The Gospel Underground Podcast: Recent Episodes

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Movies Referenced

• Free Guy - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6264654/

• The Matrix - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/

• Wreck it Ralph - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772341/

Philosophical Concepts

• Berkeley and Idealism - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/berkeley/

• Don Hoffman's Conscious Realism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_D._Hoffman

• Pantheism, Panentheism, Theism - https://www.theosophical.org/files/events/MahatmaLetters/About_God.pdf

Scriptures Referenced

• Creation - Genesis 1, 2

• Glitch - Genesis 3

• GameWorld/History - Isaiah 46:8-11

• God enters the game - John 1

• Makes a bunch of NPC's alive - John 3:5-8, Colossians 2:13-15

• Gives us a knowledge of what's true and good and really going on - Ephesians 1:7-12

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Show Notes

Scripture Referenced

• Matthew 7:24-27

• Psalm 69:1-3, 14-16

• 2 Corinthians 4:16-18

• Psalm 124 (quoted without reference)

• Psalm 29:10,11

Books Referenced

• For Augustine's reflections on the Summon Bonum see On the Moral Teaching of the Catholic Church, On the Nature of the Good, Book 19, The City of God

• The phrase Beauty and Barbed Wire can be found in John Lennox, Where is God in a Coronavirus World?

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Books Referenced

John Lennox, 2084 - Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity https://www.amazon.com/2084-Artificial-Intelligence-Future-Humanity/dp/0310109566/

The Deep Learning Revolution by Terrance Sejnowsky - https://www.academia.edu/38223831/Sejnowski_Terrence_J_The_deep_learning_revolution_2018_pdf

AI Superpowers Kai Fu Lee, https://www.amazon.com/AI-Superpowers-China-Silicon-Valley/dp/132854639X

Links Referenced

Rosalind Picard Testimony

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/april/rosalind-picard-mit-professor-meets-author-knowledge.html

Episode 4 - Technology and a Human Future - The Gospel Underground Podcast https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2017/9/29/episode-4-technology-and-our-human-future

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Show Notes

Scripture Referenced

Genesis 1; Psalm 19; John 1:1, 14; Philippians 2

Links Referenced

Reason to Believe - https://reasons.org/?s=aliens

Aliens, AI, and God: The Search for Superintelligence by Sean Oesch - https://reasons.org/explore/blogs/voices/aliens-ai-and-god-the-search-for-superintelligence

Stand to Reason - https://www.str.org/home

Cosmological Distances and the Nearest Star - https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/alpha-centauri-triple-star-system-about-4-light-years-from-earth/

Fermi's Paradox - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

The Movie Contact - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/characters/nm0000190

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Scripture Referenced

Joshua 1:9

1 Kings 2:1-4

Psalm 23; Psalm 34:18; Psalm 46

Zephaniah 3:17

2 Corinthians 4:16-18

2 Corinthians 4:7-12

Books Referenced

A Praying Life by Paul Miller

Where is God when it Hurts by Philip Yancey

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Scriptures Referenced

The universe and the Earth are created by God. Creation implies ownership. (Psalm 24:1,2)

We are called to care and cultivate the world as God created and placed humanity in dominion over creation. (Genesis 1, 2)

The creation is a gift and kindness from God to us. The earth provides for our needs for food, air, water, and shelter. (Genesis 9:3; Acts 14:15-17)

We should work and employ creation for human flourishing, multiplication, and honoring God. (Genesis 1, 3, Genesis 9:7)

Books Referenced

Norman Geisler, Christian Ethics, Options and Issues

Wendell Berry, The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

Christopher Camuto, Hunting from Home: A Year Afield in the Blue Ridge Mountains

TM Moore, Consider the Lillies, A Plea for Creational Theology

Helpful Links

Jame Schaefer, Ecological Ethics https://www.saet.ac.uk/Christianity/EcologicalEthics

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Scripture Referenced

Genesis 1; Genesis 9; Deuteronomy 24; Psalm 8;

Matthew 5:21-26; Luke 6:27-31; Ephesians 2; Revelation 7; James 2; Galatians 3:23-29

Books Referenced

Demon Unrest by Erik Larson

Six Frigaites by Ian Toll

Empires of the Sea by Roger Crowley

How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind by Thomas Oden

Links Referenced

The Clapham Sect - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapham_Sect

The Reverend Richard Allen https://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2011/2/18/the-rev-richard-allen.html

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Show Notes

Scripture Referenced

Matthew 22:17-22; Romans 13:1-4; 1 Peter 2:13-17; Titus 3:1-5

Books and Links Referenced

Ryan Burge, Graphs About Religion, https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/

Good and Bad Ways to Think about Religion and Politics by Robert Benne, https://www.amazon.com/Good-Think-about-Religion-Politics/dp/0802863647

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Scripture Referenced

Nehemiah 4; Romans 15:6, 7; Titus 3

Links Referenced

Virginia Tech Wrestling

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Scripture Referenced

1 Peter 3:15; Colossians 4:2-6;

Links Referenced

The Rivendell Institute https://www.rivendellinstitute.org/about/

Jesse Furey, What is Culture? Haus Journal. Online at https://www.bonhoefferhaus.com/hausjournal/whatisculture

The Daily Liturgy https://dailyliturgy.com

Three Body Problem https://www.netflix.com/title/81024821

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Reviewish - Dune Part 2

IMDB - Dune Part 2 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15239678/

The Gospel Coalition - Dune Part 2 - https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/dune-two-spectacle-skeptical/

Scripture References

Fulfillment of Messianic Prophecies

1. Human Race – Born of Woman, Genesis 3:15

2. Ethnic Group – Abraham, Genesis 12:3

3. Tribe – Judah, Genesis 49:10

4. Dynasty – David, 2 Samuel 7:12

5. Manner of Birth – Virgin, Isaiah 7:14

6. Birthplace – Bethlehem, Micah 5:2

7. When he would die – Approx AD 33, Daniel 9:24

8. Way he would die – Isaiah 53

Psalm 19:7–11

[7] The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple; [8] the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes; [9] the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether. [10] More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.[11] Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward. (ESV)

2 Timothy 3:14–17

[14] But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it [15] and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. [16] All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, [17] that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. (ESV)

Psalm 119:105 - Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Books Recommended

In Defense of the Bible: A Comprehensive Apologetic for the Authority of Scripture edited by Steven Cowan https://www.amazon.com/Defense-Bible-Comprehensive-Apologetic-Authority/dp/1433676788

Canon Revisited: Establishing the Origins and Authority of the New Testament Books by Michael J. Kruger https://www.amazon.com/Canon-Revisited-Establishing-Authority-Testament/dp/1433505002

Why Believe? A Reasoned Approach to Christianity by Neil Shenvi https://www.amazon.com/Why-Believe-Reasoned-Approach-Christianity-ebook/dp/B09GYV79JT/

The Journey from Texts to Translations by Paul Wegner https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Texts-Translations-Origin-Development/dp/0801027993

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Scripture Referenced

Exodus 24:1-4

Jeremiah 30:1,2

2 Timothy 3:16, 17

2 Peter 1:19-21

Exodus 20:16, Psalm 15:2

Ephesians 4:25, Revelation 22:15

Books Referenced

Scaling the Secular City by JP Moreland,

Jesus and the Eyewitnesses : The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony by Richard Bauckham

Reviewish

The Deep Learning Revolution by Terrence J. Sejnowski

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Scripture Referenced

Daniel 2:47; Genesis 1-3; Acts 17; Psalm 19; Romans 1-2; Matthew 5:45

What the Bible teaches about Human Salvation

Not Every from Every - The Bible does not teach that every person from every nation will be rescued from sin, death, and hell.

Not all from Some - Nor does God favor any group of people in that all from only some nations will be saved.

Some from Every - The Scriptures are clear that there will be some from every people, tribe, and language in the Kingdom of heaven (Revelation 7:9-12). In a unique way, Jesus' message was as open as can be imagined, yet only some respond. His open call is clear:

The Call of Jesus

All who are weary and heavy burdened...come to Jesus (Matthew 11:25-30)

All who are thirsty...drink (Revelation 22:17)

All who are in darkness...he is light (Matthew 4:12-17; 2 Corinthians 4:1-6)

All who are hungry...come eat and be satisfied (John 6:35-40)

The Deity of Jesus the Christ

He claimed to forgive sin, only what God could do (Mark 2:1-12)

He claimed to be the divine "Son of Man" (Daniel 7:13, 14; Mark 13:24-27)

He claimed to exist before Abraham was born as the "I AM" - the unique name of God in the Old Testament (John 8:48-59)

He claimed that he was "one" with the Father (John 10)

He claimed that if you saw him, you saw the Father (John 14)

He was called "King of Kings and Lord of Lords" superseding the grandeur and authority of all earthly kings and rulers (Philippians 2:9-11; 1 Timothy 6:11-16; Revelation 9:11-16)

Books Referenced

Huston Smith and Huston Smith, The World's Religions : Our Great Wisdom Traditions (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991, 378.

Jean Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, trans. Henry Beveridge (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, 1997), I, xi, 8.

John Hick, Dennis L. Okholm, and Timothy R. Phillips, More Than One Way? : Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Pub. House, 1995), 47-51.

The Blind Men and the Elephant is a very old Indian folk tale. John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887) wrote a poem based on the story which you can read at John Godfrey Saxe, WordInfo, accessed 1/30/2018, 2018. http://www.wordinfo.info/Blind-Men-and-Elephant-crop.html

James W. Sire, Naming the Elephant : Worldview as a Concept, Second edition. ed. (Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press, 2015)

Robert M. Bowman and J. Ed Komoszewski, Putting Jesus in His Place : The Case for the Deity of Christ (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 2007)

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Scriptures Referenced:

Matthew 27:62–66; Mark 15:42-47; Acts 17:31; 1 Corinthians 15:51-58

Links Referenced

Jesus’ Resurrection and Christian Origins. Originallypublished in Gregorianum, 2002, 83/4, 615–635. Reproduced by permission of the author https://ntwrightpage.com/2016/07/12/jesus-resurrection-and-christian-origins/

Edwin Yamauchi, Easter: Myth, Hallucination, or History? Available online www.leaderu.com/everystudent/easter/articles/yama.html

Gary Habermas’ website has many helpful articles on all things Resurrectional as well—http://www.garyhabermas.com/articles/articles.htm

Works Referenced

• John Stott, Basic Christianity

• William Lane Craig in Copan and Tacelli, Jesus’ Resurrection , Fact or Figment—A Debate Between William Lane Craig and Gerd Lüdemann (Downers Grover, Intervarsity Press, 2000)

• Gary Habermas and Mike Licona, The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2004).

• NT Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God, (Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 2003)

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Scriptures Referenced:

1 Corinthians 15:1-3, 17

Mark 15, 16; Luke 24; Matthew 28; John 20-21; Acts 1

Works Referenced

William Lane Craig in Copan and Tacelli, Jesus’ Resurrection , Fact or Figment—A Debate Between William Lane Craig and Gerd Lüdemann (Downers Grover, Intervarsity Press, 2000) 31.

Gary Habermas and Mike Licona, The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2004) 49, 50.

Habermas and Licona, 68, 69.

NT Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God, (Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 2003) 686.

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Scripture References

Genesis 1:1; Hebrews 11:3; Romans 1-3

Books Referenced

Darwin Devolves by Michael Behe

Mere Christianity by CS Lewis

No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre

The God Hypothesis by Stephen C. Meyer

Reasonable Faith, Christian Truth and Apologetics by William Lane Craig

Reasonable Faith Animated Videos https://www.reasonablefaith.org/animated-videos

The Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin

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Scripture Referenced

Ecclesiastes 7:10 Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.

Psalm 90:12-17

12] So teach us to number our days

that we may get a heart of wisdom.

[13] Return, O LORD! How long?

Have pity on your servants!

[14] Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,

that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

[15] Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,

and for as many years as we have seen evil.

[16] Let your work be shown to your servants,

and your glorious power to their children.

[17] Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us,

and establish the work of our hands upon us;

yes, establish the work of our hands!

Ecclesiastes 12

[1] Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; …[7] and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. [8] Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity.

[9] Besides being wise, the Preacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging many proverbs with great care.

[10] The Preacher sought to find words of delight, and uprightly he wrote words of truth.

[11] The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd. [12] My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

[13] The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. [14] For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.

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Links

The Creator - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11858890/

Scripture Referenced

Revelation 1:8

[8] “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Revelation 21:5–8

[5] And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” [6] And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. [7] The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son. [8] But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 22:12–13

[12] “Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done. [13] I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”

Ecclesiastes 12:1–8

[1] Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; [2] before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, [3] in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed, [4] and the doors on the street are shut—when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low—[5] they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets—[6] before the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, [7] and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. [8] Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity.

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Show Notes

David Ritchie’s Biography https://www.davidaritchie.com/about

Book Link Why Do the Nations Rage?: The Demonic Origin of Nationalism.

Mending Divisions Curriculum https://www.mendingdivisionacademy.com

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Reviewish Links

Blackstone Griddles - https://blackstoneproducts.com

Porter Road Butchers - https://porterroad.com

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Scripture Referenced

[13] Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good? [14] But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, [15] but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, [16] having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. [17] For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.

1 Peter 3:13-17

Links Referenced

Reid S. Monaghan Resources

https://ftc.co/resource-library/blog-entries/the-place-of-apologetics/

https://www.powerofchange.org/blog/?category=Apologetics

https://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2011/10/5/apologetics-series-summary.html

https://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2011/9/22/the-practice-of-apologetics-a-football-metaphor.html

Apologetics Resources

No, we do not agree with everything, everyone believes. So, as always, use discernment with any and all recommended resources.

Tim Keller, In Defense of Apologetics https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/in-defense-of-apologetics

Stand to Reason - Str.org

Reasonable Faith - ReasonableFaith.org

Jude 3 Project https://jude3project.org joh

Mama Bear Apologetics mamabearapologetics.com

Alisa Childers https://alisachilders.com

Gospel in Life gospelinlife.com

Amy Orr-Ewing amyorr-ewing.com

Ligonier Ministries https://www.ligonier.org

John Lennox https://www.johnlennox.org/resources

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Scripture Referenced

Mark 11:27-33

1 Timothy 1:15-17

Links Referenced

Why Men Love Ken by Louise Perry https://louiseperry.substack.com/p/why-men-love-ken

In Defense of Apologetics by Tim Keller https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/in-defense-of-apologetics

What Moves Someone from Skeptic to Believer - Part 1 https://worldviewbulletin.substack.com/p/what-moves-someone-from-skeptic-to by Jana Harmon

What Moves Someone from Skeptic to Believer - Part 2 https://worldviewbulletin.substack.com/p/what-moves-someone-from-skeptic-to-52c by Jana Harmon

Review - Questions and the Gospel Diamond

Creation - what’s all this then?!

Questions we can ask:

Where did all this amazing stuff come from?

Do you ever wonder why we are here? Any purpose to any of it?

What do we make of beauty? Standing on a mountain? Before the immensity of the ocean?

We are very small in the universe? Does that mean our lives have no significance?

Fall/Promise - what’s wrong with the world? And us?

Questions we can ask:

Does the world seem to be a good place? A rough place?

Why is there so much injustice?

If people are good, why do they act so bad?

Is evil doing really just the business of your political enemies?

Why is the world full of pain and suffering? Why do we think this is WRONG?

Why do we think things are WRONG, EVIL, UNJUST if we are just atoms and there is no God?

Redemption - how do we get fixed up?

Questions we can ask:

Why do you think Jesus made such a huge impact on our world?

Who do you think that Jesus was/is?

Why do you think Jesus died?

Would it be a big deal to you if it is true that Jesus rose from the dead?

Do you think people need to be forgiven in life? Why? How does this change people?

Kingdom/Future - what’s the future?

Questions we can ask:

What are some of the causes that are important to you?

What is your view of the future of planet earth?

Do you think things are getting better or worse? Why?

Where do people find hope for their future? Where do you? What happens if those things fail? For example, money, health, influence, power, pleasures etc. can be lost.

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Scripture Referenced

[2] Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. [3] At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison—[4] that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak. [5] Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. [6] Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

Colossians 4:2-6

[15] but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect

1 Peter 3:15

Key Themes

Curtis Chang, Engaging Unbelief - A Captivating Strategy from Augustine and Aquinas.

ENTER

RETELL the story exposing the tragic flaw

CAPTURE/COMPLETE the story with the true story of the Gospel

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Scripture Referenced

John 15:15, Mark 10, Luke 19:10, John 20:21

Book Referenced

A Meal with Jesus: Discovering Grace, Community, and Mission around the Table. by Tim Chester.

Gospel Diamond

Creation – There is one God who created all things. The universe, energy, matter, rocks trees and you and I were created by God. He created all things good and in harmony with him and other things. As the crown of creation God created human beings in his image and likeness to be in relationship with him and one another. Reading: Genesis 1-2

Questions we can ask:

Where did all this amazing stuff come from?

Do you ever wonder why we are here? Any purpose to any of it?

What do we make of beauty? Standing on a mountain? Before the immensity of the ocean?

We are very small in the universe? Does that mean our lives have no significance?

Fall/Promise – God gave graciously to the first man and woman and told them that all of creation was theirs to steward yet they were to live by following God and his way. Our first parents chose to disobey God and do life their way and sinned against God. The world as a result has been living in a state of fracture, out of rhythm with God. Human beings, because of sin, now live separated from God and are under his just wrath and condemnation for sin. We feel life doesn’t work, suffering is everywhere, and we stand guilty before God either in active rebellion or passive indifference to our creator. Reading: Genesis 3

Yet concurrently, even as we sinned, God set out on his plan for humanity. God promised to redeem people from sin and death and promised to do so through his own work in history. God himself promised to come and handle the problem of our sin. Reading Galatians 4:4, 5

Questions we can ask:

Does the world seem to be a good place? A rough place?

Why is there so much injustice?

If people are good, why do they act so bad?

Is evil doing really just the business of your political enemies?

Why is the world full of pain and suffering? Why do we think this is WRONG?

Why do we think things are WRONG, EVIL, UNJUST if we are just atoms and there is no God?

How do you think God wants you to treat your family? People at work? The referee of your kids sports game? Why?

Cross – The person of Jesus was God come to earth to die for sin and forgive sinners. He displayed to us in his life and teaching who God is and what he has done. His death is the darkest day in human history (the unjust murder of the Son of God) and at the same time the brightest day in history (Jesus death for sin pays our penalty, satisfies God’s wrath and brings us back in relationship with our creator). Reading – Romans 5:1-11

Questions we can ask:

Why do you think Jesus made such a huge impact on our world?

Who do you think that Jesus was/is?

Why do you think Jesus died?

Would it be a big deal to you if it is true that Jesus rose from the dead?

Do you think people need to be forgiven in life? Why? How does this change people?

Mission/Redemption – Jesus’ mission on earth was to save us from sin, death and hell and bring his Kingdom, a new way of life, to the earth. His resurrection from the dead was a sign of this coming new age where sin, death and hell will be ultimately defeated. This mission intersects our lives when we hear of the love of God expressed towards sinners through Jesus' death on the cross we are called to repent (change our minds and turn away from) of our sin and receive his forgiveness by grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8, 9). The gospel teaches us that Jesus died a death that we deserve, his death for sin. Additionally, he lived the life we could not live, a life without sin. By placing our trust/faith in him we receive forgiveness and pardon from God for our sins and are counted righteous before God in him. In Jesus we are brought back into relationship with God and given eternal life as the gift of his grace and love. We are then transferred from a dark path into the path of redemption and mission in the world. We intersect with eternity on Jesus' mission which is manifesting and ultimately bringing into fullness the Kingdom of God.

All who trust in him and follow him become a part of his church, a community on mission to see others meet Jesus, have their sins forgiven and then together represent his Kingdom in our community. At the end of time King Jesus will fully bring a Kingdom (heaven) where sin will be gone, death is defeated, and every tear will be wiped away. All who trust in him will be with him forever, those who persisted in denying God and living their sinful path will be separated from him forever in Hell.

Questions we can ask:

What are some of the causes that are important to you?

What is your view of the future of planet earth?

Do you think things are getting better or worse? Why?

Where do people find hope for their future? Where do you? What happens if those things fail? For example, money, health, influence, power, pleasures etc. can be lost.

A Dozen or so Gospel Themes

Revolution – Jesus overcame the authority of sin, Satan, death, and hell

Liberation – Jesus came to set captive people free

Kingdom – Jesus came to bring a different rule and reign

Suffering – Jesus suffered for us and he suffers with us

Unity/Reconciliation/Relationship – By grace Jesus brings us back to the Father and reconciles relationship, we live in union with Jesus

Family – God is our Father, we are sons, daughters, brothers, and sisters, in his family

Adoption – God intentionally chooses and adopts sinful kids

Birth/New Birth/New Life – We are born new, new slate, new life

Judicial – God forgives the guilty by grace at great cost to himself

Farming – God plants seeds that grow in us; he appoints us to bear fruit

Darkness and Light – we can now see; God brings light to a dark world through Jesus the light of the world. The church then shines his light into the darkness

Death and Life – Jesus did not come to make bad people good; he came to make dead people live...now, and forever. Jesus overcomes death and brings a promised resurrection and eternal life.

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Scriptures Referenced

1 Corinthians 15:32-34; James 4:4; John 3:16; 1 John 2:15; Matthew 5:14-16; Matthew 6; 1 Thessalonians 4:9-12

Book Referenced

* Edith Schaeffer, The Hidden Art of Homemaking

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Books Referenced

• Leslie Newbegin, Foolishness to the Greeks

• Rosaria Butterfield, The Gospel Comes with a House Key

Scripture Referenced

• John 4; Acts 17;

• Psalm 104:14, 15; Ephesians 5:18

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Reviewish - Recommended Smokers

• Recteq - Recteq.com

• Grilla Grills - Grillagrills.com

Links Referenced

• Tweet by our friend Garrett Kell

Scripture Referenced

• Acts 1:8, Matthew 29:18-20, John 20:20-22

• Matthew 9:36-38, 2 Corinthians 5:11-15, Colossians 4:2-6

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Quotations Mentioned

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.  CS Lewis, The Weight of Glory

Athanasias Contra Mundum, See https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/one-mans-joy-stood-against-the-whole-world

Scriptures Referenced

• Romans 12:14-21

• Matthew 7:1-6

• 2 Timothy 2:24-26

• Proverbs 26:4, 5

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Links Referenced

Guy Itzchakov and Avraham N. (Avi) Kluger, The Power of Listening in Helping People Change

Ben Sasse, America's True Divide

Books Referenced

Life Together by Dietrich, Bonhoeffer https://www.amazon.com/Together-Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Readers-Bonhoeffer-Works/dp/1506402763

Randy Newman, Questioning Evangelism https://www.amazon.com/Questioning-Evangelism-Randy-Newman/dp/082543324X

Scripture Referenced

Proverbs 15:1-4 1 A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. 2 The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly. 3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good. 4 A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.

James 1:19-21 19 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 21Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

Proverbs 18:13 If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.

Proverbs 10: 19 When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent or in the New Living Paraphrase - Too much talk leads to sin. Be sensible and keep your mouth shut.

Proverbs 16:7 When a man’s ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

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Show Notes

GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy - https://ccel.org/ccel/chesterton/orthodoxy/orthodoxy.vi.html

Nancy Murphy - Bodies and Souls or Spirited Bodies. Reviewed here: https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/bodies-and-souls-or-spirited-bodies/

The Implications of Nancey Murphy’s Non Reductive Physicalism on Confessional Christian Theology.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5021315e24acdbbf56e6893f/t/5e94cde451cce06b0ffa343f/1586810340968/non_reductive_physicalism.pdf

Scriptures Referenced

Genesis 1:26, 27, Genesis 9:5,6, Psalm 8, Job 31:15-23, Matthew 5:21-22, 2 Corinthians 10:5, James 3:7-10

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SHOW NOTES

Links Referenced

Caring Bridge - Morgan Paulette https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/morgan-paulette

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙡𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙤-𝙃𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙘-𝙀𝙘𝙘𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘 𝘽𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙣 by Jason Seville https://twitter.com/jasoncseville/status/1607922623220166658

Three Worlds of Evangelicalism by Aaron Renn https://www.firstthings.com/article/2022/02/the-three-worlds-of-evangelicalism

How I Evolved on Tim Keller by James R. Woodhttps://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/05/how-i-evolved-on-tim-keller

Scripture Referenced

1 Peter 3:13-17

Romans 12:14-21

Matthew 5:9, James 3:18

Matthew 5:43-48

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Books Recommended

How to Stay Christian in College J. Budzizewski

Welcome to College: A Christ-Follower's Guide for the Journey Jonathan Morrow

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Books Referenced

Carl Avon Clausewitz, Vom Krieg (On War)

THOMAS HOBBES, THE LEVIATHAN (1651)

Hunter and Nedelesky, Science and the Good

Links Referenced

John Adams to Massachusetts Militia, 11 October 1798.https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-3102

University of Virginia Center for Politics and Project Home Fire, https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/new-initiative-explores-deep-persistent-divides-between-biden-and-trump-voters/

David French, A Whiff of Civil War in the Air - Malice and misinformation are driving national division. https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/frenchpress/a-whiff-of-civil-war-in-the-air/

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Question 40, War. https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3040.htm

Scriptures Referenced

Matthew 5, Matthew 26:52, James 3:18, Romans 1:25, Romans 12, 13

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Books Referenced

Émile Cammaerts, The Laughing Prophet: The Seven Virtues and G.K. Chesterton

Philip Zimbardo, Man Interrupted https://www.amazon.com/Man-Interrupted-Young-Struggling-About/dp/1573246891/

Timothy Keller, Counterfeit Gods, https://www.amazon.com/Counterfeit-Gods-Empty-Promises-Matters/dp/0525951369/

Wired for Intimacy by William Struthers https://www.amazon.com/Wired-Intimacy-Pornography-Hijacks-Brain/dp/0830837000/

Thomas Charmers, The Expulsive Power of a New Affection, https://www.amazon.com/dp/143357067X

Thomas A'Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, https://www.amazon.com/Imitation-Christ-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486431851/

Ross Douthat, The Decadent Society, https://www.amazon.com/Decadent-Society-America-Before-Pandemic/dp/1476785252/

Links Referenced

Christianity and the Obesity Epidemic, What We Can Do by Laney Greer https://laineygreer.com/christianity-and-the-obesity-epidemic-what-can-we-do/

Feeding and Caring for the Body https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2022/1/17/episode-120-feeding-and-caring

Revolution du Corps - https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2022/3/9/episode-122-revolution-of-the-body

Thomas Chalmers, the expulsive power of a new affection

Augustine, Homily 2 on the first epistle of John https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/170202.htm

Scriptures Referenced

Ephesians 4:17-24

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Books Referenced

• Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites - New Religions for a Godless World https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/tara-isabella-burton/strange-rites/9781541762510/

• Slouching Towards Utopia an Economic History of the 20th Century. https://bookshop.org/p/books/slouching-towards-utopia-an-economic-history-of-the-twentieth-century-j-bradford-delong/17984370?ean=9780465019595

• Tom Nelson, The Economics of Neighborly Love, https://www.amazon.com/Economics-Neighborly-Love-Communitys-Compassion/dp/0830843922/

Links Referenced

• The Gospel Underground Annual Report https://www.gospelunderground.org/s/Annual-Report-2022-V3.pdf

• The Cult of Mac - https://www.cultofmac.com/about/

• The Kings Loot - https://kingsloot.com/pages/secret-story

• The Mindscape podcast episode 209, Brad DeLong Why the the 20th Century Fell Short of Utopia https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2022/09/05/209-brad-delong-on-why-the-20th-century-fell-short-of-utopia/

Scripture Referenced

Proverbs 12:1 Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Ecclesiastes 2:24 So I decided there is nothing better than to enjoy food and drink and to find satisfaction in work. Then I realized that these pleasures are from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 5:18-20 [18] Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot. [19] Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of God. [20] For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart.

1 John 3:16-18 [16] By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. [17] But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? [18] Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Ephesians 4:28 [28] Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need..

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Links Referenced

Alvin Plantinga, "The Dawkins Confusion: Naturalism ad absurdum", Christianity Today,

http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2007/002/1.21.html

GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy, Chapter 5 https://www.ccel.org/ccel/chesterton/orthodoxy.viii.html

Scriptures Referenced

Philippians 4:10-13

[10] I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity. [11] Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. [12] I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. [13] I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Philippians 3:12-14

[12] Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. [13] Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, [14] I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Matthew 5:6

[6] “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied/filled

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Books Referenced

Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites - New Religions for a Godless World https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/tara-isabella-burton/strange-rites/9781541762510/

Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone http://bowlingalone.com

Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community - 8 Essays https://amzn.to/3xrE7QV

Sebastian Junger, Tribe http://www.sebastianjunger.com/tribe-by-sebastian-junger

Links Referenced

They Tried to Start a Church Without God. By Faith Hill https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/secular-churches-rethink-their-sales-pitch/594109/

Scripture Referenced

1 Timothy 5:8

Ephesians 4

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Show Notes

Links Cited

Luck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luck_(2022_film)

RC Sproul, Chance Has No Power, October 21, 2020.

https://www.ligonier.org/posts/chance-has-no-power, accessed August 23, 2022.

Westminster Confession - https://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/westminster-confession-faith

Books Referenced

The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan https://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Irishman-Revolutionary-Became-American/dp/0544272889/

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Norther Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe, https://www.amazon.com/Say-Nothing-Murder-Northern-Ireland/dp/0385521316

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Books Referenced

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan - CHAPTER XIII - OF THE NATURAL CONDITION OF MANKIND AS CONCERNING THEIR FELICITY AND MISERY

C. S. Lewis, “Learning in War-Time,” in The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses.

O Carter Snead, What it Means to be Human, 84, 85.

Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind

Links Referenced

Jonathan Haidt, Why the last 10 years of American Life have been Uniquely Stupid

Crossman, Ashley. "Power Definitions and Examples in Sociology." (accessed August 2, 2022).

Scriptures Referenced

Philippians 2

1 Peter 3

2 Corinthians 4:1-5

Mark 10:42-45

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Books Referenced or Mentioned

The Human Condition Hannah Arendt

Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton

The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche

What it Means to Human by O Carter Snead

Strange Rights: New Religions for a Godless Age Tara Isabella Burton

Scriptures Referenced

Proverbs 16:25 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

1 Corinthians 15:32 What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

1 Timothy 6:9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

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Books Referenced

Guy Land by Michael Kimmel https://www.amazon.com/Guyland-Perilous-World-Where-Become/dp/0062885731/

Man Interrupted by Philip Zimbardo https://www.amazon.com/Man-Interrupted-Young-Struggling-About/dp/1511364785

Links Referenced

Episode 20 – dad up! https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2018/6/23/episode-20-dad-up

Episode 23 -Man Up! Is there a crisis with young men? https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2018/8/1/episode-23-man-up-is-there-a-crisis-with-young-men

Episode 50 Men going their own Way #MGTOW https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2019/6/12/episode-50-men-going-their-own-way

Episode 52 - Girl Power https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2019/7/20/episode-52-girl-power

Episode 65 - Boys to Men https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2019/12/21/episode-65-boys-to-men

Episode 80 – men, marriage and fatherhood https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2020/5/14/episode-80-men-marriage-and-fatherhood

The Demise of Guys - TED Talk by Philip Zimbardo https://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_the_demise_of_guys

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Links Referenced

Top Gun Maverick - Box Office Mojo https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl2500036097/

What's in the Borderlands https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2020/9/24/episode-92-whats-in-them-borderlands

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The Parable of the Madman by Friedrich Nietzsche, found in Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (1882, 1887) para.125; Walter Kaufmann ed. (New York: Vintage, 1974), pp.181-82.

"How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whoever is born after us -- for the sake of this deed he will belong to a higher history than all history hitherto."

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Scriptures Referenced

Proverbs 30:32-33

[32] If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth. [33] For pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and pressing anger produces strife.

Romans 1:5-7

[5] through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, [6] including you who are called to belong to Jesus Christ, [7] To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 John 1:5-8

[5] Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for these brothers, strangers as they are, [6] who testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner worthy of God. [7] For they have gone out for the sake of the name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles. [8] Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.

Psalm 115:1–3

[1] Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness! [2] Why should the nations say,

“Where is their God?”

[3] Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases. (ESV)

Matthew 6:30–34

[30] But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? [31] Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ [32] For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. [33] But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. [34] “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. (ESV)

Books Referenced

Glory Hunger by JR Vassar https://www.amazon.com/Glory-Hunger-Gospel-Quest-Something/dp/143354010X

Embracing Obscurity by Anonymous Author https://www.amazon.com/Embracing-Obscurity-Becoming-Nothing-Everything/dp/1433677814

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Faces-Collected-Joseph-Campbell/dp/1577315936/

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Reviewish

Pig staring Nicholas Cage - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11003218/

Links and Data Referenced

NIH statistics on alcohol https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sheets/alcohol-facts-and-statistics

Heath Effects of Obesity https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesity-consequences/health-effects/

Sexual Assault Statistics https://www.rainn.org/statistics/scope-problem

Books Referenced

O. Carter Snead, What it means to be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics. https://www.amazon.com/What-Means-Be-Human-Bioethics/dp/0674987721

Nancey Pearcey, Love Thy Body https://www.amazon.com/Love-Thy-Body-Answering-Questions/dp/0801075726

Scripture Referenced

1 Corinthians 15

Matthew 22:37, 38

Revelation 21

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Books Referenced

• GK Chesterton - Orthodoxy - https://www.amazon.com/Orthodoxy-G-K-Chesterton/dp/0898705525

• Abigail Favale - The Genesis of Gender https://www.amazon.com/Genesis-Gender-Christian-Theory/dp/1621644081/

• Carl Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Triumph-Modern-Self-Individualism/dp/1433556332/

• Preston Sprinkle, Embodied https://www.amazon.com/Embodied-Transgender-Identities-Church-Bible/dp/0830781226/

Links Referenced

• Abigail Favale, The Eclipse of Sex and the Rise of Gender https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the-eclipse-of-sex-by-the-rise-of-gender/

• Polyamory, Polygamy - growing rapidly https://quillette.com/2019/10/29/polyamory-is-growing-and-we-need-to-get-serious-about-it/amp/

• Pedophilia? https://blog.ted.com/tedx-talk-under-review/amp/

• Bestiality - Peter Singers review of the book “Dearest Pet” https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/09/books/think-tank-yes-but-did-anyone-ask-the-animals-opinion.html

Scriptures Referenced

• Genesis 1& 2

• Judges 21:25

• Ephesians 5 - whole chapter is worth your time

• Romans 12:14-21

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Books Referenced

Sam Allbery What God has to Say about our Bodies, https://www.amazon.com/What-God-Has-about-Bodies/dp/1433570157/

Reid S.Monaghan, Dream a New Dream about Sex https://www.powerofchange.org/s/dream_web_jw.pdf

Scriptures Referenced

1 Corinthians 6:18-20

[18] Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. [19] Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, [20] for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

1 Timothy 4:12,15 [12] Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity...[15] Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress.

Ephesians 4:29

[29] Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Romans 12:1

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

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Links Referenced

A Guide to Fasting by Scott Jones https://www.jacobswellnj.org/articles/post/a-guide-to-fasting

What would Jesus Eat by Doug Ponder https://cfc.sebts.edu/faith-and-culture/what-would-jesus-eat/

The Practice of Rest by Jesse Furey - http://www.vbcradford.com/sermons/2022/1/9/the-practice-of-rest

Books Referenced

Spirit of the Disciplines by Dallas Willard https://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Disciplines-Understanding-Changes-Lives/dp/0060694424/

Embodied by Gregg Allison https://www.amazon.com/Embodied-Living-Whole-People-Fractured/dp/1540900053/

Scriptures Referenced

1 Timothy 4:7, 8 “Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness; for whole bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.”

Proverbs 23:20-21 Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.

Matthew 11:28-30 “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

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Scripture Referenced

Luke 2:8-14 (ESV)

8 And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear. 10 And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 12 And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.” 13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,

14 “Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!

Philippians 2:5-11 (ESV)

5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,[a] 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,[b] 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant,[c] being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Links Referenced

Christmas Charlie Brown - Linus and Luke 2

https://youtu.be/Q6Ibgid5Ox4

CS Lewis on the Theology and Practice of Worship by Justin Taylor

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin-taylor/c-s-lewis-on-the-theology-and-practice-of-worship/

Hark the Herald Angels Sing by Charles Wesley, a modern arrangement that is a favorite of the Home Team, from the 2011 album A Child is Born from Sojourn Music.

https://music.apple.com/us/album/hark-the-herald-angels-sing/480923466?i=480923491

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Our bodies are instruments to be played in honor of the King, not weaponized to dishonor God and debase other human beings

Reviewish

• Mindscape Podcast Episode - Christopher Mims - Our Interconnected Industrial Ecology https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2021/11/01/171-christopher-mims-on-our-interconnected-industrial-ecology/

• The Box - How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson https://www.amazon.com/The-Box-Marc-Levinson-audiobook-dp-B00I51PQZU/dp/B00I51PQZU/

• Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed about How and What We Buy by Christopher Mims https://www.amazon.com/Arriving-Today-Factory-Everything-Changed/dp/B08VBLBX6N/

• Dune AudioBook https://www.audible.com/pd/Dune-Audiobook/B002V1OF70

Scripture Referenced

• Genesis 1 and 2

• Romans 6:10-12

• 1 Corinthians 6:20

• Ephesians 5:28-29

Books Referenced

• Embodied by Gregg Allison

• Love Thy Body by Nancy Pearcey

• What God has to Say About Our Bodies by Sam Allberry

• What it Means to be Human, The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics by O. Carter Snead

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Scripture Referenced

Deuteronomy 29:29

The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

1 John 4:16–19

[16] So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. [17] By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. [18] There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. [19] We love because he first loved us.

Monaghan Home Team Values

Family Mission - follow Jesus to love and serve others, and have him use our lives to seek and save the lost

Leadership and Influence - We desire to influence others and stand on our own if and where need be. God has gifted and called us so why not lead!?

Life of the Mind - We value logic, thinking, reading, questions and thoughtful engagement with people in culture.

Theological convictions, yet never have lived in a church/Christian bubble - Our kids grew up in NJ in an ideologically and religiously pluralistic culture. We want to resist being captured by the culture but not live in fear of it. We do not think we must hide in a Christian subcultural world. This is ineffective and contrary to our missional calling in Christ.

Excellence and Achievement - Try Hards! Just be Awesome! We are loved by God so we are free to try hard yet fall hard into the sea of grace. It’s OK to fail forward so why not swing hard. If things go wrong we have each other and the deep ocean of the grace of God to catch us.

Openness and Conversations - We are willing to be around for one another in order to listen when we need to vent, bounce ideas off of someone, etc. This has built understanding and friendship in our family.

Humility and Service - We believe that nobody is a big deal but everybody is a big deal. There are no people who are too lofty or too low to love love. We want to have humble, sober judgment of ourselves and be willing to connect with anyone.

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LG UltraFine 4K Monitor

Hitchhiker’s Guide - Recommended Resources for the Road

The Question of God - CS Lewis and Sigmund Freud Discuss God, Sex and the Meaning of Life by Armand M. Nicholi Jr.

Confronting Christianity by Rebecca McLaughlin

The Return of the God Hypothesis by Stephen Meyer

Scripture Referenced

Mark 8:27-29

27 And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” 28 And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.” 29 And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.”

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Today's Guest

Randy Newman is the author of Mere Evangelism and the Senior Fellow for Evangelism and Apologetics at The C. S. Lewis Institute in the Washington, DC area. He has also taught at numerous theological seminaries and colleges. After serving for over 30 years with Campus Crusade for Christ, he established Connection Points, a ministry to help Christians engage people’s hearts the way Jesus did. He has written a number of books and articles about evangelism and other ways our lives intertwine with God’s creation. He and his wife Pam live in Annandale, VA and are grateful for their children and a growing number of grandchildren. He is also the host of Questions That Matter, a podcast of the C. S. Lewis Institute

Source: https://www.amazon.com/Randy-Newman/e/B001KI1W0S/

Books Referenced

Questioning Evangelism https://www.amazon.com/Questioning-Evangelism-Engaging-Peoples-Hearts/dp/0825444284

Mere Christianity https://www.amazon.com/Mere-Christianity-C-S-Lewis/dp/0060652926

Mere Evangelism https://www.amazon.com/Mere-Evangelism-Insights-Lewis-Share/dp/1784986445

Scriptures Referenced

Mark 10:17-22 - 17 And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 18And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. 19You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’” 20And he said to him, “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.” 21And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” 22Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.

1 Peter 3:15

13Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good? 14But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, 15but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect

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Scriptures Referenced

• Ecclesiastes 7:1-6

• John 11:17-44

Links Referenced

• Because I could not stop for Death (479) by Emily Dickinson - Poems | poets.org. https://poets.org/poem/because-i-could-not-stop-death-479.

• “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”– Søren Kierkegaard Source info https://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~jorgen/kierkegaardquotesource.html.

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Reid talks with Mike Echstenkamper, his spiritual mentor from his time at UNC Chapel Hill

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Links Referenced

Letter From Birmingham Jail - Historical Context - https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/letter-birmingham-jail

Text Available - https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/letter-from-birmingham-city-jail-excerpts/

Books Referenced

Engaging unbelief, a captivating strategy from Augustine and Aquinas by Curtis Chang

Mere Christianity by CS Lewis

Scripture Referenced

Romans 3:10, Romans 6:23.24, Mark 1:14,15

William Lane Craig’s Moral Argument

1. If GOD DOES NOT EXIST then OBJECTIVE MORAL VALUES do not exist (If P THEN Q)

2. OBJECTIVE MORAL VALUES do exist (NOT Q)

3. There GOD EXISTS (Therefor NOT P)

MODUS TOLLENS - taking away or denying the consequence.

If P, then Q.

Not Q.

Therefore, not P.

Notice the conclusion is a negation - Not (God does not exist )

The only way to DENY this argument is to demonstrate and ground OBJECTIVE moral values apart from God, OR affirm moral RELATIVISM

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Scriptures Referenced

Luke 18:1-2 [1] And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. [2] He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man (athropos).

Romans 2:12-16 [12] For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. [13] For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. [14] For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. [15] They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them [16] on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.

Psalm 34:8 [8] Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!

Mark 4:9 [9] And he said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Luke 20:22-26 [22] Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or not?” [23] But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, [24] “Show me a denarius. Whose likeness and inscription does it have?” They said, “Caesar’s.” [25] He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” [26] And they were not able in the presence of the people to catch him in what he said, but marveling at his answer they became silent.

Books Referenced

J. Budziszewski - What we Can’t Not Know: A Guide

https://www.amazon.com/What-We-Cant-Not-Know/dp/1586174819

Links Referenced

First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/United_States_of_America_1992

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut, Jan 1, 1802.

https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danpre.html

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10 Questions Every Teen Should Ask (And Answer) by Rebecca McLaughlin

https://www.amazon.com/Questions-Every-Should-Answer-Christianity/dp/1433571668

Confronting Christianity by Rebecca McLaughlin

https://www.amazon.com/Confronting-Christianity-Questions-Largest-Religion-ebook/dp/B07K4PSJYT/

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Links Referenced

American Isn’t split in half, its divided into four by Caroline Mimbs Nyce https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2021/06/america-isnt-split-in-half-its-divided-into-four/619138/

Quotations

This new-synthesis view of morality has four basic elements: (1) a Humean mind-focused sentimentalism, (2) a Darwinian evolutionary account of why the mind has the traits it does, (3) a human interest–based utilitarianism about morality, all embedded within (4) a strident naturalism committed to empirical study of the world. (Science and the Good, 86, 87)

Innovations in neuroscience are important because they help us answer basic questions about morality, namely why you might be concerned with the goals and well-being of people besides yourself. In the new moral science, it turns out that people “have special kinds of neural populations that make concern for others very natural.” (Ibid. Later quotation from Paul Thagard, Ther Brain and the Meaning of Life (Princeton University Press, 2010)

The moral law is not imposed from above or derived from well-reasoned principles; rather, it arises from ingrained values that have been there since the beginning of time. The most fundamental one derives from the survival value of group life.

Frans de Waal, The Bonobo and the Atheist (New Yokr: W.W. Norton and Company, 2013), 228. Quoted in S&G, 88.

Once ethics is viewed as a social technology, directed at particular functions, recognizable facts about how those functions can be better served can be adduced in inferences justifying ethical novelties.

Kitcher, “Naturalistic Ethics without Fallacies,” Preludes to Pragmatism: Toward a Reconstruction of Philosophy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012,) 315. Quoted in S&G, 90.

One strain of naturalism seeks to provide empirical explanations for all of reality by fitting it into a domain of interacting physical particles.38 This would render purely metaphysical or transcendent accounts of reality not only unnecessary but unthinkable. S&G, 91, 92.

“Level Three” findings would provide scientifically based descriptions of, say, the origins of morality, or the specific way our capacity for moral judgment is physically embodied in our neural architecture, or whether human beings tend to behave in ways we consider moral. Evidence for these sorts of views doesn’t tell us anything about the content of morality—what is right and wrong—but they speak to the human capacity for morality and in that sense are interesting. (S&G, 100.)

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Books Referenced

The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray - https://www.amazon.com/Madness-Crowds-Gender-Race-Identity/dp/1635579988/

At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell - https://www.amazon.com/Existentialist-Café-Cocktails-Jean-Paul-Merleau-Ponty-ebook/dp/B00Z3E2KEC/

Links Referenced

How Wrongeth You Are!? A look at Cultural Relativism - https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2018/9/5/episode-26-how-wrongeth

The Nicene Creed - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_versions_of_the_Nicene_Creed

Quotations

The explanations for our existence that used to be provided by religion went first, falling away from the 19th century onwards. Then over the last century the secular hopes held out by all political ideologies begin to follow in religions wake. In the latter part of the twentieth century we entered the postmodern era. An era which defined itself, and was defined, by its suspicion towards all grand narratives. However, as all schoolchildren learn, nature abhors a vacuum, and into the postmodern vacuum new ideas begin to creep, with the intention of providing explanations and meanings of their own.

Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds, page 1.

We are going through a great crowd derangement. In public and in private, both online and off, people are behaving in ways that are increasingly irrational, feverish, herd-like and simply unpleasant. The daily news cycle is filled with the consequences. Yet while we see the symptoms everywhere we do not see that causes...Murray, 1.

People in wealthy, Western democracies today could not simply remain the first people in recorded history to have absolutely no explanation for what we are doing here, and no story to give life purpose. Whatever else they lacked, the grand narratives of the past at least gave life meeting. The question of what exactly we are meant to do now — other than get rich where we can have whatever fun is on offer — was going to have to be answered by something.

The answer that has presented itself in recent years is to engage in new battles, ever fiercer campaigns and evermore niche demands. Defined meaning by waging a constant war against anybody who seems to be on the wrong side of a question which may itself have just been reframed and the answer to which has only just been altered.

The unbelievable speed of this process had principally been caused by the fact that a handful of businesses in Silicon Valley (notably Google, Twitter and Facebook) now have the power not just to direct what most of the world know, think, and say, but have a business model which has accurately been described as relying on finding ‘customers ready to pay to modify someone else’s behavior’ Murray, 1-2.

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Books Referenced

Science and the Good by Hunter and Nedelisky

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300196283/science-and-good

The Story of Western Science by Susan Wise Baurer

https://www.amazon.com/Story-Western-Science-Writings-Aristotle/dp/1511321091/

Quotations and People Referenced

Hugo Grotius (1583-1645)

They hoped that by insisting on observable evidence to support moral claims, they would offer a way to temper some of the most violent conflagrations of human unsociability” Page 39

So he was still a moral realist and thought we just we arrived at morality by studying “what is in accord with the kind of society of rational beings that we all want.” Page 40, Grotius introduced the concept of rights but did not ground them.

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

“As he put it, ‘for these words of Good, Evil, and Contemptible, are ever used in relationship to the person that uses them: there being nothing simply an absolutely so; not any common rule of Good and Evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves.’ Instead, the moral law is whatever human beings make it to be through consent and convention.” Page 42.

Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794)

“In the same manner, by analyzing the faculty of experiencing pain and pleasure, men arrived at the origin of their notions of morality, and the foundation of those general principles which form the necessary and immutable laws of justice; and consequently discovered the proper motives of conforming their conduct to those laws, which, being deduced from the nature of our feeling, may not improperly be called our moral constitution.” Page 45

David Hume (1711-1776)

Hume’s empiricism, by contrast, led him to conclude that moral evaluation simply expressed a person‘s feelings and attitudes with respect to a person or situation. Such sentiments were the sum and substance of moral life, and they could never be connected to any objective, mind independent moral order.” Page 52

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

“The creed which accepts as the foundations of morals “utility“ or the “greatest happiness principle“ holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure.” Page 61

Nietzsche, The Madman, 1882

Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there still any up or down? Are we not straying, as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is not night continually closing in on us?

Dostoevsky in The Brothers Karamazov (1879,80)

Ivan Karamazov claims that if God does not exist, then everything is permitted. If there is no God, then there are no rules to live by, no moral law we must follow; we can do whatever we want.

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Science and the Good by Hunter and Nedelisky

“Roughly put, moral laws flowed from the nature of things,” page 28

The ethical theories of the scholastics grounded morality in natural laws, which were alleged to be graspable by consideration of the essence of things – that is, by appreciating the ends to which things were made. Page 32

The resolution is found in the cultural logic they follow. As they would have it, even if there isn’t anything we objectively “ought” to be doing, we still have to decide, on some basis, how to live and what to do. Without any real ethical standards, we look to social objectives as guides. The project, then, it’s about how science and technology can help us achieve these social goals. The role of science is to reveal how our moral psychology and neurochemistry work—or can be put to work—towards achieving those goals.

The problem is that the social objectives are, in the end, morally arbitrary, reflecting either fluctuating social tastes or the whims of those in power. Page 21...

Links and Media Referenced

Episode 139 of the Mindscape Podcast by Sean Carroll - Elizabeth Anderson on Equality, Work, and Ideology 139 | Elizabeth Anderson on Equality, Work, and Ideology – Sean Carroll (preposterousuniverse.com) March 22, 2021

The Netflix Documentary The Social Dilemma - https://www.netflix.com/watch/81254224

Scriptures Referenced

John 14:6 - Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Mark 10:18 - And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.

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Scripture Referenced

Colossians 4:5–6

[5] Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. [6] Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person. (ESV)

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Books Referenced

James Davison Hunter, Paul Nedelisky, Science and the Good – The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality

Book page - https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300196283/science-and-good

Book Review by Julian Baggini - https://www.wsj.com/articles/science-and-the-good-review-the-anatomy-of-morality-11547596547

Scripture Referenced

John 14:15 (ESV)
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” - Jesus

Romans 2:13–16 (ESV)

12 For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. 13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. 14 For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them 16 on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.

Psalm 34:8–10 (ESV)

8 Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him! 9 Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints, for those who fear him have no lack! 10 The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

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Link Referenced

Ray Ortlund, Immanuel Mantra!

Immanuel Mantra on Vimeo

Scripture Referenced

A Call to Love

8 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. 9 Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. 10 As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace: 11 whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies-in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. - 1 Peter 4:8-11

A Call to Give Grace

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. - Ephesians 4:29

A Call to Truth

25 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. 26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and give no opportunity to the devil. 28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. - Ephesians 4:25-28

A Call for Patience and Forbearance

12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. - Colossians 3:12-14

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Links Referenced

GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy, Strength to Get it On!

Marriage Rates at All Time Low

Abolish the Family?

The National Fatherhood Initiative - Father Facts

What Unites Graduates of Selective Colleges? An Intact Family

Marriage with Family at its Center

Scripture Referenced

Working and Sharing - Ephesians 4:25-28

Household Care - 1 Timothy 5:3-8

Bearing One Another’s Burdens - Galatians 6:1-5

Weep with those who Weep, Rejoice with those who Rejoice - Romans 12:15-18

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Scripture Referenced

The discerning sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth. - Proverbs 17:24

The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him. Proverbs 18:17

Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly. Proverbs 14:29

The fruit of the Spirit is...self-control - Galatians 5:22

8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things Philippians 4:8

Specific to Gossip and Lies

You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. Exodus 23:1

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers. Proverbs 6:16-19

With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered. Proverbs 11:9

A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends. Proverbs 16:28

Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler. Proverbs 20:19

Titus 3:1-10 - 1Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, 2 to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. 4 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.8 The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people. 9 But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless. 10 As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him, 11 knowing that such a person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned.

Links Referenced

Section 230 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. See https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230

CNN Settles Lawsuit with Nick Sandmann https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/07/media/cnn-settles-lawsuit-viral-video/index.html

American Thinker - Dominion Voting Retraction https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/statement.html#ixzz6jl031H1J

Sextus Empiricus - The Modes of Skepticism -https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sextus-empiricus/#Mod

Alexander Solzhenitzen, 1970 Nobel Lecture, released to the world in 1972 https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/nobel-lecture

Books Referenced

Brad Smith, Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age, https://www.amazon.com/Tools-Weapons-Promise-Peril-Digital-ebook/dp/B07PBQQX67/

Rod Dreher, Live Not by Lies - A Manual for Christian Dissidents, https://www.amazon.com/Live-Not-Lies-Christian-Dissidents/dp/0593087399

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Reviewish - Mics and Audio

Best Under $100

Versatile - ATR2100x-USB - Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone - https://www.audio-technica.com/en-us/atr2100x-usb

USB Desktop Mic - Rode NT USBMini RØDE Microphones http://www.rode.com/microphones/nt-usb_mini

Low End XLR (External Line Return) RØDE Microphones - PodMic (rode.com) http://www.rode.com/microphones/podmic

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Shure SM7B SM7B - Vocal Microphone (shure.com) https://www.shure.com/en-US/products/microphones/sm7b

Electrovoice RE20 (now in black!) RE20-BLACK - Broadcast announcer's microphone with Variable‑D https://products.electrovoice.com/na/en/re20-black/

Bonus: Headphone reviewish Meze Noir 99 (Massdrop) https://drop.com/buy/massdrop-x-meze-99-noir-closed-back-headphones

Favorite Episodes

Reid's Top Three

Episode 33 - Underground Saints - Craig Malcolm - https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2018/11/1/episode-33-underground-saints

Episode 52 - Girl Power - Raising Daughters - https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2019/7/20/episode-52-girl-power

Episode 64 - Quitting Social Media, Digital Minimalism - https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2019/12/4/episode-64-quitting-social-media

Jesse’s Top Three

Episode 11–leaning into Lament with Rhys Bezzant - https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2018/1/20/episode-11-leaning-into-lament

Episode 84 — Civility and Kindness - https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2020/6/15/episode-84-civility-and-kindness

Episode 61 — Working Deep Work - https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2019/10/30/episode-61-working-deep-work

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Links Referenced

Is Christmas a Pagan Ripoff by Kevin DeYoung - https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevin-deyoung/is-christmas-a-pagan-rip-off/

A Christmas Tradition - Consider Christmas Letters to your Kids! https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2018/1/5/episode-10-a-christmas-tradition

Books Referenced

Shadow and Light by Tsh Oxenreider https://tshoxenreider.com/advent/

Jesus Storybook Bible Advent Kit - https://www.sallylloyd-jones.com/2020-advent/

Athanasius on the Incarnation https://www.amazon.com/Incarnation-Athanasius-Alexandria/dp/1537586319/

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Reid and Kayla discuss her first semester as a thoughtfully engaged Christian in a university setting.

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Links Referenced

US Declaration of Independence

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Moral Universe of Timothy Keller by Peter Wehner

The World Needs Clarity of Human Rights by Paul Marshall

Books Referenced

Michael J. Perry, Toward a Theory of Human Rights

Dr. Timothy Keller’s book, The Reason for God

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Reviewish and In/Out

Misen Carbon Steel Pans - https://misen.com/products/carbon-steel-pan

New M1 Macs - https://www.apple.com/mac/m1/

Battlebots Hex Bugs - https://www.battlebotsstore.com

Scriptures Referenced

Psalm 121; Genesis 1; 1 Corinthians 14:33, 40

Books Referenced

Neal Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

Plato’s Republic

Homer’s Odyssey 

1984, George Orwell 

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

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Scripture Referenced

1 You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, 2 and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also. 3 Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4 No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. 5 An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. 6 It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops. - 2 Timothy 2:1-6

Links Referenced

Policies, Persons, and Paths to Ruin by John Piper

A Response to my friend John Piper by Wayne Grudem

What exactly is a Boston Butt? Hit up Wikipedia

Sojourn Music
Album - Over the Grave - https://sojournmusic.bandcamp.com/album/over-the-grave

Track 09. Refuge

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Silicon Kitchen Baking Cups - https://www.amazon.com/Silicone-Kitchen-Reusable-Baking-Cups/dp/B0856R63T8

Book Referenced

Prophetic Untimeliness by Os Guinness, https://www.amazon.com/Prophetic-Untimeliness-Challenge-Idol-Relevance/dp/0801065607/

Scripture Referenced

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. - Ephesians 6:12

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. - Colossians 2:8

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Helpful Links

Sojourning in Babylon - An Introduction to the Book of Daniel

https://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2009/1/3/sojourning-in-babylon-an-introduction-to-the-book-of-daniel.html

The Borg Collective - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg

Scriptures Referenced

5 "Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told. 6 For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize dwellings not their own. 7 They are dreaded and fearsome; their justice and dignity go forth from themselves. 8 Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fierce than the evening wolves; their horsemen press proudly on. Their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle swift to devour. 9 They all come for violence, all their faces forward. They gather captives like sand. 10 At kings they scoff, and at rulers they laugh. They laugh at every fortress, for they pile up earth and take it. 11 Then they sweep by like the wind and go on, guilty men, whose own might is their god!" - Habakkuk 1:5-11

3 Then the king commanded Ashpenaz, his chief eunuch, to bring some of the people of Israel, both of the royal family and of the nobility, 4 youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king's palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans. - Daniel 1:3-4

17 As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. 18 At the end of the time, when the king had commanded that they should be brought in, the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. 19 And the king spoke with them, and among all of them none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore they stood before the king. 20 And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom. - Daniel 1:17-20

17 And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, 18 knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. 20 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you 21 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. - 1 Peter 1:17-21

Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.” - Revelation 11:15

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Scriptures on Sober-minded Posture

3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. 4 For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, 5 so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. - Romans 12:3-5

1 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 5 As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. - 2 Timothy 4:1-5

13 Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, 15 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16 since it is written, "You shall be holy, for I am holy." 17 And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, 18 knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. 20 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you 21 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. - 1 Peter 1:13-21

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness of God. James 1:19,20

A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion. Proverbs 18:2

If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame. Proverbs 18:13

24 And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, 25 correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, - 2 Timothy 2:24-25

Links Referenced

The Rivendell Institute for Christian Thought and Learning at Yale (https://www.rivendellinstitute.org)

Left and Right in America by David French https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/yes-america-could-split-apart

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Washington and Lee University - https://www.wlu.edu

VT Covid 19 Dashboard - https://ready.vt.edu/dashboard.html

W&L Covid 19 Dashboard - https://my.wlu.edu/covid-19-resources/testing-dashboard

W&L president defends first-year writing seminar, 'How to Overthrow the State,' that went viral

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Melin Hats are Dope

https://melin.com/products/a-game-hydro-xl-mens-waterproof-snapback-hat?variant=32516768333920

The Gospel Underground Mission

The Gospel Underground Exists to Advance the Mission of God in the Borderlands between the Church and Culture.

We Support and Strengthen churches, Share Good News with the Coming Generation, and Thoughtfully Engage the Culture with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Guiding Philosophies and Postures

1. Thoughtful and Respectful Engagement As we seek to impact people in the borderlands between the church and culture we desire to think deeply about life, faith and the ideas of the world while engaging them with kindness and civility. (1 Peter 3:15, Colossians 4:2-6)

2. Underground, Behind the Scenes Ministry We do not desire to be center stage in life and mission but to joyfully and intentionally serve in a behind the scenes fashion. If we can be the most impactful and influential people that no one has ever heard about, we will be grateful for this post in the Kingdom. (John 3:30; Philippians 2:1-11)

3. Rooting and Establishing Deep roots grow movements and strong foundations stand the test of time. We desire to see men, marriages, families and churches rooted and established in both love and truth to influence generations to come. (Colossians 2:6, 7; 1 Peter 2:1-12; Psalm 145:1-7; Timothy 5:1, 2, Ephesians 5-6)

4. Mentoring and Coaching Our hope is to invest in others who are on the front lines of gospel mission with mentoring and coaching. We desire to be “player coaches” who come along side those who seek to impact and influence others for Jesus Christ. (2 Timothy 2:1-7; 1 Corinthians 11:1; Matthew 28:18-20)

5. The Primacy of Families and the Local Church We believe that local churches, communities living out the mission of Jesus, are the primary center for Kingdom work and expansion. As such we value local church authority and investing our lives to strengthen churches and support her mission and ministry. (Acts 16; Ephesians 2; 1 Timothy 3)

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Book Referenced

Henry Cloud, Necessary Endings, https://www.harpercollins.com/products/necessary-endings-henry-cloud

Poem Referenced

The Gate of the Year - info and background, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gate_of_the_Year

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Our Guest Today - Steve Garland, Head Wrestling Coach, University of Virginia.

“Our program philosophy is nothing complex, but it certainly is something we are proud of. We want our kids to live a focused, disciplined and consistent lifestyle both in and out of the wrestling room. What this means is that we expect them to develop a way of life while they are here, not just a set of improved wrestling skills. That said, our goals on the mat are extremely high. We want NCAA Champions and ACC Champions, but not at the expense of the student-athletes’ personal development.”

– Steve Garland, head coach

Coach Steve Garlands Bio

• Two ACC Championships (2010, 2015)

• 2010 ACC Coach of the Year

• NCWA Assistant Coach of the Year in 2006 while at Cornell

• 2000 University of Virginia graduate

• 2000 NCAA Runner-up, ACC Wrestler of the Year

• 2000 All-American

• 1997 ACC Champion

• 3x ACC Finalist

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Books Referenced

Summa Theologiae by Thomas Aquinas Question #62 “The Theological Virtues”

Faith in the Fire by Gardner C Taylor

Faith. Hope. Love. The Christ-Centered Way to Grow in Grace by Mark Jones

The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

Scripture Referenced

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. - 1 Corinthians 13:13

8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. 9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him. 11 Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. - 1 Thessalonians 5:8-11

24 "Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it." - Matthew 7:24-27

“He who testifies to these things says, ‘Surely I am coming soon.’ Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!” Revelation 22:20

9 Pray then like this: "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. 10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. - Matthew 6:9-10

14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.17 Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. 19 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord." 20 To the contrary, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head." 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. - Romans 12:14-21

Quotations

The Nicene Creed ends this way: We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen."

Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?"

A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

See discussion in Michael Kruger, https://www.michaeljkruger.com/is-everything-sad-going-to-come-untrue-eschatology-in-the-lord-of-the-rings/

We have found our faith in the keeping power of God in flames and trials. Our faith, which holds, is born in the fire. All of us who have won are winning our faith in the fires, which have swept our lives. Those fires that scorch our inmost souls and sear our noblest dreams can declare that we know no other strength but that strength which is from above.

Taylor and Taylor, Faith in the Fire : Wisdom for Life, 210

Love is beyond any sickly sentimentality but hardheaded, softhearted good-will. Love is the word of selfless kindliness, God-touched concern. Real love is nobler and higher than other concerns. It goes on, despite barriers, doing its work, bearing its load, climbing its hill, and carrying its cross. It does not look for what it can get but what it can give. This kind of selfless, seeking goodwill is the essential element of good character. Love is the heartbeat of the Eternal. Love suggest that our hearts have been invaded by a desire to be aggressive, questing and seeking goodwill. We Can’t trust this kind of love because it is lasting, rugged, and endures the test.

Gardner C. Taylor, faith in the fire, wisdom for life., Page 29–30.

To be a Christian, one must possess faith, hope, and love. To miss one is to have missed them all; to have one is to have them all. They all depend on one another. We believe in God’s love; we hope for God’s love; and we love him for his love. Yet love is the greatest because it’s limits extend beyond the limits of faith and hope. We believe for ourselves in order to be justified. We hope for ourselves in order to receive what is promised. But we love not only for ourselves but also for others...

Mark Jones, Faith. Hope. Love. The Christ-Centered Way to Grow in Grace. 248.

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Our Guest Today

Virginia Tech Associate Head Wrestling Coach, Jared Frayer @AirFrayer

Coach Jared Frayer joined the VA Teach coaching staff three years ago and has been instrumental in developing the Hokie middle weights with several All Americans and the first national champion in Mekhi Lewis. Coach Frayer was a two time All-American for the University of Oklahoma. After college Frayer was an accomplish freestyle wrestler placing in the top six in the US World or Olympic trials 7 times culminating in winning the spot on the 2012 London Olympic Games at 66kg (145.51lbs for the civilians listening in)

https://hokiesports.com/sports/wrestling/roster/coaches/jared-frayer/1370

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Quotations

“I submit to you today that, despite the American victory in the Cold War (for which we should all be grateful) and the collapse and disappearance of the Soviet Union, nothing has changed that would diminish the force or relevance of Solzhenitsyn’s words. The virtue we lack—and it is an indispensable virtue—is courage. And we must recover it. Our young men and women must regain it—not to defend us from a hostile foreign power armed with nuclear weapons, but to protect us from a far more dangerous foe, a truly deadly enemy: our own worst selves.”

From Article, Solzenitsyns Prophecy, Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

From Nelson Mandela, Mandela in His Own Words.

Did we in our own strength confide, Our striving would be losing; Were not the right Man on our side, The Man of God’s own choosing: Dost ask who that may be? Christ Jesus, it is He; Lord Sabaoth His Name, From age to age the same, And He must win the battle.

Martin Luther, A Mighty Fortress

Scriptures Referenced

Joshua 1:6-9

6 Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them. 7 Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go. 8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. 9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go."

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

9 But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Isaiah 43:1-3

1But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. 2When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. 3 For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.

Hebrews 13:1-6

1 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 3 Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body. 4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. 5 Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." 6 So we can confidently say, "The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?"

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Today’s Guest

Dr. Abraham Hardee is a father, husband and former Virginia Tech Hokie. Along with being a practicing physician, Abraham B. Hardee, III, DO, PhD, ABOFP is the Associate Chair for Primary Care for Rural and Medically Underserved Populations at The Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine. He makes his home in Blacksburg VA and runs high level family and medical game with his with Sophia Abraham-Hardee DO, PhD, FACOP, FAAP.

Scripture Referenced

Mark 12:28-31

28 And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the most important of all?" 29 Jesus answered, "The most important is, 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' 31 The second is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

Luke 10:25-37 25

And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" 26 He said to him, "What is written in the Law? How do you read it?" 27 And he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself." 28 And he said to him, "You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live." 29 But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" 30 Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. 31 Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. 32 So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. 34 He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. 35 And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, 'Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.' 36 Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?" 37 He said, "The one who showed him mercy." And Jesus said to him, "You go, and do likewise."

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Books Referenced

The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff

The Summa Theologica, Question 158 - Anger by Thomas Aquinas

Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Disappearing Church and Reappearing Church by Mark Sayers

Jesus Driven Ministry by Ajith Fernando

Links Referenced

Jonathan Haidt Is Trying to Heal America’s Divisions The psychologist shares his thoughts on the pandemic, polarization, and politics. Interview by Peter Wehner

Tweeting Something isn’t Necessarily Doing Something by John Stonestreet

Social Media’s Distortion - A Thread by Mark Sayers

James Corden’s Dad on How to Hold a Bible

“You are not a social media handle. Don't feel pressure to post and repost everything to show that you care. Advocate locally, be incarnate, do the work in your community, church, etc. Let's get it done today.“

Dr. Walter Strickland, Tweet, June 2.

Scripture Referenced

Gentleness and Respect - 1 Peter 3:15

On Listening - James 1:19,20; Ecclesiastes 5:1-3

On Controlling our Speech - James 1:26; Proverbs 10:19; 27:2; 30:32

On Anger - Proverbs 22:24; 29:22; Psalm 37:8; Ephesians 4:26

On Love - 1 John 3:16-18; 1 Peter 4:7-9

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Links Referenced

I Have a Dream, Dr. Martin Luther King, JR.

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

Scripture Referenced

• Psalm 81:10

• Luke 22

*1 Corinthians 11:23-26

• Philippians 3:12-14

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Our Guest

Rob Zimmerman is an engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur who makes his home in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Reid had the privilege of baptizing Rob and his wife Christine when they were members of Jacobs Well, the church we planted, in New Jersey.

Rob received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State and a Masters of Business Administration from Arizona State. He is a husband, a father of three, and one dog named Max. Rob has been a friend for about a decade and is known to message with me from time to time about the UFC and cryptocurrency.

Links Referenced

Getting America Back to Work by Josh Hawley

It's Time to Fix Our Eyes on the Post-Coronavirus Economic Revival by Kelli Ward

Apple supplier TSMC confirms it’s building an Arizona chip plant by Kim Lyons

US Senators Seek Suspension of TSMC Deal by Allan Patterson

It’s Time to Build by Marc Andreessen

Scriptures Referenced

Creation and the Cultural Mandate - Genesis 1:26-28

The Duty of Governments - Romans 13:1-7

Love God with our Minds, Love our Neighbors - Matthew 22:34-40

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Our Guest Today

Pastor Matthew Kruse, Lead Pastor 7 Mile Road Church, Melrose, MA

Twitter - @matthewkruse

Book Web Site - https://www.what-church-can-be.com

Links Referenced

Episode 33 - Underground Saints - Craig Malcolm - Our Death Benefits - https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2018/11/1/episode-33-underground-saints

What Church Can Be - https://www.what-church-can-be.com

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Our Guests

Andre Davis; Dr. Abraham (aka Billy) Hardee; Willie Pile

Links Referenced

Marriage is Good for Us - https://www.city-journal.org/html/why-marriage-good-you-12002.html

Marriage is Good for Men though many resist getting married today - https://www.city-journal.org/html/why-marriage-good-you-12002.html

Married Fathers are Good for Everyone - particularly kids - https://www.fatherhood.org/fatherhood-data-statistics

Marriage is at an all time low - https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-marriage-rate-plunges-to-lowest-level-on-record-11588132860

Dad Up! Episode 20 - some thoughts from Reid for the Dads https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2018/6/23/episode-20-dad-up

Scriptures Referenced

Psalm 145:1-7; Ephesians 6:1-4

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Our Guests

Head Coach Tony Robie

https://hokiesports.com/staff-directory/tony-robie/207

Coach Tony Robie is the Head Coach of the division one wrestling powerhouse, Virginia Tech Hokies. Robie has been the Head Coach for three years after spending 11 years prior as assistant coach, associate head coach. He has coached multiple NCAA All-Americans as well as the first Division 1 national champion for the Hokies. As a competitor he was a two time All-American and NCAA finalist at Edinboro University (PA) with a career record 126-23.

Coach Jared Haught

https://hokiesports.com/sports/wrestling/roster/coaches/jared-haught/1373

Haught was a two-time ACC champion, four-time NCAA qualifier and a three-time All-American for the Hokies from 2014-18. As a senior, Haught became only the second Tech wrestler and the first West Virginia native to make it to a national final when he reached the championship match at 197 pounds at the 2018 NCAA Championships in Cleveland. He placed sixth at NCAAs in 2016, fourth in 2017 and second in 2018.

Books Referenced

Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins

Chosen Suffering by Tom Ryan

Links Referenced

"Mental toughness is the ability to resist, manage and overcome doubts, worries, concerns and circumstances that prevent you from succeeding, or excelling at a task or towards an objective or a performance outcome that you set out to achieve."

https://www.mentaltoughnessinc.com/what-is-mental-toughness/

Scripture References

1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. - Hebrews 12:1-3

21 For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. 22 He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. 23 When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly. 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. 25 For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. - 1 Peter 2:21-25

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go." - Joshua 1:9

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Links Referenced

Is the Coronavirus Evil? Or is this part of life in the world God made? By Daniel Harrell

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2020/march-web-only/coronavirus-evil-covid-19-disease-theology.html

Book Review - Where is God in a Coronavirus World? By Reid S. Monaghan

https://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2020/4/27/book-review-where-is-god-in-a-coronavirus-world

Scriptures Referenced

Genesis 3; Romans 8:18-25;  Miracles of Jesus in Mark chapters 1-5; Revelation 21:1-4

Book Referenced

John C. Lennox, Where is God in a Coronavirus World?

https://www.thegoodbook.com/where-is-god-in-a-coronavirus-world

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Over the last several years the question has been asked, “Reid, what is it you are doing these days?” There is a short and a long answer to this question. The short answer is that he helps strengthen and encourage churches, share the gospel with students, and helps thoughtfully engage others with the good news in our current cultural moment. The longer answer? Well, friends Ryan Baitzel and Steve Hawthorne from Emergence Church in NJ recently interviewed Reid related to that question. His wife thought the audio/video from this could be helpful in answering this question a little bit more, so here is a little of his story and what he is up to today.

Also, does Reid prefer soccer to wrestling? It is a complex question with some fun banter towards the end of the episode.

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Scripture Referenced

1 Timothy 4:7,8; Joshua 1:9

Our Guests on Today’s Show

Mr. Mike Demarco

Social - @motives_miked

You Tube - https://youtu.be/UoUMWleDEZU

Web - motiveslife.com

Mr. Willie Pile

Social - @itrainfasst and @ill_will_35

itrainfasst.com

A Quick and Easy Garage Quarantine from Mike DeMarco

https://twitter.com/ruathletics/status/1250091754046529537?s=21

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Recommended Audiobooks from Reid

Favorites

Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

Unbroken and Sea Biscuit by Lauren Hillanbrand

The Devil in White City by Erik Larson

Recommended

Creative Non Fiction - Works of Erik Larson, Ben McIntrye, and Candice Maillard

History and Biography - Works of Roger Crowley, David McCullough, and The Roosevelt Trilogy by Edmund Morris

History of Technology - Becoming Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, iWoz, The Perfect Thing by Daniel Levy, The Pixar Touch by David Price, Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton, The Everything Store by Brad Stone

Business and Leadership Books - Malcolm Gladwell, Seth Godin, Leadership by Sir Alex Ferguson

Recommended Audiobooks from Kayla

Favorites

The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom, John and Elizabeth Sherrill

The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis

C.S. Lewis by Alister E McGrath

The Pixar Touch by David A. Price

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

Mud, Sweat, and Tears by Bear Grylls

Kenobi: A Stat Wars Tale by John Jackson Miller

For Kids

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

Guardians of Ga'Hoole by Kathryn Lasky

From the Mixed up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankenwiler by E.L. Koingsburg

Story of the World by Susan Weiss Bauer available from www.welltrainedmind.com

Magic Thief by Sarah Prineas

Redwall by Brian Jacques

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Scripture Referenced

1 Peter 5:6-11 - https://www.esv.org/1+Peter+5/

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Links Referenced

• Streetlights - Spoken Scripture App

• The Daily Liturgy Podcast Daily readings from OT, NT and Psalms and prayers of confession and gospel hope

• CBR Journal - Community Bible Reading Journal

• Daily Dose of Greek and Daily Dose of Hebrew

• The Boredom Box from Professor Puzzle

Book Referenced

• The Songs of Jesus - A Year of Daily Devotions in the Psalms by Timothy and Kathy Keller

• God's Wisdom for Navigating Life: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Book of Proverbs by Timothy and Kathy Keller

• Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Scriptures Referenced

• Hebrews 6:19 * Romans 15:12 * Romans 15:4 * Psalm 39:7

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Family's and Technology in Times of Pandemic

http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2020/3/22/tech-at-home-pandemic

Family Worship Guide

http://www.powerofchange.org/s/Home-Team-A-Power-of-Change-Family-Worship-Resource-572j.pdf

Can Science Explain Every Thing? by John Lennox

https://www.amazon.com/Science-Explain-Everything-John-Lennox-ebook/dp/B07JJGN4GT/

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Books Referenced

Knowing God by JI Packer https://www.amazon.com/Knowing-God-J-I-Packer-ebook/dp/B006NZ66RC)

Running Scared by Ed Welch https://www.amazon.com/Running-Scared-Fear-Worry-Rest/dp/0978556755

Links Referenced

We Don’t Want a Relationships Pandemic by Robert Hall https://ifstudies.org/blog/avoiding-a-relationship-pandemic

JI Packer - 6 Things to Tell Yourself Every Day by Justin Taylor https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin-taylor/j-packer-6-things-tell-every-day/

Scriptures Referenced

Ecclesiastes 12:13, 14; Proverbs 1; 1 Peter 5:7; Ephesians 2:8,9; Psalm 56:3,4

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Books Referenced

Is Belief in God good, bad, or irrelevant? A Professor and a Punk discuss science, religion, naturalism and Christianity edited by Preston Jones.

Reasonable Faith - Christian Truth and Apologetics by William Lane Craig

iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us by Jean M. Twenge

Links Referenced

Twitter Thread by Lyman Stone on waning religiosity

New Harvard Research says Christianity not shrinking but growing stronger by Glenn Stanton

Millennials Are Leaving Religion And Not Coming Back by Daniel Cox and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux

The Deeper Roots of Youth Anxiety, by Joseph E. Davis

The Welfare Effects of Social Media by Hunt Allcott, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, Matthew Gentzkow in the AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, VOL. 110, NO. 3, MARCH 2020

Don’t Believe in God? Lie to Your Children by Erica Komisar

Scripture Referenced

Ecclesiastes 1

Ecclesiastes 12

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Links Referenced

Middle Age Misery Peaks at 47.2

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-13/middle-age-misery-peaks-at-age-of-47-2-economist-says

“Three Decades Ago, American Lost It’s Religion. Why?”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/atheism-fastest-growing-religion-us/598843/

"This is Water" by James Foster Wallace https://jamesclear.com/great-speeches/this-is-water-by-david-foster-wallace

"Elite Failure Has Brought Americans to the Edge of an Existential Crisis" The nuclear family, God, and national pride are a holy trinity of the American identity. What would happen if a generation gave up on all three?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/america-without-family-god-or-patriotism/597382/

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Related Scriptures

Genesis 1, Genesis 3, John 1, Revelation 21

Romans 12:1,2

Quotations

This life’s dim windows of the soul

Distorts the heavens from pole to pole

And leads you to believe a lie

When you see with, not through, the eye.

William Blake, http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/8661

And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from Crusoe's ship--even that had been the wild whisper of something originally wise, for, according to Christianity, we were indeed the survivors of a wreck, the crew of a golden ship that had gone down before the beginning of the world. - GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else. - GK Chesterton

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. - CS Lewis

Book Referenced

The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman

World War I - A Short History by Norman Stone

Not the Way It's Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin by Cornelius Plantinga

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Show Notes

Reid's Top 10ish reads of 2019 http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2020/1/8/best-reads-from-2019

Jesse's Favorites for 2019 (link coming soon)

Non-Fiction * On Reading Well * Disruptive Witness * Deep Work * All That’s Good * Tools of Titans * Edwards the Mentor * Atomic Habits * Given

Fiction * The Road * Norse Mythology * Book of Sorrows * Brothers Karamazov * The Death of Ivan Ilych

Scripture and Reading

11 The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd. 12 My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh. - Ecclesiastes 12:11-12

Daily Scripture Readings - The Daily Liturgy http://cdomaha.com/the-daily-liturgy-podcast

Links Referenced

Brian Regan with some great comedy on Reading - https://youtu.be/vu2YWkzULIo

Millennials read more than previous generations! - https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/578177/surprising-millennial-reading-habits

President Donald Trump apparently reads...nothing? - https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/americas-first-post-text-president/549794/

Reading and Health - https://www.fastcompany.com/3048913/how-changing-your-reading-habits-can-transform-your-health

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Links Referenced

Episode 29 - You Just Got Schooled https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2018/10/4/episode-29-you-just-got-schooled

College Admissions

Scandal in 2019 - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/us/college-admissions-cheating-scandal.html

Fit for College Most Important - https://qz.com/1571524/the-us-college-admissions-scandal-shows-that-parents-overlook-their-kids-best-interests/

The Home Team - A Family Worship Guide - A tool that helps look at the culture of worship and learning in the home - http://www.powerofchange.org/s/Home-Team-A-Power-of-Change-Family-Worship-Resource-572j.pdf

Focus Over Time

0-5 years

• Love for discovery

• Love for questions

• Love for learning

• Books, Books, Books

• Catechesis

• Presence, Presence, Presence

• Parents - Save Money

5-12 years

• All of 0-5 year - discovery, questions, learning, books, presence

• Responsibility

• Discipline

• Modeling

• Tools - Books, Audiobooks, App - History, Math, Reading, Bible/New City Catechism

• Parents - Save Money

12-18 years

• All of 0-5

• All of 5-12

• Argument, Presentation, Goals and Focus

• Guiding loves and interests

• Parents - Save Money

The College Search

• Fit - Decide what you are looking for?

• Find - Finalizing list of Schools

• Focus - Kill it, ahead of time

• Faith - Trust God and the process

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Other Episodes Referenced

Episode 10 - A Christmas Tradition

A description of a Christmas letter tradition with kids

Episode 23 - Man Up!

A look at the state of young men in our culture

Relevant Scriptures

Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good hprecepts; do not forsake my teaching. When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom; get ginsight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you. The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight. Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will qhonor you rif you embrace her. She will place on your head a graceful garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.” Proverbs 4:1-9

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 1 Corinthians 13:11

When David's time to die drew near, he commanded Solomon his son, saying, “I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man, 3 and keep the charge of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, qthat you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn… - 1 Kings 2:1-3

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CSB Bible - https://csbible.com

Kamala Harris Drops from the Race -https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/us/politics/kamala-harris-campaign-drops-out.html

Main Topic - Quitting Social Media

Digital Minimalism https://www.calnewport.com/books/digital-minimalism/

Cal Newport’s Web Site - https://www.calnewport.com

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Main Topic - Christianity as Rebellion and Revolution

• Kanye West interview with Zane Lowe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuOCvKvrwI8

• James Corden - Airplane Karaoke - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgLOv36an3s

• Kayne at Lakewood Church - https://www.christianpost.com/news/kanye-wests-sunday-service-at-lakewood-draws-high-praise-and-more-than-a-million-witnesses.html

Relevant Scripture for the Resistance

• 1 Peter 2:12; Matthew 28:18-20, John 20:21; Acts 1:8; Ephesians 4:25-32; Ephesians 5; 1 Corinthians 16:1,2; Matthew 5:44

14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. 16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. 17 Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. 18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. 19 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord." 20 To the contrary, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head."21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. - Romans 12:14-21

Quotations Referenced

“How eagerly do wee seek the approval of this or that man of worldly reputation. How shamefully do we exploit the converted celebrity. Anyone will do to take away the reproach of obscurity from out publicity-hungry leaders: famous athletes, congressman, world travelers, rich industrialists; before such we bow with obsequious smiles and honor them in our public meetings and in the religious press. Thus we glorify men to enhance the standing of the Church of God, and the glory of the Prince of Life is made to hang upon the transient fame of a man who shall die.” AW Tozer, The Pursuit of Man (Camp Hill: PA, Christian Publications Inc., 1950) 44.

“To the orthodox there must always be a case for revolution; for in the hearts of men God has been put under the feet of Satan. In the upper world hell once rebelled against heaven. But in this world heaven is rebelling against hell. For the orthodox there can always be a revolution; for a revolution is a restoration. At any instant you may strike a blow for the perfection which no man has seen since Adam.” GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy, The Eternal Revolution

“I know this feeling fills our epoch, and I think it freezes our epoch. For our Titanic purposes of faith and revolution, what we need is not the cold acceptance of the world as a compromise, but some way in which we can heartily hate and heartily love it. We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return at evening. No one doubts that an ordinary man can get on with this world: but we demand not strength enough to get on with it, but strength enough to get it on. Can he hate it enough to change it, and yet love it enough to think it worth changing? Can he look up at its colossal good without once feeling acquiescence? Can he look up at its colossal evil without once feeling despair? Can he, in short, be at once not only a pessimist and an optimist, but a fanatical pessimist and a fanatical optimist? Is he enough of a pagan to die for the world, and enough of a Christian to die to it? In this combination, I maintain, it is the rational optimist who fails, the irrational optimist optimist who succeeds. He is ready to smash the whole universe for the sake of itself.”

GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy, The Flag of the World

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Reviewish

AirPods Pro - Great review on MacWorld

Main Topic - Are Christians Crazy?

Casey Stoney Comments and Apology on The Telegraph

Scriptures Referenced

Proverbs 9:10; Matthew 10:16-21; Acts 18:9-11; Matthew 22:37-40

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Episode 60 - Government Compulsion in Religion

https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2019/10/11/episode-60-government-compulsion-of-religion

AirPods Pro

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/29/20938740/apple-airpods-pro-hands-on-noise-cancellation-photos-features

Working Deep Work

Most important Work Skill of the Future By Nir Eyal https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/09/stanford-psychology-expert-most-important-work-skill-of-the-future.html

True long-term career success depends on this most underrated aspect of talent by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

https://www.fastcompany.com/90413553/true-long-term-career-success-depends-on-this-most-under-rated-aspect-of-talent

Scripture Cited

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. - Galatians 5:22-24 ESV

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Beto O’Rourke on Removing Tax Exemptions from Religious Groups - CNN Tweet

The First Amendment of the US Constitution (Link to a transcript of The Bill of Rights)

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Walz vs City of New York (1970) Case Summary

Ben Sasse Statement on Beto O’Rourke’s comments

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RUTs and BUTs

Ridiculous - Banned Book Week! http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/banned

Beautiful - Meat is Good?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/upshot/health-risks-meat-experts.html

https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2752320/red-processed-meat-consumption-risk-all-cause-mortality-cardiometabolic-outcomes

Main Topic - Deep Work

Article - Is Google Making us Stupid? by Nicholas Carr https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/

Book - The Shallows by Nicholas Carr https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393339750/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_IzINDb27FA9J9

Book - Deep Work by Cal Newport https://www.amazon.com/dp/1455586692/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_7BINDb38XXMHW

Book - Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher - https://www.amazon.com/Rapt-Attention-Focused-Winifred-Gallagher/dp/0143116908/

Book - Flow by Millay Csikszentmihalyi https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Perennial-Classics/dp/0061339202/

Scriptures Referenced

Philippians 4:8, 9; Psalm 19:14

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What is a Canon of the Cathedral?

Preparationism - Rhys appears in this Wiki

Main Topic - The First Modern Mentor

Book - Edwards the Mentor

The Works of Jonathan Edwards - Vol 16 - Letters and Personal Writings

The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University

Other Books by Rhys Bezzant

Jonathan Edwards and the Church

Amazon Author Page - Rhys Bezzant

Scriptures Reference

Leaders as Stewards - Luke 16

Leaders as Ambassadors - 2 Corinthians 5

On Imitation - Ephesians 5:1; 1 Corinthians 11:1

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Reviewish

• Jesse’s Goodr Sunglasses

Main Topic - Intellectual Vice

• Sean Carroll’s Mindscape Podcast - Episode 61 - Quassim Cassam on Intellectual Vices

• Book - Vices of the Mind by Quassim Cassam

• Book - Thinking Fast, and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

• Book - Book - On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt

Scriptures Read

• Luke 10:13-16

• Romans 1:18-23

Quotations on Open Minds by GK Chesterton

“An open mind is really a mark of foolishness, like an open mouth. Mouths and minds were made to shut; they were made to open only in order to shut.” (Illustrated London News. October 10, 1908)

“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.” (Autobiography)

https://www.chesterton.org/open-mind/

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Scripture Referenced

Ephesians 1:3-10; Colossians 1:11-14

Quotation Cited

All interest of my reason (the speculative as well as the practical) is united in the following three questions:

What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope?

Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

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RUTs and BUTs

More States Option to Robo-Grade Student Essays

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/30/624373367/more-states-opting-to-robo-grade-student-essays-by-computer

Cyborgs will Replace Humans and Remake the World

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/cyborgs-will-replace-humans-remake-world-james-lovelock-says-ncna1041616

Main Topic - This is Your Brain on Gratitude

Some Brains on Drugs Videos

Brains Going into Drugs - https://youtu.be/LSFaDeRpSHA

Brains on Drugs - https://youtu.be/GOnENVylxPI

Article - Neuroscience says your Body and Mind get Stronger when you Focus on this One Thing

https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/neuroscience-says-your-body-mind-get-stronger-when-you-focus-on-this-one-thingdraft-1562273865.html

Scripture Referenced

1 Thessalonians 5:16-24; Job 1:21; James 1:16-18

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In or Out

Apple Card Review - https://www.thebalance.com/apple-card-review-4767210

Carli Lloyd the Kicker? Yes Please. https://www.cnn.com/videos/sports/2019/08/21/carli-lloyd-uswnt-eagles-training-camp-field-goal-nfl-coy-wire-mxp-vpx.hln

Underground Virtue

A New Kind of Prosperity Gospel, Relevant Magazine

https://relevantmagazine.com/life5/a-new-kind-of-prosperity-gospel/

The Psychological Toll of Becoming an Instagram Influencer on Medium

https://elemental.medium.com/the-psychological-toll-of-becoming-an-instagram-influencer-5bbd1d9174c4

The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00850REQA/

Bonhoeffer Haus Virtue Conference, September 28th, 2019.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtue-a-one-day-conference-tickets-65812742685

Referenced Scripture

2 Peter 1:5; James 3:13; Proverbs 27:1, 2; Proverbs 30:32, 33

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Reviewish

The Mikme - mikme.com

Mikme Review - https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/25/mikme-review/

YouTube Reviews

MrBobile - https://youtu.be/jEXsZnW6Jso

SomeGadgetGuy - https://youtu.be/vkTpELLHGhY

Tech Party 2019

Twitter Thread about our Screens by Professor Paul Musgrave https://twitter.com/profmusgrave/status/1155957537063096320?s=12

Microsoft HoloLens Translators - https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/17/microsoft-wows-inspire-crowd-with-language-translating-hololens-hologram/

DeepFakes and Video simulation - https://youtu.be/aJq6ygTWdao

The After-ON podcast https://after-on.com

This Cultural Moment https://thisculturalmoment.podbean.com/e/this-cultural-moment-live-at-wildfires-in-the-uk/

The work of Cal Newport - Digital Minimalism, Deep Work https://medium.com/@nina.semczuk/5-practices-from-deep-work-by-cal-newport-thatll-change-your-life-303847ec5f3c

Hong Kong Protesters and Lasers - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/02/innovative-hong-kong-protesters-using-lasers-traffic-cones-parkour/

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Helpful Links

Athletes in Action Soccer Tours Women’s soccer tours with Athletes in Action

How Dads Shape Daughters’ Relationships Psychology Today

How Dads Affect Their Daughters into Adulthood Institute for Family Studies

First Hero, First Love: A Dad’s Role for Sons and Daughters National Center for Fathering

Book Recommendation

Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters by Meg Meeker

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Reviewish

https://www.thermoworks.com/BlueDOT

Gender Talk

Twitter Link - https://twitter.com/reidsmonaghan/status/1140325816234061825?s=21

Relevant Scripture

Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. 24 And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, 25 correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, - 2 Timothy 2:23-25

Recommended Resources

Love Thy Body by Nancy Pearcey

https://www.amazon.com/Love-Thy-Body-Answering-Questions/dp/0801075971/

God and the Transgender Debate By Andrew T. Walker

https://www.amazon.com/God-Transgender-Debate-Andrew-Walker/dp/1784981788/

Talking Points: Transgender by Vaughn Roberts

https://www.amazon.com/Talking-Points-Transgender-Vaughan-Roberts/dp/1784981958/

Is God Anti-Gay? By Sam Allberry

https://www.amazon.com/God-anti-gay-Questions-Christians-Ask/dp/1908762314/

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Links Referenced

Men Going Their Own Way, https://www.mgtow.com

The Old Spice Guy - I’m on a Horse, https://youtu.be/VX5au0LOJp8

Relevant Scripture

Matthew 19:30; Mark 10:31, 35-45; Philippians 2:1-18; Psalm 100:2; Ephesians 5:18-33

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The Shoe Doctor 

https://shoedoctorva.com

Reviewish

Reviewish Song Recorded and Performed by Michael Bond, Words by Reid S. Monaghan. Check out Michael Bond at https://www.mikebondmusic.com

Can Science Answer Everything? By John C. Lennox https://www.thegoodbook.com/can-science-explain-everything

Main Topic 

Ageism: A ‘Prevalent and Insidious’ Health Threat by Paula Span https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/health/ageism-elderly-health.html 

Scripture Referenced

Leviticus 19:32; Proverbs 16:31; Proverbs 20:29; 1 Peter 5:5;

Psalm 49:12, 13; Proverbs 10:14, 12:15, 13:20.

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Rantology

Twitter Beefs and 2 Timothy 2:22-25

Main Topic - The Self-Curated LIfe

The Perfect Thing by Steven Levy

https://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Thing-Steven-Levy/dp/0091910102

The Chaos of Internet Culture

https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2018/11/20/episode-34-the-chaos-of-internet-culture

Facebook bans Alex Jones and Louis Farrakhan

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/technology/facebook-alex-jones-louis-farrakhan-ban.html

Scripture References

Philippians 4:8

Psalm 19:14

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Windsor Knots? I think knot!

https://www.gq.com/story/tie-knots-zegna-windsor

Reviewish

The Sweet Swine O’ Mine Red box smoker. 

https://youtu.be/UQyRwiyjGsc

Sweet Swine O’ Mine rubs and sauces.

https://ssomd.com

Scripture Reference

Psalm 145

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IN or OUT?

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Evangelicals and Politics

https://www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction/2019/4/24/18513213/trump-evangelicals-gop

“Evangelicals and Evangelical Beliefs”

https://lifewayresearch.com/2017/12/06/many-evangelicals-dont-hold-evangelical-beliefs/

Give Me That Old Time Secular Religion

Books Referenced:

You are what you Love by James KA Smith

https://www.amazon.com/You-Are-What-Love-Spiritual/dp/158743380X

The Coddling of the American Mind - Book

https://www.amazon.com/Coddling-American-Mind-Intentions-Generation/dp/0735224897

The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe by Andrew Wheatcroft

https://www.amazon.com/Enemy-Gate-Habsburgs-Ottomans-Battle/dp/0465013740/

Empires of the Sea - The Contest for the Center of the World by Roger Crowley https://www.amazon.com/Empires-Sea-Battle-Lepanto-Contest-dp-0812977645/dp/0812977645/

Links Referenced

The Intolerance of Tolerance by Greg Koukl

https://www.str.org/articles/the-intolerance-of-tolerance

The Coddling of the American Mind - Essay

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/

PZ Meyers on the New Atheism

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/01/25/the-train-wreck-that-was-the-new-atheism/

The Guardian on the New Atheism

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/31/four-horsemen-review-what-happened-to-new-atheism-dawkins-hitchens

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Reviewish

DA Carson, Christ and Culture Revisited 

http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2019/4/9/christ-and-culture-revisited 

Main Topic - Lifelong Learning

New York Times Review of Books

https://www.nytimes.com/section/books

Westminster Books

https://www.wtsbooks.com

Brian Regan on Reading

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/s6qsfe/reading-the-news

1 Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that "all of us possess knowledge." This "knowledge" puffs up, but love builds up. 2 If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. 3 But if anyone loves God, he is known by God. - 1 Corinthians 8:1-3

Take em to Church/Rantology

History of Welch’s Grape Choice and the Lord’s Table:

http://www.umc.org/who-we-are/methodist-history-controversy-communion-and-welchs-grape-juice

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Links Referenced

• Wrestle like a Girl - https://www.wrestlelikeagirl.org/

• Stats on Women’s Wrestling - http://www.nwcaonline.com/growing-wrestling/growing-womens-wrestling/womens-wrestling-facts-resources/

• Colorado State Wrestling Tournament - https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/24/colorado-state-wrestling-tournament-colorado-springs-wrestler-girl-forfeit/

• Girls Should not pay the Price when boys are too uncomfortable to play - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/mar/04/girls-should-not-pay-the-price-when-boys-are-too-uncomfortable-to-play

• Male and Female Brains - https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2017spring/how-mens-and-womens-brains-are-different.html

Reviewishes

• The Club by Robinson and Clegg - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40225612-the-club

• AirPods 2.0 - https://9to5mac.com/2019/03/27/airpods-2-first-impressions/

• Apple Card - https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/27/18281071/how-apple-credit-card-works-fine-print-fees-cash-back-titanium

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Links Referenced

Matt Chandler, Jared Wilson, The Explicit Gospel

https://www.amazon.com/Explicit-Gospel-Paperback-Matt-Chandler/dp/1433542110/

Grant Osborne, The Hermeneutical Spiral

https://www.amazon.com/Hermeneutical-Spiral-Comprehensive-Introduction-Interpretation/dp/0830828265/ref=nodl_

Andreas Kostenberger, Richard Patterson, Invitation to Biblical Interpretation

https://www.amazon.com/dp/082543047X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_thpLCbEVRCD4X

Carl Trueman book review, regarding name calling (white privelege vs. social Marxist):

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/live-marxs-world-now/

Reviewish

Captain Marvel https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/captain_marvel

Relevant Scripture

Mark 1, Galatians 3:1-9, 1 Corinthians 15:1-3, Luke 4, Isaiah 53, 61, Titus 3:1-9, Romans 1:1-8

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Links Referenced

Episode 26 - How Wrongeth You Are!

https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2018/9/5/episode-26-how-wrongeth

Moral Relativism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-relativism/

Beckwith and Koukl, Relativism, Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air - Chapter 2

https://www.bethinking.org/truth/the-death-of-truth/2-what-is-moral-relativism

Main Topic

Apple, Google Criticized for Carrying App that Lets Saudi Men Track Their Wives

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/12/693994447/apple-google-criticized-for-carrying-app-that-lets-saudi-men-track-their-wives

A US Senator has demanded that Apple and Google remove a Saudi Arabi an government app that allows men 'abhorrent' control over women's lives

https://www.businessinsider.com/absher-senator-ron-wyden-demands-apple-google-remove-saudi-govt-app-2019-2

The Scandalous Origins of Human Rights by Ronald Osborn

“Can we have a rationally coherent, morally compelling, and historically sustainable discourse as well as a practice of humanistic values and human rights absent a “thick” metaphysical or religious framework, such as the one provided in the Western tradition for some two millennia by Judeo-Christian sources?”

http://www.veritas.org/the-scandalous-origins-of-human-rights/

A Disjunctive Syllogism

http://www.philosophy-index.com/logic/forms/disjunctive-syllogism.php

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Valentines Day Historical Discussions

• Valentines Day History - https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a9299/valentines-day-history/
• Gory Origins of Valentines Day
• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gory-origins-valentines-day-180968156/
• The Dark Origins of Valentines Day
• https://www.npr.org/2011/02/14/133693152/the-dark-origins-of-valentines-day

Main Topic - Relationship Advice Gone Wild

• Is Your Relationship Working by Jean Croteau https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeannecroteau/2019/02/06/is-your-relationship-working-ask-yourself-these-five-questions/

Scriptures Referenced

• Philippians 2
• Mark 10
• James 5:16
• Psalm 23:6
• Proverbs 3:3-6

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Kalos Conversations 

https://www.kalosconversations.com

Scripture Referenced

Genesis 1, 2

Titus 2:1-15

Ephesians 5:18-33

Romans 16

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Books Referenced

Woke Church by Dr. Eric Mason

https://www.amazon.com/Woke-Church-Christians-Confront-Injustice/dp/0802416985/

One Blood by John Perkins

https://www.amazon.com/One-Blood-Parting-Words-Church/dp/0802418015/

Links References

Woke Christian Conference - https://wokechristian.com/

Jude 3 Project - http://www.jude3project.com

Thriving Frequency Conference - https://thrivingfrequency.com

Scriptures Referenced

Ephesians 2:14

Matthew 23:23

Hosea 12:6

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Reviewish 

The Illuminated Journaling Bible

https://www.illuminatedbible.org

Wrestling in Life

John 16:33

Philippians 4:10-13

Job 2:9, 10

2 Corinthians 1

1 Corinthians 15

2 Corinthians 4:16-18

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Reviewish

Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam By Fred Donnner, Islam and Professor of Near Eastern History at the University of Chicago.

https://www.amazon.com/Muhammad-Believers-At-Origins-Islam/dp/0674064143

http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2018/12/15/Muhammad-Believers-Donner

Proud Papa

Book Referenced - CS Lewis, Mere Christianity - Chapter 8

https://www.amazon.com/Mere-Christianity-C-S-Lewis/dp/0060652926/

Scripture Referenced

Proverbs 16:18 - Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

1 Peter 1:5-5-7 - Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for God, opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time, he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

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Show Notes - Home for the Holidays

Links Referenced

Aquaman

https://www.aquamanmovie.com

A Christmas Tradition

https://www.gospelunderground.org//2018/1/5/episode-10-a-christmas-tradition

Leaning into Lament

https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2018/1/20/episode-11-leaning-into-lament

The Gospel in the Home

http://www.powerofchange.org/s/Home-Team-A-Power-of-Change-Family-Worship-Resource-572j.pdf

Scriptures Referenced

Genesis 1-3; 18

Isaiah 7

Books Referenced

The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Stories-FSG-Classics/dp/0374515360/

A Meal with Jesus by Tim Chester

https://www.amazon.com/Meal-Jesus-Discovering-Community-Mission/dp/1433521369/

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Essay on Civil Disobedience

Perpetua, in Mark Gali and Ted Olson 131 Christians Everyone Should Know (Broadman and Holman, 2000) 363. See also https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=48

St. Patrick Of Ireland

The Reverend Richard Allen by Reid S. Monaghan

First Among Poets, The Life of Jupiter Hammond by Reid S. Monaghan

Sojourner Truth, When I found Jesus by Reid S. Monaghan

Francis Grimke: Pastor, Preacher, Activist by Reid S. Monaghan

We have this Ministry - Learning from the Life of Gardner C. Taylor by Reid S. Monaghan

Wiki on Richard Wurmbrand

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RUTs and BUTs

Northwestern Strength Coach is Hype!

https://saturdaytradition.com/northwestern-football/watch-northwestern-strength-coach-alex-spanos-is-always-amped-up-even-in-26-degree-weather/

Political Peace on SNL!

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/05/politics/dan-crenshaw-pete-davidson-snl-cnntv/index.html

Stan Lee Passes at 95

https://www.inverse.com/article/35553-marvel-comics-stan-lee-racism-bigotry-soapbox

Main Topic - The Chaos of Internet Culture

Stanich‘s Burger - An Internet Tale

https://www.thrillist.com/eat/portland/stanichs-closed-will-it-reopen-burger-quest

Solid State Album by Jonathan Coulton (see the tracks - Don’t Feed the Trolls and Brave)

http://solidstate.jonathancoulton.com

Relevant Scripture

The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. - 1 Timothy 1:15

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Relevant Scriptures

Philippians 1:19-26

John 5:24

John 11

John 11:24

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Reviewish

AI Super-Powers - China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee https://www.amazon.com/AI-Superpowers-China-Silicon-Valley/dp/132854639X/

Main Topic - The Borderlands - A Dialogue about Culture

A Biblical Survey of Culture by Jesse Furey https://www.bonhoefferhaus.com/blog/2018/10/24/a-biblical-survey-of-culture

Books Referenced

Notes Towards a Definition of Culture by TS Elliot https://www.amazon.com/Notes-Towards-Definition-Culture-Eliot/dp/0571063136

Prophetic Untimeliness - A Challenge to the Idol of Relevance - https://www.amazon.com/Prophetic-Untimeliness-Challenge-Idol-Relevance/dp/0801012600/

Unapologetic Apologetics by Dempski and Richards https://www.amazon.com/Unapologetic-Apologetics-Meeting-Challenges-Theological/dp/0830815635/

Christ and Culture Revisited by DA Carson https://www.amazon.com/Christ-Culture-Revisited-D-Carson/dp/0802867383/

Center Church by Timothy Keller https://www.amazon.com/Center-Church-Balanced-Gospel-Centered-Ministry/dp/0310494184/

Resident Aliens by Stanley Hauwerwas https://www.amazon.com/Resident-Aliens-Christian-Expanded-Anniversary/dp/1426781903/

To Change the World by James Hunter https://www.amazon.com/Change-World-Tragedy-Possibility-Christianity/dp/0199730806/

Mere Christianity by CS Lewis https://www.amazon.com/Mere-Christianity-C-Lewis-2015-04-21/dp/B01JXV11IQ/

Scripture References

1 John 2:12-15; James 4:4; Matthew 21:17-21; Daniel 1-6; Mark 16

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Dr. Walker Strickland

http://kingdomdiversity.sebts.edu

http://walterstrickland.com

Books by/edited by Walter:

Plain Theology for Plain People https://www.amazon.com/Plain-Theology-People-Lexham-Classics/dp/1683590341/

Every Waking Hour https://www.amazon.com/Every-Waking-Hour-Introduction-Christians/dp/157799678X/

To Follow on Twitter

Jackie Hill Perry: @JackieHillPerry

Sho Baraka: @AmIshoBaraka

Propaganda: @prophiphop

Ambassador: @ambassador215

Websites of Interest

http://theandcampaign.com

http://thefrontporch.org

http://jude3project.com

People to Follow

Charlie Dates: http://progressivechicago.org/about1

H.B. Charles: http://hbcharlesjr.com

George Yancey: http://georgeyancey.com

Karen Ellis: http://ellisperspectives.com/about

Soong-Chan Rah: http://profrah.com

Christopher Brooks: http://evangelministries.org/chris-brooks

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Gender Reveal Injustice? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/magazine/should-i-go-to-a-gender-reveal-party.html

Dr. John C. Lennox

Read CV from http://www.johnlennox.org

Should we Fear Artificial Intelligence?

https://rzim.org/live/

Book Recommendation

Can Science Explain Everything?

https://www.thegoodbook.co.uk/can-science-explain-everything

Main Topic

The Problem With #BelieveSurvivors

OCT 3, 2018 by Emily Yoffe who is a Contributing editor at The Atlantic.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/brett-kavanaugh-and-problem-believesurvivors/572083/

Justice requires fairness, not automatic belief - https://twitter.com/emilyyoffe/status/1047578629381734400

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The Promise of Vaping and the Rise of Juul

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/14/the-promise-of-vaping-and-the-rise-of-juul

Juul Raided by the FDA

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/2/17928616/juul-ecig-vaping-fda-raid-inspection-smoking-nicotine

Approximate Educational Statistics

3.3% of school aged kids are homeschooled or about 1.7 million though other estimates are as high as 2.3 million https://www.nheri.org/homeschool-population-size-growing/

5.7 million in private schools, most are religious in orientation around 10% http://www.capenet.org/facts.html

Just under 51 million kids in America’s Public schools https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372

The Importance of Parental Involvement

How Parental Involvement Benefits the Entire Educational Process https://www.learningliftoff.com/how-parental-involvement-benefits-the-entire-educational-process/

The Enduring Importance of Parental Involvement from the Neighborhood Friendly NEA http://neatoday.org/2014/11/18/the-enduring-importance-of-parental-involvement-2/

Relevant Scripture

Deuteronomy 6:4-6, Ephesians 6:1-4, Deuteronomy 29:29.

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Links Cited

How Kids sports became a $15 billion industry http://time.com/4913687/how-kids-sports-became-15-billion-industry/

The Benefits of Youth Sports https://www.ncys.org/publications/the-benefits-of-youth-sports.php

The Dark Side of Youth Sports https://www.momsteam.com/team-of-experts/shane-murphy-phd/the-dark-side-of-youth-sports

Why Kids Quit Sports by John O’Sullivan https://changingthegameproject.com/why-kids-quit-sports/

Field of Screams https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58c43902e4b0a797c1d39d51/amp

Spring Sports and Sunday Church by Tony Reinke/Mary Kassian https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/spring-sports-and-sunday-church

When Church Gets Sidelined for Youth Sports https://www.christianitytoday.com/pastors/2018/may-web-exclusives/when-church-gets-sidelined-youth-sports.html

Engagement and Mission in the Realm of Sport by Reid Monaghan https://ftc.co/resource-library/blog-entries/engagement-and-mission-in-the-realm-of-sport

Justin Martyr First Apology - On the Administration of the Sacraments - Sunday worship was an early established practice of the Christians http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0126.htm

Relevant Scripture

Hebrews 10:24, 25 - Regular gathering

1 Corinthians 16:2 - Church gathering on Sunday/first day of the week

The Furey Sports Liturgy

Try Hard, Have Fun, Treat People Well, Thank your Coach

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Links Referenced

Some good reading on the state of work

https://acton.org/pub/commentary/2016/03/30/martin-luther-vocation-and-serving-our-neighbors

https://www.theologyofwork.org

https://www.inc.com/scott-mautz/new-research-shows-what-employees-are-most-unhappy.html

https://hbr.org/2009/11/how-to-survive-in-an-unhappy-w.html

http://www.cnbcfinancial.news/2018/09/08/tesla-keeps-losing-senior-leadership-here-are-some-of-the-key-departures-this-year/

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html

http://malyonworkplace.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Why-Work-Dorothy-Sayers-Essay.pdf

Books Referenced

Keller “Every Good Endeavor”

Miroslav Volf “Public Faith in Action”

-“Work in the Spirit”

Andy Crouch “Culture Making”

Kyle Bennett “Practices of Love: Spiritual Disciplines for the Life of the World”

Cal Newport “Deep Work”

Wendell Berry “Christianity and the Survival of Creation”

Bonhoeffer “Christ, Reality, and Good”

Walter Strickland and Benjamin Quinn “Every Waking Hour”

Gene Veith “God at Work”

Amy Sherman “Kingdom Calling”

Bob Benne “Ordinary Saints"

Scripture Referenced

1 Corinthians 7:20, 10:31

Colossians 3:23, 24

Genesis 1-3

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RUTs and BUTs

Judge John Hodgman - Episode 379, Race Closed

A Jonathan Coulton Primer - songs to start with

Shop Vac - Song and Animation

Links Referenced

Reductio Ad Absurdum - Article from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Confronting a Sexual Rite of Passage - The Atlantic

Euthanasia and Senicide - Brief introduction

Scripture Referenced

Ecclesiastes 1:2,3

Romans 2:12-15

John 8:31, 32

Books Referenced

Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton - free eBook

Reasonable Faith by William Lane Craig - see chapter on the Absurdity of Life without God

What we Can’t Not Know: A Guide by J. Budziszewski

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Reid’s Favorite Episodes

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Episode 11 - Leaning into Lament with Rhys Bezzant

https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2018/1/20/episode-11-leaning-into-lament

Episode 10 - A Christmas Tradition

https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2018/1/5/episode-10-a-christmas-tradition

Jesse’s Favorite Episodes

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Episode 13 - Saint Patrick and His Day

https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2018/3/14/episode-13-booze-parades-pinching-and-wearing-green

Episode 24 - O Smartphone Where art Thou?

https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2018/8/15/episode-24-o-smartphone-where-art-thou

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Links Featured

The Tweet - https://twitter.com/bobthune/status/1004404412268376064?s=21

Right Age for a Smartphone? https://www.tomsguide.com/us/right-age-for-a-smartphone,review-5547.html

Young Americans Having Less Sex - https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/08/why-young-americans-having-less-sex-216953

LINK - Charging Station http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2017/9/16/plugged-and-unplugged-life-at-home

Snap Chat Dysmorphia? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/snapchat-dysmorphia-selfies-driving-people-to-plastic-surgery-doctors-warn/

Reviewish

eero plus - https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykarcz/2017/11/10/new-eero-plus-features-make-it-a-must-buy-security-bargain/#4739c0274fa7

iOS 12 - https://9to5mac.com/2018/06/28/ios-12-how-to-access-parental-controls-and-restrictions-iphone-ipad/

Relevant Scripture

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 t“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.Ephesians 6:1-4

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Books Cited

Kay S. Hymowitz, Manning Up, The Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys https://www.amazon.com/Manning-Up-Rise-Women-Turned/dp/0465028365

Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D, Boys Adrift - The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men. https://www.amazon.com/Boys-Adrift-Epidemic-Unmotivated-Underachieving/dp/0465072097/

Michael Kimmel, Guyland - The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men https://www.amazon.com/Guyland-Perilous-World-Where-Become/dp/0060831359/

Alexandra Robbins, Abby Wilner, Quarterlife Crisis, The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Twenties https://www.amazon.com/Quarterlife-Crisis-Unique-Challenges-Twenties/dp/1585421065/

Philip Zimbardo, Nikita D. Coulombe, Man Interrupted - Why Young Men are Struggling and What we can do about it https://www.amazon.com/Man-Interrupted-Young-Struggling-About/dp/1573246891/

Links Referenced

Hanah Rosin - The End of Men https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/308135/

The Demise of Guys by Philip Zimbardo https://www.ted.com/talks/zimchallenge

Blog and Links for Discussion of The Demise of Guys - https://blog.ted.com/philip-zimbardos-the-demise-of-guys-criticisms-updates/

Your Brain on Porn https://www.yourbrainonporn.com NOTE - this is not a site for children

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History has shaped our present and our present is the history of the future. Knowing our story helps us see the bigger picture of how God has worked and is working around the world in various peoples, places and cultures.

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Links Referenced

Nielson Sports - Global Interest in Football

NBC News - Global Soccer Numbers

Forbes - Soccer Soon to be America’s Third Favorite Spectator Sport

How We Watch Soccer Now by Leo Robson

NY Times - NBC Maintains Rights to the Premier League

Scripture References

Acts 17:16-23; Psalm 19:1,2; 1 Corinthians 10:30,31

Podcasts and Soccer Shows Recommended

The Men in Blazers

ESPNFC Podcast

SiriusXM FC - Great satellite channel hosting The Football Show and Grumpy Pundits

The Manchester United Redcast from Playback Media

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Scripture Links

Deuteronomy 6:4-7, Ephesians 6:1-4

Links Referenced and Mentioned

Father Facts https://www.fatherhood.org/fatherhood-data-statistics

Parenting and Discipline http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2014/7/17/walking-with-the-little-ones-parenting-in-the-toddling-years

Parenting and Teaching http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2014/10/29/walking-with-the-little-ones-parenting-in-the-toddler-years-part-2

Parenting and Presence http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2015/9/17/walking-with-the-little-ones-parenting-in-the-toddler-years-part-3

Book Referenced

https://www.amazon.com/Strong-Fathers-Daughters-Secrets-Father/dp/0345499395

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Connecticut Track Meet

http://usatodayhss.com/2018/connecticut-parents-ban-transgender-track-athletes

NY Times on Transgender Athletes https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/sports/transgender-athletes.html

Current International Olympic Committee (IOC) Standards

https://stillmed.olympic.org/Documents/Commissions_PDFfiles/Medical_commission/2015-11_ioc_consensus_meeting_on_sex_reassignment_and_hyperandrogenism-en.pdf

The Benefits for Girls in Sports

http://www.momsteam.com/successful-parenting/sports-benefit-girls-in-many-ways

Take Em to Church

Book Recommendation - God and the Transgender Debate by Andrew T. Walker

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SHOW NOTES

Various Articles

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Steph Curry Rebuked by his Mom After Game 3

http://www.newsweek.com/my-house-steph-curry-rebuked-his-mom-after-outburst-game-three-936073

Why we don’t need both three bombs and f-bombs by Ed. Uszynski

https://athletesinaction.org/underreview/why-we-dont-need-both-three-bombs-and-f-bombs 

Watch Your Mouth by Reid S. Monaghan

http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2009/8/1/watch-your-mouth.html 

Scripture Related to Speech

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• Ephesians 4:25-29

• Lying Tongues (Psalm 5:9; Psalm 120:1,2; Proverbs 6:16-19, John 8:44)

• Slander, Gossip and Tearing Up People (Psalm 50:19, 20; Romans 1:28-32; 1 Timothy 5:13)

• Profanity and Obscenity (Proverbs 30:7-9; Ephesians 5:4) 

• Cursing Folk (James 3)

• Blaspheming God (Exodus 20:7)

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RUTS and BUTS

Kevonstage - commenting on the beautifully ridiculous with a comedic flare. Instagram - Web

MAIN TOPIC - Why not ask Why? 

Finding God in Our Questions sermon series from Jacob's Well NJ

An Introduction to Apologetics by Reid S. Monaghan

The Works of Joseph Campbell

SCRIPTURE

John 14:1-6, John 17, John 8:31, 32

REVIEWISH

Fantastic Carry-ons and other baggage at from AwayTravel

The Professional Slim Jr. Backpack and other bags from EBags

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Web Links:

http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2010/7/24/thoughts-on-suffering.html

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Reviewish

Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry https://www.amazon.com/Jayber-Crow-Wendell-Berry/dp/1582431604

Bottle Breachers - http://bottlebreacher.com

Lost in Space on Netflix https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5232792/

Hope that Does Not Disappoint

Sysiphus - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus

Stats of Suicide https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/

Augustine’s Confessions https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Oxford-Worlds-Classics-Augustine/dp/0199537828

Scripture on Hope

Romans 5:1-3

Romans 8:18-25

Hebrews 6:13-20

1 Peter 1:3-9

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Show NotesLinks Cited The Pope and Hell https://www.economist.com/blogs/erasmus/2018/03/pope-and-hell

NCAA Women’s Basketball Final and Rico the Buzzer Beater https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/01/sports/notre-dame-wins-ncaa-title.html

The Greatest Showman http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1485796/

The Blind Men and the Elephant https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_poems_of_John_Godfrey_Saxe/The_Blind_Men_and_the_Elephant

Thoughts on Plurality by Reid S. Monaghan http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2009/2/13/thoughts-on-plurality.htm

Pluralism and the Gospel by Reid S. Monaghan http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2018/2/5/pluralism-and-the-gospel-of-jesus-christ

Books ReferencedHas Christianity Failed You by Ravi Zacharias https://www.amazon.com/Has-Christianity-Failed-Ravi-Zacharias/dp/0310351154/ref=sr_1_1/136-8480911-3902465

Four View on Salvation in a Pluralistic World edited by Okholm and Phillips https://www.amazon.com/Four-Views-Salvation-Pluralistic-World/dp/0310212766/

See also Ch. 9 “Defeaters? Pluralism” in Knowledge and Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Christian-Belief-Alvin-Plantinga/dp/0802872042/ref=sr_1_1

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RUTs and BUTs

Measure of “Luck”

https://www.inc.com/chris-matyszczyk/so-youre-smart-but-youre-not-rich-this-eye-opening-new-scientific-study-tells-you-why.html

Here Comes Diggins! http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/incredible-call-perfectly-captures-randall-diggins-historic-moment

Radford Basketball

St. Patrick of Ireland By Reid S Monaghan

http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2010/3/13/patrick-of-ireland.html

Books and Links Referenced

Stuff White People Like

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/03/16/89-saint-patricks-day

Philip Freeman, St. Patrick of Ireland—A Biography (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005) http://www.amazon.com/St-Patrick-Ireland-Philip-Freeman/dp/0743256344/

Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization (New York: Anchor Books, 1995) http://www.amazon.com/Irish-Saved-Civilization-Hinges-History/dp/0385418493/

Patrick, Confession of St. Patrick, Christian Classics Ethereal Library — http://www.ccel.org/ccel/patrick/confession.iv.html, accessed 3/12/2010.

George Hunter, The Celtic Way of Evangelism: How Christianity Can Reach the West…Again (Abington Press, 2000). https://www.amazon.com/Celtic-Way-Evangelism-Tenth-Anniversary/dp/1426711379

On the Block by Doug Loganhttps://www.amazon.com/Block-Developing-Biblical-Missional-Engagement/dp/0802414729

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Show NotesLinks ReferencedRecent change in policy by Facebook concerning “news” in the newsfeed

Pope Condemns Fake News

Frame|Poythress on Multi-perspectivalism

A long, long treatment of the Correspondence Theory of Truth

Post-Truth - 2016 Word of the Year by the Oxford English Dictionary

“To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true” - Aristotle

Books ReferencedA Sensible Metaphysical Realism by William Alston.

On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt

On Truth by Harry G. Frankfurt

How to Think by Alan Jacobs

Love God with All your Mind by JP Moreland

Love Alone is Credible by Hans Urs von Balthasar

Scripture ReferencesProverbs 16

John 8, John 14, John 17

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Rhys Bezzant Biography

https://www.ridley.edu.au/about-ridley/ridley-people/faculty/rhys-bezzant/

CS Lewis’ Introduction to Athanasius’ On The Incarnation

http://silouanthompson.net/library/early-church/on-the-incarnation/introduction/

Psalm 77

https://www.esv.org/Psalm+77/

Songs of Lament

https://www.reformedworship.org/article/june-2010/my-god-my-god-why

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A Christmas Tradition

Reid erroneously quoted Snow Miser as being from the animated film “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” when he is, in fact, from “The Year without a Santa Claus”

The Year without a Santa Clause

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072424/

Snow Miser Song - The Year without a Santa Claus

https://youtu.be/dPrbccEdI5o

Heat Miser Song - The Year without a Santa Claus

https://youtu.be/wbfgVEk-mxQ

Malachi 4:4-6

4 “Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. 5 “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. 6 And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”

CACC

• Connect - be human, in their world/story, have fun

• Affirm - what they are doing well, character traits/fruits of the Spirit I see

• Challenge - what are the challenges in their life, character areas that need to be called up, future things ahead they need to see

• Call forward in the Lord - call them to their future, call them to Christ and - vocare, primary calling to Christ/ son ship, secondary calling in his world and mission...vocational calling

Reviewish Segment

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LEGO Movie - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1490017/

LEGO Batman - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4116284/

LEGO Ninjago - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3014284/

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Planting Multiethnic Transcultural Churches by Reid S. Monaghan
http://www.acts29.com/planting-multiethnic-transcultural-churches/

Resources for Multiethnic and Transcultural Leadership

Note: Each of these works and authors brings a particular perspective, terminology and approach to ministry. Read them for their unique perspective and help as you humbly learn and hope for ministry in a new way.

Divided by Faith, by Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith
United by Faith: The Multiracial Congregation as an Answer to the Problem of Race, by Curtiss Paul DeYoung, Michael O. Emerson, George Yancey, Karen Chai Kim
The High Definition Leader: Building Multiethnic Churches in a Multiethnic World, by Derwin Gray
Renovate: Changing Who You Are by Loving Where You Are, by Leonce Crump
Building a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church, by Mark DeYmaz

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Show Notes RUTs and BUTsTaking the pee out of physics: how boys are getting a leg-up:https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/taking-pee-out-physics-how-boys-are-getting-a-leg

Luther - A Spiritual Biography by By Herman Selderhuis, https://www.crossway.org/books/martin-luther-hcj/

Technology and Christian - An Interview with Dr. Michael BuehrerDr. R. Michael Buehrer, Director of Wireless @ Virginia Tech, Personal web site http://www.buehrer.ece.vt.edu

Recent A.I. Discussions

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/4/16405174/ceo-sundar-pichai-interview-google-ai-artificial-intelligence-interface

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/technology/machine-learning-artificial-intelligence-ai.html

Eternal Life through Tech?

https://qz.com/1123164/seeking-eternal-life-silicon-valley-is-solving-for-death/

The Chinese Room Problem - John Searle’s analogy about syntax vs knowing properly explained https://youtu.be/D0MD4sRHj1M

John Searle on Consciousness, https://youtu.be/j_OPQgPIdKg

David Chalmers, http://consc.net

Ray Kurzweil, http://www.kurzweilai.net

Some DUALISM resources - http://www.newdualism.org/websites.htm

Thanks to Sugar and the Hi Lows for allowing us to license the song "see it for yourself" for our theme song

The Gospel Underground is a joint production of Power of Change and the Bonhoeffer Haus.

Send your comments, feedback and or questions that you might want us to take up here on the underground to info@gospelunderground.org.

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In or Out Mischief Night - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischief_Night It’s a Jersey thing Halloween Stats https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/10/wait-americans-spend-how-much-on-halloween/381631/ Review-ish Halloween - From Pagan Ritual to Party Night by Nicholas Rogers, Oxford press, 2002. https://www.amazon.com/Halloween-Pagan-Ritual-Party-Night/dp/0195168968 Last call: The rise and fall of prohibition by Daniel Okrent, Scribner, 2010. https://www.amazon.com/Last-Call-Rise-Fall-Prohibition/dp/0743277023/ The Brazyn Life Morph collapsible foam roller on Shark Tank! http://abc.go.com/shows/shark-tank/episode-guide/season-09/6-episode-6

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Show Notes What you might be missing in the kneeling debate by Ed Uzynski https://athletesinaction.org/underreview/what-you-might-be-missing-in-the-kneeling-debate Reviewish Book - Good and Bad Thinking about Politics and Religion https://www.amazon.com/Good-Think-about-Religion-Politics/dp/0802863647 The Brazyn Life Morph Collapsible Foam Roller http://www.brazyn.com Thanks to Sugar and the Hi Lows for allowing us to license the song "see it for yourself" for our theme song. The Gospel Underground is a joint production of Power of Change and the Bonhoeffer Haus. Send your comments, feedback and or questions that you might want us to take up here on the underground to info@gospelunderground.org. We are a dialogue taking place in the borderlands between the church and culture and we hope to see you there.

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REVIEWISH The Works of Candice Millard http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2016/10/19/the-works-of-candice-millard Show some LOVE Coram Deo Wednesday Conversation Podcast Episode http://cdomaha.com/wed-convo/2017/10/11/how-to-care-for-your-pastor “Shaping Cultures for Ministerial Health in a Church Plant” http://www.acts29.com/shaping-a-culture-of-ministerial-health/ THANKS and GRATITUDES Thanks to Sugar and the Hi Lows for allowing us to license the song "see it for yourself" for our theme song. The Gospel Underground is a joint production of Power of Change and the Bonhoeffer Haus. Send your comments, feedback and or questions that you might want us to take up here on the underground to info@gospelunderground.org. We are a dialogue taking place in the borderlands between the church and culture and we hope to see you there.

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Welcome

The Bonhoeffer Haus, http://www.bonhoefferhaus.com/

RUTs and BUTs

Ridiculous

Mushrooms, AI and wisdom, https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/28/16054834/mushroom-identifying-app-machine-vision-ai-dangerous

Beautiful

Human craftsmanship, Liam Hoffman Blacksmith Axes https://www.hoffmanblacksmithing.com

"One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." -Elbert Hubbard

Technology and a Human Future

Ask not what your robots can do for you...
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/radio-atlantic-ask-not-what-your-robots-can-do-for-you/535929/

Companies embedding chips in their employees
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chipping-people-you-ready-shelly-palmer

New Terminator Film https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/28/james-cameron-terminator-sequel-july-2019/

Synthetic muscle breakthrough could lead to 'lifelike' robots
https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/21/synthetic-muscle-soft-robot-breakthrough/

100 other robot assists and technologists suggest ban of the use of so-called killer robots. Lethal, autonomous, weapons of war.

https://futureoflife.org/2017/08/20/killer-robots-worlds-top-ai-robotics-companies-urge-united-nations-ban-lethal-autonomous-weapons

https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2017/08/21/elon-musk-is-right-we-should-all-be-worried-about-killer-robots/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/20/elon-musk-killer-robots-experts-outright-ban-lethal-autonomous-weapons-war

Hans Moravec and Mind Children
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674576186

Jonathan Coulton
The funny, dystopic music of Jonathan Coulton https://www.jonathancoulton.com (most of the songs the lyrics are clean, but a few have an edge to em)

Merry Christmas from Chiron Beta Prime

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GOING POLITICAL

Breaking Faith, The culture war over religious morality has faded; in its place is something worse by Peter Beinart. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/breaking-faith/517785/

RELEVANT SCRIPTURE Love of Enemies - Matthew 5 Follow the Lord of justice Psalm 10:16, 17 Know you’re citizenship Philippians 3:18-20

REVIEWISH Building a family device charging station. All info and products for the one Reid put together can be found on his blog here. http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2017/9/16/plugged-and-unplugged-life-at-home

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The following links on on subjects featured on today's show.

Cool or Not Cool

Bai em if you must - https://www.amazon.com/Cocofusions-Coconut-Pineapple-Antioxidant-Beverage/dp/B0160Q086I/ Fantasy Football Guide - http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2723439-2017-fantasy-football-draft-guide-the-ultimate-blueprint The English Premier League - https://www.premierleague.com Exports and the Olympics - http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2024-olympics-include-competitive-video-gaming/

The Nature of our Nature Teleology - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleology Dysteleology - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysteleology What we can't Not Know, A Guide by J. Budziszewski - https://www.amazon.com/What-We-Cant-Not-Know/dp/189062649X/ Asteroid Fly by - http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/31/us/asteroid-florence-earth-fly-by-trnd/index.html Psalm 19 - https://www.esv.org/Psalm+19/ Mark 4:35-41 - https://www.esv.org/Mark+4/ Matthew 8 - Healing of the Centurion's Servant - https://www.esv.org/Matthew+8/

Harvey Relief Links

Red Cross - http://www.redcross.org/about-us/our-work/disaster-relief/hurricane-relief/hurricane-harvey-relief-information Send Relief - https://www.namb.net/send-relief/disaster-relief/hurricane-harvey Clear Creek Relief - http://clearcreekrelief.org

Take em to Church Choosing Church by Marilyn McEntyre - https://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/5114/choosing-church/

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Reid Monaghan and Jesse Furey give a quick introduction to themselves, the Gospel Underground podcast and some segments that will feature in future episodes.

You can find more about our podcast at www.gospelunderground.org. The Gospel Underground is a joint production of Power of Change (www.powerofchange.org) and the Bonhoeffer Haus (www.bonhoefferhaus.com)

Many thanks to Trent Dabbs and Amy Stroup of Sugar + the Hi Lows for liscensing us to use their fantastic "See it for Yourself" as our intro music. Check out their stuff, www.sugarandthehilows.com.