Best Host Andy Wiegand Podcasts (2024)

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Ep. 50 | Is Reading the Bible the Fastest Way to Lose Your Faith? A review: How NOT to Read the Bible. 36:21

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Highlights: How NOT to Read the Bible (Episode 50) The road to atheism is littered with Bibles that have been read cover to cover. To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click “I agree.” Never Read a Bible Verse By lifting verses out of context, they can easily be misun…

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Ep. 49 | What’s On My Bookshelf? | A Review: Plagues Upon the Earth, by Kyle Harper - The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse | Part 3 34:51

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What’s On My Bookshelf? A Review: Plagues Upon the Earth, by Kyle Harper - The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse | Part 3 - Highlights Coronaviruses and influenza viruses are the ones that we are currently worried about. H5N1 (a bird flu)...if it ever gets airborne...it’s got a 60% death rate. (Dr. Larry Brilliant, Harvard Magazine) It is the advan…

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Ep. 48 | What’s On My Bookshelf? | A Review: Plagues Upon the Earth, by Kyle Harper - The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse | Part 2 34:45

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What’s On My Bookshelf? A Review: Plagues Upon the Earth, by Kyle Harper The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse | Part 2 Highlights We still have much to learn from the experience of those who lived and died before us. It is urgent that we do so. The long history of disease counsels us to expect the unexpected. The worst threat may be the one we can…

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Ep. 47 | What’s On My Bookshelf? | A Review: Plagues Upon the Earth, by Kyle Harper - The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse | Part 1 27:53

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What’s On My Bookshelf? Part 1 | A Review: Plagues Upon the Earth, by Kyle Harper The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse Highlights Up to around 1700 life on earth was short and full of sorrow. Life expectancy was below 30 years. Most people died of infectious disease...around 1900 a great threshold was crossed for the the first time in the history …

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Ep. 46 | What’s On My Bookshelf | Part 1 | Eight Ways to Make This Your Best Year Ever 36:25

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What’s On My Bookshelf | Eight Ways to Make This Your Best Year Ever 4000 Weeks, by Oliver Burkeman We’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans yet practically no time at all to put them into action...Stop trying so hard...It’s ok to give up on what’s impossible in the first place. One: Accept the limitations …

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Ep 45 | Ears : The Soft Power of Listening | Part 8 | Six Reasons We Don’t Listen and What to Do About It 31:54

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Highlights Ears: The Soft Power of Listening - Part 8 (Episode 45) Six Reasons We Don’t Listen and What to Do About It Six reasons most of us don’t listen well: 1. We’ve never been taught how. We are encouraged to listen to our hearts, and listen to our gut, but rarely are we encouraged to listen carefully and with intent to other people. ( Kate Mu…

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Ep 44 | Ears : The Soft Power of Listening | Part 7 | Miracle Grow for Relationships 28:26

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Highlights Ears: The Soft Power of Listening - Part 7 (Episode 44) Miracle Grow for Relationships Marriage The decision to get married is weighted heavily toward what we see...is this person physically attractive to me? But the decision to stay married is weighted more toward what we hear...do I have satisfying communication with my spouse? Thirty-…

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Ep. 43 | Ears : The Soft Power of Listening | Part 6 | Persuasion Starts Here 25:45

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HIghlights - Ears (Part 6, Episode 43) Persuasion Starts Here People don’t care what we know until they know that we care.” To listen well is the first step in caring. Persuasion begins with listening well. Four scenarios: 1. When someone is angry 2. When you are trying to make a sale I discovered early on that people don’t buy from me because they…

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Ep. 42 | Ears : The Soft Power of Listening | Part 5 | Help! I’m Hurting! 28:44

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Ears: The Soft Power of Listening - Part 5 (Episode 42) Help! I’m Hurting! Highlights Be kind to everyone you meet because everyone you meet is fighting a battle. When it comes to helping the hurting...this is almost always true of our words. Less is more. Job’s comforters did everything right for the first seven days, and so do we when we do the s…

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Ep. 41 | Ears : The Soft Power of Listening | Part 4 | Seven Habits of Highly Effective Listeners (4-7) 24:27

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Ears: The Soft Power of Listening - Part 4 (Episode 41) Seven Habits of Highly Effective Listeners (Continued) HIghlights Listening well means to pay careful attention to what’s being said in a way that encourages people to continue to share even more of their story The fourth habit of highly effective listeners: Don’t use your own stories to compe…

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Ep. 40 | Ears : The Soft Power of Listening | Part 3 | Seven Habits of Highly Effective Listeners (1-3) 24:19

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Highlights: Ears | Seven Habits of Highly Effective Listeners (1-3) A checklist for listening well First, keep the focus on the other person A support response does this by asking questions and reflecting/paraphrasing what the other person is saying. While listening...One of the most helpful things we should be listening for is an open door to ask …

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Ep. 39 | Ears : The Soft Power of Listening | Part 2 | The Secret Sauce of Great Conversations 27:55

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Highlights: Ep. 39 | Ears | Part 2 | The Soft Power of Listening - The Secret Sauce of Great Conversations Curiosity...it’s the single most important factor in listening well. It’s the secret sauce. Great conversations are driven by curiosity. So follow your curiosity. The obvious tool of my trade is the tape recorder, but I suppose the real tool i…

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Ep.38 | Ears : The Soft Power of Listening | Part 1 | Five Reasons This May Be Our Most Important Life Skill 28:53

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Highlights: Ep.38 | Ears | Part 1 | Five Reasons This May Be Our Most Important Life Skill Definition: Listening well is more than just hearing with our ears. It’s hearing with our hearts. One: Listening well creates a unique and almost sacred bond between people. Those who listen longer than most people ever listen will hear things that most peopl…

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Ep. 37 | Mere Christianity | Part 16 | The Road Less Traveled 38:57

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Highlights - Ep. 37 | Mere Christianity | Part 16 | The Road Less Traveled I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity. (God in the Dock) Christ says, “Give me all. I don’t want so much of your time and so…

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Ep. 36 | Mere Christianity | Part 15 | Next Steps Toward a Greater Destiny 31:22

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Highlights: Ep. 37 | Mere Christianity | Part 16 | The Road Less Traveled The secret to the abundant life is not our responsibility but our response to God’s ability. (E.Stanley Jones) First: The Imitation of Christ - “Let’s Pretend.” Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already. That is why chil…

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Ep. 35 | Mere Christianity | Part 14 | Your First Step Toward a Greater Destiny 40:00

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“Everything which really needs to be done in our souls can be done only by God.” “If Christianity only means one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance. There has been no lack of good advice for the last four thousand years! A bit more makes no difference!” Christianity is about being a friend of God. It’s relational. It’s n…

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Ep. 34 | Mere Christianity | Part 13 | More Than What We've Become 29:04

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Highlights: Ep. 34 | Mere Christianity | Part 13 | More Than What We've Become When we draw our circle bigger we’re enriched. When we don’t we’re impoverished and diminished. Streams of Living Water, (Richard Foster) If you’ve benefited from the writings of C.S. Lewis, it’s because a few key people a generation ago decided to draw their circle bigg…

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Ep. 33 | Mere Christianity | Part 12 | Failure - A Defining Moment 33:08

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Highlights: Ep. 33 | Mere Christianity | Part 12 | Failure - A Defining Moment “The main thing we learn from a serious attempt to practice the Christian virtues is that we fail… God has been waiting for the moment at which you discover that there is no question of earning a pass mark in this exam. The first result of real Christianity is to blow th…

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Ep. 32 | Mere Christianity | Part 11 | To Go The Distance 31:16

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Ep. 32 | Mere Christianity | Part 11 | To Go The Distance Highlights Faith as Lewis uses it here means “spiritual tenacity.” “Faith is…a necessary virtue. Unless you teach your moods “where they get off,” you can never be a sound Christian…but just a creature dithering to and fro, with its beliefs really dependent on the weather and the state of it…

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Ep. 31 | Mere Christianity | Part 10 | The Gift of Tomorrow 32:38

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Highlights: Ep. 31 | Mere Christianity | Part 10 | The Gift of Tomorrow What happens when we die? Only a fool ignores this question. “Think of yourself just as a seed patiently waiting in the earth; waiting to come up a flower in the Gardener’s good time, up into the real world, the real waking. I suppose our whole present life, looked back on from…

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Ep. 30 | Mere Christianity | Part 9 | Just Do It 29:52

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Highlights: Ep. 30 | Mere Christianity | Part 9 | Just Do It Love is the litmus test for authentic Christian living. It’s the one signature quality above all others that defines us as Christ-followers. “Love in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will…It would be quite wrong to think that the …

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Ep. 29 | Mere Christianity | Part 8 | The Greatest Sin 30:35

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Highlights - The Great Sin According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice. Pride, in all its forms is essentially “self-conceit.” Vanity: People…

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Ep. 28 | Mere Christianity | Part 7 | A Terrible Duty 27:30

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Highlights: A Terrible Duty - Episode 28 I said in a previous chapter that chastity was the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. But I am not sure I was right. I believe the one I have to talk of today is even more unpopular: the Christian rule, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Because in Christian morals “thy neighbor” includes “thy …

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Ep. 27 | Mere Christianity | Part 6 | How to Make Marriage Work 28:59

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Highlights: How to Make Marriage Work: Two important keys to making marriage work. First - The determination that marriage is for life. “Christianity teaches that marriage is for life…a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism…”one flesh.” They (various churches) all regard divorce as something like cutting up a living body…some think t…

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Ep. 26 | Mere Christianity | Part 5 | Good Sex 29:33

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Mere Christianity | Part5 | Good Sex - Highlights “Some muddle-headed Christians have talked as if …sex, or the body, or pleasure, were bad in themselves. But they are wrong. Christianity is almost the only one of the great religions which thoroughly approves of the body - which believes that matter is good, that God Himself once took on a human bo…

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Ep. 25 | Mere Christianity | Part 4 | Beyond Politics! 32:06

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About Politics: “Christianity has not and does not profess to have, a detailed political program. We are given the golden rule, ‘Do as you would be done by.’ But how that should be applied…to a particular society at a particular time is not specified for us. “That is why people who are fighting for quite opposite things can both say they are fighti…

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Ep. 24 | Mere Christianity | Part 3 | Time to Come Home 32:57

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“Enemy occupied territory - that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed…landed in disguise…But why is God landing in this enemy-occupied world in disguise? Why is He not landing in force, invading it? Well, Christians think He is going to land in force; we do not know when. But we can guess why He is de…

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Ep. 23 | Mere Christianity | Part 2 | Why is there so much evil? 30:06

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Highlights - Mere Christianity (Part 2) Episode 23 Lewis is more than a pipe-smoking, ivory tower, arm-chair academic. He had literally/personally agonized and bled in the “trenches” over this question: If there is a God, then why is there so much evil and suffering? He knew first-hand, in a way that few of us have ever experienced, that “something…

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Ep. 22 | Mere Christianity | Part 1 | A Clue to the Meaning of the Universe 26:42

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Lewis appeared on the September 8, 1947 cover of Time Magazine. This slightly stooped, round-shouldered, balding professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University was an international “rock star.” One irony…originally Mere Christianity was a series of radio talks! They were never written to be a book! Lewis gave these talks on t…

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Ep. 21 | Teach Us To Pray | Part 10 | A Relationship to Be Pursued 33:42

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Highlights - Episode 21 - Teach Us…A Relationship to Be Pursued Nine prayer practices that have helped me continue to make progress in my own relationship with God. First: Think more relationally…less transactionally. It’s not what we say, it’s who we’re with. “Prayer is not a button to be pushed; it’s a relationship to be pursued.” (Carey Nieuwhof…

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Ep. 20 | Teach Us To Pray | Part 9 | This Means War! 36:12

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Summary Notes - Teach Us…This Means War! (Episode 20) We’re all in the middle of a cosmic conflict between good and evil - a world war. Life is not a playground it’s a battleground. “The whole of the cosmos is caught up in a fierce battle between two rival kingdoms.” (Gregory Boyd, God at War) If you know this is a battle-field and you know the ene…

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Ep. 19 | Teach Us To Pray | Part 8 | Here There Be Tigers 31:38

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Highlights - Teach Us to Pray: Here There Be Tigers (Episode 19) “Lead us not into temptation…” A more accurate and helpful translation: “Spare us from difficult circumstances.” Two reasons - linguistic and theological. “It’s a confession of our weakness. It’s us essentially saying, ‘Lord, I’m weak. I can’t handle the pressure. I’m vulnerable. Don’…

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Ep. 18 | Teach Us To Pray | Part 7 | Set the Prisoner Free 29:33

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Episode 18 Notes Highlights: Set the Prisoner Free (Part 7 - Lord’s Prayer) If you are a Christ-follower, there can be only one response when other people wound us… forgiveness. The Lord’s Prayer expects it. On this issue we’re all called to be super-heroes. Anyone thinking seriously about the Lord’s Prayer has to ask, “Is our forgiveness by God co…

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Ep. 17 | Teach Us To Pray | Part 6 | Recovery Begins Here 33:36

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Highlights: Recovery Begins Here (Part 6 - Lord’s Prayer) “The central defect of evil is not the sin, but the refusal to acknowledge it.” (Scott Peck, People of the Lie) The practice of denial only allows the evil to grow worse. Recovery can only begin when we acknowledge the sin: “Forgive us our sins. “Trespasses” and “Debts” are metaphors for the…

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Ep. 16 | Teach Us To Pray | Part 5 | Isn't Kroger Enough? 31:59

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Highlights: Isn’t Kroger Enough? (Part 5) “Give us this day our daily bread…” Do we really need this part of the Lord’s Prayer? We regard our food as less of a necessity and more like a hobby. Yes, we eat to live but more and more we live to eat. Isn’t this prayer an artifact from a by-gone era of scarcity? John Stott cites Martin Luther, “Luther h…

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Ep. 15 | Teach Us To Pray | Part 4B | Want to Change the World? 30:29

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“When we depend on man we get what man can do…when we depend on prayer we get what God can do.” Prayer changes things. May your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. In this prayer we’re asking for heaven to come to earth…we’re asking for what’s happening in God’s neighborhood to happen in our own…we’re asking for the mission…

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Ep. 14 | Teach Us To Pray | Part 4A | The Lord's Prayer 26:45

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Summary Notes: Teach Us to Pray - Episode 14 (Part 4A) No one is happy about the world the way it is. But turning back the clock is not the answer. The answer lies in looking ahead. And this is the focus of this part of the Lord’s Prayer: “May your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” This part of the prayer expresses our l…

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Ep. 13 | Teach Us To Pray | Part 3 | The Lord's Prayer 30:10

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Episode 13 Notes - Teach Us to Pray (Part 3) Top 5 prayers: family, guidance, health, forgiveness and thanksgiving The trellis of the Lord’s Prayer helps our prayer life to grow up and in the right direction…it trains our hearts to pray differently…it breaks us free from the “treadmill list” of our top five concerns…it helps us to develop new spiri…

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Ep. 12 | Teach Us To Pray | Part 2 | We're Not In Kansas Anymore 29:23

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Episode 12 - The Lord’s Prayer - We’re Not in Kansas Anymore If God is in heaven and God is everywhere then heaven must be everywhere. In other words, heaven has no zip code. Heaven is the world we don’t see. This invisible world is what the Bible means here by “heaven.” To paraphrase: “Our Father, in the unseen but ever present reality that surrou…

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Ep. 11 | Teach Us To Pray | Part 1 | The Lord's Prayer 32:51

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Episode 11 Notes - Teach Us to Pray (Part 1) God values our prayers, more than we may think! Jesus’ disciples never asked him to teach them how to preach. But they did ask him, “Lord, teach us how to pray.” The Lord’s Prayer or The Disciples’ prayer is, in a sense, everybody’s chance to walk where Jesus walked - to put the feet of our souls where J…

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Ep. 10 | Book Review of Quiet, by Susan Cain 34:56

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Episode 10 - Book Review of Quiet, by Susan Cain Episode Notes: Quote: “If there is only one insight you take away from this book…I hope it’s newfound sense of entitlement to be yourself.” TED Talk: The Power of Introverts Website: quietrev.com The Rise of the Extrovert Ideal - We went from being a “culture of character in the 19th century to becom…

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Ep. 9 | Book Review of Grit by Angela Duckworth 36:44

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Episode 9 - Book Review of Grit by Angela Duckworth Episode Notes: The Grit Scale Test 1. New ideas and projects sometimes distract me from previous ones. 2. Setbacks don't discourage me. I don't give up easily. 3. I often set a goal but later choose to pursue a different one. 4. I am a hard worker. 5. I have difficulty maintaining my focus on proj…

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Ep. 8 | The Slower You Go, The Faster You'll Get There 32:41

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Episode 8 - The Slower You Go, The Faster You’ll Get There Analogy with cross-country…It is important to run the right course. Is there a “course” we are meant to run? An important clue is here: 1 John 4:12. God’s love is incompletely expressed only from the perspective of the visible world. The world we live in needs love “with skin on.” It is our…

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Ep. 7 | Why am I a Christian? 43:21

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Episode 7 - Why Am I a Christian? Authentic faith is not something you inherit. Every person must make the choice for themselves. John gives the single most compelling reason that was the tipping point for my own decision to invite Christ into my own heart (1John 4:9-11) His act of self-sacrifice was undeniable. The love that motivated it, was unim…

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Ep. 6 | The Big Mistake People Make about the Church 44:27

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Episode 6 - The Big Mistake People Make about the Church We overweight the bad news and we underweight the good news. We may be a lot better than we think! Love is the litmus test of an authentic relationship with God. 1st Question: Does this mean that it doesn’t matter what you believe or how you live as long as you are a loving person? No. John a…

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Ep. 5 | Thoughts on the Problem of Evil and Suffering 39:18

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Episode 5 - Thoughts on the Problem of Evil and Suffering Why does God allow so much suffering? (Note: In times of trouble we don’t need explanations as much as we need the love of others.) 12 Ideas: 1: We’re not the first to ask this question. Earlier believers found a way through this problem in far more brutal times. We can too. Not fatal to fai…

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Ep. 4 | The Big Mistake People Make about God (1 John 4:7b-8) 31:14

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Ep. 4 | The Big Mistake People Make about God (1 John 4:7b-8) Episode 4: The Big Mistake People Make about God (1John 4:7b-8) - Why the way we think about God is wrong - the breakthrough everyone needs. Many think that God is some cosmic ogre - always out to spoil our fun? John makes two claims. First, God is love. Second, those who claim to know h…

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Ep. 3 | A Simple Approach to a Better Life | Part 3 (1 John 4:7a) 14:50

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Episode 3 - Two practical steps toward implementing a transformational life-plan. Why hurry is kryptonite for your soul. Making the decision to love others changes US and it changes THEM. How Can We Get Better at Doing This? Practical steps: First...Slow down! John Ortberg: “Love takes time and time is the one thing that hurried people don’t have.”…

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Ep. 2 | A Simple Approach to a Better Life | Part 2 (1 John 4:7a) 11:07

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Ep. 2 | A Simple Approach to a Better Life | Part 2 (1 John 4:7a) Episode 2 - The secret of influence and making the world a better place - the magical power of reciprocity. How does this kind of love change things? First, something changes inside of me. Second, something slowly begins to change in other people Confucius was once asked by a student…

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Ep. 1 | A Simple Approach to a Better Life - Part 1 (1 John 4:7a) 17:21

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Ep. 1 | A Simple Approach to a Better Life - Part 1 (1 John 4:7a) Episode 1 - The single most important thing you can do to improve the quality of your life…Love might not be what you think. Highlights and Notes: Here’s a couple of questions to start with: What do you think is the one thing that you could do to create greater happiness/satisfaction…

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