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Pastor Writer: Conversations on Reading, Writing, and the Christian Life

221 episodes - English - Latest episode: 18 days ago - ★★★★★ - 83 ratings

The Pastor Writer podcast is a series of conversations and reflections on the Christian life through reading and writing. From interviews with authors to thoughts on scripture and culture, Chase Replogle offers a wide range of topics and explorations. Chase is a church pastor and writer. You can follow more of his work at pastorwriter.com

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Todd Hains & Natasha Kennedy: Catechism and Children’s Literature

March 11, 2024 11:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MB

I'm joined on today's podcast by Editor Todd Hains and Illustrator Natasha Kennedy. Together, they have been working on Lexham's new series of children's books, known as the FatCat series. We discuss the current state of Christian children's literature, Catechism, and Classical Education, and how we can be intentional about teaching our children the language and the theology of our faith. 

Drew Dyck: Just Show Up: The Spiritual Practice of Plodding

January 25, 2024 16:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MB

Drew Dyck is the author of multiple books, including Your Future Self Will Thank You: Secrets To Self Control From The Bible And Brain Science (2019), and the book he joins me to talk about today, Just Show Up: How Small Acts of Faithfulness Change Everything (2023). Drew is an editor at Moody Publishers and the former managing editor of Leadership Journal. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Christianity Today, Relevant Magazine, The Gospel Coalition, and CNN.com. Dr...

Mark Fugitt — The Lost Shepherd and a Place for History

January 19, 2024 14:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MB

Mark Fugitt has been a pastor for eighteen years and an adjunct professor for a decade. He has a bachelor’s in history; master’s degrees in history, theological studies, and theology; and his PhD in biblical studies and historical theology. He lives with his wife Laura and four children on a farm in the hills of Missouri. He joins me to talk about his new book: Lost Shepherd: What Believers Once Knew About Paslm 23 That the Modern World has Forgotten

Chase Replogle — My Best Reads of 2023

December 22, 2023 15:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MB

Since the beginning of the Pastor Writer podcast, I've dedicated the last episode of each year to a reflection on some of my favorite books. I think it's a great practice for anyone. I looked back through my Amazon orders, my bookshelves, my Kindle and Audible apps, and noted books that stood out. For me, books are never just read, they represent the things I've been thinking about, working on, and areas I'm trying to grow.  This year, the books really reflect my ongoing writing project, bu...

Cary Schmidt — Reversing Ministry Depletion

November 27, 2023 17:00 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MB

Cary Schmidt serves as the Senior Pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Newington, Connecticut. He and his wife, Dana, have been blessed with three children and have enjoyed thirty four years of marriage and ministry together. Cary's passion is to love God, love his family, and point people to Jesus Christ through teaching, preaching, and writing. He hosts the "Leading in the Gospel" podcast to encourage Gospel-shaped leadership, and "Growing in the gospel"—a daily devotional on Youtube. He...

Randall Wallace — Film, Faith, and the Braveheart Life

November 13, 2023 12:00 - 55 minutes - 38.3 MB

Randall Wallace is the Oscar®-nominated creative force behind the epic storytelling of such critical and box-office hits as BRAVEHEART, WE WERE SOLDIERS, PEARL HARBOR, SECRETARIAT, and HEAVEN IS FOR REAL. Along with his work in film, Randall is the author of nine books, including five original novels, three novel versions of the screenplays of his films, and his first work of non-fiction, LIVING THE BRAVEHEART LIFE.

Harold Senkbeil — Textualizing People into the Story of Scripture

November 03, 2023 11:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MB

Harold Senkbeil is executive director emeritus of Doxology: The Lutheran Center for Spiritual Care. His pastoral experience of nearly five decades includes parish ministry, the seminary classroom, and parachurch leadership. He is author of numerous books, including the award-winning The Care of Souls, Christ and Calamity, and Dying to Live.

Alex McFarland — How Apologetics is Changing

October 23, 2023 15:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MB

Alex McFarland is a speaker, author, and advocate for Christian apologetics. He is the founder and president of the national apologetic conference, Truth for a New Generation. Alex is the author of over twenty books on apologetics and the Christian faith. For more than a decade, Alex and Bert Harper have cohosted Exploring the Word, a nationally syndicated, live Bible-teaching program heard daily on American Family Radio. He is a graduate of Liberty University and lives near Greensboro North...

Chase Replogle — A New Podcast for Kids and Parents

September 29, 2023 12:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MB

We’re excited your family is joining us in talking about the Bible. We’re Chase, Ashley, Will, and Charlotte.  We enjoy talking about the Bible and the world in which the Bible stories actually happened. We hope our conversations can help inspire conversations in your family. We wanted to create a podcast that the whole family could enjoy and learn from. Too often, kid's content is dumbed down. We think kids are capable of far more than sometimes our Bible conversations reflect. So we’ve ai...

Douglas McKelvey — Every Moment Holy Liturgies

September 15, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 45.1 MB

The EVERY MOMENT HOLY series of books by Douglas McKelvey and published by Rabbit Room Press brings new prayers and liturgies for the ordinary events of daily life. These prayers are ways of reminding us that our lives are shot through with sacred purpose even when, especially when, we are too busy or too caught up in our busyness to notice. The prayers are accented with linocut illustrations by Ned Bustard. Collectively, Every Moment Holy has sold over 300,000 books across two volumes and ...

Tommy Brown — The Temptations of Christ

August 22, 2023 11:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MB

Tommy Brown is the pastor for spiritual and community formation at Generations United Church in Freeport, Florida. He has a BA in pastoral ministry and master’s degrees in divinity and management, and he is the author of The Seven Money Types: Discover How God Wired You to Handle Money. He joins me to talk about his new book: The Ache for Meaning: How the Temptations of Christ Reveal Who We Are and What We're Seeking. Description: In The Ache for Meaning, Tommy Brown journeys through our ...

Austin Carty — Your Permission to Read More

July 26, 2023 16:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MB

Austin Carty lives and pastors in Anderson, South Carolina. He holds degrees in literature and divinity from High Point University, Wake Forest University, and a Doctorate of Ministry from Emory University. He is a lover of theology and the arts, and is particularly passionate about good literature. He joins me to discuss his book, The Pastor's Bookshelf: Why Reading Matters for MInistry.

Andrew Root — When Church Stops Working

July 13, 2023 13:00 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MB

Andrew Root is the Carrie Olson Baalson professor of youth and family ministry at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. Andrew writes and researches in areas of theology, ministry, culture and younger generations. His most recent books are Churches and the Crisis of Decline and the book he joins me to discuss today, When Church Stops Working: A Future for Your Congregation beyond More Money, programs, and Innovation.

John Dyer — People of the Screen

June 14, 2023 13:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MB

John Dyer holds a Phd from Durham university. He currently serves as the VP for Enrollment and Educational Technology and Assistant Professor of Theological Studies for Dallas Theological Seminary. He has also been a technology creator for more than 20 years, building tools for Apple, Microsoft, Harley Davidson, the Department of Defense, and Dallas's NPR affiliate, and his open source code is part of the WordPress core. He lives near Dallas, Texas, with his wife, and two children. He joins...

Chase Replogle — Why I'm More Optimistic About Men

May 29, 2023 17:00 - 9 minutes - 6.88 MB

It’s been over a year since I released The 5 Masculine Instincts. I wrote the book because, as a pastor, I saw the way so many men were wrestling with questions about masculinity and how the broader cultural conversation seemed to be leading to more online debates than actual Christlike growth in the lives of men. That trend continues. There are more books, more articles, and more controversies. Drop the word masculinity on Twitter, and like raw meat thrown into the river, the piranhas swarm...

Sean McGever — Considering the Task of Evangelism

May 24, 2023 19:00 - 52 minutes - 36.2 MB

Dr. Sean McGever has a PhD from the University of Aberdeen. He is an Area Director for Young Life in Phoenix, Arizona, and an adjunct faculty at Grand Canyon University. He speaks, teaches, and ministers across the United States, Canada, and the UK. He joins me to talk about his recently released book, Evangelism. It is a part of Lexam’s The Care of Souls Series. The Lexham Ministry Guides, edited by Harold L. Senkbeil, are designed to offer practical, proven wisdom for the church. 

John Meador — God Grows Us Through Challenges

April 05, 2023 12:00 - 32 minutes - 22.7 MB

John Meador has served as a lead pastor for 40 years, most recently at Cross City Church, in Euless, Texas since 2006. The church is intergenerational and multi-ethnic. He and His wife Kim have been married for 44 years and are the grateful parents of six grown children. John loves sports—and enjoys working on and driving around in his old Ford truck. He joins me to talk about his new book, God’s Not Done With You: Encouragement from the Bible’s Greatest Comeback Stories.

Jeremy Writebol — Pastor, Jesus Is Enough

March 29, 2023 12:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MB

Jeremy Writebol has served in vocational ministry as a pastor for over 20 years. A graduate of Moody Bible Institute (B.A. 2001) he currently is the lead campus pastor of Woodside Bible Church's Plymouth, MI campus. Alongside his pastoral ministry, Jeremy is the Executive Director of the publishing and resourcing ministry Gospel-Centered Discipleship. He is married to Stephanie and is the father of two children. He joins me to talk about his new book: Pastor, Jesus Is Enough: Hope for the ...

Andrew Peterson — Animating the Wingfeather Saga

March 15, 2023 14:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MB

Andrew Peterson is an award-winning singer, songwriter, and author of the Wingfeather Saga. He’s also the founder of The Rabbit Room, an organization that fosters community through story, art, and music. Andrew and his wife, Jamie, have two sons, Aeden and Asher, and one daughter, Skye. They live in the Nashville, Tennessee, area on a wooded hill in a little house they call the Warren—where they are generally safe from bumpy digtoads and toothy cows. The Wingfeather Saga is being released i...

Robert Wolgemuth — A Conversation about Death

February 23, 2023 13:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MB

Robert Wolgemuth has been in the media business for thirty-nine years. A former president of Thomas Nelson Publishers, he is the founder of Wolgemuth & Associates, a literary agency exclusively representing the writing work of more than one hundred authors. Robert is a speaker and best-selling author of over twenty books. Among his professional accomplishments, he has served two terms as the Chairman of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. He is a 1969 graduate of Taylor Unive...

Collin Hansen — Tim Keller: Spiritual & Intellectual Formation

February 15, 2023 13:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MB

Collin Hansen serves as vice president for content and editor-in-chief of The Gospel Coalition, as well as executive director of The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics. He hosts the Gospelbound podcast and has written and contributed to many books, most recently Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation and Rediscover Church: Why the Body of Christ Is Essential. He has published with the New York Times and the Washington Post and offered commentary for CNN, Fox News, NPR,...

David Kim — Why We Still Can’t Find Community

February 08, 2023 17:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MB

David Kim is the discipleship pastor at WestGate Church in Silicon Valley, California and author of Made To Belong: Five Practices for Cultivating Community in a Disconnected. He completed M.Div and Th.M from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and his children's book on dealing with change was selected for Oprah's Favorite Things list. He cares deeply about the intersection of spiritual formation, theology, mental health, and the cultivation of authentic Christian communities. He lives with...

Terry Glaspey — C. S. Lewis: Life, Thinking, and Writing

January 25, 2023 14:00 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MB

Terry Glaspey is a writer, an editor, a creative mentor, and someone who finds various forms of art—painting, films, novels, poetry, and music—to be some of the places where he most deeply connects with God. He has a master’s degree in history from the University of Oregon, as well as undergraduate degrees emphasizing counseling and pastoral studies. He has written over a dozen books and has been the recipient of several major national awards for his writing. In December, he released a new...

Brian Smith — Faith, Sports, and Athleticism

January 19, 2023 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MB

Brian Smith is on staff with Athletes in Action. A former track and cross-country athlete while in college, he now spends his time ministering to athletes. He writes regularly for athletesinaction.org. He likes the Detroit Lions probably a little too much, and graduated with a degree in Communications and Journalism from Wake Forest University. He joins me to talk about his recent book, The Christian Athlete: Glorifying God in Sports

Chase Replogle — My Best Reads of 2022

December 27, 2022 15:00 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MB

It’s been my tradition to spend the last episode of the year looking back on my favorite reads from the past twelve months. This time of year, just about everyone is putting out their top list of books and awards.  What I want to offer you are the 10 books that have impacted my thinking most this year. They aren’t necessarily the best books I have read or even the most important, but they are the books that have been shaping my own life and thinking this past year. What I’d love to hear is...

Andrew Arndt — Wilderness and Renunciation with the Desert Fathers and Mothers

December 02, 2022 13:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MB

Andrew Arndt is the lead pastor of New Life East, one of seven congregations of New Life Church in Colorado Springs. Prior to joining New Life's team, he served as the lead pastor of Bloom Church, a network of house churches in Denver. He is the host of the Essential Church podcast, a weekly conversation designed to strengthen the thinking of church and ministry leaders. Andrew received his MDiv from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and is currently working on his DMin with Western Theol...

Jonathan Hardy — Recognizing God's Gift of Opportunity

November 23, 2022 15:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MB

Jonathan Hardy has a passion for helping local churches reach their communities. He has served in various pastoral roles and now helps lead two online platforms, training and equipping pastors and local churches: Leaders.church and Church University. Jonathan recently released his first book, Arrow Striker: Live with Purpose and Leave an Eternal Impact… Every single Day. He joins me to talk about the book and how as believers, we can recognize and make the most out of every God-given opport...

Aaron Damiani — Living a Sacramental Life

September 30, 2022 11:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MB

Aaron Damiani serves as the lead pastor of Immanuel Anglican Church in Chicago and is the author of Earth Filled with Heaven: Finding Life in Liturgy, Sacraments and other Ancient Practices of the Church. Aaron writes and regularly speaks about spiritual formation, leadership, and recovering the gifts of the ancient church for today’s challenges. Aaron and his wife Laura live with their four kids in Chicago’s Irving Park neighborhood.

Jim Cymbala — Keeping Your Call Alive

August 26, 2022 16:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MB

Jim Cymbala has been a pastor for more than fifty years at the Brooklyn Tabernacle. He has a strong burden for the local church and has been blessed with the opportunity to encourage thousands of pastors around the globe. He is the bestselling author of Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire and several other titles. His next book, Fan the Flame, will release in September 2022. He joins me to talk about the book and how pastors can keep their call alive during times of discouragement and burnout. Jim liv...

Chris Nye — Ideology and The Captive Mind

August 12, 2022 11:00 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MB

Chris Nye is a doctoral student at Duke University’s Divinity School and the author of Distant God and Less of More. For fifteen years, he has served as a local church pastor. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Christianity Today, The Gospel Coalition, and various other publications. He recently released a new book, A Captive Mind, Christianity, Ideologies, and Staying Sane in a World Gone Mad. Chris joins me to talk about his new book and how ideologies can impact our faith a...

Jonathan Dodson — The Unwavering Pastor

July 29, 2022 13:00 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MB

Jonathan Dodson is the founding pastor of City Life Church in Austin, TX which he started with his wife, and a small group of people. He is also the founder of Gospel-Centered Discipleship.com, which produces resources to help make, mature, and multiply disciples of Jesus. He is the author of a number of books, including Here in Spirit, The Unbelievable Gospel and Gospel-Centered Discipleship. He joins me to talk about his most recent project, a new book: The Unwavering Pastor: Leading th...

Scott Sauls — Life is Prologue & The Making of Better People

July 15, 2022 13:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MB

Scott Sauls is senior pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville. Before serving in Nashville, he served with Tim Keller at New York City's Redeemer Presbyterian Church as a lead and preaching pastor. In addition to his books, Scott's work has been featured in Christianity Today, Relevant Magazine, The Gospel Coalition, as well as other publications. Scott Joins me to talk about his new book that was just released, Beautiful People Don’t Just Happen: How God Redeems Regret, Hurt, and...

Trevin Wax — The Significance of the Psalms in 30 Days

July 08, 2022 14:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MB

Trevin Wax is vice president of research and resource development at the North American Mission Board and a visiting professor at Wheaton College. A former missionary to Romania, Trevin is a regular columnist at The Gospel Coalition and has contributed to The Washington Post, Religion News Service, World, and Christianity Today, which named him one of 33 millennials shaping the next generation of evangelicals. He is the author of multiple books, including The Multi-Directional Leader, Rethi...

Chase Replogle — The Responsibility of Fatherhood

June 13, 2022 11:00 - 15 minutes - 11 MB

I believe it is a truth that a mother is made over a matter of months, but you always become a father in a single moment. I remember that moment well. The birth of our first child was full of complications. Hours of labor were induced by a rising blood pressure, alternating cycles of magnesium and then Pitocin, and platelet levels too low for an epidural. After being diagnosed with preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome, the first dose of magnesium gave my wife enough time to sleep before the indu...

Jessica Hooten Wilson — Literature and the Scandal of Holiness

May 30, 2022 14:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MB

Jessica Hooten Wilson is Louise Cowan Scholar in Residence at the University of Dallas. She is the author of several books, including Giving the Devil his Due: Flannery O’Connor and The Brothers Karamazov, which received a 2018 Christianity Today book of the year in arts and culture award. She writes on the great books and literature, including O’Connor, Doestovesky, and Walker Percy. She has a new book out entitled, The Scandal of Holiness: Renewing Your imagination In the Company of Lite...

Jay Kim — Analog Christians and Life in the Digital Age

May 23, 2022 13:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MB

Jay Kim serves as the lead pastor at WestGate Church in the Silicon Valley and on the leadership team of the ReGeneration Project. His writing has been featured in Christianity Today, The Gospel Coalition, Missio Alliance,  and Relevant Magazine. He lives in Silicon Valley with his wife and two children. It’s Jay’s second time on the podcast. We previously discussed his first book, Analog Church, a great read. The book won numerous awards including Outreach Resource of the Year and The Gosp...

Daniel Grothe — The Power of Place

April 11, 2022 14:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MB

Daniel Grothe is the associate senior pastor at New Life Church in Colorado Springs. He is a pastor, speaker, drummer, and author of Chasing Wisdom and The Power of Place. Daniel and his wife, Lisa, live on a hobby farm outside of Colorado Springs with their three children and a whole lot of animals. 

Andrew Klavan — Beauty, Truth, and Reading the Gospels

April 04, 2022 13:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MB

Andrew Klavan is an award-winning writer, screenwriter, and media commentator. An internationally bestselling novelist and two-time Edgar Award winner, Klavan is also a contributing editor to City Journal, the magazine of the Manhattan Institute, and the host of a popular podcast on DailyWire.com, The Andrew Klavan Show. His essays and opeds on politics, religion, movies, and literature have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the LA Times. He ...

Chris Martin — Social Media Platforms Are Not Neutral

March 28, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MB

Chris Martin is a content marketing editor at Moody Publishers and a social media, marketing, and communications consultant. He writes regularly in his newsletter, Terms of Service, and just published a book by the same name with B&H Publishing. Chris lives outside Nashville, Tennessee with his wife and their daughter. Chris asks listeners a simple question. Do we use social media, or are we being used by it? Social media is brilliant and obscene. It sharpens the mind and dulls it. It brin...

Jason Patterson — Optimism and a Vision for People

March 21, 2022 12:00 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MB

Jason Patterson is the lead pastor of Parkside Church in Fisher, IN. Before founding the church he traveled widely speaking at churches and events. Jason lives with his wife and three children in Indianapolis. He’s also a long-time friend and the author of a new book, From Your Biggest Fan. He joins me to discuss optimism and a pastor's responsibility for believing in people. 

Russ Ramsey — Learning to Love Art Through Faith

March 14, 2022 14:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MB

Russ is a pastor and author living in Nashville, Tennessee. His books include Struck, and the Retelling the Story Series. He joins me today to talk about his soon-to-be-released new book, Rembrandt is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith. Aside from his books, Russ has written for The Rabbit Room, The Gospel Coalition, Crossway, among other blogs, podcasts, and printed media.

Nothing Left to Prove

March 07, 2022 13:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MB

This week, The 5 Masculine Instincts is finally released. If you haven't bought a copy yet, it would mean a lot to me if you would consider it. I also wanted to say thanks for your willingness to spend the last eight weeks listening and thinking about The 5 Masculine Instincts. In this final episode, we'll be wrapping things up and discussing the time it takes to grow in character and as a man.  Next week, we'll be back to our regular author interviews. I've got some great interviews schedu...

The Real Work Ahead

February 28, 2022 14:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MB

Having learned about the 5 masculine instincts, you might be wondering, what comes next? What should I do with what I've learned? We'll take a closer look at Paul's advice to Timothy about how to watch your life and doctrine closely. We'll see how the Christian gospel offers a different path to character and why character is best infused into our life by the power of the gospel.  

The Real Work Ahead

February 28, 2022 14:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MB

Having learned about the 5 masculine instincts, you might be wondering, what comes next? What should I do with what I've learned? We'll take a closer look at Paul's advice to Timothy about how to watch your life and doctrine closely. We'll see how the Christian gospel offers a different path to character and why character is best infused into our life by the power of the gospel.  

Instinct #5—Apathy: A World Too Wide

February 21, 2022 13:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MB

Shakespeare recorded man's fifth stage as a retreat. He uses the phrase, the world now too wide. He captured what is a natural instinct for so many men, apathy.  The longer we live the more we realize how little control we have. The world feels increasingly complicated and ourselves increasingly less capable of fixing it. We naturally begin to disengage and retreat into hobbies and comfort. Doubt and sin are certainly risks to faith, but rarely do we recognize the risk of apathy.  Through ...

Instinct #4—Reputation: The Image of a King

February 14, 2022 14:00 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MB

Shakespeare described this fourth stage as the professionals. The man now dresses the part, cuts his beard, and says what is expected. By this point in his life, he has achieved some success and with it a reputation, a reputation he cares more and more about protecting.  That instinct is central to the lives of both Saul and David as they struggle to live into the expectations of their throne while remaining honest and true before their God. It is a question of integrity and their ability t...

Instinct #3—Ambition: A Promised Land Lost

February 07, 2022 12:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MB

 Shakespeare described the third stage of man as a warrior, quick to quarrel, given to strange oaths, and determined to change the world. He is a man of ambition. But ambition can be a perplexing experience. One minute, ambition swells us with a sense of divine calling and optimism, the next it leaves us discouraged and disillusioned. Nowhere is that experience more clear than in the life of Moses. Moses's life was driven by ambition, by both its success and failure. Moses helps us understa...

Instinct #2—Adventure: Cultivating New Eyes

January 31, 2022 14:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MB

Shakespeare described man’s second stage as the lover. He was describing a romantic view of life that is driven by a need for adventure, quests, and experience. Samson was driven by this romantic need for adventure. Restless and determined to find himself, he constantly wandered off to Philistia.  Through his story, we come to realize how easily we abandon what God is doing looking for our own story. Real adventures are received not achieved. Peter and I discuss how to recognize this instin...

Instinct #1—Sarcasm: The Humor of Our Age

January 24, 2022 14:00 - 23 minutes - 16 MB

Shakespeare described the first stage as the reluctant schoolboy, dragging himself to school. He is you and immature and perhaps worst doesn't realize it. We find his companion in the story of Cain, the firstborn of creation and equally reluctant to take up God's divine lessons. Sarcasm can be funny but often it serves as a tool to mask contempt. We'll take a closer look at the instinct and how it can be balanced leading to a better character.

Shakespeare and the Instincts

January 17, 2022 14:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MB

Shakespeare described the world as a stage and pointed out that a man plays many parts throughout his life. Shakespeare's stages helped me start to recognize some of these unique instincts at work in myself and the men I know. But I also began to recognize them in the men of the Bible.  If you read the Biblical stories carefully, it becomes clear that the men of the Bible don't make for great heroes. Their lives are too complicated and messy. They are instead, companions. They expose the co...

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