deep agreement in your heart without you really stopping to consider the implications. We all breathe a cultural air; the assumptions we absorb are the very things that seem to us to need no explanation. Which is good news, actually, because it means you can fight your way out; you can get your hope and your heart back."
Micro Practices
John and Morgan swap stories about simple ways to access more of God in the middle of our busy days.